Seeking retribution
More on Trump’s plans for when he returns:
Donald Trump’s talk of punishing his critics and seeking to “weaponize” the US justice department against his political opponents has experts and former DoJ officials warning he poses a direct threat to the rule of law and democracy in the US.
Trump’s talk of seeking “retribution” against foes, including some he has branded “vermin”, has coincided with plans that Maga loyalists at rightwing thinktanks are assembling to expand the president’s power and curb the DoJ, the FBI and other federal agencies. All of it has fueled critics’ fears that in a second term Trump would govern as an unprecedentedly authoritarian American leader.
And a second term is looking way too likely.
Trump’s angry mindset was revealed on Veterans Day when he denigrated foes as “vermin” who needed to be “rooted out”, echoing fascist rhetoric from Italy and Germany in the 1930s.
“I’m hard-pressed to find any candidates anywhere who are so open that they would use the power of the state to go after critics and enemies,” said Steven Levitsky, a Harvard government professor and co-author of How Democracies Die.
“This is one of the most openly authoritarian campaigns I’ve ever seen. You have to go back to the far-right authoritarians in the 1930s in Europe or in 1970s Latin America to find the kind of dehumanizing and violent language that Trump is starting to consistently use.”
I’m pretty sure it’s THE most authoritarian campaign for this particular country.
“US, democratic institutions are hard to kill,” noted Levitsky. “But Trump and people around him are better prepared this time. Trump learned he needs to purge and pack an administration with his loyalists.
“Autocrats have to take state institutions and pack them. Trump has learned from experience which makes him more dangerous.”
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One ominous plan Project 2025 has been weighing would allow Trump to invoke the 1871 Insurrection Act on his first day in office, greenlighting using military forces against political foes and demonstrators protesting a new term for Trump, according to the Washington Post.
Jeffrey Clark, the former DoJ official who schemed with Trump about ways to overturn his loss in Georgia and other states and who the Fulton county district attorney has indicted along with Trump and 17 others, has been “leading the work on the Insurrection Act under Project 2025”, the Post has reported.
Let’s hope he drops dead soon.
Trouble with that is that the Devil probably would not have him in Hell (too much of a trouble-maker.) Likewise St Peter.. So we’d be stuck with his for the rest of Eternity.
Just the thought of it is enough to give those not deluded by his bullshit the total horrors.
I asked a Trumpist if she thought that I was actually a vermin who should be stomped out, and she replied “What do you expect us to do when you are trying to destroy our way of life?”
I’m honestly not trying to destroy anything. Trump is. If he doesn’t get re-elected, expect them to riot. If he does get elected, expect them to riot.
I might as well say out loud what I’ve been thinking for some time: Trump must be kept from office by any means necessary.
Yes, I know what that could entail. No, I don’t care.
Of course, I’d prefer it not come to that. My fantasy is that the Joint Chiefs have already assembled a secret task force to snatch him and deposit his fat ass in Gitmo for life, then return to barracks.
But any fallout from whatever means of removing him will be better than letting him fulfill his plans from the White House.
Disclaimer: I have neither the means, ability, or temperament do anything at all to make any of this happen.
But a rapid unscheduled disassembly could all too easily result in an instant Martyr Cult, which could be even worse.
Even if he keeled over from a heart attack tomorrow, enough of his followers would think he was poisoned to start a Martyr Cult anyway.
Maybe not as hard as he thinks, given the number of eager accomplices Trump has attracted, and how many voters are ready to hand him power. Again.
The next US Presidential Election is due to take place on Tuesday, November 5, 2024;.exactly one year from now minus two days.
Drawing inspiration from Tom Waits’ Tom Traubert’s Blues: ‘Now the dogs are barking and the taxi cab’s parking/ A lot they can do for me… ‘
Which inspired verse I would rebadge as Donald Trump’s Blues, with apologies to the said Tom Waits.(Fanfare please Mr Conductor):
Now the dogs are barking/ The taxi cabs parking / A lot they can do for me / To old Trumpy’s we staggered / And he buried his dagger / By our silhouette window for free…
CHORUS:
And it’s MAGA and MAGA / And MAGA and MAGA / And MAGA and MAGA again, / And MAGA and MAGA / And MAGA and MAGA / Until we can get off this train.
After: https://songmeanings.com/songs/view/3530822107858592599/
I should have added above the link to Tom Waits’ performance of his original version:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HkOMiA_uGso
Omar, did you mean twenty days instead of two? Or am I caught in a time warp? Or just confused? (I don’t dispute the possibility of me being confused; it wouldn’t be the first time).
My fervent hope, perhaps even more fanciful and unlikely than wishing for him to be shot into the sun, is that he be convicted of multiple crimes, denied house arrest, and sent to prison while he froths at the mouth with incoherent rage.
#5 Bruce Coppola
The Q faction would very likely claim for many years that he is still alive and ruling USA from some secret control room or whatever, always rumoured to be preparing some big coup that will fix everything wrong (as percieved by the nutjobs) with America in a stunning reveal.
iknklast @#9:
Sorry, my mistake. But maybe it was subconscious wishful thinking. 20 days sooner just makes it worse. Dr Freud might have had something to say were he still around.
This sounds a bit like John Frum: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Frum