To America’s misfortune, there are many US voters who idolize a bully. They think a small-minded, strong-fisted paladin can somehow save them. Despite all of his awful traits and his unfeeling insults, they believe this loutish behavior is admirable.
I am ashamed of my countrymen.
The stoopid is strong in The Donald. Even his kids must wonder why what’s wrong with daddy.
“assuming Trump doesn’t do something even more horrendous”.
You have to assume this? Is there any reason to believe he WON’T do anything worse? It’s like if he was asked a question about the Holocaust, and he would have replied, “Well, the Jews would have been just fine if they had asked to take a bath instead of a shower.” He IS that much of an asshole.
They remained quiet because they know Khan is a Republican that supports the party…just not Trump.
“While I feel deeply for the loss of his son, Mr. Khan who has never met me, has no right to stand in front of millions of people and claim I have never read the Constitution, (which is false) and say many other inaccurate things,” said Trump.
But you feel you have the right to say things about people you have never met, Drumpf? Textbook case of Narcissistic Personality Disorder.
Senior Republican leaders, including House Speaker Paul D. Ryan, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, remained silent, as did vice presidential nominee Mike Pence.
Like Trump, they share the complete absence of soul and humanity.
Trump’s asshole-ism is building to the point where it will soon reach critical mass—a singularity or harmonic convergence whose density becomes so great that it will implode, causing Trump to suddenly vanish from our timeline like the last dot of light on an old TV screen, while multiplying Hillary to infinity and causing each of her avatars to win landslide victories with 1000% of the vote. Meanwhile, anyone caught standing too close to the imploding asshole will be sucked in and vanish along with it, such as Mike Pence, or they will be covered in a smelly, congealing goo that is impossible to remove, and for the rest of their lives they will be shunned and will wonder what they were thinking to ever associate with this man.
Meanwhile, until then, we’ll just have to keep putting up with his bullshit on a daily basis.
He and Carson both already kind of went there, when they said if Jews had just armed themselves and fought back, nothing would have happened.
Completely ignoring the fact that Krystal Nacht happened as a direct response to a Jew assassinating, with a gun, a Nazi official in Paris.
Doncha’ just LOVE Trump? Khan hurt his FEELINGS so he was correct in spewing hatred towards him. And yet, all over the media this morning, ‘journalists’ are shrugging their shoulders and saying ‘That’s Donald’ and then asking WHAT ABOUT HILLARY LETTING RUSSIA HACK THE DNC???
Perhaps in the Kaiser’s
I believe this is going to leave a mark, a big one. As many of you know, my mother, my best friend died suddenly a year, one week, and five days ago. I’m just now coming around the bend. I know how incredibly painful it is to lose a parent who was relatively young (67) and in (seemingly) good shape. I can’t even fathom what it must be like to lose a child, especially in battle. I have an idea, but that’s a pain even I can’t touch. There are millions and millions of people in this country who know the pain I’ve experienced, who know the pain the Khans have experienced. And I’m going to guess that for a large number of those people this sort of attack is simply unacceptable. Whatever they may think of Hillary Clinton, nothing she’s ever said or done compares to this. There’s something personal about this one, something so hideous that it actually defies anger and delves into the realm of actually being hurtful. In my opinion, he’s going to lose an additional 2-3% from this alone and that’s on top of the convention bump Clinton’s already getting. This is going to leave a mark.
That’s all the more reason these amoral bastards should speak up. Then again, because they are completely amoral bastards, they won’t. Calling them despicable simply doesn’t describe them adequately.
When will the American Legion and the VFW chime in?
“Bipartisan backlash.” LOL!
Democratic Backlash: “That rotten, heartless, despicable motherfucker!”
Republican Backlash: “Oh, dear! We hate that he may have said what we may have heard, but we are voting for the nominee in November!”
Yes, I lost my mother a little over five years ago and cannot speak about her without tearing up.
What’s relevant to me is the generalization and prediction one can make from this. If Trump can’t sensor himself from insulting parents of a US soldier who died in battle (assuming from the outset that he has no empathy at all, I’m going straight to the question of whether he has the sense to know that it is not acceptable to others,) then what can we predict he will do to international relations?
He will torpedo every effort we have to get nations to be better international actors (again, assuming for the moment that America is great, and right and should be emulated at our request,) by statesmanship and negotiation.
His one and only tool set is insult combined with attempted might. It would be expensive and destructive. He considers soldiers to have no humanity, only expendable tools. A “consumable” commodity, if you will.
If he could even pretend that he cared about others, he could perhaps negotiate. But he can’t even do that in the most socially obvious situations of all.
Hillary Clinton told voters gathered in a Youngstown gymnasium late Saturday: “Donald Trump is not a normal presidential candidate. Somebody who attacks everybody has something missing.”
Well stated, (soon-to-be) Madame President. Thank you.
Would that it be so, it would be a poignant way to topple the self-crafted idol. But it’s as possible, maybe more, that if there’s a beginning point to the end of this nightmare, it might be a moment which submits him, finally, to general ridicule and laughter, and we may, just may, have gotten this with the elevator event. Never know with the fellow travelling press and their horse race imperatives, but we may hope for that also. History will like the Khans’ moment, from the long view, I’m sure; present false equivalence politics may not really be able to deal with it fully.
What I am waiting for is a tipping point. I think a group of his supporters are not terrible racist throwbacks, but they are in a reality bubble and are projecting certain attributes to Trump that aren’t there and they support him. People tend to stay in this kind of distortion until it finally breaks. But when it does it’s a rapid return to reality.
Let’s see if this happens before the election.
And at what point do people realize that “winners” don’t constantly complain about how everything is rigged against them?
You don’t want to ask that question. Only ask questions when you are ready for the answer…
Trump Faces Withering Bipartisan Backlash For Attacking Khan Family
And he doesn’t understand why.