General Discussion
Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIt's not your imagination. Trump is getting worse.
By Eugene RobinsonWhen the full extent of your venality, moral turpitude, and political corruption becomes known, you will take your rightful place as a disgraced demagogue in the dustbin of history. You may scapegoat Andy McCabe, but you will not destroy America . . . America will triumph over you.
I have met John Brennan, who headed the CIA for four years under President Barack Obama. To say he is not given to hysterics is a gross understatement. His picture ought to be next to the word sober in the dictionary. Yet there he was on Saturday morning, using Twitter to tear into the supposed leader of the free world with language normally reserved for the tinhorn dictators of obscure kleptocracies.
More here :
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/its-not-your-imagination-trump-is-getting-worse/2018/03/19/36acac5e-2bac-11e8-8ad6-fbc50284fce8_story.html?utm_term=.6bbbf36ccb67
True Blue American
(17,972 posts)He is ready to explode. His face looks terrible. He spends his time on the phone ranting to people bored with him. His stage planned photo ops come off flat.
Putting Melania out there about cyber bullying is funny. Stories about him befriending Drug Dealers while he calls for death is so fake.
I have listened to Brennan for years. He is an honorable man. So is McCabe and all the others in the FBI.
What is the most galling is Mitch,Ryan and the Republicans in Congress. Pence is a sleazy pretend Evangelical. Ryan is a lying Catholic.
Such a sickening bunch.
PA Democrat
(13,225 posts)Seems like it went over like a lead balloon.
True Blue American
(17,972 posts)She sounds like a wound up puppet.
I gave up after a couple of minutes. They are trying desperately to look normal. There is nothing normal about either one.
Bernardo de La Paz
(48,773 posts)I thought it was later in the week because there had been such silence about it.
frogmarch
(12,144 posts)I'm attempting to listen to her now. I don't know how long I'll last.
Bernardo de La Paz
(48,773 posts)I only could stand about 40 seconds total time but I did not hear anything of substance. Seems like there might be about three minutes near the end about cyberbullying being bad, but I think her plan is "vote for my husband because he is working for all Americans" or something like that.
That speech takes the prize as a nothing burger.
frogmarch
(12,144 posts)I posted it. I listened for a bit longer than you did, but I didn't make it through the whole thing either. Ugh, nothing burger is right.
rsdsharp
(9,035 posts)scarytomcat
(1,706 posts)(how ever it is spelled)
women are subservient not allowed to cut hair
a very strict cult
rsdsharp
(9,035 posts)and refers to himself as an "evangelical catholic," whatever that is.
read he is a Dominionist (think that's the correct spelling).
joshdawg
(2,637 posts)he was wearing a straitjacket.
PatrickforO
(14,514 posts)JustABozoOnThisBus
(23,282 posts)President Pence. brrrr.
dalton99a
(81,062 posts)Hortensis
(58,785 posts)on the station I was watching by announcement of I believe McCabe's firing. Extremely unfortunate. We need the danger this president poses to America discussed intensively.
Tatiana
(14,167 posts)Link to tweet
I was watching Lawrence O'Donnell when Lawrence cut in with the news of McCabe's firing.
Crazy times, these.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)I actually can't imagine crazier. More tragic with war, pestilence, etc., but for people everywhere you look acting crazy...
At least we know more about why now. As the WaPo's new motto has it, "Freedom dies in darkness," and some strong lights are coming on.
Nitram
(22,663 posts)He's under a lot of stress and more stress is coming his way.
spiderpig
(10,419 posts)I'm not a mental health professional, but Trump is deranged/mentally ill/congenitally evil...I don't know except that he is currently the most dangerous person on the planet.
He was born into every possible advantage, and look what he is. An abomination.