(December 19, 2016 at 11:41 am)plumbing101mike Wrote: Much like your perception of trump as a horrible horrible person.
Well, if you actually listened to the man and learned something about him, there's no other conclusion to come to.
Let's see...he refuses to pay his contractors and drowns them in litigation when they try to get what they deserve, has been sued 3,500 times, brags about sexually assaulting women, has mocked a person with disability, stokes racial tension to win an election and even uses false information to do so, re-tweets white supremacists frequently, headed the racist birther movement, peddles obvious conspiracy theories, doesn't care whether anything he says is true, blatantly lies a lot, bullies and insults other people but cries like a bitch when someone does it to him, says he wants to create a registry of Muslims just like the Nazis did for the Jews, doesn't understand why we can't use nuclear weapons, wants to murder the children of terrorists, thinks we should use stronger methods of torture despite the fact that torture has been proven not to work, flip-flops on issues whenever it suits him, thinks he knows everything about everything, implied that Hillary should be assassinated if elected, scammed people with a fake university, called for the death penalty for five Hispanic teenagers convicted of rape(who turned out to be innocent), insults a war hero that was captured and tortured despite the fact that the's a cowardly draft-dodger, admires dictators like Sadaam Hussein and Putin, talks about curbing the rights of the press despite that being a fundamental part of our constitution, claims to be self-made even though he was born with a silver spoon and got his start thanks to daddy's money and power, frequently insults women with misogynist language, and I could go on and on and on...
Now, some people will not find all of these as horrible, but the fact that I could go on and on with a list of things that any sane person would consider bad, makes him a bad person. So Trump supporters aren't actually asking to be allowed their own opinion. They are asking to be allowed their own facts.
Sure, Hillary wasn't a great candidate either, but trying to claim that Trump was is just delusional. You think he was electable? Fine, but just stop pretending like he isn't a completely ignorant asshole.
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