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[Leader of the Banned]

Comrade Dumbass is panic tweeting this morning.

Anyone else feel like you have to be on high alert 24/7? I need a Trump siren.

 

[EZ4144]

Anyone else feel like you have to be on high alert 24/7? I need a Trump siren.

You need a walk on the beach.

 

[Lake View Too]

This thread has had well over 11,000 views, so far. It must be entertaining to somebody, even though it's really only about the collapse of truth and democracy in America. Think of it like unreality TV.

 

[PoppaJ]

Anyone ever count all the whiny shrill panic tweets from Hillary during the ten Bengahzi investigations?

 

[Leader of the Banned]

You need a walk on the beach.

I did that yesterday. The irony is that while the resistance is genuinely concerned about the state of the nation, they are warm hearted and take it in stride. It is the trumptards and their cult leader who are miserable beyond repair. It would not give me great joy to witness Trump's impeachment and removal from office, but I would be tickled pink to see him suffer a mental breakdown, the likes of which the world has never seen. If you paid attention to today's news, he seems to be headed in that direction.

https://johnpavlovitz.com/2018/08/01/the-miserable-people/

Miserable.

Every time I see them, this is the word that prevails.

Whenever I encounter a supporter of this President on social media now, or scan the crowds at his propaganda rallies, or see his surrogates bloviating on talk shows or pounding upon pulpits, I am left with the same conclusion: they are a people bereft of joy.

There is no happiness, no benevolence, nothing life-giving left there.

The emotional deficit is continually on display:

In their contorted, sneering countenance; in their so readily brandished middle finger; in their steady spit shower of verbal filth. With each angry gesture and with every slandering epithet, they reveal in high-definition detail what it looks like when someone loses the light inside them.

War does this to the human heart. These people are at war with the world.

They’re against gays.
They’re against immigrants.
They’re against Muslims.
They’re against foreigners.
They’re against scientists.
They’re against atheists.
They’re against Liberals.
They’re against the Democrats.
They’re against the Media.
They’re against teenage shooting survivors.
They’re against athletes and entertainers.

The world in their heads is composed almost entirely of enemies and adversaries—and as a result they are perpetually disgusted. If I had that many enemies to fight, I’d be unendingly pissed off too. I’d probably pity them a lot more if I didn’t have to endure them.

These are the wildest of ironies: Their President is in the White House, their politicians commandeer the House and Senate, the Supreme Court is tilted on their favor—and yet they still manage to feel themselves oppressed, still picture the world unfair, still rage against a machine they’ve made and are part of. So many of them claim faith in Jesus, and yet live in almost polar opposition to his example.

The only time they do smile, is to reflect the arrogant, self-satisfied sneer of their leader; almost always in the face of someone else’s heartache or misfortune, almost always when someone else loses something. They only joy they seem capable of manufacturing, is in response to pain.

I try to imagine what it feels like to be so afflicted with contempt for the planet: to be forever scowling, to be so viscerally sickened by the breadth of diversity around me, to be relentlessly in a fear-birthed battle posture—but I can’t.

Thank God, I can’t. If you can’t imagine it either, consider yourself fortunate.

I realize that this has become the difference now; the dividing line in this version of America. It is between joyful people and miserable people.

There are those who live open-handed toward the world, and those whose fists are balled tightly; those who are driven by compassion, and those fueled by anger; those who want a bigger table, and those feel the table is exclusively theirs.

As disheartening as it is to witness people this internally toxic, it’s a cautionary reminder of who we do not want to become, of what we can’t let the fight do to us.

We have to fight to keep goodness inside us, despite the outside badness; to never be defined by how many things we hate.

I want my default response to this life to always be hope and not derision.

May we who oppose this national malignancy, never become so devoid of lightness that we resemble those who support it.

May we never celebrate someone’s suffering, never weaponize our religion to do harm, never grow comfortable with hearts that are only capable of anger.

May we never lose our laughter, our softness, our lightness in this life, and let a smile come easily to us.

May we never become as miserable as those who support this President.

 

[Leader of the Banned]

Anyone ever count all the whiny shrill panic tweets from Hillary during the ten Bengahzi investigations?

This is the most obvious case of obstruction of justice. Cenk really nails it. I know right wing lemmings will be bitching about the source. It's so funny. He [Trump] just doesn't know how to be cool.

 

[Lake View Too]

I just wish a few trump supporters would look into their hearts and ask themselves, if a person acts guilty, consistently, for over two years, do you really think he is not guilty? Have you ever, ever, ever witnessed a person that, day after day after day, acts guilty, that, in the end, proved to be not guilty?

When he refused to disclose his tax returns. An extremely strong indication that he is guilty of something.
When he lies an average of 6 times per day. An extremely strong indication that he is guilty of something.
When he condemns the freedom of the press. Etc.
When he continually twitters against the Mueller Investigation... do I have to go on?

 

[PoppaJ]

I just wish a few trump supporters would look into their hearts and ask themselves, if a person acts guilty, consistently, for over two years, do you really think he is not guilty? Have you ever, ever, ever witnessed a person that, day after day after day, acts guilty, that, in the end, proved to be not guilty?

When he refused to disclose his tax returns. An extremely strong indication that he is guilty of something.
When he lies an average of 6 times per day. An extremely strong indication that he is guilty of something.
When he condemns the freedom of the press. Etc.
When he continually twitters against the Mueller Investigation... do I have to go on?

He is actually averaging 16 lies per day for June and July.

 

[carson]

So now we have a goal for lies in a day, 16. Can we have goals for incomprehensible statements and one for number of bullshit comments or "facts" completely walked back.

This guy is making Obama's legacy look better and better every day. Just like Bush before him, Obama is getting no credit for the changes he made to improve the economy. People seem to think that with a few Bill's passed, or the simple stroke of a pen, s**t changes overnight. Trump inherited a positive economy. Believe it or not, Obama inherited sweeping financial and banking regulation change from Bush, which eventually...with some massaging over the years...worked.

Cheeto gives Bush and O great bonding material...whodda thunk.

 

[Leader of the Banned]

So now we have a goal for lies in a day, 16. Can we have goals for incomprehensible statements and one for number of bullshit comments or "facts" completely walked back.

This guy is making Obama's legacy look better and better every day. Just like Bush before him, Obama is getting no credit for the changes he made to improve the economy. People seem to think that with a few Bill's passed, or the simple stroke of a pen, s**t changes overnight. Trump inherited a positive economy. Believe it or not, Obama inherited sweeping financial and banking regulation change from Bush, which eventually...with some massaging over the years...worked.

Cheeto gives Bush and O great bonding material...whodda thunk.

I just ask myself if I could personally have lived with 4 more years of the personal financial growth I experienced under Obama. The answer is damn right I could! And I wonder what kind of person is in such miserable condition that the answer is no. We even had some quarters of 4% gdp growth under Obama. Most importantly we had sanity, rationality, and a grasp of reality. Even the small amount of lies, compared to Trump, were purposeful and rational. There was at least a respect for the truth, and the notion that the truth actually matters. That doesn't mean you have to like Obama, but all I know is that if I had been suckered into voting for Trump I would be horrified and come clean on my sins.