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CTyankee

(63,926 posts)
Tue Jan 23, 2018, 12:50 PM Jan 2018

I am nauseated by the Stormy account...

I wish I could unsee it.

This whole story is so awful on what this country has become after we had the loveliness of the Obamas. Reminds me of the old song "You don't know what you've got till it's gone. They paved paradise and put up a parking lot."

The way I am feeling post bronchitis on a rainy day and trying to get more energy to do some errands...

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I am nauseated by the Stormy account... (Original Post) CTyankee Jan 2018 OP
Please! Who hasn't had their lawyer set up a LLC to pay hush money to a porn star? Botany Jan 2018 #1
Those were puny compared to what we've got now. CTyankee Jan 2018 #3
and it wasn't a 1-off.... getagrip_already Jan 2018 #22
I wonder if Stormy feels ... Whiskeytide Jan 2018 #31
The fall has been spectacular so far & this is just the first act. CrispyQ Jan 2018 #2
I try to get myself up and say "eyes on the prize" but it's a nauseating process meanwhile. CTyankee Jan 2018 #4
I agree with you completely. Why doesn't this seem to bother the evangelicals???? Vinca Jan 2018 #5
There's prolly too much at stake moneywise so they turn their heads away. I'll bet many CTyankee Jan 2018 #7
The evangelicals have decided he has "repented" and is "forgiven". Mariana Jan 2018 #10
I fail to see even a tiny amount of contrition, BobTheSubgenius Jan 2018 #33
Nope, they have literally given Drumpf a "Mulligan" minidriver Jan 2018 #35
They do that with everyone whose policies they like. Mariana Jan 2018 #37
Franklin Graham said nothing about repentence. He said that Ilsa Jan 2018 #42
Didn't they admit that they didn't care what Trump has done NewJeffCT Jan 2018 #12
Evangelicals: If you've got goodies for them, then you can be forgiven for your "mistakes." Eyeball_Kid Jan 2018 #29
Evangelicals IDOLIZE their *Imperfect Vessel whos doing Gods work in fulfilling Biblical prophecy* VOX Jan 2018 #34
because the Republican White Evangelical Base are actually White Supremacists JI7 Jan 2018 #41
America needs to face its demons. IluvPitties Jan 2018 #6
Dear CTyankee............... MyOwnPeace Jan 2018 #8
Oh, I know what you mean! CTyankee Jan 2018 #11
Feel better! MFM008 Jan 2018 #9
Is your objection that Trump had an affair (not surprising)... brooklynite Jan 2018 #13
I don't much like the idea of a President who has an affair with a porn star, yes. CTyankee Jan 2018 #15
Don't Forget itcfish Jan 2018 #27
yuk who wants those bdamomma Jan 2018 #30
People voted for that. The world knows what Trump is all about. IluvPitties Jan 2018 #17
Without a condom with a porn star is relevant to Drumpf's judgment. n/t rzemanfl Jan 2018 #28
LOL, WTF Skittles Jan 2018 #38
Well, I'm just amazed that his Willie can still whoop! Frustratedlady Jan 2018 #14
I think this was awhile back. Before he even ran for President... CTyankee Jan 2018 #16
But aren't they saying he has a current one? Frustratedlady Jan 2018 #19
Well, yes, but I don't want to hear about that either... CTyankee Jan 2018 #21
the wonders of modern pharmaceuticals.... cab67 Jan 2018 #26
What floors me even more is that the Christian right doesn't fucking care! Initech Jan 2018 #18
Yes, sir! MyOwnPeace Jan 2018 #20
on a side note... Javaman Jan 2018 #23
The song is titled "Big Yellow Taxi" and I thought it was just a pro environmentalist song. CTyankee Jan 2018 #24
I was on a jag several years ago about researching old Hollywood and came across that reference. Javaman Jan 2018 #25
People knew Trump lived a playboy lifestyle. Willie Pep Jan 2018 #32
But David has only one sinning with Bathsheba, I think... CTyankee Jan 2018 #36
King David was a war hero who had some good qualities. Dave Starsky Jan 2018 #40
K&R Scurrilous Jan 2018 #39
oh come now mnmoderatedem Jan 2018 #43
Then you must of been vomiting from the Monica account... ksoze Jan 2018 #44
I was angry about that too. But he and Hillary put their marriage back together. CTyankee Jan 2018 #45

Botany

(70,643 posts)
1. Please! Who hasn't had their lawyer set up a LLC to pay hush money to a porn star?
Tue Jan 23, 2018, 01:06 PM
Jan 2018

BTW where are all the republicans who dragged us through the slime of
Whitewater and Monica Lewinsky now?

CTyankee

(63,926 posts)
3. Those were puny compared to what we've got now.
Tue Jan 23, 2018, 01:09 PM
Jan 2018

Clinton should have never do what he did with Monica but Clinton learned and he also did such great things for our country...

getagrip_already

(14,970 posts)
22. and it wasn't a 1-off....
Tue Jan 23, 2018, 03:23 PM
Jan 2018

There is at least one other porn star who had her story buried for a $150k payment by the natl enquirer. There are likely others as well. Some may be dead now however.

And then there are the other potentially ongoing affairs.

Whiskeytide

(4,463 posts)
31. I wonder if Stormy feels ...
Tue Jan 23, 2018, 03:56 PM
Jan 2018

...slighted that she got less than McDougal? I suppose he worked some art of the deal mojo on her for a discount? That’s what his supporters would say.

CTyankee

(63,926 posts)
4. I try to get myself up and say "eyes on the prize" but it's a nauseating process meanwhile.
Tue Jan 23, 2018, 01:12 PM
Jan 2018

Sometimes I wonder "how could this have happened???"

Vinca

(50,328 posts)
5. I agree with you completely. Why doesn't this seem to bother the evangelicals????
Tue Jan 23, 2018, 01:13 PM
Jan 2018

As a demon atheist, I'm horrified that he would do this at all, but to do it around the time his child was born is taking it to a new level. To think he exposed his wife to who knows what from unprotected sex. Why is the GOP okay with this?

CTyankee

(63,926 posts)
7. There's prolly too much at stake moneywise so they turn their heads away. I'll bet many
Tue Jan 23, 2018, 01:17 PM
Jan 2018

of them are just trying hard not to barf....like that paper bag bit that Colbert did after the Stormy account surfaced. Trump is one sick bastard...

Mariana

(14,863 posts)
10. The evangelicals have decided he has "repented" and is "forgiven".
Tue Jan 23, 2018, 02:00 PM
Jan 2018

That is what they want to believe, so that is what they do believe.

It's nice to see the evangelicals getting exposed, again, as the foul hypocrites that they are. The flock will refuse to see it either in their leaders or in themselves, as usual.

BobTheSubgenius

(11,580 posts)
33. I fail to see even a tiny amount of contrition,
Tue Jan 23, 2018, 04:15 PM
Jan 2018

let alone repentance...but I bet that's exactly what the T****kins believe.

In a way, it's kind of an ecclesiastical milestone - achieving forgiveness for a major transgression, or two, with no mitigating acts between.

Mariana

(14,863 posts)
37. They do that with everyone whose policies they like.
Tue Jan 23, 2018, 06:28 PM
Jan 2018

Newt Gingrich is the most obvious example I can think of. They never had any problem with all his adultery and shitty behavior toward his wives. They don't even mind that he became a Catholic, even though as far as they are concerned, Catholics aren't really Christians.

It is true that Trump has achieved cult leader status. I suspect they'd let it go even if they find out he'd had gay sex. I don't think they would have let Gingrich off the hook for that.

Ilsa

(61,712 posts)
42. Franklin Graham said nothing about repentence. He said that
Wed Jan 24, 2018, 07:25 AM
Jan 2018

DOTUS has not admitted to the claims, so he doesn't believe them, even in the face of hard evidence of hush money.

NewJeffCT

(56,829 posts)
12. Didn't they admit that they didn't care what Trump has done
Tue Jan 23, 2018, 02:11 PM
Jan 2018

because he is going to appoint judges to reverse Roe v Wade.

Eyeball_Kid

(7,440 posts)
29. Evangelicals: If you've got goodies for them, then you can be forgiven for your "mistakes."
Tue Jan 23, 2018, 03:51 PM
Jan 2018

If you've got nothing for them, you're a shunned sinner.

See how easy that is? It's so easy, evangelicals can master it in less than a minute. (others may take longer)

VOX

(22,976 posts)
34. Evangelicals IDOLIZE their *Imperfect Vessel whos doing Gods work in fulfilling Biblical prophecy*
Tue Jan 23, 2018, 04:17 PM
Jan 2018

It’s enough to make one retch non-stop. These cultists will tie themselves into pretzel-knots before dissing their Great White Savior.
http://www1.cbn.com/cbnnews/israel/2017/december/mike-evans-we-rsquo-re-in-the-middle-of-prophecy
CBN News, 12/10/2018
<snip>

[Evangelical leader] Mike Evans compares [Trump] to King Cyrus in the Bible who helped Israel in ancient times. Evans also says we’re in the middle of prophecy.

"I will see President Trump Monday. I will be in the White House on Monday and the first word I'm going to send to him, 'Cyrus, you're Cyrus. Because you've done something historic and prophetic,' and he promised us he would do it," Evans said.

"He (Cyrus) saved the Jewish people. He was used as an instrument of God for deliverance in the Bible and God has used this imperfect vessel, this flawed human being like you or I, this imperfect vessel and he's using him in an incredible, amazing way to fulfill his plans and purposes. We are so happy. We couldn't be happier and as somebody who has wanted and prayed and hoped for this for more than forty years, I see us in the middle of prophecy right now," he said.

"This is the beginning of wonderful things. Finally we have a leader with moral clarity who will do the right thing and the righteous thing. And by the way, he's told us over and over only two forces put me in the Presidency, God and the Evangelicals and I'll never forget that," he continued.

IluvPitties

(3,181 posts)
6. America needs to face its demons.
Tue Jan 23, 2018, 01:14 PM
Jan 2018

Trump embodies our societal and spiritual flaws. Either we come out of this redeemed, or we perish.

MyOwnPeace

(16,955 posts)
8. Dear CTyankee...............
Tue Jan 23, 2018, 01:46 PM
Jan 2018

if you're sick about all of this and having sorrow with the absence of the Obamas, do NOT watch the Letterman interview of President Obama.

It would put you over the edge!

What a great man - truly our loss.

CTyankee

(63,926 posts)
11. Oh, I know what you mean!
Tue Jan 23, 2018, 02:07 PM
Jan 2018

But I might just to fondly recall those days and find out what he's doing now. His daughter Malia was at the Harvard -Yale Game this fall. I didn't see her but the Yale Bowl is big. I also missed seeing Paul McCartney there (his grandson attends Yale). Malia is a freshman at Harvard.

brooklynite

(94,974 posts)
13. Is your objection that Trump had an affair (not surprising)...
Tue Jan 23, 2018, 02:12 PM
Jan 2018

...or that he had it with a porn star (nor relevant).

CTyankee

(63,926 posts)
15. I don't much like the idea of a President who has an affair with a porn star, yes.
Tue Jan 23, 2018, 02:25 PM
Jan 2018

Then she had to go tell everyone what sex with him was like. Gross.

Frustratedlady

(16,254 posts)
14. Well, I'm just amazed that his Willie can still whoop!
Tue Jan 23, 2018, 02:23 PM
Jan 2018

She must be awfully good at her "skill" and have a strong stomach. Just sayin'.

Frustratedlady

(16,254 posts)
19. But aren't they saying he has a current one?
Tue Jan 23, 2018, 02:37 PM
Jan 2018

If it's who they are rumoring it is, I suppose she's a bit more age-appropriate and the whoop is gone.

Initech

(100,145 posts)
18. What floors me even more is that the Christian right doesn't fucking care!
Tue Jan 23, 2018, 02:32 PM
Jan 2018

This is the same bunch who raked Bill Clinton over the rails for an alleged affair. The same bunch who brags that they protect the "sanctity of marriage". Yet Trump had not only an affair, but many affairs and multiple accounts of sexual harassment and assault, and this all but confirms it, and they're like "it's all good". Fucking hypocrites!

CTyankee

(63,926 posts)
24. The song is titled "Big Yellow Taxi" and I thought it was just a pro environmentalist song.
Tue Jan 23, 2018, 03:33 PM
Jan 2018

Thanks for the fun back story!

Javaman

(62,534 posts)
25. I was on a jag several years ago about researching old Hollywood and came across that reference.
Tue Jan 23, 2018, 03:36 PM
Jan 2018

the garden of allah was quite a place.

Willie Pep

(841 posts)
32. People knew Trump lived a playboy lifestyle.
Tue Jan 23, 2018, 04:15 PM
Jan 2018

But they didn't care. I get that a lot of the men actually saw that as a plus since he lived a life they fantasize about. But how so many Christians see Trump as this great hero I will never know. I have seen Christians argue that Trump is similar to King David in that he is morally flawed but still an instrument of God. But if I remember my Bible correctly the history of the Israelite monarchy was not a happy one so I don't see how this argument makes any sense.

CTyankee

(63,926 posts)
36. But David has only one sinning with Bathsheba, I think...
Tue Jan 23, 2018, 04:28 PM
Jan 2018

I don't know the Bible very well. Trump is trash. King David is morally able to see what his mistake was and repent.

Dave Starsky

(5,914 posts)
40. King David was a war hero who had some good qualities.
Wed Jan 24, 2018, 06:55 AM
Jan 2018

Trump is a five-time draft dodger with no redeeming qualities whatsoever.

CTyankee

(63,926 posts)
45. I was angry about that too. But he and Hillary put their marriage back together.
Wed Jan 24, 2018, 12:02 PM
Jan 2018

I remember that Bill was actually impeached (not convicted) over the lie he told. It was a huge embarrassment, IMO.

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