:bism: (In the Name of God, the Most Beneficent, the Most Merciful)
I am just amazed with some Americans' mentality.
We have a shouty man as a presidential nominee that in accordance with his own words has engaged in "locker room talk" which comprised of a boast specific to sexually assaulting women, and there are Americans from all walks of life that are defending him and defending him as if it will be an existential crisis if he's not elected and as if that simply doesn't matter. Does the presidential nominee not have to have some kind of moral fiber on which the public can count?
And Donald Trump seems to have amassed in his "basket of deplorables" a type of army that is willing to believe anything he says including that the election is "rigged" and support him no matter what. Does a certain type of celebrity worship the figure of Donald Trump presents mean that the public can feel free to live in an alternate reality? And really, do they hate half of the America that is Liberal Left or Independent and supporting Hillary Clinton or do they hate Hillary Clinton herself so much?
I'm trying to understand these people, but I honestly can't begin to "get into" the recesses of mind that thinks things like that boasting about sexual assault doesn't matter, especially as the same group of people like to talk about Bill Clinton's moral deviance when Bill Clinton isn't even running for president.
Politico did a truth-o-meter side-by-side comparison of Hillary Clinton to Donald Trump and it was found that Donald Trump has engaged in presenting or engaging in falsehoods far more than Hillary Clinton. That still doesn't matter apparently because Donald Trump will "build a wall" to keep out Mexicans, get out of NATO, implement a secret plan to take out ISIS which is his brainchild, jail Hillary Clinton as she's a "liar", bring back jobs, not prioritize climate change as it is a "hoax", and ban Muslims and in doing all of this "make America great again." And he will do all of this while continuing to climb the ladder of notoriety in insulting any number of different persons who try to get into his pathway.
I'm just gobsmacked. This is our presidential nominee? *shudders*
I am just amazed with some Americans' mentality.
We have a shouty man as a presidential nominee that in accordance with his own words has engaged in "locker room talk" which comprised of a boast specific to sexually assaulting women, and there are Americans from all walks of life that are defending him and defending him as if it will be an existential crisis if he's not elected and as if that simply doesn't matter. Does the presidential nominee not have to have some kind of moral fiber on which the public can count?
And Donald Trump seems to have amassed in his "basket of deplorables" a type of army that is willing to believe anything he says including that the election is "rigged" and support him no matter what. Does a certain type of celebrity worship the figure of Donald Trump presents mean that the public can feel free to live in an alternate reality? And really, do they hate half of the America that is Liberal Left or Independent and supporting Hillary Clinton or do they hate Hillary Clinton herself so much?
I'm trying to understand these people, but I honestly can't begin to "get into" the recesses of mind that thinks things like that boasting about sexual assault doesn't matter, especially as the same group of people like to talk about Bill Clinton's moral deviance when Bill Clinton isn't even running for president.
Politico did a truth-o-meter side-by-side comparison of Hillary Clinton to Donald Trump and it was found that Donald Trump has engaged in presenting or engaging in falsehoods far more than Hillary Clinton. That still doesn't matter apparently because Donald Trump will "build a wall" to keep out Mexicans, get out of NATO, implement a secret plan to take out ISIS which is his brainchild, jail Hillary Clinton as she's a "liar", bring back jobs, not prioritize climate change as it is a "hoax", and ban Muslims and in doing all of this "make America great again." And he will do all of this while continuing to climb the ladder of notoriety in insulting any number of different persons who try to get into his pathway.
I'm just gobsmacked. This is our presidential nominee? *shudders*
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