PROGRESSIVE DISCUSSION - WEDNESDAY 8/23

Linda, I so agree with your statement from last night about JA's being totally unhinged. How long are Rs going to allow their party to be run by a mad man? I watched only a small portion of his rally last night. That's simply all I could bear, but I bet you that a great many Rs who are out there saying "Oh, just give him a chance . . ." didn't even bother to watch as much of it as I did. They just want to turn a blind eye and pretend his mental illness doesn't exist when CLEARLY it does for all the world to see. He was on a ranting rampage. If this had been the first time, perhaps one could make excuses for him and say "Oh, he's just had a very bad day, etc., etc." The problem is this is not the first time, and it won't be the last time. It is EVERY time the man speaks unless he is reading from a teleprompter a carefully crafted speech by someone else. The man is sick! Truly sick! He needs psychological help before he destroys the entire country. I can't imagine how anyone could have watched that performance last night and not recognize that.

I made myself sit thru JA entire tirade. What a train wreck he has become. He slurred some words. He couldn't even pronounce Franklin Graham's last name . Not once but twice. Don Lemmon said it best after JA speech. If you can find a clip of his thoughts on the Rally, well worth it. I mean this is beyond ridiculous. As James Clapper said, " pretty damned Scary!" ...what bothered me more than his words, which are so predictable anymore, was the crowd sitting behind him & watching their expressions & reactions. OMG, who are these people!!!!!.... I'm so tired of Congress coming out & condeming JA but then doing nothing. One can only talk it to death so long before we are in a real crisis where there is no turning back. It will be interesting who will be the one to finally get JA out of office. Who has the guts to finally say enough already!... UGH.

Too clever by half. As if the rest of us didn't notice he omitted the most egregious parts of the original offending tweet. Watching in real time the attempt to manipulate their thinking and rewriting history was sickening.

I don't think mentally illness is his only problem. I think he's evil. I believe he's an evil man. A human monster. We all know they're out there. People that do unspeakable and unimaginable things to others and enjoy it. The news, movies, books, and tv shows are full of their stories.

There are treatments/cures for illness but only if the sick person believes he is truly ill and seeks help. However, there is no cure for evil. No pill to swallow or treatment given to turn an evil person into a good one. Besides, this evil monster thinks he's the greatest thing on Earth. In his evil mind anybody that questions him or disagrees with him or challenges him or simply asks him to think things through, are evil people out to destroy him.

He's also pathetic. He needs constant stroking, adoration, and praise. His base, those that are either evil themselves, or adamantly refuse to see it in him, or believe God choose him for the job, are happy to cheer him on. Even though he'd throw them under the bus in a NY minute.

As long as Congress convinces themselves with half ass excuses such as he's new to this, he's ill, give him time, he's trying, he's not all bad, cut him some slack, he'll grow into it, he really is a nice guy that wears his heart on his sleeve, they will NEVER acknowledge how evil he truly is. Which, imho, makes them just as evil as he is and all of us could suffer greatly because of this foolish behavior.

The Truth will set you free but first it will make you miserable. We are miserable already.

"Uncle!"

A friend I grew up with who still lives in my hometown is a JA supporter. She's not a sophisticated person by any means, she's never lived anywhere other than that little town we grew up in and never really traveled, but she's a nice person. After her husband died she raised two children by herself, she's one of those people we consider the bedrock of our society. Yet she's a strong JA supporter. I was really saddened to just read a post on FB from her saying how much she supported JA, what a good speech she thought he gave last night, and how she is "proud of him." How can this be? I understand having different political views, even drastically different views from those I hold. I do not understand how anyone can not realize how dangerous this man is, and it really shakes me to my core when that person is someone I know who would be considered a solid, upstanding citizen. That's the scariest thing of all. JA is scary, but his devoted followers are much more so.