We better get our heads out of our asses.

[Augiedog]

Trump is planning to sacrifice America on his alter of ego.

He knows that his life is over if he is removed from the presidency. He WILL end up in courts for the rest of his life trying to avoid a trial that will put him in prison. He seems to be the only one who understands the danger he is in. His empire of gold will quickly shift into dust as his fake fortune is exposed and his creditors come hunting for their just dues.

This is far worse than an emperor with no clothes. This is a child with no self control and hatred for all who would put controls on him. He will destroy as much as he can in an effort to avoid what is coming. Just like every child you see and hear screaming and thrashing in a grocery store because his “controllers” say “no” about some desired tasty object. Trump sees the presidency as an object he is, by birth, entitled to until HE decides he no longer desires it.

That republicans senators are abetting this behavior and amplifying it is like riding the tiger. Sooner or later you have to get off...then what? You senators and the Republican Party will pay a price for this seditious coup enabling crap that you cannot imagine. In the end you will not overthrow America, there are far to many of us who will simply not tolerate it. If you can’t win elections, go home, figure out why, come back and try again. DO NOT engage in this chaotic behavior that threatens America. Neither you nor trump are entitled to do so.

[magicarpet]

1. Amen....

[DENVERPOPS]

28. I second you

This is magnificently written, and a direct hit on the entire RepubliCON party, not just on Trump, but the entire mechanism that put him in office and has gone to any means to keep him there.........

Attention DEMS.......NEVER FORGET THAT IT WAS THE ENTIRE MEMBERSHIP OF THE REPULICON PARTY AND VOTERS WHO CORRUPTLY PUT HIM IN OFFICE, AND KEPT HIM IN OFFICE.......

[Paladin]

2. +1000. Dangerous times.

We're up against an individual who threw his sanity away a long time ago. He will do anything to stay in power. And he has a huge, just-as-crazy following to help him do it.

[barbtries]

3. in a domestic violence situation,

this is the most dangerous time.

[kentuck]

4. I fear that you are correct.

We have been admonished not to interrupt the celebration of joy from winning the election, but we shall proceed with caution.

One thing we have learned over the last 4 years is that Donald Trump is unpredictable. Some might say "unstable"? He will do whatever he has to do to win, otherwise, he is a "loser". Nothing could be worse for him.

Will he use the "nuclear option" with the state legislatures? Of course he will! It doesn't matter if it is overboard or under-board, or criminal, he will do with whatever is available to him. If he can bribe state legislatures, he will bribe state legislatures.

[DeeNice]

5. unpredictable? Only if you don't recognize the pattern...

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Tell him he can't do something and that's the first thing he wants to do.
Which is why I'm carrying around an overwhelming sense of dread that he will screw with the electoral college and basically break the country.

[calimary]

47. Welcome to DU, DeeNice!

We have to out-think him. That starts with understanding him and how he works, and how he ticks.

It's gonna be a LOOOOOOONNNNNNNNNNNG 70 days.

[DeeNice]

51. much thanks!

and I agree. January 20 is sooo farrr awaaaaay.

[Thekaspervote]

8. The so called nuclear option is NOT an option..PERIOD

GOP majority leader in PA says he will NOT overrule the popular vote and the will of the voters in PA

https://whyy.org/articles/as-legal-challenges-fizzle-pa-gop-reaffirms-it-will-not-seek-to-override-popular-vote/

[Blecht]

41. He's a Republican

His word is worth nothing.

[Turin_C3PO]

20. The state legislators

aren't going to flip their votes. There's been numerous posts from knowledgeable people, including Laurence Tribe, that explain why it won't happen. The main real danger is that Biden will take office and 30% of the country will go on believing that he stole it. That's the issue we're going to have to deal with.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

6. I wouldn't be surprised by him trying to sacrifice...

... every person in the USA if it results in rewards for him.

I hope someone is monitoring his communications with Putin.

[Escurumbele]

22. "I hope someone is monitoring his communications with Putin."

That has been my thoughts and my worry, he will not think twice to give away intelligence to Putin or anyone else who can help him, or even start a war. Some people say he is busy destroying proof of his corruption, but I think there is more to it.

And regarding his enablers? The reelection of the turtle and Graham proves that the voters do not pay attention and only vote for people in their party, that they voted against trump says a lot about trump, but I never expected the turtle and Graham to win, which is a very sad thing admitting the ignorance of the people.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

25. I used to worry about Trump launching nukes...

... but now I'm honestly wondering if he's trying to disable them here so Putin can more freely wipe us out.

I've seen no evidence for that, and I highly doubt it could happen, but I'm convinced that Trump would do it (if he could) after being promised great rewards from Russia in exchange.

Trump is obviously a self-absorbed psychopath. He kept making the pandemic WORSE in this country.

[berni_mccoy]

7. Cornered animals can be vicious and unpredictable

[DENVERPOPS]

30. Speaking of animals

Has our favorite critter, The Shower-cap Ferret been heard from lately? Did I just miss his most recent summaries????
Please people, let me know where he hangs out......

[Gregory Peccary]

34. You can enjoy the great showercap at this link

I visit his blog daily. http://showercapblog.com/

[DENVERPOPS]

52. GP

Thank you, Thank you, Thank you...........

[bullwinkle428]

9. With only 3 PERCENT of the population believing that Chump genuinely

won the election, we need to be prepared to take to the streets by the MILLIONS, and let this fucking cretin know who is really in charge when it comes to holding the power in this country.

[DENVERPOPS]

21. Hey BW

Don't you think this is EXACTLY what they are wanting us to do?????????

Riots, violence in the streets, false flag operations, etc etc.

Even more fun would be, what if they tried to goad us into reacting with a counter demonstration, and none of us showed up?????

Think about it..... a group of fully armed to the teeth Trump Humpers, all ginned up by their chicken shit leaders, left standing there with nothing to do except play with themselves. Better yet, if the mass media would grow a pair and not embellish the right wing's "so called" performance on the TV.

[Escurumbele]

24. Yes, you are correct

We need to wait and see.

Biden and the Democrats have their lawyers working on it, lets hope they prevail.

[Lonestarblue]

27. Yes, that's what Trump wants so he can unleash the military and declare martial law.

That still wouldn’t save him because the election has been held and Biden will be sworn in on January 20, but it would create the kind of violence that Trump craves to make him feel important.

[DENVERPOPS]

10. The RepubliCON party includes a lot of old white men.

I have talked to these Old, Republican, White Men about the future of the things that their opinion/actions will cause, due to their short sightedness...

About the environment, the hardship on their children, and even worse their grand children, international cooperation, etc etc etc.

In almost every instance, they basically say: What do I care, I will be long gone.........

It was best demonstrated, by a bumper sticker on a very expensive car that I saw last week: GOT MINE, FUCK YOU........

[calimary]

53. My dad's motto from as far back as I can remember: "IGMFU".

That stood for “I Got Mine, F-U.”

And he’d always chuckle when he explained that.

I soon found myself thinking: “um... some of us don’t find that to be amusing.”

[Ponietz]

11. The numb sleep comfortably

Overt genocide cannot be far behind Republican "policy" moves to deny truth and science.
If one cannot see that, their head is up their ass.

[Kaleva]

12. It is up to you to pill your own head out if your ass.

No one here can do it for you. Best of Luck!

[ProudMNDemocrat]

13. Fantastic post. May I borrow it?

I have some Trumper friends FB who need to see this in a response to their devotion to him. Sure to piss them off. The truth hurts with these people.

[Missn-Hitch]

14. Hear, hear! But will we?!?!

Methinks, no.

I am target practicing. Just to stay sharp. I will not be rounded up.

[BannonsLiver]

15. And do what?

[Hotler]

16. If they get to play coup...we should get to play...

over throw the coup.

[cry baby]

17. I regretfully agree. My impression is that many of the 71 mil will

be ok with anything that makes trump president again like their God intended.

I’m sorry, but it’s a very scary time. Like a poster said upthread, it’s a dangerous time in severing a relationship with an abuser.

[Mr. Ected]

18. I wonder if an extra-judicial remedy is being considered as we speak

Our intelligence agencies have targeted foreign threats to the US in the past. I wonder if a domestic terrorist setting up shop in the White House checks the same boxes?

[yaesu]

19. Dem leadership have been preparing for this eventuality for months, the fascists are outsmarted and

outnumbered.

[Boomerproud]

23. Are they?

[yaesu]

44. Yep, and the real people in charge, the wall street banksters, will not allow the fascists to

create uncertainty, confusion for much longer as the fragile economy during a pandemic cannot hold under the strain. The fascists will run out of money and support.

[mtnsnake]

26. I don't think we have our heads in our asses about this situation at all

but if you think we do, then what do you suggest we should be doing about it?

[luvtheGWN]

29. The US Constitution seems to have a lot of holes in it.

As one scholar said on CNN yesterday, there are unwritten rules that have always been followed. Now, because those rules are indeed unwritten, Trump and his cabal have managed to push past and do their own thing. As in McConnell advising that it's perfectly legal for Trump to (fill in the blanks) because there's nothing in the Constitution that forbids it.

This is their fallback.

A country's constitution should be a living document. Yes, it has Amendments, but getting them through (think the ERA) can take years and years, and then they die a slow deah. The Electoral College is a prime example from an non-living document since it still exists.

And...it seems to me that the whole "checks and balances" thing doesn't actually work when you have a wannabe dictator in the White House and a spineless Senate that is terrified of him.

[packman]

31. "Alter"- "Altar" - I see what you did there -clever

I love cleaver writing

[BobTheSubgenius]

32. The situation seems pretty obvious, doesn't it?

I wonder how it is that such a vast number of Americans either don't see it, or don't care...or even want it.

[ancianita]

33. All this nullification of the biggest vote in U.S. history. For one man and his kleptocrats.

The DoD has already called Trump's moves on DoD turf the moves of a dictator.
The military is sworn to uphold the Constitution, not one man.
Piss off the DoD and you're in trouble.

[BamaRefugee]

35. Same thing everyone USED TO SAY about the DOJ.

[ancianita]

37. Yeah. But this is over the constitutional line. The DOJ can't stop the DoD.

Hardly any branch of government is as educated as the leaders of the DoD military brass.

The DoD will decide when/if they have to move to protect and defend the Constitution.

[Jon King]

36. Martial Law

I think thats his plan. The right wingers are going to protest this weekend and others. They want confrontation with Dems so he can say country is out of control and he must institute martial law.

He is up to a lot more than we know.

[Dream Girl]

40. This is my worry

[Pobeka]

38. I think it's time for phone calls to your senators and representatives. This is dangerous and

must be publically denounced by elected officials. The only way they will do it is if we pressure them.

[Towlie]

39. "If you can't win elections, go home, figure out why, come back and try again"? No! Just stay home.

[crimycarny]

42. Who has their head in their asses?

I know I don’t, but right now I can only control what I can control. Joe Biden and his team see everything we do and even more so. With members on his transition team like Pete Buttigieg do you really think they aren’t prepared for this? I remember reading a few weeks back where the Biden team stated they had 4000 lawyers already lined up to work on any pre or post election issues.

All I can personally do right now is help as much as possible in the GA runoff, remain hopeful (versus panicked), and — for now at least — trust that Biden and his team know what they are doing and are well prepared, which I fully believe they are. Because they are the people right now who have any sort of control over this.

Trump will try to do anything, nothing is too evil or criminal for him, but for now I will focus on what I can control.

[pandr32]

43. He thinks he's added the USA to Trump properties

He's acquired us (in his mind being POTUS and sole owner are the same thing) and will bankrupt us next because that's what he does, but he'll strip us bare if we cannot shut him down.
Donald Trump should be arrested for his coup attempt.

[relayerbob]

45. Who is this "we" you speak of?

[TryLogic]

46. Good article, unpleasant heading. I almost did not read it.

[Oscarthegreat]

48. He is very predictable

Trump never had any intention of stepping down if he lost. It is not only his legal problems which would end up in him spending the rest of his life in prison. it is also the "loser" label which to him is the absolute worst thing in the world, as his awful father had hammered into him since he was born.

He is unpredictable on many levels, but very predictable as far as his intention to not step down and never concede. This is now on the GOP. Are there enough pragmatic and reasonable minds there to make it clear they will not support him if he refuses to step down, or are they now all in his image, which would probably mean a civil war.

If the Democrats allow him to stay in power, future elections would be farcical, because trump and his successors, probably his children would declare victory after every election regardless of the outcome and prevent Democratic winners from assuming office.

[tanyev]

49. Yes, the biggest problem is all the staff and GOP enabling and abetting him.

If they were doing their jobs properly, Trump would just be a 74 year old man rolling on the floor kicking and screaming.

[Blue Owl]

50. K&R