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MIButterfly

(286 posts)
Fri Apr 11, 2025, 02:02 PM Apr 11

When DJT mocked that disabled reporter, I was done with him.

Not that I was ever with him, but that sealed the deal for me. He showed me who and what he really was and I wanted no part of it. I still don't and never will. As Maya Angelou said "When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time."

And when that audience laughed and applauded insteading of booing and walking out, I wanted no part of them, either. They showed me who and what they really were. The whole thing made me ill.

I don’t understand people who lack common decency or compassion or empathy. I always knew there were people like that; I had no idea there were so many. I never imagined that such a creature would be sitting in the White House even once, let alone twice. God help us all.

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Moostache

(10,444 posts)
1. I was done with him way,. way, way earlIer than that....but I am a very hateful person at times..
Fri Apr 11, 2025, 02:09 PM
Apr 11

I hated him in the 1980's when he was just a charlatan huckster bankrupting casinos and calling press as his own press agent, I hated him in the 1990's with that stupid fucking boardgame and constant stream of failed name brands (airlines, magazines, steaks, etc.) I hated him in the 2000's when he was playing dress up tough guy as an alleged billionaire businessman and full time charity thief and scumbag.

Come to think of it now...there has NEVER been a single day that I looked at that colossal sack of shit and thought..."You know, he's not THAT bad..." Cue Whitney's version on this ....

AND I WILL NEVER LOVE YOU!

FDT Today, FDT Tomorrow, FDT Forever!!!!!

Arger68

(718 posts)
2. I hated him clear back in the 80's also.
Fri Apr 11, 2025, 02:11 PM
Apr 11

I always thought he was an idiot - Mr "art of the deal" my azz.

Skittles

(163,413 posts)
9. I despised him the first time I saw him
Fri Apr 11, 2025, 04:58 PM
Apr 11

he just epitomized the look of a arrogant rich fuck

Norbert

(6,991 posts)
3. I was even done with him before...
Fri Apr 11, 2025, 02:13 PM
Apr 11

he was ogling naked and semi-naked teenage girls in the dressing room at his beauty pageant.

Paladin

(30,148 posts)
5. Same here. And look how much worse it is, now.
Fri Apr 11, 2025, 02:20 PM
Apr 11

I can't even keep up with how rapidly this country is going down the toilet. God help us all, indeed.

SWBTATTReg

(25,170 posts)
6. That act of his was a primary reason I was done, totally stick a fork in him done. And the audience too, laughing too,
Fri Apr 11, 2025, 03:15 PM
Apr 11

which is why I'm responding to your words in companionship, is another reason why, that these creeps all seem to find each other, and provide the sort of foul cover that each of them needs in order to sprout their hate. I guarantee you that if they were in front of a normal crowd like us, there wouldn't be any applause, any laughter, any hint of celebration. If anything, booing, yelling for them to get off the stage, etc. would occur (and it would still occur in today's world, notice the republican reps no longer having any voter gatherings/any meetings w/ their voters).

I don't let these thugs make me sick or whatever, I simply store away the awful text, awful comments, etc., and wait for one day, my chance at redemption, to denounce fully these morons. Sure, the news cycle doesn't seem to reflect on a lot of events sometimes, but when you consider how many thousands of things (news tidbits) go through our collective consciousness, from day to day, this is understandable. IMHO, eventually, every piece of news will have its day in the Sun, and people will learn.

And to be open and fair w/ all, I am handicapped, profoundly hard of hearing, so my heart w/ that disabled reporter being made fun of by tRUMP and my anger and hate of djt grew by leaps and bounds. No one deserves this sort of treatment, handicapped, 100% in good shaped, red, white, yellow, gray, or whatever, no human being deserves this sort of treatment, and this monster thought it was okay to do his stupid and childish taunts.

Meowmee

(8,596 posts)
7. He was already doing nazi crap at his nazi rallies before that
Fri Apr 11, 2025, 03:20 PM
Apr 11

As I recall. We knew, he was a psycho criminal for years before that too. When I saw the Nazi rallies, I was alarmed, and could not believe he was being allowed to run. He was already inciting violence.

erronis

(19,011 posts)
10. I had always thought that lack of empathy was rare and sometimes faked.
Fri Apr 11, 2025, 04:59 PM
Apr 11

trump and the magats have shown me that is is far too common and ingrained - perhaps genetically.

I guess we should have learned from history of the mass murders inflicted by people like stalin, hitler, pol pot, pope xxx, etc. I fear that trump/vance may be our own embodiment.

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