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Skepticat's avatar

An excellent and infuriating discussion of rampant, unabashed crime. Thanks.

Tracy Kohlbeck's avatar

And don't forget the agreement that he, his family and businesses won't be audited by the IRS.

ConnieW's avatar

Which won’t hold up after he is out of office. But trump doesn’t think ahead.

Marc Panaye's avatar

Who says he's planning to leave "office"?

Rockiee's avatar

He is leaving

Rockiee's avatar

Do you think that will hold when he is out of office?

Tracy Kohlbeck's avatar

Rockiee, from what I've read, no, there's no legal standing for it.

Rockiee's avatar

Imagine a world where social media, news outlets, and newspapers refuse to cover the felon and any other politician who chooses to be negative and tell lies, instead of showing the positive traits they bring to the job, and how they will benefit the people who elected them. Imagine a world with no gerrymandering, and so openly being immoral for no other reason than greed. Imagine a world where the needs of the people were truly what government was about. Imagine a world where the police are respected, and their killers are not called patriots and given pardons and payment. Imagine a world where the people who attacked the Congress on Jan 6th, with a noose for the vice president, took laptops out of representatives' offices, took pictures as they had conquered something, and were all put on trial for sedition. Open your eyes, count to five, let out your breath, turn off the news, log out of social media, practice writing full sentences, and give your fight-or-flight, overstimulated system a rest. Read a book, take a walk, call a friend, not using Siri or whichever one you have on your phone. Write a real letter to someone, turn off your phone, and start slow, 30 minutes, and an hour, and the goal is to turn it off at a decent bedtime. Your anxiety level will drop, and you will sleep better. Turn on music, let it wash over your body. breathe in fresh air, and breathe out the toxins. Namaste, peace be with you. Let us take back our lives and country one breath at a time.

ConnieW's avatar

Or move to Denmark.

Rockiee's avatar

They are not accepting Americans at this time🤣🤣

ConnieW's avatar

Oh, no, you are correct. They really aren’t accepting asylum seekers from the US. EU citizens have higher priority right now. I hope they don’t dislike all of us because of our despicable president/king.

Rockiee's avatar

When I was a teenager, my mom did not allow me to have friends whom she considered "fast," as that reputation would be passed on to me by association.

The same applies here to the felon.

Marc Panaye's avatar

What will be next?

Drump going door to door, or rather have a couple of his sycophants go door to door, telling people "he is IRS" and he has come to collect his share of 90% of your money?

Rockiee's avatar

You give the felon to much credit

Barbara Kline's avatar

Where is Democratic leadership indeed. There is no leadership at the top. The Democrats have checked out. Here in Colorado, Democratic leadership has gone AWOL. Our so- called Democratic governor has just commuted the sentence of a convicted felon who tried to interfere with the election. Polis has been duly censured by his own party. As nearly as I can tell, the Democrats have no plan, no strategy for the future, assuming that we have a future. The two -party system doesn't seem to be working that well. The Republicans have hitched their wagon to graft, corruption, and greed. This is where we are.

Rockiee's avatar
3dEdited

Have you read art of war? If your enemy is secure at all points, be prepared for him. If he is in superior strength, evade him. If your opponent is temperamental, seek to irritate him. Pretend to be weak, that he may grow arrogant. If he is taking his ease, give him no rest. If his forces are united, separate them. If sovereign and subject are in accord, put division between them. Attack him where he is unprepared, appear where you are not expected

Elizabeth Horton's avatar

Who could possibly be a lower form of life than Nixon?

See if you can guess.

Rockiee's avatar

What made Nixon a lower life form? I am interested in your opinion

Elizabeth Horton's avatar

A liar, lacking in morals. He felt that it was just fine to order a criminal act to destroy his opponents.

Sound familiar?

Jan S. Gephardt's avatar

How times have changed! Thank you for crystallizing the contrast!

Audrey Eve's avatar

Nowadays you hear people say, "Even Nixon wouldn't have dared to do..." What a quaint time that appears when you reflect on it now.

When asked about the slush fund, Trump remarked, “We’re reimbursing those people for their legal fees and for their costs. It was the most violent thing I’ve ever seen in politics.”

Violence that Trump incited about an election that was never stolen!

Enrique Tarrio, of Proud Boys fame, is seeking $2-$5 million, saying "he's not greedy" but his "life was f***ed up because of this."

And, Todd Blanche has not ruled out millions of taxpayer dollars going to people who assaulted law enforcement officers during the Capitol attack (though 2 officers are currently suing over it).

I miss the "good 'ol days"!

Kristen Wilson's avatar

Isn’t it about time that Democrats gave some thought to how they’ll begin to repair all the devastating things trump and his commission of sea slugs have done and will continue to do? I have not heard one word about anything the Democrats politically will do different than the current Republicans, to save our country. Do they even have any strategies? Do they want to do anything besides complain? Do Democratic leaders even care about the shape America’s in or are they just Republicans in disguise? Where is Democratic leadership? And why is no one angry and vociferous? Why is there not one democratic leader—a true leader—out there in front of a television screen expressing plans to restore sanity to America.

Then it dawned on me. In the ‘60s, 70s and even into the early 1980s, there were WWII veterans that were in the House and Senate. Anyone who was alive back then—-how would they, both Republicans and Democrats, have politically acted and thought about trump and his actions? These men and women had to fight for the existence of the world in WWII. They fought to ensure democracy would continue and saw death, suffering and great pain. Have the “new Democrats” had life so good now that they think they can just float along and the assault on our democracy will just somehow fizzle out? Can’t Democrats be forthright, brave and in front of the world expounding what’s good and true? WHERE IS DEMOCRATIC LEADERSHIP?

Rockiee's avatar

Art of war If your enemy is secure at all points, be prepared for him. If he is in superior strength, evade him. If your opponent is temperamental, seek to irritate him. Pretend to be weak, that he may grow arrogant. If he is taking his ease, give him no rest. If his forces are united, separate them. If sovereign and subject are in accord, put division between them. Attack him where he is unprepared, appear where you are not expected