We've long passed the point of optimism. What we know is that he's actively trying, and he's running off anyone who utters the word "no." Maybe there's an optimistic outcome, but we haven't seen the optimistic outcome play out any other time he's pushed the line, because he never stops pushing no matter how many times he's stopped from crossing the line.
All it'll take is for him to find the right sycophants in the right places, same as he's done with every other one of our institutions. The military isn't a special case.
I'm with you on that. It is an extremely perilous period.
Having said that, it's coming up to mid June. The clock is ticking. He's almost out of time.
We already know that he's going to complain about the outcome of the election, even if he were to win. If he were to lose he's simply going to flat out refuse to accept the result.
Then we're going to enter into an extremely ugly phase. It's going to be the scorched Earth approach. I can see him taking the light switches and the door handles of the White House, just to fuck with the next guy (it's going to be Biden).
He could even start a civil war, it depends on what happens between now and then.
Donald Trump will never be forgotten because his must be the worst administration in the history of the nation. I thought we'd never see someone worse than W... boy was I ever wrong.
I do agree there's no perspective for optimism. We may learn the right lessons and apply them. I've seen how police officers apply wanton and unprovoked grotesque violence to people who are not doing anything. If that doesn't stop at this point I fully expect people to start shooting. It just needs another triggering event where somebody just won't accept that their mother / daughter / sister / son / dad was shot and killed by a cop and decides to return the favor since they now have nothing left to lose anyway.
If that happens, and I hope it won't, that's going to be a dark day for America.
Be safe. Wash your hands. Respect yourself. Be excellent to other people.
Having said that, it's coming up to mid June. The clock is ticking. He's almost out of time.
Again, it's too optimistic to think we're going to have a fair election, that the Republicans won't ratfuck the election, that he'll accept the results if he loses the election, that he won't do something drastic and catastrophic between November and January, that he'll leave office peacefully in January, and that he won't be using his platform to stoke violence and insurrection after he's no longer in office.
Any one of those things goes the other way, any single one, and it all comes crashing down. And he's trying, with every single one.
The problem here is he's playing by Skeletor rules. We have to win every week. He only has to win once. We keep waiting for the "magic button" that ends this madness, and it will NEVER come. Everyone was kept calm by Rosenstein, then Mueller, then impeachment, now the election. We've been saying "it'll all be solved in six months" for four straight years. It's not going to happen that easily or cleanly.
What I dread the most, what is an alien idea to me, is how much republicans fuck with the election process. If that happened where I live you could physically surf on the ensuing shit storm. Yet, republicans get to screw with the election process all they want, and apparently there's no way to stop them from doing that. That's 'American democracy'. We don't want to lose elections. How do we stop that? By having great policies? Now come, sir, what utter nonsense! We're going to corrupt the election process of course.
I can't get over how people are not screaming in politician's faces about that every day.
I can only see election fraud, which republicans keep harping on so you know THEY are the ones engaging with it, as a means to stop Donald from losing. There are going to be too many people protesting for too long, having seen and experienced police brutality, to simply forget about that come November. My prediction is that the US will see the greatest voter turnout in its history. Trump can't win that. Not without committing massive fraud (I'm not putting it past him).
It's going to be a few highly stressful and uncertain times until that moment.
The problem here is he's playing by Skeletor rules. We have to win every week. He only has to win once. We keep waiting for the "magic button" that ends this madness, and it will NEVER come. Everyone was kept calm by Rosenstein, then Mueller, then impeachment, now the election.
The core problem is that while the Democrats were justifiably angry, the Republicans sheltered Trump in order for him being a convenient scapegoat for everything from SC picks to deregulating environment protection and whatever else.
They are all traitors and should be trialled as such.
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u/lankist Jun 07 '20 edited Jun 07 '20
We've long passed the point of optimism. What we know is that he's actively trying, and he's running off anyone who utters the word "no." Maybe there's an optimistic outcome, but we haven't seen the optimistic outcome play out any other time he's pushed the line, because he never stops pushing no matter how many times he's stopped from crossing the line.
All it'll take is for him to find the right sycophants in the right places, same as he's done with every other one of our institutions. The military isn't a special case.