I've been challenged effin AGAIN to splain why I think Donald Trump is despicable.
po, started this round but, as I've said, I've been through this with Curt and isle in the past...as well as some who are no longer active on SS.
Interestingly, I don't remember most of my SS posts, nor many exchanges here, but the Trump thing fascinates me and amuses me...
...because TDS is a real thing...I don't have it but all the woke white electric limousine lib lovin progressives do.
po started this challenge with a rhetorical tone, begging me to come up with just one thing that Trump did that I think is despicable...the clear implication being that I can't.
Gang,
No one currently active on SS supports Trump. What distinguishes us is the those who are rational about it and those who ain't. I peg the rational crowd as OD, Indy and pb.
The TDS crowd...in order of the severity of derangement, IMO:
1. po
2. isle
3. Curt
4. Donna
One symptom of TDS is the belief that anyone who's sane and rational in opposing Trump is "MAGA." All for of y'nes present that symptom to one degree or another.
So, why does pb think Trump is despicable? Here's an abridged list of reasons.
The first time I recall being asked the question, it came from isle. My recounting of my reply here may be an exact quote because I remember it clearly and because it was the first time I thought about creating a rational description of my raw emotion.
I told isle: Probably for the same reasons you do. He's a narcissist and a bully. He's a hateful person.
My guess that I posted that in early 017, about the time Trump's (first) term began.
Over the years, I've done what po's now axing me to do many times...i.e., mention specific Trump actions that are despicable.
Trump was obnoxious toward all of his fellow competitors for the 016 GOP nomination and then demanded their enthusiastic support in the general election without a word of explanation, let alone apology. Despicable.
His hate speech toward Hillary was...effin is, despicable...and, you all know that I think Hillary is a criminal and a thug who cheated her way into the 016 Dem nomination, among many other crimes and unethical acts. Still...
Trump's interaction with Nancy Pelosi, Chuck You Schumer and all of the "loyal opposition" has no precedent in our history. It's a slap in the face of Washington, Jefferson and Madison and the generation that founded our republic.
Trump's leadership during the pandemic was atrocious and absolutely despicable. The struggle against the disease might have been a moment of national growth, along the lines of unity achieved in the wake of 9/11. We are, in fact, more divided today, in part, because of the confrontational way Trump behaved in the pandemic.
Trump's behavior in his first debate against Biden was rude, obnoxious and unstatemanlike to a degree that is historic and shameful in all of the history of American politics. pb was embarrassed for America on that night.
One more. I imagine you TDSers didn't expect half of this:
Trump's treatment of Mike Pence is certainly despicable. As hard as it might have been for Pence, he served Trump faithfully...sacrificially I think...until the moment that Pence reached the point that his conscience said, NO! Trump's despicability?, may be most heartbreaking in the context of that close, personal relationship.
So there!
