This does not end well... and that's not fucking funny

[maxrandb]

Yet, I will admit that reading about the latest Donnie Shit for Brains turd that comes out of his mouth...and the media and DU responses, often elicits anything from a chuckle to a rip roaring laugh.

It's entertaining to see the talking heads on the MSM chuckle and laugh about this shitshow.

But... this shitshow is causing real and possibly irreparable harm to real people and our fragile form of government.

Can any of you picture this fuckstick sitting there listening to the President who beat him in 2020 at the inauguration of his successor? Can you even imagine that?

Do you picture his cult peacefully accepting the outcome of an election?

With a recession looming and the loss of the Asian markets for a generation, can you picture the media placing the blame where it belongs, or will a Democrat once again be expected to clean up the mess... and be blamed when the mess isn't cleared within a month of taking office?

Can you imagine the shitshow that is going to happen on election day 2020? How many threats from assault rifle hoarders would you think it would take to make certain voters stay home?

I suggest that we stop fucking laughing, no matter how funny and stupid this shitshow is.

I can't see in my mind, anyway that this ends well.

That's not funny, that's terrifying.

[Mme. Defarge]

1. If it were only a mere nightmare.

[Gore1FL]

57. At least with nightmares you get the benefits of sleep. nt

[0rganism]

2. yep, it's not funny, not at all

as Agent Orange alienates us from the international community, he directs the unfocused ire of well-armed white nationalists toward specific ethnic groups by calling them disloyal.

win or lose in 2020, we are in deep trouble. this nation already had suffered damage that would take generations to repair, now the damage may well be irreparable.

[Seedersandleechers]

3. I'm not laughing.

On a daily basis I'm experiencing tremendous anxiety and it keeps getting worse. Sometimes I break down and cry.

[PinkTiger]

17. Me too.

The whole thing (Trump) makes me ill, and I'm starting to feel we live in a dystopian parallel universe. Or something.

[Wawannabe]

23. Yes

I get close but shut it down.
Not sure how much more I can take.

[lunasun]

4. Not funny is all the extreme conservative judges put in place by WH/senate they don't go away in2020

[Initech]

36. No and the Christian right is only going to keep making things worse.

[lapfog_1]

5. If Trump contests the election... no matter how lopsided the loss for him

I worry that more than a few maggots will start a shooting war.

For example I have family in AZ... and during the Obama years whenever I visited my car was often vandalized... keyed, punctured tires, etc.

in 2021 I won't be visiting AZ in my CA plated car with my one and only Democratic bumper sticker.

[Sugar Smack]

6. That's why I can't listen to NPR any more. They're so fucking jaunty.

That sort of delivery belonged in the 20th century.

[Ponietz]

8. It isn't chicken salad

[dem4decades]

7. Sometimes i wonder if this was just a test from a higher entity.

Just to see how low we would go.

Like rats in a lab destroying our social system and then destroying our own ecosystem.

[Wellstone ruled]

9. We will win out in the end.

And again it will be the Dems that will right the Ship of State once again.

Only this time,are our Party Leaders going to put laws in place to prevent this from happening again. Our are we going to see the likes of a Congressional Majority in both Houses short changed because someone does not want to piss off the other side in the Senate.

Bothsider bull shit is not going to cut it anymore,the Public will not accept it.

[Mrs. Overall]

10. You are correct. None of this is funny.

[marieo1]

11. One scary man - DJT

I agree - DJT is the scariest, most rabid person I've ever heard of in my lifetime. He just doesn't give a damn about anyone but himself - I hope this can all be resolved peacefullly but to tell the truth, I doubt it. DJT won't let it be resolved peacefully - his whole purpose is to cause people to turn against each other and fight anyone that doesn't think or look the same way they do. Unfortunately, apparently there are a lot of similar people on this earth and DJT has got all of them in his pocket!! Scary!!

[Hermit-The-Prog]

15. TrumPutin is a puppet; cut the strings

[The Liberal Lion]

12. I've said it before in a different thread and I'll say it here as well

If somehow we overcome election meddling and outright vote fraud and we are able to install a Democrat in the White House there is no fucking way trump leaves the White house peacefully and furthermore there is no way that at least 30% of the voting population would accept a trump loss peacefully. We, friends, have a very serious situation here and very serious considerations to make. We must vote and not be intimidated, but we also must be ready. The situation is deteriorating rapidly.

[Volaris]

41. His going peacefully, or not, is entirely up to him,

But I'd guess that as far as the Secret Service is concerned, when it's time for him TO GO, it wont much matter which way he chooses.. that crew WILL REMOVE HIM FROM THE PREMISES, and it wont matter how much he wants otherwise.

[stevesinpa]

69. not worried about it leaving teh White House

peacefully or otherwise. the big concern is the armed morons in his cult. they are already using violence, when it loses the election, they will only get worse.

[Javaman]

13. no, it won't.

it's certainly building toward something for sure.

and sadly, many will say, after things collapse or erupt (depending on whose opinion) will say, "we didn't see this coming" but the rest of the thinking population who has virtually zero power to stop this out of control crazy train to hell, will say, "are you fucking kidding me? it couldn't have been more obvious than a neon light in a dark room!".

I think if England finally jumps off the brexit cliff, that will be a little preview of what's to come here. only many many many times worse.

the song "london calling" keeps winding it's way into my head from time to time, then followed up with "holiday in Cambodia".

it's scares the ever loving shit out of me.

[orangecrush]

14. K&R

[BigmanPigman]

16. We know it isn't funny...it is disgusting

and I am physically sick over him and his disastrous admin. I could use a Xanax the size of a football.

[LiberalLovinLug]

18. Humour has become toxicly sardonic

I don't know how Stephen Colbert, Samantha Bee, or any other political comedian can even do it anymore. It must be so tiring to have to create comedy from madness like this. Its not making jokes about those that make fun of the President wearing a tan suit, its trying to make comedy after those same idiots are in power themselves. Its all a kind of black comedy. A comedy that hurts as much as it helps.

And no, I don't see Trump just accepting defeat. If he feels like he has a large minority behind him, I have no doubt he will refuse to attend the new inauguration. And will probably hold some big rally on the same day railing on about a rigged election and encouraging his cult to rise up to "save" America. And that's not even surmising what he, and a Republican Senate, will be doing in the transition period.

[lastlib]

29. With luck, the Senate will become Democratic on Jan. 3rd.......

that may buy us a couple of weeks--but the lame-duck session Nov.-Dec. is indeed scary.

[FirstLight]

19. I stopped laughing a loooong time ago...

Now I'm drinking more, can only handle Rachel in small doses and am avoiding social media too.

Someone upthread said they feel like they are in a dystopian universe...I'm right there too.

And as our govt unravels (and others around the globe are also devolving) the Planet burns and we spiral towards our last decades of life...Cuz the shit is hitting the fan as we speak, there's really no turning back.

You can't put the crazy back in the tube of toothpaste, it's not just Drumpf, but the rabid followers who have been unleashed and now, ARMED.
I keep thinking about how a biographer said the only book trump had by his bedside and that he STUDIED IT was Hitler's...that tells us a LOT.

The cages aren't just for immigrants anymore, and due process has flown out the window.
The elections, well...what would happen for his to call another Executive Emergency and just CANCEL THEM?

I used to think that living in a rural area away from large population centers would lessen the impact of this president...but the cancer is far more terminal than we could have expected.

[IcyPeas]

20. and while everyone is laughing

mcconnell is in the background filling every open judge position with right wing republicans.

[ehrnst]

21. He wants us stressed and at each others's throats. Laughing is one way to demean him.

Are you familiar with the derisive laugh?

[Wawannabe]

22. Can't agree more

I just read a headline on CNN that said this fuck says he is “the chosen one”!
Wtf?
Wtf?
Wtf?
I literally threw my phone!

What. The. Fuck??????????

[OMGWTF]

24. Democrats have been cleaning up Republican messes since 1933. They need to go the way of the Whigs.

[llmart]

25. I agree.

There was plenty of poking fun at him during pre-election season. There were an awful lot of threads on DU about "OMG, look what he said (or did) now." We laughed. We gave him derogatory nicknames, etc. etc. Maybe it made us feel better in the moment. We were fooled into thinking it would help to demean him.

We all know how that worked out.

I don't find anything funny about it any longer. I think we all need to buckle down and do our part to elect Dems up and down the ballot. I think we need to put our money where our mouths are, even if all we can afford is $10 a month to any Dem candidate who needs it. If someone can phone bank or go door to door for a candidate, then do it, even if it's only for a day or two.

[calimary]

26. Seems like a Democrat always has to clean up after a republi-CON mess.

Happened after reagan/bush, and again after bush/cheney. And Jimmy Carter had to at least rehabilitate the integrity of the presidency, after Nixon. Ford could have, but he screwed that up when he pardoned Nixon, thus leaving a wholly different and separate stain on the presidency.

[mountain grammy]

27. I agree with everything you said.

And I’m not laughing.

[Enoki33]

28. Absolutely agree. The mess will be there to be cleaned up. It will likely

be compounded by the need to hold the lunatic accountable. If as a nation we are to discard the shame associated with him that has got be a priority. He has to pay for his crimes in a very public manner.

[Volaris]

42. Then we should insist that either Hillary Clinton, Kamela Harris, or Barrack Obama be named AG.

[Enoki33]

45. I don't think it is impossible for a new administration to hold him accountable.

[woodsprite]

30. I'm with you. I've been worried, and haven't been laughing since

there were actually people on this board that were hoping Trump would win the nomination because he would be so easy to beat.

Picking a presidential candidate for all parties is serious business because the party(ies) that loses the general, or has the position stolen from them, is stuck with the other guy. Better to make sure that all who are running, no matter what party, are decent people.

[Jake Stern]

47. "There were actually people on this board that were hoping Trump would win the nomination

because he would be so easy to beat."

I truly felt that there was no way Trump would win and under normal circumstances he wouldn't have. Honestly, I was more concerned about a "moderate" Republican like Jeb Bush or John Kasich getting the nomination.

Republicans who could cozy up to the center.

Was sure that Hillary had it in the bag and the only thing left for her to do was start interviewing cabinet choices.

I was wrong.

[US4u2]

67. Don't feel so bad...

Who knew what the Russians were doing... in Michigan, Pennsylvania, Florida... etc, etc.

[harumph]

31. Just like in a centrifuge - things aggregate according to weight.

Think of it as a spiritual centrifuge. As Yeats said, the center cannot hold. Put people under
pressure and they show themselves. We're finding out, and it's not pretty.

[Ferrets are Cool]

32. I haven't been laughing about this shit show for a LONG time.

Not that it was ever funny

[elocs]

33. Trump mocks and name calls and we mock and name call him back.

It's like grade school all over again only grade school is nowhere as serious as what's happening and being done to this nation.
But if Trump gets reelected, then the fat lady will sing over America.
We will blame everyone under the sun for a Trump win except ourselves and if Trump loses he will blame everyone under the sun other than him. Perhaps we are just the opposite side of the same coin?

[Turin_C3PO]

50. We are not different sides of the same coin.

Not by a long shot. The other side is greedy and evil, looking to loot and/or destroy our system of government as we know it. We, on the other hand, are fighting to preserve what’s good in our government. Sure we have a few lunatics but, with very few exceptions, they’re harmless. Almost all the danger in this country comes from the right wing, without question.

[elocs]

62. "Perhaps we are just the opposite side of the same coin?"

Does the word "opposite" have the same meaning as "different"?

[Fritz Walter]

34. When I despair...

“When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem invincible but in the end, they always fall – think of it – always.”
___
Mohandas K. Gandhi


Note to self: dig that DVD out of my library and queue it up for another screening.

[FiveGoodMen]

49. I despise Gandhi on the basis of that quote

Time after time, people fight wars, suffer, make great sacrifices that are never repaid.

They lose loved ones, not to mention arms, legs, eyes, their homes...

Finally the bad guys take a pause and things don't get worse for a little while (but they never get entirely repaired) and then it starts up again and good, innocent people have to suffer some more.

To try and cast that in a good light is completely evil.

It writes off as unimportant the lives lost on every go-round.

[rwsanders]

59. After reading your post and then the quote, it is quite ironic that he would say such a thing...

it reminds me of the book "Lies My Teacher Told Me" by James Loewen. One of the main points he makes is that in school history is taught as a bunch of inevitable outcomes while discounting the efforts that it took to make change. If I'm not mistaken (which is very possible as it has been years since I read the book and I can't check because it is in storage) Gandhi is one of the examples he uses of how change is made.
After reading the book it kind of ruined some movies for me. My wife loves the movie "The Incredible Mr. Limpet", but then I read "Lies My Teacher Told Me" and "Bloodstained Sea" and I started to wonder if the movie was kind of insulting to all the men who lost their lives in the North Atlantic:

https://www.amazon.com/Bloodstained-Sea-Michael-Walling-2009-04-10/dp/B01K2PCOG0/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=bloodstained+sea&qid=1566449608&s=gateway&sr=8-1

[Perseus]

35. There is nothing funny about the current situation

The creature will not accept defeat, he will incite his herd before and after elections to violence. I have seen this happen in countries like Venezuela, shooters driving by voter lines to intimidate them...this is real, nothing funny about it.

[CanonRay]

37. I couldn't agree more.

How many threats will there be to polling places in Dem areas?

[mudstump]

38. I didn't think this was funny when Trump announced he was running....

and, it's been downhill since.

[Wounded Bear]

39. Trump was a shitty winner...

and while I don't look forward to his actions when he does lose, we definitely need to make sure that he does.

[lunatica]

40. You're preaching to the converted

And who’s laughing? Trying to lighten up the terror serves a purpose. It keeps you from committing suicide or going insane.

Being scared of him is what he wants. He craves it. The last thing I’ll give him is satisfaction.

[pbmus]

53. I certainly can't do anything but laugh...even our representatives

Can’t do anything....we have to laugh or else end it all

[Marthe48]

43. How did NBC get rid of him?

They fired his ass from apprentice, didn't they? Find how how they did it and use it to get rid of him.

[MadDAsHell]

44. I'm numb to the power transition handwringing after 8 years of it from 2000-2008.

Doesn't the military hate him? No way that happens.

[triron]

46. Not to mention what the Russians will come up with. Maybe even scarier.

[SammyWinstonJack]

48. No one I know is laughing. The few Deplorables I'm around are gloating. They're dumbass, though.

[Eliot Rosewater]

51. not sure what they will do when the power grid goes down around 6 eastern on election day

and votes cant be counted or reported.

KGB is working directly with the rump administration and Barr Dept of Justice as we speak on that and more.

[calimary]

52. And assuming we CAN overpower Russian meddling and win next year,

he won’t go quietly.

I suspect no one will be able to anticipate the level of F5 shitstorm he’ll stir up to try to stay in office anyway.

[cwydro]

54. I'm not laughing.

[grantcart]

55. Your wrong on one point

There is no end.

Defeated and removed from office he will continue to tweet and meet the press castigating the new President and trolling non white groups.

Be prepared for chronic nausea.

Abandon all hope that there will be a quick return to normalcy

[VOX]

64. Precisely. And since he does NOTHING as president, he can easily privatize his rants, tweets, etc.

Fox News will welcome him with wide-open arms. And any place he can locate an open microphone will provide yet another showcase of his moaning, whining, infantile idiocy.

[US4u2]

68. And hopefully Fox news can interview him from his prison cell!!!

I want to see him do the perp walk.

[onecaliberal]

56. I've never laughed. I seem to go back and forth from irate to despair.

[Cha]

58. Hell No it's not funny.. damn pundits who

think it is.. Thanks, max!

[jimlup]

60. we have to win 2020 by overwhelming numbers

or else the coming civil war may be very real and might not end well.

[NCLefty]

61. I have found very little about Trump funny, both before and after he won.

He is a magnification and escalation of the right-wing hate I've been hoping would finally die.

Look, he might just continue to "suck" for the rest of his term(s), with nothing else major (bad) happening. But he's so corrupt, petty, and ignorant that ANY day between now and him leaving could be a disaster beyond our imagining.

I will continue to hold my breath while ringing the alarm bells to anyone that will listen. This isn't normal. We are not safe.

[Cosmocat]

63. I have found it the least bit funny

Since the lunatic came down the escalator. Schitts exactly where I know it would be then. And yes, we still are in for Worse.

[VOX]

65. The U.S. was attacked. Not one titter of laughter when the "chosen one" is a complete Russian asset.

Every fucking day it's Putin, Putin, Putin. Republicans taking junkets to Russia. Mike Huckabee and Rick Santorum hosting a cruise that starts in...Russia. Trump wants Russia readmitted to the G7. And as for safeguards put in place to secure the 2020 election from Russian interference and potential vote-tally manipulation-- no action taken, not a word spoken.

It's more than a little obvious now.

[McKim]

66. I Agree

I agree and what’s more I would like to see an end to the constant humor about Trump on this site.
This is serious business. I would like to see more emphasis of the real damage Trumpism is doing to our government and our country. Blowing off steam needs to be done elsewhere. This site has become less and less serious and more sensationalist under Trumpism.

[Chemisse]

70. I laugh whenever I can - it helps ward off despair.

I know none of this is funny. It's terrifying and it's horrifying.

But I have to cope. I ration my time spent reading about the most ominous of his actions. I seek out posts and articles which contain glimmers of hope. And I laugh whenever I can.