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2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumIf you haven't read Drew Magary's Trump rant, do yourself a favor
probably the best anti-Trump rant I've seen.
http://www.gq.com/story/a-word-for-donald-trump-voters
None of this is surprising, of course. Trump is a liar and a crook, and he commits abominable acts at such a frenetic pace that they get lost in the fury surrounding whatever horrible thing he does next. Keith Olbermann needed over 17 minutes on this site just to list a fraction of the atrocities Trump has staged during election season, and hes gonna need 17 more minutes to cover what happens between now and Election Day. Remember when Trump said he would get rid of food regulations? That was Thursday.
Regardless, in the end, people are still gonna vote for this man. Maybe not enough to get him elected, but still: itll be in the tens of millions. (Note to the people causing the polls to fluctuate: What the fuck is wrong with you? I gotta meet the five percent of people who saw Hillary come down with pneumonia and were like, Forget her, gimme the dictator with dryer lint hair.) Nothing that Trump says, no damning piece of Trump reportage, and certainly no opinion piece like this one will stop his voters from pulling the lever. Nor will anything stop Trump from being the officious, braindead goon that he is. He will never answer for his crimes, and theres a frighteningly large portion of the electorate that will always love him for that.
And so Id just like to say to that portion of the electorate: Fuck you. No, seriously. Go fuck yourselves. Im not gonna waste any more time trying to convince you that youre about to do something youll regret forever. Im not gonna show you old clips of Trump saying rotten things. Im not gonna try to ANNIHILATE Trump by showing you records of his hypocrisy and greed. Im not gonna link to a John Oliver clip and be like, THIS. So much this. Nothings gonna take down Trump at this point, so Im not gonna bother. No no, this post is for ME. I am preaching to the sad little choir in my soul here.
Because while Trump is a miserable bastard, YOU are the people who have handed him the bullhorn. YOU are the people willing to embarrass this nation and put it on the brink of economic ruin all because you wanna throw an electoral hissy fit. YOU are the people who want to revolutionize the way America does business by voting for its worst businessman, a disgusting neon pig who only makes money when he causes problems for other people instead of solving them. YOU are the thin-skinned yokels who clutch your bandoliers whenever someone hurls the mildest of slurs at you (deplorables), while cheering Trump on as he leaves a bonfire of truly hateful invective everywhere he goes. YOU are the people willing to overlook the fact that Trump is an unqualified, ignorant sociopath because DURRRR HILLARY IS BAD TOO DURRRR.
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If you haven't read Drew Magary's Trump rant, do yourself a favor (Original Post)
Fast Walker 52
Sep 2016
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daligirrl
(620 posts)1. Wow. . . I need a cigarette!
Fast Walker 52
(7,723 posts)2. LOL-- seriously