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duforsure

(11,884 posts)
Fri Oct 16, 2020, 11:01 AM Oct 2020

Is trump already threatening us?

He projected Biden would cause a Great Depression, and he projects onto others what he's doing. If he loses will he intentionally hurt and crash the economy more before he's forced to leave office so he can claim to his followers he was right, and to try and make him look bad. He's done this in business before when he didn't get his way.

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Is trump already threatening us? (Original Post) duforsure Oct 2020 OP
I would be very surprised if he didn't woodsprite Oct 2020 #1
A while back there were some articles putting forward this very thesis. Mike 03 Oct 2020 #2
I've said for some time that if/when Trump loses he'll burn the house down as he's leaving. Arkansas Granny Oct 2020 #3
Trump lives for revenge. He will try and burn everything down on his way out dalton99a Oct 2020 #4
Bounties! From Putin. GeorgeGist Oct 2020 #5
Not that much trump can do in 2.5 months. My guess he'll rant a bit, but sulk most of Hoyt Oct 2020 #6
He would probably bring it all down if he could. LuvNewcastle Oct 2020 #7
He's very vindictive by nature PatSeg Oct 2020 #8
He still has his finger on the Nuclear bomb. fwvinson Oct 2020 #9
When he loses on election day, he will continue tweeting orders, grievances, demands, and threats. OAITW r.2.0 Oct 2020 #10
He has been a threat to America Cartaphelius Oct 2020 #11
When has he not been threatening us? Wounded Bear Oct 2020 #12
My thoughts exactly. n/t Zing Zing Zingbah Oct 2020 #14
It's a scare tactic MissMillie Oct 2020 #13
He will instigate right wing terrorism. roamer65 Oct 2020 #15
If anything Windy City Charlie Oct 2020 #16
He has already intentionally hurt the economy. His inaction has crippled the economy lettucebe Oct 2020 #17
Change the locks on the White House as soon as Biden is elected. spanone Oct 2020 #18
He will sabotage everything, and Moscow Mitch and the GOP will help him. Midnight Writer Oct 2020 #19
He's already crashed the economy. lagomorph777 Oct 2020 #20

woodsprite

(11,904 posts)
1. I would be very surprised if he didn't
Fri Oct 16, 2020, 11:06 AM
Oct 2020

He only wants to hurt America and all of it's people - even his own followers. He feels we only exist to be used.

Mike 03

(16,616 posts)
2. A while back there were some articles putting forward this very thesis.
Fri Oct 16, 2020, 11:08 AM
Oct 2020

I do believe he has the scorched earth attitude a lot of charismatic dictators do: "If I'm going down, I'm taking everybody else with me."

A number of psychiatrists, too, have stated that if Trump loses the most dangerous period for America would be between November 3 and the inauguration of Biden.

Arkansas Granny

(31,506 posts)
3. I've said for some time that if/when Trump loses he'll burn the house down as he's leaving.
Fri Oct 16, 2020, 11:08 AM
Oct 2020

He will do as much damage as he can so the incoming administration will have to spend vast amounts of time and money undoing what he has done. It won't all happen in my lifetime.

 

Hoyt

(54,770 posts)
6. Not that much trump can do in 2.5 months. My guess he'll rant a bit, but sulk most of
Fri Oct 16, 2020, 11:12 AM
Oct 2020

that period.

LuvNewcastle

(16,834 posts)
7. He would probably bring it all down if he could.
Fri Oct 16, 2020, 11:14 AM
Oct 2020

I just don't think he's got the power to do it singlehandedly. He would have a hard time finding himself help to do it, too, if he loses. Maybe the Russians would. I'm hoping that he'll be pretty well locked down of he loses. Lots of people will be watching his ass.

PatSeg

(47,260 posts)
8. He's very vindictive by nature
Fri Oct 16, 2020, 11:14 AM
Oct 2020

When he loses, I have no doubt he will feel justified in some kind of payback. He is rotten to the core.

 

fwvinson

(488 posts)
9. He still has his finger on the Nuclear bomb.
Fri Oct 16, 2020, 11:14 AM
Oct 2020

Drop a Nuke on some little, poor country and say we are at war and he can't leave because......

OAITW r.2.0

(24,287 posts)
10. When he loses on election day, he will continue tweeting orders, grievances, demands, and threats.
Fri Oct 16, 2020, 11:19 AM
Oct 2020

All of which will be ignored by all sane people.

 

Cartaphelius

(868 posts)
11. He has been a threat to America
Fri Oct 16, 2020, 11:29 AM
Oct 2020

he was since the day was hatched, with NO let-up in sight.

Kinda like that bully that steals your lunch money day after
day and demands payment for Saturday, Sunday and Holidays
when he wasn't able to extract payment.

MissMillie

(38,529 posts)
13. It's a scare tactic
Fri Oct 16, 2020, 11:46 AM
Oct 2020

and he's counting on people not knowing that his own alma mater says that Biden's plan will stimulate more economic growth and more quickly than anything he's planning on doing.

Windy City Charlie

(1,178 posts)
16. If anything
Fri Oct 16, 2020, 11:56 AM
Oct 2020

If anything, I think one of the first things Trump will try and do is amplify some in his base and have them go out and be disruptive and destructive, knowing those people will get charged for the crimes, not him. After that who knows what else he'll do until January.

lettucebe

(2,336 posts)
17. He has already intentionally hurt the economy. His inaction has crippled the economy
Fri Oct 16, 2020, 01:29 PM
Oct 2020

for at least the next decade, IMO. When I say economy I mean everyone, not those in the markets, not only the rich, everyone. People can afford a home and food for instance.

Midnight Writer

(21,712 posts)
19. He will sabotage everything, and Moscow Mitch and the GOP will help him.
Fri Oct 16, 2020, 04:02 PM
Oct 2020

They will make sure Biden inherits a nation in crisis.

The more the Democrats have to deal with immediate emergencies, the less they will be able to undo Republican fuckery.

And they are counting on the American voter to have a short memory.

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