Wow, this would be truly disgusting, even if it weren’t on Easter, one of the holiest days of the year for Christians everywhere.
Fortunately, based on polls and attendance at protest rallies, it appears that Americans are tiring of this moronic garbage.
“Do I see how this works?” 
Obviously I see how this works.
I’m just glad to have lived a largely honest life, and never yielded to the pressure to conduct my business dealings anything even remotely like this.
I wish the same for you.
Re: me recent post: What Makes a “Never-Trumper?” my old friend responds: Pretty funny!! Not worth a comment at this point. I’m watching what he’s doing now.
Well, so is the rest of the world.
Trump’s:
• Making enemies of countries that have been allies that go back to the formation of the Union,
• Crashing the stock market,
• Imposing tariffs that most economists say are heading us into a recession (if not a depression),
• Defying the SCOTUS,
• Denying due process to those he wishes to send off to torture prisons outside the country,
…. leaves us all wondering what could possibly be next.
I think the central problem with your argument is the premise that anyone talking against another must have committed harmful acts against him. Caligula, Ivan the Terrible, Mussolini, Stalin, and Pol Pot were all categorically horrible people (aka “anti-social personalities.” I’m fairly certain I did not do anything to hurt them (though I most certainly wish I could have).
An old friend contends that those who contest Trump and his policies must have committed harmful acts against the president.
Here’s another viewpoint on the subject that he may wish to consider: About half of this country, and the vast majority of those in the rest of the developed world, believe, based on what they can observe about his actions and statistics (see left), that Trump is a garden-variety criminal sociopath, aka an “anti-social personality.”
Further, they believe that people who support Trump at this point have what could be called a “low confront of evil” or an “ethics blind spot.” Of course, most “never-Trumpers” put this more coarsely and bluntly, using words like “fools.”
Now, let’s be fair. Isn’t it possible that all this attack against Trump is a “witch-hunt,” in which an innocent and productive member of society was unfairly persecuted? Sure. But how likely is it that four different independent grand juries, composed of people just like you and me, handed down four separate indictments including 91 felony counts, simply because it had become fashionable to hate a former president? We’re to believe that they violated their oath and their personal integrity because it was “the thing to do.” I’m skeptical, to say the least.
Whatever the case, one thing is certain: either Trump supporters or his detractors have been conned, and this country has never experienced anything remotely like this in its past.
I’ve spoken with folks from dozens of countries around the globe on this topic, and here’s what they tell me, almost to a person, “We simply feel sorry for you. We recognize that, throughout history, many world democracies, some tiny, some huge, have gotten swallowed up by ignorance and hate, but we never, in a million years, imagined that this could happen in the United States.”
I’d love to think that what John Brennan says here is true, but there is no reason to believe that.
If the United States as a nation were going to regard Trump this way, it would have already happened.
The idea that Americans are going to have some sort of mass epiphany is a pipedream.
Someone on social media asks: How would conservatives react if this were Obama’s record?
It truly is remarkable that half of the United States really doesn’t care that they elected one of the worst human beings imaginable.
Every American with a good and honest heart beating in his chest knew that a second Trump term was going to be a catastrophe, but I really don’t think anyone saw this coming.
As shown at left, if it were a country, California would have the fourth largest GDP on Earth. It’s weird to hear people say that over-regulation is causing people and businesses to relocate to places like Texas. I want to ask them if they’ve ever been here, or if they can even find our state on a map.
Speaking of the Lone Star State, a colleague recently pointed out that Russia’s GDP is smaller than that of Texas. We hear so much about the butcher Putin, but so little about his people’s suffering.
The reader who sent me this asks, “Why don’t pictures like this ever trend?”
It’s because everyone who has even a basic understanding of the world oil market knows that this is pure stupidity, aimed at the most uneducated Americans who constitute the core of Trump’s base.
Of course, that doesn’t mean that idiocy like this can’t “trend.” It’s not as if our country has a lack of ignorance. We did re-elect Trump, didn’t we?
Someone asked me recently to explain why Big Oil isn’t thrilled that Trump has opened up our pristine wildernesses to the extraction of crude. The answer, of course, is that oil executives making 8-figure annual incomes actually do understand how to make money. That’s how they attained their positions, and, sadly, it’s their only purpose in life. They know that spending hundreds of billions of dollars in new infrastructure, while driving up supply and thus lowering prices at the pump, isn’t a strong idea.
The cartoonist here makes a good point.
Trump and his team commit so many crimes in an average week that Americans, with their fantastically short attention spans, can’t stay focused on any one atrocity.
This, of course, is exacerbated by the for-profit media that needs to ensure a maximum of public outrage at all times, from both the left and the right, and this requires new subject matter on a daily basis.
