Donald Trump Doesn't Want Loyalty He Wants Fealty

[applegrove]

By Jesse Berney at Rolling Stone

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/features/donald-trump-doesnt-want-loyalty-he-wants-fealty-w494220

"SNIP...........

Trump doesn't want your loyalty. He wants your fealty.

There's a real difference. When you sign up to join Trump's circle in any capacity, you're signing away your dignity. Sessions is just the latest example. Sean Spicer stood at a podium and lied for six straight months on Trump's behalf. He was a successful and well-liked political operative. Now he's an unemployed national punchline. Trump wouldn't even let the poor bastard meet the pope, just to humiliate him.

That's how Trump treats people who serve him faithfully. No one is safe from the president's mercurial moods. He even threw a passive-aggressive "he's a high-quality person" at his own son. Was it any wonder Jeff Sessions would eventually meet an ugly end?

You can live up to the demands of loyalty by always doing what you think is best for a person. But you can never live up to the demands of fealty set by an egomaniac like Donald Trump. You'd have to be telepathic and clairvoyant, knowing both what Trump is thinking and what all his future moods will look like. You have to anticipate every obstacle, real or imagined. You have to do more than just lie for Trump. You have to honestly believe his distorted, constantly shifting vision of reality. That's an impossible standard to meet.

I have no sympathy for Jeff Sessions. He's a terrible attorney general because he's a terrible human being. Since taking office, he has encouraged police to increase asset forfeitures, told federal prosecutors to put people in jail as long as possible, spoken to an anti-gay hate group, ended an effort to raise standards of forensic science, ramped up enforcement against undocumented immigrants, shut down reviews of abuses by police departments, threatened to take DOJ grants away from sanctuary cities, went all Reefer Madness, stopped a DOJ fight against a Texas law rolling back voting rights, and moved backward on transgender rights.

...........SNIP"

[malaise]

1. Must Read

Off to the greatest page

I have no sympathy for anyone linked to the Con

[FakeNoose]

2. I can't understand it, nobody want to work for Trump

...why is that?

[trof]

3. ...and a blowjob.

I'm pretty sure.

[BigmanPigman]

4. He demands loyalty from others but gives none in return.

Who would voluntarily subject themselves to this kind of abuse? You know the guy has always been like this so it's a masochistic position put yourself in from the start.