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Message: <blockquote data-quote="huntemup" data-source="post: 3064572" data-attributes="member: 35085">Many are speculating that doubling the standard deduction will hurt home sales as the need to itemize for a great many will go out the window. Time will tell on that I suppose.As for the trump effect. I think there are two major parts of it. One is how one man can inspire so much hate and at the same time so much delusion. The hate part I'm guessing you'll see fully culminate November 2018 and 2020.We got trump bc of just how much we hated Hillary. And it seems pretty evident that the trump hate is far stronger and felt by more than the Hillary hate and it's only going to increase.That bounce back in the other direction is going to be painful for a great many who think it's cute to have an obtuse *** who uses school yard bully tactics when faced with adversity or criticism, as a president. Having a mental midget who cant express himself any more eloquently than your average 2nd grader as your leader, isn't really something to be proud of.   Remember, the same thing that'll make you laugh will make you cry.It wont matter what the stock market looks like if this fool cant find a way to at least appear human at times and acknowledge his mistakes or at the very least allow his press secretary to acknowledge when mistakes were clearly made and not double down on lie on top of lie. There's a lot to be said for humility. There's a lot to be said for surrounding yourself with people who actually know what the hell they're doing. You cant simply hire and fire your way to a cabinet full of puppets and yes men while appointing dolts to very important positions in government, all the while denying simple truths and shouting "fake news" at every criticism aimed a you. By his own words and the words of his cronies, Trump has not had a single misstep. He's not gotten a single fact wrong. He hasn't been incorrect about a single thing. Every single time there has been a discrepancy between something he's said and the facts or anytime he's been questioned about something he got wrong, he or those speaking on his behalf have 100% of the time denied that the president got anything wrong. EVERY SINGLE TIME. Regardless of what you think of the man, I would certainly hope you can see that's not possible.  And that sort of ego and lack of awareness should scare the ever loving piss out of you. Watching people you know hate the man overlaugh with him and sing his praises even on the heels of him blasting them to anyone that will listen, should cause you concern.And say what you will, but most of the trumpies out there would have long ago lost their minds had there been even 1/10th of the amount of smoke surrounding a dem and Russia as there has been with this administration. Had Hillary gotten elected and said she refused to believe our own intel folks but couldn't bring herself to say a bad word about putin, you'd all be going nuts. Had Joe Biden hired as a campaign manager a guy who was an agent for the Ukraine who held multiple passports and had money laundering schemes to make al capone blush, you'd all be calling for her impeachment. It wouldn't matter how you could tie it to her if at all - the guilt by association would be enough. Had she brought Chelsea into the white house to advise on key items, and had Rachel Maddow sitting in on the security council, your heads would've exploded. If her son in law was her most trusted advisor and he wasn't able to get a TS clearance, your heads would've exploded. Hell, if she had divorced Bill (that actually would've bought her a few positive points for many) but then married an eastern European who spoke English about as well as Ivan Drago, there would be torches and pitchforks in the streets. The delusional part of the trump effect shows that he's capable of making otherwise rational human beings throw all reason, morals, beliefs, and sense of right and wrong out the window. He's made sheep of millions,  simply by pretending to be one of them - getting a temporary branding with an (R) and saying follow me. He's shown a penchant for insulting anyone who dares disagree with him. He didn't hesitate to bash a once beloved POW who has done more for this country than trumps entire lineage will ever do and did so simply bc he had the audacity to get caught. The most amazing thing is that he suffered no consequence for it. He insulted his way to the white house in a way we've never seen and played to the worst in us while pretending he'd take us somewhere into a nonexistant past.  It's ironic that Hillary, who is most responsible for giving us a Donald trump presidency, was herself so hated by many. The big difference however is that while Hillary was hated, those who supported her, actually believed in her and wanted her as a leader. Given that, it would've made sense to see them championing all things Hillary were she to have won the election. Trump supporters are defending him at every turn even as he wasn't really their guy. They're doing so even as he's the antithesis of who they'd want their daughter to marry or who they'd want their son to grow up to be. He's as far from being one of them as is Harry Reid or Nancy Peolosi.I always marveled at just how it was that Hitler or any other tyrant was capable of getting others on board his hate train. I've long wondered how Jim Jones could get those people to drink the kool aid. I've wondered how people could be so weak-minded that they'd go against their own moral compass and self interest and follow someone blindly who was clearly led by ego and little more. It's always boggled my mind that people would willingly become sheep. It still boggles my mind but actually witnessing it is more disturbing than I would've imagined. No, he's not hitler. He's not Jim Jones. He's not even the hail bop comet guy. To the best of my knowledge he hasn't killed anyone. But he's got a great many people carrying his water and they're doing so even as it makes them hypocrites to the person they used to be.</blockquote>

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