Tuesday, February 28, 2017

5 Signs That You Voted for the Wrong Candidate


  1. "I, alone, can fix it.": You believed him when Mr. Know It All told you that he was an expert in everything, but just after a month in office he insisted that "Nobody knew health care could be so complicated." On top of that, he's assigned Tom Price the responsibility to produce a comprehensive plan in two weeks. Uh.
  2. "The press should be ashamed of themselves.": Six months ago, he loved Wikileaks. Now he's adamant that the press should not use information from illegal, anonymous leaks. If that wasn't bad enough, his own team was caught planting false information to a conservative news outlet to attack a mainstream journalist. Yikes.
  3. "It looked like a million, million and a half people.": When photos and videos showed a half-empty National Mall, he complained about the press' sources and images and suggested that instead, there were up to 1.5M people outside. So angry was he at being humiliated, that he sent out Sean Spicer to lie for him, who then excoriated the press, "That was the largest audience to witness an inauguration, period." Except, at 1.5M, that would have still been 300K people short of Obama's first inauguration. If that weren't embarrassing enough, the next day's Women's March ended up having higher attendance. Oops.
  4. "I heard somewhere that...": When Donald is confronted with proof of a lie, he blames his source (Facebook, Twitter, Breitbart, Washington Times, Town Hall, Fox News and Friends, etc.). Whatta guy, blaming others, eh?
  5. "Believe me...": When he knowingly exaggerates or tells a flat out lie, he has a 'tell', where he either prefaces or otherwise underpins his lie by saying, "Believe me". It's the predictable irony that makes it humorous, naturally.
If he were outspoken but correct, he would still be hated by many, but not dangerous. If he exaggerated without calling others liars for disputing his exaggerations, he would be mocked but not dangerous. What makes him dangerous is his penchant to threaten others when his ego has been dinged. Save for a couple of adults in the White House who know how to handle a childish tantrum, we're always one insult away from going to war.

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