The most significant thing to know about Donald Trumps politics or

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process, his beliefs or his calculations, is that he is an asshole;

On August 12, Trump and the world witnessed armed white supremacists in the streets and an attempted mass murder by an ISIS-preferred method. Over the course of three working days, he figured out a way to get firmly and even defiantly on the wrong side of it all. In a pair of transparently strained attempts at being Presidential, Trump struggled to muster a condemnation of literal fascism on the literal march; he identified the presence of “very fine people” on both the fascist and anti-fascist sides of what is honestly not a working binary, and he reserved the phrase “truly bad people” for the news media, which had been so unfair, so unfair, in their response. By Tuesday, the issue was once again the media’s selective and slanted and dishonest treatment of him. By Thursday morning, Trump was tweeting mournfully about the tragedy of Confederate monuments being removed from public parks. He finally sounded like himself again.

Among the segment of the population that’s put off by things like a president refusing to forcefully condemn Nazi rioters, this has raised some uncomfortable questions about Trump’s beliefs. Does he really share any or many of the beliefs with the racists and nationalists and racist-nationalists who made his campaign their cause, or is this a political calculation against criticizing a small but important part of his base? Was his decision to defend statues of famous slave masters a reflection of his perspective on history, or maybe a darkly strategic reading of the national political mood? Did he not know that what he said was historically incoherent and obviously wrong? It’s right to wonder, but we should be past asking these questions about this man at this point. The most significant thing to know about Donald Trump’s politics or process, his beliefs or his calculations, is that he is an asshole; the only salient factor in any decision he makes is that he absolutely does not care about the interests of the parties involved except as they reflect upon him. Start with this, and you already know a lot. Start with this, and you already know that there are no real answers to any of these questions.

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1. First thing we have to know about

this Slug is,he has the attention span of a Gnat. Secondly,he repeats the last thing he heard for his friends as fact. Thirdly,every thing that oozes out of mouth is pure bullshit word salad. Fourthly,we are stuck with this Slug until Mueller or Congress removes this stain from the Peoples White House.

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3. yup

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4. Here Here

DILLY!! DILLY!!
I am in complete agreement. The new revelation that Trump may be mentally ill is a good narrative to help counter the anti-Mueller rhetoric. Having the media rush to examine his mental health can act as an effective counter-weight to the fascists. Is it unfair? Don't care. We are facing a well funded machine which sought to imprison HRC as a political opponent, sought to take her down for having walking pneumonia, put her through years of stress over Benghazi after having cut security funding for the region (likely hoping something like Benghazi would happen).
We must fight dirty if the situation requires it. I thought I would never say that, not doing so has cost us our democracy and fed it to the fascists.

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5. Roger Stone and Paul Manafort

groomed this Sucker for years,knowing once they had the Money in place as well as the skids greased with the Media,they would run this Turd for Office.

Big Bucks equals Big Paydays for the Contributors..

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2. yup