If this doesn't finish Trump, then there is no America

[louis c]

I can't believe what I witnessed today.

Does Donald Trump not know that Stonewall Jackson and Robert E. Lee were traitors? That they took up arms AGAINST the United States of America. That they received a pardon, or they would have been hung? Does he not realize that you can't be a "good person" in a march when you knowingly are protesting along side people with Nazi flags?

Was he not aware of the chants about Jews on Friday night in the torch light parade reminiscent of Nazi Germany in the 30's?

What the fuck? That's all I can say, What the fuck are we witnessing? WHAT THE FUCK?

[Eliot Rosewater]

1. Not a chance, GOP doesnt care.

They can smell the end of medicare and SS and welfare, they will get in bed with anybody to do that.

[superpatriotman]

4. Full of cucks and cowards

Enablers and excuse-makers.

[Johnny2X2X]

11. Yup

They will denounce what he said, but do nothing.

[lark]

15. So sad and totally infuriating at the same time.

They will do anything to get their :

Tax amnesty for bringing back $ hidden overseas
All/most environmental and labor laws overturned
Tax rates cut to the bone for rich but eliminate all help for poor

Anything, even work with Russia to grab and keep power because they are traitors to the ideals of our country and to its' people.

[Big_K]

23. It's all about Power

As long as they think they can get what they want, they'll work with Satan, Zombie Stalin, and Hitler his bad ol' self.

Only when they are afraid they'll lose their power will they make any change.

[Dustlawyer]

21. +1!!! This!!!

Good-bye beautiful, good-bye spacious skies, good-bye amber waves of grain...

There is no America!

[BadgerMom]

28. They may be able to smell the end of those things.

It doesn't mean they can make them disappear . The Resistance is real. The fight will be extensive, but none of those things will be surrendered without a real struggle. And this Congress and administration are nothing if not inept.

[Eliot Rosewater]

30. I used to think good would win out, then I watched millions of

so called progressives say things like "they are both the same"

Most of them are still saying that, I have no hope, glad you do.

[pangaia]

35. In my owe little selfish world this really scares me.

Along with all the other stuff.

Without my SS and Medicare, I'm finished.
To say nothing about the rest of the human beings in this country.

[calimary]

40. What needs to be underscored, and forced on them to answer is

"So THIS is okay with you?"

"You're OKAY with this?"

[adigal]

48. November 2018 - we need to start working NOW!!!!! Get everyone you know registered

and we need to make sure they all VOTE!

[kacekwl]

50. +1000

[uponit7771]

2. It wont, they already did the polling and it wont affect his bottom base that much and also the M$M

... has to label him a little stronger like defending Nazis or something

[world wide wally]

3. And yet these assholes are the first to defend Israel when they want to bomb someome

[anneboleyn]

55. You should read what the neo-Nazis were doing to the synagogue in Charlottesville. Very ugly indeed.

[Towlie]

5. Trump is digging himself into the ocean floor...

because being as low as whale shit isn't low enough for him.

[RussBLib]

6. MSNBC hosts seem certain that 45's performance today will lead to staff resignations

I'm not so sure.

To me, it was typical Trump. Not that much "new" here. Just another gaggle of reporters unable to pin him down on anything.

[defacto7]

7. This won't determine much of anything..

His demise is already determined. The investigations are just making sure his crime sticks. What will determine his end is if the system that judges and convicts him can make it stick. If it doesn’t, then you can assuredly say the US is no more.

All Trump has left is to divide, tripple down and destroy what he can on his way down.

[BigmanPigman]

25. That will do it because he will have no choice or excuses. I just wish it could

happen faster since, as you said, he will destroy everything he can and drag our country down with him.

[pangaia]

36. On the money.

If the 'courts' can not take him down, we're finished.


A couple weeks ago I was feeling more confident, a little.'

Today, my confidence is at about 5%.

[VOX]

8. Didn't seem much different than the tRump on display during the campaign and the last 7 months...

He was insanely wretched then, and he certainly is now as well. I'm not used to it (no one should ever get used to the psychotic rants on display), but it seems like more of the same. And it will continue to be more of the same until the Republicans FINALLY decide to do something about the whole mess. I wouldn't count on them making any moves, however.

[MrPurple]

16. Hopefully, the difference is that America just saw hundreds of torch bearing Nazis kill somebody

Trump's rhetoric isn't in a vacuum now and the Nazis like the camera time. This feedback loop isn't going to stop.

[lunasun]

52. Exactly! Since day one on the campaign trail this has been Trump

[rurallib]

9. Trump must have thought the Civil War was like an intermural basketball game

or is it intramural?

Anyway not like a real war or anything. After all, no nukes!

[Amishman]

10. His base is eating it up

My Facebook is being blown up by my wife's conservative family members who are acting like their football team just won the super bowl. They loved how he fought back again the big bad liberal media.

[LiberalLovinLug]

13. exactly

People seem to be unaware of just how deeply conditioned and brainwashed his followers are. If he says that both sides were equally responsible. Or that the "alt-left" was attacking with clubs and weapons just as hard or even more so, against the alt right they will simply believe it. Even though all the pictures show is the cowardly nazis are the only ones that donned helmets, shields, and clubs.

[MrPurple]

19. His base loves it, but the independents that allowed him to take a voter suppressed election

are being lost. And I don't think the Republican Congress people who rely on those independents are going to stand by Dump. Gallup had his lowest numbers yet yesterday - 34% approval, 61% disapproval. When he gets in the 20's like Nixon did, if we make it to Mueller issuing a report, it could get interesting.

[spanone]

12. he's as dangerous to our country as anything we've seen.

[LittleGirl]

17. +1 eom

[bora13]

14. it's like he was asking for it

all along.
happens, but usually in fiction.

[ananda]

18. Well, there IS an America and there will be an America.

It just might not be that beacon of freedom and inclusion
that we were hoping for.

It will just be an America that never kept its promise, in
more ways than one.

[smirkymonkey]

20. I have never been so disgusted in my entire life.

I can't believe that there is anybody who actually supports this traitor.

[cab67]

29. I am personally embarrassed to be an American these days.

[Honeycombe8]

22. It's possible he saw selected videos gathered for him. He thought the guys in war gear....

he thought the guys in protective gear & helmets were the alt-left, I think he said. Those were the white supremacists.

But I'm SURE he saw the Make America Great caps....and hence it's strong defense that there "were good people there, legally protesting" who were not supremacists. But those WERE the supremacists, that I saw.

[bucolic_frolic]

24. The country is on the verge of meltdown

As an ecommerce vendor I pay strict attention to spending. We've had some
very slow weeks this summer, usually when these issues of national controversy
surrounding Trump bubble up into consciousness. The shopping mall I visited was
comatose. Merchants are running lean. The rest of the week will be very interesting
to see if paralysis strikes again.

Tsarist Russia fell from the stresses of World War I, but only when people of all walks
of life stopped supporting the economic and political system. Workers worried more about
their families and food than their jobs. Constabulary and law enforcement took sides with
the competing factions. Soldiers also weighed in, or refused commands.

We're sure not at that point thankfully, but people are scratching their heads, and keeping
a wary eye on developments. It's like reading tea leaves.

[adigal]

31. Hey, the stock market is doing swell!!!!!!

But you're right, I was at TJMaxx today, and it was empty.

[LoveMyCali]

37. But business was booming

In the liquor store I stopped at in the middle of the day. (not a joke, the place was jammed)

[MontanaMama]

34. I have a small business that

employs 8 people including my spouse and me. It's been an incredibly slow August. I'm watching VERY carefully. The stock market is doing great but that isn't a result of 45. That's been in the works for a while. I agree that stores aren't busy. The manager at Target thanked me the other day for coming in and not buying stuff on Amazon. Weird.

[krkaufman]

44. Best Buy closing

Best Buy is closing their store in my hometown. Article in the paper indicated they're hurting, overbuilt and still haven't recovered from the 2008 downturn. (People who were hurting probably turned to cheaper online alternatives and haven't come back.)

[MontanaMama]

49. Yikes.

We manufacture a product that only one other company makes...and ours is better. This is scary though. It feels like 2008 to me. Beware September.

[C Moon]

26. Of course nothing's going to happen.

He's just doing the typical GOP twisting of the facts to water down a horrible event.

[Doug the Dem]

27. In Trump's Defense,

he himself is a traitor to America, so naturally he sympathizes.

[extvbroadcaster]

32. His core supporters won't change

You know everybody in Congress hates him. Besides his staff bootlickers, everybody else is horrified.
He has been impeachable since day one, but our Congress has failed. My fear is that he will do something on impulse that can't be reversed - like start a war with North Korea. He cares nothing
about all the people (Americans too) in South Korea. If he gets his feelings hurt by the sawed off
runt in North Korea, he could do anything. You have to wonder where the real men are. I always thought that if anybody in those GOP debates had just said - "you call me a name again and I am coming over there and kicking your ass" - he would have crawled back into his hole. Jeb should have kicked his ass on live TV. What did he really have to lose? He would have saved the country.

[pangaia]

33. Surely you jest...

Nazis and KKKers don't know shit either..

[broadcaster90210]

38. There is no America

nt

[mn9driver]

39. America disappeared in December 2000

When Bush II was crowned. The only thing that made Obama possible was the epic failure of that presidency.

The dark money billionaires don't intend to let that happen again.

[flying-skeleton]

41. If he can brag about grabbing women's pu$$ies and still get elected ....

If he can brag about grabbing women's pu$$ies and still get elected ... then this is nothing !!

[mountain grammy]

42. Even my husband who always says I'm silly for wanting to leave

looked at me today and said, it just might be time to leave America.

[krkaufman]

43. Reminds me of a skit

Does he not realize that you can't be a "good person" in a march when you knowingly are protesting along side people with Nazi flags?

Reminds me of a Mitchell & Webb skit where a Nazi begins having doubts.

Basically, if you find yourself marching along with people carrying Nazi flags, you might want to ask yourself, "are we the baddies?"

[Beartracks]

45. Do Republicans even remember who we fought in WWII's European theater???

Nazis and fascists were considered a global threat by EVERYone. Now they're supposed to be some kind of right wing "option"?

I wonder how many of the white supremacists and Nazis at Charlottesville had fathers and grandfathers who fought the Nazis?

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[yuiyoshida]

46. Wondering if we will survive this if

We will become stronger because oi it. Right now, this is not our America - have we become a banana republic?

[krkaufman]

47. Putin

Putin's gotta be loving this.

[SummerSnow]

51. To Trump, Stonewall Jackson and Robert E. Lee were heroes.

[Progressive dog]

53. Trump's base will continue to

support him and that includes a large majority of Republicans. They have a delusion of that wonderful America before the Civil War, when blacks were slaves, women knew to not speak unless spoken to, and white men were always in charge. They want to bring it back.
I'm not sure our democracy will survive much longer with that ignorant psychopath as President. It is evident that his congressional enablers are not going to break with him no matter what he does.

[DrDan]

54. how many times have we said this - after the mocking of the disabled reporter,

after the Access Hollywood tape

His base will not be swayed - he will stick it out