Maybe nothing will survive because it's all about him?

... would approve.

being a malignant narcissist, and 100% Psychopath, him wanting to go out with a "BANG"..........please, someone, do not let him get near the "Football".........

Actually same goes for Putin..........

Both of them have the power quite literally to wipe out all life on the planet, a thousand times over..........and both are of the mindset of:

"I'll Show all of You"..........on the way out..........

both the US and Russia combined.

This species will have amused itself to death.

If One Goes, They All Go.....

It's like that movie "WAR GAMES" with the responses to a launch by one country.........

Thank goodness I am in Denver, and one of the first targets Russia and others would target.....better to be vaporized in a nano-second than die a slow death from radiation like so many did in Chernobyl.......

Oh, and speaking of Chernobyl.....the old sarcophagus was deteriorating, so Ukraine spent a zillion dollars installing a new one.
Putin sent a drone down, punching a hole in the new sarcophagus, and now radiation is leaking once again since it is still melting down..........cute, huh.......Putin has been saying that he will launch similar attacks on all the other Nuclear Power Generators in Ukraine.......

Cheyenne Mountain's NORAD is maintained, but not staffed as it has been for many decades. Its workings, and personnel, as I understand it have been moved to installations in the nearby city of Colorado Springs......

NORAD was brilliant at the time it was constructed......it is a waste of money in the world of warfare, as it exists today....but they are maintaining it to be immediately occupied if needed???????

Every once in a while, I listen to the song: EVE OF DESTRUCTION from the 60's that along with another 100 war songs has been banned from the airwaves of every AM radio station in the nation by order of Cheney/Rumsfeld prior to their IRAQ war....

Thanks for posting that video.........very enlightening........

Possibly bc I was listening to FM rock radio instead.

... and let Putin be infected and start glowing green.

by the worst element of our society - and yes, I think anyone that supports him is not a good person.

What else would you expect from someone with that much power fueled by a grandiose narcissistic personality

… is better than no attention at all
Without attention, the Narcissist withers-up and dies

And we hope he’ll only live long enough to see them torn down and tossed in the dump.

It's the behind the curtain monied corporate class with the wealth. Trump is a vessel for them and their ambitions to create a corporate run, christian police state, and really, I don't even think they care about the christrian nationalists. Like Trump, they are a useful tool for their end game. Trump will be gone sooner than later and what will be left is their encroaching control of our political machine. Organizations like the Heritage Foundation and the Federalist Society are not interested in democracy. They are recruiting the people that will run the political machinery to follow the orders of the oligarchy. Once they have served their purpose, they too will disappear,

... have long desired a resurgence of feudalism. Feudalism 2.0 would let them enslave millions, and a proxy puppet like Trump is the perfect tool for their nefarious wet dreams, and to insulate them from getting their manicured hands all covered in blood.

This is it in a nutshell.
Trump and his sycophants are just the shabby window dressing transparently covering the oligarchy that really controls them.

Clearly they have not studied the French revolution.

in contact with. The ultimate effect is that all water on earth will freeze, thus ending life on earth.

Trump wants to do that.

The GOP so adored Reagan that they named everything after him that they could get away with - but at least they waited until he was out of office or dead, and AFAIK Reagan himself never asked for such honors. I was not a Reagan fan, to put it mildly, but I will give him credit for avoiding blatant self-aggrandizement and observing some basic presidential protocols. And Kennedy became effectively canonized after his assassination, and even Republicans supported naming many places after him. The Kennedy Center was (and I am using the past tense for obvious reasons) a treasured national venue for all kinds of performances, not just those approved of by any particular administration. The Kennedy Space Center was so named in large part because of JFK's support for the Apollo program. Trump wants to leave a bigger footprint than either Kennedy or Reagan because that's the way he is, and he probably knows at some level that the only way for that to happen is for him to do it himself while he's alive and in office. And he wants to be able to see and revel in the monuments and institutions with his name on them because that's the way he is.

Love Biden, did a great job and accomplished many things. But he was cut from the old school way of doing politics. "Statesmanship" "Honor" "Protocol". Same with our leaders when we wanted to investigate Bush war crimes and Trump v1.0. "Impeachment is off the table".

Whoever comes after Trump to clean up the mess (we are assuming its a democrat), needs to have the fortitude to remove/rename all these stupid things Trump is doing. Who cares if Trump is dead by then. He and his name need to get flushed down the toilet. Knock down the arch. Or, just pull all funding for it and let it rot and fall down. Same with the ballroom.

T and his sycophants wouldn't know what any of that is if it came up and laid them out flat. What freaking embarrassments they are!

had leadership skills. Kennedy's was honed in the military. Reagan knew how to act and could as easily fool his gop audience the way he could fool his theater audience. Honor, Decency, Decorum are all part of leadership. trump has no good qualities of any kind, let alone the leadership kind. As we've said in the past, trump is all GodFather and mafia.

I have known people like him, but obviously none with his power.

Republican Party down with him.

Because they are scared shitless of the orange turd.

esp with Citizens United have installed the best politicians money can buy..............

It is the Corporations that have installed the Republicans in the Senate, the Republicans in the House, and the Republicans in the U.S. Supreme Court.......And are truly the ones running things............

I can only imagine that in the future, our beloved country will no longer be:
The United States of America......but be re-named: The United Corporations of America, or The Fascist Corporations of America.

Every thing the Republicans are doing is for the Corporations, or for the UBER Rich 1% who OWN the Corporations.........
Orwell had it right in 1984 except for one thing......it wasn't the Government per se that we had to watch out for, it was the Corporations.........A Fascist Government is basically a merger or corporations and government.....

Making wealth by using capital has lead to taking control away from a democracy by using capital. Now that the elite capitalists have control of most everything in the US. What will they do next to the US? Nothing good that's for sure. Absolute power always corrupts and always leads to evil.

History says next up for the US is, war inside the Continental US, famine, uncontrolled diseases, mass killings. I guess we already have mass killings and some famine. Uncontrolled diseases are just getting started. Pedo Trump is trying to start a war in Venezuela but wait till it comes to our shores. O

You can not let capitalism go unchecked because it will kill all of us in the end.

some Frenchman? in the 1700's when we were first starting our nation is quoted as saying:

"A Democracy will last until some individual or group of individuals figures out they can not themselves money...."

AND, here we are folks........The very best "NEW" REPUBLICAN Politicians that money can buy.......

I have to beg to differ.

It's typical psychopath behavior. It may have a tad of influence but it's highly unlikely.

That in no way means he isn't trying to destroy everything he can while he is still alive.

Even after he's dead. My point: him dying has little to do with it.

As the Allies neared Paris he ordered Paris also be systematically destroyed. Fortunately for France and the world the Commandant of the city, Dietrich von Choltitz, refused to carry out the order and evacuated the majority of German troops from the city to prevent fighting. As the Allies closed in on Berlin Hitler ordered everything of any value remaining in Germany be destroyed. He said that because the German people were to weak to triumph in his war of conquest they should be left with nothing. To his credit, Minister of Armaments Albert Speer sabotaged his orders and prevented large scale destruction.

Two points here:

First, dictatorial monsters want to burn everything burned down before their demise. If they can't have it, no one else should have it.

Second, even in the worse tyrannical regime, men and women can stand up to the tyrant and stop their worst impulses.

It did require courage on the part of Speer and Choltitz to defy Hitler. So far, with only a few tiny examples, I fail to see any Republicans with the courage to prevent Trump from burning down the country. At this point in time, Republicans are the only people that can stop him.

They are riddled with racists and perverts on the hook.

Have no fear. The situation can and will get worse. When it gets bad enough, the Repugs will be forced to deal with him.

They are all in on a racist, chri$to-fa$cist state. Don't kid yourself. They've weeded out the supporters of democracy and replaced them with footmen to power and greed. And they have 10s of millions of hateful, racist voters willing to overlook atrocities. It will never get bad enough for them. They are going to double down. Every time.

Your statement is vintage 2025, but not applicable in 2026. I'm not kidding anyone. I'm not talking Great Recession of 2008. I'm talking worse than the 1929 to '32 Great Crash. I'm talking the collapse of the AI investment mania bubble. The entire banking system crashes. Mass unemployment and literal starvation across the country, but worse in the red states than blue. Then those 10s of millions of hateful, etc. Rs will show up with torches and pitch forks looking for the people they elected.

And what will Trump's reaction be? It will be the same as Hoover's - none. It's all Joe Biden's fault after all. It's the greatest economy ever seen. At that point, in order to protect themselves, the Republicans will force out Trump and the worst of his toadies. If we are lucky that will be before mass armed rioting and looting breaks out. We will need the military in the streets at that point.

I hope I am wrong. But the country was in the state I just described when FDR was elected. He pulled us back from the brink. Can history repeat itself? I'm not especially optimistic.

DU from 2005:

A Planet Full of Hitlers

The world's billionaires, led by the Bush "madministration," are acting like a planet of full of Hitlers. They are willing to invade whatever region in the world has what the world needs most -- oil.

Black gold. Texas tea. Petrodollars.

They figure they have all the money. And basically, apart from a Soros here and a Gates there, they do.

And thus, the world’s billionaires and their hounds of the BFEE want to spend it all before they die. And they have the plan and cash on hand to do so.

Consider the Bush agenda: All War. All the Time. Government spending for the MI-Complex, transferring trillions to the wealthy corporate owners, war and all.

These are the likes of the “industrialists” Mussolini, Franco and Hitler so loved.

And like the fascist trifecta, the American fascists of the BFEE have bought all the political power. Don't just think Tom Roach Motel DeLay and Mr. Friskie Frist. Remember Prescott Bush and Averell Harriman and Allen Dulles and Rheinhard Gehlen and Igor Orlov.

What can we do about it? They’ve bought all the legal power, built law schools for Federalist Society AND Opus Dei judges. Think Bill Eagle Eye Rehnquist and Antonin Fat Tony Scalia.

These turds of the BFEE have worked all the tax breaks and bankrupty laws for the rich. Uncle Sam reverse-Robin Hoods wealth to the top 1-percent of country.

And what do these rich turds who prop up Bush use their tax savings on? They certainly haven't invested it in making America a better place to work or live; they've invested in "off-shoring."

Lots of the tax money goes to buy more vacation homes, yachts and jet planes. Most goes offshore to the Caymans and Switzerland.

And of course they want more without having to pay for the damage to the environment. Farmland depletion in the USA. Rain forest depletion around the globe. Oceans getting acidic. Fish stock depletion. Global air pollution and water shortages.

Well. OK. Maybe a case can be made it’s the rich folk’s money. They can do what they want. But they should pay their fair share of taxes! After all, the rest of society helps keep them in their position. And its our brothers and sisters in the armed forces who are giving their lives to keep their oil and power and privilege.

Budget red ink means no money for middle class. No money for schools. No money for cities and suburbs and farms. No money for roads. No money for science and R and D. No money for the future.

And the media? What media? What Fairness Doctrine?

They cover up their materialism and venality with all the talk about Faith-based this and Conservative-values that. But the reality is these are sinister wolves and satanic bed-wetting bastards in sheep's clothing we are dealing with.

Wasn’t that what Bush really meant when he told Bob Woodward “History? Who cares about history? In a hundred years we’ll all be dead.”

Just like Hitler. And just like Hitler, Bush wants to take us all with him.

-- Octafish

DU OP: https://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x3648867

It was HWBush that started the ball rolling in 1980 when he and his CABAL committed Treason to get Reagan in office.
Reagan was just a puppet, much like WBush was, under Cheney and Rummy......

I think HWBush was in the shadows, behind smoke and mirrors running everything for a bunch of decades.......
The only reason HW ran for office after Reagan, was to pardon the 100+ members of the Reagan years who had been indicted for their actions, and were facing trials.......

People were warned about trump but they didn't care. Blame the idiots who voted for the felon trump fascists.

and one the media really needs to be asking these tools.

is why the media isn't asking these questions.

Never seen a bigger narcissist and it rivals Caligula for insanity and abhorrent behavior. It hasn't a speck of decency or empathy for anyone but himself. The sooner it kicks the bucket the better for the nation.

Today's supreme court is deeply involved in the final outcome. (I'm sure discussions are going on daily, between SC judges and some rethugs) 3 years of supreme court decisions ahead of us. THEY can stall and rule against Democrats, even if we control both houses. WE are in big trouble for the next 3 years. That's my thinking, for what it's worth. I keep this thought in my mind, "WHO'S GONNA STOP THEM?" Really hate to be so depressing, but that's where i'm at.

when they stopped the legal Florida vote count and appointed GW Bush to the Whitehouse against the will of we the people. It's important to remember that the authority the SCOTUS has taken for itself is no where to be found in the constitution.

We must be punished for not loving him the way he insists we should.

As for the Republicans, you would think they'd have some sense of self-preservation, but I guess they are all in on destroying our

country. Shameful, but they are no longer capable of shame. Does debasing yourself get to be a habit?

I can't listen to any of them anymore.

Lie after lie, vile and racist speech--nothing is too low for the majority of them. The few individuals from the Republican party that

are now trying to stop the wrecking ball, it's too little, too late. They will never wash off the stench of this administration.

I don't plan on giving up, but it's wearing on the soul. We must continue to fight back any way we can.

Take heart, the midterms are looming and it's scaring enough of the Republicans into acting against Trump that we got that truly

unhinged speech from the Screamer-in-chief. It should be a wake up call for the whole country, but I guess it's still baby steps!

Eloquent post as always, Mineral Man, thanks!

The oligarchs who own the R party tell them what to do and they obey even when they know something is
evil because $$$$$$$$$$ is more important to them than rights & wrongs.

In essence they are errand boys not congress people.

perhaps legal eagles can tie up his estates for decades.....with writs, and liens.

Its insane MM... its insane..

They know this is going to happen and they think with all their money they can come out unscathed

Rec

Republicans have been acting like they already knew there were not going to be anymore free and fair elections.

I suppose if I were in charge of his health I could muster some, but... I'm NOT.

Simply google anything that Trump plowed over, painted or bulldozed and who built it.

Backed into a corner, lashing out at everyone and everything.

i've speculated that he knows he's dying and is determined to take everyone else with him.

My second theory is that krasnov knows he's dying and he's such a malevolent and damaged human that he is willing to take everyone, literally everyone, out with him.

— Democratic Barbara (@barbtries.bsky.social) 2025-12-12T14:26:55.466Z

Both elected Democrats and grassroots supporters must make it clear that trump’s acquisition of the Kennedy Center is NOT ACCEPTABLE to the majority of Americans!!! Renaming the center will not make an ode of difference in shifting support!!! In fact it will only increase our outrage at trump’s attempt to screw with our history!!!

but the sad thing about it is this...when he dies, the celebrations that will start in this Country will be like nothing before. Massive, contagious, spontaneous, everywhere. I can feel this already in the air, just a subtle hint in the air of impatience...

One day, our day will come...

... that's just one of the many reasons why.

Records of things Trump did that need to be unwound once he is gone, and the R party disintegrates.

Too many inactive doom watchers at the moment.

It's the Anarchist Theorem in overdrive, I/we don't like the things the way they are, they are too complicated and the benefits to me/us of the current system aren't sufficient, so Burn It All down, and reap the benefits from the rebuild.

In short: Stand Back and Receive what is Owed to You!

Too bad the history of rebuilds of societies and infrastructure after a major war or disintegration tells us it is not spontaneous or rapid, nor painless.
Some societies never recover.

Epstein files reveal.

So he'll respond as he always does by destroying America.

It’s worth describing what transpired at the Kennedy Center accurately: A group of people vandalized one of the nation’s premier performing arts centers.

It’s worth describing what transpired at the Kennedy Center today accurately:

The president’s operation just vandalized one of the nation’s premier performing arts centers. www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...

— Steve Benen (@stevebenen.com) 2025-12-19T20:59:47.413Z

My guess is Laura Ingraham.

The board:

....lifting its leg.

Wish he'd hurry the fuck up and end his life. He's killing what little is left of the nation.