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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsOMG! He is having an epic meltdown and demanding Barr arrest Clinton and Obama immediately
Problem is Barr is only too happy to oblige this lunatic.
Donald Trump mounted an overnight Twitter blitz demanding to jail his political enemies and call out allies he says are failing to arrest his rivals swiftly enough.
Trump twice amplified supporters criticisms of Attorney General William Barr, including one featuring a meme calling on him to arrest somebody! He wondered aloud why his rivals, like President Barack Obama, Democratic nominee Joe Biden and former Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton hadnt been imprisoned for launching a coup against his administration.
Where are all of the arrests? Trump said, after several dozen tweets on the subject over the past 24 hours. Can you imagine if the roles were reversed? Long term sentences would have started two years ago. Shameful!
By early afternoon, Trump was letting loose his frustrations in an all-caps missive that seemed aimed at nobody in particular.
DO SOMETHING ABOUT THIS, THE BIGGEST OF ALL POLITICAL SCANDALS (IN HISTORY)!!! BIDEN, OBAMA AND CROOKED HILLARY LED THIS TREASONOUS PLOT!!! BIDEN SHOULDNT BE ALLOWED TO RUN - GOT CAUGHT!!! Trump tweeted.
What is our response when Barr and Trump start locking up our leaders?
view online:
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/10/07/trump-demands-barr-arrest-foes-427389
Eliot Rosewater
(34,287 posts)NewsCenter28
(1,837 posts)Floored.
agingdem
(8,935 posts)he's a covid infected cornered rat...and he's on mega doses of meds...the raging paranoia is coming from the steroid...and who knows what that cocktail of experimental crap is doing to his dung heap infested brain...and btw..where's Barr?...quarantined with covid symptoms?...from what I understand Chris Christie isn't doing too well and considering Barr and Christie share a body type I suspect there a ventilator in Barr's not so distant future...G-d, are you listening???
Joinfortmill
(21,430 posts)Turin_C3PO
(16,385 posts)Biden wont be arrested. Trumps having a psychotic break. Grab the popcorn!
Eliot Rosewater
(34,287 posts)Turin_C3PO
(16,385 posts)some manufactured dirt on Hunter or Hillary but I seriously doubt it would go anywhere. Trumps desperate now.
Eliot Rosewater
(34,287 posts)Almost as if they dont support our guy.
Turin_C3PO
(16,385 posts)but if you're implying that I don't support Biden, you're completely full of it. I've been donating my time and money to ensure a blue tsunami next month.
Eliot Rosewater
(34,287 posts)i almost always include that but forgot this time
Now let me do something trump will never do nor will that group I talk about either
I apologize.
Turin_C3PO
(16,385 posts)cwydro
(51,308 posts)Accusing people here of not supporting our guy is a bit over the top.
cwydro
(51,308 posts)agingdem
(8,935 posts)watching that depraved sociopath descend into madness...kind of fun...
COL Mustard
(8,326 posts)DJT orders his Secret Service detail to arrest Biden. What great theater!!!
CentralMass
(16,993 posts)ResistantAmerican17
(4,188 posts)Bbbbwwwwaaaaa of course she didnt!!!
Walleye
(45,179 posts)SoonerPride
(12,286 posts)NoMoreRepugs
(12,178 posts)gopiscrap
(24,768 posts)gopiscrap
(24,768 posts)cilla4progress
(26,525 posts)I've already notified my family - I will put my body on the line, if necessary.
Rural_Progressive
(1,107 posts)from small town, rural America will be right there with you.
Bettie
(19,795 posts)with short notice and says to be ready to go. He has a few people to pick up along the way.
PutGramaOnThePhone
(236 posts)Ive talked with my brother about us being ready to head to DC if the election is stolen. If arrests like this start, I dont see myself staying here. Ill be with ya. However, as far as this country has fallen, I still dont see the arrests happening.
How sad it is that the words in trumps ARREST THEM ALL tweet are what should only be heard by a few doctors, nurses, and orderlies, on this side of the locked door of a psych ward; not broadcast from the White House.
moose65
(3,458 posts)The Mad King said Burn them all, and Trump says Arrest them all.
Of course, the Mad King was killed right after he said that 😳
TeamPooka
(25,577 posts)Bernardo de La Paz
(60,320 posts)Burn all the institutions Obama, Carter, RBG, and John Lewis fought for?
Nuts.
SoonerPride
(12,286 posts)Period
Bernardo de La Paz
(60,320 posts)DBoon
(25,087 posts)and is now channeling the last days of Stalin.
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)Probably a similar drug-induced psychotic break.
Dem2theMax
(11,005 posts)Crossing my fingers. Crossing my toes, crossing my knees, my eyes, anything I can cross.
hatrack
(65,017 posts)So too Donald J. Shitstain, though "Sieg Vile!" would probably be a better salutation for the West Wing.
Crunchy Frog
(28,294 posts)with wave after wave of purging and mass arrests, pretty much indiscriminately, for the next two decades of his life and rule.
In his final days he concocted a conspiracy that Jewish doctors were trying to kill him, and started yet another round. Fortunately he died soon after, and his successors called it off.
It really characterized his entire time in power, apart from the earliest years when he was consolidating behind the scenes.
DBoon
(25,087 posts)Trump has gone from being power-mad to just plain mad.
regnaD kciN
(27,678 posts)...claimed the WaPo was investigating just such a planned October Surprise. Since then, I think other events overtook any coverage. But Im not all all convinced it wont happen and Trumps tweets suggest he knows about it as well.
Hekate
(100,133 posts)TwilightZone
(28,836 posts)This is nothing but another Trump pipe dream. We should probably stop giving them attention.
elleng
(141,926 posts)TwilightZone
(28,836 posts)COL Mustard
(8,326 posts)Ew ew ew ew ew. I gotta take a shower now. Ew
regnaD kciN
(27,678 posts)See my reply above. It sounds like this has been a plan in the works by this administration as a last-ditch move to sway the election, even before this.
TwilightZone
(28,836 posts)Biden is going to win by double digits. The election will be called election night and no one will take anything Trump says about the election after that point seriously.
The constant doom and gloom posting around here based on Trump's fever dreams has grown beyond tiresome.
Turin_C3PO
(16,385 posts)Trumps administration is not competent enough to pull off a coup. Hes not playing 3D chess.
NewsCenter28
(1,837 posts)When the Comey letter gave them the presidency.
drray23
(8,809 posts)Clinton, Obama, Biden all have secret service protection. Nobody is going to walk up to them and try to arrest them. Its just Trump being delirious and feeding his base with hatred.
LizBeth
(11,222 posts)Renew Deal
(85,282 posts)smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)He is completely off the rails. Time for the 25th. Lock HIM UP!
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)bdtrppr6
(796 posts)raccoon
(32,430 posts)triron
(22,240 posts)cwydro
(51,308 posts)Burn DC to the ground? Wtf?
Siwsan
(27,871 posts)And, wouldn't it make more sense if he had finger screamed 'BIDEN GOT CAUGHT - SHOULDN'T BE ALLOWED TO RUN!!!' Seems to me to flow much smoother.
LakeArenal
(29,949 posts)Siwsan
(27,871 posts)yardwork
(69,504 posts)LakeArenal
(29,949 posts)yardwork
(69,504 posts)Demovictory9
(37,113 posts)Mr. Ected
(9,714 posts)And when the shit is finally able to hit the fan without manipulation of the system, it'll be Donald Trump, a Man for All Treasons, being frog-marched to federal prison.
lostnfound
(17,586 posts)Might be a saving grace.
Baitball Blogger
(52,561 posts)and expose them to Covid.
C Moon
(13,696 posts)BKDem
(1,733 posts)Dem2theMax
(11,005 posts)dameatball
(7,671 posts)CatMor
(6,212 posts)has to be the BIGGEST OF ALL POLITICAL SCANDALS (IN HISTORY). Everything with him is biggest, best in the history of the world. If my father was acting like that me and my family would have intervened long ago.
kskiska
(27,165 posts)Or will they, if he demands them?
BarbD
(1,472 posts)Or, as you say, keep him on perpetual low doses.
vlyons
(10,252 posts)FakeNoose
(42,044 posts)If they invoke the 25th Amendment and declare Chump unable to carry out his office, then Pence becomes interim POTUS, and Madame Speaker Pelosi moves up to #2.
However I think it has to be a super majority vote, am I right? It has to be more than 51% to unseat him. It doesn't seem likely that would happen because they've all kissed the ring.
Nay
(12,051 posts)and kills someone. And maybe not even then.
barbtries
(31,325 posts)nothing has been done. now he's apparently suffering a psychotic break in public and still nothing is done. if it wasn't actually happening it would fail as fiction.
SammyWinstonJack
(44,317 posts)maryellen99
(3,798 posts)LaMouffette
(2,655 posts)This is scary as hell! The desperation in those all-caps tweets sounds like an urgent plea to his supporters to take action. I am terrified that one or more of them will do something violent, just like the guy that shot up the D.C. pizza place because he believed Hillary was running a pedophile ring out of its basement.
Although Trump is saying (in writing) that he wants Biden, Hillary, and Obama simply to be arrested, I think he is hoping that his "army" hears a dog-whistled call to arms.
I'm so sick of this shit! I agree with the other poster in this thread: It's 25th Amendment time.
muriel_volestrangler
(106,429 posts)LaMouffette
(2,655 posts)At least I didn't type "Biden, Hillary, and Covfefe"!
Whew. What crazy times. I think I need to take a deep breath and go for a long walk to enjoy the beautiful fall weather out there today! This, too, will pass, one way or another.
yardwork
(69,504 posts)MFGsunny
(2,356 posts)Akacia
(651 posts)happened in the last few years, hard to keep it all straight.
LaMouffette
(2,655 posts)And what about the Russian operatives and white supremacist provocateurs who will amplify Trump's roided-out messaging to further encourage the unhinged to act out?
jcgoldie
(12,046 posts)Arrest them theyre getting away! No not me THEM! WAHHHHH!
Cha
(319,862 posts)Guilded Lilly
(5,591 posts)onetexan
(13,913 posts)kacekwl
(9,213 posts)whatever he calls the shit he used.
Buckeyeblue
(6,402 posts)No other president has ever been this psychotic. Not even Nixon. And he was the craziest until Trump brought back crazy.
He needs to resign. Effective last Friday. He can no longer be president. It's too dangerous.
MoonRiver
(36,975 posts)Sympthsical
(11,057 posts)Hes mentally unstable.
Even off Barr attempted it (he wont), Trump would lose by numbers we havent seen in a generation. He may already be going that route.
The mans done and hes flailing. The meds are intensifying it. I wish people would stop reacting to it in exactly the way he wants.
I_UndergroundPanther
(13,375 posts)Hard to look away..
Btw saw an actual train wreck. Thankfully nobody was hurt,it was a slow moving cargo train . It was weird I just stood on the bridge above the track watching as each car would move up the track hit the turned over car in front of it with a huge BOOM and it tipped over off the track,as the next car behind it moved up and..BOOM.
I think that same morbid rubbernecking kind of fascination with this train wreck trump is why people are watching the crazy asshole tweets get crazier and crazier they are waiting to hear the boom when trump keels over..
Sympthsical
(11,057 posts)So this is certainly novel, Ill give it that.
I was nervous as hell in 2016. I knew there was no minor chance we could lose. When it happened, I thought, That seems about right. This time? Nah, hes done. Now its about limiting the damage he can do before hes gone or he croaks. That makes me nervous.
(Im glad no one was injured!)
I_UndergroundPanther
(13,375 posts)The other cars were still drifting down the sloped track banging and falling over as they drifted down Eventually the banging and tipping of the cars stopped. But like 6 or 7 cars that were drifting down just ran into the other tipped cars and fell over too.
The train was not moving it was half crashed on a downhill slope when I saw it.
I hope it makes sense now.
yardwork
(69,504 posts)Yawn.
honest.abe
(9,238 posts)This is becoming a serious national security problem. Someone needs to do something.
empedocles
(15,751 posts)nolabear
(43,850 posts)I mean...does he just scroll around or use search terms or how the hell does he even see Girl Bot? And is he telling HER to do something?
Hey guys...the presidents coo-coo for Cocoa Puffs.
😳
CentralMass
(16,993 posts)the gas developed by Dr Poison giving him metahuman powers.
OregonBlue
(8,228 posts)Todd79
(166 posts)OregonBlue
(8,228 posts)llmart
(17,679 posts)Yeah, I'm gonna go out on a limb here and say I think the steroid cocktails have pushed him over the edge.
Where's that "Old Man Yells At Clouds" cartoon when we need it?
luvtheGWN
(1,343 posts)of dexamethasone, which is why 1. he's not having a fever, and 2. he's demonstrating a great deal more megalomania than usual.
Of course, if he's snorting adderall, that just probably doubles the effects of the steroid.
His doctors should lose their licence, but then again, they're all military and must obey his orders. Spineless creatures they are -- they would be able to defend their case if only they would do the right thing and treat him correctly.
PoindexterOglethorpe
(28,493 posts)
llmart
(17,679 posts)Now tell me that isn't the perfect depiction of today's meltdown.
barbtries
(31,325 posts)or he denied having any symptoms? cause there's a big difference there.
mtnsnake
(22,236 posts)crickets
(26,168 posts)If only he were on a Vaudeville stage -- we could get out the hook.
VA_Jill
(14,492 posts)is having full-blown steroid psychosis. I've seen it before. Something awful is going to happen if his doctors don't do something...but everyone is afraid of him. This is f**king scary.
Takket
(23,757 posts)Roc2020
(1,791 posts)weapons. Is anyone else really really really....really concerned about this like I am? Trump mind is oatmeal right now!
Crunchy Frog
(28,294 posts)that they will have to shoot to get through. See how a majority of Americans like seeing an American Tiananmen Square.
This will mark the beginning of a hot civil war in this country. No holds barred at that point. Better get your gun ready if you've got them, learn how to make IEDs andothermakeshiftweapons, hope to get at least some of the military on our side.
avebury
(11,197 posts)Trump will come across as bat shit crazy and ready for the looney bin.
Yeah I know, crazier then he normally is.
AllaN01Bear
(29,739 posts)LAS14
(15,522 posts)... when the normal practice is to use military doctors when he's the commander in chief. I've tried to get my head around this. What's to prevent him from just ordering doctors to prescribe more steroids?
Illumination
(2,458 posts)jb5150
(1,364 posts)You never go full Dexamethasone ...
Dave Starsky
(5,914 posts)Bradshaw3
(7,964 posts)It's like Hitler moving around imaginary divisions at the end of WWII with his generals nodding agreement while knowing he was nuts.
I don't know where people think drumpf gets some superpower to do whatever he wants. He has been rebuked many times and it's obvious even to the repubs he is going down. The military has said they won't interfere in the election, Roberts and other courts has bucked him and I guarantee you the Secret Service isn't going to help him. He's going to lose, he's going to leave office and Obama and Clinton will be celebrating on Nov. 3 wherever they choose, but it won't be prison.
avebury
(11,197 posts)Time for a psych eval.
The Genealogist
(4,739 posts)What the hell is he talking about?
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(136,588 posts)That's why he feels 20 years younger
The Genealogist
(4,739 posts)Physically, I mean, of course. He's caused massive suffering in other ways.
lindysalsagal
(22,973 posts)Person of Interest
(382 posts)Sancho
(9,211 posts)bucolic_frolic
(55,517 posts)Paranoid rants are usually some guy holed up in his or his girlfriend's house and threatening harm to himself or others. I don't see much difference. Threats to enemies, against the public or "the system", demands that are beyond crazy. And naming potential accomplices. Local authorities usually have jurisdiction.
wiggs
(8,838 posts)japple
(10,459 posts)Wonder if he's roaming around the WH in his drawers cursing at the portraits of past presidents?
Bernardo de La Paz
(60,320 posts)generalbetrayus
(1,930 posts)He's obviously cuckoo.
wiggs
(8,838 posts)PatrickforO
(15,482 posts)He's 'ROIDAL!!!
Marcuse
(9,064 posts)orangecrush
(30,723 posts)The Magistrate
(96,043 posts)Poor little things are tucked away beneath the belly's apron.
duforsure
(11,885 posts)He knows that's what he's going to be facing soon. He's used this tactic many times before. He's also mentally ill, and his health is declining now, and he knows he's about to suffer an embarrassing historic loss.
Buckeye_Democrat
(15,529 posts)... will all be revealed eventually, and it's surely related to various kinds of fraud beyond his taxes.
The orange Covid-blob does not want to ever leave the WH. The legal immunity is too appealing.
orangecrush
(30,723 posts)UserNotFound
(114 posts)And there's no telling what sort of sanitation protocols are gonna be necessary for the White House to be safe enough to be occupied by decent human beings....
mucifer
(25,704 posts)H2O Man
(79,156 posts)He sounds like a very stable genius.
Captain Zero
(8,936 posts)If he is already trying to get off of the steroids it is too much for his psyche with every thing else on his plate.
They need to start some psych meds.
barbtries
(31,325 posts)he's either in withdrawal or roid raging or overmedicated or mixing up his covid meds with his normal meds or WTF.
where is Barr? he might be sick. that'd be a shame eh.
trump would definitely be perfectly fine with imprisoning his political enemies on made up charges, the only question is if Barr far gone enough to go along and do it for him.
my response? Protest, protest, protest. no justice no peace. to hell with covid in that case. which incidentally is my plan if trump steals the election in November. I don't wanna die from covid and have taken extreme measures for months so i don't, but that would be a bridge too far.
what would your response be?
ThoughtCriminal
(14,744 posts)Because there is nothing but cowards left at the WH and GOP leadership.
Even the worst of them know he is completely insane and out of control, but continue to pretend that this is okay and normal.
I am not interested in their excuses after Trump is gone, they are disqualified for even the least important jobs on the planet.
C Moon
(13,696 posts)Maybe they want to wait and see how Pence does in the debate tonight. Then Friday 25th Trump. Doubtful, but anything is possible at this point.
homegirl
(1,978 posts)of Trump's Cabinet are "acting." They have not been examined and approved by the Senate or the House. So, in fact there is no legal cabinet to act on Article 4 of the 25th Amendment. Trump is a wily fox!
Ligyron
(8,009 posts)That guy doesn't know shit about anything except his desires.
homegirl
(1,978 posts)there are those cunning enough to outsmart him, and McConnell.
BobTheSubgenius
(12,244 posts)Alcohol! I'd do a lot of things, savoury or not...or pay a decent sum of money to see Drumpf started drinking. But not a sip of sherry in the evening.
The amount of consumption that Steve Bannon seems to achieve, for one.
Intoxication Level: Bert Kreischer
FakeNoose
(42,044 posts)That would give us a big clue. Alcohol will not come in to play for Chump, even though it probably has for most of us.
LuckyLib
(7,053 posts)He lies about everything. Why should this be different?
dflprincess
(29,388 posts)for a not guilty by reason of mental disease or defect defense.
gordianot
(15,780 posts)This is who Trump has been all along. So far this is big talk but people need to listen. Old men just do not care and Trump is an old scared Psychopath who cares only for himself.
Buckeye_Democrat
(15,529 posts)The behavior is consistent with his past.
lpbk2713
(43,285 posts)But damn, he makes it very difficult to keep from doing so.
jorgevlorgan
(11,098 posts)He is a basket case.
world wide wally
(21,836 posts)Their alternative is to put him in a padded room.
FormerOstrich
(2,891 posts)He wants a wave of people saying (rightfully so) that you can't lock up your political enemies. He wants the outrage.
Then when they try to lock him up (rightfully so) the thing will turn around and use your words as justification of how he is persucuted.
He did the same thing in 2016 when he would make statements about voter fraud and rigged elections. We were outraged. Our systems were safe. So when it was stolen/hacked he could point out about it wasn't because of those defending the systems about how safe they are.
Keeping the outrage alive.
warmfeet
(3,321 posts)I_UndergroundPanther
(13,375 posts)Want to shrink and drown the government (establisment)in a bathtub. Republican policies and votes have gone twords this goal
wryter2000
(47,940 posts)Der Kaiser is a lunatic.
Progressive dog
(7,609 posts)That requires the civil servants, who actually have to make these arrests, to disobey their oaths to the Constitution and spit in the faces of the American people. It is not going to happen and those who do participate will be the ones who are locked up. Vote them out and he'll be gone.
The Magistrate
(96,043 posts)It would be amusing to press him on just what statute was violated....