Jeff Stahler for December 23, 2019

It’s always good to have neighbors who acknowledge reality.

I don’t HATE Trump, I am disgusted by everything he says and does and I think that he’s a miserable excuse for a human being, but I don’t “HATE” him. I’ll be happy when he and his ilk are flushed out of the system, even if it takes 30 times.

SOLD!

Be very careful of what you wish for.

Location, location, location.

It’s called enclave selling: tell’em what they wanna hear, get the cash, then disappear

Our neighbors on both sides of us are Trump supporters. We go out of our way to be nice to them and show them what “real” Christian love is supposed to look like. I am sure they think we are “liberal kooks” or perhaps some harsher term. They don’t bring up politics and neither do we.

We must be doing something right. One neighbor put up a fence to keep his dog in, but put a gate in it to open up to our property. The other neighbor has his lawn service maintain the little strip of property that runs along our driveway that borders on his property and won’t take compensation for it.

Coexistence is possible. Trump succeeded in dividing us. By reuniting ourselves we will defeat him.

The current regressive fetish of calling those who oppose the psychopath “haters” is an interesting and clever piece of propaganda. Hate implies there is some deep-seated emotional issue in those opposing the psychopath.

The visceral reaction I have is infinitely closer to disgust coupled with outrage.

I don’t hate anyone, and the psychopath isn’t deserving of such a strong emotion. Pity, yes. But hate is just another misappropriation of the truth.

However, projection is the default emotional state of the psychopath and his cult members. The psychopath clearly hates multiple groups and individuals, so we can see how his cult members project their hatred of those who still believe in American aspirational ethics and morality.

Think about the language I use vs. what they use. They call the opposition “libtards.” I call them “regressive.” One is an insult. The other is descriptive. Regressive is a deliberate word choice of mine to contrast with “progressive.” Going backwards is regressing. Libtard, on the other had is a lazy epithet intended to say that opposition to the psychopath consists of “retarded” people who are “liberal.”

But the way, and yes, I’m tired of writing this over and over. The descriptive term I use "psychopathic malignant narcissist cult leader " is NOT an insult. It is entirely descriptive standard English. If you disagree, just look up the first three words in a medical dictionary. Then look up the last two words in a political science textbook.

But the undereducated won’t do that. They don’t read well, and often have a stunted cerebral cortex with an enlarged amygdala that renders them virtually incapable of discernment. That’s why they are so easily led with lies.

Maybe. But, there’s a “thin Red line”, between that neighborhood and the “Trump Lovers” neighborhood. So, be careful which street you walk down.

Republicans have no redeeming values.

Republicans are traitors to America, and everything it stands for. PERIOD!

This would match up with every neighborhood I looked at in Canada. While I’m sure there are some Trump supporters up there, everyone I encountered couldn’t stand him.

It’s easier to call those who oppose Trump “haters” than to find reasonable counterarguments to their position, especially if you simultaneously are laying claim to “Christian” values.

I’m too old to hate. I don’t like Donald J. Trump, and never have. His business dealings are too close to the line between legal and illegal, his organizations numerous bankruptcies indicate the Trump empire is a house of cards (which probably explains why we can’t see his tax returns), and his conduct as “candidate” Trump gave me a pretty clear picture of what he would be like as a president, and that picture was pretty accurate. But I’ve been labeled a “hater.” But I think that says more about the labeler than the object being labeled.

Stahler tends to lean right in his personal stuff (go see the other Stahler ‘toon: Moderately Confused). And right wingers often conflate “hate” with “dislike”. They’re not about nuance, subtlety or shades of gray.

We told you before turkey Trump was elected that it would end in disaster.

The Weasel isn’t worth the effort to hate him. I’d rather spend the energy working on his removal from office along with his McMafia enablers. It’s going to take a lot of time and energy undoing the harm the Republicans have brought to the country’s citizens.