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发帖数: 897 | 1 It's easy to make fun of the hats.
It's not so easy to contemplate what makes so many people think America's
greatness is in desperate need of reformation, or what would make them turn
to someone like Donald Trump to make it a reality.
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Donald Trump Is America's Enemy
It is time to ask serious questions about where Trump's loyalties lie
America has flaws as deep as its founding, when the men who laid down basic
principles of human rights – principles that have endured 240 years – were
fed and clothed by human beings they owned. That paradox still defines the
fault lines of our nation, and it's along those lines we are drawing the
ugliest election in modern history.
It isn't just economic anxiety or trade deals or the opioid epidemic driving
the mostly white, mostly male movement behind Trump's campaign. It is the
existential fear of displacement from a world that has slowly – too slowly,
for too long – been chipping away at white male supremacy.
The "grab 'em by the pussy" moment was disastrous for Trump's campaign; it
reinforced the defining narrative of his sexism. But it drew his strongest
supporters even closer to him, because it reminded them of the world they're
losing. They want to live in an America where they can grab women by the
pussy and brag about it to their friends. They want to casually use the n-
word – just for the bad ones; they're not racist! – without being set upon
by the PC police. They want what's coming to them, what's owed them.
And they are willing to burn down the world to get it.
Donald Trump is the worst major-party candidate for president in American
history. This is not a close call. By virtually any measure, he is unfit to
lead a Cub Scout troop, let alone the nation with the world's most powerful
military.
It's worth going back and reading the transcripts of his debates with
Hillary Clinton just to remember how he speaks when he's answering questions
off the cuff. It's breathtaking how incapable he is of forming a single
coherent thought. The expectations for him were so low that there was little
to no coverage of his failure over four-and-a-half hours to say anything
intelligent about any issue important to the American people. He meanders,
he interrupts, and he whines. He is uninformed and unprepared.
Trump's values are, in a word, deplorable. He launched his campaign calling
Mexican immigrants rapists, issued a call for a ban on immigration by
Muslims, and said women should be punished for getting an abortion. He lies,
constantly, about everything. He stokes anger and fear and even violence
among his supporters. He nurtures their very worst instincts.
He brags he has the best temperament, but that's nonsense. He's lashed out
and punched down, attacking the parents of a dead soldier, a former beauty
pageant winner who gained weight, countless reporters and anyone he
perceives as insulting him.
It is impossible to predict exactly how deep a disaster Donald Trump's
presidency would be, but there's no limit to the potential for horror. Think
how much we still don't know about Trump – how he hasn't released his
taxes, how many women there likely are who haven't come forward – and you
can imagine the scandals and corruption that lie in wait. Consider how thin
his policy knowledge is and how impulsively he reacts to insults, and
imagine his twitchy little fingers on the nuclear button.
Donald Trump cannot be president of the United States.
And while Trump has a considerable movement of supporters who see him as a
great conquering hero, who believe every word of his lies, no matter how
outlandish and easily disproven, there are many people, even at this late
hour, who are torn about whether they can support him. Maybe they're deeply
conservative Republicans who despise what they believe Clinton would do to
the country. Maybe they're independents who see constant stories about her
emails and have genuine fears about her judgment.
But now is the moment for every last American to decide what it truly means
to be a citizen. You can be reluctant about Hillary Clinton. You don't even
have to vote for her (though I did, without doubt or hesitation).
What you cannot do is vote for Donald Trump and pretend that this is just
another election, and he is just another candidate. It is your minimum duty
as a citizen not to support a racist, sexist, unqualified, dishonest,
corrupt manchild who celebrates everything that's ugly about America and not
a single thing that's great about it.
No matter how left out or left behind you feel, voting for Trump is nothing
short of a moral failure. It's a vicious act against the human beings,
mostly women and people of color, who would suffer miserably under his
presidency.
It's an act of violence against America itself, whose greatness has always
been about progressing from more oppression to less – slowly, sometimes
haltingly, but forward.
The promise on those red hats is to turn back in the other direction. The
greatness they sell is a lie. | B*******t
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发帖数: 13455 | 4 很快就要像gawker一样赔破产了， 还出来得瑟 | u****q
发帖数: 24345 | 5 - They want to live in an America where they can grab women by the pussy and
brag about it to their friends
- They want to casually use the n-word – just for the bad ones; they're not
racist! – without being set upon by the PC police.
- They want what's coming to them, what's owed them. And they are willing to
burn down the world to get it.
果真是basket of deplorables. | B*******t
发帖数: 1623 | 6 From USA Today
Jurors award $3 million to UVA administrator defamed by 'Rolling Stone'
http://usat.ly/2faaNai
Jurors awarded a University of Virginia administrator $3 million Monday in
connection with the now-discredited Rolling Stone magazine story that
claimed the school botched the handling of a purported brutal gang rape a
fraternity house.The administrator had taken the witness stand in a
Charlottesville courtroom earlier Monday to describe how her life was nearly
ruined by the publication of A Rape on Campus.A 10-person jury, after 20
hours of deliberation, on Friday found reporter Sabrina Rubin Erdely, the
magazine and publisher Wenner Media defamed Nicole Eramo with malice. The
jury reconvened Monday to determine how much money to award Eramo, who
sought $7.5 million. | d******y
发帖数: 2787 | 7 看楼主今天过节都不休息，来回顾回顾呗
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【在 p******e 的大作中提到】
: It's easy to make fun of the hats.
: It's not so easy to contemplate what makes so many people think America's
: greatness is in desperate need of reformation, or what would make them turn
: to someone like Donald Trump to make it a reality.
: RELATED
: Donald Trump Is America's Enemy
: It is time to ask serious questions about where Trump's loyalties lie
: America has flaws as deep as its founding, when the men who laid down basic
: principles of human rights – principles that have endured 240 years – were
: fed and clothed by human beings they owned. That paradox still defines the
| t****n
发帖数: 252 | 8 川普会狠狠收拾川迷的，in many ways. |
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