Trump’s brutality wasn’t something they politely ignored, it was his whole appeal.
I would be all “but I never thought leopards would eat MY face!” about this, but even that’s too kind here. It’s not that Trump voters didn’t care whether other people got hurt as long as they were exempted, or that they were too ignorant to understand the consequences, people voted for Trump explicitly for spite, because they wanted to hurt other people - immigrants, gays, black people. And now he’s not hurting them enough. If he was persecuting minorities more this lady would be willing to put up with the hardship, because that’s how much she hates her fellow Americans.
#MakeAssholesGreatAgain - this is what #MAGA stands for. It’s about giving a voice to all the shitty people out there the rest of us passed by. The uncle who’s a racist. The nosy neigh or who can’t stop gossiping about you gay son. The fake Christian from the hair salon who complains that you don’t believe in Jesus while she’s cheating on her husband with her hairdresser l. Assholes who have a leader now and think they have a voice. Fuck them.
“Knowing that Trump is going to attack the truth this evening, [the broadcast networks] must take active measures to defend it. They have this day to prepare. A commitment to real-time, onscreen fact-checking is at this point the most feasible goal for a speech mere hours away.”
Yes, @VPPrence is complicit and just as guilty of fraud, waste and abuse. He is also a #liar.
“Right out of any despots playbook you want to examine. Tell a lie. Make it a big lie. Repeat the lie and have others repeat the lie. Know your enemy I say.”
#TrumpShutdown requires extraordinary response. I’m calling for a nationwide strike of air traffic controllers and any federal government employees worrying without pay, including the Coast Guard. The government does not belong to one ignorant asshole. Shut it all down until Trump unfucks himself.
“During the Civil War, the government never shut down—not even when the capital was threatened by Confederate troops. A shutdown would have undermined the foundation of Lincoln’s cause, which was the ability of free people to rule themselves. The paralysis and dysfunction would have told the world that the government he led was no longer fully devoted to the cause for which other Americans had given the last full measure of devotion.”
“Shuttered museums, federal workers who can’t pay their bills, national parks with stinking toilets … This is what the suicide of a great democracy looks like.”
Who voted that worthless dolt #DonaldTrump into office? #GOP #MAGA
Just your average everyday pathological #liar. #DonaldTrump
Violent crime is down across the US.
Property crime is down.
US citizens are more likely to commit crimes than non-citizens.
Border crossings are down.
We are experiencing a net outflow of undocumented workers from the US to Mexico.
96% of asylum seekers that are released show up to their court hearings.
Only 6 people were stopped at our Southern border for matching names in the terrorist database versus the thousands stopped at airports.
The drugs in our streets don’t arrive on individuals travelling on foot.
There is no crisis at our southern border other than the humanitarian crisis being created through unnecessary port closures and detentions. The crisis is in the hearts of racist Americans.
Trum is lying again. This is all he’s capable of doing. Great negotiator? Lie. Mexico will pay for the wall? Lie. Bowling Green massacre? Lie. No knowledge of Trump Tower meeting? Lie. Didn’t know about payments to Stormy Daniels? Lie.
“As Mr. Trump began exploring a presidential run in 2014, his political advisers landed on the idea of a border wall as a mnemonic device of sorts, a way to make sure their candidate — who hated reading from a script but loved boasting about himself and his talents as a builder — would remember to talk about getting tough on immigration.” [The New York Times]
Thank you Senator Chuck Schumer , Chris Van Hollen , Senator Ben Cardin , Senator Mark Warner , U.S. Senator Tim Kaine , Kamala Harris , U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders Cory Booker and Jeff Merkley for standing strong! Don’t see your Senator on this list? Call them now: http://fal.cn/r0HG
“Speaking on CNN’s State of the Union on Sunday, Schiff made clear he would be handing over transcripts which had been withheld from Mueller’s investigation by Republicans when they controlled the panel.”
In a recent interview, Jimmy Carter had this to say about the role of big money in American politics:
“It violates the essence of what made America a great country in its political system. Now it’s just an oligarchy, with unlimited political bribery being the essence of getting the nominations for president or to elect the president. And the same thing applies to governors and U.S. senators and congress members. So now we’ve just seen a complete subversion of our political system as a payoff to major contributors, who want and expect and sometimes get favors for themselves after the election’s over. … The incumbents, Democrats and Republicans, look upon this unlimited money as a great benefit to themselves. Somebody’s who’s already in Congress has a lot more to sell to an avid contributor than somebody who’s just a challenger.”
“I voted for him, and he’s the one who’s doing this,” she said of President Trump. “I thought he was going to do good things. He’s not hurting the people he needs to be hurting.”
