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BigmanPigman

(51,569 posts)
Fri Feb 12, 2021, 07:58 PM Feb 2021

Is This the End of Obsessively Hating Donald Trump? Loathing him has been a passion,....

Is This the End of Obsessively Hating Donald Trump?
Loathing him has been a passion, an addiction, a compulsion. Let impeachment be the last hurrah.

By Keith Olbermann
Feb. 12, 2021

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/12/opinion/trump-impeachment-media.html#click=https://t.co/F858Vxmy93

"I hated Donald Trump when hating Donald Trump wasn’t cool. My credentials date back to Dec. 15, 1983, when CNN sent me to cover a public forum featuring the moguls of four New York sports teams..."

"Would the hate be better addressed and the nation be better served by a long and meticulous public investigation into the attack on the Capitol or even the entire Trump presidency, shaped something like the Watergate hearings, the Army-McCarthy hearings and the 9/11 commission? Or are the wounds too new to be thoroughly reopened? If we’d had television and Ken Burns then, would his “The Civil War” documentary have been a must-watch in 1866? Of course, there is already historical revisionism about Mr. Trump and the Jan. 6 conspirators. Any sense that we might be too quick to relive the nightmare must confront the reality that the proverbial first draft of history often becomes the final version with only minor edits."

"Ultimately, if this latest spasm in the greatest-ever threat to democracy doesn’t ease the hate, it will not be because we who loathe Mr. Trump are exhausted or traumatized or healing. It may be because even if 17 Republican senators were now to shock the world, there’s really nothing they can do to Donald Trump that we would feel would suffice."

"The only thing we actually want to watch is the criminal trials. In which case, the worldwide popcorn shortage might be an extinction-level event."

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Is This the End of Obsessively Hating Donald Trump? Loathing him has been a passion,.... (Original Post) BigmanPigman Feb 2021 OP
I will hate that fat piece of shit more and more every day until he is fucking dead Blue Owl Feb 2021 #1
What you said, except with 'corpulent' (nt) mr_lebowski Feb 2021 #2
I know, I have never hated anyone so BigmanPigman Feb 2021 #3
I despise the Orange Menace Woodwizard Feb 2021 #4
I don't "obsessively hate" Donald Trump. I believe he he has proven to be a clear and present danger Nitram Feb 2021 #5
Why should we stop hating him now? Paladin Feb 2021 #6
Ditto! BigmanPigman Feb 2021 #7
WTF Skittles Feb 2021 #8
Maybe a 12-step group should be formed. Trump Haters Anonymous. Nt raccoon Feb 2021 #9

BigmanPigman

(51,569 posts)
3. I know, I have never hated anyone so
Fri Feb 12, 2021, 08:10 PM
Feb 2021

much in my life. The amount of hate is infinite. I vote for a non partisan, fully funded, separate,criminal, independent investigation too. I wanted that instead of Mueller. We need one that can't be tainted.

Nitram

(22,768 posts)
5. I don't "obsessively hate" Donald Trump. I believe he he has proven to be a clear and present danger
Fri Feb 12, 2021, 11:28 PM
Feb 2021

to American Democracy, that he weakened the United States domestically and abroad, that he connived to profit from taxpayer money to enrich himself, his family and his cronies, that he incessantly lied to the American people many times a day during his campaign and then while in office, and that he planned and executed an attempt to stop the vote count and overturn the 2020 election by inciting his armed followers to storm the capitol and capture or kill the Congress men and women who were engaged in the constitutional process of counting electoral votes and certifying the election results.

Paladin

(28,243 posts)
6. Why should we stop hating him now?
Sat Feb 13, 2021, 11:15 AM
Feb 2021

trump will be a vile, dangerous political force up until his very last breath. He summoned a killer mob once, and he can do it again. Obsessive hatred is exactly what he deserves.

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