Let me make something clear to everyone.

[shockey80]

Trump has literally put himself in control of all of our government agencies. Including the agencies that protect our health. Everyone that works for Trump is nothing but a puppet that must do what Trump wants. Trump makes all the final decisions, of all of are government agencies. Experts, facts, science do not matter to Trump. Anyone that disagrees with him will be removed.

It is time the news media and others tell the American people the truth. A madman has declared himself king. Trump himself, will decide what is best for the people. He will decide what's best for us when it comes to the virus. Trump has already indirectly killed a lot of people. If this is allowed to continue many of us are going to die.

Trump is not trying to become a king, he is one. We are in great danger.

[dalton99a]

1. Kick

[kentuck]

2. In his reality, he is the king.

If you are one of those Americans that accepts his "reality", then his is your King. That is the deal that you have made.

[shockey80]

7. Trump is in control of all of our government agencies. That makes him a king.

It's time we all face the truth. He has gotten rid of all the people who disobey him, who will not do everything he wants them to do. He has put in place people who are not qualified and who are complete puppets. Trump does not lead, he does not care about anything except himself and he demands complete obedience from all the people who work for him. Do what I want or else. Trump is a madman and we as a nation are not responding in a normal way.

Trump; Do not test people, that will make me look bad. That my friends is a death sentence for many of us. That is proof he is a madman.

[DENVERPOPS]

32. Couldn't have said it better Shockey

Except I wouldn't be so kind as to call him "King"

More like Sadistic, Psychopath, Narcissistic, Fascist, Tyrant.......

AND, EVEN IF TRUMP IS DEFEATED, BY HOOK OR BY CROOK, THE REPUBLICANS WILL INSTALL HIM FOR A SECOND TERM.

Their COUP is now at "Check-Mate with the Impeachment failing.

The Republicans OWN the Presidency.......

The Republicans OWN the Senate.........

The Republicans OWN The Supreme Court

The Republicans OWN a bigger and bigger share of Appellate Court Judges

The Republicans OWN the Department of Justice

The Republicans OWN the FEC and all that regulate the Banks and Stock Market including retirement funds.......

The Republicans OWN the IRS, lock, stock and barrel

The Republicans OWN the EPA, Dept of Interior, etc etc etc etc

The Republicans OWN 80+% of ALL media in the U.S.

The Republicans have proclaimed that ANY foreign government or oligarch, can donate any amount of money to their candidates

The Republicans have proclaimed that ANY foreign government, even an enemy, can freely interfere in any election in the U.S.

The Republicans have proclaimed themselves free of having to adhere to the Constitution, or any Rule of Law for that matter.

The Republicans have damn near declared the top 1% a tax free group, as well as any and all U.S. Corporations.

The Republicans also own 50+ or - Million MAGAT'S Voters brains that are so ignorant and stupid that they still do not recognize he hates them as much as us who disagree with all that they are doing, and that the Republican's actions are fucking them over as much as they are fucking us over. (Sorry, but I have to include in that group many Dem's, who for forty years, have had THEIR heads in the sand. And are NOW just BEGINNING to painfully realize that WASF.

We are about to witness the most horrific thing anyone has ever seen on November 3rd, and November 4th forward.........

[FakeNoose]

45. It's almost like you've already given up

The GOP doesn't own those things, unless we tell them they do. So stop telling them exactly that.

Everything will change in November, Chump will lose the White House and the GOP will lose the Senate.
The people who unfairly lost their jobs in government (through Chump) will get them back again in the new Democratic administration. It will take a little bit of time but order will be restored once Chump is gone.

So take a deep breath and drink a nice glass of wine. (maybe a couple glasses)

[DENVERPOPS]

47. I don't

apologize for being reality based, observing facts and being acutely pragmatic.

Like all things, we will just have to wait and see, and in the meantime, do the best we can to try and make a disaster not happen.....

I sincerely and honestly believe that the Majority of Dems have been asleep at the wheel these past forty years, and especially the last Twenty, and have had their heads in the sand, oblivious to all that was happening around them, except for what was happening in their own little tiny personal microcosms.....

[Haggis for Breakfast]

55. Spot on, DENVERPOPS.

And if the best advice people have to offer is take a deep breath and a glass of wine, then it's time I left DU. Burying our heads in the sand at Fantasy Island is what got us to this point to begin with. You can only dodge reality for so long, then like ice water in the shorts, you wake up and realize you've got frost bite.

[DENVERPOPS]

62. Thanks Haggis for breakfast

I have quite literally been screaming my head off ever since Reagan's inauguration........(Actually HWBUSH/CHENEY administration)
Reagan was mentally not in the game, even his first year. He was merely a puppet.

WASF

[Ligyron]

50. Totally true but not widely acknowledged or accepted yet.

I fear we may well have missed our chance some time ago by trying to be fair, good sports, etc. while the 1%, and their lackeys the GOP, went scorched earth for the past few decades.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

51. 😪💔

[burrowowl]

60. Yes it's going to be a hard row to hoe.

[certainot]

67. the only advantage he has is 1500 coordinated radio stations because we allow it

all other media is part of the free speech spectrum, with alternatives a click away

limbaugh will orchestrate the chorus of excuses and blame deflection every day from 600 of the loudest of those stations, fed in part by putin and the rw think tanks, and about half of the loudest of those stations depend on the students and communities in and around 87+ universities to keep allowing their schools to crap all over them by broadcasting sports on and helping them attract advertising to pay for it all.

there are real causes and effects and solutions.

he and the GOP are totally fucked without their talk radio advantage and those radio stations and the idiot schools and pro teams that support them are the best places to protest and 'speak' directly to this disaster.

the 'king' has nothing without his radio stations

[malaise]

28. And only in his reality

This will end soon and very soon

[calimary]

37. One SCREAMING clue to this throughout the recent decades:

He surrounds himself with gold. And gold stuff. In his penthouse he had gold drapes, gold furniture, gold chairs with fancy carved scrollwork that looked like thrones, gold carpets. He had photos of himself with Melania wearing a gold dress. He has his hair colored blond (read: gold). And in the Oval Office, floor-to-ceiling gold drapes and, I think, the big oval yellow area rug that, if memory serves, dubya had installed and President Obama kept.

Remember, he’s first and foremost A SHOWMAN. Remember. He made a big dramatic entrance onstage on the GOP CONvention’s nomination night, appearing, backlit, from clouds of fog.
Remember. The staging and trappings and the big-ass Imperial-style military parade he’s yearned for since the Russians helped him steal the White House.
Remember. I remember hearing about his mother being interviewed and saying his dad told him from the time he was still a kid that he was a king.

And his behavior now manifests consistent with the staging and trappings and visual cues - as an individual who wants to be thought of and treated as a king.

Or even an emperor.

But in his case it’s the one with no clothes.

[Poiuyt]

46. Don't forget that his son is named Barron and one of his pseudonyms is John Barron

I'm a little surprised because a baron isn't particularly high up in the British peerage

[John1956PA]

53. 45 may have taken it from the hotelier in "Kane and Abel" who flaunted the title "Baron." n/t

[Eyeball_Kid]

54. King? Emporer? Too much romantic rhetoric.

Let's go with Full-ON Trumpy: Dictator.

That's who he is. There are no royalty trappings. No princes, princesses (not really, Ivanka). There is only the Dictator. Trump CAN'T give any deference to any semblance of a royal family. It's Trump who Dictates. That's the beginning and the end.

[Under The Radar]

3. Then the King shall take responsibility either oral or rectal

[AnotherMother4Peace]

4. Yes, & he'll be lashing out more like calling WA Gov Inslee a snake for daring to ask for

Science and tests to factor into decisions, rather than Trump's hunches.

[Sugar Smack]

5. As long as I can also make something clear to you, my dear DU friend:

Take heart. Trump's a person. He's just a guy. He's a human being beyond 70, and as open to coming down with Coronavirus as ANY of us.

I'm of the opinion that this is what takes him down politically or physically. Take your pick.

[shockey80]

8. I hear you. I once compared Trump to the little girl in the movie The Bad Seed.

I have been waiting for a lightning strike to take out the sociopath called Trump.

[Sugar Smack]

12. That's the spirit! It may be as simple as his VP Typhoid Mary

breathing on him.

[58Sunliner]

15. Very impressionable movie. DT, if he was completely honest.

[luvallpeeps]

44. I was thinking of Don Jr. and Damien from the Omen.

Someone send him a tricycle.

[Grasswire2]

26. ..and he's been exposed to coronavirus at cpac

He shook hands with Matt Gaetz, who had shaken hands with someone now known to be symptomatic.

[Sugar Smack]

33. That's exactly it. That's the reason, after everything,

I believe *this* will be trump's undoing.

Another silver lining: MANY of those trumpsters are also preppers. They're more interested in their own family & being safe than they are shooting & barbecuing us Democrats. They'll see Their Leader was lying to them. Besides, those MREs aren't going to eat themselves.

[wnylib]

43. Two week incubation period.

How long has it been since that conference?

How many other people were exposed there who might have re-exposed each other and Trump since then?

How many other people in DC have been exposed? Is anybody monitoring exposures from this conference and testing people?

[imanamerican63]

6. It has been that way since he came down the escalator!

Everyone around him has kissed that golden ass one time or another! They gave him exactly what he wanted!

[dewsgirl]

9. We are about to be in a grave situation, I think probably 70 percent

of the public still isn't paying attention.

[bucolic_frolic]

10. Basically

he's reversed everything government does since WWII and will soon begin demolishing Soc Sec and Medicare at one of his Bund rallies.

How is anyone missing this?

[jmbar2]

11. No one listens to him anymore

There are still good faithful servants in government jobs, and dedicated professionals outside of government--the "deep state"-- who are quietly keeping us out of the ditch, no matter how wobbly things seem.

A key characteristic of a tyrant is that they do not plan for their own removal.

Pay no attention to the clown soiling his pants in the king costume. Listen to the helpers and the competent people. They are everywhere and working their butts off to keep us out of the ditch.

God bless all the public servants, scientists, medical folk, environmental protection folk, social workers, etc. We owe you a huge debt for guiding us through this madness.

[TheRealistRealist]

24. Thanks, I needed read this

I hope CDC and Dr. Fausi will not sit idly by while this madman lets people die to protect his false reality. Trump is truly nuts. Not just narcissistic by crazy psycho nuts. And our lives are in his hands

Damn.

[jmbar2]

27. The COVID news is indeed bad, and going to get worse...

It's up to us to organize around best practices being put out by dedicated experts.

The good news is that there is a natural progression for epidemics. It will eventually peter out. We just have to ride through a rough period for the next few months.

My sister is a hospital nurse. I try to touch base with her daily to give support, send funny little stories, etc.

Support all the "Deep State" folks as much as possible. They are heroes.

[Pacifist Patriot]

34. I can confirm this in some respects.

I do know some long-time employees at H&HS and CDC. They are struggling to do their jobs efficiently and effectively while the administration stands on the hill above the city with their fiddles. The lying and mixed messages from Trump and his appointees is making their jobs very very difficult. But they are determined to serve the American people to the best of their ability regardless.

[yaesu]

13. Some presidents tried to play general during war which never ends well

tRump is playing general with every federal agency which we know will not end well. This is fascism pure & simple. tRump is just a tool of the greedy capitalist complex & what makes him extra dangerous is he also serves the russian mob & other countries not too friendly with the US.

[58Sunliner]

14. What does Putin want? Oh, yeah. Our complete degradation.

[Beringia]

16. The media is happy just to have a panic that people are glued to

I am certainly not glad there is a pandemic, but it could have been a war the media is supporting trump with. Trump doesn't come out of this looking good because it showcases his stupidity and cruelty against everyone, even his base.

[matt819]

17. There are hundreds of thousands of federal employees in and around Washington DC

Journalists undoubtedly have sources at the upper levels of any number of federal agencies. They wouldn't be doing their jobs if they didn't. But they also probably have friends and friends of friends ans spouses of friends who work at all levels of federal agencies.

Some - many? - of these sorts of people are in positions to provide ground level views of what's going on. Of attitudes, expectations, corruption, waste/fraud/mismanagement, etc. Surely these journalists can find stories of the kind of things the OP refers to. Of directives to STFU about everything, of directives to skew reporting, of the impact of budget cuts. Yes, we know that the government is destroying places sacred to the Native Americans. We know of decisions that have horrifying environmental impacts. But what about gridlock and ineptitude created by trump appointees in agencies that perform important functions, e.g., veterans services, air safety and transportation safety overall, public education - not at the macro level but at the ground level, where we can see the impact on real people in real communities - red and blue.

Or maybe I'm just pissing up a rope expecting any of this to be reported.

[johnthewoodworker]

18. The republican coup took place on 02/05/2020. Republicans run the show now (poorly).

[DemoTex]

19. King Trump finally has his crown.

Corona ("Crown" in Spanish)

[mahina]

56. No way.

Seriously?

Oh my word. That is poetic.

[Lars39]

20. He has minders in every department

making sure the departments are run the way he wants. We're going to have a hard time rooting out all of them.

[Captain Zero]

41. Yes. Political Officers

It was a feature of Soviet government in RUSSIA. Putin has trained the Republicans very well.

[H2O Man]

21. Recommended.

Truth.

[Pepsidog]

22. Let us hope the Trump Virus awakens many to the horror of this man.

[Enoki33]

23. Seems tRump told all who were listening way back of his clear

intention of ruling and not governing. His open admiration of despotic rulers, his statement that he was easy to work for as he made all the decisions that preceded his purging of all government agencies, and his massive corruption. For confirmation simply look at the types of people he has surrounded himself with. The crook has become a dictator as laws do not apply to him, and importantly, to his family and those he chooses to be immune from punishment for crimes committe against society. The flouting of laws is currently at an epidemic level, while his deluge of lies are treated as newsworthy. Make no mistake - we not only have a madman with the capability of destroying the world, but a despot who values only one life - his own.

[Crunchy Frog]

25. Why do people keep using the word "king"? "Dictator" would be a much more appropriate word, IMO.

[EndlessWire]

29. No, he is a dictator.

There is no royal lineage here. He's an individual who seized power without a shot fired. He's a mobster. We still don't know his involvement with the killing of Kashoggi (sp,) but that's all that's left, for all dictators eventually kill their political opponents and anyone who crosses them.

So far, Trump is concentrated on firing anyone he doesn't like, but he has all the earmarks of following the typical pattern. If he gets reelected, he will drop all pretense of following the Constitution. He'll just assume the role of dictator. That's my opinion, of course, but he looked like a dictator three years ago.

[ooky]

36. It's all about having the power of an authoritarian ruler with no

checks and balances for his power. The Republican Senate and his chosen AG have given him that power, and the courts move too slow to counter it. What we call him doesn't matter, he has it, and he has it now. The OP is correct about that unrestricted power.

[gerryatwork]

30. I'm going to say it.

I don’t believe the employment numbers coming out every month. If I had a dollar for every time a Republican stated they didn’t trust Obama’s numbers I’d be a lot richer.

This goes in line with the original post.

[abqtommy]

31. tRUMP is the puppet and a despicable one at that; sPutin is the despicable puppeteer...

We gotta get rid of them both... Then we can start on the cultists.

[IronLionZion]

35. Dems have to rebuild the public's trust in our institutions

Since Trump has instructed his supporters to not believe qualified experts who actually know what they're doing. So step 1 is rebuilding our institutions and staffing them with qualified people. Step 2 is getting people to believe in these institutions and follow the guidance of doctors, scientists, and other qualified experts again.

[dchill]

38. He is a dictator. There is no royalty...

...involved. One is born to royalty, if there even is such a thing. Trump is an opportunistic autocrat, who has been allowed to do all the outrageously illegal "deals" he's done for decades. The only explanation for all of this organized crime is Russian money.

Most of the Republican party would LOVE to be in on this gig. A lot of them are. They are to blame for Trump, and we know it. Therefore, they're also to blame for American coronavirus deaths.

[Joinfortmill]

39. We are, and we need to fight every day to get this monster out of the People's House.

[DesertRat]

40. That really hit home after I saw the US Surgeon General on CNN

He said that "President Trump "sleeps less than I do and he's healthier than what I am." He also couldn't give Jake Tapper an answer about how many Americans have been tested for coronavirus. He is a Trump toadie. It's frightening.

Link to tweet

[czarjak]

57. Jerome is jiving you Jake.

[intrepidity]

42. YES!! People better wake up now! nt

[live love laugh]

48. "It is time the news media and others tell the American people the truth"

Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha


You think the Republican owned newz media is going to tell the truth.

Thanks for the laugh.

[OldBaldy1701E]

49. And yet,

the streets are clear, there is no one outside the WH, and people are still mindlessly wage slaving away...
Crispus Attucks and the others must be rolling in their graves right about now.

[Hoyt]

52. Honestly, I'm not sure the media has to tell anyone. Everyone knows it.

But ignorant white wingers don’t care. Media can’t do anything about that, unfortunately.

[captain jack]

58. The higher they think they are, the harder they will fall. When this fucker hits the ground...

...I want the earth to shake.

[Permanut]

59. Sounds like something that happened in the 1930's..

in some European country. Give me a minute, I'll think of it.

[Progressive Jones]

61. What I want to know is, who is controlling Trump?

Trump's a puppet himself. Who's pulling the strings?

[OldBaldy1701E]

64. Oligarchs...

the word is oligarchs. Money controls that man, just as it controls this country. You want to make sure someone like Trump doesn't invade the White House, remove money as the one real god in this country. Good luck with that...

[live love laugh]

65. I've wondered this too. He's no mastermind. nt

[subana]

63. yes, he is a complete moron!!

when he said he wanted the people on the ship to remain on the ocean instead of coming to shore because he didn't want the numbers to go up, I felt like this...


Whether or not the people on the ship come to shore, the numbers are definitely going to go up!! He's still acting like this is a seasonal flu & that a miracle will happen of it will magically go away when spring gets here!

As much as I don't want it to continue, it will get much worse before it gets better. This is not a situation where he can lie his way out of it or blame the democrats for it! The longer it takes for him to get this message, the worse it's going to be.....for him & everyone else!!

[stuntcat]

66. But he's doing everything the Evangelicals and Dominionists want.

Same time he’s helping the racists burn the country down to get us back for electing a black president for 8 yrs.
Same time there’s people hoarding enough weapons to arm mobs, or whole towns.

I’m convinced all these together, usually overlapping, make up enough people to drag everyone else down with them.
I’m told I shouldn’t say things like this about whole groups of people, but I’ve seen too much, spent most of life down South. People with faith in Humanity need to get back to me in 20 years, when I wish I could apologize and admit how I had it all wrong.