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NanceGreggs

(27,813 posts)
Sat Feb 8, 2020, 08:15 PM Feb 2020

You're Next

Are you a Republican currently in office? You might want to lay low from here on in, because you just might have a target on your back.

Have you ever hinted that Trump may not be 100% right about everything he’s ever said or done? Time to update that resume – because you might be next in line to be looking for a new job.

Have you ever snickered at Trump’s tweets about wind turbines causing cancer, or solar energy meaning your electricity shuts down at sunset? Time to call your friendly head-hunter, and inquire as to what positions might be available outside of a career in government.

Have you ever questioned your “pResident’s” truthfulness? Time to start perusing the want ads in your local paper. The position of Walmart greeter might still be available – because after Trump starts tweeting about you, that might be the only job you can get.

Have you ever looked askance at your Lord & Master’s make-up and hairdo, surreptitiously giggled at his mangling of the English language as he drones on endlessly about subjects he obviously knows nothing about? Your head might wind up on a pike as a result.

And there are also sins of omission. Have you failed to retweet one of his inane covfefe tweets, or spoken about him without referring to him as the “greatest president ever”? Have you not bowed lowed enough when he enters a room?

Trump has claimed that as “pResident”, he can do whatever he wants – and by ‘acquitting’ him, you confirmed that he can.

Trump already knows that Democrats despise him and, as such, he expects their disrespect. But he can – and undoubtedly will – destroy any Republican whose loyalty he has demanded and suddenly finds questionable. That puts YOU in the direct line of fire.

Maybe he’ll start having senators and congress members escorted out of their offices. Maybe he’ll ‘fire’ governors and mayors across the country.

And don’t say “he can’t do that” – because you’ve now put the power to do “whatever he wants” in his tiny little hands.

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underpants

(182,772 posts)
2. Welcome to the Bubble
Sat Feb 8, 2020, 08:24 PM
Feb 2020

Guns n Roses reference.

The story of this Trump disaster will be the internal avoidance of meltdowns blowups and his whacked out personality

dweller

(23,628 posts)
3. and remember, senators and sundry lackies, when you are bowing and scraping
Sat Feb 8, 2020, 08:27 PM
Feb 2020

at fatnixon's feet ... he's tweeting about your fatass 😳

there's a cartoon floating around here somewhere that says so

✌🏼

bucolic_frolic

(43,128 posts)
7. I will throw this out there for discussion
Sat Feb 8, 2020, 09:13 PM
Feb 2020

Instead of fighting ideological battles with MAGAts, we need to expand their awareness. Enable them to question their own rigid ideas. Obvious you might say, but our exasperation with these people blocks our ways of encountering them.

 

not_the_one

(2,227 posts)
12. Exasperation doesn't begin to describe my disgust.
Sat Feb 8, 2020, 10:04 PM
Feb 2020

I appreciate what you are trying to do, but we are in a new reality.

It is very difficult to open a steel trap. I am not inclined to try.

So many lines in the sand have been drawn. I passed that line a long time ago, about ten lines back. They deserve every ounce of disdain I can muster. And they will receive it.

I am WAY past trying to educate some degree of reason into their tiny, bigoted minds. They know EXACTLY what they are doing.

At this point "compromise" with these pieces of sit, is NOT on the table. All they want to do is OWN us "libtards".

This is a war, and we better start acting like it.

bucolic_frolic

(43,128 posts)
14. We need to find leverage
Sat Feb 8, 2020, 10:15 PM
Feb 2020

Shun them, refuse to buy from them, be more successful than them. There are sects that are clannish, economically and socially self-sufficient. I don't think we're computing that very much at all.

lunatica

(53,410 posts)
10. Trump rules by example
Sat Feb 8, 2020, 10:02 PM
Feb 2020

He’ll make an example out of anyone who doesn’t tow the line. He’s already doing it.

trickyguy

(769 posts)
11. The Night of Long Knives has already started. Only the beginning since tRumps retribution
Sat Feb 8, 2020, 10:03 PM
Feb 2020

knows no end. He's such a classic case of the sociopathic narcissist that it bogles the mind.

Only positive note today, this firing of Vindman has only made me realize what a true national hero
he is and his testimony will go into the history books. Someone should write one.

moondust

(19,972 posts)
13. Welcome to the gulag, comrades.
Sat Feb 8, 2020, 10:06 PM
Feb 2020

The tweet record indicates that you have not been perfect. The Leader expects perfect. Here you will learn to be perfect at all times.

CaptYossarian

(6,448 posts)
16. We're talking 53 senators and about 200 in the House.
Sat Feb 8, 2020, 10:37 PM
Feb 2020

That's a lot of unskilled labor hitting the bricks. ALEC still writes legislation and all these mental midgets do is "sponsor" the anti-American bills.

Dog walkers and newspaper carriers maybe? If Mitch and Grassley could bend (rigor mortis), they could shine shoes.

eleny

(46,166 posts)
17. He would even get rid of his sycophants...
Sat Feb 8, 2020, 10:39 PM
Feb 2020

... for grins, shits and giggles. He's that kind of a guy, dontcha know!

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