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Botany

(76,686 posts)
Thu Feb 5, 2026, 09:41 AM Yesterday

Trump is a monster who is burning America to the ground* and needs to be stopped.

Last edited Thu Feb 5, 2026, 11:36 AM - Edit history (1)

Trump’s documented actions:

He is an active supporter and asset of Vlad Putin. Putin is a monster and manipulated U.S.
elections, has conducted an organized disinformation campaign using the Republican Party,
large parts of the American Media, and is conducting a cyber war with bots, trolls, and an
organization called Storm 15-16 which used to be called the Internet Research Agency and
this cyber war is not just against America but all Western Democracies and people. Putin
is a monster who owns Trump who is a monster too.

He has raped girls, women, and was part of international child sex trafficking ring that included
Musk, Epstein, Putin, and others. It is reported that he punched a 13 year old girl in the head as
he was raping her mouth. He is a monster.

Trump has torn down @ least 1/3 of the White House and has used the rubble and soil to re-
contour public golf courses in D.C.. Trump is doing the same kind of shit job to the Kennedy
Center of Preforming Arts (Caroline Kennedy and the rest of the family are fighting back)
and he has plans to crap up the National Mall with some kind of arch too. These are National
Treasures and are not his property to fuck with. He is a monster.

2 good Americans were murdered in Minneapolis under the orders of Donald Trump to his ICE
goons. Thousands of more Americans and people have been hurt by ICE too. He is a monster.

He has been trying to rewrite history as per slavery, the civil war, Jim Crow laws, and Robert E.
Lee. DEI is not a problem but if you have a problem with DEI the problem is with you not DEI.
He is a monster.

He doesn’t believe in science. See Robert F Kennedy Jr., he is trying to shut down NOAA’s
basic science driven mission, and is owned by the Fossil Fuel Industries who are killing the
supportive capacities of our environment with the burning of fossil fuels. He is a monster.


* he works for Putin




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Trump is a monster who is burning America to the ground* and needs to be stopped. (Original Post) Botany Yesterday OP
Republican party is scared of him apparently.............. Lovie777 Yesterday #1
Not only are American Christo Fascists part of his support but Racism is a driving force too. Botany Yesterday #3
IN THE NAME OF JESUS czarjak 22 hrs ago #31
I live down here in Texas - they are not scared TBF Yesterday #10
Nope, they're not afraid mountain grammy Yesterday #19
BINGO!! you hit the nail square on the head bluestarone 22 hrs ago #33
You're in Lubbock? czarjak 22 hrs ago #32
I did not say where I am specifically - why would you imply that? TBF 19 hrs ago #35
Why are they lost?? JokeHer 19 hrs ago #38
I had a similar experience peppertree 16 hrs ago #42
They are scared of his highly armed and crazy followers who threaten them and their families. redstatebluegirl Yesterday #16
They are not afraid of him. They are afraid of his Maga cult members! state of stupid 23 hrs ago #28
Z Dixie Mafiya NAZI Confederacy of Perverted and Demented Conmen Kid Berwyn Yesterday #2
Kick liberalla Yesterday #4
Signs and marches don't stop fascists 31st Street Bridge Yesterday #5
I live among Magats gab13by13 Yesterday #6
Just like his grandfather, the pimp. Bohunk68 9 hrs ago #44
He's got a GOON ARMY behind him with full power to shoot to kill. bluestarone Yesterday #7
The GOP is not scared of him... S/V Loner Yesterday #8
An Enemy ZDU Yesterday #9
Many years ago as a little boy in N.W. Pennsylvania (Meadville) our next door neighbor in a middle class.. Botany Yesterday #11
Have all the good Rs died? ZDU Yesterday #15
Seems so. The Party is now Fascist. Joinfortmill Yesterday #23
Died and or switched parties. Republicans used to value education, science, birth control, and kindness. Botany Yesterday #24
I Like Ike! ZDU Yesterday #25
I grew up in Ashtabula County, just over the line from you. Bohunk68 9 hrs ago #46
And I betya where you grew up in Ashtabula County if you did something wrong as a kid your parents or Botany 9 hrs ago #48
In Ashtabula itself, we were taught Bohunk68 4 hrs ago #53
Either Hillary or Kamala called him out to his face for having escorts working his Casinos in Atlantic City Botany 4 hrs ago #54
Good Republicans? dugog55 6 hrs ago #50
Exactly bdamomma 19 hrs ago #39
Trump is Poison. Or Cancer. Or if you happen to be religious -- the devil. Fil1957 Yesterday #12
He's also has a huge bunker being built under his guilded hall. Squaredeal Yesterday #13
He is also responsible for the murders of some 80 - 100 fishermen in the Caribbean MLWR Yesterday #14
He's all that and worse! pandr32 Yesterday #17
yep couldnt agree more oldinmtdem92 Yesterday #18
I said this yesterday - Trump was illegally installed by hostile forces to take America's standing in the world down. Initech Yesterday #20
Trump was illegally installed by hostile forces to take America's standing in the world down. Botany Yesterday #26
Well said. yellow dahlia 23 hrs ago #30
He is even worse than all of the above. 1WorldHope Yesterday #21
Amen. K&R! Joinfortmill Yesterday #22
That's A Start. ColoringFool Yesterday #27
From my perspective it is the oldigarchs and tech bros who are burning America to the ground because they in2herbs 23 hrs ago #29
I am curious as to how many work for Pooty? vapor2 20 hrs ago #34
Of course bdamomma 19 hrs ago #36
Whatever day he dies JokeHer 19 hrs ago #37
Bury bdamomma 19 hrs ago #40
You forgot RFK, Jr. Janbdwl72 6 hrs ago #51
Oh yes, bdamomma 5 hrs ago #52
WTF! So much for the Constitution? OGBuzz 17 hrs ago #41
if this monster breathed fire his cult would praise his cleansing flame. rampartd 12 hrs ago #43
That sounds like... 2naSalit 9 hrs ago #45
Add: He has stopped the vast majority of overseas aid, putting millions of lives at risk muriel_volestrangler 9 hrs ago #47
orange man is the living (unfortunately) symbol and embodiment niyad 7 hrs ago #49

Lovie777

(22,249 posts)
1. Republican party is scared of him apparently..............
Thu Feb 5, 2026, 09:50 AM
Yesterday

Dems trying to go the legal way of ridding him and his comrades, and the RWer judges, justices want what a lot of evangelist want..............

Religious psycho-vile coupled only in their fucked ideology and end times, meanwhile, sucking up all the riches and power at the expense of the destruction of mother earth.

Botany

(76,686 posts)
3. Not only are American Christo Fascists part of his support but Racism is a driving force too.
Thu Feb 5, 2026, 09:59 AM
Yesterday

Btw Christo Fascism is not mutually exclusive to racism too. Most of the time they are one in the
same even though if the biblical Jesus was true he was a black man.

TBF

(35,967 posts)
10. I live down here in Texas - they are not scared
Thu Feb 5, 2026, 11:30 AM
Yesterday

they are just as racist as he is, and they truly are in with the Christian Nationalist movement. We moved here decades ago for a job. I look like one of them, so when I'd meet someone and identified as someone who had just moved in, the first question would be "have you found a church yet?".

mountain grammy

(28,801 posts)
19. Nope, they're not afraid
Thu Feb 5, 2026, 12:22 PM
Yesterday

they have Jesus on their side.. our relatives believe all the bullshit.. they are white Christians and that's who's getting to heaven y'all!

They backed Abbott when he pardoned that man who murdered a protestor.. God's got this dontchaknow!

bluestarone

(21,631 posts)
33. BINGO!! you hit the nail square on the head
Thu Feb 5, 2026, 05:53 PM
22 hrs ago

their faith is the living nightmare of our DEMOCRACY!!

JokeHer

(35 posts)
38. Why are they lost??
Thu Feb 5, 2026, 08:21 PM
19 hrs ago

Have you found a church yet? That’s when I’d tell them I’m Wiccan 😆

peppertree

(23,186 posts)
42. I had a similar experience
Thu Feb 5, 2026, 11:24 PM
16 hrs ago

I lived in Tarrant County for a couple of years - and found that to be the case with approximately two out of three white voters (those whom I got to know well enough to bring up politics with).

They weren't just adoring of Bush (who was President at the time), they seemed to believe he would turn the country into some theocratic police state - and looked forward to it.

Little did they know a lecherous Yankee gangster (who despises Southerners) would go much further towards that goal that even Dubya.

Other than that, lots of good memories. And the sweetest, most caring vet I've ever met (she always called my Basset "handsome" ).

redstatebluegirl

(12,783 posts)
16. They are scared of his highly armed and crazy followers who threaten them and their families.
Thu Feb 5, 2026, 12:08 PM
Yesterday

A high percentage of members of Congress now need protection for their families. They did not need this before Trump rode the escalator into their lives. Not making excuses for these jerks, but the orange one serves like a mafia Don. Nice family you have there, would be a shame if something happened to them, is a threat a lot of people cannot ignore and he knows it. He doesn't do it personally, he just calls them out on his social media platform and his nutty followers take it from there.

Kid Berwyn

(23,631 posts)
2. Z Dixie Mafiya NAZI Confederacy of Perverted and Demented Conmen
Thu Feb 5, 2026, 09:56 AM
Yesterday

Vs.

Democracy.

Those opposed are in the way.

All in favor of Democracy are moving forward with us, Botany!

31st Street Bridge

(132 posts)
5. Signs and marches don't stop fascists
Thu Feb 5, 2026, 10:02 AM
Yesterday

Only real revolution does. Only secession talk does.
The madness is real. The insanity of our situation is real.
Congress doesn't even exist anymore. Neither does a journalistic media.

I doubt we escape this. Not with that ignorant piss bucket Vance lurking in the shadows of the child-rapist-king-felon-grifter.

gab13by13

(31,620 posts)
6. I live among Magats
Thu Feb 5, 2026, 10:18 AM
Yesterday

Calling him a monster is fine with them so I choose to call him a pedophile, a rapist of little girls, that gets their attention.

Bohunk68

(1,447 posts)
44. Just like his grandfather, the pimp.
Fri Feb 6, 2026, 06:05 AM
9 hrs ago

Pimps are known for testing the merchandise before selling. That is what the Epstein papers are all about.

bluestarone

(21,631 posts)
7. He's got a GOON ARMY behind him with full power to shoot to kill.
Thu Feb 5, 2026, 10:22 AM
Yesterday

Courts are not showing any backbone to stop them. That's where America is today. Almost back to the old west where gotta take law into your own hands. It's gonna happen. Fucking southern states want another civil war.

S/V Loner

(9,503 posts)
8. The GOP is not scared of him...
Thu Feb 5, 2026, 10:32 AM
Yesterday

They are the Party of Dictatorship and have no qualms with him doing what he does as long as they are the party in power. To say they are scared only gives them cover for the evil that they are all to willing to use on anyone that disagrees.

Botany

(76,686 posts)
11. Many years ago as a little boy in N.W. Pennsylvania (Meadville) our next door neighbor in a middle class..
Thu Feb 5, 2026, 11:35 AM
Yesterday

Last edited Fri Feb 6, 2026, 09:04 AM - Edit history (1)

… neighborhood was the county D.A. and his brother was Ray Shafer who was the
Governor of PA and the finest man you would ever meet. He was a WW II hero, top of his class @
Allegheny College, Yale Law school.. @ or towards the top of his class … supported civil rights,
the environment, infrastructure, education, dropping laws against marijuana, talking to me when
I was fishing a few times, playing ball with the kids in the neighborhood, eating a meals and visiting
with the neighbors, and just being part of the neighborhood. Nobody would have thought of bothering
him because he was one of us. Btw most of the men in the neighborhood were WW II or Korean War
vets. And he was a Republican too. He was a Republican too.

Botany

(76,686 posts)
24. Died and or switched parties. Republicans used to value education, science, birth control, and kindness.
Thu Feb 5, 2026, 01:18 PM
Yesterday

I can’t begin to tell you what a good man Ray Shafer was and he would have no home in
the Republican Party today nor would Mark Hatfield, Evert Dirksen, Earl Warrren, Dwight D.,
or Margaret Chase Smith, or the millions of solid Americans who helped @ the polls, ran
businesses, were members of the League of Women Voters, or supported a woman’s right
to chose would have no home in the Republican Party today. Is there any question what side
President Eisenhower would be on in the Russia vs Ukraine war today?



Bohunk68

(1,447 posts)
46. I grew up in Ashtabula County, just over the line from you.
Fri Feb 6, 2026, 06:15 AM
9 hrs ago

Probably about the same time period. Know of what you speak. People had honor and didn't vote for pimps and child molesters.

Botany

(76,686 posts)
48. And I betya where you grew up in Ashtabula County if you did something wrong as a kid your parents or
Fri Feb 6, 2026, 06:58 AM
9 hrs ago

grandparents or whomever knew about what you did before you got home. Some of the joys of
that area were fishing, snow, big dogs, playing 45 records*, playing ball or kick the can with the kids
in the neighborhood, and a .22 pump action rifle was lots of fun.

And you are right the people there had honor and worked to make the world a better place. Starting
w/ Nixon, Reagan, Limbaugh, and the right wing echo chamber of lies that honor is now long gone.

* Beatles, mo town, beach boys, Simon and Garfunkel, girl groups, and others.

Bohunk68

(1,447 posts)
53. In Ashtabula itself, we were taught
Fri Feb 6, 2026, 11:26 AM
4 hrs ago

Not to trust a liar. My younger brother still lives there and we were cousins with some Tafts. Time now that the people not only elected a pimp once, but again. Let's face it and call it what it is. He has been pimping this whole time and it is known that pimps test the product before marketing. I would bet that it went on in the casinos that went bankrupt as well. Takes after his grandfather, the pimp that Germany wouldn't allow back.

Botany

(76,686 posts)
54. Either Hillary or Kamala called him out to his face for having escorts working his Casinos in Atlantic City
Fri Feb 6, 2026, 11:42 AM
4 hrs ago

during the debates and Trump just had to take it.

His Grandfather ran a brothel in the Yukon during the gold rush era in the Klondike.
It was called the White Horse Inn and Justin Trudeau gave him a big picture of it and
Trump was too stupid to know he was making fun of Trump’s family and Trump acted
all proud about it and Trudeau just sat there a grinned.

dugog55

(371 posts)
50. Good Republicans?
Fri Feb 6, 2026, 09:12 AM
6 hrs ago

There have been a smattering of them in the last 50 years. But, to get back to when the Republican Party actually cared about Americans, not Wall Street or the Military Industrial Complex, you have to go back to the 70's. Then, The R's in Congress voted with the Dems on a Clean Air/Water Act and passed it. Nixon vetoed it, and then Congress overrode the veto, with the help of dozens of Republicans. They must have been left over from Eisenhower's Administration. Once they aged out, the R's have been about nothing but power and money. And like I said, there were a few that had some common sense, but even they voted against the public's good many times. They just weren't morons about it.

Squaredeal

(711 posts)
13. He's also has a huge bunker being built under his guilded hall.
Thu Feb 5, 2026, 11:58 AM
Yesterday

So he can hang on to the presidency when can’t legally remain the President in 2028 by stopping the election and calling out the military to suppress the citizenry when the protest begin. I understand that the plans include a huge area for his personal living quarters.

pandr32

(13,916 posts)
17. He's all that and worse!
Thu Feb 5, 2026, 12:18 PM
Yesterday

We are all beginning to realize that this monster is as depraved as can be, should never be around minors, and needs to be escorted out of our White House for good--preferably to prison.
We need to take it all back.

oldinmtdem92

(123 posts)
18. yep couldnt agree more
Thu Feb 5, 2026, 12:18 PM
Yesterday

the repukes are complicit in the destruction of our country started with ronald reagan saying that the government was the problem ,corrupt assholes have always been the problem ,now they just do it in the open now with no punishment .

Initech

(107,955 posts)
20. I said this yesterday - Trump was illegally installed by hostile forces to take America's standing in the world down.
Thu Feb 5, 2026, 12:22 PM
Yesterday

In fact, I'll copy what I said on Reddit exactly:

"Donald Trump was purposefully elected to bring the United States' standing in the world down. That's why all our institutions are being destroyed. That's why trust in science and medicine is being replaced with quack cures and conspiracy theories. That's why what is left of our media has been reduced to completely pathetic, groveling, ass kissing propaganda. It's why trust in public education has been replaced with corporate run charter schools.

We are essentially a third world country with a billionaire criminal cabal siphoning all of our hard earned money so they can build a psychotic power mad regime aimed at weaponizing the government against its' citizens while the billionaires buy all the buildings, toys, properties and infrastructure they can to use it against us.

Billionaires like Larry Ellison, Jeff Bezos, Rupert Murdoch, Peter Thiel, Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk are not our friends. We need to realize that."

This administration sucks so bad. Ultimate, we will prevail over these bottom feeding psychopaths.

Botany

(76,686 posts)
26. Trump was illegally installed by hostile forces to take America's standing in the world down.
Thu Feb 5, 2026, 02:21 PM
Yesterday

Yup! Epstein, Putin, Musk, Peter Tiel, Trump, and Tulsi are all work for these forces but
you have to thank other forces too but @ the end of the day installing Trump as POTUS
was the goal of the largest criminal international organization in history. P

1WorldHope

(1,907 posts)
21. He is even worse than all of the above.
Thu Feb 5, 2026, 12:32 PM
Yesterday

There are so many evil filthy rich people with very sick fetishes that he has serviced with his and Epstein's sex trafficking and blackmail services. I'm just sick to my stomach.

in2herbs

(4,345 posts)
29. From my perspective it is the oldigarchs and tech bros who are burning America to the ground because they
Thu Feb 5, 2026, 04:35 PM
23 hrs ago

think they have enough money to rebuild and Americans will be desperate enough to be their slaves. Trump, his regime, and the entire R party are just doing the bidding of the oldigarchs and tech bros. IMO we must move the media's compass from F45 doing all of this damage to the oldigarchs and tech bros doing all of this damage. We must also call out the 6 on the USSC.

bdamomma

(69,333 posts)
36. Of course
Thu Feb 5, 2026, 08:16 PM
19 hrs ago

He works for Putin. Putin hates the USA, and he found his puppet.

Get rid of his ass!!!!!!!! They are both thugs, We got to get our country back!!!!!!!!! Keep on fighting, keep up the pressure!!!!!!

bdamomma

(69,333 posts)
40. Bury
Thu Feb 5, 2026, 08:29 PM
19 hrs ago

him in a swamp where he came from and take the rest of them!!!! Bondi, Bannon, Patel, Miller, Homan, Rubio, JD Vance, Hegseth, Gabbard, Noem did I forget anyone else!!!!!!

OGBuzz

(88 posts)
41. WTF! So much for the Constitution?
Thu Feb 5, 2026, 10:23 PM
17 hrs ago

"support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic"

I can't help but think that even in a 3rd world banana republic this bullshit would have been over months ago. But a democratic nation of 340 million is completely helpless.

muriel_volestrangler

(105,820 posts)
47. Add: He has stopped the vast majority of overseas aid, putting millions of lives at risk
Fri Feb 6, 2026, 06:36 AM
9 hrs ago
One year on, the human cost of the USAID cuts has already been staggering. ImpactCounter estimates there have been over 750,000 deaths worldwide as a direct result of the cuts since Trump’s order, including 500,000 children. This amounts to 88 lives lost every hour: each representing a child who did not receive an essential vaccine, a family living in a conflict zone who lost access to food assistance, or a woman unable to access reproductive healthcare.

With millions more people now left without access to essential services like healthcare, education and nutrition, and the closure of programmes that fight the spread of disease, end conflicts and tackle climate change, the longer-term consequences of these cuts are incalculable. Indeed, 31 of MSI Reproductive Choices’ country programmes have reported that USAID cuts having significant impact on their national health system and on access to reproductive healthcare.

https://www.bond.org.uk/news/2026/01/one-year-on-from-trumps-usaid-freeze-the-sector-faces-a-changed-global-aid-landscape/

He is a monster.

niyad

(130,435 posts)
49. orange man is the living (unfortunately) symbol and embodiment
Fri Feb 6, 2026, 08:41 AM
7 hrs ago

of every evil, every horror, every negative thing that exists or has ever existed, in this, or any other, society.

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