"...Trying for an overthrow...and we caught 'em.....we caught 'em."

[kentuck]

Trump's comments speaking before the NRA yesterday.

What should we read in those comments?

It seems to me that he is ready for another investigation, as soon as he can talk Barr into it. That should not be hard to do.

Also, he has mentioned all the top names in intelligence, and Hillary Clinton, as people he would like to lock up. These are the words of an authoritarian, a dictator. We should take them very seriously.

It is unbelievably shocking that he says these things out loud, in public forums.

And even more shocking that the House and Senate do nothing about it.

These are not comments found in a functioning democracy.

[Karadeniz]

1. Apparently his base doesn't have a clue how democracies work.

[Soph0571]

13. His rich base do - they just don't like democracy... n/t

[Skittles]

16. Trump does not, either

his a dictator wannabe

[newblewtoo]

2. read 'red meat for the base'

This rhetoric fits in with the whole drain the swamp narrative. There is a lot of talk about criminal referrals to Barr from Nunes and others on the net if you search. Regardless of outcome it will be spun to a 2020 win/win, either they win or they claim Pelosi, and others stone walled and obstructed the investigation. The challenge is to prove they didn't, or as LBJ once famously said "I just want to hear them deny it". There is still plenty of time for Comrade Trumpkins to do lots of damage to his perceived enemies.

Trump wants to win at any cost. May heaven help us all. He sure won't.

[shanti]

3. Whatever he says,

just flip it around, and there you will find the truth. He's talking about what HE did.

[EveHammond13]

4. The Coup was 2016 #TheCoupWas2016

[kurtcagle]

5. Had a discussion with a Trump acquaintance

She claims to be a DC press pool photographer (possible, but dubious), and was crowing about all the indictments coming down the road against Hillary and the DNC by Barr, Nunes, etc. in the next couple of months.

Given that she seems about as sharp as wet playdoh, I suspect that she's picking up on the campaign of obfuscation that the RW is trying to drum up to both discredit the Mueller report and attempt to take back the narrative.

Remember that 2020 is an incredibly important year. The census will determine redistribution of Congressional districts and the momentum (that had been moving towards the GOP into 2016) is now moving away from it. They risk losing control of several state governments and quite likely any chance of taking back the House or the Presidency in the next ten years. At this point they don't care about doing what's right, only at winning at any cost.

[Mr.Bill]

12. Nunes isn't a committee chairman anymore.

He has no power to indict anyone. Your friend is full of crap, but you knew that, I'm sure.

[kurtcagle]

17. Yup

Didn't say friend, only Facebook acquaintance. I find her posts useful in getting an idea about the world looks like from Trumpland.

[yaesu]

6. The most dangerous president/dictator we have ever had in this country. A criminal, working with

foreign countries to FUBAR the USA.

[Evolve Dammit]

7. Buckle up. It's about to get really ugly. Wishing for rainblows and unicorns but we have to deal

with a steaming mess. "These are not comments found in a functioning democracy." Right on Kentuck.

[Ford_Prefect]

8. It's a Mitch McConnell world...

Twittler enabled and defended by the genuine prince of darkness. Isn't it stunning just what you can enginer with a few million spent in the right places and pockets?

[spanone]

9. I think this asshole is in total dictator mode.

He will allow NO oversight.

He wil cooperated with NO investigations.

He will order his appointees to IGNORE subpoenas.

He's a fucking dictator.

[malaise]

10. He will learn

the hard way

[dalton99a]

14. He is effectively neutering Congress.

[pdsimdars]

11. If you take into account that they are always projecting, it means THEY are planning a coup

[Doremus]

19. This 1000%

[Harker]

15. He's dropping hints to his "2nd Amendment"

backers.

[kurtcagle]

18. Oh, that could be fun

I always thought that Hitler's use of Brownshirts was instructive. He had hoped to turn them into a formal paramilitary organization, but what he discovered was that most lacked any sense of discipline, coordination or even physical fitness. I believe it was Goering that finally convinced him to disband the Brownshirts and establish the SS instead, a move that Hitler resisted for a while.

I've wondered for a while if that was Trump's reason for working through ICE. They're part of Homeland Security, which puts them outside of the purview of the US Military (and the UCMJ). However, by all indications ICE is struggling to recruit enough able-bodied people, let along highly trained ones, because most people DO have a line they won't cross. Meanwhile, he's burned all the bridges to the military.

Frankly, I'm not sure who he'd have left to be part of the "great uprising".

[Mc Mike]

20. How'd ya catch us? Were the subpoenas the tip off, for you?

[kentuck]

21. :-)__-%

For real!

[Mc Mike]

22. I wish we hadn't been clamoring for all that press coverage of the investigations, now.