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EndlessWire

(6,485 posts)
36. I think we ARE there.
Sat Jan 11, 2020, 10:11 PM
Jan 2020

He has defied the Congress. He has bullied the Senate into submission. He controls the party in power. He does not follow Constitutional law. He has positioned the SC in his favor to the point that no one is confident of any judicial decisions they make. He boasts of his singular power. He has assassinated a ranking member of a foreign country without even discussing it with half the Congress. He admires, consults, and models himself after the worst, most oppressive evil leaders in the world. He is busy gaining control of our three branches of government to benefit him and only him. He installed his totally unqualified family members into sensitive positions of power and allowed them to wheel and deal in our foreign policy arena for their benefit but in our name.

He has attempted to suppress our free press, intimidating anyone who says anything against his regime. He has sorted our population into categories that he would personally, along with his Party, like to see excluded from our midst. He has apparently excluded Puerto Rico from receiving disaster funding, and would like to exclude California, as well.

This is well beyond a well-meaning but bumbling, lovable old fool who happened to gain the Presidency. He is a vicious, calculating individual who will be more than happy to disappear your civil rights, declare you persona non grata, or someone who isn't worth feeding or caring for in any way.

If we do NOT defeat him at the polls--and, we may never know what happened there--we can at that point kiss our country goodbye. WE MUST KEEP THE HOUSE AND TAKE BACK THE SENATE. We must purge our leadership of Trump et al and his family.

And, let me say, this UTTER CRAP about him being some kind of G*d-sent personage is vomitous. He is not here to help anyone but himself. And, so far he, he has done nothing but alienate all our friends around the world, helped a guy get butchered, and almost started WW3--and, that ain't over.

When a guy walks all over the Constitution in defiance of our ruling branches, and probably uses it for toilet paper, then he is a dictator enabled by those who back him up. This isn't someone who is going to go away quietly. Brace yourself.

And, although I would like to see him in trouble with the Courts, his having to pay in civil court for a rape that he will wiggle out of for years doesn't mean a thing to the overall scheme of our troubles. I'm rooting for her. But, this guy needs to be impeached, and that COMPLETE ASSHOLE MFER TURTLEMAN, NUNES, GRAHAM, ETC. are protecting him. They are all traitors.

It's the frog in boiling water tale. We are slipping away faster than you think.

Yep. Basically. Jamastiene Jan 2020 #1
And on election day putin is gonna stand down, rump is gonna leave when he loses Eliot Rosewater Jan 2020 #2
Dictators need elections. i worry how fair it will be. nt Kurt V. Jan 2020 #12
It won't be pandr32 Jan 2020 #23
Democrats need to be prepared for anything. Turin_C3PO Jan 2020 #27
That's how it seems. Arkansas Granny Jan 2020 #3
Yep. He is using every loophole in the law to delay delay delay NCProgressive Jan 2020 #4
republicans have destroyed our democracy. they have given trump dictatorial powers. spanone Jan 2020 #5
If he wins in Nov. our republic is over and the dictatorship commences... brush Jan 2020 #6
For a glimpse.... Wuddles440 Jan 2020 #7
It seems we have been slow to recognize that for the past two years we Enoki33 Jan 2020 #8
I cannot disagree with anything you have said. Ferrets are Cool Jan 2020 #9
Unfortunately, we have several. Pompeo, Mnuchin, Barr, and McConnell librechik Jan 2020 #10
You are what your work says you are. ooky Jan 2020 #11
In the words of WC Fields, world wide wally Jan 2020 #13
So far Trump has been checked by the courts for most of his worst policies but what he is doing to Pepsidog Jan 2020 #14
Creeping fascism. smirkymonkey Jan 2020 #15
We have one, single chance to save our country. Turin_C3PO Jan 2020 #28
Never leave off the most important clause to that: JHB Jan 2020 #16
Not yet. But if he's exonerated, he'll have written the baseline job description. Let's vote to make ancianita Jan 2020 #17
The GOP are COWARDS. Kid Berwyn Jan 2020 #18
He assassinates a world leader... lame54 Jan 2020 #19
Makes you want to slap the shit out of the MAGAts doesn't it? ffr Jan 2020 #20
May I borrow this for a Letter to The Editor of my local laper? ProudMNDemocrat Jan 2020 #21
Sure! kentuck Jan 2020 #22
I edited it to put in some other points, but a great post nonetheless. ProudMNDemocrat Jan 2020 #32
Many thanks for sharing vapor2 Jan 2020 #37
rec'd the OP but do not admit it. Regime is getting more dictatorish, but not there yet. Bernardo de La Paz Jan 2020 #24
I think we ARE there. EndlessWire Jan 2020 #36
Perhaps. For a time. PatrickforO Jan 2020 #25
Hell yes thegoose Jan 2020 #26
We're close to a dictatorship Turin_C3PO Jan 2020 #29
He needs to have a debilitating heart attack (or fatal...either way) Moostache Jan 2020 #30
Eons ago, back in my college days, a Political Science Prof once said: classof56 Jan 2020 #31
Trump is not a benevolent dictator. kentuck Jan 2020 #33
Oh, I'm well aware of that. classof56 Jan 2020 #34
Why can't we just live in peace? kentuck Jan 2020 #35
Great post. Unfortunately, so true. Nt raccoon Jan 2020 #38
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