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kentuck

(111,104 posts)
Thu Jul 15, 2021, 06:33 AM Jul 2021

Trump was "nuts"?

Trump is "nuts"?

Is anyone supposed to be surprised with that revelation?

Didn't everyone know that before he was ever sworn into office?

Isn't that a fine silk suit he is wearing?

"The King has no clothes", you say.

It seemed so obvious.

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Trump was "nuts"? (Original Post) kentuck Jul 2021 OP
Who'd a thunk it? nt Atticus Jul 2021 #1
This message was self-deleted by its author Atticus Jul 2021 #2
The sort of mental disconnect required to vote for a lunatic like that just boggles the mind Bucky Jul 2021 #3
Mind boggling plus the actuality makes me ill inside. It's downright scary. sprinkleeninow Jul 2021 #4
Simple reality Cosmocat Jul 2021 #5
Yes to all above... PCIntern Jul 2021 #7
This country is racist as fuck. IrishAfricanAmerican Jul 2021 #17
And Critical Race Theory explains it. Systematic racism enabled if not encouraged it. marble falls Jul 2021 #24
He will continue to be a threat to this country until he is serving a lengthy prison sentence or smirkymonkey Jul 2021 #29
Agree. Bluethroughu Jul 2021 #8
it's the sex on the wrong brain - certainty is more important than truth certainot Jul 2021 #34
Anyone who saw him skulking around behind Hillary Clinton during the debates in 2016 had to notice Rhiannon12866 Jul 2021 #6
Hillary considered confronting him. gordianot Jul 2021 #9
He should have been stopped by the moderators, or would he have attacked them, too? Rhiannon12866 Jul 2021 #10
I really doubt he would have physically attacked her. NH Ethylene Jul 2021 #19
he's a coward and wimp. he'd get beaten up or laughed out of any regular bar without his bodyguard certainot Jul 2021 #35
Creepy, disturbing and weird. tanyev Jul 2021 #18
And you barely scratched the surface malaise Jul 2021 #28
That still creeps me out and makes me furious whenever I think about it. smirkymonkey Jul 2021 #30
Fiction repeats its self. n/t multigraincracker Jul 2021 #11
Trump is nuts. Always was, always will be. Aussie105 Jul 2021 #12
Greed, hate, fear and a healthy dose of racism... uriel1972 Jul 2021 #31
Twice! C Moon Jul 2021 #38
Lincoln's play was also fantastic Sympthsical Jul 2021 #13
He is much more than "nuts." He is evil squared. nt joetheman Jul 2021 #14
To me it was a gradual thing. Remember each major event, at the beginning Laura PourMeADrink Jul 2021 #15
The hidden villain was Rupert Murdoch.. kentuck Jul 2021 #16
and so are his followers. I have no sympathy or compassion for them.. samnsara Jul 2021 #20
Everything about Trump was obvious the whole time. ananda Jul 2021 #21
Was? He still is. nt doc03 Jul 2021 #22
it was and is so obvious. barbtries Jul 2021 #23
Many Republicans say, "Yeah, he's a nut!"... kentuck Jul 2021 #25
Sure they do. barbtries Jul 2021 #26
👍 Joinfortmill Jul 2021 #27
third stage syphilis RicROC Jul 2021 #32
No he isn't. KentuckyWoman Jul 2021 #33
Largely irrelevant in my opinion. David__77 Jul 2021 #36
That lifelong criminal is nuts? Justice matters. Jul 2021 #37

Response to kentuck (Original post)

Bucky

(54,027 posts)
3. The sort of mental disconnect required to vote for a lunatic like that just boggles the mind
Thu Jul 15, 2021, 06:38 AM
Jul 2021

The fact that he increase his vote share after four years of gross mismanagement is a complete condemnation of America, not just the corrupt and malicious fools who run the Republican Party. The fact that the bare half dozen of Republican members of Congress who dare speak out against Trumpism have quickly become pariahs is an indictment of human character.

I genuinely worry America has gotten simply too big to be a true democracy.

Cosmocat

(14,566 posts)
5. Simple reality
Thu Jul 15, 2021, 07:12 AM
Jul 2021

This country is stupid as fuck.

If he is healthy and not in jail, he WILL win their nomination for 2024 and it will once again be a nail biter.

I know SO many otherwise decent and good people who vote R, but end of the day, it is a conscious decision to buy into their bullshit.

 

smirkymonkey

(63,221 posts)
29. He will continue to be a threat to this country until he is serving a lengthy prison sentence or
Thu Jul 15, 2021, 10:00 PM
Jul 2021

he is six-feet under. Living with the stress of him still being a potential candidate, and therefore President once again is traumatizing.

I will not breathe a sigh of relief until the man is stone-cold dead.

Bluethroughu

(5,172 posts)
8. Agree.
Thu Jul 15, 2021, 07:50 AM
Jul 2021

We can be a better state, after enforcements of monopoly laws, Sherman antitrust Act.

Break up the big boys club, again.

 

certainot

(9,090 posts)
34. it's the sex on the wrong brain - certainty is more important than truth
Thu Jul 15, 2021, 11:16 PM
Jul 2021

and trump is insane with it

Rhiannon12866

(205,540 posts)
6. Anyone who saw him skulking around behind Hillary Clinton during the debates in 2016 had to notice
Thu Jul 15, 2021, 07:27 AM
Jul 2021

That was both creepy and disturbing...

gordianot

(15,242 posts)
9. Hillary considered confronting him.
Thu Jul 15, 2021, 07:55 AM
Jul 2021

If that had happened there is a good chance he would have attacked her. I doubt anything she might have said or done would have changed the outcome. Trump plays the role of a Professional Wrestling Promoter negative attention is still attention.

Rhiannon12866

(205,540 posts)
10. He should have been stopped by the moderators, or would he have attacked them, too?
Thu Jul 15, 2021, 08:01 AM
Jul 2021

And that was so creepy that it was painful to watch - and people tend to forget that she did get a few million more votes, even if he cheated. And shouldn't the winner be the one who the most people vote for??

NH Ethylene

(30,813 posts)
19. I really doubt he would have physically attacked her.
Thu Jul 15, 2021, 08:48 AM
Jul 2021

We've never seen him do such a thing in public, not even when Nancy Pelosi enraged him with her mocking.

 

certainot

(9,090 posts)
35. he's a coward and wimp. he'd get beaten up or laughed out of any regular bar without his bodyguard
Thu Jul 15, 2021, 11:22 PM
Jul 2021

around. sounds like he attacks women in private only. he probably only verbally attacks people who work for him or he knows are intimidated by his money

 

smirkymonkey

(63,221 posts)
30. That still creeps me out and makes me furious whenever I think about it.
Thu Jul 15, 2021, 10:04 PM
Jul 2021

I hate him more with each passing day. More than anything, I want to see him ruined, publicly humiliated and eventually suffer a long, painful death.

And mostly, I just want him gone from this earth so that we never have to hear from or about him again. Or his dim-witted, grifting, feckless spawn.

Aussie105

(5,403 posts)
12. Trump is nuts. Always was, always will be.
Thu Jul 15, 2021, 08:14 AM
Jul 2021

But the big concern is, why did normal, sane people follow him, think he was a good idea, and then voted for him?

Trump isn't the only nutcase, it seems. There are millions of them!

Sympthsical

(9,076 posts)
13. Lincoln's play was also fantastic
Thu Jul 15, 2021, 08:16 AM
Jul 2021

The media would tell us about what the actress was wearing.

Oh. That thing that happened during? Yeah, that was there, too.

The MSM propped that fucker up. And what, I'm supposed to cheer they're knocking him now? Nah, fuck those people.

 

Laura PourMeADrink

(42,770 posts)
15. To me it was a gradual thing. Remember each major event, at the beginning
Thu Jul 15, 2021, 08:18 AM
Jul 2021

People kept thinking, okay, when he becomes this or when this happens or when that happens he's going to start being presidental.

But the magnitude of it all, how dangerous he became, is extremely astounding! On CNN last night they showed a comment.. Nancy Pelosi asking Milley about her fear that he could start a nuclear war. That is the ultimate.

kentuck

(111,104 posts)
16. The hidden villain was Rupert Murdoch..
Thu Jul 15, 2021, 08:37 AM
Jul 2021

..and FOX News.

They kept defending Trump under all circumstances and kept feeding the political slop to his followers, instead of reporting something that resembled the truth.

Their wide range of viewership helped to create the cult, that remain complicit in it all.

ananda

(28,866 posts)
21. Everything about Trump was obvious the whole time.
Thu Jul 15, 2021, 08:57 AM
Jul 2021

Certain people and the media just chose to ignore it
or not see it, both sides it, or explain it away with
stupid logic because they liked his nazi racism.

The both sides part was the most pernicious in my
view.

barbtries

(28,799 posts)
23. it was and is so obvious.
Thu Jul 15, 2021, 09:04 AM
Jul 2021

people are brainwashed, their brains don't work right. their minds are engaged in a different reality.

barbtries

(28,799 posts)
26. Sure they do.
Thu Jul 15, 2021, 10:42 AM
Jul 2021

They can join the reality-based world. They can try to recover their humanity and caring. They can acknowledge that their party is GONE, and get the fuck out of it. But the propaganda keeps pounding at their brains so they go with, "yeah, he's a nut, but he's our nut," and the world goes to hell.

it's so frustrating.

David__77

(23,423 posts)
36. Largely irrelevant in my opinion.
Thu Jul 15, 2021, 11:23 PM
Jul 2021

His politics are the key thing. I don’t know that it needs to be medicalized.

Justice matters.

(6,933 posts)
37. That lifelong criminal is nuts?
Fri Jul 16, 2021, 12:06 AM
Jul 2021
So nuts that he always managed to get away from being held accountable and still does get away with it scot-free.
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