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NanceGreggs

(27,814 posts)
Tue Feb 14, 2017, 10:57 PM Feb 2017

Youre Gonna Need a Bigger Broom

Hey, Republicans, let’s talk turkey. Let’s put aside the worn-out talking points, the ridiculous rhetoric, and the endless – and utterly absurd – excuses for the unmitigated disaster that is the Trump “presidency”.

Your boy, Trump, has been presidentin’ for less than a month, and has managed to insult our allies, create havoc with his short-lived Muslim ban, botched a military mission in Yemen, signed executive orders he admits not having read, lied repeatedly about everything from how many people attended his inauguration to crime statistics he apparently pulled out of his own ass.

He continually presents “facts” that any citizen with access to Google can debunk within seconds, and seems oblivious to the idea that they can – and do – avail themselves of such knowledge.

He has shared highly sensitive materials with dinner guests as though they were party favours. He is reviled not only at home, but internationally. He is the butt of every late-night-show monologue, and is a global laughingstock. He has been compared to Hitler, Mussolini and Sadam Hussein on a daily basis.

He can’t read – no less comprehend – intelligence briefings unless they are pared-down to a few dumbed-down sentences. Mister “astute businessman” actually had to ASK whether a strong US dollar is good or bad, and had to ASK what our current treaty with Russia is in the middle of a phone discussion with Putin.

Despite his insistence that he is working to “put America first”, he continues to send ALL of the manufacturing jobs of his brand-name goods to “cheaper” offshore markets. In the face of what he insists is a growing threat from worldwide terrorists, he spends his time “tweeting” about his daughter’s clothing line, bad reviews of his hotel restaurants, and SNL skits.

But wait – there’s more.

Trump’s cabinet appointments have placed people in positions where they can wield power over departments they themselves have admitted they know nothing about. His most prominent spokes-mouths, Kellyanne Conway and Sean Spicer, have persisted in promoting “alternative facts” (as though such a thing exists), while calling actual facts “fake news” – as though those actual facts aren’t easily available to anyone with access to the internet.

And now we have the Flynn debacle – a “trusted advisor” who suddenly became “untrustworthy” weeks after the Trump administration had been warned of his untrustworthiness.

Grow a spine and just admit it. Your boy is an unmitigated disaster on every level, and by every measure. There is not a single thing he has done thus far that hasn’t proven to BE a disaster. He has held our allies up to ridicule while praising our enemies. He has lied repeatedly about everything from illegals having cost him the popular vote to terrorists flooding into the country (purely coincidently from nations he doesn’t have any business interests in).

The truth is that if you persist in trying to sweep-up the shit your boy is leaving in his wake, you’re going to need a MUCH bigger broom. The stench alone has become overwhelming, and the trail of turds can’t be ignored.

My humble advice: Get out now while the gettin’s good. Cut your losses and move on. You’ve fucked-up royally by nominating, supporting, and electing this Idiot – own up to it and hope that by the 2018 midterms, the voters forget that you put a disastrous, stupid-beyond-belief, and woefully incompetent DISASTER in the Oval Office.

Somehow, I don’t think they WILL forget – but that’s YOUR problem, not mine. Eventually, even the brain-dead wake up, look around, and say WTF?

You were obviously too stupid to see it coming – don’t add to your stupidity by pretending the oh-so-apparent disaster simply isn’t happening.


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Youre Gonna Need a Bigger Broom (Original Post) NanceGreggs Feb 2017 OP
All the Kings Horses and All the Kings Men JTFrog Feb 2017 #1
Another great post Nance... panader0 Feb 2017 #2
K&R. Great post Nance. n/t rzemanfl Feb 2017 #3
Greatest Page for your astute and incisive post, Nance! CaliforniaPeggy Feb 2017 #4
That sounds about bdamomma Feb 2017 #5
Yup... sheshe2 Feb 2017 #6
Presidentin' for less than a month....howling over here... TrekLuver Feb 2017 #7
Excellent. dalton99a Feb 2017 #8
K&R! gademocrat7 Feb 2017 #9
K&R Gothmog Feb 2017 #10
KNR Lucinda Feb 2017 #11
They don't just preach fear, AJT Feb 2017 #12
I'm so jealous of the way you can organize all your random observations on an almost daily basis. world wide wally Feb 2017 #13
It's already been too long. If we don't sweep the barn soon we will be notdarkyet Feb 2017 #14
I think sometimes we can disagree with the facts progree Feb 2017 #15
Lifeless eyes, black eyes, like a doll's eyes! longship Feb 2017 #16
As Mona Lisa Vito would say shadowmayor Feb 2017 #17
Well done. ProudProgressiveNow Feb 2017 #18
This is the kind of writing that should be taught in public school The Wizard Feb 2017 #19

AJT

(5,240 posts)
12. They don't just preach fear,
Wed Feb 15, 2017, 12:00 AM
Feb 2017

they live in it. Fear of being marked a traitor by their party, fear of being primaried, fear of losing power. They will not put this country over themselves, remember this is the party of "me first, last, and always".

world wide wally

(21,743 posts)
13. I'm so jealous of the way you can organize all your random observations on an almost daily basis.
Wed Feb 15, 2017, 12:38 AM
Feb 2017

I love reading your posts!

progree

(10,907 posts)
15. I think sometimes we can disagree with the facts
Wed Feb 15, 2017, 12:56 AM
Feb 2017

Last edited Wed Feb 15, 2017, 01:38 AM - Edit history (1)

Spicer actually said that!

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https://www.google.com/search?sourceid=chrome-psyapi2&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8&q=spicer%20we%20can%20dispute%20facts&oq=spicer%20we%20can%20dispute%20facts&aqs=chrome..69i57.7614j0j7

[div class="excerpt" style="background-color:#CEF6FE;"] He continually presents “facts” that any citizen with access to Google can debunk within seconds, and seems oblivious to the idea that they can – and do – avail themselves of such knowledge

longship

(40,416 posts)
16. Lifeless eyes, black eyes, like a doll's eyes!
Wed Feb 15, 2017, 12:59 AM
Feb 2017


When he comes after ya, he doesn’t seem to be livin’ until he bites ya, and those black eyes roll over white, and then – aww, then you hear that terrible high-pitch screamin’, the ocean turns red, and in spite of all the poundin’ and the hollerin’, they all come in and rip ya to pieces…

...but we delivered the bomb!

The Wizard

(12,545 posts)
19. This is the kind of writing that should be taught in public school
Wed Feb 15, 2017, 10:12 AM
Feb 2017

Unvarnished and to the point missives such as this belong on the front page of real newspapers. TV journalists should be communicating like this. We are confronted by an Administration bent on ripping this nation and the world apart. The political well has been poisoned and the result is the insanity known as Trump. The Trump movement is a contagion on humanity. Unfortunately normal people are, and will be, damaged by the excess hatred and mendacity coming from the White House.
Imagine Hitler and Goebbels with the power of television.

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