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(45,806 posts)a written article.
KT2000
(20,604 posts)and captures what much of America feels right now.
Cha
(298,021 posts)LisaM
(27,850 posts)I had seen the headline a few times, but this is really one of the best covers to describe the current situation as anything I've seen.
oberliner
(58,724 posts)It's not even close to his old lows.
Pacifist Patriot
(24,654 posts)BrooklynTech
(35 posts)For me, personally, I am truly ashamed to be an American. What this individual has done to our institutions and our standing in the world is beyond comprehension. And the worst is yet to come. When he and his cronies, Paul and Mitch, start to dismantle the safety net in earnest, I shudder to think where we're headed.
oberliner
(58,724 posts)But these comments are certainly no lower than the Access Hollywood ones, for instance.
BumRushDaShow
(129,963 posts)The way the DN covers have been, they couldn't find any way to lampoon him after today's stunt, so they had to come back and do the equivalent of a SMDH.
I think we go overboard with all the shorthand.
Some of are over 20 and do not social media jack shit so we are out of the loop.
DYKWIM?
BumRushDaShow
(129,963 posts)and also having many 20 & 30-some year old nieces and nephews, I have had to pick up the millennial-speak.
Shaking
My
Damn
Head
(I miss the html code)
BumRushDaShow
(129,963 posts)BigmanPigman
(51,651 posts)I Google it and "no thanks" doesn't really apply in context whenever I see it.
mfcorey1
(11,001 posts)BigmanPigman
(51,651 posts)Is Google right?
Permanut
(5,705 posts)So you know there is nothing in the message area.
Buns_of_Fire
(17,213 posts)BigmanPigman
(51,651 posts)GarColga
(126 posts)Laughing so hard my sombrero fell off and I dropped my taco!
ditto!
BrooklynTech
(35 posts)Except that I change it to enchilada
klook
(12,174 posts)Taco trucks on every corner
NJCher
(35,825 posts)I just move on. If they can't be bothered to spell it out, I can't be bothered to spend my trying to figure out what they're trying to say.
Cher
Mr. Evil
(2,863 posts)commenting about how someone else looks.
flibbitygiblets
(7,220 posts)left-of-center2012
(34,195 posts)Maybe bomb someone?
keithbvadu2
(37,040 posts)workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)SHAME!
The country that my Dad and uncles saved in WW2 and the one I and my brother served years later, no longer exists.
So sad.....
KingCharlemagne
(7,908 posts)"last full measure of devotion" for this????
workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)This country is being dragged down to ruin by Trump, the republican party and their Russian allies.
KingCharlemagne
(7,908 posts)invocation of Little Round Top and Lincoln's "Gettysburg Address." When Lincoln told the Congress in the winter of 1861 that America represented the "last best hope of man," those words meant something, both to a Europe staggering from 1,500 years of monarchic and aristocratic rule and to an American people struggling to find and preserve a new means of self-governance.
BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)Leghorn21
(13,527 posts)survived Iwo Jima and Korea. This picture is shattering.
Thank you for your service, zero...and this picture - I have seen few as powerful and devastating as this in my 66 years on this earth...
OH.
workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)I'm sad to say I sure wouldn't do the same today nor let my children serve under a low life/traitor like Trump.
The only hope I have left in this country is the election in 2018. We will see what becomes of that hope soon.
McCamy Taylor
(19,240 posts)Trump just did himself more harm with his base in a single tweet than he did with a whole month of his usual insane ramblings.
BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)I'll have to wait to see as it filters out to DU and the political pages I get on FB.
erronis
(15,460 posts)That he was just looking at his very good, very good belly.
Or that he was looking to see if he could find his tiny apparatus.
But you'd never be able to say that the biggest loser of all time was hanging his head in shame.
The psy types of the future will have a wonderful time digging into this massoshit and writing learned papers. The rest of us will need to try to get over a totally man-made disaster. Sorry, sisters - this one is on us.
Gothmog
(145,839 posts)Alice11111
(5,730 posts)mdbl
(4,976 posts)They all make me feel ashamed.
Lady_Chat
(561 posts)Hits the nail on the head, once again. True, yet so sad.
montana_hazeleyes
(3,424 posts)Incredibly powerful.
flamingdem
(39,336 posts)BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)But on the bright side --seriously, I'm not being sardonic--IT IS BEING REPORTED with the appropriate editorial reaction.
Just to contrast with the response I've been used to, remember that up until now, the typical response to Sexism in high places has been one big, "settle down ladies, it was a joke".