Comments on: The Day After: Trump’s Blackmail Threat Is Bogus

By: jane

jane — Wed, 26 Oct 2016 17:35:25 +0000

That wouldn’t surprise me at all. No arrests equals no evidence that it wasn’t a Reichstag Fire.

By: Rich Bly

Rich Bly — Tue, 25 Oct 2016 20:19:59 +0000

Didn’t the Brown Shirts firebomb some of their own offices back when? One wonders!

By: Brainstorms

Brainstorms — Tue, 25 Oct 2016 20:07:21 +0000

The Nazi Party: Spiffed up with an orange glow and ready for the U.S. of A.!!!

By: jane

jane — Tue, 25 Oct 2016 20:02:49 +0000

If he loses, there will be a little random violence by individual thumb-sucking whiners. If he wins, there will be a Kristallnacht, because his deplorables will feel empowered.

By: Brainstorms

Brainstorms — Mon, 24 Oct 2016 17:17:30 +0000

Worse: Trump is a narcissist; you cannot successfully advise a narcissist, as they think they know best.

As POTUS and Commander-in-Chief of the U.S. armed forces and nuclear arsenal, there would be no one who could override his launch order. And he is not inclined to listen to any advice — look at the frustrations of his campaign advisers…

By: SteveP

SteveP — Mon, 24 Oct 2016 14:00:28 +0000

While looking for evidence of what motivates tRump followers, I found this. David French, a conservative writer, in a new article, claims that he and his family have been severely harassed by the Alt Right for not being loyal to the Trump cause. This harassment has extended to having a private phone conversation hacked and disrupted by an Alt Right tormentor. That is a chilling level of technical ability for a group that we want to think of as just a bunch of ignorant hill billies expressing a few aberrant Neanderthal genes. The implications of this incident are beyond chilling.

The parallels between tRump and Germany in the 1930’s are far too close for us to be complacent. An insular homogeneous group, feeling abused and threatened by outsiders, whipped into a frenzy by a skilled manipulator and a despot…. that is not a good situation for our country to be faced with, but that is where we are today.

Donald tRump is a sociopath, a megalomaniac who wants to have the codes for the Armageddon football , and he has made it very clear that he would like to use it. What, at this point, would prevent him from trying to provoke massive civil unrest in a bid to gain power? Human decency? Morality? Restraint? Discipline? Love of country? Please. Perhaps fear of losing would keep this narcissistic monster from trying to start a civil war, but at this point, he may not even be able to stop the fuse that he has lit among his weak minded supporters. How bad will it get? Pick a multi-verse.I don’t know.

By: SteveP

SteveP — Mon, 24 Oct 2016 13:29:31 +0000

When I look at the motivation of tRump and his supporters, I don’t see how we can expect there to not to be some serious backlash from his loss. How severe will it be? How much damage does Putin want to inflict on the US? The Grope O Party had better get somebody to stuff a sock in donny’s little pie hole if he doesn’t make a nice, gentlemanly concession speech.

By: StevoR

StevoR — Mon, 24 Oct 2016 00:58:04 +0000

I really, really hope you are right about this Greg Laden.

To state the obvious, things have gotten exceptionally ugly in this election & the global mood and the blatant racism & bigotries that it’s unleashed. The Trump effect, the “permission” Trump’s rise to(o) close to power has given the worst views and people to express the worst of what they think and seek to do is disturbing to say the least.

I don’t know that it will end as well as you suggest but I sure hope so. Wish i had your confidence here.

I hope Trump’s defeat and rejection as repellent by a vast overwhelming majority of good people might mark a turning point away from the sort of vileness and ~~alt-right~~ neo-nazi ideology towards its opposite and that maybe following a big enough landslide a cultural shift and anti-Trump opposite effect may occur. Do you think there’s a good chance of that?

By: MarkB

MarkB — Sun, 23 Oct 2016 15:20:25 +0000

I think the Trump movement is based more of figurative than literal bomb throwers. They fundamentally distrust government and it’s good enough to leave it paralyzed into inaction. I expect we’ll see “the election was rigged” in much the same way that we’ve seen “Obama wasn’t born in the US and/or is a Muslim” as a rationalization for believing the likes of Ted Cruz and James Inhofe are acting the best interest of the country.

By: SteveP

SteveP — Sun, 23 Oct 2016 13:48:54 +0000

In order to predict what tRump supporters are going to do on November 9th, I suppose that it would be necessary to know what motivates them. And I for one am at a loss on that. I have lots of conjecture, lots of suppositions, lots of hypotheses. But I just don’t know. On the one hand, I consider myself fortunate in that my small circle of friends,acquaintances, co-workers, neighbors and relatives does not contain any vocal trump supporters. But on the other hand, it makes it difficult to form a good working hypothesis about what motivates the tRump mob. Once again I see a group of people whom I , perhaps rather arrogantly, perhaps rather grandiosely, consider low information, irrational, hyper emotional, low culture pea-brains. Or maybe I am dead on in my assessment of them.. I’m supposing that maybe the tRumpsters have spent too much of their lives in front of mind damaging “reality” TV shows instead of actually living in reality.

When I put on my tinfoil hat and visor I see Vladimir Putin beaming a constant stream of misinformation [ not sure how…RT Television? Eastern European spouse transmitters? ] that tRump repeats like a parroting idiot, a useful fool, a willing or unwilling puppet. And all the low info tRumpers have somehow been primed to be perfect receptors for all this crap. And tRump raises his little right hand with his index finger pointing up like some hypnotic savior and the crowd hypnotically responds.

So what happens on November 9th, IMO, will depend on what tRump’s handler Vlad decides to do. Does he want to do some immediate short term destruction in the US? Or does he want to plan longer range, and sow the seeds for the RT=TRump television franchise, from whence he can beam poison into the US 24 x seven x 365?

Before I put my tinfoil helmet back on the shelf, I would like to point out that it is absolutely effing astounding that tRump has been able to assemble and hang on to so many right wing followers despite being on the opposite end of the behavior spectrum that the religious right considers laudable; despite being on the opposite end of the hyper-patriot spectrum that considers Russia an enemy; despite shafting small business owners and off shoring the manufacture of his products; Just absolutely effing astounding.

Incredible. Someone he has successfully appealed to pre-civilized cave man values. Kill the other tribe. Subjugate women. And his supporters still wear crucifixes and flag pins but somehow support an unrepentant, anti-American, un Christ like sinner and thug who doesn’t resonate with any but their most primal values. Weird.

November 9th would result in an automatic loss of testosterone for tRump if he were only invested in the election results, so it is clear to me that he will have some way to save male Simian face. Maybe he will announce RT=TRump TV. Maybe he will simply never concede, and just try to tie the election results up in court as long as possible.

What secret Ovaltine message will he send to his legions of pithed followers on November 9th ? I sure don’t know.

Stay tuned.