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world wide wally

(21,733 posts)
Tue Mar 15, 2016, 04:44 PM Mar 2016

A disturbing prediction:

As Bill Marher has warned, a terrorist attack near the general election and presto!… Meet President Trump.
It is fairly well known now how Trump has studied Hitler and the Third Reich.
Faced with a defeat in the general election, a man with all the money in the world and an ego to match, will not stand for defeat which would mean a degree of public humiliation.
His solution?
Perhaps a fire at the Reichstag as Hitler pulled off in 1937? He has proven beyond a doubt that his character is not above anything so underhanded, so watch for a "terrorist attack" around October sometime.

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A disturbing prediction: (Original Post) world wide wally Mar 2016 OP
Better than a President Cruz FLPanhandle Mar 2016 #1
Prediction? AgerolanAmerican Mar 2016 #2
Heh...Yeah, funny how 2naSalit Mar 2016 #4
For some reason I'm not even remotely worried about this. SheilaT Mar 2016 #3
Like PNAC, but without King Jebthro. Octafish Mar 2016 #5
The Reichstag fire was in 1933. teamster633 Mar 2016 #6

FLPanhandle

(7,107 posts)
1. Better than a President Cruz
Tue Mar 15, 2016, 04:47 PM
Mar 2016

Even with an attack, I doubt Trump could pull enough votes to win a general election.



 

SheilaT

(23,156 posts)
3. For some reason I'm not even remotely worried about this.
Tue Mar 15, 2016, 04:59 PM
Mar 2016

I remember various similar predictions in years past. The best one was that Bush would find a way to suspend the 2004 election altogether. Didn't happen.

And I just don't see anything like that happening this year, either.

Actually, I wonder to what extent the kind of people who would do something like that understand this country's secular culture at all. If I wanted to attack, or better yet invade and conquer this country, I'd do it during a Super Bowl. If I got real lucky, the Redskins (or whatever name they may go by in the future) will be in the Super Bowl, which means no one in DC would notice a thing until at least the end of the game, and if they one, it would be two or three days before the invasion was noticed.

I've lived in the DC area, including one of the times they were in the big game, and I know how completely the city comes to a complete stop that day.

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