That is a great start. There is a common denominator as the root cause to all of this behavior and the symptoms are as follows:
-believing that others have hidden motives or are out to harm them
-doubting the loyalty of others
-being hypersensitive to criticism
-having trouble working with others
-being quick to become angry and hostile
-becoming detached or socially isolated
-being argumentative and defensive
-having trouble seeing their own problems
-having trouble relaxing
Trump seems to display all of them, every week, and they correlate with all of the "standards" in the article. They are symptoms of Paranoid Personality Disorder. It seems we have a loophole in our vetting process for Presidential candidates. Mental fitness is excluded.
-believing that others have hidden motives or are out to harm them
-doubting the loyalty of others
-being hypersensitive to criticism
-having trouble working with others
-being quick to become angry and hostile
-becoming detached or socially isolated
-being argumentative and defensive
-having trouble seeing their own problems
-having trouble relaxing
Trump seems to display all of them, every week, and they correlate with all of the "standards" in the article. They are symptoms of Paranoid Personality Disorder. It seems we have a loophole in our vetting process for Presidential candidates. Mental fitness is excluded.
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Employ as your closet advisor a guy - Bannon - for whom all of these odious behaviors are just part of the deconstruction plan....
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Bragging about sexually assaulting women.
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Or if the president decides to wear a tan colored suit and not a tradional dark colored suit.
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It would be interesting to know what a graphologist would have to say about
D. Trump behaviors and personality....
D. Trump behaviors and personality....
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My biggest beef is all the presumptuous narcissistic twits who claim to know what God thinks and insist that everyone else conform to it.
I never insult anyone's intelligence with claims that I know what God thinks. I flat out don't respect anyone who fails to return that courtesy.
I never insult anyone's intelligence with claims that I know what God thinks. I flat out don't respect anyone who fails to return that courtesy.
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Others have probably mentioned this, but I didn't see:
Insult our allies and effusively greet our traditional enemies, inviting and welcoming murdurous thugs (or their representatives) into the White House. Never mind that they or their bosses have had journalists murdered.
Insult our allies and effusively greet our traditional enemies, inviting and welcoming murdurous thugs (or their representatives) into the White House. Never mind that they or their bosses have had journalists murdered.
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Pretty comprehensive list, NYT. Who do you think will actually read let alone understand it? For your guide (and my comments are non-partisan), allow me to add that being corrosively divisive and exploiting misinformed bias is not helpful. Repeatedly failing to keep promises might be another. Demonstrating contempt for anyone who doesn't see the world the way you do is a shortcoming. How about regularly promoting conspiracy theories and appearing marginally coherent in multiple media interviews? Dismissing a foreign power's potential influence upon our electoral system? Not comprehending the mere basics upon which to formulate sound policy? Stereotyping, unfairly maligning, or simply ignoring large groups of concerned citizens? Treating staff as cannon fodder? Manipulating organized religion for unclear ends? Communicating like a vindictive street thug? How is the First Lady helping? Please forgive the stream of consciousness...this is probably too much.
www.thewaryouknow.com
www.thewaryouknow.com
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Intimidating political opponents with incarceration threats. "Lock her up".
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The 'You know when you're a republican representative when..." format might be effective.
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A few more are a complete lack of humility, appalling lack of respect and understanding of the country's constitution, petty childish behavior, no concern for the country's best interests are but a few. Other commentators will assuredly have many more. Who knows, it may be published as a book and be on the NYT best sellers list.
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Dare anyone to notice or note that you are clinically obese.
Never concede that you have lost the battle with male pattern baldness no matter how obvious your complicated comb-over or how much pink scalp shows through.
Never concede that you have lost the battle with male pattern baldness no matter how obvious your complicated comb-over or how much pink scalp shows through.
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Add to the list; Insulting a Gold Star family while they grieve, and thus insult the honor of their highly decorated son who died saving his men. The Kahn family.
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Stop lying about being the "leader of the free world" since Trump imagines himself as close partner with the Russian president who has successfully attacked the free press and protests against him....
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You forgot: Hire (buy? rent?) a third serial "wife" as first "lady" who makes a living by posing nude for men's magazines, and who complains that negative articles about her decrease the value of her "brand," thereby diminishing her ability to earn private profits from her public role.
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This is editorial is a true sign of a great newspaper serving a great country --if we can keep it.
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Trump has no respect for the American people. His appointment to the EPA, Scott Pruitt, immediately allowed cancer causing, neurological damaging pesticides (from chemical warfare products) to be used on our crops, not to mention possibly adding to the dangerous colony collapse of our busy honey bees.
Trump signed papers allowing the ISP's sell off our browsing data, appointed the head of the FCC who is against Net Neutrality.
Every intelligence agency has alerted us to Russian Hacking in the 2016 election. Trump says we don't need an independent counsel to investigate it. The person he appoints will head the investigation.
98% of scientists warn us to reduce greenhouse gas emissions because they exacerbate climate change. Trump says he knows more than the scientists and will pump UP the green house gas emissions.
Trump appoints a racist (Sessions) to be AG. Sessions lied about his involvement with the Russians in order to be confirmed. When confronted with his lies he refused to return to answer questions that would have been asked had he not lied.
Trump was complicit in the theft of Merick Garlands Supreme court seat, handed to Gorsuch. Gorsuch should recuse himself in any matter concerning Trumps criminality, treasonous acts and unconstitutional behavior.
We did not vote for Trump.
Trump signed papers allowing the ISP's sell off our browsing data, appointed the head of the FCC who is against Net Neutrality.
Every intelligence agency has alerted us to Russian Hacking in the 2016 election. Trump says we don't need an independent counsel to investigate it. The person he appoints will head the investigation.
98% of scientists warn us to reduce greenhouse gas emissions because they exacerbate climate change. Trump says he knows more than the scientists and will pump UP the green house gas emissions.
Trump appoints a racist (Sessions) to be AG. Sessions lied about his involvement with the Russians in order to be confirmed. When confronted with his lies he refused to return to answer questions that would have been asked had he not lied.
Trump was complicit in the theft of Merick Garlands Supreme court seat, handed to Gorsuch. Gorsuch should recuse himself in any matter concerning Trumps criminality, treasonous acts and unconstitutional behavior.
We did not vote for Trump.
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Nope - you pretty much covered the big ticket items. And the Republicans aren't going to lift a finger to stop this horrifying obscenity until that jagged signature is affixed to every item on their bucket list. Remember - they just pulled off a judicial coup de etat and were punished for their treachery by being given the entire federal government & 2/3rds of state governorships and legislatures. Why should they make a fuss over having Hugo Chávez in the White House as long as he's batting for the home team? The modern Republican party is the greatest threat to democracy - even one as phony as ours, in the history of the republic.
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Please add: Enjoying two scoops of ice cream while only serving one scoop to your guests.
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Let them know who's the boss when shaking hands
Forget that you work for the people - not the other way around.
Always remember - the rules do not apply to you
Forget that you work for the people - not the other way around.
Always remember - the rules do not apply to you
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Use profane language in speeches, interviews, campaign rallies and other public events.
(that used to be a big ones for Republicans....)
(that used to be a big ones for Republicans....)
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Call the FBI Director a showboat and a grand-stander while extolling General Flynn as a wonderful man.
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Every day, he fails to model the forbearance, humility, intellect, and temper that Americans ought to expect of one another living in a civil society and should demand from our Commander in Chief, or anyone in public office. Why shouldn't the North Koreans launch a missile - Trump and his sycophantic hangers-on aren't going to stop them. This administration and their congressional hacks couldn't find North Korea on a map even if their lives depended on it. The sad news is our lives do depend on this cursed group of people and I believe this President endangers us all. Resistance is not futile but it is an uphill battle.
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Trump gives new meaning to the old saying, 'Anyone can become President'".
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You left out:
"Threaten to jail your political opponent when you are elected."
"Threaten to jail your political opponent when you are elected."
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The GOP has devolved into a cult that will say and do anything to further validate and empower itself.
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Hah-hah! If the Presidents' turns of speech and language since about the 1950s were a guide to the cultural stand of the US, one would have to say that the country is in a steep decline into boorishness.
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Ok. lets go back to school.
Your world wide known professor has released a statement - done something - that the world press has picked up on. He is the world leader in your subject.
You go into a lecture, which, as usual, is conducted by his designees - his mentees, those who has given the power to conduct the classes in his absence - the ones who speak for him and know the subject matter well enough to warrant the institution to collect full tuition for our enrollment in his classes, being conducted by those hand picked designees = with whom he is in constant contact and has his "full confidence" (Trump alert).
We have every right to believe the questions we ask about the subject material are up to date and accurate,-if we give those answers on a quiz will be right _ and if not - we will be told not to rely on them until the TA can get back to us.
But somehow the Trump WH is the Trump University. His TA's can't be relied on, but our "test' can't question their knowledge.
I graduated many years ago. My TA's had more info than my President's staff, and were more willing to say "I don't know - I'll check with the Prof and get back too you".
I had more confidence in them than Spicer and Conway and McConnell and Ryan and GOp serial liars - and in my Profs than Trump in making sure I learned the truth.
Your world wide known professor has released a statement - done something - that the world press has picked up on. He is the world leader in your subject.
You go into a lecture, which, as usual, is conducted by his designees - his mentees, those who has given the power to conduct the classes in his absence - the ones who speak for him and know the subject matter well enough to warrant the institution to collect full tuition for our enrollment in his classes, being conducted by those hand picked designees = with whom he is in constant contact and has his "full confidence" (Trump alert).
We have every right to believe the questions we ask about the subject material are up to date and accurate,-if we give those answers on a quiz will be right _ and if not - we will be told not to rely on them until the TA can get back to us.
But somehow the Trump WH is the Trump University. His TA's can't be relied on, but our "test' can't question their knowledge.
I graduated many years ago. My TA's had more info than my President's staff, and were more willing to say "I don't know - I'll check with the Prof and get back too you".
I had more confidence in them than Spicer and Conway and McConnell and Ryan and GOp serial liars - and in my Profs than Trump in making sure I learned the truth.
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Using your inherited wealth to avoid the ordinary duties of American citizenship: military duty, taxes etc.
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I reccommend continued Republican support because Trump, true to character, will hopefully destroy the GOP for generations to come.
The Democrats must harness all resources to win back majorities in Congress in order to take out the trash.
I have never witnessed such a national embarrassment in my life.
The Democrats must harness all resources to win back majorities in Congress in order to take out the trash.
I have never witnessed such a national embarrassment in my life.
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We needed this all written down in one place! Thank you. No doubt, there will be more to add as the Republicans continue to look the other way.
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Utter contempt for the government's checks and balances as expressed in the Constitution.
Allow a group of Russian diplomats into the Oval office with their equipment.
Appoint heads of government agencies who do not believe in the mission of the agencies or even the existence of the agencies themselves.
Force an overworked secret service to protect your family full time in New York; to protect your family's frequent travels across the globe; and to protect you during your frequent travels to your private residences.
Allow a group of Russian diplomats into the Oval office with their equipment.
Appoint heads of government agencies who do not believe in the mission of the agencies or even the existence of the agencies themselves.
Force an overworked secret service to protect your family full time in New York; to protect your family's frequent travels across the globe; and to protect you during your frequent travels to your private residences.
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Trump voters need to study this list in detail and finally owe up to their colossal mistake. The majority of the country is waiting for the rest of you to finally emerge from the realty tv fantasy bubble that you have voluntarily chosen to encase yourselves in. Donald J. Trump has already demonstrated that he is not a conservative, Christian, business genius, military strategist or friend of the average worker. He is a supremely shallow fabulist, with the attention span and personal traits of a delinquent sixth grader. In those rare moments where he has shown clarity of thought, Trump has plotted every last one of his grandest legislative initiatives exclusively towards the financial interests of himself and his plutocrat friends. Now Trump has placed our confidence in the integrity of America's justice system at risk, merely for his own personal appeasement. Always placing self above country, the presidency of Donald J. Trump is a demonstrable fraud and failure of the highest order. The time has now arrived for you to finally help the rest of us contain the damage and move on. To say that you can do far better than having Donald J. Trump continue as leader of the GOP, would be the understatement of the century.
—Pass the buck, constantly, unless, of course, it's a literal rather than figurative buck, which you and your family will scramble after.
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Demean fellow citizens with physical/mental handicaps or of non-European ancestry.
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You make this so complicated. Here is my approach:
List of things Trump has done well:
Enough said...
List of things Trump has done well:
Enough said...
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I agree with your opinion/comments 100%. You might add to the list of unacceptable behaviors:
1) Barring US press, while meeting with Russian dignitaries, and permitting state run media, Tass Agency, unfettered access to Trump and the Oval Office;
2) Supporting the Arrest/prosecuting individuals who express negative comments such as the activist's action during Jeff Sessions's confirmation hearing;
3) Supporting the Arrest/prosecuting a member of the press while questioning the Secretary of Health & Human Services
1) Barring US press, while meeting with Russian dignitaries, and permitting state run media, Tass Agency, unfettered access to Trump and the Oval Office;
2) Supporting the Arrest/prosecuting individuals who express negative comments such as the activist's action during Jeff Sessions's confirmation hearing;
3) Supporting the Arrest/prosecuting a member of the press while questioning the Secretary of Health & Human Services
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Refusing to review the daily presidential intel briefs;
Refusing to read the White House protocols;
Refusing to read and review the major national and international problems;
Refusing to read.
Refusing to read the White House protocols;
Refusing to read and review the major national and international problems;
Refusing to read.
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Be a huge Bully without conscience or morality.
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1. Be impeccable with your word.
2. Don't take anything personally.
3. Make no assumptions.
4. Do your best.
Don Miguel Ruiz, The Four Agreements
2. Don't take anything personally.
3. Make no assumptions.
4. Do your best.
Don Miguel Ruiz, The Four Agreements
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Editorial clarity:
This editorial is a true sign of a great newspaper serving a great country --if we can keep it.
This editorial is a true sign of a great newspaper serving a great country --if we can keep it.
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Keep in mind that the DT45 crime family loves to proclaim "Promises made, promises kept", and "I'm keeping my campaign promises". This means that 45 believes that the words, values, and actions of a candidate are as important as the office-holder, so your evaluation needs to go all the way back to the beginning of his candidacy.
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This "handy list" should be offered to the democrats because they're the ones who enabled this nightmare to happen. They've been bamboozled, sidelined, out-maneuvered, bullied, intimidated, the list goes on and on--a list that's even longer than the republican list of hypocrisies and insults.
The democrats have been playing defense for a very long time--long enough for the republicans to run right over them.
This list itself proves that the republicans are still winning because the list is a list of facts offered to the republicans "in the hopes of protecting them from charges of hypocrisy in the future." I know that that is tongue-in-cheek but guess what? The republicans don't care about facts, don't care about hypocrisy, don't care about tongue-in-cheek. All they care about is winning more tax breaks for the wealthy elite and corporations and less rules so they can despoil our environment, oppress workers, etc., etc.
How about a list of strategies to win for truth and justice and protection of our Constitutional rights of an America that is of, by and for the people?
The democrats have been playing defense for a very long time--long enough for the republicans to run right over them.
This list itself proves that the republicans are still winning because the list is a list of facts offered to the republicans "in the hopes of protecting them from charges of hypocrisy in the future." I know that that is tongue-in-cheek but guess what? The republicans don't care about facts, don't care about hypocrisy, don't care about tongue-in-cheek. All they care about is winning more tax breaks for the wealthy elite and corporations and less rules so they can despoil our environment, oppress workers, etc., etc.
How about a list of strategies to win for truth and justice and protection of our Constitutional rights of an America that is of, by and for the people?
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By failing to demand that Trump adhere to the norms that undergird "republican virtues" (George Washington), his GOP enablers and supporters besmirch the ideals of American democracy.
Our Constitution, in its ideals, assures that there are certain fundamental legal principles--now accepted and recognized in all mature democracies--which limit and control the effect of any decisions made by government officials. The rule of law requires courts to uphold these principles and to protect the rights they articulate. In a rights-based constitutional democracy, checks and balances are in place to guarantee that no person is sovereign and no decision or action is above the rule of law.
Our political institutions are designed to protect individuals against the authoritarian and demagogic potential inherent to majoritarian rule: bias against and scapegoating of minorities, neglect of the vulnerable, rank political opportunism, consolidation of anti-democratic power, xenophobia, abuse of power by governmental and economic elites, and conflicts of interest on the part of elected officials.
President Trump disdains these ideals. His GOP enablers and supporters besmirch them--as was evident in the GOP's strategy for replacing Justice Scalia and in so many of their pro-plutocracy anti-democracy tactics and policies.
Our Constitution, in its ideals, assures that there are certain fundamental legal principles--now accepted and recognized in all mature democracies--which limit and control the effect of any decisions made by government officials. The rule of law requires courts to uphold these principles and to protect the rights they articulate. In a rights-based constitutional democracy, checks and balances are in place to guarantee that no person is sovereign and no decision or action is above the rule of law.
Our political institutions are designed to protect individuals against the authoritarian and demagogic potential inherent to majoritarian rule: bias against and scapegoating of minorities, neglect of the vulnerable, rank political opportunism, consolidation of anti-democratic power, xenophobia, abuse of power by governmental and economic elites, and conflicts of interest on the part of elected officials.
President Trump disdains these ideals. His GOP enablers and supporters besmirch them--as was evident in the GOP's strategy for replacing Justice Scalia and in so many of their pro-plutocracy anti-democracy tactics and policies.
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In the current environment, it is easy to criticize, become cynical and rail against our nation's leadership. Cynicism and irony sells newspapers, boosts ratings for CBS, Fox News and Saturday Night Live.
I watched again the video of President Obama's recent speech at the JFK Library where he received the Profile in Courage Award. President Obama emphasized the meaning of courage in our society, citing the many leaders and private citizens who make difficult choices in the face of adversity.
President Obama reminds us that we each have the opportunity, and perhaps the obligation, to pursue higher standards in the ways we think and communicate about ourselves and the world we live in.
I watched again the video of President Obama's recent speech at the JFK Library where he received the Profile in Courage Award. President Obama emphasized the meaning of courage in our society, citing the many leaders and private citizens who make difficult choices in the face of adversity.
President Obama reminds us that we each have the opportunity, and perhaps the obligation, to pursue higher standards in the ways we think and communicate about ourselves and the world we live in.
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We have to think, act and talk differently about this. Especially after this AM's spate of talking heads, I've lost patience with the same kinds of revelations and aha moments reached over and over again as if we were still discovering this mentally ill president, and the necessary outcome was still to be determined. Time to stop talking about Trump and start talking about the Republican Party. Trump is not going to change except to get worse, and that's the limit of his capability. The Republican party is still composed of thinking people, capable of thought and change (I exclude McConnell and Ryan, ultimately the two doing the most damage to the nation right now, one a blind wall and the other absolutely without a political or spiritual spine). It is their responsibility, because they have the most power to do so, to solve this problem, and urgently so. Stop despairing about Trump, it's wasted energy. Despair and demand of the Republican party. Next Sunday let's see a list of the citizen's guide to Republican behavior.
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" neglect to fill thousands of crucial federal government positions for months"
I remember reading that those job vacancies are empty by choice of the administration, it's there way of tearing down government and not having to deal with legal or ethical issues that may arise if some of those jobs are filled and the persons in those jobs were to raise questions. Truly, this is wonderland.
I remember reading that those job vacancies are empty by choice of the administration, it's there way of tearing down government and not having to deal with legal or ethical issues that may arise if some of those jobs are filled and the persons in those jobs were to raise questions. Truly, this is wonderland.
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I'm glad you mentioned that, in the past, American presidents have served as "role model for America’s children." We've all heard, "If you study hard and always do your best, you, too, could be president some day!" Now, it's the opposite: after every angry tweet and speech, I've thought, how on earth do parents bring up children in the age of Trump?
My parents taught me not to lie, to be considerate of others' feelings, to respect people who were different from ourselves, to do my homework, to always be prepared, to be kind to others and generous to those in need, to control my temper, not to be a bully, to turn the other cheek, to apologize, not to show off, to eat healthy food, and that if a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing well.
Trump does none of these things, and I wonder, what do parents say when children children talk back with, "But President Trump does it!"
My parents taught me not to lie, to be considerate of others' feelings, to respect people who were different from ourselves, to do my homework, to always be prepared, to be kind to others and generous to those in need, to control my temper, not to be a bully, to turn the other cheek, to apologize, not to show off, to eat healthy food, and that if a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing well.
Trump does none of these things, and I wonder, what do parents say when children children talk back with, "But President Trump does it!"
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i realized recently that the real problem with republicans is that they expect us all to accept donald trump as a normal member of the human family. i can't do that. it goes beyond whether he is fit to be president it goes to the basic qualities we expect from people we deal with on a daily basis. he does not have them. he is totally about himself all of the time and does not care one little bit about anyone else. we are going to see the depths of his psychological problems asl the job of president becomes more and more unmanageable for him. get ready! if the first 120 days or so is this bad? imagine what's in store? he's out of control.
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SNL has moved to the White House. Trump is a nightmarish reality. Trump creates mixed feelings embarrassment and pity, how low we will continue to descend? Although is not only Trump, is Paul Ryan is Mitch McConnell. They resentment towards President Obama is so ingrained in their hearts, they are willing to sacrifice the American people.
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They could also remember it didn't work out so well for Robespierre.
All this may be true, but clearly, millions of voters support Trump despite all this. That's just an empirical fact, which we can't ignore, no matter how baffling it is. Editorializing hasn't changed their minds, so something else is needed. Can you focus on what that is?
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Terrific list! Here's what I'm going to do with it:
Email a copy of this to all my Republican congressmen, (alas, most of them are of that ideology, out here in the rural west).
Along with my forwarded email, I'll enclose the message, "Do you, sir, endorse this behavior in any American president, Republican or otherwise? Please respond to this question immediately."
Then, if he doesn't respond, I send it again. And again, and again, and so on. Maybe I'll mail it weekly, too. I don't want him to think, through my silence, that I'm not horrified. And I don't want him--or his staff--to lose focus on this. So either he responds, or I keep hammering.
Also, I'm going to forward this article to my friends all over the country, with the same suggestion. Yes, we're all exhausted by the non-stop drama. But, please, keep on chipping away at "your" congressional employees.
Another note I often include is a PS that says essentially, "And please be aware that I have never missed an election in my life. And if I'm offered only Republicans to vote for, I ALWAYS choose the new one! Better a reprehensible new guy, than a reprehensible, non-responsive, embedded old guy."
Email a copy of this to all my Republican congressmen, (alas, most of them are of that ideology, out here in the rural west).
Along with my forwarded email, I'll enclose the message, "Do you, sir, endorse this behavior in any American president, Republican or otherwise? Please respond to this question immediately."
Then, if he doesn't respond, I send it again. And again, and again, and so on. Maybe I'll mail it weekly, too. I don't want him to think, through my silence, that I'm not horrified. And I don't want him--or his staff--to lose focus on this. So either he responds, or I keep hammering.
Also, I'm going to forward this article to my friends all over the country, with the same suggestion. Yes, we're all exhausted by the non-stop drama. But, please, keep on chipping away at "your" congressional employees.
Another note I often include is a PS that says essentially, "And please be aware that I have never missed an election in my life. And if I'm offered only Republicans to vote for, I ALWAYS choose the new one! Better a reprehensible new guy, than a reprehensible, non-responsive, embedded old guy."
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And we sit idly by with pen in hand
as the new king's kin
take up their arms beside his throne;
like soldiers of fortune
and loot the vault
like fortunate soldiers
in an army for one.
Wholly unprepared, save for extra rations of hubris,
they issue a call to arms
and ask our children to answer and march,
surely, toward a battlefield known in every war,
thy name is Folly.
And thus we are moved to words of condemnation
and untangling the truth from an ongoing con
self-assured that the supreme judges of history
will decree that we were once wise with our verse.
But fear that lone voice,
ye transcribers of outrage,
resounding from some yet born sage,
asking:
how could you have seen with such clarity
the rot within the kingdom,
yet still, fail to sever the king from our state?
as the new king's kin
take up their arms beside his throne;
like soldiers of fortune
and loot the vault
like fortunate soldiers
in an army for one.
Wholly unprepared, save for extra rations of hubris,
they issue a call to arms
and ask our children to answer and march,
surely, toward a battlefield known in every war,
thy name is Folly.
And thus we are moved to words of condemnation
and untangling the truth from an ongoing con
self-assured that the supreme judges of history
will decree that we were once wise with our verse.
But fear that lone voice,
ye transcribers of outrage,
resounding from some yet born sage,
asking:
how could you have seen with such clarity
the rot within the kingdom,
yet still, fail to sever the king from our state?
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Trump will do Trump. He's always been despicable. No surprise there. It's the rest of the Republicans who've shown new levels of hypocrisy.
It's beyond frustrating. It's unpatriotic.
McCain is the only one showing any heart, and that's because he never has to run again.
It's beyond frustrating. It's unpatriotic.
McCain is the only one showing any heart, and that's because he never has to run again.
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The White House is going to be Trumped by the Justice Department. Sessions holds the keys to the Republican plan of transitioning America to despotic oligopoly and has no other branches of government willing to prevent it. Putin's vision is the future. Trump is just the means.
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We can go on for days on end (and we do) categorizing Trump's latest and greatest offense to the American people, and everything this nation has fought and died for. It is an endless occupation. Tax payers have spent more than $25 million to send him on golf trips to Mar-a-Lago where he conducts government affairs as though they were an extension of his failing family businesses. Trashing the presidency is the correct description of what he is doing. Trump remains a major threat to our economy, our national security and our democracy. That he is grossly incompetent and can't organize a two car parade doesn't mean he can't start a nuclear war with North Korea or rob the national treasury or destroy our national parks and the environment or kill Big Bird.
Trump has turn the Oval Office into TV spoof of American politics. Unfortunately he serves the needs of the GOP and they will allow him to pervert the Constitution as long as possible while they pursue the undoing of Social Security and Medicare. In the background we can hear his loyal fans cheering as Trump and the GOP take away their health care and empties their pockets.
Trump has turn the Oval Office into TV spoof of American politics. Unfortunately he serves the needs of the GOP and they will allow him to pervert the Constitution as long as possible while they pursue the undoing of Social Security and Medicare. In the background we can hear his loyal fans cheering as Trump and the GOP take away their health care and empties their pockets.
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You forgot calling your opponent "Crooked" (his "Crooked Hillary" didn't end with the election) and then engage in the same "pay for play" behavior you called out the opponent as crooked.
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The list is standard operating procedure for a party that will do anything to stay in power. They would sell their grandmothers into prostitution slavery if it suited their needs. Totally evil.
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Interviewed by journalists - with 2 camera running, where each word is recorded verbatim. Then call it fake news.
Only dumbs generate news, then call it fake news.
Only dumbs generate news, then call it fake news.
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Excellent list, editors.
I'll add a couple items:
1) Display complete ignorance of military equipment by denigrating state of the art plane catapult system, all the while touting how much you respect military.
2) Casually mention bombing of sovereign country in meaningless missile strike, while later bragging to press he made the decision while eating best chocolate cake. Ever.
Imagine how the confidence level of our allies plummeted after this and many other decisions by current resident of Pres. office.
I'll add a couple items:
1) Display complete ignorance of military equipment by denigrating state of the art plane catapult system, all the while touting how much you respect military.
2) Casually mention bombing of sovereign country in meaningless missile strike, while later bragging to press he made the decision while eating best chocolate cake. Ever.
Imagine how the confidence level of our allies plummeted after this and many other decisions by current resident of Pres. office.
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The Republican Party, most conspicuously the leadership, is fully culpable in allowing this fiasco to continue without serious challenge. It proves without doubt they have no interest in the good of the country over Party. A truly shameful chapter in our history.
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Tell the world what a great Christian you are and then behave, daily, as though you have never had the slightest exposure to the teachings of Jesus or even the Ten Commandments. Spend Easter Sunday entertaining at your winter palace, enriching yourself at our expense.
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Did you mention these?
- Contradict yourself regularly.
- Contradict your staff regularly.
- Continually remind everyone how you won the election with more Electoral College votes than any Republican.
- Get your national security information from Fox News.
- Spend untold millions of taxpayer dollars on personal travel for yourself and your family.
- Misstate facts of U.S. History.
- Pick a fight with trigger happy Kim Jong Un.
- Start a trade war with Mexico.
- Start a trade war with Canada.
- Eat twice as much ice cream as everyone else at your dinner table.
- Contradict yourself regularly.
- Contradict your staff regularly.
- Continually remind everyone how you won the election with more Electoral College votes than any Republican.
- Get your national security information from Fox News.
- Spend untold millions of taxpayer dollars on personal travel for yourself and your family.
- Misstate facts of U.S. History.
- Pick a fight with trigger happy Kim Jong Un.
- Start a trade war with Mexico.
- Start a trade war with Canada.
- Eat twice as much ice cream as everyone else at your dinner table.
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By all that they do and don't do, the Republican Party is where integrity, accountability and responsibility go to die.
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--Talk about "my military."
--Denigrate the former Presidents who have shown courtesy and respect for the office by attending and sitting behind you at your inauguration.
--Adopt the historically compromised and counter-productive slogan "America First," thereby undermining the U.S.'s global stature and leadership (who would follow anyone who's motto is "me first"?). And proffer such arrogant sloganeering that as evidence that other Presidents were less committed to the U.S. and its interests.
--Characterize the United States as a site of "carnage."
--Show more concern about the size of inauguration crowds than millions of Americans who stand to lose medical coverage.
--Have public interviews like this:
Interviewer (O'Reilly): "Putin's a killer."
President (Trump): "There are a lot of killers. We've got a lot of killers. What, you think our country is so innocent?"
--Belittle knowledge and others' expertise.
--Model an utter lack of compassion, empathy, and respect for differences of opinion.
--Denigrate the former Presidents who have shown courtesy and respect for the office by attending and sitting behind you at your inauguration.
--Adopt the historically compromised and counter-productive slogan "America First," thereby undermining the U.S.'s global stature and leadership (who would follow anyone who's motto is "me first"?). And proffer such arrogant sloganeering that as evidence that other Presidents were less committed to the U.S. and its interests.
--Characterize the United States as a site of "carnage."
--Show more concern about the size of inauguration crowds than millions of Americans who stand to lose medical coverage.
--Have public interviews like this:
Interviewer (O'Reilly): "Putin's a killer."
President (Trump): "There are a lot of killers. We've got a lot of killers. What, you think our country is so innocent?"
--Belittle knowledge and others' expertise.
--Model an utter lack of compassion, empathy, and respect for differences of opinion.
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Here's an idea. Make a bunch of photocopies of this list, then put them in the White House dining room near the "stack of color-coded maps of the United States representing the results of the 2016 election," the ones Trump "hands . . . out to visitors as a kind of parting gift," as Peter Baker and Maggie Haberman reported in the Times on May 13. Maybe the list can even be blown up and "a framed portrait-size version [be] hung on a wall in the West Wing," as was done last week. Hey, Mr. President, I'll pay for the photocopying costs.
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Bravo! It is long past time to demand accountability from the GOP leadership. Trump would just be an odd historical footnote if not for the support and complicity of Ryan, McConnell, and the rest of the hypocritical GOP bunch on the Hill.
Ryan likes to brush off questions about Trump by smirking that he's not going to talk about "the tweet of the day," but the press needs to stop letting him get away with this shell game. First, Trump says lots of crazy things in interviews and speeches, not just on twitter, so make him answer to those. E.g, Do you believe the Russia investigation at the FBI is a "witch hunt"? Is it acceptable for a President to fire someone who is actively investigating him?
These guys want to pretend they're far above Trump's crazy habits, but that's a lie. They are moving in lockstep to enact an extreme conservative agenda and they need to be tied to him. As long as they can get away with pretending to keep him at arm's length they may escape being tarred with his brush as his popularity continues to plummet. They are his enablers and are complicit in his crimes: his corruption, his abuse of power, and his attacks on democracy. We have to stop pretending Trump is some magical creature who defies political gravity: he is only still in power because the Republicans in Congress refuse to act responsibly and impeach him. They must answer for this.
Ryan likes to brush off questions about Trump by smirking that he's not going to talk about "the tweet of the day," but the press needs to stop letting him get away with this shell game. First, Trump says lots of crazy things in interviews and speeches, not just on twitter, so make him answer to those. E.g, Do you believe the Russia investigation at the FBI is a "witch hunt"? Is it acceptable for a President to fire someone who is actively investigating him?
These guys want to pretend they're far above Trump's crazy habits, but that's a lie. They are moving in lockstep to enact an extreme conservative agenda and they need to be tied to him. As long as they can get away with pretending to keep him at arm's length they may escape being tarred with his brush as his popularity continues to plummet. They are his enablers and are complicit in his crimes: his corruption, his abuse of power, and his attacks on democracy. We have to stop pretending Trump is some magical creature who defies political gravity: he is only still in power because the Republicans in Congress refuse to act responsibly and impeach him. They must answer for this.
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* Watch hours and hours of television a day, reacting to things you see on it in real time, while giving shout-outs to a favorite network. Also, mocking the ratings of a reality show you used to host.
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Appoint unqualified and destructive people to major government positions, based on their support of your campaign instead of their competence to serve. Cabinet posts are not party favors.
Refuse to learn anything about how the government works.
Disregard science.
Isolate yourself from anyone who may disagree with you.
Trust cable news more than the vast information resources at your disposal.
Obsess about your campaign instead of focusing on the task at hand.
Insult and embarrass foreign leaders. Hang up on the prime minister of Australia and refuse to shake hands with the chancellor of Germany.
Throw childish tantrums.
Contradict yourself and your spokespeople.
Think everything is all about you.
Refuse to learn anything about how the government works.
Disregard science.
Isolate yourself from anyone who may disagree with you.
Trust cable news more than the vast information resources at your disposal.
Obsess about your campaign instead of focusing on the task at hand.
Insult and embarrass foreign leaders. Hang up on the prime minister of Australia and refuse to shake hands with the chancellor of Germany.
Throw childish tantrums.
Contradict yourself and your spokespeople.
Think everything is all about you.
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Unfortunately mostly true. The NYT fails however to list some of the failures of Obama :
Bowing down to Iran
Dropping our ally Mubarak for terrorist supporter Morsi
Obamacare (Trumpcare is even worse)
Arrogance towards Congress
Hope that we believed in, but never materialized
Bowing down to Iran
Dropping our ally Mubarak for terrorist supporter Morsi
Obamacare (Trumpcare is even worse)
Arrogance towards Congress
Hope that we believed in, but never materialized
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• Impugn a Gold Star family
• then have to ask an aide what a Gold Star family is.
• then have to ask an aide what a Gold Star family is.
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This is a keeper. Please keep it updated periodically.
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How long before the little men in white coats show up at 1600 for this
presidential behavior? Or, do the Republicans have a few more executive
orders to eke out before dissing grandpa? What a waste of human energy
reacting to, analyzing, anticipating 45's next irrational move. America
"great again"? This is like watching something in water overpowered by
the swirl of gravity, sucked into a drain. The something being our cherished democracy which WAS the envy of the world.
presidential behavior? Or, do the Republicans have a few more executive
orders to eke out before dissing grandpa? What a waste of human energy
reacting to, analyzing, anticipating 45's next irrational move. America
"great again"? This is like watching something in water overpowered by
the swirl of gravity, sucked into a drain. The something being our cherished democracy which WAS the envy of the world.
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Republicans already demonstrated that they will do anything to remain in power when they stole the Supreme Court. They did not care about the Constitution. Their healthcare bill shows They are just fine with killing off the poor. They only care about ensuring that virtually all wealth in this country is concentrated in the hands of their 1% overlords.
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Brilliant, and that may be the short list.
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The Republicans over the past thirty or so years have never let facts get in the way of their narratives or "dog-whistle" platforms. Now the Truth is an orphan and the Republicans are in control of all three branches of Government. Lies rule and we have full blown crony Capitalism.
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The President is an impulsive, dishonest fool, elected by even bigger fools and enabled by a cadre of spineless hypocrites in the House and Senate. Pray for America and vote Democrat in the midterms.
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The great American tragedy is that Democrats are committed in principle to the idea that Republicans are (a) human and (b) real Americans, while Republicans are committed in principle to the idea that Democrats are neither.
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I got a real good laugh at the ex-Bush staffer memos on Obama, aghast at the lack of suit jackets!
By all means, lead us into a trillion dollar regional disaster, get thousands of our service men and women killed over a stack of lies, but taking off the suit jacket?!? Too far! Republicans...
By all means, lead us into a trillion dollar regional disaster, get thousands of our service men and women killed over a stack of lies, but taking off the suit jacket?!? Too far! Republicans...
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You forgot grabbing women's crotches, and the the racist, sexist, dehumanization of anyone who does not appreciate his wonderfulness.
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Persistent lying is eroding democracy and beneath the office of the presidency. What is the lying threshold? The disinformation machine is perilous to trust and the rule of law of the nation. Where is the moral compass of this administration and congress?
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Also admitting to committing sexual harassment and defending others who have committed sexual harassment. Encouraging your political opponent be imprisoned. Or maybe that doesn't count because he wasn't the president yet!?
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"Ye blind guides! Ye strain at a gnat and swallow a camel." _Jesus
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Destroy all societal agencies designed to promote and protect the common good by placing them under the supervision of single-minded bigots who harbor hate and disdain for that common good.
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I need not add to your list. It more than suffices to the egregious behavior displayed by all Republicans, some Democrats, and members of a not very professional media who has been less than aggressive in its pursuits.
It is not the role of journalists to be pals with any president, to understand the fallibility inherent in compromising principles when the Press is seen as interacting with politicians more as cohorts instead of adversaries. Dinner at the White House, news networks gaining access to the president by presenting their viewers with glossy photo opportunities of them guffawing with this demagogue is simply disgraceful and nauseating. Yet, networks sell out on a regular basis to puff pieces instead of journalistic pursuance.
Standing above the fray of riffraff are The New York Times and The Washington Post. They report real news whether granted access or not. They
do not kowtow to the president or politicians simply to be granted an exclusive.
The New York Times did not go to Trump Tower when summoned. Trump went to The New York Times, and that's the way it should have been. The Times remains our greatest example of a free press, not succumbing to the whims and wishes of any political leader. May their platinum standard of Journalism remain one of our last beacons of Freedom of the Press and Speech.
DD
Manhattan
It is not the role of journalists to be pals with any president, to understand the fallibility inherent in compromising principles when the Press is seen as interacting with politicians more as cohorts instead of adversaries. Dinner at the White House, news networks gaining access to the president by presenting their viewers with glossy photo opportunities of them guffawing with this demagogue is simply disgraceful and nauseating. Yet, networks sell out on a regular basis to puff pieces instead of journalistic pursuance.
Standing above the fray of riffraff are The New York Times and The Washington Post. They report real news whether granted access or not. They
do not kowtow to the president or politicians simply to be granted an exclusive.
The New York Times did not go to Trump Tower when summoned. Trump went to The New York Times, and that's the way it should have been. The Times remains our greatest example of a free press, not succumbing to the whims and wishes of any political leader. May their platinum standard of Journalism remain one of our last beacons of Freedom of the Press and Speech.
DD
Manhattan
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Normalize sexually predatory behaviour.
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And most of all, you can take comfort in the wise words of Albert Einstein:
"The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing."
"The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing."
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-Appoint a white supremacist as your chief advisor
-Get endorsed by the KKK and encourage hate and racism throughout the country
-Appoint unqualified people to the cabinet that are hell bent on destroying the very agencies they swore to lead
-Has total ignorance about what it takes to be POTUS and revel in his own ignorance
-Has total contempt for the US Constitution
Has total contempt for the American people and love for ruthless dictators
-Has total contempt for democracy
-Has no morals, lies every time he opens his mouth
-Is a one man wrecking ball destroying the very foundation of this country
-Has severe mental disorders and is enabled by the GOP in order to give the very rich a tax break. The GOP enables him for their 30 pieces of silver.
-Get endorsed by the KKK and encourage hate and racism throughout the country
-Appoint unqualified people to the cabinet that are hell bent on destroying the very agencies they swore to lead
-Has total ignorance about what it takes to be POTUS and revel in his own ignorance
-Has total contempt for the US Constitution
Has total contempt for the American people and love for ruthless dictators
-Has total contempt for democracy
-Has no morals, lies every time he opens his mouth
-Is a one man wrecking ball destroying the very foundation of this country
-Has severe mental disorders and is enabled by the GOP in order to give the very rich a tax break. The GOP enables him for their 30 pieces of silver.
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Drain the swamp. Replace it with a cesspool branded by your name in gold letters.
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Employ that ancient, cheap salemans technique, the bait-and-switch: promise to represent the working class, and then when you get in office, do everything you can to further enrich the already filthy rich. Because that's what you are, Mr. Trump-- A parasitic trust fund baby from a parasitic social class. We need a better class of billionaire in this country, and we certainly need someone at the head of our federal government who is not a malignant narcissist turned doddering old fool.
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In the image of Trump's signature ... which one is the signature, the squiggle that looks like what you do at the office supply store when you're testing a pen, or the X on the left?
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Legitimize ethnic and religious persecution in Federal rules.
Ostracize people with handicaps.
Ostracize people with handicaps.
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Has to be posted on the refrigerator door, if it was on the mirror in the bathroom they might see themselves as the hypocrites they are.
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Known Russian KGB officer allowed in Oval Office with electronic gear. Mike Flynn in Russian payroll while acting as National Security Advisor. GOP leadership is mute.
If President Obama had done this would it be acceptable?
If President Obama had done this would it be acceptable?
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An enduring commitment, the promised list will rapidly burgeon to colossal proportions.
And to think that this is just the first petit course, the first brutal round in a madly bizarre national political misadventure with unlimited potential for an epidemic of epic disasters.
I anxiously await the day of sane and honorable reckoning.
And to think that this is just the first petit course, the first brutal round in a madly bizarre national political misadventure with unlimited potential for an epidemic of epic disasters.
I anxiously await the day of sane and honorable reckoning.
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I am surprised you missed this one:
- set up a "blind trust" run by one of your sons and the Trump CFO that includes language saying, "The Trustees shall distribute net income or principal to Donald J. Trump at his request, as the Trustees deem necessary for his maintenance, support or uninsured medical expenses, or as the Trustees otherwise deem appropriate" and withhold that language from summaries submitted to the government until Feb 10. Fail to include a requirement to disclose such distributions.
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-pull-money-his-businesses-whene...
- set up a "blind trust" run by one of your sons and the Trump CFO that includes language saying, "The Trustees shall distribute net income or principal to Donald J. Trump at his request, as the Trustees deem necessary for his maintenance, support or uninsured medical expenses, or as the Trustees otherwise deem appropriate" and withhold that language from summaries submitted to the government until Feb 10. Fail to include a requirement to disclose such distributions.
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-pull-money-his-businesses-whene...
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Excellent list. Please do similar lists for Senate Majority Leader and Speaker of the House, based on the rabidly hypocritical shifts in values of Mitch McConnell and Paul Ryan.
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I am exhausted after reading the article and many comments. Why is he still POTUS?
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*Serve yourself larger portions than your guests at White House dinners
*suck up to foreign leaders who are really dictators
*suck up to foreign leaders who you formerly castigated once you discover you can benefit financially
*openly work for legislation that lines your own pockets bigly
*suck up to foreign leaders who are really dictators
*suck up to foreign leaders who you formerly castigated once you discover you can benefit financially
*openly work for legislation that lines your own pockets bigly
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What is important to recognise not is such behaviour acceptable to the Republican leadership and members of the House and Senate it is also acceptable to those so called Christians in the Evangelical movement as well. O
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1. Reaching out to and praising dictators, despots, and leaders with despicable human rights records.
2. Defending criminal sexist behavior of others, such as Bill O'Reilly and Roger Ailes.
3. Accusing the women associated with these sexual predators as opportunistic and in it for publicity and money.
4. Promoting targeted deportation based on religion
5. Denying scientific proof of climate change for personal gain.
6. Selling ties to the White House to the highest bidder!!!
7. Refusing to divest himself from ALL business dealings which he benefits from as president
8. Being the biggest and most visible BULLY imaginable at a time when bullying is a major issue for children, especially online bullying!
9. No ability whatsoever to admit to wrongdoing of any kind at any time under any circumstance
10. A stunning lack of curiosity about how the government of this country or other countries actually run
11. Promoting sexist, racist, white supremacy through direct comments or by surrounding himself in the White House who also promote such views.
And the hits just keep oncoming.....
2. Defending criminal sexist behavior of others, such as Bill O'Reilly and Roger Ailes.
3. Accusing the women associated with these sexual predators as opportunistic and in it for publicity and money.
4. Promoting targeted deportation based on religion
5. Denying scientific proof of climate change for personal gain.
6. Selling ties to the White House to the highest bidder!!!
7. Refusing to divest himself from ALL business dealings which he benefits from as president
8. Being the biggest and most visible BULLY imaginable at a time when bullying is a major issue for children, especially online bullying!
9. No ability whatsoever to admit to wrongdoing of any kind at any time under any circumstance
10. A stunning lack of curiosity about how the government of this country or other countries actually run
11. Promoting sexist, racist, white supremacy through direct comments or by surrounding himself in the White House who also promote such views.
And the hits just keep oncoming.....
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Show no charm, no imagination and no understanding of the complex human experience.
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"If you’re a Republican legislator, stick this list on the fridge and give it a quick read the next time you get upset at a president."
First, there is no need to stick it on the 'fridge: it's memorized already. Second, the only time a Republican "gets upset" about a President is when he's a Democrat or black. Maybe we can add "or Latino, or Indian, or Oriental, or Transgender, or... well you get the point.
First, there is no need to stick it on the 'fridge: it's memorized already. Second, the only time a Republican "gets upset" about a President is when he's a Democrat or black. Maybe we can add "or Latino, or Indian, or Oriental, or Transgender, or... well you get the point.
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"...ALLOW White House staff members to use their personal email for government business."
I was with your every point until I reached the above. It suddenly dawned on me that it seems Comey "allowed" Hillary Clinton to use her personal email illegally. I remember my disgust at Jeff Sessions and Lindsey Graham howling about "the rule of law" as President Bill Clinton was caught perjuring himself under oath in the Monica Lewinsky hearings and getting away with it.
No wonder there is no longer any accountability anywhere in government.
I was with your every point until I reached the above. It suddenly dawned on me that it seems Comey "allowed" Hillary Clinton to use her personal email illegally. I remember my disgust at Jeff Sessions and Lindsey Graham howling about "the rule of law" as President Bill Clinton was caught perjuring himself under oath in the Monica Lewinsky hearings and getting away with it.
No wonder there is no longer any accountability anywhere in government.
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Allowed Russian media with sophisticated communications technology into the Oval Office.
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Believe that you are the president of only those who voted for you and not the president of all the citizens of the United States.
Believe that your responsibility is only to residents of those states whose electoral college votes went to you.
Believe that your responsibility is only to residents of those states whose electoral college votes went to you.
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Make sure you do something that people will finally get tired of listing on a list of reasons to get fired.
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WOW. Its almost impossible for a future President to follow such a list.
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If this were not the POTUS and VPOTUS, Americans would be laughing and denigrating that leader of an obviously 'banana republic'. How times change in the USA.
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He utterly unqualified relatives negotiate with foreign powers.
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Defend sexual harassment by saying Bill O'Reilly "did nothing wrong", thereby openly admitting to a belief that sexual harassment is not wrong.
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Use physical appearance deficiencies and handicaps (in the eyes of the beholder) in verbal attacks on whomever.
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Also, call the US constitution outdated.
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I admire the grain of this essay. "Stick this list" is absolutely not the model mode of this newspaper. Yet the scope of the list is so meticulously compiled as to rule out the intemperance of indiscipline in this "lapse" in style. Rather, taken all together, this is a document candidly portraying the footprints of a psychotically degenerative force. Keep the faith.
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Your 4th point is much too subtle for today's Republicans. Should read "Actively obstruct justice"
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At what point will it no longer be my job to humbly respect the grievances of those who still support Trump, so I can start being furious with these idiots for putting this disaster of a president in office?
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Find a stronger word than hypocrisy. That just doesn't cover this situation.
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Excellent list however, you missed a very important guideline, the threat of hobbling the First Amendment. Trying to find ways to make it easier to sue the media for unflattering articles and news. And by making laughing out loud, and protesting a crime, while running over a protester in a car is not a crime.
But we liberals and Dems know according to the GOP handbook of hypocrisy, that rules are made for you and me, and not for them.
But we liberals and Dems know according to the GOP handbook of hypocrisy, that rules are made for you and me, and not for them.
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The "Sandy Becker" in me saw Trump's signature as a drawing of a crowd of KKK members.
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Play golf at will and spend $120 million a year of the taxpayers money for trips to an exclusive resort in Florida, all the while eliminating funds for school lunches for low income kids and family planning advice for women.
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And, over time, we may learn that acceptable presidential candidate behavior, by current Republican standards, may collude with a foreign power (a historical adversary at that) to secure an election.
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I think your list is prescient. It predicts the end of the Republican Party.
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Select people for high-level executive positions who have no qualifications for those positions and are openly hostile to the missions of the agencies they will lead.
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I just printed and put this on my fridge-- but I'm not a legislator, I am a voter. Only wish you'd run a complete list-- including "do business in Azerbaijan with known Iranian Guard money launderers" --and a few other items.
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Ordering two scoops of ice cream for yourself and one for your guests.
Mock disabled people
Admit to felonious serial sexual assault
Attack Gold Star families
Refer to captured and tortured US soldiers as losers for getting captured and tortured in war
(the above will actually get you elected president, last least by the Christian, moral, and family values crowd)
What you may NOT do:
Have been involved in some land deal ten years earlier; have had a personal email server, never hacked; suggest that a terrorist attack might have been prompted by an anti-Muslim video; fib about a consensual affair*
*Kidding. A Republican candidate could do those things as well.
Mock disabled people
Admit to felonious serial sexual assault
Attack Gold Star families
Refer to captured and tortured US soldiers as losers for getting captured and tortured in war
(the above will actually get you elected president, last least by the Christian, moral, and family values crowd)
What you may NOT do:
Have been involved in some land deal ten years earlier; have had a personal email server, never hacked; suggest that a terrorist attack might have been prompted by an anti-Muslim video; fib about a consensual affair*
*Kidding. A Republican candidate could do those things as well.
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Please don't forget that wallowing in self-pity is now an essential leadership skill.
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Keep the U.S. Secretary of State out of a meeting with the Russian Foreign Minister and Russia's Ambassador to the U.S.
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Only one problem with the list. Congress cannot impeach a past president. That honor is reserved for a sitting president. Hint, hint.
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Can we expand this list to include vile, self-defining behaviors that were exhibited *before* the election? The kinds of things that, if they had applied to President Obama and had come to light after he took office, would have had the hypocritical lips of McConnell and his ilk dripping with venom? For Trump, such a list would require more than one editorial; you'd need to devote a whole issue of the paper to it.
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If this has not been added to the list - Accuse your predecessor of a felony, wiring tapping your phone illegally for example, without any evidence and in the face of denial by those who would know if it happened.
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Call the US Constitution archaic and bad for America.
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This list is scary particularly when this "presidency" is in its infancy, but it is critical to remind people how very bad things are and how hypocritical the republicans are: look in the mirror and explain what you will tell your children . Thank you for putting this list together as sad as it is
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Trump is the perfect expression of the current state of the Republican Party. Anyone who thinks he's an aberration is mistaken. Like the party at large, he's insecure, nursing a constant siege mentality of grievance. His rationalizations for the most horrid behavior is theirs. His grasping self-aggrandizement is theirs. His paranoia is theirs. They feel he is their voice -- and they're right. This is not anything remotely like principled conservatism, which explains the revulsion of thinkers like George Will. This is Trumpism, which is narcissism writ large across the GOP. And like any true narcissist, it is incapable of admitting error, for the slightest admission of error brings down the whole house of cards, putting the lie to the whole ugly charade. The choice is between always being right or surrender to the admission of guilt and an utter self loathing. It's a no brainer.
The High Chair tyrant is a well-known archetype that Trump embodies perfectly.
The High Chair tyrant is a well-known archetype that Trump embodies perfectly.
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- Undermining our American free press.
- Labeling all news critical of Trump as fake news.
- "Using" "quotation marks" "incorrectly."
- Labeling all news critical of Trump as fake news.
- "Using" "quotation marks" "incorrectly."
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- Embrace autocratic despots but shun democratic leaders
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Thanks for a calm and clear summary. I hope the Republican legislators will pay attention to this situation, and act accordingly. Perhaps we should each identify an anti-Trump Republican candidate for election in 2018 and start campaigning for them right now?
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Very dangerous times. The Europeans are afraid of visiting the US thanks to Mr. Trump. The Republicans are a bunch of cowards and forget that they are responsible for this President as long as he is in power.
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I like it. It is strangely reminiscent of a document from about 240 years ago which outlines the grievances we had with a king. Perhaps we should have it engrossed on parchment, and have a representative body sign it on July 4.
Oh one more thing for the list: act like a tyrant.
Oh one more thing for the list: act like a tyrant.
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Excellent, thanks.
Sticking to the facts without interpretation may reduce the list a touch, but this is the most important editorial yet from the Times in this Trump presidency.
Sticking to the facts without interpretation may reduce the list a touch, but this is the most important editorial yet from the Times in this Trump presidency.
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Bring high officials of a hostile foreign power into the Oval Office, even while said hostile foreign power stands accused of masterful spying techniques
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Stay up all night watching TV and tweeting, making yourself even less competent and alert to lead the nation the next day, every day.
Invite three redneck has-beens to the White House for dinner, lecture them on the economy and foreign affairs, and afterwards allow them to roam the halls and take juvenile pictures in front of the paintings.
Invite three redneck has-beens to the White House for dinner, lecture them on the economy and foreign affairs, and afterwards allow them to roam the halls and take juvenile pictures in front of the paintings.
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I am not sure how this "list" helps us move forward in America. And I am not sure why the NYT Editorial Board thought to publish this.
We Democrats do not need another effort in self-flagellation for this walking disaster and the other folks listening will not cotton to their guy being called out by progressives for his failings - which are too numerous and grievous and too-well documented. So why the list?
There must be a handful of Republicans, like Charlie Sykes, who care about our country but how will they find common ground with our side? The answers to that would be a list worth reading - and thinking about.
We Democrats do not need another effort in self-flagellation for this walking disaster and the other folks listening will not cotton to their guy being called out by progressives for his failings - which are too numerous and grievous and too-well documented. So why the list?
There must be a handful of Republicans, like Charlie Sykes, who care about our country but how will they find common ground with our side? The answers to that would be a list worth reading - and thinking about.
Add to your list:
Nominate and support an Attorney General who has a record of racist harassment.
Nominate and support a director of the EPA who repeatedly sued the EPA because some restrictions were put on the oil industry
Nominate and support a director of HUD a person with no management experience.
Support the withdrawal of federal support to a medical organization which is offering health care and family planning support to many people especially women.
Tells the public not to expect accuracy in his statements.
Nominate and support an Attorney General who has a record of racist harassment.
Nominate and support a director of the EPA who repeatedly sued the EPA because some restrictions were put on the oil industry
Nominate and support a director of HUD a person with no management experience.
Support the withdrawal of federal support to a medical organization which is offering health care and family planning support to many people especially women.
Tells the public not to expect accuracy in his statements.
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I try to think of how democrats would respond if a Trump-like liberal were in office. I'm sorry to say that I'm not sure. Would they be quick to impeach a president who was likely to appoint a succession of liberal Supreme Court justices, tax the rich, guarantee reproductive rights, and provide Medicare for all? It is easy to see Republicans or Democrats turning a blind eye to the dangers to our democracy that such a president clearly does and clearly would, even if left leaning, pose.
This is a good list, and the argument that it somehow resets ethical standards is clearly a jab at Republican hypocrisy, rather than a serious assertion. But I think that danger cuts both ways, and it is democracy that is at stake. I fervently hope that Republicans wake up soon, and that Democrats understand that there but for fortune go they. Otherwise we will need to coin a new term for our form of government, "hypocracy," defined as a government freely elected by the people that otherwise behaves despotically.
This is a good list, and the argument that it somehow resets ethical standards is clearly a jab at Republican hypocrisy, rather than a serious assertion. But I think that danger cuts both ways, and it is democracy that is at stake. I fervently hope that Republicans wake up soon, and that Democrats understand that there but for fortune go they. Otherwise we will need to coin a new term for our form of government, "hypocracy," defined as a government freely elected by the people that otherwise behaves despotically.
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The NYT does not like Trump, I get that, but where is this going? Is there a point to all of the vitriol? Right now you are preaching to the choir who do not have the votes to impeach the President. Until Trump does something that so outrages the country that his supporters abandon him, this will not change.
There is more than a bit of irony when the NYT writes an article calling for decorum, yet at the same time its editors and columnists are calling him names in their pieces. You are becoming a tabloid.
There is more than a bit of irony when the NYT writes an article calling for decorum, yet at the same time its editors and columnists are calling him names in their pieces. You are becoming a tabloid.
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Yet another list of Trump's faults, published as if the public is not already acutely aware. Oh, I know - it's important to keep all this ersatz president's foibles in the forefront less a fickle public forget - but this is time and media space that could be better used exposing all those GOP enablers who are keeping him afloat and protecting him from being removed from office. What is Bannon doing, now that he's been moved deeper into the shadows? What mischief is Sessions up to? Is he really not involved in delaying the Russia investigation? Why is Rosenstein resisting the appointment of a special prosecutor? How will Burr resolve the conflict he faces in investigating a president he will support no matter what? When will the media realize that Trump's job is not to lead this nation, but, through chicanery and diversion, to protect the fascist GOP working feverishly to dismantle our democracy? This incessant focusing on a man whose behavior should by now be totally predictable is moving the spotlight away from the darkest corners where the illumination is needed!
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Trump's done everything the GOP once disapproved of but be black.
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It would be laughable if it wasn't downright scary and seemingly so accepted by so many.
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Today Lawrence Tribe stated it is time for the impeachment of Trump. When he speaks, people listen. Let's hope the Republicans do, although I think it will fall on deaf ears. Many Americans are mad as hell at them and Trump for their inhumane health bill. Yet, they erroneously believe that their party won't suffer in 2018. Wrong. Trump will take them down after he falls from grace, which he already has. Cut your losses, McConnell and Ryan, and defenestrate Trump.
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- use family members as diplomats
- do not put your considerable assets into a blind trust
- rather, allow your considerable assets to be overseen by your sons, whose security when traveling aboard is now paid for by the nation
- spend every weekend golfing at enormous cost to the nation
- not move your child from their school, at enormous cost to the nation
- do not put your considerable assets into a blind trust
- rather, allow your considerable assets to be overseen by your sons, whose security when traveling aboard is now paid for by the nation
- spend every weekend golfing at enormous cost to the nation
- not move your child from their school, at enormous cost to the nation
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If you are hoping to shame Republicans for their support of Trump by reminding them he is ignorant, reckless, dishonest and treasonous, you should realize that Republicans at this point are shameless.
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Admit to and encourage sexual predation on women...don't forget to add that to the list.
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As President you may freely
1. follow thru on campaign promises.
2. call out fake news as you wish.
3. communicate directly with the people
4. work 20 hours per day.
5. get results.
6. be authentic not sanitized.
7. communicate directly to the people. Oh I said that already.
1. follow thru on campaign promises.
2. call out fake news as you wish.
3. communicate directly with the people
4. work 20 hours per day.
5. get results.
6. be authentic not sanitized.
7. communicate directly to the people. Oh I said that already.
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How about commit criminal sexual contact?
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Run as a populist but then set an agenda that benefits the top 1% and harms the voters who put you in office
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Make press briefings so bizarre that we can't wait to see what S.N.L. will do with it the next weekend.
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It's like Trump and the rest of the Republican crew, are actually proud of their ignorance.
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You forgot "Regularly engage in juvenile name-calling when referring to sitting United States Senators."
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Trump is no Benedict Arnold because Arnold had scruples.
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you left out a lot, but one thing nobody seems to talk about:
Lester Holt asked Donald about keeping Flynn on the payroll for 18 days after the White House was informed by the acting AG of his compromised position.
Donald said Flynn "served for many years, he's a general, he's a in my opinion a very good person. I believe that it would be very unfair to hear from somebody who we don't even know and immediately run out and fire a general."
Somebody who we don't even know? that girl? Forget about it.
Donald's sexism is so internalized he doesn't know he should be ashamed.
Lester Holt asked Donald about keeping Flynn on the payroll for 18 days after the White House was informed by the acting AG of his compromised position.
Donald said Flynn "served for many years, he's a general, he's a in my opinion a very good person. I believe that it would be very unfair to hear from somebody who we don't even know and immediately run out and fire a general."
Somebody who we don't even know? that girl? Forget about it.
Donald's sexism is so internalized he doesn't know he should be ashamed.
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Boast about sexually assaulting women....?
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Wax repeatedly and incestuously about "she's a beauty, that one" daughter Ivanka. While sitting next to your second wife, hold up your two Lilliputian hands in front of you at chest level, and say, "of course, we're not sure yet just what these will look like," when referencing the future breasts of your infant daughter. Turn the White House in your family's personal Out House, while fleecing and hosing the American people. Let your "she's a beauty, that one" sit in on every diplomatic meeting, and hose the visitors for "marketing rights" for her personal company. Appoint your son-in-law to essentially do your job. 5/14, 10:29 AM
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One more - excited statements of the most base of facts, such as "I'm the president. Can you believe it?"
Unfortunately for America, we have to.
Unfortunately for America, we have to.
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Made a mockery of politicians one and all and their beliefs.
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Eliminate the need for alarm clocks because everyone is waking early anyway to find out what-the-hell-has-he-done-today.
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- Establish a death-panel document that will prematurely kill tens of thousands of old people and other Americans with curable illnesses and laugh like crazy about it with your fellow millionaires.
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Yes, in a nutshell the new GOP rules for their President. Had Obama done any one of these egregious actions the House would already have impeachment proceedings underway. If Obama issued EOs he was a dictator, but Trump is a hero. Our world turned upside down after the 2016 election. We need to know just how this President was elected and what forces were brought to bear to make it happen. This is what we must find out. This is what Trump and the GOP are trying desperately to hide.
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Order steaks well done and put ketchup on them like a 12 year old.
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We can analyze Trump's behavior to death. The reality is he is a pathological liar which in the mental health world is a personality disorder. He simply is unable to act any differently.
It is our Congress's responsibility to protect our Democracy regardless of party affiliation. This is no laughing matter. The welfare of the American people is at stake.
It is our Congress's responsibility to protect our Democracy regardless of party affiliation. This is no laughing matter. The welfare of the American people is at stake.
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Display no sense of shame.
Double down on past lies when you are called out on any of the above.
Double down on past lies when you are called out on any of the above.
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praise the National Enquirer while denigrating award winning newspapers like theNYT.
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Beautiful, but late. The NYTIMES could have spoken out before the election, could have called lies "lies" and insanity "insanity". But, you normalized, rationalized and homogenized him down to some sort of equivalent to Hillary Clinton. Thanks for the coverage of the emails.
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Use your position to increase the profits and profiles of your private businesses
Appoint your unqualified family members to serve in high level positions
Disregard even the most basic manners and etiquette
Receive your security briefings from foreign leaders
Handle global security crises in public places with unsecured phones
Provide full access to Russian press for a photo-op in the Oval Office while locking out American journalists
Appoint your unqualified family members to serve in high level positions
Disregard even the most basic manners and etiquette
Receive your security briefings from foreign leaders
Handle global security crises in public places with unsecured phones
Provide full access to Russian press for a photo-op in the Oval Office while locking out American journalists
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Absolutely perfect, but horrendously sad and horrific list of the actions this toxic empty headed sociopath. I will be sending excerpts to my so called "representatives" in Congress. I agree with another poster, a list for actions republicans have taken to stand up to this unethical, hateful, cruel, no-nothing racist sexist creep. Here it is.
Actions republicans have taken to stand against this president and for our republic and citizenry.
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Crickets........
Actions republicans have taken to stand against this president and for our republic and citizenry.
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Crickets........
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Destroy the people who put you in office.
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wow - that signature !
from a quick prima facie appearance, that looks like the signature of a very fearful aggressive nasty personality, not well-rounded at all
if children learn to write rounded cursive letters, this one has lost that or perhaps never learned - as I read of a childhood neighbour of DT saying that when their ball accidentally went over the side fence into the Trump backyard, rather than simply tossing it back with a 'here you go', the 11yo DT starting shouting nastily 'I'm going to SUE you !'
and this is the guy many Americans chose to represent them ?
wow - just wow.
from a quick prima facie appearance, that looks like the signature of a very fearful aggressive nasty personality, not well-rounded at all
if children learn to write rounded cursive letters, this one has lost that or perhaps never learned - as I read of a childhood neighbour of DT saying that when their ball accidentally went over the side fence into the Trump backyard, rather than simply tossing it back with a 'here you go', the 11yo DT starting shouting nastily 'I'm going to SUE you !'
and this is the guy many Americans chose to represent them ?
wow - just wow.
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Sign documents you clearly haven't read or understood.
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And, if you're a Republican, you find no problem in any of that misconduct so long as taxes on the rich are also lowered.
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Excuse sexual harassment by your prominent friends/supporters Roger Ailes and Bill O'Reilly.
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How does the New York Times plan to reach and open the eyes and minds of the significant portion of the American population that voted for Trump and continues to cheer him on, in spite of all the damning evidence? How does a self-serving, lying hypocrite like Mitch McConnell get continuously elected to the Senate and become the Republican leader of the Senate? Whose interests do Trump and other elected officials such as McConnell and Paul Ryan really serve, besides their own and the famous 1%?
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- It's now fine to blame your predecessor. "There you go, blaming Bush" became a Republican catchphrase back when the subject was the worst recession since the Great Depression, but it's now tweeted regularly, often in relationship to 90 months of economic expansion.
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I think it's time you people give this poor man some credit.
In this editorial, for example, you fail utterly to recognize that Mr. Trump readily clears the key conservative standard for Presidential decorum, unassailable good character, and being a Real American: He faithfully wears that little flag stuck through his very expensive lapels at every visible moment.
Not only does this offer important encouragement to his bedraggled troops in Washington, it is an undeniable symbol of his ongoing Presidentialness.
It would be kind of interesting to have a chance to ask him what he thinks it means, though.
In this editorial, for example, you fail utterly to recognize that Mr. Trump readily clears the key conservative standard for Presidential decorum, unassailable good character, and being a Real American: He faithfully wears that little flag stuck through his very expensive lapels at every visible moment.
Not only does this offer important encouragement to his bedraggled troops in Washington, it is an undeniable symbol of his ongoing Presidentialness.
It would be kind of interesting to have a chance to ask him what he thinks it means, though.
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But why do we blame Trump, really? He did everything he possibly could pre-election to prove he was unfit for office.
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I think this list is a God-send. I suggest you publish it in booklet form (like copies of the Constitution) and sell it on Amazon. You could even do new editions as the Trump administration continues.
P.S. I just noticed all of the helpful additions among the comments. Please include them.
P.S. I just noticed all of the helpful additions among the comments. Please include them.
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Proclaim that the president knows more about military capabilities than the generals.
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Lying should be at the top of the list; after every transgression and the final *attribute*.
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You neglected to mention his overall malicious statements about certain women that he decides are not worthy of his attention, calling them names and using disparaging remarks about their appearance; his boasting about his ability to sexually assault women; his disparaging remarks about individuals with disabilities. The list goes on. Never mind letting some of his subordinates take the heat for his misdemeanors. Up to and including his VP.
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Ignore for this discussion the politics. Just look at the "skinny budget". This is obviously written by a group of amateurs. These people cannot even write the high-level spending plan for the US federal government. Trump and his close advisers are a group of incompetents. Trump's bluster is an attempt to hide their lack of knowledge. This is NOT politics, this is incompetence. Maybe the Trump voters are happy, but that is a sign of ignorance. So far the US government is running on auto pilot. How long can that last? Those responsible for this government are ignoring that. I am holding Ryan and McConnell responsible for what may happen next.
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While I agree completely with the sentiment and outrage of this editorial I think it misses the point
Trump is and was a known quantity. He was elected by the majority of voters outside California, and a majority of white male and female voters nationally.
This is what the voters must have wanted this president to act like, and what they wanted for the country
On that basis why should the republicans do anything but go along with Trump?
Trump is and was a known quantity. He was elected by the majority of voters outside California, and a majority of white male and female voters nationally.
This is what the voters must have wanted this president to act like, and what they wanted for the country
On that basis why should the republicans do anything but go along with Trump?
Well, the same list can be attributed, with minor changes, to almost every post-war American president.
Add:
- objectifies women as sexual entertainment for men including a slimy remark about dating his own business women daughter
- denigrates news media as fake news when it displeases him yet uses it for his main source of information instead of national assets which takes more time and attention
- mocks a disabled reporter to illicit cheers from his (sick) fans
- objectifies women as sexual entertainment for men including a slimy remark about dating his own business women daughter
- denigrates news media as fake news when it displeases him yet uses it for his main source of information instead of national assets which takes more time and attention
- mocks a disabled reporter to illicit cheers from his (sick) fans
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Hypocrisy your name is Politics.
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Beyond the items in this list, what offends me most about Trump is his inarticulate speech. I understand that presidents like to be men (and hopefully in 2020 women) of the people, but there is a certain decorum, seriousness of purpose, intellectual acuity, linguistic dignity that should accompany the office. Every time Trump opens his mouth, especially when he doesn't read from a TelePrompTer, it's is obvious that he is linguistically challenged. In large part, this is because he doesn't read. But when he takes the stage with foreign leaders, it is embarrassing to hear our president massacre the English language, while his guest sounds like a native speaker.
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Do you remember all of the wild controversies and scandals of the first 110 days of the Obama Administration?
Neither do I....
Neither do I....
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Be careful what you wish for. With pence in charge, the republican far right will have much less resistance in advancing their agenda and the progressive advances we have enjoyed will be set back 50 years!
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- Appear with smirking rubes from gerrymandered districts to proclaim another victory in the war against the poor, disadvantaged, minorities and people with health problems...
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Use capital level threats against your opponents in campaign debates.
Stalk campaign oppoenents during debates.
Constantly interrupt opponents during debates.
Use rude, juvenile language and tactics to destroy the dignity of any conversation you hold.
Mislead the uninformed part of the electorate to your advantage.
Stalk campaign oppoenents during debates.
Constantly interrupt opponents during debates.
Use rude, juvenile language and tactics to destroy the dignity of any conversation you hold.
Mislead the uninformed part of the electorate to your advantage.
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I've noticed that the media has stopped mincing words and are now calling a lie a lie.
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Brag about not having paid federal income taxes.
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Allow mining off Bristol Bay, Alaska, which hosts one of the most significant fish runs in the United States and is an economic driver for Alaska,
Allow lead-shot - overturned a policy banning the use of lead shot on USFWS wildlife refuges, leading to the poisoning of plants and animals and getting into groundwater,
Reconsider designation of 21 national monuments,
Tried to upend the methane rule - but lost,
Questioning the Paris Agreement on climate change.......
Allow lead-shot - overturned a policy banning the use of lead shot on USFWS wildlife refuges, leading to the poisoning of plants and animals and getting into groundwater,
Reconsider designation of 21 national monuments,
Tried to upend the methane rule - but lost,
Questioning the Paris Agreement on climate change.......
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Denigrate and vilify as "fake" the press's coverage that has the ability to call him out about all of these behaviors (unless, of course, he is being praised). Investigative journalism is then totally devalued.
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Leave your wife behind with blue Tiffany box when greeting the Obamas. Frown and scowl when seated next to her at celebratory luncheon.
Lie about inauguration attendance even when photographs prove, without doubt, you are wrong.
Heck, why not. Who's important here? ME!!!
Lie about inauguration attendance even when photographs prove, without doubt, you are wrong.
Heck, why not. Who's important here? ME!!!
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The Republicans have no standards which is more frightening to me than the behavior of Trump. The Legislative Branch serves as a check to the Executive Branch and they are abdicating their responsibility. That is the biggest threat to our democracy and constitution.
Shame on them. They disgust me and they should disgust the entire country.
Shame on them. They disgust me and they should disgust the entire country.
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Claim that God literally performed a public miracle, on your behalf, during your inauguration, despite volumes of evidence to the contrary.
"The rain should have scared them away. But God looked down and he said, 'We’re not going to let it rain on your speech.' In fact, when I first started I said, "Oh no." First line, I got hit by a couple of drops. And I said, 'Oh, this is, this is too bad, but we’ll go right through it.' But the truth is that it stopped immediately. It was amazing. And then it became really sunny, and then I walked off and it poured right after I left.""
"The rain should have scared them away. But God looked down and he said, 'We’re not going to let it rain on your speech.' In fact, when I first started I said, "Oh no." First line, I got hit by a couple of drops. And I said, 'Oh, this is, this is too bad, but we’ll go right through it.' But the truth is that it stopped immediately. It was amazing. And then it became really sunny, and then I walked off and it poured right after I left.""
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Has anyone else seen what I have; that is the increase in dimension of trump's signature with each new signing of this or that to great acclaim by the simpering lot standing around him. The Crayon-like spiked letters can tell us a lot about his self-perceived importance; the size of the spiked "letters" gives us a sense of his oversized and undeserved ego. A suggestion for Presidential historians of the future: get out your measuring tapes after this charlatan leaves office by the back door and check my hypothesis.
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Consider all of us "after-dinner entertainment".
Every tax dollar given to Ryan and McConnell and their families over the years has been a perfect example of wasteful government spending.
Every tax dollar given to Ryan and McConnell and their families over the years has been a perfect example of wasteful government spending.
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Promote tv programs that praise you and criticize those that don't. (Think fox and friends)
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The list grows longer by the day. How long do we wait?
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Incite ethnic prejudice
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-promote and encourage sexual assault
-making racism acceptable again
-butcher the English language to the point of incoherence
-demand personal loyalty from appointed government officials and the bureaucracy
-have Nazi sympathizers in his cabinet
-hire unqualified personnel for cabinet positions
-making racism acceptable again
-butcher the English language to the point of incoherence
-demand personal loyalty from appointed government officials and the bureaucracy
-have Nazi sympathizers in his cabinet
-hire unqualified personnel for cabinet positions
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On a more superficial note: he claimed to have been the healthiest president ever, by a doctor whose license has lapsed. And just for fun: has he ever looked in the mirror at the frothy concoction on his head, with its ever changing color, resembling a dead animal? How about thinking he looks like a robust 40 year old? Delusional? You betcha.
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This piece is disappointingly childish, close to puerile.
I was hoping to wake this morning to a sober call to Republican leaders of conscience to follow the Barry Goldwater example and demand Mr. Trump's resignation for the sake of the Republic and simple decency. Instead, the Times delivered the equivalent of a well-researched Facebook rant.
For as long as this circus lasts, the nation needs the Times as a voice of dignity and authority. Please don't forget that.
I was hoping to wake this morning to a sober call to Republican leaders of conscience to follow the Barry Goldwater example and demand Mr. Trump's resignation for the sake of the Republic and simple decency. Instead, the Times delivered the equivalent of a well-researched Facebook rant.
For as long as this circus lasts, the nation needs the Times as a voice of dignity and authority. Please don't forget that.
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Two or three years from now there will be many Republicans filled with a deep sense of shame that they failed to stand up for their country when the situation called for a personal moral compass to overcome short term partisanship.
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The Republicans in Congress will be hard to move from their support for Trump. A President with no principles or convictions and a limitless capacity to compromise is a boon to those who want to achieve the agenda pursued by the forces that fund the Republican machine. Perhaps a million or more citizens marching on D.C. to reclaim their democracy may give a few Congressional Republicans reason to reconsider their support. Nothing short of that will even have a chance.
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On this fine Mother's Day, add to your terrific list: act petulant when you don't get your own way, pout, sulk b/c 'it's not fair!", refuse to share, point fingers, scowl some more, stomp, yell "it's not my fault!", demand more ice cream than everyone else, furrow your eyebrows and stick out your lips. Lie, lie, and lie so much you get caught with your pants down and then lie some more.
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Sexual assault should be at the top of the list. Of the many morally repugnant offenses of the 'president', I think this is number one.
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1. Privatize health care and ensure that everyone's last act is to turn over all remaining assets to the for-profit hospitals (not everyone deserves healthcare)
2. Privatize education and make sure only certain people are educated - only the deserving of course
3. Privatize roads, railways, busses and other transportation (not everyone should travel)
4. Privatize the military, and the prisons
5. Privatize communication methods (internet and other)
6. Privatize the police
7. Privatize libraries, parks and natural resources
8. Make sure said now-privatized resources go to my friends.
2. Privatize education and make sure only certain people are educated - only the deserving of course
3. Privatize roads, railways, busses and other transportation (not everyone should travel)
4. Privatize the military, and the prisons
5. Privatize communication methods (internet and other)
6. Privatize the police
7. Privatize libraries, parks and natural resources
8. Make sure said now-privatized resources go to my friends.
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"If you’re a Republican legislator, stick this list on the fridge and give it a quick read the next time you get upset at a president."
Then, get a tattoo of Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell smirking as leaders of the Party.
Then, get a tattoo of Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell smirking as leaders of the Party.
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Trump does all of these things and more. Yet the bigger story is this:
The Republican members of Congress people, virtually the only backstop to this mad man of a president, refuse to lift a finger to protect the nation from Trump.
Congressional Republicans have made a Faustian bargain of enormous consequences. A "deal" wherein they leave him alone to his golf trips to Florida in exchange unquestioned signing on to a legislative agenda which will continue to shift the nation's patrimony to a veneer of already wealthy and powerful men.
The Republican members of Congress people, virtually the only backstop to this mad man of a president, refuse to lift a finger to protect the nation from Trump.
Congressional Republicans have made a Faustian bargain of enormous consequences. A "deal" wherein they leave him alone to his golf trips to Florida in exchange unquestioned signing on to a legislative agenda which will continue to shift the nation's patrimony to a veneer of already wealthy and powerful men.
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Don't take responsibility for anything that results in criticism or questions. Pass it off as someone--anyone!--else's fault. Do this after claiming, "I alone can fix it."
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Yes, this list is terrific, and it's amazing how many more items readers have added. It's really beyond all conceiving, that this man is president.
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This list would mean something if the Republicans in Congress had any real morality or sense of responsibility to the country, they DO NOT. The GOP has become home to self serving sycophants to a morally corrupt ideology, blind to the corruption at their very core. Hopefully, the election of Trump will prove to be their Waterloo, and force the GOP to rethink their very raison d'etre.
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Chuck out used-up old wives, buy new ones.
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What else is new, president Golf-Hole is an abomination. I want more reporting about people working to replace Donny and his enablers. What's happening in Montana, Georgia. Who are the new candidates coming to challenge the various Luddites who occupy state and local offices. While we need to know how bad things are we also need to know what people are doing to fix it.
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The Republican members of Congress have been served notice that they are tainted by this menace and they will lose their seats in 2018. That is unless Trump cancels the election or pulls some other fast trick.
The Republicans sure made a big deal out of Benghazi. But with RussiaGate they are sitting on their hands instead of investigating the possibility that Trump colluded with one of our biggest long time enemies. They are aiding and abetting Treason, plain and simple.
The Republicans sure made a big deal out of Benghazi. But with RussiaGate they are sitting on their hands instead of investigating the possibility that Trump colluded with one of our biggest long time enemies. They are aiding and abetting Treason, plain and simple.
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May I suggest a small correction: "The Republican's Guide to Republican Presidential Behavior."
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"Disrespect" women with impunity (pardon me for not being more descriptive, but this is a family newspaper and not a government publication, after all).
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And this is only the stuff we currently know about. You know we're going to be even more nauseous in a few years when the behind-the-scenes books are written.
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Traitor: to the American people who elected him and those who had not but nevertheless sworn to protect, and to the nation whose interests he puts behind his own.
But this is the Republican mantra.
But this is the Republican mantra.
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As referred to on today's front page, this GOP President also gets to turn our country inward and pull away from international engagement, allowing our competitors (China) to seize the moment to expand their own footprint around the world and supplant our position as a global trade leader and global voice for human rights. This GOP President's personal failings are deplorable, but cleaning up this mess later is going to be a nightmare. And as we fade into the sunset, much of the respect and global leadership we are ceding will never be regained.
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All true. As well as the additional items listed by commenters.
But please be cognizant that the Republicans want this clown in office because it allows them to push through really evil and ultraconservative legislation and judicial appointments while we are focused on the circus.
Our country is naturally a little right of center, which as progressive I can live with. But conservatives beware, you are going to wake up in the Gulag soon along with the rest of us if you do not stop your fascist and autocratic brethren from their destruction of democracy. Remember the
slogan, "We the people"?
Trump and his ultraconservative minions have the opportunity to fill 120 federal judicial seats--those seats the Republicans REFUSED to fill when Obama was president even though he likely would have filled them with moderates.
Be very afraid and yes, read Handmaiden's Tale, 1984, and Brave New World again. And again.
But please be cognizant that the Republicans want this clown in office because it allows them to push through really evil and ultraconservative legislation and judicial appointments while we are focused on the circus.
Our country is naturally a little right of center, which as progressive I can live with. But conservatives beware, you are going to wake up in the Gulag soon along with the rest of us if you do not stop your fascist and autocratic brethren from their destruction of democracy. Remember the
slogan, "We the people"?
Trump and his ultraconservative minions have the opportunity to fill 120 federal judicial seats--those seats the Republicans REFUSED to fill when Obama was president even though he likely would have filled them with moderates.
Be very afraid and yes, read Handmaiden's Tale, 1984, and Brave New World again. And again.
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On the plus side, Democrats have a lot more leeway now. No matter what Republicans say about something Democrats do, the only necessary response will be "Trump".
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I'd suggest adding "nepotism" to this list but our culture already tolerates nepotism as our last true shared faith. The lies that our mainstream culture cough up in support of nepotism are a whole load of myths we want to believe about talent, achievement, and who truly has access to the means of material success.
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Thank goodness that Trump is such an ineffectual fool. That offers us our only protection from many of the truly horrible things that he would like to do. We impeach him at our peril. The accession of either President Pence or worse President Ryan would really fulfill our worst nightmares.
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• Do not know what he does not know
• Take away health care from millions
• Being a racist and a xenophobic
• Disrespecting women
• Thinking the separation of powers is a suggestion
• Having Sessions interview the next FBI Director in order to make sure that the Putin-Trump investigation be placed in the back burner
• Forgetting about his voters
I cannot continue the list because I have to leave to go to Mass.
• Take away health care from millions
• Being a racist and a xenophobic
• Disrespecting women
• Thinking the separation of powers is a suggestion
• Having Sessions interview the next FBI Director in order to make sure that the Putin-Trump investigation be placed in the back burner
• Forgetting about his voters
I cannot continue the list because I have to leave to go to Mass.
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The rudder on this ship is missing, as well as the navigation equipment.
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And, of course, have a signature to match your narcissism, namely something very similar to a seismograph plot of a magnitude eight earthquake.
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At least a couple of those "allowed" actions (the ones about the use of an unsecured cellphone and the use of personal email accounts for official business) apparently are not OK if you are a Democrat. In fact, Hillary Clinton's use of a personal email server for official business was enough to set Republicans (including Donald Trump) howling for her imprisonment.
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All this is humorous of course, but to what end? Nothing written here is news to anyone, even Republicans. Expecting them to start impeachment proceedings because Trump plays too much golf, or is a dimwit and a boor is expecting too much. It will never happen. Trump will plod along for his four years, fawned over by his sycophants and stooges who don't mind being made fools. He'll do lots more stuff over those years that will humiliate 54% of the country, but his 45% of the country will remain faithful, while 2% won't care one way or the other.
If Trump leaves office it will be because he finally gets fed up with the constant hounding of his "fake news" enemies, the leaks in his White House that he can't control, and constantly being made fun of instead of being respected. Right now, he's isolated and alone and wondering why he ever ran for office. In a year's time, he just may decide he doesn't need the aggravation and he's had enough. He longs for his cozy bed in Trump Tower where he's truly in charge and no one ever questions him, disagrees with him, or ridicules him. It's only a matter of time. It's like when the immature bully at summer camp cries into his pillow every night because he's homesick. Sooner or later, he has to call for his mom to come pick him up.
If Trump leaves office it will be because he finally gets fed up with the constant hounding of his "fake news" enemies, the leaks in his White House that he can't control, and constantly being made fun of instead of being respected. Right now, he's isolated and alone and wondering why he ever ran for office. In a year's time, he just may decide he doesn't need the aggravation and he's had enough. He longs for his cozy bed in Trump Tower where he's truly in charge and no one ever questions him, disagrees with him, or ridicules him. It's only a matter of time. It's like when the immature bully at summer camp cries into his pillow every night because he's homesick. Sooner or later, he has to call for his mom to come pick him up.
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"Devolution, de-evolution, or backward evolution is the notion that species can revert into more "primitive" forms over time."
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If you are on the editorial board of a liberal media outlet, stick that list on your fridge with the memo: "Already happened, Congressional Repubs OK with all items. Note to self: impeachment requires 2/3 Senate majority... START WORKING ON ACTUAL ISSUES"
It's all ok if one doesn't forget to wear the flag pin.
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The liberal media obviously cannot take a joke!
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As president-elect, send snarky holiday tweets to your (other party) constituents .... "Happy New Year to all, including to my many enemies and those who have fought me and lost so badly they just don't know what to do. Love!"
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-Keep looking for the scapegoats for each mistake of the President.
-Never feel ashamed of the shameful acts of the President.
-Always ignore the embarrassment caused by the ignorance and foolish acts of the President
-Never feel ashamed of the shameful acts of the President.
-Always ignore the embarrassment caused by the ignorance and foolish acts of the President
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I concur but let me assay some balance about recurring massive failings of the NYT, WaPo, the media generally.
1. Comey's conduct July 2016 was ground for his immediate dismissal. The NYT, the major media mute. Even, the degraded Edgar Hoover never intervened on an election contest like Comey.
2. Comey also disturbingingly opined that video cameras recording police maiming and killing people were discouraging the law enforcers. I welcome other interpretations: but for me Comey is saying it's not right to videotape cops maiming, killing. The NYT, WaPo, LaT, the major media didn't call him on this either. At the best, extremely inane, stupid.
3. I am no expert on chronology but the NYT needs to take some responsibility for Trump. Safire was a leading misogynist thug in the demonization of Hillary Clinton. He coined the inelegant phrase "congenital liar" to describe Hillary. Maureen Dowd was equally malignant with OpEds, equally malignant and often stupid.
4. The situation now is catastrophic: better Trump remain because it's Pence who is 'mainstream" evangelical, has in the past been for 'gay conversion therapy" and unlike Trump, the entire GOP is on his side.
5. I believe the media have a Judith Miller scale problem once again. In 2016, incessant reporting on Emails - it was all garbage.
1. Comey's conduct July 2016 was ground for his immediate dismissal. The NYT, the major media mute. Even, the degraded Edgar Hoover never intervened on an election contest like Comey.
2. Comey also disturbingingly opined that video cameras recording police maiming and killing people were discouraging the law enforcers. I welcome other interpretations: but for me Comey is saying it's not right to videotape cops maiming, killing. The NYT, WaPo, LaT, the major media didn't call him on this either. At the best, extremely inane, stupid.
3. I am no expert on chronology but the NYT needs to take some responsibility for Trump. Safire was a leading misogynist thug in the demonization of Hillary Clinton. He coined the inelegant phrase "congenital liar" to describe Hillary. Maureen Dowd was equally malignant with OpEds, equally malignant and often stupid.
4. The situation now is catastrophic: better Trump remain because it's Pence who is 'mainstream" evangelical, has in the past been for 'gay conversion therapy" and unlike Trump, the entire GOP is on his side.
5. I believe the media have a Judith Miller scale problem once again. In 2016, incessant reporting on Emails - it was all garbage.
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This is a wonderful list and one I would love to see updated as more violations need to be added. Certain items could be used to identify changes the public would like to see, for instance every Supreme Court nominee by a sitting president gets a hearing within two months needs to be added so we don't have to continue this game of obstructionism into every administration to come. Perhaps to fire an FBI Director it should take the recommendation of the AG, President as well as the heads of the Judicial committee. It shouldn't be as easy as it was for the President to disrupt the FBI. This list is an excellent start but is only good if it is an instrument for change which I believe it can be.
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Will Republicans never wake up to the threat this administration poses to our democracy? How could they not care?
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The president may freely:
--Commit everyday acts of crassness such as bolting ahead of wife upon exiting Air Force 1 or hogging the umbrella from her during a rainstorm.
--Reveal an eight-year-old's knowledge of history, government etc. President Lincoln was a Republican, "not many people know that." Thank you President Obvious.
--Hold up tyrants as Vladimir Putin and Rodrigo Duterte as role models. Choose unrepentant slave owner and genocidist Andrew Jackson as the president most worthy of emulation.
--Choose alt-right inventor and white supremacist Bannon as top advisor. Invite white supremacist, anti-semitic, overrated guitarist Ted Nugent to dinner.
--Lie about just about everything, little lies such as the sun immediately started to shine when he began his inaugural address and such colossal, totally obvious and intelligence-insulting whoppers that he fired FBI Director James Comey because he treated Hillary Clinton shabbily during the election campaign. Please, Mr. Not-My-President, stop. Just stop.
And finally (actually, not finally because given the energy I could go on for a lot, lot longer) but by way of summing up:
--Make America the laughingstock of every country in the world and in every country on every other planet in the universe suspected of containing intelligent life.
--Commit everyday acts of crassness such as bolting ahead of wife upon exiting Air Force 1 or hogging the umbrella from her during a rainstorm.
--Reveal an eight-year-old's knowledge of history, government etc. President Lincoln was a Republican, "not many people know that." Thank you President Obvious.
--Hold up tyrants as Vladimir Putin and Rodrigo Duterte as role models. Choose unrepentant slave owner and genocidist Andrew Jackson as the president most worthy of emulation.
--Choose alt-right inventor and white supremacist Bannon as top advisor. Invite white supremacist, anti-semitic, overrated guitarist Ted Nugent to dinner.
--Lie about just about everything, little lies such as the sun immediately started to shine when he began his inaugural address and such colossal, totally obvious and intelligence-insulting whoppers that he fired FBI Director James Comey because he treated Hillary Clinton shabbily during the election campaign. Please, Mr. Not-My-President, stop. Just stop.
And finally (actually, not finally because given the energy I could go on for a lot, lot longer) but by way of summing up:
--Make America the laughingstock of every country in the world and in every country on every other planet in the universe suspected of containing intelligent life.
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If not for the birth of this nation in slavery, Trump had nothing going for him.
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Well said
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One correction: the list should read "• possibly occupy the White House with the help of a hostile foreign power." Help from a hostile foreign power is unproven, at least at this point.
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Putin's cheering and self-congratulation is deafening.
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The Republican Party abandoned their devotion to bookkeeping decades ago. There was a time when Dems and GOPs could negotiate with some reasonable dignity from both sides. They both saw the problems the nation was facing and came together to figure out how they could find a solution, more often than not, through thoughtful debate and compromise.
The current paralysis in the Congress can be blamed nearly entirely on a Republican Party spawned by Ronald Reagan and then, with the help of Alan Greenspan's release-the-hounds-of-destructive-economic theories, and Newt Gingrich and his colleagues (with the coaching from the ever-foul Republican consultant, Frank Luntz), the Republican Party decided there were tactics to follow if they every wanted long-term control of both chambers of Congress:
a) attack Democratic rivals as unpatriotic and "elitist"; b) recruit America's billionaires and millionaires to fund ultra-conservative candidates throughout the country, including races for school boards and city councils, as well as state and federal offices; c)fuel citizen anger through the ultra-conservative media outlets; d) use social media to bring convulsive anger to those people left out of the economic recovery (a rather remarkable recovery given the total lack of cooperation from the Republican Party who brought us The Great Recession in the first place.
The GOPs have no shame. Their actions are treasonous.
The current paralysis in the Congress can be blamed nearly entirely on a Republican Party spawned by Ronald Reagan and then, with the help of Alan Greenspan's release-the-hounds-of-destructive-economic theories, and Newt Gingrich and his colleagues (with the coaching from the ever-foul Republican consultant, Frank Luntz), the Republican Party decided there were tactics to follow if they every wanted long-term control of both chambers of Congress:
a) attack Democratic rivals as unpatriotic and "elitist"; b) recruit America's billionaires and millionaires to fund ultra-conservative candidates throughout the country, including races for school boards and city councils, as well as state and federal offices; c)fuel citizen anger through the ultra-conservative media outlets; d) use social media to bring convulsive anger to those people left out of the economic recovery (a rather remarkable recovery given the total lack of cooperation from the Republican Party who brought us The Great Recession in the first place.
The GOPs have no shame. Their actions are treasonous.
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I get along with real conservatives. I don't know any who voted for Trump.
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I just don't understand the Republicans' laissez-faire attitude about him. Surely they will be able to pass all those horrible legislative plans they have with the VP after a Trump impeachment. I'm not a fan of Pence or the Republican agenda, but at least the VP isn't crazy or an embarrassment.
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Tell your White House aides to lie to the public, then turn around and blame them for lying to the public.
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Show blatant disregard for our nations children by setting all the wrong examples, morally and physically. Teach them that lying is ok because if you do it if enough you'll wear people down and it will be allowed to become the norm. McDonalds (and junk food in general ) should be the main staple of your diet because hey kids, at least you'll know what you're eating! Being a bully is the way to get what you want. Call anyone you want derogatory names and and show them utter disrespect just because you can and you should never apologize and admit you were wrong because it's always someone else's fault! Never back down from your demands and finally, by all means, never bother to study or read books. You can still become President!
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Excellent editorial, but I'd have included "Brag about sexually assaulting women" on the list.
Even though that happened during the campaign, it's an important measurement of what too many Republicans consider acceptable behavior in a president.
We must highlight that outrage again and again, until our culture absorbs the fact that abusing women is not OK.
Even though that happened during the campaign, it's an important measurement of what too many Republicans consider acceptable behavior in a president.
We must highlight that outrage again and again, until our culture absorbs the fact that abusing women is not OK.
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- Keep looking for the scapegoats for each mistake of the President who can't do anything otherwise.
-Never feel ashamed about shameful acts.
-Keep safe distance from ethics and moral standards in public life.
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-Never feel ashamed about shameful acts.
-Keep safe distance from ethics and moral standards in public life.
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In the curent age of false equivalencies, some examples can always be found that turn any president's behavior into an example found in this list, thus saying these thing are not new and have been part of the opposition's former presidents behavior.
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Publicly humiliate and demean women
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In addition to the many excellent entries readers have submitted:
- mock disabled people
- disrespect parents of fallen military heroes
- disregard lifelong learning
In summary, exemplify every behavior that our parents admonished us against.
- mock disabled people
- disrespect parents of fallen military heroes
- disregard lifelong learning
In summary, exemplify every behavior that our parents admonished us against.
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Fire the U.S. attorney investigating a money launderer, Denis Katsyv, who may have connections through a law firm, to an intelligence Dossier on you.
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I can't understand the Republican's "see, hear, and speak no evil" behavior towards Trump's impeachable actions. They would be much better off with President Pence
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Current Republicans and FOX heavily criticized President Obama for daring to wear a beige suit as disrespectful. Fascinating how they now aren't even disturbed by any, most or all of the horrific items on the list.
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Engage in sexual assault.
Brag about it.
Brag about it.
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Inviting Russian leaders into the Oval office with their photographers, while none from the U.S.
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Forget Trump. Impeach, recall or sanction Congress, the House and the Senate, Republicans and Democrats. They are the constitutional check and balance to the big orange gas bag in the WH. And as you note, they have run away and/or hide from their constitutional duties and oath.
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Prez Trump is the monkey's paw of presidents. everything his supporters wished for will results in horrors.
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Do remember - hand on heart during National Anthem. (Remember President Obama's coffee-in-left-hand-while saluting scandal?)
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Readers can better understand Trump's attitude toward his predecessor and his hostility directed at politics as usual by examining his ex-butlers comments about Obama, Moslem's and liberal thinking. Although his ex-butler is off the rails, his general tone is not far removed from Trump and a great many Americans mindset. Look at past years pictures of Trump with Obama together and note Trump's obvious physical discomfort. No amount of hand-wringing or articles penned in this paper or elsewhere will really change him and those who voted for and support him.
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Oh my this was/is fun. To all the serious folks out there shaming us NYT liberal "elite", be quiet. For one news cycle we got to have some fun and add to the list of horrors. The sad thing is that there are so many choices and none of them are made up. Trump has actually done all this in only 120 days. He is so "active".
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Hypocrisy is no longer a deterrent.
Republicans in Congress wear it as easily as the President allows that his motivations are obstructive.
As long as it results in tax cuts to the rich, they're good.
Republicans in Congress wear it as easily as the President allows that his motivations are obstructive.
As long as it results in tax cuts to the rich, they're good.
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- appoint cabinet members who are hostile to the aims of the agencies they are supposed to run;
- blame others for your failures;
- make frequent, publicized visits to your private golf clubs as a sales tool to increase their commercial value;
- abolish federal rules designed to protect the environment and civil liberties;
- vilify the press for doing its job;
- stiff the treasuries of New York and Palm Beach county for millions of dollars in security costs to suit your personal convenience;
- set an example to American children that says it's fine to bully others with less power and that debunks the story of George Washington and the cherry tree by telling lies as much as you like.
- blame others for your failures;
- make frequent, publicized visits to your private golf clubs as a sales tool to increase their commercial value;
- abolish federal rules designed to protect the environment and civil liberties;
- vilify the press for doing its job;
- stiff the treasuries of New York and Palm Beach county for millions of dollars in security costs to suit your personal convenience;
- set an example to American children that says it's fine to bully others with less power and that debunks the story of George Washington and the cherry tree by telling lies as much as you like.
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Do the exact same thing you accused your opponent of during the presidential campaign, in fact a thing you encouraged your supporters to put her in prison for - use of unsecured electronic communications
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Sit around in your underwear in your free time watching Fox News, and disdain to ever read anything more substantive about anything, ever, let alone about any of the major issues of the day for which as leader of the free world you might be expected to take SOME interest
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You left out the fact that a president must have no knowledge of economics. In fact, his statements on economics must be stupid or impossible. Here is an example of one that is both:
"I will completely pay off the national debt in 8 years" - Donald Trump
"I will completely pay off the national debt in 8 years" - Donald Trump
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Actually, this is the Congressional Republican's Guide to Republican Presidential Behavior! The guide is completely different if the President is a Democrat!!
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Since this man occupied the white house, I lost respect for the office as well. I could not come to terms that a person I see as an incompetent charlatan with no respect for the laws, for the office he's occupying, or care for the good of the country, be holding a position I considered special and respectable. I'm afraid he damaged the office of the President of the US for a generation.
Here are a few more to add to the list:
Fire the FBI director in a way that he finds it on TV while giving a motivational speech to FBI agents.
Promise an unconstitutional action to his supports, then ask his people to find a way to make it look legal (Muslim Ban)
Praise dictators and murderous leaders around the world, invite them to the white house.
Put unqualified people in important positions because he does not trust other people. Giving them ridiculous amount of responsibilities (Kushner)
Make stupid comments when talking to world leaders (phone call to Australia's PM)
Still threatening and bad mouthing his election rival (Hillary)
Forcing executives of big companies to come, falsely claim job creation because of Trump policies for the plans they already had in place (Intel, others)
Asking for government shutdown right after the Congress averted one.
Here are a few more to add to the list:
Fire the FBI director in a way that he finds it on TV while giving a motivational speech to FBI agents.
Promise an unconstitutional action to his supports, then ask his people to find a way to make it look legal (Muslim Ban)
Praise dictators and murderous leaders around the world, invite them to the white house.
Put unqualified people in important positions because he does not trust other people. Giving them ridiculous amount of responsibilities (Kushner)
Make stupid comments when talking to world leaders (phone call to Australia's PM)
Still threatening and bad mouthing his election rival (Hillary)
Forcing executives of big companies to come, falsely claim job creation because of Trump policies for the plans they already had in place (Intel, others)
Asking for government shutdown right after the Congress averted one.
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And:
- Congratulate foreign leaders who win elections that revamp their constitution away from democracy
- Congratulate foreign leaders who win elections that revamp their constitution away from democracy
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Great list of qualities our new president has. You missed out 'self deception' - one of his greatest qualities.
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Never buttoning the suit while standing, a basic etiquette that is violated. Why that it is followed by all men? Because it sends a signal that you pay attention to the details and cuts a cleaner silhouette.
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This list isn't just about the Republican legislators, this is about the voters who decided that a person who was obviously capable of doing the multitude of items listed should be the president of our country. What do those voters think about this country and its citizens that they decided that this kind of person should lead them? Those voters have given their middle finger to all of us and do not care a whit about what has and will ensue from their decision.
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So reminiscent of the madman's log kept on Captain Queeg of Caine Mutiny infamy. When will someone steal the strawberries from the White House mess?
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Maybe someone should give Trump a copy. He could then claim it is the longest list ever given to any president, no president ever received a list this long and it's a great list, the greatest.
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Every morning as the USA wakes up, the same chant can be heard emanating from Republican households across the land - "Mirror Mirror on the wall, whose the fairest, balanced and most moral of them all?"
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Quid Pro Quo
[Latin, What for what or Something for something.] The mutual consideration that passes between two parties to a contractual agreement, thereby rendering the agreement valid and binding.
One cannot read this list and not think about the reason(s) for the Republican majority in Congress continues to support Donald Trump's outlandish/criminal/treasonous -- you name it -- behavior. Whatever the reason(s), this arcane legal phrase says it all: you give us what we want -- assurance that you'll sign off on our retrogressive legislative agenda; we'll give you what you want -- room to be yourself during your presidency (see NY Times's "The Republican’s Guide to Presidential Behavior.").
Such a deal...
[Latin, What for what or Something for something.] The mutual consideration that passes between two parties to a contractual agreement, thereby rendering the agreement valid and binding.
One cannot read this list and not think about the reason(s) for the Republican majority in Congress continues to support Donald Trump's outlandish/criminal/treasonous -- you name it -- behavior. Whatever the reason(s), this arcane legal phrase says it all: you give us what we want -- assurance that you'll sign off on our retrogressive legislative agenda; we'll give you what you want -- room to be yourself during your presidency (see NY Times's "The Republican’s Guide to Presidential Behavior.").
Such a deal...
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• Hand out maps showing which counties voted for him as a constant reminder that he has no intention of being president for all American citizens.
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Appoint vote suppression specialist Kris Kobach to ensure a permanent Republican victory over the majority. Use the well organized Koch network to provide hires in every department that are best suited to dismantle anything that is good for the nation as a whole in favor of short-term gain by the few who are already wealthy and want more.
Here are the seven deadly sins, and suppression and intimidation of the vote falls under several of them:
pride, greed, lust, envy, gluttony, wrath, and sloth
Here are the seven deadly sins, and suppression and intimidation of the vote falls under several of them:
pride, greed, lust, envy, gluttony, wrath, and sloth
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To Susan Anderson -- well said. Your comment is a valuable addition to the list of deplorable (with shout out to HRC) behaviors.
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Do or say anything you feel like at the moment. It doesn't matter what After all, it's your country, your military, everything and everyone in it belongs to you. Democracy? Blah!
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Grope women whenever you like, because you're famous
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Have us labeled by the EU as a strategic threat to its survival. The others include: Menacing Russia; Assertive China ; and ISIS.
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Add, "Have the limited vocabulary of a 6th grader."
"Engage in hate speech against Muslims."
"Engage in hate speech against Muslims."
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Specifics, so what?
10. The plan b of anti-anti makes sense, because flaunting the other sides
absurdities sells, and they still would vote for the nutty POTUS.
9. It's cheap thrills circus that works, until it doesn't.
8. Sykes' cogent essay elsewhere on this page insightfully explains the nihilistic hilarity.
7. "Dangerous" is subjective and relative is its implication.
6. While deliberate "devil may care" politics is comic stuff, and fools
are getting off on it. the strategy is ultimately lose-lose-lose.
5. If Democrats lose again in 2018, then right regress still wins if that's how the heckling opposition will be interpreted.
4. Abbie Hoffman's nihilism is reincarnated in Limbaugh's needling of liberals.
3. It's frankly/cynically what real folks seem to desire.
2. Perverse politics.
1. Rots of ruck, nihilists.
10. The plan b of anti-anti makes sense, because flaunting the other sides
absurdities sells, and they still would vote for the nutty POTUS.
9. It's cheap thrills circus that works, until it doesn't.
8. Sykes' cogent essay elsewhere on this page insightfully explains the nihilistic hilarity.
7. "Dangerous" is subjective and relative is its implication.
6. While deliberate "devil may care" politics is comic stuff, and fools
are getting off on it. the strategy is ultimately lose-lose-lose.
5. If Democrats lose again in 2018, then right regress still wins if that's how the heckling opposition will be interpreted.
4. Abbie Hoffman's nihilism is reincarnated in Limbaugh's needling of liberals.
3. It's frankly/cynically what real folks seem to desire.
2. Perverse politics.
1. Rots of ruck, nihilists.
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Your rationalization are laughable. Thanks for the laugh!
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You've nailed it, so far.
I think the New York Times is wise to leave the list open for future entries. DJT is very competitive and there are historical precedents to surpass; after all, the Roman Emperor Caligula appointed a horse to the Senate and we now have a vacancy for FBI Director. Trump has no pets that I'm aware of so we might be spared the spectacle of Republican senators voting to confirm a dog, cat or other critter to investigate the Russian Connection, or as I like to call it Vlad-al-Lago.
Maybe he'll surprise us.
Viva Manicula Gloriosus!
I think the New York Times is wise to leave the list open for future entries. DJT is very competitive and there are historical precedents to surpass; after all, the Roman Emperor Caligula appointed a horse to the Senate and we now have a vacancy for FBI Director. Trump has no pets that I'm aware of so we might be spared the spectacle of Republican senators voting to confirm a dog, cat or other critter to investigate the Russian Connection, or as I like to call it Vlad-al-Lago.
Maybe he'll surprise us.
Viva Manicula Gloriosus!
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Hey, give the man a break. He was elected because he was different and to shake things up! So far, he is an unqualified success. LOL
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He certainly is different. Clowns at the circus are different too.
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Sorry, Times. Your last sentence refers to the next republicans get upset "at a president."
Obviously, you meant to say "Democratic president." But here's the thing: It should be obvious to everyone that the republicans' plan is to ensure that there will never be another Democratic president.
Or a democratic one, for that matter.
Obviously, you meant to say "Democratic president." But here's the thing: It should be obvious to everyone that the republicans' plan is to ensure that there will never be another Democratic president.
Or a democratic one, for that matter.
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Let's keep this list going NYT. Let's make it institutional memory.
Add-
demean public employees in interviews on the news (i.e. Mr Comey is a showboater and grandstander)
Treat public resources as your own personal toys ( I sent MY military to Syria)
Hold diplomatic meetings at your personal, unsecured, residence
Invite possible Russian spy agents into the Oval Office
Add-
demean public employees in interviews on the news (i.e. Mr Comey is a showboater and grandstander)
Treat public resources as your own personal toys ( I sent MY military to Syria)
Hold diplomatic meetings at your personal, unsecured, residence
Invite possible Russian spy agents into the Oval Office
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Forget about separation of church and state.
Do not bother to ever engage in introspection.
Separation of church and state needs a special line beyond disrespect of our institutions or function of three branches that's scary etc .
Do not bother to ever engage in introspection.
Separation of church and state needs a special line beyond disrespect of our institutions or function of three branches that's scary etc .
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How about displaying symptoms of paranoia and extreme neurosis?
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I experienced such a powerful gut punch reading this list. The takeaway? We are not crazy that Donald Trump and his administration is .... driving us crazy. Republican representatives have violated their oath of office to cheer this goon on. They are so desperate to enact their agenda for their corporate handlers, they denied Obama a Supreme Court justice and don't rein in Trump.
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It's frightening when occupant 45 makes GWB look good.
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GWB had Laura to try to keep him under control part of the time and make him behave as a decent human being. Melania and the Trump children do not seem to be inclined to do that--they are basically just guarding their inheritance.
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You know, had you held the Clintons to these standards for the past 3 decades, we would have had a less diseased Democratic candidate in 2016 and we would not have had Trump.
Speaking of taking responsibility, how about you, NYT? Had you done your job rather than played identity politics, we might not be in this mess.
Speaking of taking responsibility, how about you, NYT? Had you done your job rather than played identity politics, we might not be in this mess.
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I would add at the bottom of your fridge list:
84% of Republicans think this is okay behavior.
84% of Republicans think this is okay behavior.
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Appoint cabinet members to lead government departments, whose long public records indicate that they will obliterate the very department they have been entrusted to run.
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round every bend Trump and his sycophant Republican congressmen are not hiding how they want to see their world and lives be today in our United States of America. First - truth no longer matters. Partisanship and personal power and money are more important than the people and democracy. Now is more important than our progeny's future.
These "leaders" are not. Trump continually offers chaos to the world as he denigrates the ideals and institutions of our democracy. His sycophants are quiet. What is as scary is that our culture appears to no longer care - about truth, honor and dignity that comes with respect.
Is lack of respected leadership and the ongoing chaos of Trump’s administration the point? I would like to know the purpose of that goal. Where are we headed as a nation in this chaos?
I would like to make America great again. How can we, the people, do that?
These "leaders" are not. Trump continually offers chaos to the world as he denigrates the ideals and institutions of our democracy. His sycophants are quiet. What is as scary is that our culture appears to no longer care - about truth, honor and dignity that comes with respect.
Is lack of respected leadership and the ongoing chaos of Trump’s administration the point? I would like to know the purpose of that goal. Where are we headed as a nation in this chaos?
I would like to make America great again. How can we, the people, do that?
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We do the work NOW to get at least the House or Senate back in 2018. That will go a long way toward frustrating his Freedom Caucus-fueled agenda. Then we have to elect a Dem to the Oval Office in 2020.
What a list! Sad but true. I suggest a few more:
Smoking a cigar (even a Godless communist one) is OK. Any other use is an impeachable offense but only if you are a Democrat.
Claiming that you know more than the generals and that you understand more than the best scientific minds on the planet
Repeating the you alone can fix it except what you just broke
Playing the apprentice with the nuclear football
Insulting our friends while cozying up with dictators
Grabbing my scientific data among other things
Claiming to create jobs by going back to the 9 track tape and switchboard operators
Chanting "Lock them up" at first sign of an opposition
Welcome to the republican states of united bananas
Smoking a cigar (even a Godless communist one) is OK. Any other use is an impeachable offense but only if you are a Democrat.
Claiming that you know more than the generals and that you understand more than the best scientific minds on the planet
Repeating the you alone can fix it except what you just broke
Playing the apprentice with the nuclear football
Insulting our friends while cozying up with dictators
Grabbing my scientific data among other things
Claiming to create jobs by going back to the 9 track tape and switchboard operators
Chanting "Lock them up" at first sign of an opposition
Welcome to the republican states of united bananas
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Be simply beyond words --- and a hazard to all you touch.
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Keeping the world in a state of overwhelming perpetual ANXIETY.
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Add this to the list: Hurt people, indeed go out of your way to hurt people, starting with the people who voted for you.
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You should send this op-ed to every evangelical leader (such as Fallwell, Graham,...) who encouraged their fellow evangelicals to vote for Trump and honor him as God's greatest gift to mankind.
Do not forget his famous saying: I find no reason to ever ask for forgiveness..,
Do not forget his famous saying: I find no reason to ever ask for forgiveness..,
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You wrote exactly what I was thinking. Falwell Jr.'s Liberty Christian College commencement speaker? Sickening.
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- Talk ad nauseam, in vainglorious terms, about himself in front of the Memorial Wall in the lobby of the CIA’s headquarters.
- Inflicting his damaged psyche on the rest of humanity.
- Inflicting his damaged psyche on the rest of humanity.
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Thank you Dean Price of NJ.
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You left an important one out:
Ignore anything that the N Y Times editorial board writes, because nothing they say will ever be constructive.
Ignore anything that the N Y Times editorial board writes, because nothing they say will ever be constructive.
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And you sincerely love all the rest of the list. Right, Objectivist?
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His handwriting has so many of what handwriting experts call "daggers" in it that it is highly disturbing -- his signature almost looks like a saw blade.
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Interesting. I thought it was priapic.
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The unmentioned elephant in the room, if you will pardon the pun, is this:
IOKIYAR (# IOKIYAR )
It's OK If You Are Republican
Democratic Governors of New York and New Jersey get caught up in sex scandals and resign. Same for Carlos Danger. The former Governor of South Carolina is a sitting US Congressman. A Louisiana Pol regularly using the D.C. Madam's service was elected to the Senate after being outed.
Bill Clinton was in the process of being impeached for his less than stellar behavior even as Newt Gingrich and Bob Livingston had marital sexual misconduct in their closets.
Who mentioned John McCain's almost getting bagged by the FBI in a sting while a Congressman when he ran for President? Nobody. Can you imagine any Democrat with a similar record getting a pass?
Today's Republicans are scorched earth, end-justifies-the-means hypocrites of the highest order. When the US economy was dropping like a rock in the ocean and 900,000 jobs a month were going away with a dead in the water Stock Market and seized up credit markets, Republicans met over dinner and drinks on a newly sworn President Obama's Inauguration Day to scheme of how to undermine any and everything he tried. I am not a Democrat and did not vote for Mr Obama, but that is the most disloyal- to our country- thing any elected official could do. Can you imagine if Democrats had done the same last January?
Our system cannot function like this.
IOKIYAR (# IOKIYAR )
It's OK If You Are Republican
Democratic Governors of New York and New Jersey get caught up in sex scandals and resign. Same for Carlos Danger. The former Governor of South Carolina is a sitting US Congressman. A Louisiana Pol regularly using the D.C. Madam's service was elected to the Senate after being outed.
Bill Clinton was in the process of being impeached for his less than stellar behavior even as Newt Gingrich and Bob Livingston had marital sexual misconduct in their closets.
Who mentioned John McCain's almost getting bagged by the FBI in a sting while a Congressman when he ran for President? Nobody. Can you imagine any Democrat with a similar record getting a pass?
Today's Republicans are scorched earth, end-justifies-the-means hypocrites of the highest order. When the US economy was dropping like a rock in the ocean and 900,000 jobs a month were going away with a dead in the water Stock Market and seized up credit markets, Republicans met over dinner and drinks on a newly sworn President Obama's Inauguration Day to scheme of how to undermine any and everything he tried. I am not a Democrat and did not vote for Mr Obama, but that is the most disloyal- to our country- thing any elected official could do. Can you imagine if Democrats had done the same last January?
Our system cannot function like this.
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I agree that we the people cannot assume these years of scorch the earth Republican politics can continue alongside a democracy that will endure. Basically, if we get more of the same, we're watching the unraveling and end of the USA.
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Treat the US Senate like golf caddies instead of coequal partners under our Constitution by busing them to the White House instead of going to Capitol Hill.
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Have zero knowledge of the workings of government.
Have zero knowledge of American history.
Has made zero effort to reach out to African Americans, Latinos or women to serve in his Administration.
Have zero knowledge of American history.
Has made zero effort to reach out to African Americans, Latinos or women to serve in his Administration.
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Now is the time for all good people to come to the aid of the country by all means necessary. To wait a moment longer is perilous.
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I like to take a shot at summarizing it if I may. Trump is a rabble rousing, bigoted, admitted sexual predator, pathological liar, ego maniac and demagogue.
The Constitution says impeachment is called for for cases of bribery, treason or other high crimes and mis.
The question is whether paragraph one has reached the standard for paragraph two.
The Constitution says impeachment is called for for cases of bribery, treason or other high crimes and mis.
The question is whether paragraph one has reached the standard for paragraph two.
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Every highway billboard in on every interstate an any other road should have this editoral printed in BOLD LETTERS. And that's why I read the N Y Times
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Well Done editorial board. But since no Republican has stood up and denounced this so-called President, we are preaching to the choir I fear. My only consolation is that the people will speak with their feet and vote for the Democrats in 2018. Imagine if the House went back to the Democrats!
I should say that editorials such as this and great reporting does help since there is an unstoppable amount of reasons to vent.
I should say that editorials such as this and great reporting does help since there is an unstoppable amount of reasons to vent.
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Mr. Trump cannot be described exclusively as a Republican or Democrat problem. He is an AMERICAN problem! Partisanship and the 'us' versus 'them' mentality already has destroyed the integrity and standing of AMERICA in the world. How much longer will the politicians standby and do nothing? The complicit (McConnell, Ryan, Pence, etc), the silent (Rubio), and the Democratic "leadership" (if you can call a complete void that) are equally responsible for the destruction of our democracy.
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False. The Republican majority has the power to stop dt in his tracks but has chosen power and party over country. You cannot blame the minority here.
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Allow foreign press and photographers into the Oval Office while barring the American press.
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Pretend to be sane.
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let's add
1 not realize that health Care is complicated
2 hire a Sec HHS who should be convicted of insider trading
3 brag about about assaulting women
4 consistently screw the very people who voted for you and still support you
5 insult Pope Francis
1 not realize that health Care is complicated
2 hire a Sec HHS who should be convicted of insider trading
3 brag about about assaulting women
4 consistently screw the very people who voted for you and still support you
5 insult Pope Francis
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Will someone please make an 'I (heart) NYT' button?
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Declare a mandate when you lost the popular vote
Call someone else a grandstander and showboater
Look for the person most opposed to a position's mandate to nominate for it
Keep one promise: the night you told the well-heeled patrons of your favorite restaurant that you would lower THEIR taxes
Keep (supposedly) secret an Oval Office visit with Russia's chief spy in the US
Turn the US into a banana republic by installing your relatives in key positions
Ruin the reputation of banana republics
Use bombing Syria as entertainment for your dinner guest
Use MOAB so you can say you did
Call someone else a grandstander and showboater
Look for the person most opposed to a position's mandate to nominate for it
Keep one promise: the night you told the well-heeled patrons of your favorite restaurant that you would lower THEIR taxes
Keep (supposedly) secret an Oval Office visit with Russia's chief spy in the US
Turn the US into a banana republic by installing your relatives in key positions
Ruin the reputation of banana republics
Use bombing Syria as entertainment for your dinner guest
Use MOAB so you can say you did
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Buddy up to dictators
Alienate and insult our closest allies
Betray even your own base
Stock the government with unqualified and dangerous ideologues
Embarrass the nation
Debase our very language and undermine rational thought
Launch bombs and missiles to deflect attention from your incompetence and criminality
Raise the specter of thermonuclear war
Erase hope and sow despair
Alienate and insult our closest allies
Betray even your own base
Stock the government with unqualified and dangerous ideologues
Embarrass the nation
Debase our very language and undermine rational thought
Launch bombs and missiles to deflect attention from your incompetence and criminality
Raise the specter of thermonuclear war
Erase hope and sow despair
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Even his signature looks deranged.
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Bar US journalists from a meeting with the Russian foreign minister but allow a photographer from Tass to photograph and publish photos.
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Trump has replaced the swamp with a sewer.
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how about:
- will not release his tax returns
- will not release his tax returns
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It was mentioned
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All true, I don't know why they think their double standards are all right. Where are the patriots in the Republican Party? This is dangerous & disgraceful.
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Continuously remind people of your stunning electoral college victory while denying that the majority of voters voted for the other candidate.
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Character counts! That was the Republican song and dance for a time. And what ever happened to 'family values', purported to be so significant especially to the religious fundamentalists?
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The Democrat's Guide to Presidential Behavior:
1. Run candidates who can win.
2. Run candidates who can win.
3. Run candidates who can win.
4. Get out the vote.
5. Get out the vote.
6. Get out the vote.
1. Run candidates who can win.
2. Run candidates who can win.
3. Run candidates who can win.
4. Get out the vote.
5. Get out the vote.
6. Get out the vote.
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Although Trump is despicable, he never pretended to be anything else. The Republican leadership, especially Ryan and McConnell, are weak and unpatriotic. Shame on them.
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Less complaint, more action, please.
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Bottom line:
Democrats are fifty years ahead of the times and Republicans are fifty years behind the times.
Looking at your list that may have to be expanded to 200 years behind the times.
Democrats are fifty years ahead of the times and Republicans are fifty years behind the times.
Looking at your list that may have to be expanded to 200 years behind the times.
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No Republican lawmaker will take the time to look over this list, much less consider it merits.
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Assault women and still win elections.
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Read Washington's "Farewell Address". You can find it at senate.gov. Then send any excerpts that Trump and the Republicans ignore to your senators and representatives. You will find many examples, like the need to pay taxes and to avoid foreign entanglements
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Attempt to play the American people.
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Attempt?
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Thank you for this comprehensive list of things not to do.
It will provide enumerated specifics of a much needed ethics law for the Chief executive to be enacted once the democrats (or regular sane people) take back control of both houses.
It will provide enumerated specifics of a much needed ethics law for the Chief executive to be enacted once the democrats (or regular sane people) take back control of both houses.
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I understand that every time Mrs. Pence reads things like this she smiles at her husband and says, "Good morning Mr. President".
Maybe Trump is crazy but so is the editorial board.
Maybe Trump is crazy but so is the editorial board.
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Listing facts makes the Ed Board crazy. I don't think so.
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It is undeniable that Donald Trump is a kleptocrat, a traitor, and a blundering incompetent.
Many Republicans are immoral and many are ignorant; most Republicans are both. The Trump family and all other Republicans who support and enable Trump are knowingly complicit in Trump's crimes and treason.
The Times refrigerator list of malfeasance, misfeasance and nonfeasance is merely a short extract from the GOP's carefully contrived and well-tested playbook for destroying American democracy.
Republicans are betting heavily that there never will be another democratically elected president for them to cynically slander. The GOP fully expects the U.S.A. to be controlled by right-wing oligarchs from now on.
Many Republicans are immoral and many are ignorant; most Republicans are both. The Trump family and all other Republicans who support and enable Trump are knowingly complicit in Trump's crimes and treason.
The Times refrigerator list of malfeasance, misfeasance and nonfeasance is merely a short extract from the GOP's carefully contrived and well-tested playbook for destroying American democracy.
Republicans are betting heavily that there never will be another democratically elected president for them to cynically slander. The GOP fully expects the U.S.A. to be controlled by right-wing oligarchs from now on.
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Address all American citizens as if they were poorly performing employees deserving of remedial action: demotion, abridging of compensation, inconvenient and overly tiresome to keep abreast of the workings of the corner office.
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Watch several hours of TV a day.
Be a TV critic (Claiming Arnold Schwarzenegger failing so badly on The Apprentice. Claiming any news that is critical to him is fake news).
Lie
Milk the U.S. treasury (for excessive costs related to travel and security protection for his family due to wife not wanting to live with him in the White House, his excessive golfing trips, security costs for his sons while traveling the world on personal business.)
Being the first President to make a profit while in office billing the government for costs incurred for him and his entourage staying at his various facilities.
Bringing the world closer to nuclear war than any time since 1953. (Doomsday Clock is now at 2.5 minutes to midnight - 30 seconds behind 2 minute setting in 1953.)
Lying to unemployed coal miners that their coal jobs are coming back.
Making me fear for the future of our nation for the first time in my 62 year life.
Be a TV critic (Claiming Arnold Schwarzenegger failing so badly on The Apprentice. Claiming any news that is critical to him is fake news).
Lie
Milk the U.S. treasury (for excessive costs related to travel and security protection for his family due to wife not wanting to live with him in the White House, his excessive golfing trips, security costs for his sons while traveling the world on personal business.)
Being the first President to make a profit while in office billing the government for costs incurred for him and his entourage staying at his various facilities.
Bringing the world closer to nuclear war than any time since 1953. (Doomsday Clock is now at 2.5 minutes to midnight - 30 seconds behind 2 minute setting in 1953.)
Lying to unemployed coal miners that their coal jobs are coming back.
Making me fear for the future of our nation for the first time in my 62 year life.
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Just wait till next week after he meets Saudi & Bibi. Bombs away in Iran! That oughta distract 'em!
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Based on this list, I guess you still can't forget to wear your flag pin or salute a military guard with a coffee cup in your hand.
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LOL! I picture that happening with the coffee cup is in the saluting hand...
Mark - Yes, "forgetting to wear a flag pin or a salute a military guard..." is definitely on par with lying to the American people, sexual assault and treason.
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The list is accurate. I live in solid Trump territory and many of my friends and neighbors voted for Trump. I admit to poking fun at their choice for President. I admit that I've accused them of being under informed voters who did not think about what they were doing or what they'd get by voting for Trump. I have pointed out numerous items included on the list in this article to my friends and neighbors and without fail, each and every one of them immediately change the narrative to Hillary. I point out that Hillary is NOT who was elected as a result of their disdain for her, and now we have Trump and continued lies, inconsistencies, attacks on Democratic institutions like the press and the judiciary and perhaps even obstruction of justice. I suggest they own who they voted for and try to engage them in honest conversation about the absence of credibility from Mr. Trump and the failed policies he introduced and supports, along with the silence of the Republican Party in the face of this President's debunked lies and incompetence. They then change the conversation to how Obama did nothing for 8 years. I point out that he faced 8 years of obstruction from the GOP led House and Senate and that's pretty much when they tell me they don't want to talk about it anymore, but still refuse to own the actions of the child they voted for. I'm running real short on friends and am disheartened by their refusal to admit a mistake. I'm probably better off without them.
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You just saved me from having to write my own comment.
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Robert - I think it's time to move. But you'd have to buy a winter coat, most likely.
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... and don't forget: Getting off Marine One and saluting with a cup of coffee. That's unforgivable.
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Jim, Yes. I would definitely put "saluting with a cup of coffee" on par with lying to the American people, sexual assault and treason.
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Ignore diplomatic protocols.
Praise foreign autocratic leaders.
Encourage Congress to vote on legislation that hasn't been evaluated or even read.
Yell at the TV thinking it will answer you.
Praise foreign autocratic leaders.
Encourage Congress to vote on legislation that hasn't been evaluated or even read.
Yell at the TV thinking it will answer you.
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Sexually assaulting women and bragging about it.
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Play the American people.
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Here's another one to add to the list that no other president, in his right mind, would even come this close to make such a comment:
"Asked by the host, Bill O’Reilly, if he respected Putin, Trump replied: “I do respect Putin.
“Will I get along with him? I have no idea. It’s very possible I won’t.”
O’Reilly said: “He’s a killer, though. Putin’s a killer.”
“There are a lot of killers,” Trump replied. “We’ve got a lot of killers. What, do you think our country’s so innocent?”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/feb/05/donald-trump-repeats-his...
"Asked by the host, Bill O’Reilly, if he respected Putin, Trump replied: “I do respect Putin.
“Will I get along with him? I have no idea. It’s very possible I won’t.”
O’Reilly said: “He’s a killer, though. Putin’s a killer.”
“There are a lot of killers,” Trump replied. “We’ve got a lot of killers. What, do you think our country’s so innocent?”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/feb/05/donald-trump-repeats-his...
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Use the presidency as a piggy bank for profit for yourself and your kleptocratic buddies.
Bully anyone who tells the truth about what you are doing.
Write a blank check for profiteers to plunder, poison, and devastate the planet for profit.
Encourage ignorance.
Treat women as chattels, and "do as I say, not as I do" on abortion, because it's popular to worship fetuses but not living persons or their nurturers. (I'm pretty sure there are a few abortions in Trump's past.)
Pretend to be a Christian, and pal around with self-worshippers who think the voices in their heads that approve their exclusionary wealth-driven racist opinions as "from god".
Use anything you can find to hurt anyone who disagrees with you.
Prefer foreign dictators to those attempting to be fair and make progress in humanity.
The guy is almost not a recognizable human.
Bully anyone who tells the truth about what you are doing.
Write a blank check for profiteers to plunder, poison, and devastate the planet for profit.
Encourage ignorance.
Treat women as chattels, and "do as I say, not as I do" on abortion, because it's popular to worship fetuses but not living persons or their nurturers. (I'm pretty sure there are a few abortions in Trump's past.)
Pretend to be a Christian, and pal around with self-worshippers who think the voices in their heads that approve their exclusionary wealth-driven racist opinions as "from god".
Use anything you can find to hurt anyone who disagrees with you.
Prefer foreign dictators to those attempting to be fair and make progress in humanity.
The guy is almost not a recognizable human.
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Just looked up the seven deadly sins. A ready reference, the first six, and the seventh is arguable since he appears never to have considered that being human requires getting outside the narrowest definition of self and self-benefit, which is laziness personified.
pride, greed, lust, envy, gluttony, wrath, and sloth
pride, greed, lust, envy, gluttony, wrath, and sloth
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What will we be talking about two or three years from now..??..The Chaos is unfathomable...each week brings more drama...the American public is so caught up in the news of the day concerning the Preside.....excuse me...presidency...that productivity must be down a good 30 percent...we are all glued to the latest information feeds and left shaking our heads in disbelief. I think things are so bad already that we don't even realize how much our tolerance for nonsense and abuse has grown....when and how will this all end,,???..Can we survive this the better for it and wiser...??..It's anyone's guess !! There has been some good....the French learned a valuable lesson...thanks to....TRUMP UNIVERSITY !! We have all been...SCHOOLED !!
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You are so right, you are really describing how things are. And the anxiety level is sky high. I agree it must have affected American productivity negatively. It has also polarized some workplaces.
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Undo all of your predecessors actions to keep the people of our country safer. Starve Healthcare until it has no chance for survival.
Make promises you have no intention to keep.
Hold rallies to puff you up when there are serious things to get done.
could go on and on.
Make promises you have no intention to keep.
Hold rallies to puff you up when there are serious things to get done.
could go on and on.
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Declare "it's time for a good shutdown" of the federal government.
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We heard it from Trump himself: “You can do anything.” Republicans agree.
Thank you for this handy list. There are so many items it is hard to remember them all, so keeping it on the fridge is definitely recommended.
You can add:
• Flout diplomatic protocol
but it seems almost trifling compared to the enormities already listed.
Kellyanne Conway, the Queen of Alternative facts, says that anything Trump does is, by definition, “presidential behavior”. Ha, ha.
Thank you for this handy list. There are so many items it is hard to remember them all, so keeping it on the fridge is definitely recommended.
You can add:
• Flout diplomatic protocol
but it seems almost trifling compared to the enormities already listed.
Kellyanne Conway, the Queen of Alternative facts, says that anything Trump does is, by definition, “presidential behavior”. Ha, ha.
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Just as important is The Republican's Guide to the Behavior of Those Who Act as Checks and Balances on a President. This would include the Speaker of the House and the Senate Majority Leader. If they don't behave with the proper comportment, standards and class, does our nation really have any checks and balances? No, just apologists.
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Brag about sexually assaulting women
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Nixon’s first VP, Spiro Agnew, is prominent among more than a few Republicans who recall the shadowy side of our current president. Agnew faced charges of extortion, tax fraud, bribery, and conspiracy before resigning office for failure to report income on his tax return. He had a colorful way of speaking, calling his liberal enemies "pusillanimous pussyfooters" and "nattering nabobs of negativism." He didn’t write that stuff and had enough humility to know he needed a speech writer. Instead, Trump owns his tweets, those pitiful efforts at self-promotion with his nervousness and ignorance betrayed by the misspellings.
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We have gone from class to, well, you know.
Perhaps somewhere Mr. Nixon is saying "I wasn't so bad after all in comparison".
Perhaps somewhere Mr. Nixon is saying "I wasn't so bad after all in comparison".
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Allow your Sec of State to smirk while his fellow countrymen (reporters) are mocked and treated rudely by Russian mobsters.
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Attend a prayer breakfast and use the occasion to offer up remarks on the reality show you produce and its new host's ratings.
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And all this in less than 4 months in Office. Please keep updating the list, which by the end of the year is likely to consume the entire editorial page.
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The world according to Trump: Transparency is the enemy of democracy!
For instance:
I for one do not necessarily think Mr. Trump colluded with the Russians, However, why doesn't he welcome an investigation? Something to Hide?
Etcetera, etcetera
For instance:
I for one do not necessarily think Mr. Trump colluded with the Russians, However, why doesn't he welcome an investigation? Something to Hide?
Etcetera, etcetera
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This reminds me of Mr Jeffersons list of the King's crimes in the Declaration of Independence.......well done!
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Publically humiliate American Citizens using Twitter
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This should be read aloud at every Republican Town Hall
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I have bookmarked this editorial. Please update it with further links as #45% makes them necessary -- as you did with the catalogue of his 331+ twitter insults. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/01/28/upshot/donald-trump-twitt...
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Words Words Words
The man is clearly unfit for office.
IMPEACH trump
The man is clearly unfit for office.
IMPEACH trump
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Boast about grabbing women by their personal parts and forcing yourself on them.
Distract, deny, obfuscate, lie, stonewall and hire press people that do the same.
Distract, deny, obfuscate, lie, stonewall and hire press people that do the same.
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Telling the American public that it is unreasonable to expect accuracy from the White House because the president is very busy.
Not to mention the use of bad grammar as the president' spokespeople speak "at podium".
Not to mention the use of bad grammar as the president' spokespeople speak "at podium".
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What Lincoln wrote about the Confederacy is appropriate for Trump: They [Trump] commenced... an insidious debauching of the public mind. (Message to Congress, July 4, 1861)
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Great Lincoln quote from Don of Ma.
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It’s a great list of complaints, but trying to shame GOP members of Congress is a useless endeavor. They are immune because of their gerrymandered seats and political action committees.
A better use of the list is to put it on the fridge doors of every citizen with a sticky note that says:
November 6, 2018.
GO VOTE!
A better use of the list is to put it on the fridge doors of every citizen with a sticky note that says:
November 6, 2018.
GO VOTE!
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Only caring about the deficit when there is a democratic president.
Democratic president - how is it paid for.
Republican president- false math and justification through GDP growth at unrealistic non sustainable rates or it's not discussed at all.
Actually advocating having the presidents family in the White House to stabilize his irrational and unstable behavior. Can you imagine if that were Obama?
Have to agree with all the rest.
Democratic president - how is it paid for.
Republican president- false math and justification through GDP growth at unrealistic non sustainable rates or it's not discussed at all.
Actually advocating having the presidents family in the White House to stabilize his irrational and unstable behavior. Can you imagine if that were Obama?
Have to agree with all the rest.
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Own it, profit from it or destroy it.
Wants to govern in secret.
Needs constant praise and provides it to himself,
The show boat president.
Wants to govern in secret.
Needs constant praise and provides it to himself,
The show boat president.
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Be defiantly ignorant of the history of the US and the world.
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And...
- pretend you want to "bring back jobs" while having your own goods made overseas
- pretend you want to "buy American" then immediately turn around and buy foreign
- pretend you want to "hire American" and put "America first" when you refuse access to American press people but let Russian ones in
- boost adversaries and enemies by firing our FBI chief and then immediately inviting those they were investigating into the Oval Office
i could go on, but you get the trend.
- pretend you want to "bring back jobs" while having your own goods made overseas
- pretend you want to "buy American" then immediately turn around and buy foreign
- pretend you want to "hire American" and put "America first" when you refuse access to American press people but let Russian ones in
- boost adversaries and enemies by firing our FBI chief and then immediately inviting those they were investigating into the Oval Office
i could go on, but you get the trend.
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The conceit here is that modern Republicans have any ''standards,'' which Webster defines as ''something established by authority, custom, or general consent as a model or example.''
The only authority and consent that modern Republicans admit is that of the hyper-wealthy donor class, those like the Kochs, who will do anything to get lower tax rates and less regulation for themselves. They accept Trump because they believe he will cut the taxes imposed on the wealthy by the Affordable Care Act. Nothing else matters, including the negative consequences to millions of other, non-wealthy, Americans.
Trump is their man now, whether he knows it or not. As long as congressional Republicans can get wealthy donors to fund their successful campaigns, they will support Trump to the end. No other standards apply.
The only authority and consent that modern Republicans admit is that of the hyper-wealthy donor class, those like the Kochs, who will do anything to get lower tax rates and less regulation for themselves. They accept Trump because they believe he will cut the taxes imposed on the wealthy by the Affordable Care Act. Nothing else matters, including the negative consequences to millions of other, non-wealthy, Americans.
Trump is their man now, whether he knows it or not. As long as congressional Republicans can get wealthy donors to fund their successful campaigns, they will support Trump to the end. No other standards apply.
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Don't bother to think before speaking.
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Not read or understands bills you claim to support.
Have little understanding of American history including the Civil War and Frederick Douglas.
Fail to read memos, get briefings or understand issues.
Pick fights with everyone and anyone.
Cut secret deals with foreign powers.
Make strange positive comments about foreign government leaders inconsistent with the views of educated experts and ordinary people.
Promise to work for people you have no intention of assisting.
Assist the wealthy and harm nearly everyone else.
Delight in removing health care from 24 million and counting.
Being a colossal jerk and immature, paranoid egomaniac.
Have little understanding of American history including the Civil War and Frederick Douglas.
Fail to read memos, get briefings or understand issues.
Pick fights with everyone and anyone.
Cut secret deals with foreign powers.
Make strange positive comments about foreign government leaders inconsistent with the views of educated experts and ordinary people.
Promise to work for people you have no intention of assisting.
Assist the wealthy and harm nearly everyone else.
Delight in removing health care from 24 million and counting.
Being a colossal jerk and immature, paranoid egomaniac.
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Set up a phony commission to investigate non-existent voter fraud, thereby ensuring suppression of the vote.
Promote the anti-science, anti-vaccine crazinesss
Promote the anti-science, anti-vaccine crazinesss
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How long will Republicans in the House and Senate be willing to persuade themselves that Mr. Trump's utility outweighs his downside?
Just that long will this presidency last.
Just that long will this presidency last.
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Republicans don't care what Trump does -- they can hide behind his craziness and demolish democracy right along with him.
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BRILLIANT !!!! I'm posting it on MY refrigerator to remind MYSELF every day why we need to continue to fight against this surreal and insane President and Republican Party spineless wonders.
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Be unaware of the location of your "armada" during a tense international incident.
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Baby pablum. Hit piece by sore-losers.
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Oh bravo -- well done -- such biting criticism.
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Is that you most cogent and well reasoned response?
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I's like to see your list of his accomplishments.
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Donald Trump failures are exposing something else.
just how many naive and stupid people (and voters) are in America.
Its far worse than anyone thought.
They ignore all of these negative facts about Trump.
Blind Trump loyalists, like lemmings marching in lock step.
just how many naive and stupid people (and voters) are in America.
Its far worse than anyone thought.
They ignore all of these negative facts about Trump.
Blind Trump loyalists, like lemmings marching in lock step.
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Praising dictator, autocrats and butchers for for their successes - does he think they are role models to be praised?
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Also a good idea to have a signature that looks like one of those Lie Detector charts saying 'This guy is guilty as sin'
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I wondered about that signature, too, Phil. And concluded that he doesn't know how to spell Donald Trump.
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I am no professional handwriting reader, but looking at that DT signature, my intuitive sense tells me that it fits the common image of the man as arrogant, given to impulsive outbursts of bravado stemming from an over-sized ego, very confused, deceitful, and lacking confidence born of a real sense of achievement. Clarity of mind or soul is certainly not traceable in those wild grasses passing off as script. One feels like using a lawn trimmer to whack them to size.
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Sign bills you haven't read, or even briefly scanned.
I keep hoping someone will slip in his resignation and he'll proudly hold it up for the usual photo-op.
I keep hoping someone will slip in his resignation and he'll proudly hold it up for the usual photo-op.
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Donald Trump's signature bears a strong resemblance to the contents of my lecture notes from college. I couldn't make sense of them, either.
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I know what your thinking, But its not over yet. Europe next week. What can possibly go wrong. After analyzing the data it's easer to calculate what can go right, Zero.
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Wait a sec, better have a Tic-Tac before I meet her
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Dodge the draft, then insult war heroes for totally bogus reasons.
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Allow your Attorney General to lie, under oath, to Congress.
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It would behoove the Democrats to put as much energy as possible into reviving and defining the party and not to expend all capital on outrage about this president.
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Thanks, Lisa, but we can do both at the same time. #resist!
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Agreed.
But I live in Texas.
While the 2016 election results were deeply disappointing (on so many levels), the results did not come as a complete surprise.
The Rs are especially adept at zeroing in on the long game and not so interested in the rules or fair play.
This has been building for years. And now here we are.
But I live in Texas.
While the 2016 election results were deeply disappointing (on so many levels), the results did not come as a complete surprise.
The Rs are especially adept at zeroing in on the long game and not so interested in the rules or fair play.
This has been building for years. And now here we are.
Blame the Republican party for their embrace of and silence in all matters Trump. They demonstrate only one value GREED. All policy is driven by this.
They have to destroy America in order to save it!
They have to destroy America in order to save it!
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Instruct his media representatives to lie, and lie and lie.
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And then lie to your media representatives, so you can on the record complaining about how they lie about what you really meant that last time you lied.
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Let's include his attitude towards women.
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Allow your Secretary of State to tell his staff that the US only promotes it's business and security interests abroad. Its values are only for personal consumption.
So people of the world the US no longer thinks its values are worth exporting but please buy its auto parts and pharmaceuticals. Oh and while you are struggling for your human rights, don't expect too much in the way of food, medical or educational aid. The President likes your dictator too much to cause him a moments unease that the US might help or hold itself as an example for his people.
So people of the world the US no longer thinks its values are worth exporting but please buy its auto parts and pharmaceuticals. Oh and while you are struggling for your human rights, don't expect too much in the way of food, medical or educational aid. The President likes your dictator too much to cause him a moments unease that the US might help or hold itself as an example for his people.
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The irony is that those home values are meaningless if they are limited only to yourself. So add a greater depth of cynicism to the Trump administration's crimes.
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Have your silly self portrayed in a bad painting by a no-talent someone.
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When Trump engages in oral sex in the Oval Office with a young intern, we'll know that he has really demeaned the Presidency.
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In general, shamelessly use your position for the private benefit of you and your family's businesses because "conflicts of interest don't apply to the President.
Use of your propertiy for government functions and charge the rack rate. (Free publicity for your property and brings revenue to the property, all at taxpayer expense)
Advocate passage of a health care bill, without knowing what is in it, especially when one of the provisions breaks a campaign promise
Fill the Cabinet with Billionaires and bankers with little or no relevant experience
Lie about everything to everyone, especially staff.
Issue an Executive Order affecting Homeland Security without vetting the order with Homeland Security or anyone else
Encourage divisiveness instead of unity. Hold campaign rallies after the election.
Promise to address conflicts of interest by divesting control, and then change it so that you have control.
Not vetting candidates for important positions. Relying on the previous Administration's vetting is not vetting.
Blame Obama for not vetting your pick for NSA Director, even though Obama and Yates gave you warnings about him
Gratuitously insulting allies, while praising dictators and hostile powers
Displaying a command of American History and of the Constitution equal to that of your 10 year old son.
Parroting a conspiracy theory without using the vast resources of the government at your finger tips to verify the claims.
Use of your propertiy for government functions and charge the rack rate. (Free publicity for your property and brings revenue to the property, all at taxpayer expense)
Advocate passage of a health care bill, without knowing what is in it, especially when one of the provisions breaks a campaign promise
Fill the Cabinet with Billionaires and bankers with little or no relevant experience
Lie about everything to everyone, especially staff.
Issue an Executive Order affecting Homeland Security without vetting the order with Homeland Security or anyone else
Encourage divisiveness instead of unity. Hold campaign rallies after the election.
Promise to address conflicts of interest by divesting control, and then change it so that you have control.
Not vetting candidates for important positions. Relying on the previous Administration's vetting is not vetting.
Blame Obama for not vetting your pick for NSA Director, even though Obama and Yates gave you warnings about him
Gratuitously insulting allies, while praising dictators and hostile powers
Displaying a command of American History and of the Constitution equal to that of your 10 year old son.
Parroting a conspiracy theory without using the vast resources of the government at your finger tips to verify the claims.
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Well done! Well done indeed.
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Send an armada steaming in the wrong direction
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The office of the presidency since Reagan and Bush no longer embodies the respectful position it once held for the American People. Even though many of us disagreed at times with the decisions made by Obama, he still represented the president as thoughtful, respectable and a strong family man devoted to his wife and daughters. Look what we have now: a crude, ignorant, thoughtless clown who is an embarrassment to not just America but the rest of the world. Donald Trump and his supporters now demonstrate that a Baboon could get elected president in America.
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Declare anything the candidate promised as totally invalid once the president takes office.
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Biggest threat's facing the USA:
Trump administration
Al-Qaeda
ISIS
Taliban
Trump administration
Al-Qaeda
ISIS
Taliban
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Indeed, Trump is a piece of work but I can come up with a similar list of violations if the Clintons were in the Oval Office again. First among them would be 'Sell influence for cash.' 'Twas a lousy election, huh...
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Saying Trump is a "piece of work" severely understates the dangers he poses to our country and its democracy.
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Hire people for cabinet positions who go against the missions of their departments, but are loyal to him.
Read as little possible.
Listen only to people who agree with him.
Not check the history of the people he's meeting with/talking to and understanding all that is going on in their countries. This includes the fact winning the battle against drug use is by murdering the users and sellers, and knowing the relationship between China and North Korea before expecting China to stop NK from testing missles and nuclear weapons.
Responding emotionally to everything from children dying to off-color jokes about him.
Mispronouncing words like"nazi"
Read as little possible.
Listen only to people who agree with him.
Not check the history of the people he's meeting with/talking to and understanding all that is going on in their countries. This includes the fact winning the battle against drug use is by murdering the users and sellers, and knowing the relationship between China and North Korea before expecting China to stop NK from testing missles and nuclear weapons.
Responding emotionally to everything from children dying to off-color jokes about him.
Mispronouncing words like"nazi"
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Proudly tell the world you want to date your own daughter.
Ewwwwwww.
Ewwwwwww.
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Like so many around the world, I have just watched Macron's inauguration.
Like so many around the world, I watched Trump's inauguration.
Do I need to add anything?
Like so many around the world, I watched Trump's inauguration.
Do I need to add anything?
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You didn’t leave out much, but you should consider a list called the Republican's Guide to Behavior of Presidential Candidates. I can start it off:
If you are a Republican presidential candidate, you may freely:
- mock people with disabilities
- Attack gold star families
- Sexually assault people
- declare bankruptcy as many times as you
- Belittle war heroes
- etc.
If you are a Republican presidential candidate, you may freely:
- mock people with disabilities
- Attack gold star families
- Sexually assault people
- declare bankruptcy as many times as you
- Belittle war heroes
- etc.
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Running for President without any knowledge of the job's requirements, and seemingly without any desire to carry out those requirements.
Publicly expressing your feelings of missing your old life, because your new life as President is "harder than you thought".
Engage in the very behaviors for which you previously ridiculed past Presidents.
Vacation every weekend costing the taxpayers millions of dollars in unnecessary expenditures, while cutting basic services and benefits to ordinary people.
While spending millions golfing, refuse requests for further funding for the very security forces protecting you while you're golfing.
Spending untold hours watching television, just as an unsupervised child might do.
Insult one of our most important allies by refusing to shake the hand of a foreign leader visiting the White House - because she's a woman.
Insult our most important allies by showing support for dictators and their regimes who show little to no regard for human life and human dignity.
Remove important data from government websites - without public knowledge or comment - because the data doesn't support your twisted world view.
Remove important information about civil rights and protections for historically threatened groups of citizens, because you don't believe all people deserve equal protection under the Constitution.
Threaten federal employees with edicts intended to silence them in their work.
Openly consider repealing or changing the 1st Amendment.
Publicly expressing your feelings of missing your old life, because your new life as President is "harder than you thought".
Engage in the very behaviors for which you previously ridiculed past Presidents.
Vacation every weekend costing the taxpayers millions of dollars in unnecessary expenditures, while cutting basic services and benefits to ordinary people.
While spending millions golfing, refuse requests for further funding for the very security forces protecting you while you're golfing.
Spending untold hours watching television, just as an unsupervised child might do.
Insult one of our most important allies by refusing to shake the hand of a foreign leader visiting the White House - because she's a woman.
Insult our most important allies by showing support for dictators and their regimes who show little to no regard for human life and human dignity.
Remove important data from government websites - without public knowledge or comment - because the data doesn't support your twisted world view.
Remove important information about civil rights and protections for historically threatened groups of citizens, because you don't believe all people deserve equal protection under the Constitution.
Threaten federal employees with edicts intended to silence them in their work.
Openly consider repealing or changing the 1st Amendment.
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The most important thing that's been left out is:
Accuse everyone/anyone of everything he is in fact guilty of! Lying, accepting pay-for-play, fraud, infidelity...and of course, paranoid and clearly unable to accept reality.
Accuse everyone/anyone of everything he is in fact guilty of! Lying, accepting pay-for-play, fraud, infidelity...and of course, paranoid and clearly unable to accept reality.
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Everyone should print this excellent editorial out and mail it to Paul Ryan, Mitch McConnell and any other Republican congressional members who are choosing to turn a blind eye. There's nothing to do but to keep making our disgust as American citizens well known.
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As the Comments section already shows in specificity, this list of what Republicans in Congress consider appropriate for a Republican (and therefore white - some of the complaints about Obama would not have been made if he had been white) President is far from complete and some of the claims (like about the violation of the emoluments clause) are too understated. I suggest a complete section of the paper be devoted to a more appropriate covering of the subject.
And if ever Trump does something most (or even many) Republican Congresscritters consider inappropriate, you should publish an Extra!
And if ever Trump does something most (or even many) Republican Congresscritters consider inappropriate, you should publish an Extra!
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Flatly contradict your surrogates' public statements and then explain that they can't be expected to always be accurate
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defraud the American people of more than a billion dollars of tax revenue and call it smart
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Have the fact that you gleefully told an entertainment reporter that you are a serial sexual assaulter revealed on national tv and dismiss it as being "Lockerroom talk."
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Appoint your children to important positions. Hey, Ivanka would make a great FBI Director. Talk about breaking the glass ceiling
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During dinner with a foreign leader (China), he relates how he had directed a missile attack on Syria. Or was it Iraq? He wasn't sure afterwards. This was done while eating the "most delicious chocolate cake in the world." At Mara Lago, of course.
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Not everyone, but certainly a growing majority of the electorate either has or will come to the conclusion that Donald Trump should not have been elected President of the United States and certainly should not be re-elected; nor should this country ever again elect someone of so base character and incompetence to this office. The other conclusion, less certain but equally necessary, is how severely to punish the Republican Party in the 2018 and 2020 elections. Despite the weakness and ineptitude of the Democratic Party, I hope the punishment is humiliatingly and transformatively severe.
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Appoint a Secretary of Education who has never been a public school teacher, a public school administrator, an elected member of a public school board of education, a member or officer of of a public school parent-teacher organization; who never enrolled her children in public schools; who never studied, earned a degree, or published in a related field. But who donated huge amounts on behalf of a concept she believes in zealously which has questionable value to public education. Who is on record claiming historically black colleges (formed originally when many schools and colleges did not admit black students) represent her "schools-of-choice" pet theory. And who is on record saying we need guns in schools to protect students from grizzly bears. This appointment--and its approval by GOP legislators--sets about as low a bar as possible for future Cabinet appointments.
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Even lower bar: Rick Perry for Energy Secretary
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To be fair and balanced , how about these:
- appoint Conservative Supreme Court Justice(s)
- cut down illegal immigration at our southern border
- deport criminal aliens to protect our citizens.
- free the economy of unnecessary and artificial shackles
- expand fairer trade
- create a more competitive corporate tax code.
- fix the Obamacare mess.
There are certainly more, but I hope this reminds people why Trump derangement syndrome does not extend to a large segment of the country.
- appoint Conservative Supreme Court Justice(s)
- cut down illegal immigration at our southern border
- deport criminal aliens to protect our citizens.
- free the economy of unnecessary and artificial shackles
- expand fairer trade
- create a more competitive corporate tax code.
- fix the Obamacare mess.
There are certainly more, but I hope this reminds people why Trump derangement syndrome does not extend to a large segment of the country.
Where were you diagnosticians when Obama was in office? "Obama Derangement Syndrome" anyone?
As for you list of Trump's "achievements," may I parse them for the benefit of poor benighted Trump "derangers" everywhere?
"Appoint Conservative Supreme Court Justices [who will invent exotic new Constitutional theories to allow Big Money to dominate our political discourse]
"Free the economy of unnecessary and artificial shackles [by allowing rich people to avoid paying taxes and by completely scrapping any regulation that interferes with Profit: environmental and workplace safety regulations; minimum wages; health insurance; etc."]
"Fix the Obamacare mess" [by throwing 24 million people off the insurance rolls, slashing Medicaid and throwing people with pre-existing conditions to the wolves. Oh, and by lying about all of the above relentlessly.]
Thanks for your corrective, Chris. We Trump haters are all the better for it.
As for you list of Trump's "achievements," may I parse them for the benefit of poor benighted Trump "derangers" everywhere?
"Appoint Conservative Supreme Court Justices [who will invent exotic new Constitutional theories to allow Big Money to dominate our political discourse]
"Free the economy of unnecessary and artificial shackles [by allowing rich people to avoid paying taxes and by completely scrapping any regulation that interferes with Profit: environmental and workplace safety regulations; minimum wages; health insurance; etc."]
"Fix the Obamacare mess" [by throwing 24 million people off the insurance rolls, slashing Medicaid and throwing people with pre-existing conditions to the wolves. Oh, and by lying about all of the above relentlessly.]
Thanks for your corrective, Chris. We Trump haters are all the better for it.
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Chris, the points you list are just different ways of saying the same thing. Trump appointed an ACTIVIST Supreme Court Justice, SLASHED the Constitution with his executive orders, cut taxes on those of his own WEALTH, and upends health care for CITIZENS who need it. Your list is debatable, but the opinion piece's list is not; Lies, ignorance of policies and the Constitution itself are not acceptable in a president. You just list his feelings (to save us, protect us, make things fair...)
We get it; everyone is so unfair to your president.
We get it; everyone is so unfair to your president.
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You are deluded. You probably didn't even read the list, and he's done none of what you so proudly trumpet. TDS is held by you and others that voted for this toxic waste.
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Why does his signature look like a polygraph reading?
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The Republicans have gone from a government of the people, by the people and for the people to a government of the people, by a few and for that few.
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Good work.
This one is getting shared.
This one is getting shared.
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Allow the president to devote his attention to his own ego and leave the country vulnerable to attacks of cyber war, financial war and nuclear war.
All this is just too distracting for everyone in Washington, press included. You are being drawn offside and this country is vulnerable to foreign enemies.
All this is just too distracting for everyone in Washington, press included. You are being drawn offside and this country is vulnerable to foreign enemies.
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Now after Comey firing all the talks in news are about Trumps behavior as a president. There is no talk about AFFORDABLE HEALTH CARE. Isn't this what really Trump aims to do? To shift everyone's focus from important topics.
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No sense of accountability. To anyone.
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Is this the "Say Something Nice" column? How's that going?
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Demonstrate an abysmal inability to construct a coherent, mature, thoughtful English sentence.
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And all this in the first 120 days, or so. This list could get considerably longer!
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I think all these comments have it pretty much covered.
Although Lie, should have been repeated about 100 times.
It's pretty apparent that ridicule gets to the president, so please keep it up.
Although Lie, should have been repeated about 100 times.
It's pretty apparent that ridicule gets to the president, so please keep it up.
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But ONLY if the POTUS is a WHITE MALE.
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And one thing you cannot do:
Nominate a Supreme Court Justice to fill any vacancy that should appear during the entire last year of your four year term - an election year.
Nominate a Supreme Court Justice to fill any vacancy that should appear during the entire last year of your four year term - an election year.
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Or impeachment year
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Promoting your country club's chocolate cake in a press interview regarding the bombing of Syria. Crass and surreal.
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Have an obvious mental illness
Be inarticulate to the point of speaking gibberish
Have a spouse that refuses to live with him
Be an anti-vaxer and climate change denier in spite of overwhelming evidence you are wrong
Be profligate with tax payer money for your own enjoyment while calling an investigation into corruption a "tax payer funded charade"
Fire a committed public servant and letting him learn of it on TV
Publicly humiliate world leaders by refusing to shake hands
Make the United States a laughing stock around the world
Be inarticulate to the point of speaking gibberish
Have a spouse that refuses to live with him
Be an anti-vaxer and climate change denier in spite of overwhelming evidence you are wrong
Be profligate with tax payer money for your own enjoyment while calling an investigation into corruption a "tax payer funded charade"
Fire a committed public servant and letting him learn of it on TV
Publicly humiliate world leaders by refusing to shake hands
Make the United States a laughing stock around the world
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This editorial shows you are doing your job. Please, please keep doing so. Increase my subscription if you have to!
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GOP Senators and Representatives have lost thier manhood. No other way to describe it. So much for truth to power.
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If Hillary had won, and did only one of these things, the Republicans would go ballistic. I can hear FOX now.
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On the other hand, he has accomplished a lot. Trump and minions have changed many rules and regulations. They have bungled very hard to destroy decorum, custom, good taste, good manners, and protocol.
One hopes that the good news will be a persistent resistance by good people.
One hopes that the good news will be a persistent resistance by good people.
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It took over 405,000 Americans to die in World War II to save democracy. With democracy and our Constitution now at risk under this president, it may take only 290 Republicans on Capitol Hill to render their sacrifice meaningless.
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Thank you for unequivocally stating the reality of the spineless humans that are supposed to be our representatives and the defenders of the constitution. It sickens me to know my taxes pay their salaries.
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Embarras the nation with all of the above.
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Insult allies, praise dictators and invite them to the White House
Say Russia probe is "fake news," then meet Russia's spymaster in Oval office
Waste millions of taxpayer dollars investigating fictitious voter fraud
Waste millions more on security in New York and Florida
Complain about your predecessor playing golf, then golf more than he does
Complain about your predecessor's executive orders, then sign more than him
Appoint secretaries to destroy the agencies they're put in charge of
Gut the State Department, EPA, NEA, VOA, USAID, CDC, NASA, NIH
Destroy the environment by removing all pollution and climate controls
Deny health care to millions of Americans while calling it "better and cheaper"
Sell Chinese-made goods while championing "Made in USA"
Lie to coal miners about getting their jobs back
Blame Obama for everything that goes wrong in your administration
Say Russia probe is "fake news," then meet Russia's spymaster in Oval office
Waste millions of taxpayer dollars investigating fictitious voter fraud
Waste millions more on security in New York and Florida
Complain about your predecessor playing golf, then golf more than he does
Complain about your predecessor's executive orders, then sign more than him
Appoint secretaries to destroy the agencies they're put in charge of
Gut the State Department, EPA, NEA, VOA, USAID, CDC, NASA, NIH
Destroy the environment by removing all pollution and climate controls
Deny health care to millions of Americans while calling it "better and cheaper"
Sell Chinese-made goods while championing "Made in USA"
Lie to coal miners about getting their jobs back
Blame Obama for everything that goes wrong in your administration
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- denigrated pets by removing the list of puppy mills that abuse animals from the USDA website and worse, by not having a White House dog. However, he was right when he called the Calatrava-designed NY Times building ugly.
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Everyone reading this should make a copy and MAIL it to as many republican Senators as they can. Encourage every person you know - including Republican friends ( many of them have sense of this insanity and are disgusted as well ) to do the same.
Fill their mailboxes as well as email it to them.
When you wonder what YOU can do, you can do this!
Fill their mailboxes as well as email it to them.
When you wonder what YOU can do, you can do this!
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However, between 35% to 40% of the American people still supports him.
That's scary!
That's scary!
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They aren't Americans, they're ignorant children.
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Left out te lie about:
The size of one or more body parts.
The size of one or more body parts.
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What bothers me more is the fact that, according to the polls, almost half of the American people think all this is just fine.
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That's just it, that half doesn't think.
They are programmed 24/7/365 by the sexual predators over at Fox Kids.
Those "poorly educated" losers are spoon-fed their opinions by the beautiful blonde victims of those sexual predators mentioned above.
They are programmed 24/7/365 by the sexual predators over at Fox Kids.
Those "poorly educated" losers are spoon-fed their opinions by the beautiful blonde victims of those sexual predators mentioned above.
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Come back Gary Hart - all is forgiven
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It looks as though you've covered the most egregious of his misbehaviors. There will be more throughout his presidency so please update it every couple of months or so.
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More like every couple of days!!
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- only go to controlled events where citizens who disagree are not let in the gate.
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...like the coward he is.
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Golf
Golf
Golf
Golf
Golf
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Role model for America' children! This is rich beyond words!
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Take 2 scoops of ice cream while only offering 1 to others.
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This is what gets me fuming about this administration and its Republican enablers... The double standards and hypocrisy. I can accept logical and rational policy differences and I understand that different politicians have different policy agendas according to who is funding them. But to have Republicans spend millions of dollars and countless hours on political witch hunts in the name "of the American People", then simply look the other way when it is their president is beyond the pale.
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You forget the most important clause. All of this things are fine IOKIYAR!
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There is a crazy man in the White House.
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We are becoming, before our very eyes, an authoritarian oligarchy....this is what the Republicans have fought for and now they have found Trump to be the personification of their deepest desires. No shaming list will dissuade them...only an electorate which refuses this version of the American Dream in the 2018 elections can force a change.
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The real question is why, even knowing half of this, which Trump supporters must, do they still rally behind their man? No doubt some GOP politicians do so because it is the only road to power they have. But many rank and file sincerely believe nonsense like he is "a good Christian". The reality is darker: these are people who would actually prefer a tyranny to democracy.
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Allow Russian governmental photographers, along with all their sophisticated electronic equipment, into the Oval Office, the very heart of the White House.
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While denying access to White House press corps!
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Trump simply does not care. He thinks the presidency is like being a king. He can do whatever he wants. He doesn't care what others think because they are not the president - he is. It is pretty sad that so many people still support a man who just can't figure out how to do the job with any integrity or more broad purpose other than satisfying his own ego.
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This clearly shows why America is headed on the crazy train to autocracy.The Repub Party has checked their morals and ethics at the door in order to impose their vision of failure on the country
clearly showing that for them ignorance is the main tenet of American exceptionalism.
clearly showing that for them ignorance is the main tenet of American exceptionalism.
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--Invite Russian and other dictator buddies to the White House for a private chin wag.
--Fire those who aren't loyal to you, and retain as long as possible the Bad Apples who are.
--Fire those who aren't loyal to you, and retain as long as possible the Bad Apples who are.
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Simply wonderful. I hope every Republican reads it with the deep sense of shame he or she should feel for what they have allowed. They have truly become a deplorable party of awful.
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Lie seems to simple and everyone lies -- Congress especially. No, I would say:
-Pathological Liar
-Showboat
-Grandstander
-(illegal) Wiretapper
--Criminal (who should be jail, rather than the WH)
--Misogynist
--Sexist (Oxymoron) or Moran?
--Unstable
I'm sure I will think of more after I hit submit, but these are few good additions to your great list!
-Pathological Liar
-Showboat
-Grandstander
-(illegal) Wiretapper
--Criminal (who should be jail, rather than the WH)
--Misogynist
--Sexist (Oxymoron) or Moran?
--Unstable
I'm sure I will think of more after I hit submit, but these are few good additions to your great list!
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You left out sexually harass women.
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Believe that rich equals smart and thus appoint a Cabinet that is very, very rich and wholly unqualified.
Every day and without fail, work against the economic best interests of the vast majority of the American people -- the non-rich.
Every day and without fail, work against the economic best interests of the vast majority of the American people -- the non-rich.
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Mafia Don is the perfect example of a 2017 Republican. He's boldly dishonest and hateful, angry, white, old, male, racist, denies science when its convenient for business purposes and greedy. There's no reason for the GOP to turn on its own brand manager.
7
Just reading the first half of this made me depressed
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And yet, his base hasn't abandoned him. Can it be that the Trumpies don't see his behavior as reprehensible? Republicans who support Trump are not "the loyal opposition." They are, in fact, "the enemy", and should be treated as such by the media.
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Good article! The" Hypocritic Party" (GOP) are full of liars and frauds! Don't hold your breath waiting for them to change!
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Routinely change strong publicly-made assertions, such as NATO is / is not obsolete, or China is / is not a currency manipulator (aka flip-flopping).
4
Pretty good list, if you ask me. Or do I mean pretty bad? Actually I'm not sure that nouns and adjectives or actions and adverbs permitted in this newspaper can come close to reflecting my deep antipathy toward that person in the White House and his Republican enablers. If your list doesn't explain why the country is doomed, nothing will.
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I thought the list compiled in this article was comprehensive until I was reminded of much much more by the readers who sent in their comments.
So far this presidency has been exhausting and frightening.
Our democracy is threatened by a man with no moral compass as he skirts the edges of morality every day. He has shown up the flaws in our system where others (most)in this office have not gone. New laws will need to be written to avoid this behaviour, if God forbid, we ever have the misfortune to encounter another such as he.
So far this presidency has been exhausting and frightening.
Our democracy is threatened by a man with no moral compass as he skirts the edges of morality every day. He has shown up the flaws in our system where others (most)in this office have not gone. New laws will need to be written to avoid this behaviour, if God forbid, we ever have the misfortune to encounter another such as he.
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I'm an old gal, a feisty one, but I have to say, this week's events and this weekend's NYT articles have all but broken me.
Why are republicans so venal, so rotten, so mean, so soulless?
What will America look like, what will America represent, what will daily life be like, in the event republicans arrive at their end game?
I'm glad I won't be around long enough to see it should it come to pass. But I have grandchildren, so I ask, American liberals, when they've completely destroyed your Country and turn their greedy eyes to mine...please help us as best you can. They're already trying to destroy our universal healthcare.... millions from American libertarian think tanks funding a court case in my Province because they believe there are billions to be made in opening us up to the "market". Apologies for the personal rant, the dog's tired of listening, and this comment section has become my first and necessary therapy group....add that to the list: Trump Induced Anxiety Syndrome is real and on the rise.
Why are republicans so venal, so rotten, so mean, so soulless?
What will America look like, what will America represent, what will daily life be like, in the event republicans arrive at their end game?
I'm glad I won't be around long enough to see it should it come to pass. But I have grandchildren, so I ask, American liberals, when they've completely destroyed your Country and turn their greedy eyes to mine...please help us as best you can. They're already trying to destroy our universal healthcare.... millions from American libertarian think tanks funding a court case in my Province because they believe there are billions to be made in opening us up to the "market". Apologies for the personal rant, the dog's tired of listening, and this comment section has become my first and necessary therapy group....add that to the list: Trump Induced Anxiety Syndrome is real and on the rise.
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I don't have anything to add to this list, it is pretty comprehensive. I just want to reiterate a comment I made yesterday on another opinion column, namely when history passes judgment on the fall of this Republic, hypocrisy will certainly be the reason.
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Disregard for the First Amendment
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Threaten to jail your political opponent. Stir your audiences to chant "lock her up, lock her up!"
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Can I get copies of this list as a magnet to keep on my refrigerator door?
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IN other words, a President must do what he is told to do....always follow the Status Quo and the dictates of the NYTimes Editorial Staff.
Groupthink.
Groupthink.
The whole point of the Constitution is group think. No man should be so powerful that he can execute his personal will.
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No, decency and common sense moral actions that support the constitution and human beings is not groupthink. It is American.
1
The problem here is that Republicans in the Senate and House, so thrilled to have finally seized the White House, by whatever means, and with whatever loser they ended up with, are never, EVER going to voluntarily let go of it. The guy could be declaring martial law, arresting newspaper editors and herding immigrants into camps, and they wouldn't remove him from power. So why do we imagine they would do so for small potatoes like vacationing at taxpayer expense at his resort?
The Senate and House Republicans have largely let go any pretense of protecting or caring about the Constitution or democratic institutions. They want to hold onto power, period. And Trump is their guy. We can lament and deplore all we want, but that is how it will stay unless the guy does something so outrageous and illegal and public that they have to take action.
And then it's...President PENCE. Oy vey!!!
The Senate and House Republicans have largely let go any pretense of protecting or caring about the Constitution or democratic institutions. They want to hold onto power, period. And Trump is their guy. We can lament and deplore all we want, but that is how it will stay unless the guy does something so outrageous and illegal and public that they have to take action.
And then it's...President PENCE. Oy vey!!!
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By the end of summer that list will be twice as long. Sad!
4
We can't imagine the lies yet to be told, the twists on truth, arrows and attacks on press and people. Pulitzers will be awarded writing about this man and his administration. Future students of history will read and analyze those famous electoral maps and the people living in their boundaries. This man is a stain on everything good about America and will live on in infamy.
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Yep, that about covers it.
4
Denigrate women as he did on the "Billy Bus."
Incite violence as he did during some of his campaign rallies.
Incite violence as he did during some of his campaign rallies.
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Failure to lead, period.
4
Mitch McConnell is the most unpatriotic person in this country today.
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President Obama had to be almost perfect in order to have had any chance at occupying the White House. Despite brilliance, elegance, impeccable standards of decency, grace under constant attack, respect for humanity, integrity, and high morals, large swaths of white America and the republican congress showed them utter disrespect, contempt, and distain.
The President’s treatment was a stark contrast to the free ride that the bulk of white America and the republican congress is giving the racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, demagogue, Toddler president.
This Toddler president is a mirror to the world that America is a deeply racist country. That what the majority of white America values are not the words written in the documents that it professes to itself and the rest of the world, rather, what it values is ignorance, bigotry, the lie of white supremacy, and that a white man, no matter how incompetent, bigoted, or racist, is ideal to be president; that in white America, “whiteness” trumps integrity, competence, decency, humanness, and respect.
James Baldwin stated in 1961 in a talk on Nationalism, Colonialism, and the United States, “the tragedy of this country now is that most of the people who say they care about it do not care. What they care about is their safety and their profits. What they care about is not rocking the boat. What they care about is the continuation of white supremacy….”
The President’s treatment was a stark contrast to the free ride that the bulk of white America and the republican congress is giving the racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, demagogue, Toddler president.
This Toddler president is a mirror to the world that America is a deeply racist country. That what the majority of white America values are not the words written in the documents that it professes to itself and the rest of the world, rather, what it values is ignorance, bigotry, the lie of white supremacy, and that a white man, no matter how incompetent, bigoted, or racist, is ideal to be president; that in white America, “whiteness” trumps integrity, competence, decency, humanness, and respect.
James Baldwin stated in 1961 in a talk on Nationalism, Colonialism, and the United States, “the tragedy of this country now is that most of the people who say they care about it do not care. What they care about is their safety and their profits. What they care about is not rocking the boat. What they care about is the continuation of white supremacy….”
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But the new "Presidente" always manages to:
a. Mention he WON no matter what the circumstances of his "speech"
b. Mention his "Huge" Electoral College victory even when talking to his Secret Service guards
c. Mention the popular vote was rigged so even though he won, he feels he may be viewed as a "loser"
d. Mention that he WON again at least four more times.
I know there are "sore losers" (See Ms. Clinton's excuses) but a "sore winner"?
New political ground here, folks!
a. Mention he WON no matter what the circumstances of his "speech"
b. Mention his "Huge" Electoral College victory even when talking to his Secret Service guards
c. Mention the popular vote was rigged so even though he won, he feels he may be viewed as a "loser"
d. Mention that he WON again at least four more times.
I know there are "sore losers" (See Ms. Clinton's excuses) but a "sore winner"?
New political ground here, folks!
4
In the interest of completeness, you left off:
* allow a college-age intern to perform oral sex while you are conducting your POTUS duties.
By the time Trump leaves office, he will be judged by Americans not on his comportment but, rather, what "stuff" he got for people.
Let's wait and see. The constant attacks from the NYT are so over-wrought as to be white noise.
* allow a college-age intern to perform oral sex while you are conducting your POTUS duties.
By the time Trump leaves office, he will be judged by Americans not on his comportment but, rather, what "stuff" he got for people.
Let's wait and see. The constant attacks from the NYT are so over-wrought as to be white noise.
And who do you think defends B Clinton's sexual behavior in the Oval Office? Certainly no democrat I know. But by electing Trump, most Republicans must be condoning such behavior because Trump is on record with his own disgusting proclivity towards sex on demand. Doubt that is changing much in the WH.
5
The GOP just does NOT care about Trump's lies and behaviors as long as they have someone in the WH who will sign off on legislation that benefits their uber-wealthy benefactors.
9
That's about it. And he's smart enough to keep his tiny hands off of Social Security, at least for now.
2
Republicans are embedding a deep seated moral/ethical flaw into our children. America, heretofore succeeding in the fight for justice, is going to have serious, long term problems with respect for right and wrong, and for each other. Electing a president on a ticket of lies and divisiveness was a big, big mistake--quite possibly the ruin of our country.
8
Overwhelming to see this compilation in one jarring list.
4
You must have been in a bubble the last eight years. I will take Trump any day.
Yeah.... You are making my point for me, ECT. People who still support tRump just support him, no matter what. And then offer the vaguest response like a taunt. "in a bubble!".
You just don't care what your president does. We get it.
You just don't care what your president does. We get it.
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- invite Ted Nugent, a talentless, degenerate racist pig (that most people would have otherwise never heard of) to the WH for dinner (on taxpayers dime) in his grungy clothes and cheap cowboy hat to smirk in front of the official portrait of our former graceful first lady HRC.