The Assault on Trump is about to Begin

[Minimalist]

A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimists.

--Don Marquis

[AFTT47]

You really are a pessimist, aren't you?

Goddamn right.  It comes from paying attention!

You're even older than me (which is really saying something) so I know you've seen:

Violent crime drop steadily since the early 90s,

Survival rates from deadly diseases like cancer and heart disease steadily increase,

Percentages of people buying into religious crap steadily decreasing.

I don't see how "paying attention" justifies pessimism. Just the opposite, in fact. People are definitely flawed but we make steady progress as a whole - except rap 'music' has become popular but you can't have everything.

[Minimalist]

The oceans are dying.

http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-ocean-i...st/5451836

The rain forest are disappearing.

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news...23/?no-ist


The climate continues to warm.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/21/scienc...rming.html


There is insufficient fresh water.

http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2...-conflicts

Here's a photo of Peking.



There are now more guns than people in the US.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk...then-some/

And Donald Fucking Trump is the likely republicunt nominee for president.

Right about now a heart attack looks pretty good, man.

[Thumpalumpacus]

Yeah, some metrics get better as others worsen. I'd live with more theists being around if they cared for what they think of as God's Creation a little more, because while their faith affects me in small ways, clean air and lively oceans are pretty goddamned important no matter your beliefs.

[The Grand Nudger]

You don't appreciate the subtle pastel hues of urban air pollution, Min? Nothing quite like sunset through smog. Reminds me of home...

[Wyrd of Gawd]

The oceans are dying.

http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-ocean-i...st/5451836

The rain forest are disappearing.

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news...23/?no-ist


The climate continues to warm.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/21/scienc...rming.html


There is insufficient fresh water.

http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2...-conflicts

Here's a photo of Peking.



There are now more guns than people in the US.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk...then-some/

And Donald Fucking Trump is the likely republicunt nominee for president.

Right about now a heart attack looks pretty good, man.

That's why we outsourced heavy manufacturing to China.  The intent is to kill them off with pollution.

This is the way Pittsburgh looked in the 1950s http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-...-smog.html

Now China looks like that.

[I_am_not_mafia]

Come to think of it, a fuck head like Trump recieving these many votes means that there are that many Americans that support his ideas. How do you people live in peace knowing that the next person you meet might very well be a Trump fan?

Every population has its share of people who in different circumstances would be fully fledged members of a fascist party. What Trump has done is to show us who they are. These kind of people aren't hard to spot once you know what to look for. These are people who lack empathy and who will happily steal from or hurt others when they recognise that they can get away with it without consequence. Or people who lack critical thinking skills who are ready to turn a blind eye, preferring instead to have their own comfortable prejudices confirmed to them by the media and ignore questions that they cannot answer.

All it takes is a lack of imagination and a sustained willingness to accept what you are told without question. Read Rudolf Hoess's autobiography, the commandant of Auschwitz if you want a first hand account of a genocidal mass murderer. There is nothing particularly abnormal about how that man thought. If he had been fighting for another side he might even have been decorated as a war hero considering how easy it was for him to stay cool in combat and kill people. Or he could have made a good politician with a logistical mind like that. Yet while murdering millions of Jews he loved his family and recognised the suffering that he caused in others.

Even if Trump doesn't get in, the problem remains. The conversation has moved so far to the right now it drags the left along with it. Check out that video I posted earlier of Bush senior and Reagan debating immigration back in 1980. They seem like bleeding heart liberals compared to even the democrats nowadays. And there is still the disenfranchised segment of the population who are angry and prefer the option of destroying everything to 'shake things up'.

[I_am_not_mafia]

One good thing that might come out of this, Trump has probably destroyed his own financial empire. Would you book a room at a Trump hotel? Or go to one of his golf courses? Or pay any money to anything with the word 'Trump' in it?

And he doesn't just own real estate in America. He invested heavily in a golf course in Scotland for example.

[scoobysnack]

One good thing that might come out of this, Trump has probably destroyed his own financial empire. Would you book a room at a Trump hotel? Or go to one of his golf courses? Or pay any money to anything with the word 'Trump' in it?

And he doesn't just own real estate in America. He invested heavily in a golf course in Scotland for example.

I would. I think it's funny how many people hate him. I'll vote for him so when he becomes president I can see the look of shock and horror on his enemies faces. Hopefully we will have a lot of closet marxists move out of the country also.

[Crossless2.0]

One good thing that might come out of this, Trump has probably destroyed his own financial empire. Would you book a room at a Trump hotel? Or go to one of his golf courses? Or pay any money to anything with the word 'Trump' in it?

And he doesn't just own real estate in America. He invested heavily in a golf course in Scotland for example.

I would. I think it's funny how many people hate him. I'll vote for him so when he becomes president I can see the look of shock and horror on his enemies faces. Hopefully we will have a lot of closet marxists move out of the country also.

Bolding mine.

If you gathered all of the actual Marxists in this country, you couldn't fill a Chuck E. Cheese to its legal capacity. But enjoy your imaginary trip to the 1920s-50s.