Trump makes Bond villains look good by comparison.
“How’s her husband doing by the way?” and saying a “wall around her house” didn’t do a “good job” of protecting her 82-year-old husband from an intruder who fractured his skull with a hammer during a break-in last year—prompting laughter from the crowd.
Hillary didn’t go far enough. Trump and his supporters aren’t just deplorable, they’re vile.
When I described him in 2016 as a “wannabe Lex Luthor comic-book villain”, someone said I was exaggerating. The truth is that at the time I was somewhat exaggerating. That person made a fair assessment of what was an emotionally-charged reaction to the election results.
I dislike how accurate the description ended up being.
Like, who even says this shit for real? And who laughs at it? What even? I can’t understand it at all; and it sort of scares me to know that I might one day randomly encounter someone in power who laughed when he said it.
IMO no Lex Luthor comic book villain would ridicule a handicap man, say “Why do you bring people like that here? No one wants to see that, the wounded” about a badly disable vet, rape a woman, or brag that he can “Grab them by the pussy”, among a hundred other examples. I’ve never seen or met anyone in my entire life who is as disgusting, obscenely cruel a human being as Trump.
This is disrespectful to Lex Luthor. He’s not even half as evil as Trump is.
Deplorable is pretty good. One of the most annoying things was the cretins who didn’t really know what deplorable meant, just they figured out it was meant to be bad, and started calling themselves “proud deplorable!” and so on.
It wasn’t good, no. Using an uncommon word like that made it easier for them to rebrand it than just speaking plainly would have.
Besides, “half of his supporters are a basket of deplorables” is a horribly inelegant sentence and she’d been in politics more than long enough to know that the right wing echochamber would remove the “half of” part from the collective consciousness and inflate their own numbers to make people believe she was talking about half of the population rather than 9%.
I mean it’s accurate. I do agree that her saying that wasn’t a savvy move.
Yeah, we’re agreed on both points then awkward 80s high five
Media in 2018: “we realize we gave trump too much coverage and basically got him elected to office.”
Media in 2023: “ TRUMP GAVE INCENDIARY SPEECH SAYING SOMETHING SHOCKING!! FIND OUT WHAT!!!”
Where are his and his bases so-called Christian morals? Just when you think he won’t sink lower.
These are their morals, though.
It was miraculous. It was almost no trick at all, he saw, to turn vice into virtue and slander into truth, impotence into abstinence, arrogance into humility, plunder into philanthropy, thievery into honor, blasphemy into wisdom, brutality into patriotism, and sadism into justice. Anybody could do it; it required no brains at all. It merely required no character.
Joseph Heller, Catch 22
Trump, referring to his recent indictments, mocked President Joe Biden, saying, “Let’s indict the mother******,”
This might be the first time a running candidate used this language on campaign. The things he normalizes… so many.
To be clear, I say fuck and derivatives so much that I couldn’t possibly count how many in a day. But this is a presidential campaign. He never stops pushing the envelope.
Another thing those Traditional Values conservatives can hold against him… 🙄
