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Lint Head

(15,064 posts)
Mon Jan 16, 2017, 04:02 PM Jan 2017

So we are now being told by the MSM that we just need to lay back and take it.

That Trump is just unconventional and we need to ignore his idiosyncratic methods and tweets. Really? Our country, our Constitution is being essentially raped and we need to sit back and let it happen? It's as if the last year and a half never happened. It's MLK Day. I understand that. Love overcomes hate. Peace overcomes violence. But if everything our country is founded on is demeaned or not being taken seriously, what tools do we have to combat this atrocity? Should we love Trump into changing and admitting Russia did destroy Hillary's chances of being elected? Should we love Comey, Kellyanne Conway, Steve Bannon, into changing? If I was some great wise omnipresent being maybe i could understand how this could happen.

I think Trump is just "playing" people. He has done that all of his life. He's lied about his education. His finances. His dealing with mobsters. Ignored questions about his sexual assault. I think rape is the correct word to use when it comes to what this cretin is doing.

As smart as MLK the III is I think he was played when he met with Trump today. It's honorable he met with Trump. But do you think Trump was not lying to him just like he lied his way into office? I don't think so. John Lewis is absolutely correct. Trump is illegitimate. Propaganda and Russian hacking put him into office and destroyed Hillary's chances. How do we peacefully let that stand? I really want to know. The heart of our country is broken and so is mine.

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So we are now being told by the MSM that we just need to lay back and take it. (Original Post) Lint Head Jan 2017 OP
I'm sorry but MLK3 does injustice to his father's memory and cause. CincyDem Jan 2017 #1
Agree,photo op. Wellstone ruled Jan 2017 #2

CincyDem

(6,353 posts)
1. I'm sorry but MLK3 does injustice to his father's memory and cause.
Mon Jan 16, 2017, 04:16 PM
Jan 2017


I'm sure, with no data, he took the meeting on the premise that engagement is the only way forward. I think Trump is proving that premise wrong. Instead, MLK3 is just a photo op so Tumpeters can say "look, he's even got MLK's son on his side...he can't be all bad".

Bullchit.

Trump actually can be all bad.

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