What’s on my mind is Greg, a born and bred Virginian, whom I met this aft in Charleston, SC. He’s a Trump supporter to the end and won’t desert him, no matter what … The guy stated that he hates niggers – his word – and when I asked him if he classified himself as a racist, he answered in the affirmative, keeping his voice down because Bonita, a black friend of mine, was close enough to hear … What does Trump want? I am firmly convinced that he could, he would subvert the entire system of government and become a dictator …
Love to Learn, Learn to Love.
Listening to that puke claiming that he has had more “legislative” successes than any government in US history, save Truman’s. That least popular first term president in history just doesn’t get it. There is a difference between legislative achievements, of which this Tax bill is the only one, and the executive branch of government from which all those Executive Orders have emanated. There were actually two other pieces of legislation passed by Congress during this first year, the Gorsuch appointment to the Supreme Court as well as the Russia Sanctions Bill which he signed under duress. Speaking of fake news, listening to that idiot, it was being manufactured right in front of us.
Instead of being a unifying force, he has succeeded in dividing Americans and making many of them uncomfortable, nervous and ill at ease.
This is one very insecure person, with serious psychological issues such as “Why don’t people like me?” Gimme a freaking break.
Read Timothy Snyder’s short and readable book : “On Tyranny. Twenty Lessons From the Twentieth Century.” It is important that one doesn’t become apathetic and to stay engaged.
Trump has lost the respect of the vast majority of Americans.
Instead of being a unifying force, he has succeeded in dividing Americans and making many of them uncomfortable, nervous and ill at ease.
This is one very insecure person, with serious psychological issues such as “Why don’t people like me?” Gimme a freaking break.
Read Timothy Snyder’s short and readable book : “On Tyranny. Twenty Lessons From the Twentieth Century.” It is important that one doesn’t become apathetic and to stay engaged.
Trump has lost the respect of the vast majority of Americans.
“I really question his fitness to be in this office … maybe he’s looking for a way out … I worry about the nuclear codes”… the cheer-leader President. What a fucker …
Trump lacks impulse control, seems to be vengeful, and any president can start a nuclear war without congressional approval. Congress MUST fix this right away. I mean yesterday …
Regardless of all this it is evident that education goes sadly lacking down there and Betsy deVoss ain’t the one to fix it, not even close … He might like the showmanship, the applause, but he is slow to realize the effect of his words on human behaviour …
About ten days ago, this freaking president had the media talking heads going nuts discussing his use of quotation marks in his tweets re. Obama’s “wiretapping”/wiretapping. He has got us fiddling while Rome burns. Wake up, people. This is one dangerous “hombre”. A truly hateful, disgusting human being, with apologies to more “normal” human beings.
I have been quiet lately, while seething inside, watching Trump attack those around him capriciously, placing the United States’ position internationally as the leader and protector of the free world at risk, and the ultimate fate of the free world along with it.
Take a look at his body of “work” since he announced that he was running for the presidency slightly more than two years ago.
The very first thing that happened was his characterization of Mexican immigrants as “… rapists” and criminals. “I suppose some of them are good people”.
That established a pattern of the racism, mysoginy and bigotry which was omnipresent during his campaign. Whether it was his blatant mocking of a physically challenged reporter with whom he disagreed, the insulting of a mother of a member of the armed forces who had been killed while doing active duty overseas, or his wide-ranging prejudicial proposal to ban Moslem immigration to the United States “until we figure out what the hell has been going on”, Trump has demonstrated a reactionary attitude, one designed partly to feather his own nest along with those of his family and associated hangers-on.
He has gone through people like the KFC to which he appears to be partial.
He’s actually getting fatter, looking worn and a little fatigued. Not nearly as fatigued as I have become with the rhetoric coming out of the WH. Sean Spicer, James Comey, Reince Priebus, the “Mooch” (after ten days as WH Communications Director; replaced by General John Kelly) – all fired. “You’re fired”. Big joke, eh? And let’s not forget Attorney General Jeff Sessions whose job was hanging by a very thin thread two days ago but things seem to have stabilized at least for the moment on that file at least. Apparently John Kelly had a phone conversation with the Attorney General and assured him that his job was safe.
Taking credit for the positive state of the American economy is a dubious proposition. Since the Industrial Revolution, the economy has always worked in cycles of inflation where demand for goods and services is high, and recession where demand for goods declines, resulting in a falling economy, rising unemployment, decreasing rate of GDP growth, increased expenditures by government in a time of declining tax revenue in all spheres, including those encompassing corporate and privately owned businesses, as well as public and private business organizations. 
Government fiscal and monetary policies are designed to minimize the negative effects of economic downturns while managing upturns but only to even things out, making sure that the dips and rises are not as extreme. Governments however have not been able to eliminate the actual cycle itself. Things just happen to be good now. Thank your lucky stars, Donny-boy because if the economy does go into a downturn, just watch what happens. You think that approval levels in the high thirties percent is bad? Just you wait.
Trump is a bigot. His proposed restrictions on, and new qualifications for, legal immigration are just another example of his racist orientation. He’s worse than Don Fucking Cherry, for fuck sake. His proposed Muslim ban fits seemlessly into his attitude which is steeped in incredible bigotry and dangerous prejudice. He was a racist business man and today is a racist president. Only the title has changed but the man remains the same delusional fool.
He will probably see his proposed immigration bill defeated on the floor of the Senate. However just to mention one qualification that Trump’s bill proposes is that immigrants to the United States must be able to speak English. What?
Peace
Thank goodness that Trump is not intelligent enough to understand the trouble he’s in, and in most cases, it’s his own mouth that put him there… These people would defend Trump even if, in Anderson Cooper’s immortal words, Trump took a dump on his desk… “We (Americans) see ourselves as a city on the hill, a stronghold of democracy, looking out for threats that come from abroad. … human nature is such that American democracy must be defended from Americans who would exploit its freedoms to bring about its end.