At times in this life it can be a challenge to figure out who the bad people are, but sometimes they help you.
Sometimes they do the work for you.
Sometimes with their every vulgar, bitter word from their mouth, they testify to their personal malignancy and they make it easy to identify them.
Generally speaking, there are things that good people do and things good people don’t do.
Good people don’t refer to entire countries as “shitholes”—most notably countries that have given birth to our very humanity; ones that for hundreds of years have been colonized and poached and mined of their riches by powerful white men; countries whose people have been enslaved and sold and forced to come and build your country.
Good people by any measurement we might use—simply don’t say such things.
Of course good people also don’t say they could grab women by the genitalia, either. They don’t defend racists and nazis and call them “fine people,” days after murdering a young girl and terrorizing an American city. They don’t brag about their penis size during debates, or suggest protestors at campaign rallies should be roughed up, or crack jokes about captured war heroes, or make fun of the physically disabled. They don’t.
Good people don’t tweet anti-Muslim rhetoric in the moments immediately following a bombing in order to bolster a position. They don’t leave American territories filled with brown skinned people without power for months upon months, after publicly ridiculing their public servants and questioning their people’s resolve. They don’t pull children from the arms of their parents and place them in cages and detention centers. They don’t erase protections for the water and the air, for the elderly, the terminally ill, the LGBTQ. They don’t take away healthcare from the sick and the poor without an alternative. They don’t gouge the working poor and shelter the wealthy. They don’t abuse their unrivaled platform to Twitter-bait world leaders and to taunt private citizens. Good people don’t prey upon the vulnerable, they don’t leverage their power to bully dissenters, and they don’t campaign for sexual predators.
But this President is not a good human being, and there’s simply no way around this truth. He is the ugliest personification of the Ugly American, which is why, as long as he is here and as long as he represents this nation, we will be a fractured mess and a global embarrassment. He will be the ever lowering bar of our legacy in the world.
And what is painfully obvious in these moments, isn’t simply that the person alleging to lead this country is a terrible human being—it is that anyone left still defending him, applauding him, justifying him, amening him, probably is too.
At this point, the only reason left to support this President, is that he reflects your hateful heart; he shares your contempt of people of color, your hostility toward outsiders, your ignorant bigotry, your feeling of supremacy.
A white President calling countries filled with people of color shitholes, is so far beyond the pale, so beneath decency, and so blatantly racist that it shouldn’t merit conversation. It should be universally condemned. Humanity should be in agreement in abhorring it.
And yet today (like so many other seemingly rock bottom days in the past twelve months) they will be out there: white people claiming to be good people and Christian people, who will make excuses for him or debate his motives or diminish the damage.
They will dig their heels in to explain away or to defend, what at the end of the day is simply a bad human being saying the things that bad human beings say because their hearts harbor very bad things.
No, good people don’t call countries filled with beautiful, creative, loving men and women shitholes or do most of the horrible things he does.
Made me sad and angry reading this. How low have people stooped that they voted and continue to support this germ. I personally have cut someone off from my life because of his support for Trump.
I have too. I had a friend - a Canadian non-white person no less - who lost his mind and basically became a Trump troll for some reason. I tried to deal with it for a while, but he just got worse and worse, started digging his heels in, and even started getting in arguments with stangers in bars about it and shit. I finally just had to cut him off. Blocked him on facebook, got rid of his contact info. He basically just made the decision to be "the asshole". I think he gets off on it. I don't need that kind of idiocy in my life.
so your "friend" didn't agree with people at a bar and they were arguing with him. take your time and read that over. Your "friend doesn't agree with your politics as much as you don't agree with his but he didn't unfriend you. you unfriended him. Like I always say, liberals want everyone to be free to believe whatever they want as long as you believe exactly as they believe. I think your "friend" is lucky.
No, that isn't how it was at all. HE was literally acting like an aggressive weirdo with strangers, going out of his way to start shit, and saying insane stuff. I finally unfriended him, after a very long stretch of tolerance, because he was literally trolling me and a ton of other people. He went totally off the rails - his best friends are all very concerned about him, and embarrassed by his behaviour. My entire family is conservative - I know how to handle people who simply have different viewpoints. Stop making shit up inside your head. You don't know what you're talking about. Don't be such a dick in response to someone talking about how their friend lost it.
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After 745 pages we can all agree on something...Donnie shouldn't be mentioning anything that has to do with the National Football League, especially the GOAT, Tom Effking Brady.
After 745 pages we can all agree on something...Donnie shouldn't be mentioning anything that has to do with the National Football League, especially the GOAT, Tom Effking Brady.
I know what the "A" stands for.....a-hole. What's the rest? And don't try to tell me greatest of all time.
Liberals want their form of freedom which is agree to their view or be gone. Only the extremists can't see that freedom means free to have different views.
First you were saying liberals want everything free. Then you starting talking about liberals wanting a specific type of freedom. I'm not agreeing nor disagreeing with what you're saying, I'm just trying to understand what the point is you are trying to make. Wanting everything free (which implies that worn out misunderstanding of the difference between socialism, communism and democratic socialism) and wanting freedom are not the same thing.
As for "Liberals want their form of freedom which is agree to their view or be
gone. Only the extremists can't see that freedom means free to have
different views", I would say, yeah maybe some think that way, just like some conservative think that way, and some libertarians think that way, and some ... etc. Why the all or nothing/ black and white view point. Why these sweeping generalizations. I don't get it.
lol I didn't mean free. I was talking about free as in views. There are extremes on both sides, I agree. I'm generalizing in a sense because I see and hear the same things over and over from the liberal and far right sides. Only liberals choose to use a lot more mockery. That doesn't help their cause with trying to sway independents, it only hurts it. It seems a lot are coming to conclusions based on who and where they are at that time not on actual research of the issues choices for solutions.
Maybe use the the "preview button and say what you mean?
More sweeping generalizations that can be made about liberals, conservatives, libertarians, etc., etc.-- anyone that does not use critical thinking. Got it.
“The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man [or woman] who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.”
Liberals want their form of freedom which is agree to their view or be gone. Only the extremists can't see that freedom means free to have different views.
First you were saying liberals want everything free. Then you starting talking about liberals wanting a specific type of freedom. I'm not agreeing nor disagreeing with what you're saying, I'm just trying to understand what the point is you are trying to make. Wanting everything free (which implies that worn out misunderstanding of the difference between socialism, communism and democratic socialism) and wanting freedom are not the same thing.
As for "Liberals want their form of freedom which is agree to their view or be
gone. Only the extremists can't see that freedom means free to have
different views", I would say, yeah maybe some think that way, just like some conservative think that way, and some libertarians think that way, and some ... etc. Why the all or nothing/ black and white view point. Why these sweeping generalizations. I don't get it.
lol I didn't mean free. I was talking about free as in views. There are extremes on both sides, I agree. I'm generalizing in a sense because I see and hear the same things over and over from the liberal and far right sides. Only liberals choose to use a lot more mockery. That doesn't help their cause with trying to sway independents, it only hurts it. It seems a lot are coming to conclusions based on who and where they are at that time not on actual research of the issues choices for solutions.
Maybe use the the "preview button and say what you mean?
More sweeping generalizations that can be made about liberals, conservatives, libertarians, etc., etc.-- anyone that does not use critical thinking. Got it.
This is kinda bullshit cause he never said liberals wanted things for free in the first statement and everyone jumped on that. Again, reading comprehension is not so good on AMT.
Tick tock, tick tock, tick tock goes the impeachment clock. Team Mueller is following the money, from Russia with Love and a PTape, all the way to impeachment.
I hope Cohen has the goods....I'm worried that he doesn;t and makes himself seem more important then he is. I really hope he can prove that DJT knew about that meeting with the russians or even better was actually there. Cause Donny Jr would be in a lot of trouble!
Tick tock, tick tock, tick tock goes the impeachment clock. Team Mueller is following the money, from Russia with Love and a PTape, all the way to impeachment.
It will be interesting to see if Manafort cracks before his trial starts (tomorrow)
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I hope Cohen has the goods....I'm worried that he doesn;t and makes himself seem more important then he is. I really hope he can prove that DJT knew about that meeting with the russians or even better was actually there. Cause Donny Jr would be in a lot of trouble!
Cohen just has to corroborate Hope Hicks’ or Michael Flynn or Jarrod Dear Boy’s testimony or statements. Or maybe produce a tape with all of them on it?
Tick tock, tick tock, tick tock goes the impeachment clock. Team Mueller is following the money, from Russia with Love and a PTape, all the way to impeachment.
It will be interesting to see if Manafort cracks before his trial starts (tomorrow)
Someone in Baffoon's circle will crack under pressure this week will be fun fun to watch unfold as H2TM has been stating all along Muller has ben connecting dots dots dots ....
I hope Cohen has the goods....I'm worried that he doesn;t and makes himself seem more important then he is. I really hope he can prove that DJT knew about that meeting with the russians or even better was actually there. Cause Donny Jr would be in a lot of trouble!
Cohen just has to corroborate Hope Hicks’ or Michael Flynn or Jarrod Dear Boy’s testimony or statements. Or maybe produce a tape with all of them on it?
We know that tRump said on live TV that he would have a lot of damaging info on the Clinton's just prior to that meeting....he promised some sort of reveal that never happened.
I will be surprised if Mueller hasn't already got the evidence that ties tRump to that meeting.
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No, that isn't how it was at all. HE was literally acting like an aggressive weirdo with strangers, going out of his way to start shit, and saying insane stuff. I finally unfriended him, after a very long stretch of tolerance, because he was literally trolling me and a ton of other people. He went totally off the rails - his best friends are all very concerned about him, and embarrassed by his behaviour. My entire family is conservative - I know how to handle people who simply have different viewpoints. Stop making shit up inside your head. You don't know what you're talking about. Don't be such a dick in response to someone talking about how their friend lost it.
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The REDS. figures.
SAD
It's called WINNING.
Tom Brady is a whiny, cheating sack of poop. Right Tiki?
my bad
1998: Noblesville; 2003: Noblesville; 2009: EV Nashville, Chicago, Chicago
2010: St Louis, Columbus, Noblesville; 2011: EV Chicago, East Troy, East Troy
2013: London ON, Chicago; 2014: Cincy, St Louis, Moline (NO CODE)
2016: Lexington, Wrigley #1; 2018: Wrigley, Wrigley, Boston, Boston
2020: Oakland, Oakland: 2021: EV Ohana, Ohana, Ohana, Ohana
2022: Oakland, Oakland, Nashville, Louisville; 2023: Chicago, Chicago, Noblesville
2024: Noblesville, Wrigley, Wrigley, Ohana, Ohana
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2010: St Louis, Columbus, Noblesville; 2011: EV Chicago, East Troy, East Troy
2013: London ON, Chicago; 2014: Cincy, St Louis, Moline (NO CODE)
2016: Lexington, Wrigley #1; 2018: Wrigley, Wrigley, Boston, Boston
2020: Oakland, Oakland: 2021: EV Ohana, Ohana, Ohana, Ohana
2022: Oakland, Oakland, Nashville, Louisville; 2023: Chicago, Chicago, Noblesville
2024: Noblesville, Wrigley, Wrigley, Ohana, Ohana
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I will be surprised if Mueller hasn't already got the evidence that ties tRump to that meeting.
1998: Noblesville; 2003: Noblesville; 2009: EV Nashville, Chicago, Chicago
2010: St Louis, Columbus, Noblesville; 2011: EV Chicago, East Troy, East Troy
2013: London ON, Chicago; 2014: Cincy, St Louis, Moline (NO CODE)
2016: Lexington, Wrigley #1; 2018: Wrigley, Wrigley, Boston, Boston
2020: Oakland, Oakland: 2021: EV Ohana, Ohana, Ohana, Ohana
2022: Oakland, Oakland, Nashville, Louisville; 2023: Chicago, Chicago, Noblesville
2024: Noblesville, Wrigley, Wrigley, Ohana, Ohana