Do you think tRump knows what he is doing inciting terrorism AND

[BigmanPigman]

is crazy or do you think he is just plain crazy and doesn't know his words are inciting violence?

I am watching MSNBC and it seems like they are saying he is crazy and doesn't know the impact of his words inflaming domestic terrorists. I think that is BS. He knows exactly what he is doing IMO.

[Initech]

1. Oh absolutely. His "LIBERATE MICHIGAN!" tweet was just the beginning.

If he loses you're going to see some serious shit hitting the fan.

[BigmanPigman]

6. Oh god, you're right.

This is not a good sign as far as possible outcomes go.

[Initech]

9. Nope. To quote Alan Rickman from Dogma:

"I say we get drunk because I'm all out of ideas!"

[spanone]

2. I think he's a manipulator of people...a button pusher....an evil turd

how he gets away with his shit, I'll never know

[SoonerPride]

3. He will tweet out that his gun nuts need to kill all democrats

Hopefully Twitter will
Lock
His account

But I fully expect him to call
On his fans to kill us

[Hoyt]

4. Gotta maintain his base.

[uppityperson]

5. He knows. Anything news coverage is better than none.

[Claustrum]

7. I think he knows. But I also think he is doing it to excite and keep his base.

He plans on milking money off them even after losing the election.

[bullimiami]

8. I don't think he cares.

[BittyJenkins]

10. I think he knows exactly what he is doing and

I think there is a plan for violence all across our country, especially in blue states.
I think Russia is helping plan and paying for it.

[BigmanPigman]

11. That's what I thought too.

He is carrying out Putin's orders like a good, "little" puppet. Putin knows what HE is doing and is pulling the strings.

[AnnaLee]

19. Absolutely.

Adolf Hitler Hoped His "People's Militia" Would Save Him From A Coup
https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/adolf-hitler-hoped-his-peoples-militia-would-save-him-coup-106311

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Vladimir-Lenin/Leadership-in-the-Russian-Revolution
'... Not until after a heated 10-hour debate did he finally win a majority in favour of preparing an armed takeover. Now steps to enlist the support of soldiers and sailors and to train the Red Guards, the Bolshevik-led workers’ militia, for an armed takeover proceeded openly under the guise of self-defense of the Petrograd Soviet...."

Well I could go on with this. Some examples spot on and others scraping the edge. But the use of people's or worker's militias is not new. The disturbing thing is how often they are useful to bad actors interested in power. Persuasion is an effective tool.

I offer this but admit I am one of the worse history students. Hoping people who know about such power grab movements might add to my education.

[captain queeg]

12. I think he kind of knows but doesn't care because he keeps getting away with it

He would gladly plunge the US into civil war if he thought it would protect him somehow.

Fortunately these clowns that are rallying to him are ignorant fools. But while they’ll never pull off a major coup or whatever they could end up killing people. Even rich rethugs don’t want to have major turmoil, it would be bad for business and I think if that sort of stuff starts happening a lot of wealthy people will abandon him.

[RainCaster]

13. If he's crazy he should be removed from office...

If he's criminal, he should be removed as well.

[Flaleftist]

14. He is crazy and he knows what he is doing.

[Celerity]

15. he has fully rendered Hitlerian dreams of absolute white power

[GemDigger]

16. He knows exactly what he is doing and exactly what it will do.

He is always intentionally evil. He is so rotten that Satan will spit his sorry ass out of hell.

[grantcart]

17. He mixed up the code words

He thought that the code for relax and wait was "make baby cry , let it drown" not "stand by and stand down".

He thought "stand by and stand down" was code for "pick up some KFC for me".

[Baked Potato]

18. He knows, he doesn't care, and will say it's God's will.

He isn’t any more or less crazy than the rest of those evil fucks. He is a salesman at heart and he will do *anything* for the sale. If what he does crosses any lines of decency or evilness or pukingly disgusting behavior, he will simply justify it in his mind as (1) If the cosmic powers didn’t want it done, it wouldn’t happen, and (2) He will chock up anything he gets away with as people are fuckin’ stupid and it’s not his fault they are so gullible.

People in his circle know exactly what he is doing and are fine with it because... he is them, and they are him. I think Trump has honed his authoritarian chops with input from Putin. Putin has told him how to create the atmosphere needed for creating a dictator-State. Trump is a failure at everything, lucky for us, or we wouldn’t have a light at the end of the tunnel as we do now.

[cayugafalls]

20. Of course he knows what he is doing.

While I don't think trump is smart in any way that is good, I think he is plenty smart when it comes to doing bad things.

Hie mind has been honed to do damage to all around him to make himself look good.

It is all he knows.