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Not Sure

(735 posts)
Mon Sep 19, 2016, 02:02 PM Sep 2016

If we're going to do this thing, let's go all the way

I'm not a Hillary supporter - never have been - but I will vote for our nominee for one reason: the prospect of a Trump presidency is a real danger to the continued existence of this country as we know it. I have come to terms with the fact that my disdain for the type of Democrat Hillary represents is outweighed by my sense of urgency to stop a deadly snake charmer with no sense of responsibility or morality or even basic loyalty to our country. He must be marginalized and conquered.

What I would like to see is this campaign start playing to win instead of playing to not lose. This campaign is too conservative. It's too grown up. Everybody already knows Hillary is the adult in the room and Donald is the tantrum throwing trust fund brat. There's no sense trying to prove it, especially to the low information voter who's heard Rush and a thousand Limbaugh impersonators shriek about how evil Hillary is for 25 years.

This game isn't being played on the nightly news; it's on Facebook and Twitter. The players aren't serious journalists and commentators in suits, they're jagoffs on keyboards who only consume media that reinforces their existing opinions. It's time to stop acting like the ineffective principal trying to reason with the kids having a food fight in the cafeteria.

This alternate reality we find ourselves in is like the shows on the Disney Channel. At first everything looks familiar and normal. Nothing is too outrageous and someone says something clever once in awhile. But then it hits you: on the Disney Channel, the kids are always smarter and snappier and wiser than the adults, even the bratty rich kids. They teach the lessons at the end of the half hour to the shallow adults. The kids in the shows don't respect the adults because the adults don't deserve their respect.

I for one am tired of Disney Channel news coverage. I want Breaking Bad Walter White condescension and Game of Thrones manipulation and war. I don't want Donald defeated; I want him to quit in shame. I want him and his know-nothing anti-intellectual mob to be destroyed and humiliated in their defeat. "Basket of deplorables?" How about bag of dicks? What about inbred shitkickers? Leeches? Losers? It's truthful and succinct and is the kind of insult that hurts. Nobody hangs their head in shame for being called a scalawag or hooligan. These assclowns need to remember they have nothing to say in civilised political discourse not because they don't deserve it but because, oh yeah! they're uninformed idiots who are busy keeping up with the kardashians instead of the Merkels and Putins and Jinpings.

As for the ringleader of this disaster, you don't dig up dirt on this asshole; he *is* dirt. He does shady shit and he steals from all of us to make himself look successful. The fucked up part is people believe about Hillary what is actually true of Trump. Whether you like her policy positions or not - I don't - it's not up for debate amongst anyone with a brain whether she is a decent, reasonable and qualified person to serve as president. On the other side there is no question the orange dunce is clearly an unhinged self-absorbed asshole who will stop short of destroying nothing or no one when he is embarrassed or insulted, hardly the temperament suited for a president. He's the grifter they say she is. He's Lyin' Donald. He's Crooked Trump.

So let's get dirty and destroy him. Draw him out so he shouts to everyone's astonishment the very truth that will alienate his followers. I'd love nothing more than to see him have a Colonel Jessup moment from A Few Good Men:

"did you order the code red?"

"You're goddamn right I did!"

Finish him.

This is not a game. It's not a campaign. It's not just four years away from another chance. It's not her turn. We are mere months away from our own Reichstag fire if that asshole wins. Figure him out and destroy him.

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If we're going to do this thing, let's go all the way (Original Post) Not Sure Sep 2016 OP
But how? cilla4progress Sep 2016 #1
GOTV - volunteer, make calls, canvass liberal N proud Sep 2016 #2
Can we start calling him an out and out child rapist and advocate of incest? abetterkid Sep 2016 #3

cilla4progress

(24,585 posts)
1. But how?
Mon Sep 19, 2016, 02:08 PM
Sep 2016

Nothing is sticking. There seems to be no turning point. No heinous disclosure that finally does him in. No horrific comment spewing forth from his deranged mouth. The turning point, the final dagger, the nail in the coffin we've been waiting for, for over a year. He has followers. And they will be with us long after 11/8/16. They are TIED in the polls, FFS!

Yes, we can doorbell, donate, and phone bank. The sides are dug in. It's all about GOTV now. And we know how that goes...with shortages of voting machines in inner cities, voter ID, etc.

I will do my part. Bringing Trump down? That's beyond my skill set.

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