How would you feel if your entire belief system had collapsed around you?

[kentuck]

That must be how Donald feels?

He has worked harder since he lost the election than at anytime during the last 4 years.

He has created lies out of thin air and persuaded his followers to pronounce them as truth. It is so difficult to pull a rabbit out of a hat when you have no rabbit. Objective reality has slapped him hard.

It always worked for him in the past. He was able to bribe or threaten to get whatever he wanted.

However, this time, the stakes were much too high for him. Too many people knew he was an established liar and nobody was buying his stories without evidence.

So, all he could do was criticize and blame others for his loss. He cried and pouted and threatened everyone he thought was preventing him from realizing his dreams.

His world has collapsed around him.

[brokephibroke]

1. Same for his acolytes

So many emotionally invested to the tilt in the orange shitgibbon.

[kentuck]

2. Did you see the photo of the Nashville bomber?

With his TRUMP IN 2020 - Make the Liberals Cry Again hat?

[brokephibroke]

4. Did not

I’ll have to look....

[brokephibroke]

9. Works

The dude was deranged.

[LiberalArkie]

34. Anthony Quinn Warner, self-employed computer guru ID'd as lone Nashville bomber, killed in blast

“You never saw anyone come and go,” Schmoldt said of Warner’s home. “Never saw him go anywhere. As far as we knew, he was kind of a computer geek that worked at home.”

Warner had placed lights and security cameras outside his house.

He would do a lot of work in his yard, where a tall antenna is prominent on the side of the house, Schmoldt said. Warner built the fence around his yard himself.

The neighbors never talked about politics or religion. Warner never gave any indication of any closely held ideology.

“I can tell you as far as politics, he never had any yard signs or flags in his window or anything like that. If he did have any political beliefs he kept, that was something he kept to himself.

Snip

https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/crime/2020/12/27/anthony-quinn-warner-confirmed-person-interest-nashville-explosion/4052711001/

[TexasBushwhacker]

31. That is NOT the bomber

His neighbor described him as having a "slight" build. Whoever put that picture up on Facebook better take it down unless they want to get sued.

Here is Warner's photo from Antioch High School.

[wnylib]

37. How did you find that photo?

[TexasBushwhacker]

43. Googled his name and looked at "Images"

I saw it earlier in USA Today, as well as a photo from junior high with shorter hair and glasses.

[kentuck]

40. What does he look like at 63 years of age?

We don't know if the Twitter photo is real or not?

[MustLoveBeagles]

59. Here's a photo released by CBS

Link to tweet

The Facebook photo is likely a fake.

See post 12 at the link for a photo of him in his tweens. On another OP there's a photo of him in his late teens with longer hair no glasses.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100214768743

[kentuck]

61. I deleted the other photo from FB

Obviously not the same person.

[Miguelito Loveless]

33. Facebook is NOT a reliable source

Let’s try to not be as gullible as the idiots on the Right.

[Initech]

6. I told ya!!!

They're just a shower curtain and a distorted violin solo from going full on Norman Bates psycho.

[paleotn]

8. I think that's unconfirmed.

Some say the pic in question is an actor named Tony Quinn. But, I wouldn't be a bit surprised if it was him. He checks a whole lot of boxes in the magat demographic.

[kentuck]

15. I heard that he worked for a bunch of IT places in Nashville...

He doesn't look like an IT guy.

[paleotn]

17. I don't think he was a traditional IT type

More of a self taught installer dude, so that may very well be him. I'm sure we'll soon find out. Regardless, the real Anthony Quinn Warren still checks damn near all the trumper boxes. I'd be really surprised if he wasn't.

[kentuck]

19. Maybe the election loss was just more than he could bear?

Many Trump supporters were absolutely certain he was going to win.

[Butterflylady]

46. They're still certain.

They think January 6 is going to do it. After that who knows.

[regnaD kciN]

47. So far, I've seen several alleged photos of the bomber...

...the problem is, he looks completely different in each one. Either he was a master of disguise, or a lot of people named Tony Quinn or Tony Warner are being unwittingly put in danger.

[COL Mustard]

54. I Don't See It On Google

Can you please share a link?

[DownriverDem]

35. Was asked

why are we kicking him when he's down? Totally blind to trump world.

[RainCaster]

3. Really? The world isn't flat?

[Irish_Dem]

5. He is not feeling good right now. nt

[JCMach1]

10. $ grifting is his belief system as far as I can tell

He seems to be doing pretty well with that

[paleotn]

11. Classic case of biting off way more than he could chew....

Federal and state prosecutors can't be scared off with the usual huffing and puffing. What he did to get into office and while in office isn't going to just go away. He can't trust the Pence to pardon him and self pardoning is probably a no go with an unreliable SCOTUS. So really, he's trapped. Ironic, really. He had a pretty good gig going that probably involved money laundering for overseas criminal elements.
Profitable and relatively low profile. Then he blew it all up with delusions of grandeur. Worst thing that ever happened to Donnie was being elected President.

[Baked Potato]

14. Yes, and I bet Trump has exposed a lot of organized crime to scrutiny

they would have never had without his blundering into the presidency. Trump probably has a few well-known dead man switches to use with everything he knows now, but it might not be enough some day to save him.

[wnylib]

42. Make enough enemies and you find

that everyone really is against you.

[Baked Potato]

12. It's just disheartening to know so many Americans were OK with him.

There are many reasons why he still had support... money, racism, revenge, etc. Now that he and his ideology has failed at least enough to remove his presidential powers, we can’t let up.

I would like to see Trump’s disgusting vision of America go down with him, never to return.

[kentuck]

13. Yes, it is disheartening...

...to see so many suckers buying the same watch under the overcoat...

[pwb]

16. Trump should not have gotten as far as he did?

Money and lawyers made Trump. Fake tough, fake power.

[abqtommy]

18. There are people that I feel some empathy for. tRUMP isn't one of them.

[JI7]

20. How has he worked harder ? He is playing golf and tweeting

how is that different from any other time ?

[kentuck]

22. He's tweeting harder...

...and playing more holes than ever before.

[JHB]

21. Entire belief systems only collpase due to shoddy construction

[58Sunliner]

23. They just turn the page and go on to the next grift.

He's a sociopath. They re-invent reality day by day. Sometimes hour by hour or minute by minute. His world has not collapsed. He is the center, no one else. What he says publicly and what he thinks privately are rarely in sync. It's just manipulation.

[mtnsnake]

24. Trump has learned for probably the first time in his utterly pathetic exixtence

that he isn't going up against who he considers to be "little" people who he has been so used to pushing around all his life; he is going up against the likes of Nancy Pelosi, Joe Biden, Adam Schiff, and a bunch of other Democrats who he is no match for. They are out of his league. Money can do nothing for him now. Fucking loser.

[malaise]

25. He's an evil fuck

and I'm just warming up

[kentuck]

26. :-)

[Stuart G]

49. I am sure you are not aware, but the "Evil Fuck Association" of which I am a leader, begs 2 differ..

....In our long existence of analyzing "Evil Fucks"..we in the association have come to a conclusion about
Donald Trump. We have decided to name him..."THE MOST EVIL FUCK IN ALL OF U.S. HISTORY.:

...Our Association spent many days and weeks trying to decide if Trump was worse than Bush Jr. or others
in line to be ..."....MOST EVIL...."

...BUT ....After a while the ..."Evil Fuck Association" came to the conclusion that Trump was indeed ..............
............."THE MOST EVIL FUCK IN ALL OF U.S. HISTORY.....BAR NOBODY.."

Yes that is pretty evil...and if you have got this far..I congratulate you on ability to put up with "BULLSHIT OF
THE HIGHEST ORDER".....OR LOWEST ORDER IF YOU PREFER.....way down low...............

very low.....

lower........

....still lower.............


.............Yes, at the very lowest.......

maybe good for 1/2 a laugh...................................

[malaise]

50. Bwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah

Can I join?

[Stuart G]

55. Of course .........you can be our next Director....in charge of analyizing .."Evil Fucks"

...........While we generally require a year's membership............due to your outstanding work

at Democratic Underground, we will forgo any requirements for membership...and make you the

next ...........DIRECTOR OF EVIL FUCKS............ . immediately as of 9pm ET.....TODAY!!!!

I will immediately resign my position as ............'DIRECTOR" ........and turn it over to you at 9pm ET...


I applaud anyone who believes any of this ...."SH*T"...so in the essence of the ..."HOLIDAY SEASON"""


...............FUCK YOU,........AND FUCK YOU.....AND MORE FUCK YOU......sorry I couldn't stop...

time to hide again...........

(one last one for patriotism.)...

[malaise]

58. Thank you man

[3Hotdogs]

27. WRONG !!! His belief system is working just fine. The system is the grift.

And dumbasses keep pouring it in.

I refer you to around March of 2016 when he was interviewed and said, win or lose, I will make money by running for president.

[hkp11]

38. agreed

it is the grift that is loosing it's charm! the 2020 election results showed him that there were millions (over 81M) who did not believe his cons, lies, etc and that he 74M on his side - so he wants to continue to milk those 74M and get them to fight for him

[yuiyoshida]

29. He knows HE IS GOING to prison ...

All the shit he has pulled the last four years... trying to make himself more wealthy... He knows that's about to come to an end.

[lame54]

32. I don't know he's going to prison

[yuiyoshida]

39. Oh yeah.. YOU can bet on it...

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/manhattan-district-attorney-candidates-cy-vance-trump-prosecution-new-york/


snip
When President Trump leaves office, a slew of investigations promise to cause him legal headaches, including congressional inquiries and probes by the Attorneys General of New York and Washington, D.C. But there's just one publicly known investigation that could lead to criminal charges for Mr. Trump, and it's being led by a district attorney whose office is up for grabs in 2021.


Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. is overseeing the investigation, which initially targeted hush-money payments made during the 2016 campaign to adult film star Stormy Daniels by former Trump attorney Michael Cohen. However, Vance's office has indicated in court filings that the investigation has since widened to look at possible crimes as wide-ranging as fraud and tax evasion.

[lame54]

30. He thought that because Mitch jammed through so many judges...

The courts were his and they would hand him his 2nd term

[TexasBushwhacker]

36. I remember when Obama was elected in 2008

and he and his family came out in Lincoln Park that night. Everyone was SO HAPPY, but then I thought about all the people whose world had just crumbled. I never imagined it would get as bad as it has.

[murielm99]

41. Grant Park.

My daughter was there with a girlfriend. You had to have tickets to get in.

[TexasBushwhacker]

44. You are correct

I get my parks mixed up, especially since I'm not from Chicago.

[Neema]

64. There were areas for folks w/o tix but yeah

it was in Grant Park. We had tickets but it took so long to get inside we were as far away from the stage as you could be. Didn’t matter, we were so happy.

[JohnnyRingo]

45. Have you ever seen a scary movie?

They come back. They always come back.

Fox News
AM Radio
Rallies
Tweets

We may never run out of sequels.

[milestogo]

48. His belief system is self-reinforcing, and it is not collapsing at all.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

51. Guess that happens when you're a spoiled brat

Most of us have faced some adversity in our lives. We know you win some and you lose some.

[Aussie105]

63. Part of growing up, that is, coping with disappointment and personal limitations.

Trump never got that far.

[barbtries]

52. i don't care how he feels.

his only go-to is to hurt others, as many people as he can. so fuck him and fuck his feelings.

[FreeState]

53. I had that happen to me

I doubt Trump is feeling anything close to what it feels like to know your foundational beliefs are not true. It’s devastating on every level possible.

Trump hasn’t let go of any of his beliefs - he still thinks he can convince people he won.

[vlyons]

56. When NY convicts him of running a criminal enterprise and confiscates his property,

and when his creditors line up for whatever's left, then that will be when his world has collapsed.

[BainsBane]

57. He hasn't worked at his job

Of being president. Not one bit. He’s riled up hatred and lies, but that comes naturally to him. One word I would never use about Trump is work.

[cab67]

60. This is probably the first time in his adult life he's been told "no."

It's also probably the first time he couldn't pay or scam his way out of a situation. And he's going to fall off a great big cliff once Biden takes the oath of office.

He'll be destitute and alone. And I won't be sorry.

[Aussie105]

62. When your belief system crumbles . . .

it leaves you empty and angry.

Meh. It's process. Takes months, years, if ever, to get through it.

You go through anger, grief, self evaluation, redeveloping your belief system, adjusting your behavior and attitudes.

Most people have been there, as have I.

Trump though, is too old, his brain too petrified. He will go down screaming, ranting, raving, lashing out, descend into insanity. He will be known as 'that loud person in padded cell #12.'

[Neema]

65. I can't imagine that being possible for me because

I don’t think in black and white absolutes.

I’m spiritually agnostic because, while I’m highly suspect of the notion that there’s a robed white dude in the sky who cares whether or not I’m gay, I accept there are a LOT of things I don’t know about the universe. I sure would be disappointed to learn that God is A-OK with Joel Osteen grifting money for a huge mansion and private jet while people starve to death, but who knows?

I don’t think any leader is an infallible messiah, no matter how good they appear to be. Obviously the gulf of basic humanity between someone like Barack Obama and a shitstain like trump or McConnell is vast, but that doesn’t mean I think Obama is perfect by any stretch.

Sure I’m disappointed when someone I greatly admire turns out to be not so great, but simply don’t think it’s possible for my entire belief system to crash around me because I allow myself to change my mind as facts emerge.