This is a platform that even permits communities being confusingly misnamed. For example superbowl.

My comment was mostly about the stuff I mentioned in the second and third paragraphs.

I don’t think you can explain this behavior as simply stupid and ignorant. There are plenty of stupid and ignorant people who didn’t make the massive mistake of voting for Trump.

I think the most necessary thing needed to vote for Trump is a glaring personality defect. Bigotry is probably the most common. That’s why the Republicans made such a big deal of trans people.

Other personality defects would be having an authoritarian personality, meaning you simply mindlessly obey whoever you see as an authority, like your church leaders. And complete lack of empathy, and extreme selfishness, and narcissism.

With the testimony against Trump from people who claim he raped them when they were children… Let’s just say that if Trump was a Catholic priest, they’d have already moved him to a different country.

There is exactly one person’s life that Trump cares about, and that says everything that needs to be said about this topic.

The article said:

Still no mention of the lives lost, not to mention what might have been done to avert the tragedy or what might be done to prevent any similar future catastrophes.

I’m trying to remember whether Trump has ever said anything that shows personal regret or a desire for improvement. All I can remember are the few times where he was asked a question along those lines and was completely unable to answer the question.

The article was from four days ago, if anyone is wondering why she’s speaking out against a bill that has already passed Congress.

During childhood development, we only get one chance to make sure their brains get proper nutrition.

If you create more hungry children now, it’s something that you cannot fix in the future. The children you harm with this will live diminished lives, assuming they survive.

Improving nutrition for children is one of the best selling points for social programs.

On the other hand, Trump plead ignorance, and I would never bet against his ignorance.

And, if he did know the slur, I’d be surprised that we haven’t heard it until now. As you know, he’s not shy about saying them.

It’s possible that one of his antisemitic speech writers wrote the line for him.

The founding fathers can’t really be spoken about as if they’re one person. They disagreed with each other just like you’d expect. Some were probably more naive than others.

At least some of the founding fathers did understand political parties and that they would form. Some of them were against political parties, yes, especially George Washington, but the first American political parties were established during Washington’s tenure as president. Everybody knew it would happen, but many of them tried their best to stop political party formation. That’s why Washington talked about it in his farewell address that I mentioned.

The idea that the founding fathers believed a new constitution would come within a lifetime is just a misconception as far as I can tell. One founding father, Thomas Jefferson wrote about how a constitution lasts 19 years, and would only last longer due to force. But I don’t think any of the founding fathers, even Jefferson, really believed we’d have a new constitution within that time. In fact, when that time limit expired, Jefferson himself was the sitting president. Did he really think he was only president due to his use of force at that time? I suspect not.

And it took over 5 years for all of the states to ratify the constitution that they came up with. I think a person experiencing this would feel in their bones that Constitutions were expected to last a long time.

If you read Washington’s Farewell Address, the section where he warns about the dangers of party politics sounds to a modern ear like he is talking specifically about Trump.

Did he and his founding father co-authors have uncanny foresight? The truth is simpler than that. They lived their lives up to that point under oppressive authoritarian rulers.

They were describing the evils they knew from experience. The reason it sounds like Trump to us is that he’s the evil we know from experience.

God I hope so.

It’s an old grift. If you don’t want to actually do something, but you still want credit for doing it, then just say that you’re doing it. Many people will be tricked.

It’s the same reason the Nazis called themselves “socialists” despite never supporting socialism.

Great point. Trump has never once showed a hint of empathy and only sees things from his own perspective.

Whether he’s talking about sexually assaulting women or using the military to assault another country, it’s all very similar to him.

Trump’s many obvious deficiencies make him one of the least qualified people to negotiate peace with other countries.

Why hasn’t he retired at 79? Has he been failed by America’s shitty social support? Or maybe is he just one of those people who is obsessed with power?

It’s unconstitutional, but I don’t think simply holding office when you’re forbidden is a crime. Maybe lying in your oath of office is a crime?

Heraclitus said that no man ever steps in the same river twice.

Every wealthy donor who doesn’t want the government packed full of fascists should be pushing their representatives for significant and meaningful campaign finance reform.

It’s too bad that they’d be giving up some of their influence, but at this point, everyone should be able to see that it’s becoming a matter of physical safety.

“Entire Trump team hated Elon Musk”…

If you’ll recall, after Trump’s first term, it was revealed that the entire Trump team hated Donald Trump.

Basically, any marginally competent person will hate working with people like Trump or Musk who make drastic changes without any reason or even any idea of what they’re doing.

If all of these Republicans, including members of congress like Rand Paul, are complaining, where are their actual teeth?

If they have even the tiniest bit of integrity left, they should be saying, “If he accepts this plane, which would be a huge crime, I will personally do everything in my power to ensure that he is impeached and removed from office.”