Rude Pundit Asks Trump Voters: "Aren't You Just Embarrassed?"

[kpete]

2/10/2017
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...I really want to know from Trump voters: Does any of this embarrass you? Any of the shit with Michael Flynn and Russia? Any of the ridiculous things Trump says, like threatening to "destroy the career" of a state legislator? Any of the ludicrous comments and promises he makes? His complete lack of understanding of the way the government actually functions? His complete lack of knowledge about the United States's relationships with other countries? The disastrous and unnecessary military mission in Yemen? The fact that he is literally doing the things he said he was going to do, like tearing families apart? The demonstrable lies? Does any of it make a dent with you?

I stopped, too, because I realized that it doesn't. And that reasoning with most Trump voters is like running a flea circus. You can fool people into thinking the fleas are doing tricks and acrobatics, but it's just fleas being fleas. Whatever frame you put on it, they're gonna do whatever the fuck they please.

Whenever we face the joke of a presidency we're forced to endure right now, we're not merely facing the pumpkinheaded doom goblin at the top. We're facing all of his supporters who are unmoved by any ethical lapse, any law broken at this point, even the Constitution itself. So we either have to write them off as a mad tribe that has taken over the temple and hope they orgy themselves to death or we have to reason with them, however terrible it might be to walk up to a group of convulsing idiots and ask them to listen to your insights you got from watching CNN.

The takeaway from the blog post was going to be that I'd like to think that I'd be embarrassed. I'd like to think that it would matter even if President Stumblefuck McBleedingheart was going to tax the wealthy more and rein in Wall Street and get rid of money in politics and spend shit-tons on infrastructure and alternate energies and make reversing climate change a top priority and attack poverty with education and jobs programs and on and on. If he was as dumbly evil and evilly dumb as Trump, I'd like to think I'd be able to say, "Yeah, but, holy fuckballs, man, can we just impeach him already?"

Shame is a powerful tool. We need to deploy it more and make Trump's ardent supporters feel like outcasts for denying reality.

http://rudepundit.blogspot.com/2017/02/question-to-trump-voters-arent-you-just.html

[Dustlawyer]

1. I have a friend that voted for Trump and I hit him everyday with the BS

that has come out of Trumpo's mouth and his Administration. He is punch drunk from the attacks because he has nothing to rebut it with. I think his main reason was he was sick of the corruption and thought Trump would "shake things up." I tell him you got your wish, but you didn't consider that shaking things up with a con-man would make everything a whole lot worse than before!

[Freddie]

4. DH's co-worker

Voted Trump because "we need change!" Now he changes the subject when politics comes up. Hmmm.

[Dustlawyer]

10. They were so sure he would be GREAT!!!

They haven't been able to admit it yet!

[Hortensis]

8. Right there with the "corruption" you know he's

dishonest. The way to fight corruption, the only way at this point, is to vote to transfer enough power to the Democratic Party so our people can pass laws to get money out of politics, and then to keep it up--by electing ethical liberals and moderate conservatives with records of opposing money in politics and other forms of corruption.

That there are no honest people in office or out is the most effective lie of all those pushed by the corrupt.

[Trust Buster]

2. Many Trump supporters wish to break this country with a sledge hammer and start all over.

I don't think they are concerned about the temperament of this particular suicide bomber as long as the bomber lights the fuse. Embarrassment assumes a grip on the facts. These morons hate facts.

[dalton99a]

3. They don't care.

Many if not most of them believe he's doing the right thing.

[Tree-Hugger]

5. They are not embarassed

They don't care that he is completely unfit. They don't care that he has zero concept of the Constitution.....despite the fact that they spent 8 years dry humping the Constitution because they swore Obama wanted to burn it. They don't care about Russia.

All they care about is that Trump hates the same brown people as them.

[otohara]

6. He Should Shame No Votes/3rd Party

How's it going Susan Sarandon, Killer Mike, Roserio Dawson, TYT etc...now that ICE is rounding up parents and ripping them away from their kids and Muslim ban is in full swing.

Killer Mike told his throngs of the most vulnerable to "stay the fuck home"

Had they voted for Hillary - no one would be in fear for their lives, no massive marches. no raids, no ban.

[Mariana]

11. They don't deserve it as much as Trump voters do.

They are a problem, but they didn't put Trump into office all by themselves. Trump voters put Trump into office, and they should not be deprived of the credit.

[bdamomma]

7. They are denying reality

and also denying how to educate themselves, believing what FOX news tells them. That is just SAD.

[Hortensis]

9. It's what our founding fathers feared above all.

Hyperpartisanship so strong that it makes functioning democracy impossible.

Benjamin Franklin on being asked what kind of government they'd votedfor: "A democracy, if you can keep it."