Itās like watching a table tennis match:
Long ago Atrios pointed out something that I think helps explain the popularity of Trump. The modern Republican base is more motivated more by pissing off liberals than any other thing. Backing Trump is a clear example of neither understanding nor caring about policy, ideals, principles, common sense, or really most anything. I think much can be explained by seeing that they love the guy for saying things that will be found horrible to the tribe of liberals they are at war with.
Holy Toledo!
That one was bad enough that Trump actually offered a (non)-apology:
Also, please donāt vote for Bill Clinton.
Found this via PZ Myers; the Redcaps are so desperate to create āvoter inflationā conspiracy theories that theyāre literally making them up out of whole cloth (and piss-poor use of the Clone 'shop tool).
Totally shopped. Hereās the original they modified.
Trumpās campaign manager can sometimes deliver on so many levels of Schadenfreude at the same time:
If anyone ever deserved to actually DIAF itās her & Omarosa, seriously.
I would not shed a tear were she to DIAF, though preferably after Nov. 8, since sheās been a mind-bogglingly incompetent Trump Campaign spox.
Oh, I agree.
They both need to live just long enough for me to see their faces crack when dude loses.
There are certain Twitter accounts that I really look forward to visiting Nov. 9, assuming they donāt delete them.
I avoid āthe Twitters,ā unless someone reposts an interesting entry.
Iām too damn verbose to ever even try to limit myself to a mere 140 characters.
Trump deserves to wake up one day and realize how awful a human being heās been.
I could not agree more.
He needs a bitchslap from reality, in the worst way.
I believe strongly in penance and redemption. Maybe this moral sensibility is a relic of my Christian upbringing (Iāve not been Christian since age 16) but it still feels right. I feel we risk corroding ourselves by saying that people like Trump deserve punishment.
Iāve said recently on BB that I donāt have sympathy for Trump and I still feel that way about the person he is now. Were he to wake to up one day and experience this realization I described aboveāfinding himself in a puddle of tears and moral regret over his decades of transgressionsāthen we now have a person who is looking for redemption and forgiveness. We (as in society) have a moral responsibility to help that person on their way towards that.
Iāll take that risk; I think heās truly a horrible excuse for a human being, and an example of the worst sort of avarice, greed and absolute corruption.
Forgiveness in not my strong suit, and it never has been.
I cannot begin to fathom what someone like him would have to do in order to be āredeemedā in my eyes.
Iād be happy if heād just go the fuck away. I donāt see a road to Damascus conversion coming along any time soon.
I wonāt take much pleasure in his inevitable forthcoming bankruptcy and divorce but I wonāt exactly feel sorry for him either.
