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From "If you're a celebrity, they let you do it... grab 'em by the pussy" to "I never think about Americans' financial situtations - not even a little bit" he has shouted his contempt for the people he's supposed to be serving, over and over again.
His first Administration ripped children from their families, jailed and deported thousands. He did nothing about America's crumbling infrastructure. He build the Great Wall of Failure and his minions grifted millions from gullible xenophobes. His family grifted millions from Middle East tyrants. His botched response to the Covid pandemic inflated the cost of American lives to over 400,000. And then, having been dumped on his ear, he LITERALLY TRIED TO OVERTHROW DEMOCRATIC GOVERNMENT and prevent the peaceful transfer of power.
He promised a bloodbath if Americans didn't elect him in 2024, but declined to mention that he and his posse of grifty fraudsters would drain our pockets of every dime they could lay their hands on if we did elect him.
Instead of ending inflation, bringing prices down, and keeping America out of ill-conceived wars, he's given us $5 a gallon gas, sent our increasingly-unaffordable beef to China, trashed the global energy supply chain, depleted valuable strategic defense resources on meaningless splodey stuff, and appointed a cabinet of the most venal, corrupt, cray-cray and outright imbecilic numpties America has ever seen. They've brought back lethal epidemic diseases while pooh-poohing vaccines and kneecapping public health, killed peacefully protesting Americans in our own streets, trashed decades-old, carefully achieved foreign policy gains overnight, and turned the DOJ into their private revenge litigation machine.
He TORE DOWN THE EAST WING of the White House, without any kind of process and the damage that airborne asbestos, entirely unabated, will be doing in DC for a generation hasn't even been calculated yet. He's used what used to be the most respected bully pulpit in the world as a medicine show caravan for his and his family's grifty shit, hawking cheapass 'gold plated' phones with 11-stripe American flags on them, cryptotrash, EFTs, Bibles, and anything else they can make a buck on.
Now he's turning the IRS into an ATM for him, his family, and anyone he wants to bribe or reward with OUR TAX DOLLARS, all while declaring himself and his family IMMUNE to any kind of legal or financial scrutnity for their endless criming, forever.
WHAT IS IT GOING TO TAKE?
flabbergastedly,
Bright
MyOwnPeace
(17,611 posts)we have to recognize that the two 'other' branches - you know, the 'equal' ones - sit with their hands (I was going to say "thumbs up their a**es, but they're too busy counting the money and need all fingers and thumbs) guarding their own wallets while digging deeper into ours.
Where is the OUTRAGE from Congress, both from what tRump is doing - and what the Supremes are permitting?
And WHERE is 'justice' from the 'SUPREME COURT' - the ones that gave permission to tRump to do whatever he wants - the people that lie to Congress in their own appointment hearings?
It's time - DO IT NOW - FIGHT BACK - or we are lost.....................
Mysterian
(6,629 posts)They have been brainwashed by the billionaire-owned mass media to be enemies of the USA, like Trump and his evil cronies.
lastlib
(28,624 posts)"It takes *millions* to win a war. To LOSE one--takes EVERYTHING you've got."
This election must be treated as a war--the people against the oligarchs. And if we lose it--well, We. Lose. EVERYTHING. Not winning it OVERWHELMINGLY, INCONTROVERTIBLY, could be the same as losing it.
All. Hands. On. Deck! BATTLE STATIONS!!
yellow dahlia
(6,488 posts)What next? How low can they go?
Fiendish Thingy
(24,098 posts)Thats what it would take.
Maybe.
in2herbs
(4,538 posts)for all -- including Rs and MAGAs if Ds are elected and lay out a plan for it to happen -- like taxing oldigarchs. Then Ds can sit back and watch Rs twist in knots to avoid making the same promise.
AverageOldGuy
(4,175 posts)I am convinced we will not have free elections in 2026 and 2028.
MAGAt election deniers are inserting themselves into federal and state positions where they can influence vote tallying and reporting.
I fully expect federal troops or officers -- ICE, probably -- to try to stop people from voting, seize ballot boxes, etc., etc., and announce that Republicans held onto the House and Senate in 2026.
In 2028, Trump will be re-elected.
Buy then, it's all over. We will have a full-blown dictatorship.
And don't tell me the US military will save us. I served 28 years, retired as a colonel. I knew a few 4-star officers with integrity. I doubt that there are any of that caliber any longer -- they will do what Trump orders.
llmart
(17,729 posts)Wednesdays
(23,144 posts)58Sunliner
(6,418 posts)Fil1957
(880 posts)East and maybe Cuba. When the quality of life is ruined for most of the 90%, and it becomes abundantly clear that Trump and the GOP are directly responsible for our national calamity, most people who support him now will abandon him.
In a better world things shouldn't have to get that bad for people to see the obvious, but unfortunately in the world we live in today they must.
Oh, and no matter how bad things get in this nation, there will always be a hardcore 10% that will stick with him no matter what. Like the hardcore Nazis in April of 1945 who chose to commit suicide, because they couldn't stand the idea of living in a world without Hitler.
BattleRow
(2,714 posts)Too many pigs still at the trough.
dalton99a
(95,317 posts)kentuck
(115,637 posts)there is a time and place for everything. What is it going to take? Perhaps we shall know soon?
Mtnmama
(167 posts)It seems there is no end to trumps corruption and desire to rip the United States to pieces, as long as HE benefits. That the republican party and Supreme Court allow this is mind blowing. America being destroyed before our eyes.
vapor2
(4,925 posts)I like your analogy of using the IRS as an ATM. Sadly spot on
canetoad
(21,032 posts)Millions of angry Americans marching on the White House calling for trump's removal. The Philippines did it, so did Ukraine. Arab Spring involved many countried. There have been literally scores of uprising against despots. He needs to be frightened out of his wits by angry hordes at his door. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_revolutions_and_rebellions



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