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BigmanPigman

(52,208 posts)
Fri Feb 12, 2021, 07:15 PM Feb 2021

Is This The End of Obsessively Hating Donald Trump?

Is This the End of Obsessively Hating Donald Trump?
Loathing him has been a passion, an addiction, a compulsion. Let impeachment be the last hurrah.

By Keith Olbermann
Feb. 12, 2021

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/12/opinion/trump-impeachment-media.html#click=https://t.co/F858Vxmy93

"I hated Donald Trump when hating Donald Trump wasn’t cool. My credentials date back to Dec. 15, 1983, when CNN sent me to cover a public forum featuring the moguls of four New York sports teams..."

"Would the hate be better addressed and the nation be better served by a long and meticulous public investigation into the attack on the Capitol or even the entire Trump presidency, shaped something like the Watergate hearings, the Army-McCarthy hearings and the 9/11 commission? Or are the wounds too new to be thoroughly reopened? If we’d had television and Ken Burns then, would his “The Civil War” documentary have been a must-watch in 1866? Of course, there is already historical revisionism about Mr. Trump and the Jan. 6 conspirators. Any sense that we might be too quick to relive the nightmare must confront the reality that the proverbial first draft of history often becomes the final version with only minor edits."

"Ultimately, if this latest spasm in the greatest-ever threat to democracy doesn’t ease the hate, it will not be because we who loathe Mr. Trump are exhausted or traumatized or healing. It may be because even if 17 Republican senators were now to shock the world, there’s really nothing they can do to Donald Trump that we would feel would suffice."

"The only thing we actually want to watch is the criminal trials. In which case, the worldwide popcorn shortage might be an extinction-level event."

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Is This The End of Obsessively Hating Donald Trump? (Original Post) BigmanPigman Feb 2021 OP
Conintue to hate or not, we still need to watch what the crazy f**k is doing. Thomas Hurt Feb 2021 #1
I'm with Keith. sop Feb 2021 #2
Yep, a full independent, separate BigmanPigman Feb 2021 #3
in answer to your question llashram Feb 2021 #4
What a sweet irony.... MyOwnPeace Feb 2021 #5
Spot on, as always, KO. niyad Feb 2021 #6

Thomas Hurt

(13,925 posts)
1. Conintue to hate or not, we still need to watch what the crazy f**k is doing.
Fri Feb 12, 2021, 07:17 PM
Feb 2021

It certainly isn't time to dismiss the nut.

sop

(11,081 posts)
2. I'm with Keith.
Fri Feb 12, 2021, 07:26 PM
Feb 2021

I want investigations, into everything. If only for history. Then charges and convictions. We could relish watching this despicable POS being cornered, like the sewer rat he is.

BigmanPigman

(52,208 posts)
3. Yep, a full independent, separate
Fri Feb 12, 2021, 07:28 PM
Feb 2021

non partisan, fully funded investigation is the only way we will see justice.

MyOwnPeace

(17,273 posts)
5. What a sweet irony....
Fri Feb 12, 2021, 08:26 PM
Feb 2021

that a "regional" DA in Georgia might be the one to get the first chance to put him behind bars!

"Find me the votes......."

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