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UCmeNdc

(9,600 posts)
Sat May 30, 2020, 06:34 AM May 2020

What most Trumpsters and GOPers do not understand. The country is falling apart

under Trump's bad leadership. Good leadership matters.

Trump and his GOP enablers are only in government to look out for themselves. They are stealing and lying to the country. Trump and the GOP Senators are getting richer and richer as the country comes apart. But their voters refuse to look at the consequences of their vote for these crooks and criminals.

Barr is a criminal and a crook put into place just to protect Trump and McConnell. He has ruined the FBI and department of justice. McConnell looks the other way as long as he can take Chinese bribes and get richer. He installs crooked judges in the attempt to head off future criminal charges against all of the GOP crimes. It is a giant mess anyway you look at it.

They intimidate IGs into keeping quiet. They fire good honest people out of their government positions. On and on it goes.

Meanwhile the Trumpsters all say what a wonderful job Trump is doing.


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What most Trumpsters and GOPers do not understand. The country is falling apart (Original Post) UCmeNdc May 2020 OP
The Press is missing too. True Blue American May 2020 #1
Press tries too much to be Fair & Balanced. It means "both sides" even when only one is credible. nt Bernardo de La Paz May 2020 #6
It's in the song... Roy Rolling May 2020 #2
they. don't care. they are a cult living in their own reality NRaleighLiberal May 2020 #3
My jaw dropped to the floor when the crank Lou Dobbs said he thought Trump was Vinca May 2020 #4
It is what you get for turning the Fascists loose in Washington. Chainfire May 2020 #5
Maybe I'm a glass half full sort of person Jarqui May 2020 #7
bad leadership? they support everything he does bucolic_frolic May 2020 #8
Don't understand or DownriverDem May 2020 #9
The brown shirts are coming scarytomcat May 2020 #10
And their meme for 8 years tom_kelly May 2020 #11
Leadership matters should be a Biden campaign slogan. MissB May 2020 #12
This is why you call them "suckers" sharedvalues May 2020 #13
I don't think Trump can put on his huge racist rallies today without inciting a riot. katmondoo May 2020 #14

True Blue American

(17,982 posts)
1. The Press is missing too.
Sat May 30, 2020, 06:43 AM
May 2020

When those people marched on the White House they are angry at Trump.

Trump has ranted his anger and revenge for 4 years. Now it is exploding in his face. Millions out of work, hungry families, no jobs, long lines at Food Banks. 110,000 dead, millions ill.This is not about one instance.

Mark my words they are turning on Trump, no matter how the Media is portraying it. They were wrong on the Iraq War, pushing it. They are doing the same thing now..
Blaming one death.

Roy Rolling

(6,911 posts)
2. It's in the song...
Sat May 30, 2020, 07:23 AM
May 2020

“Living on a Prayer”

“...you live for the fight when that’s all that you’ve got”

That’s all they got. The “silent majority” is silent no more.

NRaleighLiberal

(60,013 posts)
3. they. don't care. they are a cult living in their own reality
Sat May 30, 2020, 07:41 AM
May 2020

then there are the "rapture" bunch salivating at jayzuz returning.

as for the well paid media, many are too dumb to figure it out ( but my aren't they attractive???), or think their wealth protects them.

Vinca

(50,249 posts)
4. My jaw dropped to the floor when the crank Lou Dobbs said he thought Trump was
Sat May 30, 2020, 07:49 AM
May 2020

the greatest president the country every had. That's a mancrush gone really, really wrong.

Chainfire

(17,515 posts)
5. It is what you get for turning the Fascists loose in Washington.
Sat May 30, 2020, 08:33 AM
May 2020

I would say you have the situation pegged.

With the stacked courts, it remains to be seen if we can get rid of the bastards by election. If we do not get a free and fair election, and a clean transition, then we will be tested on how far we are wiling to go to restore honest government. If Trump suppresses the vote or refuses to accept the results of the election we could be in for a rough time.

The right-wing nuts have been preparing for decades for their minority to be able to enforce its will on the majority. They have done this with the strong support of the Republican supported gun laws. The far right considers that majority rule is "mob rule." The modern day "Brown Shirts" are armed to the teeth and consider you their deadly enemy. Many of these folks have been waiting for years for the right moment to rise up and take their country back....

The President of the United States told these people, this week, that the only good Democrat is a dead Democrat. He can pretend plausible deniability, but the right understand the message. The right wingers take that shit literally and they consider themselves to be patriots and the only real Americans and Trump is their beloved leader. The idiots that have been appearing, armed to the teeth, on the statehouse steps are the tip of a filthy iceberg. They are emboldened by the lack of government reaction.

Two million guns were legally purchased in March alone. Ammunition has been purchased by the ton and nearly all of the many ammo makers and sellers are out of inventory. As fast as the product is hitting the shelves, it is being bought up. The people who have been buying this stuff up would like to make you a Good Democrat. Don't take my word for it, walk into a big box sporting goods store and look at the shelves. Where gun sellers usually have a back room full of product, everything they have is now on display.

If you don't like these sources, check you own favorites, the message is clear and consistent from NPR to Fox News.

There is nearly 400,000,000 guns in civilian hands in this country........
https://www.statista.com/statistics/249775/percentage-of-population-in-the-us-owning-a-gun-by-party-affiliation/

https://www.npr.org/2020/03/20/817369503/some-stock-up-on-guns-and-ammunition-during-coronavirus-crisis

https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/25/politics/guns-ammo-coronavirus/index.html





Jarqui

(10,122 posts)
7. Maybe I'm a glass half full sort of person
Sat May 30, 2020, 08:50 AM
May 2020

When I see a line of white women stretched out to protect black protesters, I am stirred inside. America is messed up because of Trump but far from dead.

It took protests like this to get civil rights laws passed in the 60s
It took protests like this to end the Vietnam war.
It took protests like this to get Nixon impeached.
I know. I was in them.

A protest like this is likely to get that cop sent to jail for a long, long time. Big bright lights are being shone on this cockroach of racist hate in the criminal justice system - which will send a signal to more and more cockroaches in those ranks. People have cell phones. A message is "You're not getting away with this racist brutality any more." This racist cop's life is ruined as it should be.

This is democracy. The people are speaking.

You know who is eventually going to be quivering in his 3" shoe lifts? Trump

How many of those fired up protesters are going to be voting for President Racist?

My heart aches with outrage that made my eyes well up from watching George Floyd's last suffering moments. As it did for Ahmaud Arbery. In the wake of Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown, etc.

What happened to those young men is bad. It is tragic that it took their loss to wake people up that this is still a major problem. But for the most part, these protests are good.

A lot of folks haven't been paying attention. That's how Trump got elected. Well, more are now. They won't just see these protests on the news. They'll learn more about the racist criminal in charge. That won't help Trump in November. Nor his racist enablers.

bucolic_frolic

(43,115 posts)
8. bad leadership? they support everything he does
Sat May 30, 2020, 08:52 AM
May 2020

Uncover the underlying crony ideology and culture wars, drop the focus on self-interest, an amalgam of anti-government groups, reaching back to the 1920s, supports everything that is happening. Fundamendalists, bootleggers, Bunds/Nazis/kkk/mob. All seeking power, domination, boogeymen, money, resources. Throw in a few foreign terror allies too. They support this anti-USA agenda.

DownriverDem

(6,226 posts)
9. Don't understand or
Sat May 30, 2020, 08:56 AM
May 2020

care. They are very nasty too. It's shocking how the women attack also. As a white woman I find repubs not only disgusting, but also hell bent on destroying us. Vote in November because we can't let them do it.

scarytomcat

(1,706 posts)
10. The brown shirts are coming
Sat May 30, 2020, 09:11 AM
May 2020

starting with rogue cops
dumpster has opened the door and they are coming out... it ain't going to be pretty

tom_kelly

(957 posts)
11. And their meme for 8 years
Sat May 30, 2020, 09:14 AM
May 2020

Was the Democrats were destroying the country. Now they’ve been given “relief” of that “destruction” and don’t recognize the current situation brought on by their favorite TV personality. They are bombarded by the Fox News and radio/online weirdos as well.

MissB

(15,805 posts)
12. Leadership matters should be a Biden campaign slogan.
Sat May 30, 2020, 09:17 AM
May 2020

Not sure it would sway any republicans to his side but it might.

sharedvalues

(6,916 posts)
13. This is why you call them "suckers"
Sat May 30, 2020, 09:20 AM
May 2020
Meanwhile the Trumpsters all say what a wonderful job Trump is doing.


If you talk to a Trumper, this is why you should call them a sucker. A fool. Being manipulated by Republican elites. Being lied to by Fox to make money for Republican elites and donors.
There’s only two kinds of Republicans: billionaires, and suckers.

katmondoo

(6,454 posts)
14. I don't think Trump can put on his huge racist rallies today without inciting a riot.
Sat May 30, 2020, 09:35 AM
May 2020

Honestly, I believe even he can feel the fear of facing people of color and whites too who will no longer put up with him. Those that support him will also fear the backlash a hate rally would endanger them also. There will always be the ones who look forward to and want to fight but the time has come when they will be outnumbered.

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