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[blackhawks]

Thanks for that graphic. I dropped it on a Trumpanzee on another board in response to a typically inane post.


Brilliant. Your ability to cope with reality is deteriorating as rapidly as Trump's emotional state. I like the symmetry.

No one who objectively looks at the words and behavior of this jackass does not see the truth in the depiction below.

In fact it takes a herculean effort, mental somersaults that rival the real ones performed by Simone Biles, to lay aside whatever moral or common sense you have of what is right, wrong, appropriate, intelligent, effective or just plain decent.

The dumb prick brings exactly NONE of those sensibilities or character traits to the table.

[BOREALIS]

The Daily Trump: Filling a Time Capsule

If Trump Were an Airline Pilot ...

James Fallows
12:36 PM / August 22, 2019

Through the 2016 campaign, I posted a series called “Trump Time Capsule” in this space. ... https://www.theatlantic.com/notes/2016/05/the-daily-trump-a-time-capsule-series/484055/
The idea was to record, in real time, what was known about Donald Trump’s fitness for office—and to do so not when people were looking back on our era but while the Republican Party was deciding whether to line up behind him and voters were preparing to make their choice.

The series reached 152 installments by election day. ... https://www.theatlantic.com/notes/category/trump-time-capsule/
I argued that even then there was no doubt of Trump’s mental, emotional, civic, and ethical unfitness for national leadership. If you’re hazy on the details, the series is (once again) here.

That background has equipped me to view Trump’s performance in office as consistently shocking but rarely surprising. He lied on the campaign trail, and he lies in office. He insulted women, minorities, “the other” as a candidate, and he does it as a president. He led “lock her up!” cheers at the Republican National Convention and he smiles at “send them back!” cheers now. He did not know how the “nuclear triad” worked then, and he does not know how tariffs work now. He flared at perceived personal slights when they came from Senator John McCain, and he does so when they come from the Prime Minister of Denmark. He is who he was.

The Atlantic editorial staff, in a project I played no part in, reached a similar conclusion. Its editorial urging a vote against Trump was obviously written before the election but stands up well three years later:
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2016/11/the-case-for-hillary-clinton-and-against-donald-trump/501161/

He is a demagogue, a xenophobe, a sexist, a know-nothing, and a liar. He is spectacularly unfit for office, and voters—the statesmen and thinkers of the ballot box—should act in defense of American democracy and elect his opponent

...

https://www.theatlantic.com/notes/2019/08/if-trump-were-airline-pilot/596575/