Tulsi Gabbard Calls For Prosecution Of Obama-Era Officials

[putnam6]

I forget sarcasm doesn't translate into text.  

What about "better for my sanity" in the world where people are allowed colorful summations of their own behavior? Self-deprecation, humility, self-honestly, take your pick. 

And take off the battle armor, possibly?  Me first, right? 

And I gotta kinda laugh and call BS when people say Biden and Obama never affected their mental state like Trump affects mine. I feel a byproduct of Trump's personality cult is a shared inability to ever admit fallibility or throw a stone at itself, and that is demonstrated by your comment. 

Because wasn't 2020 to 2024 four solid years of reactive evangelical-based child blood drinking deep state madness? Obama was 8 years a NWO green scam socialist from Kenya. And people were angry about it. 

Like, lest we soon all forget when it was the other party overreacting and getting riled up by their own media at threats of an authoritarian takeover and all things exaggerated. 

Or does everyone get a pass when they believe their reaction is justified by truth?  Because i think my reaction to his administration is justified by truth too. 

And while that's not necessarily you, i honestly dont know, it was par for the altered mental state course from pretty much the moment he lost to when he won again, and is even still persisting to wag the dog a little.

Blanket black and white statements when Trump's support varies by degrees, just like any other candidate. The left lost thier shit when Hillary lost, like a cult. Both sides have thier hyper-attached constituents, probably at close to the same percentages.

As for the Obama years, they were probably the best stretch in my life, behind my teen and young adult life

Not every one of the 2024 Trump voters is one of the "Trump" cult members; plenty of people exist who are skeptical of both sides, yet choose to follow a candidate. 

It's positively a Boomer/X thing, we were more self-reliant or self-centered, whichever makes you feel better

Democrats overall are much more emotionally dependent on thier party, and it's just how the DNC likes it

[RazorV66]

100% I believe the word is stoic and keeping your shit in perspective.

I could bitch about Biden on ATS and then get on with my day and not think about his useless azz. 

My dad was huge on not letting outside influences overtly affect your daily life, EVER.  He thought it was a useless waste of time and stressed that to all of his kids. 

Hell, even people he knew loved and worked with, nobody ever got under his skin, LOL, or if they did, I never knew.

No matter what OMB does in a day, a responsible person still has to do A, B, C, etc, to get through thier day. Why put that anchor around your neck? FTN

Certain people can get under my skin occasionally but for the most part, I am pretty even keeled. 

Liberals are the weakest minded people I've ever seen, screaming and crying 24/7 that Trump is killing them and everyone else when nothing even close is happening like that.

[putnam6]

Certain people can get under my skin occasionally but for the most part, I am pretty even keeled. 

Liberals are the weakest minded people I've ever seen, screaming and crying 24/7 that Trump is killing them and everyone else when nothing even close is happening like that.

It's generational; older people generally have better coping skills 

[Bush Master]

I think you're right for two reasons:

1. The timing of this is pretty obvious of the intent. Trump has been bogged down in the Epstein narrative, and I think this was throwing a bone to some of his base that are on the fence on how they feel about it. This kind of circles the wagons and shows their common opponent again. But in all reality, this doesn't really tell us anything we didn't already know.

2. The Supreme Court ruled that presidential actions can't be illegal, something many of us said will be problematic. While some celebrated it took the guardrails off for Trump, many pointed out that even if you trust him, there will be presidents you don't trust, and now they're immune.

Yeah, no. That's just for official actions, and ones that don't shock the sensibilities. It's well short of sovereign immunity.

Also-  

[Astyanax]

*shrugs*

If he's toast, he's toast.

Get Vance and MAGA 3.0 started!

‘The Trump base doesn’t show up for the brand — it shows up for the man.’

https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/541...ed-to-end/

[DBCowboy]

‘The Trump base doesn’t show up for the brand — it shows up for the man.’

https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/541...ed-to-end/

Once again, the left tries to tell people what and how to think.

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[UltraBudgie]

Once again, the left tries to tell people what and how to think.

it's about framing you see

"the brand" or "the man"

it really doesn't matter which it is

it's either a cult of personality or blind party loyalty

it obviously can't be about any of the underlying issues of course

that would require discernment, and if they had that, they'd be liberal.

[SomeStupidName]

Once again, the left tries to tell people what and how to think.

 

How many times do they have be blindsided by reality, I do enjoy it everytime.

[SomeStupidName]

it's about framing you see

"the brand" or "the man"

it really doesn't matter which it is

it's either a cult of personality or blind party loyalty

it obviously can't be about any of the underlying issues of course

that would require discernment, and if they had that, they'd be liberal.

Lol, it's neither of those. Anyone could have been the Trump hell he's not even a Republican he's Democrat. The Democrats just thought they were above beyond, living at some other tier of civilized existence that was unknown and unavailable to some plep like him.

[DBCowboy]

Lol, it neither of those. Anyone could have been the Trump hell he's not even a Republican he's Democrat. The Democrats just thought they were above beyond living at some other tier civilized existence that was unknown and unavailable to some plep like him.

They invest so much in the person that they can ignore the policy.