Senator Jeff Flake, Republican (and conservative) from Arizona: “We must never regard as normal the regular and casual undermining of our democratic norms and ideals,” Flake said. “We must never meekly accept the daily sundering of our country — the personal attacks; the threats against principles, freedoms and institutions; the flagrant disregard for truth and decency.”

Trump is "dangerous to our democracy."

“We must stop pretending that the degradation of our politics ...and the conduct of some in our executive branch are normal. They are not normal. Reckless, outrageous and undignified behavior has become excused and countenanced as ‘telling it like it is’ when it is actually just reckless, outrageous and undignified.”

"It is time for our complicity and our accommodation of the unacceptable to end.” “Politics can make us silent when we should speak, and silence can equal complicity.”

Or, and as paraphrased by yours truly: you stupid effing rednecks put a mean-spirited sociopathic mentally unbalanced childish racist misogynistic terrorist loving Putin puppet dictator wanna-be in the White House. Well, you and your communist Russian friends did. Yes comrades, you have accomplished the near impossible - you somehow managed to drag down into the sewer the greatest country ever to exist and in so doing have made me, and yourselves, the biggest joke in history.
The most dangerous terrorist on the planet and you gave him the nuclear codes. What's more, and in a disappointing display of predictably masochistic human behavior, you continue to support this nut-job. Unwilling to let yourselves accept the simple fact, you fucked up.  Even if you DO see the error in your ways, standing by quietly and doing nothing (being complicit) makes you part of the problem.
Excellent work. :)

This is basic human behavior on full display. Pathetic yet evolutionarily necessary herd mentality. Works fine so long as you don't have a dangerous loony tune pulling the strings. A dangerous loony tune who happens to be able to feed off the energy of people's anger, and hate. Trump is a parasite with lucky timing.  The same type of person has showed up many times throughout history. 
Every time, it ends in disaster.  And never, do we learn from the mistakes.  

I am officially dropping the microphone and leaving the building. This is hopeless.

Trump held a press conference on Monday during which he claimed that many past presidents have not made phone calls to the families of military members killed in action.  Whether he was just being astoundingly ignorant or was telling a massive lie, the comments made San Antonio Spurs coach Gregg Popovich—an Air Force veteran—irate. Unsolicited, he call journalist Dave Zirin of The Nations to vent:

This man in the Oval Office is a soulless coward who thinks he can only become large by belittling others. This has of course been a common practice of his, but to do it in this manner—and to lie about how previous Presidents responded to the deaths of soldiers—is as low as it gets. We have a pathological liar in the White House: unfit intellectually, emotionally, and psychologically to hold this office and the whole world knows it, especially those around him every day. The people who work with this President should be ashamed because they know it better than anyone just how unfit he is, and yet they choose to do nothing about it. This is their shame most of all.

Well said, coach.

Prey on the public's anger, confusion.  Use it to fuel your hate filled agenda.
Preach divisiveness, prejudice.  They are different from us they must be evil.
Isolate the country.  Separate from, make enemies of those who were allies.
Attack the judiciary.  How dare they uphold the rule of law.
Silence the media.  Anything bad written about me must be wrong.  


Your president is playing from a previously written script. 
Think Germany in the mid to late 1930s.

Lets everybody slap our heels together hard and push one hand way up.
Heil Donald.

"Rosa Parks was not protesting the bus. Ghandi not protesting the food. Players are not protesting the anthem, stupid. Its about the injustice, instead."

I have seen the quote floating about lately. What I get from it is - it doesn't matter why anyone protests anything. Not these days. The reasons, no matter how seemingly valid, simply don't count like they used to. What Rosa Parks did by not giving up that seat no longer matters. Ghandi, and others starving themselves to make a point, big deal. Certainly some overpaid crybaby ballplayers disrespecting the flag doesn't amount to much. All of the protests and sacrifices and loss this country has endured the past 241 years, becoming less important with each passing day. Unraveling at the hands of a truly unwell dictator wannabe and a pack of gut-less bunnies otherwise known as Congress.
It's coming apart. 

Because we live in the United States of America. The land of intolerance divisiveness and hatred. The USA, where we build walls and set quotas and deny entry based solely on your religion or ethnicity. Whether or not you get in dependent on what you look like or how you pray. United effing states of whatever led by a petulant playground bully trying to make us appear tough instead showing us to be the weak, unstable country he is causing us to become.

The not very united states of anything. Where we flush our country down the drain 140 characters at a time using our Constitution as toilet paper.
A big, really dangerous joke.

I am sad. There is just too much wrong here, too much anger, and hate. More and more I am thinking it may be too late to fix this. That we may be remembered as the people who destroyed the greatest human experiment ever attempted. The greatest country on Earth.

Sorry, Rosa. Turns out in the end your bravery didn't count for shit

Your president is unwell. Unfit for office. He proves it anew nearly every time he opens his mouth. Now publicly threatening to murder millions of innocent civilians, including hundreds of thousands of Americans - while in essentially the same breath pouting about how a particular basketball player is no longer invited to come play with him at the White House. His constant, exhausting use of drama to distract from what actually matters is just that - exhausting.

The United States has become a scary, and increasingly dangerous country. Not because we are strong but because we are weak, due to the inconsistent incoherent schizophrenic character/actions of your president.

Lacking even the slightest hint of dignity, honor, the Putin puppet who with Russian help slipped in on an inconsistency in our electoral process seems bent on destroying all that is good about the USA. Maybe the only thing protecting us at this point is his stupendously high level of political impotence. Regardless, the only apparent winner in this mess is Putin. Vladi must be giggling like a two-year old girl these days.

By making Comrade Trump your president you have ensured Russia is now the leader of the world - while the USA continues its fall off the cliff you pushed it over.

Who woulda thought I ever would be quoting Kobe.........

"A #POTUS whose name alone creates division and anger. Whose words inspire dissension and hatred can't possibly "Make America Great Again"."

"a person who uses unlawful violence and intimidation, especially against civilians, in the pursuit of political aims."

- from Webster's; definition of "terrorist."  

The President of the United States is publicly threatening to unlawfully murder 25 million people, mostly civilians (this not counting the millions more killed or maimed in defensive strikes from North Korea including hundreds of thousands of American citizens unless the whole thing unravels which given the stupidity involved here is entirely possible in which case pretty much everyone is toast) in the pursuit of political aims, in this case in still another failed attempt to hide his utter political impotence.    

Your so-called "president" represents a clear and present danger not just to this country but to humanity at large.  Living in a self-serving fantasy land, he is truly "a person who uses unlawful violence and intimidation especially against civilians, in the pursuit of political aims." 
And what makes this one truly dangerous is that he is also both mentally unbalanced, and not particularly bright.    

That anyone anywhere thinks otherwise flies in the face of intelligence decency dignity morality and just simple effing common sense.  

worth posting again:

"Trump has not been cunning but credulous; not an authoritarian but a pushover.
Ultimately, Trump is failing because he has little knowledge of the world and no guiding star of moral principle. The best of our leaders — think Abraham Lincoln — have been sure about the truth and uncertain about themselves. Trump is the opposite. His mind is uncluttered by creeds. He knows what he wants at any given moment, but it can bear little relation to the moment following. Who really believes that he would be sleepless if the wall were not built or if NAFTA ultimately survived? Who believes he would not be sleepless because of a nasty joke at his expense during a dinner party?
Without deep and thoughtful beliefs, persuasion is impossible. It is public reasoning that allows others to follow a leader’s footsteps in the snow. What has Trump done to rationally and respectfully persuade his critics?
During his campaign, Trump looked down on the weak; now it is revealed HE, is weak." 
*Michael Gerson, WP