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Trump Is Done
Trump gets full credit for destroying himself and his Presidency. And he finally did it single-handedly. We have all put up with his rudeness, crassness, and inconsistencies, and I was willing to go along.
Until now.
Trump’s protesting the election was understandable. But once he voiced his protests, he should have just done his job and limited his comments; instead, he kept inciting his most passionate followers and everyone else within shouting distance. Yes, I think it’s entirely possible that those who crashed the Capitol were not just his fans, but those who were just waiting for an opportunity to incite violence, just like the riots we saw in several major cities. And Trump gave them the cover to attack.
I hate violence. I hate breaking the law. I hate those who threaten others. And Trump essentially encouraged all of it. Even when he told people to go home today, he had to say just one more time that he was cheated in the election. He should be ashamed.
But he doesn’t have the decency to be ashamed. He’s just angry. Which justifies his insulting his vice president who put up with his abasement of him for years with class, diligence, and allegiance. And Trump thanked him by trying to discredit him.
I can tolerate a great deal from a person when they get things done. But to a great extent, Trump brought much of the hatred towards him on himself. Those who sabotaged him were incited by his disdain for them and his nastiness.
Yes, Trump did many good things during his Presidency. But those accomplishments will be overshadowed by his lack of discipline and lack of respect for those who had tried to serve him well.
He’s done.
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I wouldn’t choose the words extreme and obsessed, and I’m not sure that it is he who has just had enough. But I was just thinking before looking at this comment that there has been some reporting, apropos of the 25th amendment scheme, that Trump is largely alone, and showing evidence of great stress. And this is not because of his personality or character, and not so much because of who he is, but because of what he represents and what he wants to do, all summed up in the slogan and the resultant policies of America First and Make America Great Again. He is encircling himself in his last remaining confidants, facing not only the threat to his own personal safety and that of his family, but facing the greatest existential threat to the United States perhaps that has ever occurred, a threat from both within and without. He has faced resistance, obstruction, spying, slander and a corrupt Law Enforcement, Legislature, Judiciary and Press for going on five years, and this is the moment of greatest crisis.
From the beginning of the Trump affair (no pun intended) the battle has been between the CIA and Mike Flynn and his supporters; Flynn wanted to restructure and reform the CIA, and, as we see now the CIA (which formed the illegal “deep state” back-up government in the late 1940s) has been pursuing essentially the same goals as the Globalists and their Great Reset, and now we see China and its desire for world dominance. Why the CIA would join with China, I don’t know, but it seems to have its origins in Henry Kissinger and Nixon’s opening the diplomatic door with China (and of course the shipping of US technology and manufacturing to China — for reasons that seem other than economic). But even as early as the 1970s, the thinking was that there was a One World Government Order guiding things to build up the world’s third-world countries at the expense of developed nations such as the United States and Europe.
Trump has found himself, deliberately or inadvertently, standing athwart the Global Progress to whatever world a One World Government means. And perhaps like George Washington on his knees in the snow, alone, praying for victory when it was not certain, it is understandable, and significant and warranted that Trump should find himself alone in his office, wondering and worried over his affairs and what course of action to pursue, his staggering choices. This is not a sign of surrender or weakness or mental instability, but a reflection of the real world today, and the terrible threats it faces, and someone who wants to do what is right in this crisis.
On the practical side, I realize a lot of us are upset and angry. We will feel better and be more likely to improve things if we direct that animus against the Dems:
All true and very helpful.
Post more, please.
I agree. He did one to five rallies every day. Post covid, normal people would be dragging for weeks. He persisted. Biden sat on his ass, did nothing to win, had few followers. Did you notice the Dems knew that would be enough? They knew the fix was in. Trump knows. He was mocked. His followers were mocked. Now they falsely paint him as a coupster who would not have left office peacefully. He would have. He just wouldn’t have sold out his manliness as cowardly Republicans in Congress and his administration have done, as they protect their bona fides that make them worthy of the DC social life.
Agree. They need to be called out for their role in mainstreaming rioting.
I agree with this, but I really think the CIA is our foe, perhaps more than China.
Good points, all, especially with Biden giving rabble-rousing speeches that are designed to incite pogroms (real as well as e-pogroms) against Trump supporters.
On that last point we need to be very careful not to make it an ethnic conflict. Trump and his supporters (of which I am one) sometimes are not careful enough about that, or so it seems to me, e.g. when they want to label the flu as a Chinese flu, even when that label adds nothing to the conversation. Trump’s opponents will go out of their way to portray it as promoting ethnic conflict. (Never mind what Harvard does to promote ethnic conflict with its admissions policies.)
I notice, by the way, that when discussing variants of the sars-cov-2 virus, some of the same people who object to terms like Wuhan flu do not mind referring to the UK and South African variants of sars-cov-2. I think there are also numeric designations for those variants, but at the moment it probably doesn’t hurt to be aware of the geographical direction they are coming from. Later on that might become irrelevant, just as the China origin of sars-cov-2 is now irrelevant.
All that’s left is holding the White House door open for entry of a man who hasn’t acted sane in years, if not decades.
Nothing in Hillary’s past demonstrates the capacity for good judgement. The list of her monumental bad judgments is long and bloody. Her penchant for corruption is in plain sight and of a monumental scale. We have all seen the evidence that she, Obama, and (probably) Biden engaged in a seditious attempt to kneecap the duly elected incoming administration. She is one of the most dangerous public officials of this country in the last 40 years. These are facts, not opinions. Not conjecture.
We only had to wait 24 hours.
Thanks. To clarify: The Chinese Communist Party is our foe.
That’s for sure! She married Bill!
She was really good with cattle futures that one time.
Reminds me of a recent tweet. I will be pleasantly surprised at any real courage under fire from the GOP going forward; with a few exceptions, they’ve not displayed much fortitude or ability to accomplish looking back (e.g., failed health care plan even with House majority).
https://mobile.twitter.com/bhweingarten/status/1347227794485497856
Didn’t it pass the House, and was ultimately defeated by the bitter-clinger-to-Trump-hatred McCain?
Fortunately for you, I think the process of detrumpify will move very quickly. Twitter banned President Trump, Michael Flynn, Sydney Powell; SS publisher cancels Senator Hawley’s book; Facebook removes #WalkAway campaign; Google suspends “Parler”. Thank you for not calling for a scorched-earth policy, but I’m not sure that you will be in control of the type of policy being executed.
Lots of luck with that, for it is written “The internet treats censorship as damage and routes around it.”
And that should scare everyone.