Let’s stop asking Trump for comfort after tragedies

[WillMunny]

This thread doesn't surprise me in the least; IM2 is the most comfort-craving, pity-craving, immature victim-mentality crybaby on this website. The poor, oppressed little dear.

Let me offer IM2 some very good life advice (even though I know he/she won't take it): no amount of pity, comfort and white compensation will EVER make you happy because it's impossible for the feeling of satisfaction and a self-pitying victim mentality to exist in the same person. That's basic human nature 101, horse's ass.

 

[Meister]

Funny thing...I don’t recall much commentary by the MSM about divisiveness, when BO was POTUS.

Because Obama was not divisive.

You probably said that with a straight face. Opie was the biggest divider for a president in my life time.

 

[mudwhistle]

Trump is terrible at sounding comforting, I am sure he is empathetic and cares, he just doesn't deliver it well.

I think the problem is some people have such a rotten attitude about him that if he offered to pay off their mortgage they'd cuss him out.

In a nutshell, Democrats are the PLO and Trump is the State of Israel.

 

[Crepitus]

Our nation is in a sorry state. So sorry that Ronald Reagans daughter wrote this article.

Let’s stop asking Trump for comfort after tragedies

By Patti Davis
October 28 at 9:02 PM

Patti Davis is the author, most recently, of the novel “The Earth Breaks in Colors” and the daughter of Ronald and Nancy Reagan.

When I was writing my book “The Long Goodbye,” a memoir about losing my father to Alzheimer’s, I spoke with veteran reporter Harry Smith about my father’s legacy. Harry was my neighbor when I lived in New York, and I had become friends with him and his family.

“Your father had a shoulder big enough for us to cry on,” he said. “Think about how he comforted this country in the Challenger disaster.”

“We know of your anguish,” my father said in that speech. “We share it.”

Ronald Reagan has not been the only president to offer comfort and solace to a grieving nation. Bill Clinton did after Columbine. George W. Bush did after 9/11. Barack Obama did after Sandy Hook. Each spoke eloquently, with somber compassion and with reverence for the pain of the victims and the shock of a saddened country. Our grief was reflected in their eyes. We didn’t doubt that their hearts were breaking along with ours.

That was then. Now, after a week of fear, with pipe bombs being sent to a list of people whom President Trump has said horrible things about, and to CNN, which he consistently targets, 11 Jewish citizens were slaughtered in their place of worship on the Sabbath. Trump’s response? He joked that he almost canceled an event because, after having to speak to reporters about the shooting in the rain, he was having “a bad hair day.” Yes, I know, he first read what was scripted for him and called the act “evil.” But he has also called Democrats, others who oppose him and the news media evil. The word doesn’t hold much meaning coming from him.

Where does a grieving nation turn for comfort when the man who occupies the White House offers none? Our hearts are hurting. Places of worship are meant to be sanctuaries, not slaughterhouses. America is not supposed to be awash in fear. A friend told me that he doesn’t want to listen to the news anymore. He wants to be ignorant of what’s going on because the stress and the fear are too much to bear. I answered him that we’re all responsible now for tending to one another’s wounds, and if you stay blind to what those wounds are, you can’t help. Ignorance is not an option these days. This is a time for all of us to lead with the courage and compassion that is missing at the highest levels of our government.

In 1999, after Columbine, Clinton spoke about teaching our children “to resolve their conflicts with words, not weapons.”

After 9/11, Bush said, “America was targeted for attack because we’re the brightest beacon for freedom and opportunity in the world. And no one will keep that light from shining.”

In 2012, after Sandy Hook, Obama said, “all across this land of ours, we have wept with you. We’ve pulled our children tight.”

After the Challenger disaster, my father said, “We will never forget them, nor the last time we saw them, this morning, as they prepared for their journey and waved goodbye and ‘slipped the surly bonds of earth’ to ‘touch the face of God.’ ”

After 11 worshippers were gunned down, massacred because they were Jewish, Trump said there should have been an armed guard inside. He said the death penalty should be toughened. And then, later, he made his joke about having a bad hair day and tweeted about a baseball game.

This president will never offer comfort, compassion or empathy to a grieving nation. It’s not in him. When questioned after a tragedy, he will always be glib and inappropriate. So I have a wild suggestion: Let’s stop asking him. His words are only salt in our wounds.

Let’s instead remember that the people in our daily lives are hurting too. Comfort comes in many forms, some of them small moments of kindness. Mother Teresa said, “We know only too well that what we are doing is nothing more than a drop in the ocean. But if the drop were not there, the ocean would be missing something.”

Those words, and the words of past presidents, can guide us, inspire us, strengthen us when we’ve been driven to our knees.

Opinion | Let’s stop asking Trump for comfort after tragedies

What does Trump have to do with any of this???

Apparently Trump lives rent-free in this woman's head.

Don't be stupider than you have to be.

Now.think about what you said and tell me where you were wrong.

Yeah Fuck you.
One of these days Trump will be out of office and you'll need another strawman to beat on.

And I'm sure the media will invent one for you.

Meanwhile, keep being a sheeple. It's the only thing you're good at.

Afraid of a little introspection?

Are you, dumbass??

Nope, I'm a very introspective person.

I love it when one of you conservative kids starts with the name calling and insults. It's a sure sign you know you are on the losing end of the discussion.

 

[busybee01]

Our nation is in a sorry state. So sorry that Ronald Reagans daughter wrote this article.

Let’s stop asking Trump for comfort after tragedies

By Patti Davis
October 28 at 9:02 PM

Patti Davis is the author, most recently, of the novel “The Earth Breaks in Colors” and the daughter of Ronald and Nancy Reagan.

When I was writing my book “The Long Goodbye,” a memoir about losing my father to Alzheimer’s, I spoke with veteran reporter Harry Smith about my father’s legacy. Harry was my neighbor when I lived in New York, and I had become friends with him and his family.

“Your father had a shoulder big enough for us to cry on,” he said. “Think about how he comforted this country in the Challenger disaster.”

“We know of your anguish,” my father said in that speech. “We share it.”

Ronald Reagan has not been the only president to offer comfort and solace to a grieving nation. Bill Clinton did after Columbine. George W. Bush did after 9/11. Barack Obama did after Sandy Hook. Each spoke eloquently, with somber compassion and with reverence for the pain of the victims and the shock of a saddened country. Our grief was reflected in their eyes. We didn’t doubt that their hearts were breaking along with ours.

That was then. Now, after a week of fear, with pipe bombs being sent to a list of people whom President Trump has said horrible things about, and to CNN, which he consistently targets, 11 Jewish citizens were slaughtered in their place of worship on the Sabbath. Trump’s response? He joked that he almost canceled an event because, after having to speak to reporters about the shooting in the rain, he was having “a bad hair day.” Yes, I know, he first read what was scripted for him and called the act “evil.” But he has also called Democrats, others who oppose him and the news media evil. The word doesn’t hold much meaning coming from him.

Where does a grieving nation turn for comfort when the man who occupies the White House offers none? Our hearts are hurting. Places of worship are meant to be sanctuaries, not slaughterhouses. America is not supposed to be awash in fear. A friend told me that he doesn’t want to listen to the news anymore. He wants to be ignorant of what’s going on because the stress and the fear are too much to bear. I answered him that we’re all responsible now for tending to one another’s wounds, and if you stay blind to what those wounds are, you can’t help. Ignorance is not an option these days. This is a time for all of us to lead with the courage and compassion that is missing at the highest levels of our government.

In 1999, after Columbine, Clinton spoke about teaching our children “to resolve their conflicts with words, not weapons.”

After 9/11, Bush said, “America was targeted for attack because we’re the brightest beacon for freedom and opportunity in the world. And no one will keep that light from shining.”

In 2012, after Sandy Hook, Obama said, “all across this land of ours, we have wept with you. We’ve pulled our children tight.”

After the Challenger disaster, my father said, “We will never forget them, nor the last time we saw them, this morning, as they prepared for their journey and waved goodbye and ‘slipped the surly bonds of earth’ to ‘touch the face of God.’ ”

After 11 worshippers were gunned down, massacred because they were Jewish, Trump said there should have been an armed guard inside. He said the death penalty should be toughened. And then, later, he made his joke about having a bad hair day and tweeted about a baseball game.

This president will never offer comfort, compassion or empathy to a grieving nation. It’s not in him. When questioned after a tragedy, he will always be glib and inappropriate. So I have a wild suggestion: Let’s stop asking him. His words are only salt in our wounds.

Let’s instead remember that the people in our daily lives are hurting too. Comfort comes in many forms, some of them small moments of kindness. Mother Teresa said, “We know only too well that what we are doing is nothing more than a drop in the ocean. But if the drop were not there, the ocean would be missing something.”

Those words, and the words of past presidents, can guide us, inspire us, strengthen us when we’ve been driven to our knees.

Opinion | Let’s stop asking Trump for comfort after tragedies

What does Trump have to do with any of this???

Apparently Trump lives rent-free in this woman's head.

Trump's violent vitriol has created this atmosphere in which right wing violence occurs. Trump trash like you repeat the same vitriol. Falsely accusing people who hold Trump accountable are committing treason and coups are creating a atmosphere in which right wing violence occurs.

After 2 years of leftwing violence against Trump supporters you feel that some Seminole Indian sending toy bombs in the mail is rightwinger violence.

There has been plenty of right wing violence. This month, we have had rightwingers beating protestors in New York City and invited by the Republican Party, the pipe bombs and a shooting in Pittsburgh.

 

[Remodeling Maidiac]

Our nation is in a sorry state. So sorry that Ronald Reagans daughter wrote this article.

Let’s stop asking Trump for comfort after tragedies

By Patti Davis
October 28 at 9:02 PM

Patti Davis is the author, most recently, of the novel “The Earth Breaks in Colors” and the daughter of Ronald and Nancy Reagan.

When I was writing my book “The Long Goodbye,” a memoir about losing my father to Alzheimer’s, I spoke with veteran reporter Harry Smith about my father’s legacy. Harry was my neighbor when I lived in New York, and I had become friends with him and his family.

“Your father had a shoulder big enough for us to cry on,” he said. “Think about how he comforted this country in the Challenger disaster.”

“We know of your anguish,” my father said in that speech. “We share it.”

Ronald Reagan has not been the only president to offer comfort and solace to a grieving nation. Bill Clinton did after Columbine. George W. Bush did after 9/11. Barack Obama did after Sandy Hook. Each spoke eloquently, with somber compassion and with reverence for the pain of the victims and the shock of a saddened country. Our grief was reflected in their eyes. We didn’t doubt that their hearts were breaking along with ours.

That was then. Now, after a week of fear, with pipe bombs being sent to a list of people whom President Trump has said horrible things about, and to CNN, which he consistently targets, 11 Jewish citizens were slaughtered in their place of worship on the Sabbath. Trump’s response? He joked that he almost canceled an event because, after having to speak to reporters about the shooting in the rain, he was having “a bad hair day.” Yes, I know, he first read what was scripted for him and called the act “evil.” But he has also called Democrats, others who oppose him and the news media evil. The word doesn’t hold much meaning coming from him.

Where does a grieving nation turn for comfort when the man who occupies the White House offers none? Our hearts are hurting. Places of worship are meant to be sanctuaries, not slaughterhouses. America is not supposed to be awash in fear. A friend told me that he doesn’t want to listen to the news anymore. He wants to be ignorant of what’s going on because the stress and the fear are too much to bear. I answered him that we’re all responsible now for tending to one another’s wounds, and if you stay blind to what those wounds are, you can’t help. Ignorance is not an option these days. This is a time for all of us to lead with the courage and compassion that is missing at the highest levels of our government.

In 1999, after Columbine, Clinton spoke about teaching our children “to resolve their conflicts with words, not weapons.”

After 9/11, Bush said, “America was targeted for attack because we’re the brightest beacon for freedom and opportunity in the world. And no one will keep that light from shining.”

In 2012, after Sandy Hook, Obama said, “all across this land of ours, we have wept with you. We’ve pulled our children tight.”

After the Challenger disaster, my father said, “We will never forget them, nor the last time we saw them, this morning, as they prepared for their journey and waved goodbye and ‘slipped the surly bonds of earth’ to ‘touch the face of God.’ ”

After 11 worshippers were gunned down, massacred because they were Jewish, Trump said there should have been an armed guard inside. He said the death penalty should be toughened. And then, later, he made his joke about having a bad hair day and tweeted about a baseball game.

This president will never offer comfort, compassion or empathy to a grieving nation. It’s not in him. When questioned after a tragedy, he will always be glib and inappropriate. So I have a wild suggestion: Let’s stop asking him. His words are only salt in our wounds.

Let’s instead remember that the people in our daily lives are hurting too. Comfort comes in many forms, some of them small moments of kindness. Mother Teresa said, “We know only too well that what we are doing is nothing more than a drop in the ocean. But if the drop were not there, the ocean would be missing something.”

Those words, and the words of past presidents, can guide us, inspire us, strengthen us when we’ve been driven to our knees.

Opinion | Let’s stop asking Trump for comfort after tragedies

What kind of moron looks to a politician for comfort at ANYTIME?


Absurd

 

[Remodeling Maidiac]

In any situation, trump consistently proves himself a politician who panders to those who like him, not uniter

Like every other president.

Ps. Your OP? You didn't build that...

 

[busybee01]

trump has never been violent or vitriol. so not sure your reference.

This dipshit is just repeating the breathless hate-filled rhetoric spewed by CNN and MSNBC.

You are the one who is full of hate. Fox News is the one who spews hatred as well.

says the man with no evidence.

says you who has no evidence.

why do I need evidence? I didn't accuse anyone of anything. that's all you jack. you're obsessed with hating me and my peers in here. dude you can't type fast enough to make your hate posts. it's ok, we're forgiving people, we accept all into our world. we push no one away.

You are either a liar or a doofus. Trump has encouraged attacks on protestors at his rallies, launched vitriolic attacks on people who stand up to him and refused to condemn alt-right attacks such as in Charlottesville. You know this and yet you lie. Apparently you are one of them. The fact is that Ronald Reagan would abandon this party of hate as well. You certainly do accept all as long as they are alt-right.

 

[busybee01]

The Republican Party is in a sad and disturbing state.

There is a case to be made that the Trump cult has taken over it but the truth is, Trump has tapped into an ugly part of the Republican Party that has been there for a long time

You guys keep saying that. What you guys were the ones that are so angry. You are the guys that are full of hate. You’re the ones threatening people. You guys are the ones you can’t put together rational arguments to discuss values and policies.

And that’s why you were the guys that are losing.

The Trump voter is the one who is filled with hate. That is why he draws support from alt-right people like you.

says the guy promoting hate on his post. how ironic. project much?

Hatred of white supremacists, neo-nazis and other members of the alt-right. They need to be de-powered. You are a member of those groups as well.

 

[busybee01]

Trump is terrible at sounding comforting, I am sure he is empathetic and cares, he just doesn't deliver it well.

The only thing Trump thinks about is himself.

 

[busybee01]

Trump is terrible at sounding comforting, I am sure he is empathetic and cares, he just doesn't deliver it well.

I think the problem is some people have such a rotten attitude about him that if he offered to pay off their mortgage they'd cuss him out.

In a nutshell, Democrats are the PLO and Trump is the State of Israel.

It is Trump who refuses to condemn the alt-right which includes this guy.

 

[Papageorgio]

Trump is terrible at sounding comforting, I am sure he is empathetic and cares, he just doesn't deliver it well.

The only thing Trump thinks about is himself.

And the only thing you think about is yourself, got anything else?

 

[jc456]

This dipshit is just repeating the breathless hate-filled rhetoric spewed by CNN and MSNBC.

You are the one who is full of hate. Fox News is the one who spews hatred as well.

says the man with no evidence.

says you who has no evidence.

why do I need evidence? I didn't accuse anyone of anything. that's all you jack. you're obsessed with hating me and my peers in here. dude you can't type fast enough to make your hate posts. it's ok, we're forgiving people, we accept all into our world. we push no one away.

You are either a liar or a doofus. Trump has encouraged attacks on protestors at his rallies, launched vitriolic attacks on people who stand up to him and refused to condemn alt-right attacks such as in Charlottesville. You know this and yet you lie. Apparently you are one of them. The fact is that Ronald Reagan would abandon this party of hate as well. You certainly do accept all as long as they are alt-right.

he did, what did he say? quote it for frat boi!!! And then I'll tell you why he said it. It wasn't to incite anything and you know it. you play stupid to look like a leftist. I know.