This is Why Trump is a SCUMBAG!
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UPDATED: Tuesday, April 7, 2026 22:00
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How Putin's oligarchs funneled millions into GOP campaigns
https://www.dallasnews.com/opinion/commentary/2018/05/08/putins-proxie
s-helped-funnel-millions-gop-campaigns
That's impossible! Fake news! These facts aren't real! Deep state! Conspiraceeeeeeee!
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Quote:You need to follow 1kiki's signature as an example. Use more red: SECOND is a troll because it constantly misrepresents what people post, fails to address their actual positions, and resorts to personal attacks when its brain isn't working (which is most of the time).
Originally posted by SIGNYM:Quote:I know that business is predatory, and YOU know that business is predatory, but our compatriots here on this board.... do THEY know how much you despise them for not standing up for their own interests?
Signym, you cannot be living in America and not know that American business is predatory.- SECOND
Even when you (verbally) slap them in the face with that fact, all they do is roll over on their backs and widdle on their bellies.Quote:I have copied that into my signature as a reminder to everyone what you think of them, and America.
"The messy American environment, where most people don't agree, is perfect for people like me. I CAN DO AS I PLEASE." - SECOND
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
"The messy American environment, where most people don't agree, is perfect for people like me. I CAN DO AS I PLEASE." - SECOND
I am 66 years old. Except for my time in Vietnam (until I was shot down) and Austin (until I graduated from UT) I have lived in Harris County (the one with Houston) and know hundreds of people all their lives. Those people who were Nixon supporters are now Trump supporters. They were having problems with their lives in the 1970’s. They have the same problems today. Trump voters do not learn from experience how to solve problems. If this was a scientific survey, I’d need thousands of data points, rather than only hundreds from one county in Texas, but I have come to a conclusion: there is something seriously wrong with Trump’s supporters and defenders.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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Shakespeare wrote about Scumbag rulers. Those plays are warnings about scumbag Trump:
From the early 1590s, at the beginning of his career, all the way through to its end, Shakespeare grappled again and again with a deeply unsettling question: how is it possible for a whole country to fall into the hands of a tyrant?
The institutions of a free society are designed to ward off those who would govern not for their country but for themselves, who take account not of the public interest but of their own pleasure. Under what circumstances, Shakespeare asked himself, do such cherished institutions, seemingly deep-rooted and impregnable, suddenly prove fragile? Why do large numbers of people knowingly accept being lied to? How does a figure like Richard III ascend to the throne?
Such a disaster, Shakespeare suggested, could not happen without widespread complicity. His plays probe the psychological mechanisms that lead a nation to abandon its ideals and even its self-interest. Why would anyone, he asked himself, be drawn to a leader manifestly unsuited to govern, someone dangerously impulsive or viciously conniving or indifferent to the truth? Why, in some circumstances, does evidence of mendacity, crudeness, or cruelty serve not as a fatal disadvantage but as an allure, attracting ardent followers? Why do otherwise proud and self-respecting people submit to the sheer effrontery of the tyrant, his sense that he can get away with saying and doing anything he likes, his spectacular indecency?
Shakespeare repeatedly depicted the tragic cost of this submission and the desperate, painful, heroic measures required to return a damaged nation to some modicum of health.
Shakespeare understood something that in our own time is revealed when a major event — the fall of the Soviet Union, the collapse of the housing market, a startling election result — manages to throw a garish light on an unnerving fact: even those at the center of the innermost circles of power very often have no idea what is about to happen. Notwithstanding their desks piled high with calculations and estimates, their armies of well-paid experts, they remain almost completely in the dark. Looking on from the margins, you dream that if you could only get close enough to this or that key figure, you would have access to the actual state of affairs and know what steps you need to take to protect yourself or your country. But the dream is a delusion.
More at https://longreads.com/2018/07/18/the-tyrant-and-his-enablers/
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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I aim to please! Now, with more red!
"The messy American environment, where most people don't agree, is perfect for people like me. I CAN DO AS I PLEASE." - SECOND
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
"The messy American environment, where most people don't agree, is perfect for people like me. I CAN DO AS I PLEASE." - SECOND
America is an oligarchy http://www.fireflyfans.net/mthread.aspx?tid=57876
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Quote:Signym, do you realize that nothing says you are crazy more blatantly than including the name of your mortal enemy into your own signature?
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
I aim to please! Now, with more red!
"The messy American environment, where most people don't agree, is perfect for people like me. I CAN DO AS I PLEASE." - SECOND
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
"The messy American environment, where most people don't agree, is perfect for people like me. I CAN DO AS I PLEASE." - SECOND
America is an oligarchy http://www.fireflyfans.net/mthread.aspx?tid=57876
Here is an article about a TV interview Trump gave on Wednesday. It was Trump at his worst:
The generous conclusion: Trump is too stupid to see that Russia is culpable for the hacking, too weak to stand up to his own intelligence agencies over it, too naive to understand the difference between Russian flattery and Russian assistance, and too clueless about foreign policy to even formulate an agenda for US-Russian relations. The less generous conclusions are, at this point, well known. But either way, the situation leaves America in the lurch, led by a president who can’t be trusted.
The generous conclusion: Signym is a Russian troll. The less generous conclusion, at this point, is well known: Signym is crazy.
More at www.vox.com/2018/7/19/17589186/trumps-chris-glor-cbs-interview-transcr
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The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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I think you guys and gals need to decide if Trump is an evil mastermind, or if he is an idiot.
You keep going back and forth on the issue whenever the wind blows, and I feel safe speaking for everyone that's not in your echo chamber when I say that I'm confused about where exactly it is you're coming from.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Quote:He's absolutely an idiot.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
I think you guys and gals need to decide if Trump is an evil mastermind, or if he is an idiot.
You keep going back and forth on the issue whenever the wind blows, and I feel safe speaking for everyone that's not in your echo chamber when I say that I'm confused about where exactly it is you're coming from.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
His handlers are traitors.
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Quote:Trump is Dr. Evil as played by Mike Myers. He is evil and funny at the same time.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
I think you guys and gals need to decide if Trump is an evil mastermind, or if he is an idiot.
You keep going back and forth on the issue whenever the wind blows, and I feel safe speaking for everyone that's not in your echo chamber when I say that I'm confused about where exactly it is you're coming from.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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Quote:This is a phenomenon we've seen in other fascist regimes. This article attempts to answer how and why it happens.
Originally posted by second:
I am 66 years old. Except for my time in Vietnam (until I was shot down) and Austin (until I graduated from UT) I have lived in Harris County (the one with Houston) and know hundreds of people all their lives. Those people who were Nixon supporters are now Trump supporters. They were having problems with their lives in the 1970’s. They have the same problems today. Trump voters do not learn from experience how to solve problems. If this was a scientific survey, I’d need thousands of data points, rather than only hundreds from one county in Texas, but I have come to a conclusion: there is something seriously wrong with Trump’s supporters and defenders.
Yes, Trump is a narcissist. But it's literally millions of times worse than that.
https://m.dailykos.com/stories/2018/7/9/1779169/-Yes-Trump-is-a-narcis
sist-But-it-s-literally-millions-of-times-worse-than-that?detail=emaildksp
Yes, the hallmarks of narcissism are painfully obvious in the president of the United States. The endless projection. The delusion of grandeur masking a paper-thin skin that punctures under the most benign criticisms. The nonstop gaslighting. But you know who else every single one of these attributes describes?
His base.
Trump’s deplorable, unmovable base are cult-like followers who could watch him shoot someone in the middle of Fifth Avenue and still follow him, who give no shits that he is a serial sexual assaulter and defender of molesters, who get fleeced by his tariffs, by his family’s blatant disregard for the emoluments clause, and yet continue to vote for him even when it seemingly serves no interest of their own. Kool-Aid drinkers in the most macabre sense of the metaphor, they will follow him right to hell and never look back. None of it makes any logical sense, until you realize they are serving their own interests. Because none of the details matter if you see yourself in the narcissist delivering the rhetoric that feeds your own sense of narcissism.
Trump’s base is nothing more than a collection of narcissists, and I find this a lot more interesting than the fact that Trump himself is a narcissist. Trump simply represents the abhorrent qualities of his entire base.
All these qualities listed under the narcissistic personality could not only describe Trump, but the party that props him up, and let us count the ways. (The list was compiled from the traits listed in this article from Psychology Today on “Understanding the Mind of a Narcissist”; the parentheticals are my own.)
*Has a grandiose sense of self-importance and exaggerates achievements and talents. (White supremacy. Patriarchy. Rulers of every uterus everywhere. Neo-Confederates who still see the South as heroes of the Civil War.)
*Dreams of unlimited power, success, brilliance, beauty, or ideal love. (The great Steinbeck paraphrased quote about the poor seeing themselves as temporarily embarrassed millionaires comes to mind. Even the slogan “Make America Great Again” smacks of a nostalgic, over-idealized dream of what this country should strive towards.)
*Believes he or she is special and unique and can only be understood by, or should associate with, other special or high-status people or institutions. (cough literal Nazis are winning primaries cough)
*Requires excessive admiration. (Ever notice how white Republican men need constant validation they aren’t being repressed in some way, and how our media happily obliges, writing puff piece after puff piece over poor, misunderstood Trump voters?)
*Unreasonably expects special, favorable treatment or compliance with his or her wishes. (An unwillingness to compromise on even the most inarguable of issues—gun control’s a great example. Because, you know, a Republican’s freedom is more important than your children being safe from massacres that may or may not happen in their classrooms.)
*Exploits and takes advantage of ot
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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
I think you guys and gals need to decide if Trump is an evil mastermind, or if he is an idiot.
You keep going back and forth on the issue whenever the wind blows, and I feel safe speaking for everyone that's not in your echo chamber when I say that I'm confused about where exactly it is you're coming from.
You don't give a sh*t, remember?
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