Trump: The Danger Ahead

[MisterBeale]

David Frum strikes me as a "Virtue Hoarder."

None of this critique seems grounded in reality.

Folks on the populist right, and socialists on the left, both believe these PMCs (professional managerial classes,) do nothing by gaslight the population with lies and propaganda, not even grounded in reality at this point. They hoard symbolic capitol.

Book Review | Virtue Hoarders: The Case against the Professional Managerial Class, by Catherine Liu

Reviewed by D. Eric Schansberg | Catherine Liu is a bona fide “liberal.” She’s opposed to cronyism, intolerance, and hypocrisy. She values free speech and robust inquiry. She’s passionate about the working poor and the middle class. All of this means that she can’t stand Democrat leadership and...

www.independent.org

IN the past, the MSM, network news used to do this. . and it worked because the critiques were grounded in reality. . but no more.

 

[Concerned American]

a more focused agenda of retaliation against his adversaries.

LMAO. How could there be a more focused agenda against political adversaries than he has been subjected to over the past seven years? For crying out loud--Russia, Steele Dossier, Ukraine, two failed scam impeachments, more wasted investigations than can be counted, Phony J6 garbage, 91 frivolous political indictments---sure. Try again moron.

 

[toobfreak]

Joe Biden is a "tyrant".

You said it first.

Appeals Court Rules White House Overstepped 1st Amendment on Social Media

A Fifth Circuit panel partly upheld restrictions on the Biden administration’s communications with online platforms about their content.

www.nytimes.com

https://www.npr.org/2023/09/08/1197971952/biden-administration-fifth-circuit-ruling-social-media-injunction

Ruling Puts Social Media at Crossroads of Disinformation and Free Speech

The case, which could alter how the government battles disinformation, is a flashpoint in a broader effort by conservatives to document what they contend is a liberal conspiracy to silence their views.

www.nytimes.com

Judge rules White House pressured social networks to “suppress free speech”

Missouri and Louisiana sued Biden over attempts to limit COVID misinformation.

arstechnica.com

Biden administration coerced social media giants into possible free speech violations: court

The White House may have violated First Amendment rights by pressuring tech companies to suppress or remove posts, 5th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled.

www.usatoday.com

Want to try for threezies, pigshit lying commie? I will shoot you down every time.

 

[Lord Long Rod]

You dumb fucking injun, you spread more manure than a goddamned chicken farmer. "The Danger Ahead"... Give me a fucking break IDIOT!

 

[Arlette]

You dumb fucking injun, you spread more manure than a goddamned chicken farmer. "The Danger Ahead"... Give me a fucking break IDIOT!

America doesn't trust Trump to respect the Constitution

 

[g5000]

Trump pardoned the crooks he had hired. Steve Bannon, Roger Stone, Paul Manafort, etc.

He is sending a clear message that if he is re-elected, his hirees have nothing to worry about when they break the law for him.

And one can only imagine the kind of corrupt cretins who will flock to him. No sane person, after seeing all of his "best people" the first time around ending up in prison, disgraced, and/or disbarred, will go to work for him.

We will see a flood of criminals into Trump's swamp the second time around.

 

[Concerned American]

America doesn't trust Trump to respect the Constitution

America doesn't trust Biden OR the democraps to respect the Constitution. There I fixed it for you.

 

[g5000]

Every terrorist on the planet is praying for a second Trump Administration since he has vowed to dismantle the FBI.

Mass murderer KGB Putin is also hoping his best friend is re-installed so he can occupy Kiev by summer 2025.

 

[Mac1958]

Trump pardoned the crooks he had hired. Steve Bannon, Roger Stone, Paul Manafort, etc.

He is sending a clear message that if he is re-elected, his hirees have nothing to worry about when they break the law for him.

And one can only imagine the kind of corrupt cretins who will flock to him. No sane person, after seeing all of his "best people" the first time around ending up in prison, disgraced, and/or disbarred, will go to work for him.

We will see a flood of criminals into Trump's swamp the second time around.

100% loyalty and obedience to the dictator. Telling him only what he wants to hear, keeping all bad news from him.

Just like Putin. Just like Kim. Just like... others throughout history.

 

[Lord Long Rod]

America doesn't trust Trump to respect the Constitution

You say "America", but you do not qualify it. Are you telling me that all of America feels this way? Or that a majority feels that way? Or that a plurality feels that way? I know of at least 72 million people who do not feel that way.

Or, are you really just talking out of your ass, per usual?

 

[LordBrownTrout]

That is totally INSANE!!!!!

No more insane than Biden taking showers with his underage daughter

 

[Lord Long Rod]

Every terrorist on the planet is praying for a second Trump Administration since he has vowed to dismantle the FBI.

Mass murderer KGB Putin is also hoping his best friend is re-installed so he can occupy Kiev by summer 2025.

^Idiotic

 

[Lord Long Rod]

No more insane than Biden taking showers with his underage daughter

That IS pretty fucking insane.

 

[marvin martian]

Every terrorist on the planet is praying for a second Trump Administration since he has vowed to dismantle the FBI.

Mass murderer KGB Putin is also hoping his best friend is re-installed so he can occupy Kiev by summer 2025.

That's why Russia waited until Biden was in office to invade Ukraine, and why Hamas waited until Biden was in office to attack Israel, right?

Dipshit.

 

[jotathought]

THE DANGER AHEAD​

If Donald Trump returns to the White House, he’d bring a better understanding of the system’s vulnerabilities, more willing enablers, and a more focused agenda of retaliation against his adversaries.

For all its marvelous creativity, the human imagination often fails when turned to the future. It is blunted, perhaps, by a craving for the familiar. We all appreciate that the past includes many moments of severe instability, crisis, even radical revolutionary upheaval. We know that such things happened years or decades or centuries ago. We cannot believe they might happen tomorrow.

When Donald Trump is the subject, imagination falters further. Trump operates so far outside the normal bounds of human behavior—never mind normal political behavior—that it is difficult to accept what he may actually do, even when he declares his intentions openly. What’s more, we have experienced one Trump presidency already. We can take false comfort from that previous experience: We’ve lived through it once. American democracy survived. Maybe the danger is less than feared?

In his first term, Trump’s corruption and brutality were mitigated by his ignorance and laziness. In a second, Trump would arrive with a much better understanding of the system’s vulnerabilities, more willing enablers in tow, and a much more focused agenda of retaliation against his adversaries and impunity for himself. When people wonder what another Trump term might hold, their minds underestimate the chaos that would lie ahead.

By Election Day 2024, Donald Trump will be in the thick of multiple criminal trials. It’s not impossible that he may already have been convicted in at least one of them. If he wins the election, Trump will commit the first crime of his second term at noon on Inauguration Day: His oath to defend the Constitution of the United States will be a perjury.

A second Trump term would instantly plunge the country into a constitutional crisis more terrible than anything seen since the Civil War. Even in the turmoil of the 1960s, even during the Great Depression, the country had a functional government with the president as its head. But the government cannot function with an indicted or convicted criminal as its head. The president would be an outlaw, or on his way to becoming an outlaw. For his own survival, he would have to destroy the rule of law.

Some heavy food for thought by David Frum at The Atlantic. What do you think?

If you're so concerned, why isn't it with the state of the electorate who know more about meaningless things, like sports and pop culture, then they do about the candidates they vote into office?

 

[whitehall]

We have a mentally impaired president who jokes about nuclear war while he has his trembling thumb on the button but lefties prefer to dwell on fiction about Trump written by David Frum. No surprises here.

 

[Arlette]

The motions he files in courts tell you what Trump will do. It's ridiculous but he operates under the notion that our laws don't apply to him.

 

[toobfreak]

Trump pardoned the crooks he had hired. Steve Bannon, Roger Stone, Paul Manafort, etc.

All innocent men. BTW, moron, wouldn't that make Hunter a crook too since he is doing right now what Bannon was charged with for doing?

He is sending a clear message that if he is re-elected, his hirees have nothing to worry about when they break the law for him.

Considering the lawless criminal Biden Administration, the worst Trump can do is BREAK EVEN.

No sane person, after seeing all of his "best people" the first time around

Sounds a lot like Biden's "best people."

ending up in prison, disgraced, and/or disbarred, will go to work for him.

You mean targeted and prosecuted by a malicious, leftist government.

We will see a flood of criminals into Trump's swamp the second time around.

Worst it could ever be is no worse than what we already have now.

 

[Freedomisneverfree]

MAGA! 2024!

Get rid of Joe the child molester. America has had enough!

 

[kyzr]

That is totally INSANE!!!!!

Why?