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You sent him.
You sent him in 2016 if you somberly assured that Trump was "good for the economy." I know people with money who wanted more money and they saw Trump as a guy who would preserve their kind of order. Money guys. Republican guys. I don't talk politics, or anything, with people like that, these days. The evidence was clear in February of 2016: Trump was a guy who would stand up in a rally and whip up the boosters by whining how people like him couldn't get a break any more. Had to hide their psychic white gowns and mental peaked hats. Trump and his money guys unleased the mob on Feb. 16, 2016. Violence was in the air, in Trump's sneering lament that life was tough for guys like him. He prepared his mob to rush to the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, and somehow he encouraged the guy with the hammer to rush to the Pelosi household on Thursday evening, looking for the Speaker of the House or her husband or anybody. Who set up the vigilantes preparing to swarm to the voting stations between now and Election Day? The mobs plan to intimidate people who want to vote, and officials who want to give an honest count of the ballots. You did, many preachers of America, who told their flocks that Trump was a true soldier of Christ, who would fight against abortion, who would approve of Texans to run around with a gun, without even a license to carry it. Who put a target on Nancy Pelosi and her family? The same candidate who put nicknames on the Speaker of the House, using venom he frequently shows toward women. He has sought a reputation for seeking sex with many women, but behind that is a contempt for the entire gender. He cannot tolerate a political opponent, particularly somebody smart and entitled and female. Just the way Trump put a mark on the heckler early in 2016, he encouraged the mob to rush the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021 -- making Nancy Pelosi a leading enemy. But people who voted for Trump should remember, as the mob picks up its weapons: Trump is good for the economy.
Alan D. Levine
10/28/2022 03:46:58 pm
You've said it all, George.
John McDermott
10/28/2022 03:57:53 pm
Motherfucker.
Steve Jellinek
10/28/2022 04:19:30 pm
So how do you really feel, George?
Andy Tansey
10/29/2022 08:00:10 am
Mr. McDermott,
bruce
10/29/2022 06:15:16 pm
andy,
Walter Schwartz
10/28/2022 05:21:20 pm
It's boggling how our nation got to this point! Some of the most bitter and brutal words come from and apply to him. But, his message only boosts this boisterous belligerent bogyman and his bellicose brawling bookends.
Randolph
10/28/2022 05:23:12 pm
George,
GV
10/29/2022 10:29:53 am
https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL1910/S00036/the-america-of-trumps-father.htm
Randolph
10/29/2022 02:52:17 pm
George,
Shelley Braunstein
10/28/2022 06:16:43 pm
I despair for the future. Can this really be happening here? The dregs of society TRiUMPhant? If the pollsters are right about the coming elections. . .
phyllis rosenthal
10/28/2022 07:20:35 pm
Such sadness for our country. There is only one way this could happen. REMEMBER! There really? are good people on both sides. Once the first lie is acceptable, anything goes.
Altenir Silva
10/28/2022 07:21:09 pm
Dear George, the situation is getting more complicated. The New York Times has shown that the future of the planet will be under threat if Lula is not elected.
Altenir Silva
10/28/2022 07:24:55 pm
I hope that 10/30, all Brazilians understand this danger and Lula is elected.
GV
10/29/2022 10:33:41 am
Dear Altenir: My heart is with Brazil during the vote. Bolsonaro sounds very familar to Americans. The big difference is that he has a whole rain forest to burn, for profit, and doesn't seem to care.
Edwin W. Martin Jr
10/28/2022 11:05:13 pm
As Quakers say, George speaks my mind. 10/29/2022 09:59:15 am
Another (major) norm busted… And gone forever, thanks to no one with of any significance with zero republicans of statue saying anything. Busted and gone. 10/29/2022 02:40:46 pm
Until Trump's many legal problems finally catch up with him and he is faced with some much needed accountability, he will continue to be an affront to our society and all decent people.
bruce
10/29/2022 06:20:11 pm
trump takes a lot of heat for being who he is.
bruce
10/29/2022 06:27:35 pm
i should've added that it astounds me that trump makes so many comments about the looks of other people.
Ed
10/31/2022 12:39:00 pm
Best to Altenir and Brazil. May Lula live up to his hopes. Comments are closed.
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