Donald Trump is an IRL Troll- but he won't go away even if we ignore him

I do not even have the words to express how disgusted I am with the racist core of the Birthers, specifically one Donald Trump. The amount of rage and sadness that I am feeling right now has deprived me of any eloquence that I could ever muster on this subject, so I'll let others who are able to beautifully express the complete wrongness of this situation speak for me.

Required reading for the disgusting issue that is Donald Trump and Birtherism:
Goldie Taylor's Powerful Piece- "Why Obama shouldn't have had to 'show his papers'"

The Nation: Confronting Trump's Coded Racism

And everyone should watch this heart-breaking video by Baratunde:

Also, quotes from ontd_political that express how I feel:

"I want this man to run for President. I want him to sink all his money into it, lose in the most humiliating way possible, go bankrupt, and not be able to pay for his hair." - dangerousdame

"Also. This transcripts bullshit is even more infuriating because everyone knows Bush Jr. was a crap student. You don't hear shit from people saying Bush didn't deserve to go to Yale. What you'll hear and see are people saying his daddy paid his way and they'll shrug it off. Because apparently drowning in white privilege is totally cool, guys, but a black man working his way to get to where he is? That's AFFIRMATIVE ACTION, guys. The poor white menz have been ROBBED. Obviously Ivy League schools should only accept students with loaded parents while everyone else gets gruel and community colleges." - thechangingwind

"I really hope people see what's going on, and how it's escalating past the point of ANY form of logic, and look at themselves, question themselves, about why they fell for any of this BS in the first place." - zanzou_chan

"He quite literally can do nothing right at this point. He won't hand out his grades? He's trying to hide something and how could he have gotten into good universities when he was clearly educated in a hut in Kenya or Indonesia or someplace else we don't know about and so what if all evidence clearly demonstrates that he grew up in Hawaii? Lies! His father was African, so clearly he only got accepted to Harvard because of affirmative action and must've had terrible grades. Oh, he's graduated from top universities with an undergraduate and a law degree and went on to teach law at yet another top university? Well, that just shows how elitist and out of touch with the American people he is, not like good 'ol boy George W or down home girl Sarah Palin who don't use those big fancy words or act all ~smarter~ than everyone!" - mooyoo

"We would not be having this conversation if Obama was white. Period. The racist birthers ought to be ashamed, but they won't be. 

This is so fucking embarrassing. We ponce around calling ourselves "the greatest nation in the world," and then in a time of crisis, a sizable minority attacks the president aboutwhether or not he was born in this country. Not about his policies, not about what is and isn't getting done, not about why those things are and aren't getting done, but about his birthplace--something that is verified long before he moves into the White House. And they do it because he's multiracial.

I am ashamed" - hauntermooneyes

and this entire thread.

On the plus side, as a Democrat, this is doing wonders for the Democratic Party as the issue of the next Presidential elections comes up. Trump is soaking up all the publicity on the GOP side and generating massive amounts of disgust from moderates and democrats. If he gets the Republican nomination (unlikely), the most likely result is a massive landslide in favor of the DNC. If not, he's still destabilizing the GOP- crazies against rational Republicans.

This has given me a massive headache. I'm off to bed.