Suddenly people have reached a breaking point.

[leftyladyfrommo]

People are telling Trump to get screwed. They aren't afraid of him any more.

[Marie Marie]

1. I feel that too. Finally.

[Yavin4]

2. Is this in general or was there a specific incident? n/t

[Bernardo de La Paz]

3. Not Republicon Senators; nor Cabinet members who could 25 him. . . . . nt

[marybourg]

4. Do you have an example?

[Kingofalldems]

14. FDA

[leftyladyfrommo]

17. The FDA just came out against a vaccine coming

out before it's safe.

I also expect the CDC is going to come out with science based Covid info.

There's been so much movement just in the last 3 days. It's really encouraging.

Hopefully Barr will die. That will help.

[XanaDUer2]

5. Did something happen?

I pray for this

[SheltieLover]

6. Seems so!

Even someone at FDA!

[malaise]

7. You haven't seen anything yet

Give it two weeks. I maintain that he will withdraw and use Covid-19 as an excuse - he knows what's coming

[634-5789]

10. I agree!

I smell a rat, and it's fat, orange, and racist.

[Ponietz]

25. Yep, brainspurs

[malaise]

27. brainspurs

Stealing that

[Mersky]

28. Bwah!

[WheelWalker]

32. DUzy!!!

[reACTIONary]

36. +10 nt

[Celerity]

47. lol

[Sogo]

50. "Brainspurs" Post of the year!!!

....or maybe of the last FOUR years!

[Eliot Rosewater]

8. Too late...sort of. GOP still stands firm with Putin or trump as we call him here.

Barr, Moscow Mitch etc., need to be in prison.

But, instead, we will see voting simply not allowed or counted all over the place, Barr still hasnt started indicting or arresting patriots, and he will.

All hell will break loose.

And why? Why do I always go on and on about all this doom and gloom?

HILLARY BASHERS and they are EVERYWHERE hint hint...the ONLY reason you dont see more of it is it is not popular now, or you would see it all over still.

THEY ARE TO BLAME

[lpbk2713]

9. Maybe they won't be afraid to write tell-all books.

That should make it easier to convict him.

[liberalmuse]

11. I don't care for conspiracies, but

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I am finding myself having to believe that we allowed the absolute dumbest people on the planet in our highest levels of government. And when I say, "dumb", I mean mindbogglingly stupid and incompetent. OR

They are master-minding a conspiracy to beat all conspiracies by feigning being Covid-19 Positive in order to somehow stage a coup or foreign take-over by their daddy Putin. I mean, the guy with the nuclear football has it? C'mon. This is getting so ridiculous my mind hurts.

In the end, they are just a bunch of stupid, corrupt degenerates and none of them have any business near positions of power.

[leftyladyfrommo]

12. The scary thing to me is just how easy it was for

these sociopaths to get control.

How on earth did one person -the President- get so much power? No one person should evet be able to do the damage that he has done. To fire the gatekeepers and put in his anti everything stooges.

And how did Mitch McConnell getbso much control over the Senate. One person should not be able to control what comes up for a vote.

[malaise]

13. Nailed it

that and how hard it is to lock them up

[stillcool]

16. He didn't. He is there at the pleasure..

of the GOP. They just need this one election, to have a permanent republican majority, with control of all aspects of the federal government. That is no small accomplishment. Mitch is doing his part with the Judiciary, and I guess maybe the idea of all that power is too intoxicating

[MyOwnPeace]

31. The TRUE saving grace.....

was winning back the House in 2018 and having Speaker Pelosi there to SAVE AMERICA!!!!!

Can you imagine what it would be like if it had been all RepubliCons, including Moscow Mitch and IQ45?

But we can't let up - it MUST be OUR House, OUR Senate, and President JOE!!!!!

GET OUT THE VOTE!!!!!!

[liberalmuse]

21. There is no one who will stop them except us and our votes.

That's all we have right now, and Trump and the GOP are working to try and take that away from us because there are no checks and balances. McConnell needs to go! I hope you heard that RBG. McConnell, Graham and the entire GOP including Trump and his crooked family need to go.

[Volaris]

24. Because Congress (as a political institution),

Spent the better part of the 20th century deciding it was easier to let the president have more and more power, than it was to get re elected by being responsible and doing appropriate oversight and justifying raising NEEDED taxes.

Let me say, THIS IS AN ABERRATION, historically speaking. We're going to remember again in America what it IS to have Congress ACT like a co-equal Branch, and in very short order after trump is gone.

[LuvNewcastle]

41. Yes.

We've seen the country slide down hill for the past several decades as Congress has become weaker and the President has become stronger than he was ever intended to be. We've more unequal, more corrupt, and constantly at war. We need a stronger Congress, one with Representatives and Senators who demand accountability from the Executive branch and a Judicial branch that will stand for Congress's authority.

[Rebl2]

34. How did

one person get so much power? He had nobody that would stop him. They were enablers.

[bucolic_frolic]

37. All societies, civilizations, have had to deal with power loaded entirely at the top of the pyramid

Sometimes civilizations fall, sometimes potentates are toppled. Even Magna Carta, perhaps the first limits on power, was in response to too much power in the King. Examples abound: Rome, the Borgias, The Glorious Revolution of 1688, Cromwell, the Bourbons, the American, French, Russian Revolutions. Power gets concentrated. The Founding Fathers sought to create a permanent mechanistic political system that would renew with elections and divided power geographically and time-wise. Yet we're at the point of a complete power grab again. They gamed the system.

[lindysalsagal]

46. It was the GOP using frump as the ugly landlord. It was never one man.

And the wheels on frump's cars are wobbling, bigly. The end of his usefullness is approaching, fast.

[Celerity]

48. the rise of the imperial presidency started in the 1960's and has continued unabated

everyone was happy when their person was in charge, and everyone always assumed that the constitutional barriers to power were so great that a madman/madwoman never could get in, or that even if they did, that the separation of powers would either contain them or remove them

the founding fathers never foresaw the rise of a madman PLUS the concurrent hyper-factionalism aligning to keep him in office

the office of POTUS needs to be VASTLY reduced in power, and given back to congress, but it will never happen unless we have a massive majority in the both the Senate and the House and then our POTUS falls on the sword

the Rethugs will never do it, they love authoritarians overall, and will count on a Dem POTUS never being as lawless and reckless as the Rumpian Rethug is now, and will be in the future (IF they elect one again)

it also is going to get worse down the road, with a hardcore RW-stacked SCOTUS who will stick a knife in the back of any Dem POTUS, yet give carte blanche to any Rethug

[smb]

18. I Suspect Putin Gives Trump A Bounty (Credited vs His Debts To The Mafiya) For Each Dead American nt

[DeminPennswoods]

15. Lots of people just are too busy living

their daily lives to pay much attention to politics. When those people watched the first debate, there must have been a lot of wide-eyed shock at the way Trump behaved. They got to see how bat-sh*t crazy he is.

[Earthshine2]

23. This is true, at least for one friend of mine.

This is a 72 year old woman who always votes republican.

After seeing the first 15 mins of the debate, she turned it off, and declared herself as voting for Biden.

[DeminPennswoods]

30. Honestly, if you watch the 2016

debate clips with Hillary and compare them with the recent debate, you can really see the deterioration in Trump.

[Earthshine2]

42. And the evolution of his debate style - interruptus maximus.

I don't think he's going to make it to election day.

The White House is now an empty haunted house.

[grantcart]

19. "Suddenly" ???? But I agree we seem to have a good herd mentality

[Skraxx]

20. Yes, Veil Lifted for Many

[yaesu]

22. I'm not seeing it from the fascists in power, they are with tRump 100%. nt

[USALiberal]

26. Who????????????

[catbyte]

29. He's planning on stealing the election. He outed his coup plot tonight on Twitter:

Link to tweet

Donald J. Trump
It will be fast and easy!

Paul Sperry
The next SCOTUS pick will likely help pick the next president. Now you know how bloody this confirmation battle will be, starting a week from today

[bucolic_frolic]

33. This is the boom! begun in 2018, and it takes angry voters for a watershed election

2018 was done on legwork, coordinated support from different groups and regions, and good funding.

All those things are stronger now, though because it's a national election support is needed in all places and can't be moved at will.

America is peeved, Democrats have built this momentum in a slow crescendo, Biden is proving a master at managing his strategy and operation, and we're all pulling together. 4 weeks. Past the debates you just let it fly, flat out, cannonball run.

[OfTheBottom99Percent]

35. Fear -vs- Anger?

So often we hear that other republicans fear him and I have often wondered why. Surely he's not organized enough to have kompromat on them all. Is it a mass psychosis? I've looked around the web for answers - found this, re; below- - which has obvious holes.
Anybody out there have a psychological perspective on their "fear" and why NOW they are not as fearful? I mean sure, okay, he's unwell. Could it really be as obvious as that, that because he now shows weakness it's okay to no longer fear him? Are the repugs REALLY that primitive? Oh, wait...yeah, um...

---
-snip- anger is a sort of transformation of pain, a category including fear feelings as well as physical pain. Considered physiologically (from the perspective of the body), there are a great number of common characteristics shared by anger and fear. Both emotions are characterized by similar central nervous system arousal. In large part, it is our psychological interpretation of arousal feelings that determines whether we will feel fear, anger, or a combination of both. -snip-

[Earthshine2]

43. Primarily, they fear his supporters. Repub congress people need Trump's voters.

One tweet from Trump, and the votes stop flowing to any elected representatives he chooses.

But, it's all falling apart before our eyes.

[kimbutgar]

38. Pat Toomey ( R ) Ohio announced his retirement in 2022

Seems like he is going to strike out against MF45. Why announce two years early?

I feel the house of cards are falling against MF45.

[FakeNoose]

44. Pat Toomey R-Pennsylvania - not Ohio

Yes he did announce he will not seek re-election in 2022.

Paging Katie McGinty - please contact the PA Democratic Party headquarters at your earliest convenience!

[kimbutgar]

45. You are correct

I tried to change my post but it wouldn’t show the change,

[irisblue]

39. Nicolae Ceaușescu moment coming up?

[johnnyrocket]

40. My work has Trumpsters who lately are saying NOTHING, nothing at all, about anything political.

[Blue Owl]

49. K&R