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In reply to the discussion: It's rather sickening to watch a former president act like some king or royalty horseshit. [View all]OldBaldy1701E
(5,280 posts)50. Not all of them are paid.
They are brainwashed to feel that money is god and therefore if you have a lot of it (or at least successfully pretend that you do), then you are of god. We as a nation have fallen for this for over 80 years. The Greek Ideal and the Puritan Narrative are two things that have to change before anything improves around here.
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It's rather sickening to watch a former president act like some king or royalty horseshit. [View all]
kentuck
Aug 2023
OP
It is a monumental circumstance and Trump will take every advantage of it he can.
twodogsbarking
Aug 2023
#12
Question: Do all former presidents get a mile-long motorcade with an ambulance?
dalton99a
Aug 2023
#14
Now that he is no longer president, his security detail should be much smaller. Why isn't it?
Lonestarblue
Aug 2023
#19
Ooh! My wife and I watch a lot of those excellent British detective shows on Britbox, and
PatrickforB
Aug 2023
#33
Total agree. I watched part of entourage from jailhouse to airplane and it seems clear
Vinca
Aug 2023
#46