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Celerity

(42,666 posts)
Tue Jun 30, 2020, 10:36 PM Jun 2020

Trump's Escalation Just Took A Significant Turn For The Worse

https://thebanter.substack.com/p/trumps-escalation-just-took-a-significant



There’s a scene in 1997’s Titanic where the captain, realizing that his actions have led to the inevitable sinking of his ship and the certain death of over 1500 people, gives up. He walks away from his crew, locks himself in the wheelhouse, and waits to die with his ship. That will not be Donald Trump. There’s another scene in which Bruce Ismay, the owner of the doomed vessel, gets onto a lifeboat to flee the sinking ship he had previously said was unsinkable. He had ordered the captain to recklessly go faster and had limited the number of lifeboats available. Now that the deadly consequences of his terrible decisions were playing out in real time around him, Ismay took no responsibility and bravely ran away, leaving others to pay the price. That will not be Donald Trump. Instead, Donald Trump will be Charlton Heston in Beneath the Planet of the Apes in which he destroys everything because he’s a racist, self-centered asshole.

Reality Slaps Trump In The Face

Up until the Tulsa rally, Trump had convinced himself that no matter what the polls said, he was winning, and winning big. His unbearably racist “silent majority” was unstoppable and he would get all the angry white voters he would need to win the Electoral College again. But then no one showed up for his triumphant return to the stage in deep red Trump country. Where before, throngs of adoring red hats would greet him with rapturous applause, barely a third of the arena was filled. Politico reports that this appears to have been a wake up call for Trump: In the week since his Tulsa rally, the president has grudgingly conceded that he’s behind, according to three people who are familiar with his thinking. Trump, who vented for days about the event, is starting to take a more hands-on role in the campaign and has expressed openness to adding more people to the team. He has also held meetings recently focusing on his efforts in individual battleground states. Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner, who effectively oversees the campaign from the White House, is expected to play an even more active role.

Thank goodness Trump is giving Jared more responsibilities! Once he solves Middle East peace, the opioid crisis, tensions with China, Muslims in general, and Mexico, and fixes our criminal justice system, the VA, and PPE stockpile, he will totally get Trump reelected. No problem! He may even have some spare time left over to set up that secret back channel to Russia that he was working on. But aside from the humiliating Tulsa non-rally, the coronavirus is now, as predicted by every healthcare expert, tearing its way through all of the red states that laughed at the coastal blue states who begged them to take it seriously. The difference is that it’s going to be so much worse in Trump country. As I wrote about back at the end of April, most red states do not have the resources of states like New York, California, or Washington. The big cities in Texas have resources but they’re going to be swamped with cases from the surrounding rural areas that have no resources at all. And what’s a poor state like Tennessee going to do?

On top of that, you have Republican governors refusing to do more than the bare minimum to stem the carnage. Some of them won’t even do that much. To compound the nightmare, millions of white Republican voters are refusing to take any precautions at all because something something “mah freedumbs!” Naturally, the economy, which had a tiny little burst of hope as the country reopened, is contracting again like a groundhog fleeing from its shadow, portending dismal times ahead. Since the economy is the only thing Trump (inexplicably) has going for him, this is a bad thing in terms of his reelection. It’s bad in every other context but that is an article for another time. Trump lied and spun and blustered as hard as he could. He ordered his regime to do the same and most of the right wing media followed his lead for as long as they could. But reality has a funny way of asserting itself regardless of what you want. Trump is losing. Badly.


In ordinary times, we would be sharks circling for the kill, in a frenzy from all the blood in the water. But these are not ordinary times. We should be absolutely terrified of the next 6 months and be prepared to fight, quite literally in the streets, on election day.

Trump’s Transition To Mad Bomber Is Underway.......

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Trump's Escalation Just Took A Significant Turn For The Worse (Original Post) Celerity Jun 2020 OP
Trump is extremely self centered - he'll take the country down with him Demovictory9 Jun 2020 #1
And the lemming GOP party will let him do it no less. KPN Jul 2020 #5
Is there more in the article? leftieNanner Jun 2020 #2
yes, but it is, like you said, pay-walled and I cannot (per DU TOS) post the entire thing, sorry Celerity Jun 2020 #3
Ok leftieNanner Jun 2020 #4

Demovictory9

(32,324 posts)
1. Trump is extremely self centered - he'll take the country down with him
Tue Jun 30, 2020, 10:40 PM
Jun 2020

he should be going before the American people and calling for the wearing of masks and social distancing. instead he's stoking racial division and cultural division.

leftieNanner

(14,998 posts)
2. Is there more in the article?
Tue Jun 30, 2020, 10:49 PM
Jun 2020

I hit a pay wall, so I couldn't read the end.

We are in for some crazy times ahead!

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