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Tue Sep 1, 2020, 09:26 AM

Zorro (12,573 posts)

Trump is acting like a cornered animal. America needs a human being.

Opinion by Dana Milbank

In nature, an animal is most dangerous when cornered and wounded. The same is proving true in the closing months of President Trump’s term.

Trump botched the coronavirus pandemic, bungled the economic recovery and flubbed the handling of civil rights demonstrations. Members of his own family denounce him. He faces a seemingly insurmountable deficit against challenger Joe Biden.

And so the president is trying to provoke a race war on the streets of America.

“We’ve arrived at a moment in this campaign,” Biden said during a visit to a rehabilitated Pittsburgh steel mill Monday, that “we all knew . . . we’d get to — the moment when Donald Trump would be so desperate, he’d do anything to hold on to power.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/08/31/cornered-trump-tries-foment-race-war/

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Trump is acting like a cornered animal. America needs a human being. (Original post)	Zorro	Sep 2020	OP
He has nothing to lose but his dignity... Oh, wait... nt	Xipe Totec	Sep 2020	#1
It is hard to lose SOMETHING you never had....	ProudMNDemocrat	Sep 2020	#2
"And so the president is trying to provoke a race war on the streets of America."	Botany	Sep 2020	#3
On election day ... send Donald into full retirement on the golf course.	In_The_Wind	Sep 2020	#4
I disagree	calguy	Sep 2020	#5
Then we have to pay to feed and care for him.	In_The_Wind	Sep 2020	#7
Sieze his properties	Botany	Sep 2020	#8
Sounds good to me.	In_The_Wind	Sep 2020	#9
That golf course is a crime against nature	Botany	Sep 2020	#10
Erase Trump's footprints from the Scottish coast.	In_The_Wind	Sep 2020	#11
Egg zac LEE	Botany	Sep 2020	#12
The ocean is lovely. Is that building part of Trump's doing.	In_The_Wind	Sep 2020	#15
I think that is the golf courses club house (notice the lack of cars in the parking lot) and i ....	Botany	Sep 2020	#16
there is only one outcome we can have if want to save our country	beachbumbob	Sep 2020	#6
That's not an act. That's who he is. (NT)	The Wizard	Sep 2020	#13
This message was self-deleted by its author	The Wizard	Sep 2020	#14
Dear Dana Milbank	jaysunb	Sep 2020	#17
The author is probably referring to economic recovery from covid-19	gristy	Sep 2020	#18

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Tue Sep 1, 2020, 09:28 AM

Xipe Totec (42,926 posts)

1. He has nothing to lose but his dignity... Oh, wait... nt

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Tue Sep 1, 2020, 09:31 AM

ProudMNDemocrat (8,654 posts)

2. It is hard to lose SOMETHING you never had....

Be it dignity, honor, etc.

Which is why I did not watch the RNC. How do you humanize someone who has no humanity to begin with? It is like trying to get water from a stone.

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Tue Sep 1, 2020, 09:31 AM

Botany (58,311 posts)

3. "And so the president is trying to provoke a race war on the streets of America."

As noted in an earlier post on DU Trump is doing what the Nazis did to take power
they would send their thugs to parts of Germany that were not pro nazi to start
fights and riots and then say, "Only We can save yopu from this violence."

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Tue Sep 1, 2020, 09:32 AM

In_The_Wind (71,844 posts)

4. On election day ... send Donald into full retirement on the golf course.

He is a trouble maker. We don't need him. We never did.

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Tue Sep 1, 2020, 09:38 AM

calguy (2,935 posts)

5. I disagree

send him to prison, not the golf course!!

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Tue Sep 1, 2020, 09:43 AM

In_The_Wind (71,844 posts)

7. Then we have to pay to feed and care for him.

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Tue Sep 1, 2020, 09:46 AM

Botany (58,311 posts)

8. Sieze his properties

Scotland should too. Trump promised thousands of jobs to Scotland around his N.E. golf course
and so far the # is around 90 with more than 1/2 of those jobs are being a caddy.

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Tue Sep 1, 2020, 09:48 AM

In_The_Wind (71,844 posts)

9. Sounds good to me.

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Tue Sep 1, 2020, 09:58 AM

Botany (58,311 posts)

10. That golf course is a crime against nature

He plopped it down allong the Scottish coast in what is called a dune community and dunes
are made to move with the wind and the dunes that Trump developed into his Aberdeen Golf
property are now blocked from doing what they were designed to do by nature and millions of
years of evolution. The golf course should be torn out, the native plants and animals restored,
and the hotel and buildings turned into an institute to work on climate change.

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Tue Sep 1, 2020, 10:00 AM

In_The_Wind (71,844 posts)

11. Erase Trump's footprints from the Scottish coast.

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Tue Sep 1, 2020, 10:01 AM

Botany (58,311 posts)

12. Egg zac LEE

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Tue Sep 1, 2020, 10:07 AM

In_The_Wind (71,844 posts)

15. The ocean is lovely. Is that building part of Trump's doing.

Raze it to the ground.

Yes, replant with local greenery.

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Tue Sep 1, 2020, 10:15 AM

Botany (58,311 posts)

16. I think that is the golf courses club house (notice the lack of cars in the parking lot) and i ....

... there is a hotel too. I say keep the buildings and use them for a world class institute to
study climate change, ecological restoration, and sustainability. Because those are worth
while goals and it would really piss Trump off.

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Tue Sep 1, 2020, 09:39 AM

beachbumbob (9,263 posts)

6. there is only one outcome we can have if want to save our country

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Tue Sep 1, 2020, 10:03 AM

The Wizard (10,897 posts)

13. That's not an act. That's who he is. (NT)

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Tue Sep 1, 2020, 10:52 AM

jaysunb (11,521 posts)

17. Dear Dana Milbank

What is this "economic recovery " you write of ? Trump inherited an expanding economy from Obama.
Enough of the bullshit.

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Tue Sep 1, 2020, 11:06 AM

gristy (10,438 posts)

18. The author is probably referring to economic recovery from covid-19

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