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Augiedog

(2,541 posts)
Thu Jan 11, 2018, 11:28 PM Jan 2018

Trump is killing the very idea and ideal of the American presidency. I for one am at a loss for

words at trump’s latest utterance in reference to Africa and Haiti. But my emotional response to this is getting rawer and more elemental as time moves. Usually I get past this stuff in short order. Not this time, my sense of disgust and outrage is for once overshadowed by a sense of humiliation for my nation.

Is this person really the president? It’s not what I recognize as the institution that has been the guiding light for Americans and often others around the world. He is dismantling the earned honor, regard and respect acquired over decades and centuries of the the office that was handed to him as a temporary caretaker.

It may be that he has committed an unrecoverable offense that will damage this nation for generations. He will be long gone while the consequences of his heinous acts will be visited on the populace he has so shamefully betrayed.

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VOX

(22,976 posts)
14. And Republicans are sitting under him with their mouths open.
Fri Jan 12, 2018, 12:59 AM
Jan 2018

Fully convinced it's manna from heaven. Apparently, they can't get enough.

Sorry for the disgusting imagery, but I've had it with #45 and Republicans.

C_U_L8R

(44,897 posts)
2. It's heartbreaking what Trump is doing to our country.
Thu Jan 11, 2018, 11:34 PM
Jan 2018

The next President will have a lot of fixing and healing to do.

 

Kirk Lover

(3,608 posts)
6. Yes sir we are going to have to really Make America Great Again after we get this shithole trumphole
Thu Jan 11, 2018, 11:46 PM
Jan 2018

out of office.

lunasun

(21,646 posts)
3. I posted the words this US rep from Illinois said today . It comes close to my thoughts
Thu Jan 11, 2018, 11:39 PM
Jan 2018

Pissed and ashamed of the president as an American.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/10493543

0rganism

(23,856 posts)
4. every institution smashed, every ideal tarnished
Thu Jan 11, 2018, 11:39 PM
Jan 2018

and the worst among us finding complete acceptance in the top tiers of our once-respected government.

today, in a perhaps inevitable course of events stemming from That Day In November, our nation displayed its figurative asshole to the entire world. there will be consequences.

Glorfindel

(9,706 posts)
9. I have always thought that a monarchy is the ideal system of government
Fri Jan 12, 2018, 12:19 AM
Jan 2018

A sovereign who is above politics and a prime minister who gets down and dirty and takes his or her chances. The monarch performs all the "high and mighty" executive actions (launching ships, opening bridges, comforting and inspiring the nation) and the prime minister does everything possible to get the party's agenda enacted into law. If there's a vote of no confidence, the prime minister gets replaced, but the honor and dignity of the nation, as embodied in the sovereign, is unimpaired. It doesn't have to be a monarchy; most countries have a presidency that is beyond politics and a prime minister to do the day-to-day running of the country. Our situation of having the chief of state and the head of government embodied in one person has served us well (mostly), but its flaws are being exposed for all to see.

 

smirkymonkey

(63,221 posts)
10. What he is doing to this country and our government is obscene.
Fri Jan 12, 2018, 12:27 AM
Jan 2018

I never thought I would ever see such degradation in the office of the presidency. I thought that Bush W. was as low as we could get. Guess I was wrong.

IluvPitties

(3,181 posts)
11. I think about my Honduran student on TPS
Fri Jan 12, 2018, 12:28 AM
Jan 2018

who will probably not be able to fulfill her dreams in America once this sick bastard eliminates the TPS for Hondurans.

 

RandomAccess

(5,210 posts)
12. I was worrying this afternoon whether or not he has
Fri Jan 12, 2018, 12:48 AM
Jan 2018

degraded the office itself to such an extent it'll never have the same aura of dignity, decorum, majesty, power and elegance.

VOX

(22,976 posts)
13. Fuck Brexit, the U.S. needs to get back into the Commonwealth.
Fri Jan 12, 2018, 12:55 AM
Jan 2018

We never should have left. It's been one thing after another for some 242 years, give or take a month. I kid, but it's a half-kid. I'm out of ideas for now.

It's impssible to work within a two-party system when one party holds all the marbles and refuses to play.

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