Does it seem that the national nightmare that is Trump has been going on forever?

[Joe Nation]

I don't know. Nixon was pardoned and an end to our "long national nightmare" seemed over almost as soon as it began. Trump just keeps popping up like an incurable venereal disease. I look forward to the day when I never have to hear his name again. Any speculation when that might be?

[All Mixed Up]

1. Ever since Obama's first term.

He's been at the center of politics for so many years now. It's exhausting.

And it all really started with the media giving his birther bullshit oxygen.

2011 was when the media started really engaging with Trump on his birther bullshit. March, to be exact.

He went on the morning shows (Today, Good Morning America) and questioned Obama's birth. The media happily obliged. And he's been a right-wing darling ever since.

2011.

We're in year 13 now.

[AdamGG]

9. Trump's investigators in Hawaii have found out the truth about Obama's birth certificate...

And that was basically his high water mark - his comments have gotten progressively less truthful and more divisive since then.

[CBHagman]

38. I remember Trump's lying about the birth certificate...

...but I didn't have a year, let alone a month, attached to that abhorrent bit of behavior. What a shameful chapter in U.S. history.

Of course corporations have enabled Trump's survival and entry into politics. There's a lot of division, destruction, and death that comes down to corporations' choices. Trump is only part of it, but what a trademarked lie it all is.

[DemocraticPatriot]

2. YES! IT HAS! TOO GODDAMN LONG!!

i vaguely recall someone talking about 'a good guy with a gun'


shit happens

[BigmanPigman]

3. Yes, yes, yes!

I'm about to lose it. I can't manage my anger well these days and I am a pacifist. I have cut down on the news but it doesn't help. Maybe that is why I am so frustrated. It is NON STOP BS! I have never felt such intense hatred for such a long period of time. I have to proof read all of my posts since I am sure if I expressed my true anger and opinions I would be kicked off of DU forever.

Can Americans make a class action lawsuit on behalf ot the 150 million people he has caused mental, emotional and physical harm to since 2016. Start with all the Covid deaths during his term. Then follow up with all the employers and employees who had to close their businesses, etc due to tRump's actions.

[OAITW r.2.0]

4. It started in 71 for me.

That's when I became aware of a Party that shared 0 values with me.

[whathehell]

5. Yeeeessss...

and like everyone else here, I sooo want it stop...I don't imagine it will end until he either goes to prison or loses another election.

[pazzyanne]

16. ...

...or the final solution?

[rampartc]

22. they will be forcing our women to bind their feet

if we do not have some kind of "cultural revolution." to eliminate their influence. i had hoped for something peaceful ........

[whathehell]

34. "final solution"?

I'm afraid you'll need to explain that one.

[pazzyanne]

39. I'll let you figure it out.

I just want the former guy gone, no continuing newspaper, nothing!

[whathehell]

40. No thanks

I want nothing to do with that phrase, and I wish death on no one.

[rampartc]

21. either prison or a loss

merely begins another round of violence.

trump is a menace, but would be minor without this paranoid end times undercurrent in evangelical america.

[whathehell]

33. It sounds like you've seeing

a "no win" situation. I don't share that view..People seem to forget that any type of "violence" brought about by the moron and his minions could be put down easily by local LED, the National Guard, or a combination of both.
I don't think it could be another 1/6 because the country is now far more prepared..I think too many overestimate the power of the Magaverse.

[rampartc]

41. i do not think there are many of these guys

a few thousands at the most. but the national guard or police will have the same problems and more as we did on jan 6. these organizations are full of trumpists who will open doors and escort them on "tours" before ever thinking to stop them.

i am not saying its "no win," of course we MUST win the election, and SUPRESS the rebellion immediately this time. with visible results. like chalk outlines and piles of weapons on police tables.

[whathehell]

44. Neither do I..

I do have a more hopeful attitude regarding law enforcement this time, though..We have a democratic administration now, and I'd expect them to be quite prepared.

[ColinC]

6. Soon-ish?

[ThoughtCriminal]

7. Nixon, Reagan, Bush, Bush II, Trump, Armus...

The nightmare has been on-going for a generation.

Will the GOP find somebody worse? Is that possible in a universe where life can exist? If such a creature exists, they will find it.



Armus 2028!

[Cosmocat]

27. This - what do Nixon and Trump have in common?

the GOP.

My many decades in this world, GOP fuckwittery has been the constant.

[Cha]

8. Yes bc it has.

[elleng]

10. Kind of does seem like forever, and maybe it HAS been:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2018/politics/paul-manafort-roger-stone/

https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/the-secret-papers-of-lee-atwater-who-invented-the-scurrilous-tactics-that-trump-normalized

A Vast Right Wing Conspiracy

[Brainfodder]

11. Yes, but I for one will enjoy ignoring him and his coverage after he loses in Nov. except a perp walk!

He has already done all the whining on the last one, they might as well use his younger tape.

But does he fall apart entirely by Nov.? Maybe?

Is he even outside a prison by Jan. 2025? Maybe?

Not worried about him being President again but expecting even more dirt to leak out on the $hit before Nov. when trials will have started and ended, maybe?

[limbicnuminousity]

12. Haven't even caught up to Trump entirely yet

Still salty over W. Every Repuke president since Reagan has given the impression of a walking talking bobble-head.

Fully expect there to be lines to piss on his grave which sounds cathartic.

[AZ8theist]

14. Well, if you do, just remember:

[Rhiannon12866]

13. I feel the same way. During the 2016 campaign I couldn't wait for the election to be over so we'd never have to hear from

This offensive blowhard again. What other disgraced former president continues to lead the news every single day?? I fear that long after he's dead and gone they'll still be talking about this bizarre period in our history and how it happened in this country.

[AZ8theist]

15. Don't worry. His 2 idiot spawns will continue the stupidity......

[C Moon]

17. I think, among other things, the media loves the money they get from that jackass.

He is not fit for President of the U.S.
If he were around in any other decade, he would have been laughed off the face of the earth.

[rampartc]

42. if he lived in hamilton's time

he would have laid bleeding under the oaks the first time he defamed a woman.

[Prairie_Seagull]

18. Joe Nation, you ask a very funny question.

For a while there I, like many thought this would be over soon-ish a while back. Then I found an old bottle of Valium. Not nearly long enough lasting but it's not nothing.

These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. These products are not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any diseases. haha

[brooklynite]

19. Nope; nine years.

I have a long political
Memory; Trump isn’t in most of it.

[Cosmocat]

28. Yep

My many decades in this life have been colored by relentless right wing fuckwittery.

Going back to battling other kids in elementary school over Nixon.

What fucking elementary aged kid could possibly see in Nixon?

[rampartc]

43. trump began the birther nonsense (and was vovered 24/7 for weeks) in 2011

he ran for reform party president in 2000 but was defeated by pat buchanon for the nomination.

he has been an obnoxious blowhard forever.,

[DET]

20. It HAS Been Going On Forever

Not proud of this, but I used to wake up every day since 2015 asking ‘Is he dead yet?’ Now I’m conflicted. We are tantalizingly close to convicting the Antichrist and making him pay one way or the other. But TFG is in serious decline mentally and physically; he may not last until the election. His unfortunate demise could give rise to someone equally degenerate but younger, more vigorous, and just as popular. Meanwhile, this one deranged loser has killed at least half a million people and given over half of the country PTSD. I don’t know what to think anymore. I just want life to return to something vaguely resembling normal.

[rampartc]

23. it does feel as if 15 minutes of fame is reaching the infinate length predicted

by einstein as trumps image is broadcast on every frequency to the ends of the universe .

speaking of 15 minutes of fame. there is plenty of video of trump cavorting with andy warhol's gurls at the studio 54 vip coke lounge, isn't there? .

[hlthe2b]

24. Yup. How sad that so many have the last years of their lives marrred by this monster 24/7

Karma? Hurry the hell up with this TSF guy, will you?

[Emile]

25. The worst President ever will not go away. It's a nightmare.

Someone please lock that sack of liquid shit up.

[dalton99a]

26. The worst cancer on America's body politic

[TSExile]

29. It will take decades...

...to cleanse humanity from his stench. Maybe not even then.

[MiHale]

30. I'll tell how bad it has gotten for me...

All my life I’ve tried to live nonviolently. I do get angry and have done things in anger that I’ve regretted and hopefully atoned for. I served in the Army during the Viet Nam war and once again needed some mindful adjustments.
BUT THIS MAN has brought such terrible thoughts into my head some horror story writers would pee their pants.

When I saw the spectacle at MAL with him and Orbán I immediately understood how a person could walk into a room like that one and blow themselves up. I would’ve done it without a negative thought in my mind.

That, my friend, is some really stinking thinking. Its increased my meditation time exponentially.

[Prairie_Seagull]

32. Meditation and medication, toss in some increased drinking.

I hope you have room on your bus for others. I have found that yelling at the TV only makes me feel better for a nano-second and otherwise increases my BP. From about 10 feet away, I swear I get spray on the TV.

They say a fantasy life is healthy.

[sinkingfeeling]

31. Yes. And I will give it until Nov. 6 2024 to be reigned in or I'm out of here.

[Happy Hoosier]

35. It's just bizarre...

My only hope is that a couple decades from now I can tell my grandkids about that time that crazy muthafucker had some real support.

I'll tell them, "that was some crazy shit!"

[triron]

36. No one has the guts to end it.

Even advocating for it is forbidden evidently.
Hitler would have flourished here. As would Stalin.

[Emile]

37. I would walk barefoot across a floor of broken glass to

vote to keep that sack of shit anywhere close to the White House.

I hated that con man since the 1980's when he first started getting noticed by the media.

[republianmushroom]

45. It has been 85 months plus

[Joe Nation]

46. The grift continues.

But the consequences hit home in about a week.

[Rebl2]

47. Because it

has, at least since the 1980’s.

[LeftInTX]

48. He's been "president" since Jan 2017.