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duforsure

(11,885 posts)
1. Sounds like more roger stone dirty tricks
Sat Apr 18, 2020, 07:08 AM
Apr 2020

From trump , and to use as pr distracting away from his complete failure with this virus, and the more gets exposed its leaning towards his refusals to act , and to help was intentionally done to hurt Americans strictly for political reasons. The gop went along with him too. Still are. Stone used this tactic during the W bush election fiasco too.

Squinch

(51,123 posts)
2. I agree with all this, but I think it's counterproductive to refer to
Sat Apr 18, 2020, 07:09 AM
Apr 2020

small gatherings of needledicks with guns as "insurrections." Better we should call them "imbecile parades" or "inadequacy parties."

2naSalit

(87,201 posts)
5. Incubator brigades.
Sat Apr 18, 2020, 08:12 AM
Apr 2020

Wonder how many of them will still be around by the end of next month.

Squinch

(51,123 posts)
6. More importantly, how many of their innocent contacts.
Sat Apr 18, 2020, 08:13 AM
Apr 2020

2naSalit

(87,201 posts)
7. That might never be known...
Sat Apr 18, 2020, 08:18 AM
Apr 2020

which is why this is so tragic, otherwise, the planet can do without their input.

Squinch

(51,123 posts)
8. Exactly.
Sat Apr 18, 2020, 08:19 AM
Apr 2020

no_hypocrisy

(46,425 posts)
3. The equivalent would be the end of Weimar Germany in 1934, Hitler being appointed
Sat Apr 18, 2020, 07:14 AM
Apr 2020

Chancellor, and he called out to "liberate Baveria" because the region wouldn't recognize his Enabling Act. (The streets would have been flooded with Brown Shirts . . . . . . )

N_E_1 for Tennis

(9,843 posts)
4. I'm really starting to lose my patience...
Sat Apr 18, 2020, 08:05 AM
Apr 2020

With stupid.

jimmil

(629 posts)
9. Laws are for the little people. N/T
Sat Apr 18, 2020, 08:27 AM
Apr 2020

Kablooie

(18,658 posts)
10. He's trying to create violent riots so he can turn on martial law.
Sat Apr 18, 2020, 08:32 AM
Apr 2020

That would be the beginning of his true dictatorship.
He knows about Hitler, his ex-wife said so, and that's how Hitler did it.



Harker

(14,164 posts)
11. A clear call to arms in Virginia.
Sat Apr 18, 2020, 08:35 AM
Apr 2020

There's plenty of rabble to rouse in the US, and they're just waiting for a nudge to go on the offensive.

RVN VET71

(2,708 posts)
12. When it comes from the leader
Sat Apr 18, 2020, 08:49 AM
Apr 2020

it is a call to arms.

Trump would like nothing better than to see martyrs stupidly firing on the State Capitol shot down by National Guard troops.

Trump knows that only damn fools and idiots would harken to his call to arms -- but he knows fucking well that his tweet about Virginia was just that.

If the boozers and losers who might actually decide to take up their trusty AR-15s were to die in a suicide scenario that the press would dignify as "brave but foolish," Trump's campaign would use the deaths as an example of a frustrated group of proud Americans who just reached the end of their rope (no hanging pun intended).

And if they die like clowns, shooting themselves in the foot, so to speak, he'd just disavow them and call on his fellow Trumpians not to follow their example. But still inveighing against the "repressive" tactics of the State.

bucolic_frolic

(43,688 posts)
13. Trump is reopening the corona virus for MAGAts to share!
Sat Apr 18, 2020, 08:53 AM
Apr 2020

MAGAts will retest Trump's corona virus as a hoax theory!

Darwin awards for all!

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