Trump losing the election doesn't faze him, since he knows if all else fails he can fall back on another bloody-coup, and we'll sit back and take it, like we did last time.
Rand had surgery for lung cancer in 1974 after decades of heavy smoking.[116] In 1976, she retired from her newsletter and, despite her lifelong objections to any government run program, was enrolled in and subsequently claimed Social Security and Medicare government assistance with the aid of a social worker.
And yet it is commonly held that a people is more apt to wreak its insolence upon good men when it is prosperous, being then lifted up by grandeur and power; but the reverse is often the case. For calamities make men's dispositions bitter, irritable, and prone to wrath, so that no one can say anything to please or soften them, but they are annoyed by every speech or word that has vigour. He who censures them for their transgressions is thought to abuse them for their misfortunes, and he who is outspoken with them, to despise them. 2 And just as honey irritates wounded and ulcerated parts of the body,a so often words of truth and soberness sting and exasperate those who are in an evil plight, unless uttered with kindness and complaisance; and therefore, doubtless, the poet calls that which is pleasant "menoeikes," on the ground that it yields to that part of the soul which experiences pleasure, and does not fight with it or resist it.1 3 An eye which is inflamed dwells most gratefully on colours which are dark and lustreless, but shuns those which are radiant and bright; and so a city that has fallen on unfavourable fortunes is made by its weakness too sensitive and delicate to endure frank speaking, and that at a time when it needs it most of all, since the situation allows no chance of retrieving the mistakes that have been made. Therefore the conduct of affairs in such a city is altogether dangerous; for p149 she brings to ruin with herself the man who speaks but to win her favour, and she brings to ruin before herself the man who will not court her favour.
@Dave_Goldsmith@Urban_Hermit@glennsills@cynblogger@Nazani@stevebenen If ever it happens at one of his rallies, when the crowd sits in stony-faced silence, or better yet, starts booing, Trump will be on a jet to the Kremlin, or shoot himself in a bunker by the next morning.
@Dave_Goldsmith@andytiedye@Urban_Hermit@glennsills@cynblogger@Nazani@stevebenen Deplorables believe the louder they cheer, the harder they clap, the greater the chance of drowning out that still, small voice in their empty hearts, which whispers 'Trump is a fucking moron, everyone knows it, even you know it, and you've sold your soul to an evil lying clown, who doesn't care about you .. and the only thing keeping you from renouncing the orange bastard, and redeeming yourself, is your stubborn pride, which will burn with you in the lake of fire'.
@Urban_Hermit@Dave_Goldsmith@andytiedye@glennsills@cynblogger@Nazani@stevebenen They say Trump's campaign is falling off a cliff, he seems angry, and rattled, we are a couple of months away from the election (and it's aftermath), which is sure to be fascinating, and the question which needles my mind more and more is 'what does the final act of this orange tragicomedy look like?' Are we going to see Trump blowing his brains out in a bunker, like his hero, and spiritual soul-brother, Hitler?
If Trump is illegally installed as a tyrant, don't despair, you have strikes, marches, non-compliance, protests, boycotts, and shouting "FUCK NO!" very loudly, until the shit is fixed.
The world could plunge into chaos under Kamala, but it's better in that case to have a leader who can enact solutions, rather than a useless turd, who only adds to the pain, and misery, like Trump.
@Dave_Goldsmith@glennsills@cynblogger@Urban_Hermit@Nazani@stevebenen Exactly. Of course, the grifting, scamming, and demagoguery could be due to a depraved heart, but that itself would be supercharged by his Malignant Narcissism, which is the pathology of serial-killers, and bloodthirsty tyrants. At bottom, Trump is criminally-insane.
Trump is like a crab, that people expect to walk straight. He won't, and can't. On the day of his death, he'll be plotting some evil mischief, it's who he is.
I wish I was half as wise, talented, and handsome as the Deplorables think Trump is. My God, how ignorant, depraved, and irredeemably hellbound do you have to be to wear "Trump Can Grab My Cunt", and "Trump Can Rape My Underage Daughter" T-Shirts, and walk around in nappies, and buy Trump Credit Cards made from cheap, recycled dildo-plastic, in Chinese sweat-shops, and stand for days in mud, and dog-shit, cooking in the sun for days, to listen to a demented Russian traitor, and Nazi tyrant, rambling on about how great Al Cspone and Hannibal Lecter is, and debating the relative merits of being electrocuted by a boat-battery, vs being eaten by a shark? What is WRONG with those fucking #MAGA freaks? #weird
Vance's worst crime is being more boring than a used condom, and universally despised. And all he gets for his pains is the very real prospect of being hanged at some point by a rabid mob of sweaty Deplorables, their teeth all rotted away from inferior-grade meth, and reeking of stale sweat, and cheap Appalachian moonshine.