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Now you’re being coy.
originally posted by: andy06shake
a reply to: SteamyAmerican
Trump's not been entrenched in politics for 50 years.
As to sucking his way to the top.
I thought he was more or less born there.
Now if it is puppets you are after.
Well they keep on shooting at Trump.
Whos got there hand up his behind would seem to be the real question.
Because he's about as much a man of the people..............
originally posted by: wAnchorofCarp
a reply to: spacedoubt
When the engine goes off the rails, a lot of cars follow.
We've noticed.......
I see you made it a point to mention the gun.
Was it the gun that made him mentally ill or.....?
What a very long winded way of saying you empathize with the shooter .....
originally posted by: Degradation33
A sign of what's to come...
His rhetoric and approach, and what is percieved by many to be his myriad of self-serving and destructive lies does not put the brakes on this. His increasingly easy comparrison to Hitler (for many) does not put the breaks on this. It's a set in stone Calugula model.
All roads really do lead to Rome.
And the one we are on has a long-standing precedent that always ends in assassination, or repeated attempts. Throughout history it's come from all angles. Rival politicians and political parties, religious fanatics, despondent outliers, and activists.
His presence leads to anger. The supporters are angry. The haters are angry. It's like he has a karmic role (socially speaking) to spread mutual mistrust, hate, boiled blood, and division in this life. His impact is the opposite of compassion. It leads to the opposite of empathy.
If you support him, you're more likely to emulate his vitriol and approach adversaries in a like manner. You are more likely to adopt the same enemies list, repeat the same points, butcher the same names purposely, and invoke the same LCD as your model of acceptable social decorum.
Ukraine is a surprising angle for his opposition to come from. This man probably thinks he was helping prevent the USA becoming a Russian Puppet state.
And now it's my turn. The Never Trump Camp. It's easy for us to think Trump is a Putin-admiring, book burning, greedy corporate, anti-climate, anti-globalist, anti-free trade blowhard, out for himself and his rich friends. It's easy to see the aspiring dictator. As easy as Republicans seeing the democrats as part of a deep state anti-Trump cabal. I know I'm at least psychologically in sync with others opposing Trump. It's probably oblivious cabal vs. cabal. Without a NEED FOR SPECIFIC ORGANIZATION. See organic.
And the more we head down this road, that's either patriotic or quasi-fascist, the more heated it gets, the closer to breaking the "token liberal fruitcakes" will become, and the more likely this is to repeat. And very likely from the left.
It's almost preordained now. It's conditioned. It's mutually parasitic and in a feedback loop that amplifies itself as it reverberates back and forth. Trump is Trump, and the more Trump he is, the more likely attempts are to increase in frequency.
The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun
originally posted by: andy06shake
a reply to: FlyersFan
An idiot ex-Trump supporter who became delusional about Ukraine by the looks of it.
The guy has obvious mental health concerns, imagine that.