Comments by "wily wascal" (@wilywascal2024) on "Former Trump campaign official: Father forgive me, I believed his con" video.

  1. "United we stand, divided we fall." A simple concept, really, that too many Americans seem to have forgotten or abandoned. Our nation is like an airplane; it requires both the left and right wings working together in tandem to operate properly and safely. Only problem is the Reich-wing decided to try flying solo, forcing us all into a nose-dive! Care about the issues, disdain political gamesmanship, while still recognizing politics is an inseparable and necessary element. Have always respected and valued loyal opposition, even if in disagreement with the ideology. Fact is, though, the GOP has abdicated the requisite role of loyal opposition to become a mindless, tribalistic hyper-partisan Republican cult placing political party over truth, reason, decency, and country.
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  2. At a time when America really needed a Franklin Roosevelt, GOP gave us a Hoover that really sucks!
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  3. ~ Bad Vibration / Grave Reverberation ~ So much frustration and aggravation Indignation plus exasperation Immoderation the new sensation Death, devastation, soaring inflation Infestation the explanation Justification for isolation Depopulation due incitation Dispensation of disinformation Nevermind creation, innovation Accommodation, consideration No imagination, variation Just castigation and condemnation Infatuation with degradation Causation of much mortification Sick fascination, no reservation Saud assassination operation Race relation huge conflagration Brutalization, victimization Zero toleration immigration Child separation, stigmatization Retardation dreamer deportation Not consolation—only stagnation Monumentalization curation Ceaseless rotation, dizzy gyration Obfuscation, lie regurgitation Exaggeration, wild speculation Constant conflation and truth negation Instigation scam investigation Evasion of his incarceration Militarization provocation Abomination seeks domination Truncation of secure education Renunciation, big demonstration Still no resignation expectation Thinks due ovation, congratulation Admiration, always adulation Mass desperation with situation Trump’s COVID nation obliteration! What location revitalization? What permutation for our salvation Rejuvenation, and relaxation? Cancellation any coronation Repatriation determination Motivation for illumination Honest communication fixation Cessation media manipulation Magnification of inspiration Amplification of education Cooperation, collaboration Through expiation, edification Restoration results in elation Evaporation of consternation Realization unification Invitation to glorification! Consolidation brings excitation Consummation big celebration With each generation, jubilation! In summation, joyful radiation!!! Termination more elaboration… Now reaching vacation destination!
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  4. Suspect what will be most remarkable to future generations is not the Traitor-‘n-‘Thief, Toxic Trump, so much—although his name will surely be enshrined in infamy for the ages—as it is and will be the Republican so-called leaders and cult that enabled him and supported a racist, misogynist, xenophobic, homophobic, bigoted, narcissistic, sociopathic, moronic, divisive, anti-science, anti-democratic raving lunatic and his corruption, a man compromised by foreign nations, including our principle adversary, through his tremendous debt. Between that, his catastrophic, irresponsible handling of COVID-19, and his incitement of anti-democratic violent Reich-wing groups, Trump has made himself America's #1 most serious national security threat. A decade or two down the road, Trump is likely to be viewed as a tragic Hitleresque figure; a victim of himself, mental illness, and his upbringing, who should have never been put in a position to victimize others, and who should have been removed long before being allowed to victimize so many others.
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  5. The Bankruptcy King, Putin's puppet-pie pawn Traitor-'n-Thief Toxic Trump, has bankrupted American standing globally; bankrupted American national security, bankrupted America morally, ethically, and financially. Something only made possible with corrupt GOP leadership, GOP Congressional members, and other GOP elected officials actively aiding and abetting, fully complicit. Surprised? You really shouldn’t be.
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  6. You know what REALLY pisses me off most? It’s that all these Toxic Trump sycophants and acolytes have to KNOW at some level he is a grave security threat to the U.S. But, they don’t care, play dumb. They would sell out their country and souls for filthy lucre, fleeting fame that quickly turns to infamy, and empty promises. They lie, deny, deceive, divide, denigrate, diminish, and work to destroy our cherished Republic. GOP has gone rogue, doesn’t want to play by the rules in America, anymore. Republicans are all about constant deceit and hypocrisy, rigging elections, and rampant crony corruption. One would hope that his cabinet or the Republican Senate would have done the right thing and removed him. Or, that the Republican SCOTUS would have defended our Constitution, instead of partisan power grabs. In fact, it’s more than hope—those are the minimal basic expectation of our public officials. They failed themselves, and they failed our nation horribly. Because they are weak, and ignorant, and corrupt. Thus, we are forced to suffer another two months of a failed Presidency, a failed Senate, and a failed SCOTUS. While confident Trump would be defeated before the pandemic and ensuing economic collapse, his loss has since become a virtual certainty. So, that isn’t really about hope, either. What does give hope is that the majority of Americans reject Trump. There is hope that the end of Trump will mark the beginning of the end for the Republican cult. There is hope that out of this darkness will come the realization progress is vital to our future, and that reactionary conservatism stagnates and kills. In short, the GOP has become proto-fascist, bound by the ignorant Republican cult they created, and the fear, bigotry and hate they cultivated and nourished for decades. Fortunately, the cult is not the majority, so there is hope yet for America! “The problem at the heart of all this is a Republican cult built up over decades by plutocrats, the GOP, and right-wing media. Those Americans elected this pitiful, puerile President, and have continued to support him no matter what travesty he commits! The creators of the Republican cult have always been weak men, and now find themselves harnessed by those they sought to enslave, subject to the fickle whims of a moronic madman and the mob whose ignorance they relentlessly nourished and cultivated.” Conservatism has always been the endless, futile quest to justify greed, but the coin of the realm in GOP land is fear; it’s what they peddle, it’s what they traffic in, it’s what they carry in their pocket at all times. Then, they turn that fear to hate. And that hate is the poison killing them, America, and all of us. It’s the poison to which the Republican cult has become addicted. Republican cultism is the disease, Toxic Trump is merely the most visible symptom and but one carrier of that disease. It existed before Trump, and it will continue when Trump is gone—unless or until the problem is adequately addressed. COVID-19 is also a disease; but a virus is blameless, unlike those who engage in willful ignorance. America would have confronted and easily conquered COVID-19 disease, had America not already been diseased for so long with Republican tribalistic partisan cultism. Racism, xenophobia, homophobia, misogyny and religious bigotry were central to the formation of the Republican cult, and remain its lifeblood. The only thing been stopping the GOP cult from turning America fascist has been the long-held universal repulsion and rejection of Toxic Trump’s hero, Adolf Hitler, by Americans. Fortunately, the majority of Americans still remember that painful historical lesson many Republicans choose to ignore. There is hope that good will once again triumph over evil; love prevail over hate; common sense outweigh blind faith, mindless tribalism, and silly superstitions.
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  7. Republican cult are sick, pathetic cowards hiding behind guns, the flag and the cross to commit the unspeakable. Bob Woodward talks about the "average American," but ignores how decades of round-the-clock programming through Reich-wing media like Faux News and social media platforms like Facebook have transformed a third of Americans into an ignorant tribalistic partisan mob that eschews facts, reason, science, and even democracy--unless only when or where they can momentarily benefit their purpose in gaining and holding minority power. As a result, there is no more "average American." Now, we have sane Americans...and a mindless proto-fascist Republican cult living in an alternate reality bubble world. Which is why this coming election is a battle for the soul of America--a battle likely to continue afterwards, regardless of the outcomes.
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  8.  @davidgrover5996  ~ Thanks for proving that Russian troll bots know nothing about American history, Doc! #moreRussiasanctions
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  9.  @davidgrover5996  ~ That's the working assumption until Toxic Trump confronts Putin, puts Russia on notice to stop meddling with U.S. sovereignty in our elections, Doc! Then we'll see an end to all these obvious Russian sock puppets like you on social media sites, sowing disinformation, discord, and division to weaken America, kill Americans. #moreRussiasanctions
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  10. The Case Against Donald Trump The president of the United States poses a threat to our collective existence. The choice voters face is spectacularly obvious. OCTOBER 22, 2020 — Jeffrey Goldberg, on behalf of the editors of The Atlantic In 1973, a United States Air Force officer, Major Harold Hering, asked a question that the Air Force did not want asked. Hering, a decorated Vietnam War veteran, was then in training to become a Minuteman-missile crewman. The question he asked one of his instructors was this: “How can I know that an order I receive to launch my missiles came from a sane president?” The writer Ron Rosenbaum would later call this the “forbidden question.” Missile officers are allowed to ask certain sorts of questions—about the various fail-safe systems built to prevent the accidental launching of nuclear weapons, for instance. But the Air Force would not answer Hering’s question, and it moved to discharge him after determining that officers responsible for launching nuclear weapons did not “need to know” the answer. “I have to say I feel I do have a need to know because I am a human being,” Hering said in response. Hering’s question was taboo because the national defense strategy of the United States is built on the unstated assumption that the American people will not allow a lunatic to become president. If that assumption is wrong, then no procedural, legal, or technological mechanisms exist that are able to fully protect the human race from such a lunatic. Hering discovered a catastrophic flaw in U.S. nuclear doctrine, and for this he was driven from the Air Force. In most matters related to the governance and defense of the United States, the president is constrained by competing branches of government and by an intricate web of laws and customs. Only in one crucial area does the president resemble, in the words of the former missile officer and scholar Bruce Blair, an absolute monarch—his control of nuclear weapons. Richard Nixon, who was president when Major Hering asked his question, was reported to have told members of Congress at a White House dinner party, “I could leave this room and in 25 minutes, 70 million people would be dead.” This was an alarming but accurate statement. When contemplating their ballots, Americans should ask which candidate in a presidential contest is better equipped to guide the United States through a national-security crisis without triggering a nuclear exchange, and which candidate is better equipped to interpret—within five or seven minutes—the ambiguous, complicated, and contradictory signals that could suggest an imminent nuclear attack. These are certainly not questions that large numbers of voters asked themselves in 2016, when a transparently unqualified candidate for president won the support of 63 million Americans. At the time, Donald Trump had not yet served in public office, so concerns about his ability to protect the United States from harm were hypothetical, though grounded in his long and terrible record as a human being. As The Atlantic stated in its October 2016 endorsement of his opponent, Hillary Clinton, Trump “traffics in conspiracy theories and racist invective; he is appallingly sexist; he is erratic, secretive, and xenophobic; he expresses admiration for authoritarian rulers, and evinces authoritarian tendencies himself … He is an enemy of fact-based discourse; he is ignorant of, and indifferent to, the Constitution; he appears not to read.” What we have learned since we published that editorial is that we understated our case. Donald Trump is the worst president this country has seen since Andrew Johnson, or perhaps James Buchanan, or perhaps ever. Trump has brought our country low; he has divided our people; he has pitted race against race; he has corrupted our democracy; he has shown contempt for American ideals; he has made cruelty a sacrament; he has provided comfort to propagators of hate; he has abandoned America’s allies; he has aligned himself with dictators; he has encouraged terrorism and mob violence; he has undermined the agencies and departments of government; he has despoiled the environment; he has opposed free speech; he has lied frenetically and evangelized for conspiracism; he has stolen children from their parents; he has made himself an advocate of a hostile foreign power; and he has failed to protect America from a ravaging virus. Trump is not responsible for all of the 220,000 COVID-19-related deaths in America. But through his avarice and ignorance and negligence and titanic incompetence, he has allowed tens of thousands of Americans to suffer and die, many alone, all needlessly. With each passing day, his presidency reaps more death. But let us lay all of this aside for the moment. Let us even lay aside the extraordinary fact that Donald Trump has been credibly accused of rape. Compelling evidence suggests that his countless sins and defects are rooted in mental instability, pathological narcissism, and profound moral and cognitive impairment. Which returns us to the subject of Major Hering. Trump’s opponent, Joe Biden, is in many ways a typically imperfect candidate, but if we judge these men on two questions alone—Who is a more trustworthy steward of America’s nuclear arsenal? Which man poses less of a threat to our collective existence?—the answer is spectacularly obvious. The Atlantic has endorsed only three candidates in its 163-year history: Abraham Lincoln, Lyndon B. Johnson, and Hillary Clinton. The latter two endorsements had more to do with the qualities of Barry Goldwater and Donald Trump than with those of Johnson and Clinton. The same holds true in the case of Joe Biden. Biden is a man of experience, maturity, and obvious humanity, but had the Republican Party put forward a credible candidate for president, we would have felt no compulsion to state a preference. Donald Trump, however, is a clear and continuing danger to the United States, and it does not seem likely that our country would be able to emerge whole from four more years of his misrule. Two men are running for president. One is a terrible man; the other is a decent man. Vote for the decent man. https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2020/10/atlantics-endorsement-against-donald-trump/616815/
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  11. Traitor-'n-Thief Toxic Trump is a compromised Russian asset who puts his own personal interests--legal, financial, and egotistical--ahead of the national interest in both domestic and foreign policy. A clear and present danger to himself and others. U.S. #1 national security threat sits in the Oval. Republicans: Like to play dumb, demonstrating just how really, REALLY dumb they are. Complicity renders them likewise a clear and present danger to themselves, others, the nation. Decades of programming from right-wing media, demagogues, plutocrats, religious grifters, and seedy politicians created a mindless, fascist Republican cult, too hyper-partisan to place national interest over ignorant tribalism. GOP chained themselves to the rabid, ravenous beast of willful ignorance consuming them, which they created, nourished, and exploited.
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