President Trump: The NEW one and only politics thread

I mostly agree, but I wish to add some dressing.

I think that a lot of people susceptible to Trump think that niceties - witness the obsession with “political correctness” - get in the way of progress, progress as they conceptualize it. I don’t know that they all love seeing Trump bully people in a vacuum. They do think that he’s somehow cutting through the bullshit, and that this will lead to good things occurring.

 

Giving them too much credit

 

I don’t think Trump was thinking race when he tweeted. But goddamn you’ve got to be more aware than that.

“These people who happen to live in Chinatown, damn do they need to learn to drive.”

 

A lot of them are just assholes.

 

The Bay Area. Like most libertarians, he knows everything.

"When I moved to CA, I read six books on earthquakes and did what they said. I am getting the impressions that the Puerto Ricans did not read six books on hurricanes. We spent extra money to protect ourselves here. Now we are also asked or ordered to pay extra money for nine stitches in Puerto Rico that could have been saved by the stitch in time that they did not do.
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At some point, people who spend themselves into bankruptcy or who neglect their infrastructure or who do not prepare for “rainy days” need to do the nine stitches themselves. Then maybe they will finally learn the lesson they failed to learn earlier. For us to continue to subsidize people who build on flood plains, who do not enforce sound building codes, who do not have sound building codes, who live in a Cat one house in a location where Cat five storms are possible is unfair to us and not doing the “victims” any good in the long run."

I don't think we need to worry about running out of money helping Puerto Rico or anyplace else. That will never happen and should not be a concern.

 

Yeah, a hurricane flattening her island and city is a political opportunity, right?

 

No, I think this is the base thought of the more "reasonable" Trumpsters. They want change, and if civility goes out the window with it, all the better. They can be as inappropriate as they like.

 

Leadership.

 

Dear people in Puerto Rico, don't believe your own lying eyes.

 

Fucking idiot can't even comprehend that nobody is watching news in Puerto Rico because they don't have power.

And the media is doing its job reporting in a human crisis. Jesus. Now "fake news" is showing American citizens who are desperate for help.

Trump is mentally ill.

 

It is unnerving how far people will twist to avoid that very obvious conclusion. Unnerving in the sense that democracy is probably irrevocably damaged

 

Trump's behavior is easier to understand when you accept that he is the pure definition of a sociopath, one who is "a person with a personality disorder manifesting itself in extreme antisocial attitudes and behavior and a lack of conscience."