Hi Lawrence, yes he is a sad little boy. Note: One bad behaving child can cause a whole room of people to be disturbed and ruin a good time. I watched Bill Maher on Friday and he had Donnie Deutsch on the show. (I am guilty of having watched the apprentice shows on TV lol) and I remember Donnie used to be on once in a while as one of the folks assigning a task to the teams on the show. Donnie has known DJT for over 20 years and he said "he's a sociopath".
On the show prior (the Friday before) Howard Stern was on. Howard and Bill commented that there was a stretch of a few years now that they didn't speak. They were both glad they are speaking now. Not one of them mentioned DJT during Bill's time with Howard on the show. I couldn't help but feel their temporary division had to do with DJT. Howard was his "friend", and Bill Maher has always disliked DJT (the orange nightmare sued Bill I'm sure you know). So the Orange nightmare not only caused division in the USA but between friends! Can't wait for his reign of terror to be over and done.
I loathe him as a human being, and the things he has done and caused are abhorrent. But in that moment, when his face fell, I felt such pity for him, and such empathy for the child who was obviously raised to be horrible, and never had a real chance for love and compassion. He's here to learn a life lesson, I'm sure, but he also must be here to teach us all a bigger lesson. Maybe the only upside of his horrendous personality and terrible parenting is that Barron was not at the game with him.
So during the testimony of Vindman the Republicans were trying to get the identity of the whistleblower. Very disturbing
Wasserman Schutlz said the Republicans present for the deposition were trying to get Vindman to reveal the identity of the whistleblower.
"What the Republicans are trying to do very clearly in their questioning is try to front door or back door Lt. Col. Vindman into revealing who the whistleblower is, even though in his testimony he says he doesn't he didn't know," she said.
This is what they care more about!
I felt the pity you speak about for about two seconds. Then I stopped looking at his picture and remembered what he has done. I know it was hard for him to hear those boos and "Lock him up" but I would have chanted right along with those people.
I'm someone who believes in prison reform, and I don't like our prison/justice system. I think people should not be locked in jail for long periods of time if they are not dangerous or violent or have not committed a terrible crime. I believe people who make mistakes should give back to their community and be forced to serve the community for a long time instead of locking them up given certain circumstances. I believe what DJT and his cohorts have done though is a terrible crime. He is indirectly and perhaps even directly responsible for immigrant deaths and children/adults being tortured at the border as well as the souls of the Kurdish who perished.
I do understand the reaction you had to the picture but I can't help remember this too.
Well, here's an interesting tidbit.
In a June 5, 2019 article about the new Ukrainian president making his first visit to meet with EU officials noted that:
While in Brussels, Mr Zelensky also met Jared Kushner, son-in-law and senior adviser to US president Donald Trump, as well as Rick Perry, US energy secretary.
https://www.ft.com/content/4c942a46-8791-11e9-a028-86cea8523dc2
So, this would seem to make it highly likely that Jared Kushner was involved with this whole Ukraine mess.
She is using the impeachment playbook that was basically created by the GOP during the Nixon and Clinton impeachment, and she seems to going by the letter. That's got to be driving them insane. Even Draco Malfoy Trey Gowdy approves of the way she proceeding.
I think Trump will resign rather than allow himself to be impeached and there may be a deal to not charge his kids, but there will be lots of assets forfeited that could end up benefiting the US Treasury.
Oh, trust me ... I want him locked up for the rest of his life for his crimes. I want him broke, humiliated, and caught. I want everyone who enabled him and abetted him locked up for their part. I want his children broke and held accountable. His family does not deserve any luxury of pardon or skating away from what they've done. But I still have pity and empathy for them. Who knows what he's done to Ivanka throughout her life, or his wives. I've read stories of the abuse and humiliation he put Don Jr through. And Eric ... well, who knows about Eric. They have all played their part, and they all deserve punishment, though, no doubt. And The Don has earned the wrath of every person he's harmed, physically or otherwise, personally or peripherally, during his lifetime; especially in the past three years, when his cruelty was given an international stage and limitless spending limit.
In my December 28, 2018 meditation I saw March as pivotal and then in a more recent 10/9/19 meditation The pivotal month was April 2020. I feel Trump would be able to handle a house impeachment since Bill Clinton got through one. But the senate process could be harder for him.
I want to say I think you must be a wonderful person to be able to feel an ounce of pity for this monster. I hate him, his family, McConnell, Pompeo, you name it so much it's terrifying. I used to study metaphysics and when you predicted or said bad things about people it was called "malpractice." Well I've become an expert at it. I give you a lot of credit - no milk of human kindness here. And I'm thrilled he was booed - can't happen enough.
Before this lunatic became president, I don't think I'd seriously ever wished anyone ill. Certainly never wished for someone to drop dead. And I also always believed it was just bad juju to wish/say bad things about people, so I didn't do it often, and when I did I felt guilty. Well, the nincompoop has liberated my inner hater. I hate him often and with abandon, and I feel pretty righteous about it. I think it's healthy too. If enough people in this country felt the same way I think we'd be able to harness public opinion to get rid of him. Normal bad people (as opposed to T, who isn't bad, he's monstrous) deserve our compassion, but he is so destructive, so evil, and is causing so much harm, I think it's OK to allow ourselves to feel really strong negative feelings. For me, anything else would feel like I'm lying to myself, and there's enough gaslighting going on right now.
@lynnventura
I know how you feel. I used to be against the death penalty for any reason whatsoever. But now, there is a certain traitor to humanity that could just FRY- and i would bring the marshmallows!
But i hate how it makes me feel that my values have been corrupted. He really does mess up *everything*
well I never cared for Nixon - looking back I see he was just pathetic, a brilliant man without one shred of self esteem who lied himself into a corner and needed BeBe Rebozo to give him a million dollars in a paper bag. Bigot, angry, not a nice man, but in the end just sad. I never used to feel that way. Somehow though I don't think my feelings will mellow about this current cretin in the years to come.
I think we are burrowing down the wrong hole here. I dont wish any suffering onto Trump, or his minions, that isnt necessary in their removal from power. Its not our place to be sentencing/condemning anyone IMO. Leave that one up to the powers that be. I just want whatever it takes to nullify his ability to hurt anyone else going forward. Be it God, spirits, karma, whatever yoy want to call it, Im confident he will get his. Im also confident that he is currently residing in his own personal hell as we speak. There is no need to lower ourselves to vengeance or retribution.
Im not chastising anyone, and I fully understand the want for payback, but its beneath us and we are letting them win when we do it. He is trying to drag everyone down with him, and we cant let that happen. Let whatever happens to him happen. Im sure it wont be fun for him or his cohorts. Focus your energy on the recovery. Thats much more important than the punishment anyway.
I don't think that most of that crowd were actually from DC. A writer I follow was at that game and pointed out--
- The demographic profile of a Nationals World Series game has nothing—absolutely nothing—to do with the demographic profile of Washington DC voters.
- DC is a majority-minority city, with fully 49 percent of the city being African-American. I would guess that the fans in attendance at Game 5 were closer to 2 percent African-American. If that.
- Instead, that crowd was largely well-to-do, college-educated whites, many from the neighboring suburbs of Maryland and Virginia.
While I don't doubt that baseball crowds booing politicians and public figures is commonplace, I think it did upset Trump who expects adulation wherever he goes.