| To: i-node who wrote (354600) | 11/11/2025 2:46:25 PM | | From: koan | | | | I guess you didn't notice, while in your cave of ignorance, the blue wave a few days ago.
2026 will be worse because Trump's damage will be more extensive! |
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| To: bustersmith who wrote (354627) | 11/11/2025 3:07:48 PM | | From: koan | | | | This is such an important and profound article I am reposting it-thank you.
| From: bustersmith | 11/11/2025 9:30:35 AM | | 1 Recommendation of 354650 | | | It was also, like everything Trump, unspeakably vulgar.Just one of Trump's daily events that goes quickly by.
There’s been plenty of scathing commentary about the lavish, Great Gatsby-themed Halloween party Donald Trump threw at Mar a Lago — a party complete with sequined, feathered dancers and, yes, a scantily-clad woman in a giant martini glass. The party, held just hours before 42 million Americans were about to lose federal food assistance, as 1.4 million federal workers are going without pay, was grotesque. It was also, like everything Trump, unspeakably vulgar.
But many commenters described the festivities as “tone deaf,” as if Trump didn’t realize how it would look to be holding such a party as tens of millions of Americans are facing severe hardship. C’mon. Of course he realized how it would look. He understood perfectly well that he was partying while ordinary Americans were suffering. And that understanding — combined with the belief that he can get away with it — was a big reason he enjoyed the event.
During Trump’s first term Adam Serwer wrote a justly celebrated article for The Atlantic titled “The cruelty is the point.” He argued that cruelty, and the joy some people take from inflicting cruelty, are what bind Trump’s most loyal supporters to him:
Trump’s only true skill is the con; his only fundamental belief is that the United States is the birthright of straight, white, Christian men, and his only real, authentic pleasure is in cruelty. It is that cruelty, and the delight it brings them, that binds his most ardent supporters to him, in shared scorn for those they hate and fear: immigrants, black voters, feminists, and treasonous white men who empathize with any of those who would steal their birthright. The president’s ability to execute that cruelty through word and deed makes them euphoric. It makes them feel good, it makes them feel proud, it makes them feel happy, it makes them feel united.
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| To: i-node who wrote (354632) | 11/11/2025 3:12:43 PM | | From: koan | | | | You mean your values of cruelty, and dishonesty.
When I see a man like you who has no idea of the importance of kindness, compassion and basic human decency, I see a man who wasted his life!
Kindness is the most important value in the world, and I am betting the universe agrees!
And there is no way you can spin that Trump values kindness, he rules with fear, and has said so!
| To: Mannie who wrote (354629) | 11/11/2025 10:40:36 AM | | From: i-node | 1 Recommendation Read Replies (5) of 354651 | | | | i-diotI would argue that those who continue to support a political party that consistently acts in opposition to American principles are the idiots. |
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