Creeped out? Yes. Disgusted? Yup. Shocked? Not even a little bit.

[OneBro]

At this point there is nothing I could learn about Trump that would leave me shocked. Nothing. The news might be video of Trump, three Russian hookers (all eunuchs) and a billy goat sitting traumatized in a corner while wearing a strap-on stamped "TRUMP TOWER", and it would NOT shock me. Trump is and always has been a depraved, entitled, soul-less, self-centered human being who has never experienced a moment of empathy or compassion for another person.

There was a time when I was shocked by evangelical's continued, unwavering support of Trump, but I've even made peace with and accepted that reality.

In short, accept the McConnells and Grahams and Huckabees of the world as they have shown themselves to be over and over and over again, and life will soon be a lot less . . . shocking.

[Nevilledog]

1. "wearing a strap-on stamped "TRUMP TOWER"

That'll get my rec. any day.

[cilla4progress]

2. And yet, how does he do it?

Sociopath dynamic, I guess.

Ref. Hitler, Mussolini, Ted Bundy

[OneBro]

13. Enablers.

At least in regards to dictators, from Hitler to Hussein, none of them could have done it without a cadre of enablers (and apathy). I have zero doubt that, given the opportunity, if Trump, Graham, McConnell, Hannity, Limbaugh, Ingraham etc. and their followers thought they could get away with extrajudicial killings and appointing Trump for life, they would not hesitate to do so.

[cilla4progress]

14. Absolutely.

I mean - isn't that what is happening now?

Also imprisonment: Obama, Hillary, Maddow.

Wait for it.

[kimbutgar]

3. Would MF45 raping a young girl on tape change his supporters minds?

Sadly I doubt it as they would blame the little girl for not submitting!

[BComplex]

5. Which is what I strongly suspect is exactly what russia has on him.

There's too much history with those two, and trump said to Epstein ON VIDEO that he liked the girls on the "young side".

All those children who have gone missing from their cages at the border are not on holiday.

[kimbutgar]

7. My biggest fear is he sex trafficked those children and we'll find mass graves when he's gone

I think it’s really interesting last week the US put new sanctions on the International criminal court ( The Hague]. I think they know he is being investigated and he’s trying to stop it. it was really underreported. I read a small article in my local paper but didn’t hear it reported on the news. I wonder why?


https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-54003527


https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/new-us-sanctions-on-international-tribunal-prosecutor-aide/ar-BB18DIY7

[Maraya1969]

8. Maybe you should make this an OP. I had never heard of it before. The US sanctioning

entities that are looking at it for war crimes?

That's amazing and horrifying. Bush and Cheney and friends should have been prosecuted.

[Faux pas]

15. I

thought that way back when he first started having them caged. Everyone around the hump is a deviant in one form or another.

[BComplex]

19. I never made that connection when he imposed those sanctions, but now it makes a lot more sense.

[OneBro]

12. Sadly, some of his supporters would privately cheer him on.

[Silent3]

16. They'd call it "fake news", of course

No matter how unrealistic that claim might be, no matter who vouched for the authenticity of the video, believing in super-powerful video forgery techniques and that every single person who claimed it was real was anti-Trump, lying, paid off, threatened, or all of the above, would be easier than accepting the truth.

And if in any corner of their minds they suspected the video might be real, they'd be working on ways to justify it as a backup plan.

[Leith]

4. I'm shocked with every new thing fuckface does every time

But I'm not surprised any more.

[mr_lebowski]

6. 40 years of ever-more depraved television shows and movies (and news) have desensitized the

population.

Don't get me wrong, I'm binge-watching American Horror Story this week, but this kind of stuff doesn't change my moral compass.

By now so many of us have seen so much crime and murder and rape and gunfights and serial killers and war and blood and gore and prostitution and drug use and gang killings and mob killings and bank robberies and kidnappings and con capers and ...

As Perry Farrell said ... Nothing's Shocking.

[OneBro]

9. I suspect you're right, but humans have always been "entertained" by gore, sex, and war/killing.

The Bible is chock full of incest, mass murder, rape and destruction. From "Birth of a Nation" to Willie Horton and welfare queens, right-wing media has very effectively weaponized fear, rage and sex to the point that they can turn their outrage machines on and off as needed, and point them in whatever direction as needed.

[lunatica]

10. What shocks me is his enablers in the Senate

It really does. It means that they’re as culpable as he is in whatever they give him a pass on.

Corruption doesn’t shock me. The level and depth of corruption does.

How many decades has it been going on? Is it really bad only now or has it been like this much longer?

[OneBro]

11. Yup. Even when there's video.

Few things paint a picture as clear as the video of Graham arguing for Clinton's impeachment compared to the video of Graham arguing against Trump's impeachment. For Trump and his supporters, it isn't about right and wrong, it's about power and a devout love of money.

[Faux pas]

17. I

don't agree that the hump is a "human". He is the leader of the Inhumanes

[electric_blue68]

18. Still SHOCKED. But NOT Surprised! :'''(