Cyrano
Cyrano's JournalTrump will cave and debate Kamala.
He's been called a chicken and people believe he's terrified of her, This has to be getting to him. And as much as his advisors will try to keep him away from debating her, the pressure will get to him. After all, he''s not going to let his MAGAs think he's afraid of any "N"word."
He's spent the last couple of weeks stepping on his own dick. And if he gets on a debate stage with Kamala, she'll cut it off.
If he tries to physically stalk her on stage the way he did with Hillary, she'll get in his face and tell him to back off. If he constantly talks over her, she'll let him go on making a total ass of himself until they cut his mike. If he throws slurs at her, he'll be condemning his campaign in front of the entire world. Trump's bag of tricks is shallow. It contains nothing but hate, fear and lies. There's nothing else there.
Trump's team will try to chain him to a radiator before letting him on stage with her. But it will all be for naught. He's an ignorant, self-absorbed buffoon who''s going to do whatever he wants to do.
Can't wait for this debate to happen. Given who and what he is, she may provoke him into assaulting her on stage. Good thing that they both have Secret Service agents two seconds away.
Trump and Vance are among the great minds of the 15th Century.
That was when The Inquisition started. Hundreds of thousands were tortured and burned at the stake as "heretics."
Project 2025 doesn't openly state the specifics of what will be done with the "THEMS," but you don't need a lot of imagination to figure it out. (Hint: See Germany, 1939 - 1945.)
Trump, Vance, and today's Republican Party are a threat to all of us. And if anyone doesn't "get it," they will learn very quickly if Trump, Vance, et. al. win, or more likely steal, the upcoming election.
Kamala's message to us all is about moving forward into the future. Most MAGAs are ignorant enough to want to go back to the darkest periods in human history. It's up to all of us to stop them.
VOTE.
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It's undeniable. Trump is becoming desperate.
No more dog whistles: Come on, Christians, vote for me. This will be the last America election ever!
He knows he's picked a loser in J.D. Vance. He's wondering if he can get away with dump and switch.
Debating Kamala terrifies him. He's wondering how she could possibly defeat his greatness. He's wondering if he should just go ahead and openly call her the "N" word at his next rally.
We all know that everything he's touched in his life has turned to shit. He's always been blind to that, but just maybe he sees that his own campaign is turning to shit.
He may have caught a glimpse of himself as an aging, ignorant buffoon. Who knows? A rare moment of seeing reality may have driven him further into his insane comfort zone of Earth 2.
But watch his next rally. He is a diminished creature, rapidly sliding down the slope of history.
A desperate, cornered animal is the most dangerous, so we can't let our guard down. But I believe that, by the time he loses in November, he'll be nothing more than a fading punchline.
Kamala and the Democrats are going to win big.
Many of us have come from the depths of despair to the top of the world. There will be many bumps in the road between now and November. And the Republican ugly attacks are just scratching the surface. This year, they'll go for a record low. Trump will question Kamala's birth certificate, while J.D. Vance will claim she's Hitler's illegitimate granddaughter.
And while they wallow in their slime, Kamala will be out there running up the score. I can feel a blue tidal wave in the very core of my being. I know I'm not alone in feeling this.
But, we can't stop working. Knock on doors, work on phone banks, hand write postcards, and keep doing everything you've been doing. In the meantime, there are teams of Democrats out there fighting the vicious voter suppression tactics the Republicans are using.
I feel we are now going on with joy in our hearts. This time, truth, justice, freedom, and Kamala will win. Although I'm an agnostic, this is a fight of good vs evil. And good is going to triumph "big time."
Be grateful it wasn't worse.
It may seem a bit cold to post this so soon after an assassination attempt on a former and possibly future president. But here's the reality you may (or may not) hear over the next day or two.
IMO, the Heritage Foundation would not have shed a tear if the assassination attempt had succeeded. Trump's chances of winning is really about 50/50. They would have loved to replace him with a candidate who doesn't carry Trump''s "baggage" of criminal, rapist, authoritarian, and a man filled with cruelty and seeking revenge, who has turned off countless voters in making it obvious he welcomed being "President for Life."
The people who head up the Heritage Foundation (and others) are seeking the end of democracy and permanent power through their Project 2025. But they don''t need Trump to make it come about. Had things turned out differently last night, they would have had the opportunity to pick their preferred candidate at next week's Republican Convention. It would be someone who could bring back the countless "Never Trump"" voters. It would be someone who agrees with their goals. And by making Trump a martyr it seems to me they could have rapidly put together a master propaganda campaign for their candidate, that would result in the win of, not only the presidency, but also the House and Senate.
I have no sympathy for Trump bringing upon himself the violence he's always preached.. My sympathy goes out to the family of the person killed and the two people who were critically wounded.
Yet, I also fear the end of democracy if this guy ends up in the White House because of a chipped ear.
(On edit: Anyone here think I'm being too cynical about the nature of politics?)
Project 2025 is the Republican version of Mein Kampf
It is a blueprint for destroying the America that currently exists and replacing it with total power in the hands of a small group of people. And most of these people either worked for, or are politically tied to Trump.
Most of the pundits have told us that horrible things will happen at the border, that "holding camps" will be opened for immigrants waiting to be deported, that tens of thousands in the federal bureaucracy will be replaced by Trump loyalists, that the Dept of Education and the FBI will be done away with, and so, so much more.
Trump says he wants revenge. And given who and what he is, you don't need much imagination to foresee what form that revenge would take:
IMO, the pundits haven't gone far enough.
Trump wants to arrest his enemies. How long do you think it would take before they were executed?
He wants to get rid of the bureaucracy. How long would it take him to ignore, or even disband congress?
The SCOTUS has given the presidency unheard of powers. He'll probably ignore their existence after he rids the Court of the three liberals.
Any whim he wakes up with in the morning will be carried out before evening.
Donald Trump will be the first American Fuhrer. Many pundits know this, but they worn't say it out loud for fear that people will think they're nuts. The fact that I've said it here will probably result in many DUers thinking I'm nuts.
Nonetheless, as I've said before, keep your passport up to date.
We are underestimating Project 2025
The Project 2025 document outlines four main aims:
* Restore the family as the centerpiece of American life.
* Dismantle the administrative state.
* Defend the nation's sovereignty and borders.
* Secure God-given individual rights to live freely.
Gee, just four goals. The devil is of course in the details. Tens of thousands of federal employees would be replaced by people who owe their total loyalty to the president. The Dept. of Education and the Federal Reserve would be gone, and all other Departments would be reorganized to fit with the far-right agenda. All cabinet members would follow any and all orders from the president with no questions asked. Restoring the family sounds like something that would have a detrimental effect on LGBTQ people. Border sovereignty sounds like bad news for immigrants. And there's so, so much more than can be listed here. After all, Project 2025 is a 920 page document.
But even with what is known about Project 2025, I am of the opinion that it goes far beyond what is publicly known. Many will disagree with me, but I truly believe that Project 2025 is a blueprint for a country that Hitler would have loved. And if it is ever put in place by a president, (in this case, Trump), America will come to resemble Nazi Germany, death camps and all. (You may not find this written in the pages of the Project, but it's where it would inevitably lead.)
Many may think that my beliefs about Project 2025 are extreme, or even nuts. My answer to you is to make sure to keep your passport is up to date.
Why do so many "love" Rachel Maddow?
I can only speak for myself.
First, her research, her diligence, and her devotion to provable facts and absolute truth is unquestionable.
Her knowledge of human history, (political and otherwise), is vast and, no matter how complex, she makes it accessible to us all.
She speaks into that camera like she's sitting next to you and speaking to you alone.
Her humor is delightful, precious and perfectly timed, given the ugliness of what she often covers.
And, I think that to some small, or perhaps large way, she's making the world a better place with her show, her podcasts, her writings and her very presence among us.
Even Steve Bannon doesn't want Trump to show up for the debate.
This morning, some Trump spokeswoman went on a rant on CNN. There was no stopping her, so her mike was cut and she was thrown off the air. Bannon considered this such an insult that he said that Trump should not show up for the debate.
Bannon isn't the only one. Some Republicans have come up with various reasons why Trump should not debate Joe.
But let's face it. There's only one real reason. He's nuts.
His handlers know this, but they have no way of controlling him He's going to do whatever he wants to do.
The debate is 90 minutes long, but it shouldn't take more than a few moments to drive him off the rails. A question he doesn't like, or a well-targeted statement by Joe would be enough to do it. With no audience to cheer him on, and with his mike cut off, my guess is he'll either walk off the stage, or start chewing on the edge of the podium.
Whatever he does, his MAGAs will stand by him. But he may turn off just enough voters to make a difference in November.
Project 2025 is a blueprint for American fascism.
Most people won't take the time to read it. But you don't have to.
There's currently a video posted on DU (by appalachiablue) in which an NY University professor explains it calmly and quietly. If Trump wins or steals the November election, Project 2025 will be put in place immediately and America, as we know it will be over. Project 2025 includes the end of the Dept. of Education, the end of The Dept. of Justice, the end of the FBI, and much more. It's a wingnut, Christo-fascist, batshit insane plan to destroy American democracy.
The video is 47 minutes long, so save it if you can't watch it now. And pass it on to everyone you know. What's at stake here is our freedoms, our country, and our way of life.
https://democraticunderground.com/132227750
(Please kick this thread so as many as possible learn the pure evil of Project 2025.)
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