Donald Trump was humiliated by the election.

[kentuck]

He thought he was the populist that America wanted. He wanted everyone to know that his name was on the ballot.

But, the American people rejected him and his brand of politics. From sea to shining sea, there was a blue wave across America. They told him, "No, your vision of America is not what we see."

This must be terribly painful and humiliating for his supporters, also? It is a tough reality to accept.

It was unfortunate that Donald Trump turned the election into an "us vs them" contest. It is doubly unfortunate that so many people joined him in the degradation.

The American people are better than that.

[vlyons]

1. A little ego reduction is good for the soul

The Dhammapada (first part)

We are what we think.
All that we are arises with our thoughts.
With our thoughts we make the world.
Speak or act with an impure mind
And trouble will follow you
As the wheel follows the ox that draws the cart.
We are what we think.
All that we are arises with our thoughts.
With our thoughts we make the world.
Speak or act with a pure mind
And happiness will follow you
As your shadow, unshakable.
"Look how he abused me and hurt me,
How he threw me down and robbed me."
Live with such thoughts and you live in hate.
"Look how he abused me and hurt me,
How he threw me down and robbed me."
Abandon such thoughts, and live in love.
In this world
Hate never yet dispelled hate.
Only love dispels hate.
This is the law,
Ancient and inexhaustible.
You too shall pass away.
Knowing this, how can you quarrel?

[Docreed2003]

3. Just wanted to say thank you for posting this

You've posted it a couple times but I warrants a thank you. We could all use more of the mindset espoused in the opening of the Dhammapada.

For myself, the powerful image of the heavy laden ox is one I go back to frequently when meditating on my own daily life.

[ProfessorPlum]

7. assumes facts not in evidence, i e that Trump has a soul

[vlyons]

26. Trump has a pure Buddha nature

Just like you and me. But that nature is obscured by a mountain slide of delusions. He could choose to think different thoughts, just like you and I can choose to nurture different thoughts.

We are what we think.
All that we are arises with our thoughts.
With our thoughts we make the world.

[displacedtexan]

31. I Can Believe It's Not Buddha

Trump's nature is pure black bile.

[vlyons]

32. No his ego is pure black bile

Ego is not the same as the pure discriminating awareness of Buddha mind. I realize that many people are unfamiliar with Buddhist philosophy and psychology. If and when you are ready to learn more, I promise it will be quite rewarding.

[c-rational]

23. Thank you for this post.

[2naSalit]

39. Thank you for posting this.

It suddenly made me aware of how our society has been undermined in the now and over a long past, and it is all about fear.

Most people try in whatever fashion to adhere to the concept imparted in this passage, yet when cast into a fearful mindset, even temporarily, shatters the peace that must be relocated. I think that we, over time, have been conditioned to be more receptive to fear in order to keep us from being content with what we have, a maintained "edge". I won't go into the originators of that conditioning as it is massive in even minor treatment.

This is what has been used against us and now to an exponential degree, maintained fear to disrupt the ability to seek and adjust to inner peace.

We can't be controlled when we are not in fear.

[kentuck]

43. Thank you for your post ...

The Buddha speaks.

[Jeffersons Ghost]

45. K&R

[NightWatcher]

2. Part of me hopes that the newly Dem House pesters him through 2020 and he loses reelection 70%-30%

Then he'd know that he'd be arraigned on Jan 21, 2021

[Nitram]

20. I'm assuming Trump will be indicted and/or have resigned by the 2020 elections.

[lagomorph777]

41. That looks the most likely to me. He's flipping out now for very good reason.

Trouble is following the Orange Ox.

[Iliyah]

5. And the continued damage he and the GOP are constantly

doing to The United of America seems to be hidden by the corporate media because it's all about him?

Eff that.

[spanone]

6. GOOD. He made it all about HIM. America responded.

[malaise]

8. It was worse than that. He wasn't satisfied with 'us' v 'them'

It was all about him versus everyone else.
It was total and complete humiliation from which he will never recover.

[ChoppinBroccoli]

9. It's Actually NOT Painful And Humiliating For His Supporters

They think they won. They actually believed him when he said it was a big win for him. See, when confronted with facts they don't like, they just shout, "FAKE NEWS!!!" and run to their little Faux News bubble.

[dubyadiprecession]

10. Trump's humiliation will compound itself!

It’s only going to get worse for him. If anyone deserves to be locked up, it should be Trump!

[Johnny2X2X]

11. Candidates he backed got trounced

This hasn't been in the news enough, but 70%+ of the candidates he vocally endorsed and campaigned for lost. His backing was the kiss of death.

When he held that press conference and pointed out the GOP candidates who lost that shunned him and the candidates who won that he backed, he was being very selective. It was actually pretty convincing. but it was not what the data showed and Trump knew it at the time. His candidates got trounced all over the country. One metric I saw is that he explicitly endorsed 75 candidates, 54 of those candidates lost.

I bet most Americans still don't know how big of a repudiation of Trump last week was. I wish the media would focus on this, he was crushed. I bet GOP leaders know these numbers, but as of yet they aren't choosing to make it a story yet.

Here's the consequences, if the whole country is made aware of the fact that Trump's support meant defeat 3 out of 4 times for Republican candidates, the country and the GOP would be starting the wheels in motion to remove him from office.

The positives, let them buy this delusion, it will mean a massive blue wave in 2020.

[ewagner]

13. In Wisconsin

...it was only the nasty gerrymandering that kept the Assembly and Senate in Republican hands...otherwise, on the state-wide offices...it was a blue wave for sure!

[Johnny2X2X]

14. In MI

He was one of the biggest supporters of Bill Schuette (GOP Gov candidate). He rallied for Schuette and John James (GOP Sen Candidate). Schuette had a huge advantage being the acting AG here in MI, he was the heir apparent. A liberal Democratic woman, Gretchen Whitmer, trounced him by 10 points. Schuette ran thousands of ad spots with Trump staning next to him calling him, "The next governor of Michigan." John James was another Trump favorite, he got beat easily.

This story has been ignored, the story of this election was that Trump Republicans got trounced all over the country unless they were in the deepest of red areas. Almost no Trump Republicans won in swing districts.

[llmart]

22. Schuette started early distancing himself from Snyder...

and then was stupid enough to think having Trump's endorsement would be better. Someone that stupid shouldn't be in government at any level.

No one was happier than me that Gretchen won and that Michigan is taking back the progressive movement from the old, stodgy white men who think they're the best thing since sliced bread.

[Johnny2X2X]

24. AG was very pleasing to me

We elected a strong female Attorney General who is openly gay and was instrumental in arguing the case before the SCOTUS that legalized gay marriage.

Dana Nessel will be the next top law enforcement officer in Michigan, despite her opponent running ads that literally called he a child molester.

[llmart]

25. Yep!

So much of what Michigan did in this election pleased me. I am not a native Michigander, but have lived here for almost 27 years. When I first moved here I read Milliken's biography and was very impressed by the sort of governor he was, since he was a Republican and I'm a lifelong Democrat. Mainly I was impressed by how passionate he was about the environment. Now, I may not know everything about him and his time in office, there is no way I can reconcile what Republicans were then with what they've become now.

[LakeSuperiorView]

38. For what it's worth, Snopes rates that as false.

Trumpism was kicked in the teeth, but the metric you cite is not accurate.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trumps-endorsements-midterms/

[uponit7771]

46. Yep, should be 70% of twitter endorsed candidates lost

[ewagner]

12. Yes...and he doesn't handle humiliation well n/t

[jcgoldie]

15. I was thinking this... its hard to believe he didn't see it coming but...

When you get all your news from Fox News and you really believe your own BS about all the media and pollsters being biased... he was willfully ignorant of what was going to happen.

[Kitchari]

35. Willfully ignorant - you said it

And proud of it. Believes his own lies

[cstanleytech]

16. "He thought he was the populist" The 3 million more that voted for Hillary over Trump would

disagree over him being the "populist" choice and the only reason he is President is because of the EC vote.
Had the EC voters in all the states been free to vote how they wished he probably would not be President.

[Racerdog1]

17. EmbarASSment

Orange plague will not survive this term. Piece of shit is just that, a piece of shit.

[NoMoreRepugs]

18. Tens of millions of Deplorables just did vote for Rump again .

[lagomorph777]

42. After they discover in April, that Trump hiked their taxes, they'll reconsider.

Or they'll pretend that the Dems passed Trump's Tax Hike. Whatever. They're a shrinking minority.

[leanforward]

19. What I see, is a conflict of interest

He is trying to protect his business interests. The presidency is a way make too many people think he’s great.

He wants to give/turn away a naturalized citizen to gain gain favor with Erdogan (sp). No way.

[ffr]

21. Committing treason out in the open tends to do that.

[C_U_L8R]

27. He was fooling himself that he actually won the first time

[Zing Zing Zingbah]

28. Good because most of us are humiliated every single day by his actions as president.

We're making him feel our pain.

[Gothmog]

29. Boo hoo

[Politicub]

30. Yes he was! And it is sublime.

And Trump is going to spiral down more into a whirlpool of hurt. Whitaker is a symptom, but not the sick, putrid disease that is Trump and his ship of fools.

[leftynyc]

33. He was also being told by his

sycophants that there would be a red wave and that he'd keep the house. And he believed it because the people he trusted were saying so. He was blindsided and that's part of why he's so discombobulated.

[Ligyron]

34. Oh, Trump supporters know they are in the minority.

That's why they're OK with all forms of cheating (by "their" side) to win elections.

[watoos]

36. Trump himself said he was on the ballot,

he lost the overall House vote by over 7 million votes and growing.

Keep campaigning Donald, you went from losing by 3 million votes to losing by 7 million votes, or were there 7 million illegals still voting that your election fraud committee couldn't find? I'm sorry but, bwahahaha.

[Doremus]

37. Donald Trump humiliated? Somebody better tell him. nt

[dlk]

40. It Appears the Humiliation is Only Beginning

[H2O Man]

44. Recommended.

I agree that the results of the election humiliated him. And once the new House is seated, it will haunt him.

[green917]

47. Which is why we trounced them so soundly

If trump had campaigned for Republicans on the economy or unemployment numbers, we probably wouldn't have picked up as many seats as we did. He decided to try to sell the American people fear and he's too in the bubble to understand that that is a hard sell to anyone other than his most ardent supporters and there just aren't enough of them.

[Kashkakat v.2.0]

48. Oh please, youre assuming this person is capable of normal human emotion - sociopaths generally are

not

And generally when the beliefs of a cult and cult leader are threatened, that's when they double downand go into deeper denial of reality.

So no, no one was "humiliated," though of course they should have been!

[Stidham8]

49. Guys Obama lost 60 house seats and I think 6-7 senate seats in 2010

The party that has power is almost always going to get railed in the midterms. The side that won the presidency is more complacent and the voters don't turn out. The one exception I can remember is Bush after 9/11, which is a total asterisk.

[John Fante]

52. Republican voters weren't complacent at all.

They improved their 2014 vote total (house) by a whopping 25%, a substantial increase. Democratic voters simply kicked their ass, and will do so again in 2020.

[Takket]

50. He lost the people in 2016 too

Only won the process. His election was a mathematical fluke and it drives him insane.

[oldtime dfl_er]

51. Narcissists have no shame

It's not a subjective statement, it's a fact. They do not feel shame, they don't experience things like humiliation. They simply aren't able to experience it.