Love your enthusiasm and optimism.
I'm of the same mind, I've always been a glass half full kinda guy, not a glass half empty.

We can expect he will throw that glass to the ground and shatter it, while we toast our victory.

Oops... Wine...

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It seems pretty clear his train is out of steam. The only people paying attention to him are the zombies he already controls. But no one else is listening. His final move is going to be moving to cancel the results of the election once it takes place. I only hope the courts and lawyers are all ready for it.

Ask Rudy, Sidney Powell, John Eastman, Kari Lake and Tina Peters.

Most states have been wargaming various scenarios, as they have every election in the Trump era.

Donald Trump lost over 60 post‑2020 election lawsuits across multiple states, according to a 2022 conservative legal review. He believes everyone is still concerned about his loss six years ago and not about Iran, rising prices across the board, his massive cuts to Social Security and Medicare, the huge erosion of civil rights under his leadership or the masked Trump thugs shooting citizens in the streets. He is totally disconnected from the reality we the people are experiencing today.

Not sure how many of his fools will show up, but there are a lot of really foolish people out there still.

he's got the 6 RW US SC justices, alongwith F.B.I., CIA, DOJ, US AG, and the Intelligence bureau, both chambers in congress. Psychopaths across mostly red states in governorship's and legislation. And a crazy cult, corporate media. Billionaires.

Started conflicts, battles, and bullying allies.

shithole have made the USA now a weak link in the world. shithole terrorizes everyday the American people. Economy sucks. Healthcare for Americans is rock bottom, and jobs are being loss in record numbers.

The republican party seems to be afraid of shithole.

Democrats are not.

With all this said, yea, I think We the People will survive, and yes we will win in November.

The only people he can’t blame are the voters themselves, because to do so would be to admit he legitimately lost the support of the people.

He hates warriors who surrender!

I love it!

I hope those who still have some apprehension will read this and understand WE GOT THIS

to vote for passage of the SAVE Act so they can win through voter suppression in November.

and the men who love/respect them.

Sadly, there are too many foolish senators who want to keep their cushy jobs, and some probably have staffers who will lobby hard to keep theirs too. There is some honor in D.C., but not nearly enough.

The "businessman" has no idea how to fix the economy. He has given up even trying. He seems too stupid to realize his policies are what is damaging the economy. The art of the deal guy has no idea how to negotiate an end to the Iran war he started. All he has is lies about it already being won. Even if his claims were true, his SAVE Act wouldn't fix the security problems he was complaining about. For more than a decade he has whined about all our problems. When twice given a chance to fix those problems, he has failed miserably.

He stood naked before the world, like no one has ever seen before…

.... So even if he had accidently hired a smart person who knows how to fix the problems, does anyone believe that Chump would actually listen to the person? Oh hell know, they'd be the first one fired.

Chump is a truly stupid man and this is something we could all see coming from a mile away.

after the speech he will make it worse for the republicans in the midterms. Yeah. He made it worse. He is beyond incompetent.

”It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.”

Shakespeare didn’t know he was not only a poet, but also a prophet.

Down there, 4th paragraph. Those words inside quotation marks are from Rep. Jim Himes, ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee.

He seems to have the idea that it would take very little effort to put an election into question. Not, as some posit, a military/police presence at every polling place. Not, as some posit, an impossibly large force. Just a few ballot boxes.

But why should I pay any attention to what a guy who has access to all the intelligence says?

I can get the real info from an anonymous poster on a political discussion website. Whew! I was almost worried there for a moment.

Someone that can craft beautiful sentences and takes the time to proofread their work…nice job and I agree with your every point. It took me a second to remember the most ancient part of the brain….amygdala-tickling dystopian fantasies indeed!

I have to keep on my toes!

Thanks for the compliments.

Had to look it up.

as opposed to people of more liberal bent? It's interesting stuff.

I stopped digging at Merriam-Webster. Thanks for doing the work for me.

I would not rule out sending ICE to polling places to intimidate, or sending the FBI to sieze ballots and voting machines, or even declaring martial law.

The courts can't prevent that, even if somehow a court order is issued in advance. A megalomaniacal dictator will do anything to hold onto power.

He will do anything he can to hold onto power, you are correct. That is why he spends so much time on dividing our country - his side and the other side. His power comes from his cult and their potential to do harm.

I anticipate a Democratic wave in the House and a closely divided Senate maybe 51-49, but too close for ANY comfort or bullying by Trump to get his way.

Trump will see the writing on the wall and will resign the presidency (with a full clemency pardon from Vance in hand) and flee the country in 2027. His only concern now is staying out of jail for the rest of his (hopefully VERY short) post-presidency life. He is 80 now, in obvious declining health and likely on a 2-3 year over-under line for survivability. By 2030, the world probably has a 90-95% chance that he is dead either way.

That speech and the response of the networks and some in GOP circles indicate that he lacks the control to command anything after December of this year and that in a new Congress, with a GOP desperate to throw off his yoke for 2028, he will be perilously close to impeachment and removal from office this time. He is a complete coward, so he will run from that fight like Wily-E.Coyote from the Road Runner's traps.

I take solace in the fact that he loses sleep about 2020 still. That shit warms my fucking heart and soothes my tortured soul. Yes Trump has immeasurably damaged this nation, possibly irreparably as well...but at least I know his tiny hands are rubbing every night as he stews in the juices of his own failure and loss and how that makes him undeniably a "loser" the worst thing in his warped little world fashioned by that asshole Fred. Stew in it Donnie. Plan your escape and where you want to die - it won't be in New York, you will NOT be celebrated here or in the majority of the world for anything BUT the act of finally dying and your memory and legacy are ones of graft, theft, fraud and ultimately FAILURE. You die a bum. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!

Like I don’t think he can or will flee, as he would then be subject to asset seizure/forfeiture, which would leave him a pauper in a foreign land.

Otherwise, I agree with all your adjectives…

on some well insulated island in the Mediterranean?

This POtuS has immense power at his fingertips, and he doesn't give a damn about Constitutional law or the sworn oath he took.

Ten thousand ICE agents terrorized Minneapolis, but couldn’t control the city.

Thousands of national guard troops couldn’t control LA.

His only true power is the ability to sow chaos and destruction.

The states aren’t cowering in fear and complying with his demands, and, finally, neither are many republicans in congress, so why should we?

I don’t expect that to change - he is weak and incompetent.

I do expect lots of noise and political theatre, because that is all he has left.

Taking any of those steps would only make things worse for republicans in general and for Trump specifically, and would not produce the results that you think they would.

If you feel compelled to tickle your own amygdala, please proceed, but don’t expect the rest of us to accept your declarations as evidence based facts.

I believe there is good reason to believe he can impact election results with siezed ballots and voting machines BEFORE any court ruling after the fact can be issued. Also, multiple appeals all the way to the Supreme Court for a final ruling can take months.

I don't claim to know what will happen, but of one thing I am certain:

We should NOT underestimate what this pathological power-mad narcissist will do to retain a compliant congress. The Democratic Party and orginizations need a plan for any contingency.

We don't know what the next few months will bring, but I think it's a safe bet the shitstorm will get worse as the Iran war drags on, supply chains are stretched beyond anything we've seen since the 1973 gas shortages, prices continue to rise, the economic impact hurts more people, and Hair Twitler grows more desperate.

Protests are likely to grow, and this POtuS will be itching to declare martial law. All it takes is some violence, possibly sparked by Proud Boy instigators.

I don't want any of this to happen. I'll be happy as a clam if my worst fears prove to be overstated -- but I don't think anticipating the worst is unreasonable. He has stocked his cabinet with sycophants who will follow any order he issues. No guardrails this time.

Meanwhile we are all free to tickle any part of our anatomy as the urge strikes us, yourself included.

For the bajillionth time, nationwide martial law is a physical impossibility .

So is “strategic deployment” of troops or ICE at polling places in solid blue districts. They simply don’t have enough people.

In election after election over the past 18 month, solid red 2024 Trump +20 districts have swung 15-30 points towards Dems in places like FL, GA and TX - how do they “strategically” interfere with the thousands of polling places in those districts without harming the chances of their own republican candidates for congress as well as down ballot races?

Again, those are actual election results I’m talking about, not polls or pundit prognostications.

Not true - as we have seen in numerous examples from Bush v Gore to all the evidence free challenges in 2020 that cost many lawyers their licenses to practice, with cases concerning time sensitive election matters, the courts can move quickly, resolving cases in weeks, often in just a few days or hours (see the 60 cases Trump lost in 2020 between election day and the beginning of December when the Electoral College met)

But you are right. His cult didn’t believe his last assassination attempt his constant need for attention and his attack on their lifestyle meaning descent into poverty has them rethinking their priorities.

To stop living in fantasy land and where is my $2000 doge check.

He retreated in Minneapolis. He lost on Epstein. He's been reduced to empty threats and bluster on Greenland and Canada. He's been humiliated by the Iranians.

My prediction is that he'll make some half-witted attempts at intimidation or vote seizing, and he'll ultimately fold when he faces determined resistance. He might even tee up his next impeachment for congress depending on how blatantly illegal whatever he does is.

This is why the GOP is now calling Democrats Communists. - So they can say they are working with China to hack the election.

Because that is all they have left.

Even many of the MAGA faithful are starting to tune out.

...but I think those who cry "Danger!" should be judiciously heeded.

We know that there is nothing the MAGA maladministration wouldn't do to prevent a free and fair election, but increasingly we see that there is less and less that they can do.

Let us remain vigilant as the blue tsunami gathers to swamp their seawalls and sweep them away.

And I don’t think anyone in the blue or swing states is asleep at the switch, and neither are folks like those at Democracy Docket.

They know it’s likely to get very noisy and messy, which is why they have been staging war games for various scenarios.

It’s not their first rodeo.

If anyone wants to show him some support, supporters in AZ would be grateful. Trump's humpers are trying to give him personal trouble on top of wanting him out of office. The man is a fighter, cares deeply about protecting the people's voice.

He barely won his election last time and faced a lot of GOP legal bullshit to get sworn in and do his job for us. If you have some spare coin and want to help us in our work to turn AZ from purple to blue.... Well, thank you for considering helping keep the DEMs in control of Arizona's top jobs, Governor Hobbs, Sec of State Fontes, and our titan of strength and brilliance AG Kris Mayes who meets daily with EVERY DEM state AG via Zoom and has kicked some trump ass around here.

Remain vigilant, do not ignore the potential chaos Trump will try to generate when the gop loses at the ballot box.

At the same time these hair on fire posts basically saying all is lost and there is nothing we can do is ridiculous.

These same people have been telling us for the past few months that for sure, we will have martial law next week ( especially during the Minnesota ICE invasion). I have yet to see that happen.

Prominent democrats like Jim Himes are not throwing in the towel, they are informing the electorate to not fall for Trump's bullshit.

States are already taking measures to protect against election meddling and the speech Trump delivered yesterday will only serve to accelerate that.

Trump and the GOP will fail.

" he telegraphed to the Republican congress that he will blame all of them for not passing the SAVE Act to prevent this loss “I’m not a loser, you guys are the losers!”

He will have his excuse. He is not the loser. They are. If they had only done as he asked?

If the victory in November happens, after the election is the time to crow and celebrate, not before.

We did this kinda of thing with Ms. Clinton and Ms. Harris, and look what happened.

There must be something to counter the defeatist Doomerism that tends to permeate threads, and we must recognize our opponents’ repeated failures and the successes we have already experienced that point to success in November.

My post was presented in the spirit of forward momentum, enthusiasm and the confidence that, at this moment, we are in the process of winning.

My post doesn’t come from a position of cocky certainty; it is merely a recognition of the evidence that points to our victory.

For the record, the midterms and the presidential elections of 2016 and 2024 are apples and oranges. It is inappropriate to compare two elections dependent upon the electoral college (as well as many other unprecedented factors in 2024) to an election that contains nearly 500 separate races for federal office, as well as hundreds of state and local offices, all decided by simple majority votes.

It is the difference between a sniper with a single bullet and a mob of millions, each armed with a sawed off shotgun.

Which is why he won’t invade.

There will be much saber rattling about martial law, but as all rational people know, nationwide martial law is a physical impossibility .

They simply don’t have enough troops to physically control 360 million people over the vast national landscape.

Unless he is planning to intimidate voters with loud guitar music.

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RIGGED will be his reason.

He will block a Democratic majority to start in January by any means necessary, and the extreme court will back him.

He will ignore the courts just like he does now.

Fascist dictators with that much power refuse to concede they lost (History proves that).

And nobody will do anything "effective" to stop him.

Nationwide martial law is a physical impossibility

So is “strategic deployment” of troops or ICE agents to solid blue areas.



Except, for the most part, he doesn’t ignore the courts:

No troops deployed to Portland or Chicago

Kilmer Garcia free on US soil

Liam Ramos and his dad free and home in Minneapolis.

Demands for voting rolls blocked

Indictments for Comey, James and others quickly dismissed

USPS ordered to deliver mail in ballots without interference.

All in response to court orders.



Except when it doesn’t.

Viktor Orban had far more centralized control over the courts, the legislature, the media, elections and the government as a whole than Trump does, and where is he now?

Despite acting with lawless impunity on a daily basis, the fact is, this administration is an evil clown car of incompetent goat rodeo rejects that fails exponentially more than it succeeds.

We may actually hang on until 2028 and finally - FINALLY! - be rid of this pox.

It’s comforting to think Trump is on his last legs, that he’s about to get his comeuppance. It’s wishful thinking

The telling passage in the OP is #4

Let’s be real. He has shown no regard for the courts when they rule against him. None of the legal rebuffs have altered his behavior. He’s been putting in place the apparatus necessary to negate even a landslide Democratic election result. The coup is farther along than most think.

Don’t let irrational optimism blind us to reality. Work hard to assure that necessary Democratic landslide. But be prepared for a post election battle requiring real sacrifice.

All he'll have to do will be to (illegally) order his armed goons in ice to circle around the Capitol, and refuse any access to it.

Mark my words. FASCIST dictators NEVER accept defeats. They always find ways to try to win by force.

that everyone is missing....................

It's not Trump per se, it is the Republican Party !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Trump would have not lasted one week into his first term if it wasn't for the Republican Senate, The Republican House, and the Republican U.S. Supreme Court.................along with.......The massively Republican owned media, the 2025 group, the Christian Nationalists, the white supremacists, the republican corporations, Citizens United, Putin funneling Millions corruptly through the NRA, Uber Rich Republican Oligarchs from not only the U.S. but from Russian and China.......the list is endless.............

Trump is only a pawn to the Republican Party, they will allow him to do all his shit to give the Media something to print and talk about, and to distract the citizens from all that the Republican Politicians,, Uber Rich Republicans, and Republican owned/operated Corporations, are doing in the shadows, behind smoke and mirrors. They did the same thing during Reagan, and during WBush period...........

The Republicans are going all out, no holds barred, to win this next election to cement their Tyrant/Dictatorship permanently...
IF we even have election.............and if they lose, look at an even bigger J6th with much more horrific actions ........

but don’t invite any billionaire, trillionaires with names like Bezos, Zuckerberg, Musk, etc. unless they come clean and admit defeat of their malfeasance and complicity to steal the wealth and government from the people at the bottom who actually make this economy work.

I needed that.

like he is dying. Puffy face, can't catch his breath, and God knows what is going on beneath that baggy suit. I said earlier this week that he looks like Exhibit A for my Cardiology instructor's lecrure on congestive heart failure, (She began that series by saying "if we live long enough, every one of us will die of congestive heart failure." Way to wake up a class at 8::45 am, Ms. Parier! But I doubt a one of us has ever forgotten it, I sure haven't!)

BTW, love your Pogo quote in your sig line - I recently picked up several old collections of the daily strips and find I may have to start micro dosing some hallucinogens to approximate Kelly’s surreal frame of mind in order to comprehend some of the stories…

it won't take that long. Today would not be soon enough for me!

The last line of MAGA defense will be to claim fraud. Then for the VP to refuse to swear in new Democratic senators, and the Speaker to refuse to swear in the new Democratic reps. I think it is 50/50 whether our illegitimate Supreme Court would back this, or if it would make any difference if they didn’t.
I don’t know what will happen but I predict a constitutional crisis of some kind this fall.

On January 3 2027, when the new Congress convenes, there is no speaker.

The gathered members-elect, as certified by their states , select a new speaker. Since there will be more Democratic members-elect, the new speaker will be a Democrat.

The new speaker then swears in the rest of the members-elect en masse.

The VP swearing in the new senators is a tradition, not a law- Lindsey Graham’s sister was just sworn in, and it wasn’t by Vance.

The Supreme Court has no role or jurisdiction in the swearing in of any member of congress.

It’s important to understand even the most mundane and minute details of how things actually work before making declarations about your imagined dystopian fantasies.

Presidents don’t tear down substantial portions of the White House because “it doesn’t work that way”.
People don’t just disappear without due process, effectively suspending habeus corpus, because “it doesn’t work that way”.
Presidents don’t openly ignore the emoluments clause and benefit financially from their office because “it doesn’t work that way”.
Sitting presidents don’t put their faces on currency (or commemorative tokens, or whatever they are calling it), because “it doesn’t work that way”.
Our military doesn’t attack civilian vessels on the high seas and kill the survivors, because “it doesn’t work that way”.
I could go on like this all day, but I’m sure that you get the point.

We are seeing a lot that “doesn’t work that way” lately, don’t you think?
Will he try some disruption of the process for seating the new congress? I think so.
Will he succeed? I don’t know. There are fewer guard rails now than on January 6th.
As far as my “imagined dystopian fantasy”, it is not mine alone, nor imagined. We are living it every day.

Are you on the other side? Your spelling and grammar seem too good for that.

Please try to be less condescending in the future.

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It boggles the mind that some do not understand that he has fucked up the world in such a way that it will take many generations to repair...if we indeed even have the fortitude to PERMANENTLY repair the damage.

"It doesn't work that way"...well, apparently, it does work that way.

Once he was allowed to begin on his path of destruction, once all traditional rules and norms were thrown out the window, then the problem became much bigger than Trump himself. The problem became entrenched, systemic, and exposed to the rest of the world.

Winning the House, and hopefully the Senate is obviously a good thing.

But will that fix the systemic issues? Will that fix the rotted brains of 35% of Americans who support him? Will that fix the wrongful thinking that 35% of Americans have passed onto their children, who in turn will pass it on to their children? Will that regain the world's trust that we won't take the same bad path again? No it won't.

And if we are lucky enough to get Trump removed, then his replacement will be worse. Because his replacement on the surface will be less obnoxious than him, but just as evil.

It needs to be recognized that this is systemic rot involving thousands of bad actors. Systemic rot that cannot be fixed by the removal of one man, or even of one political party. That's how enormous this entire situation is.

Once the genie is let out of the bottle, he can't be put back into the bottle.

And this is what I wish more people understood, and felt in their bones. Because that is the reality.

I agree with you. Holier than thou proclamations on a website are not going to fix systemic and catastrophic problems that have been meticulously planned for decades. Condescendingly scolding people who believe that the problem is deeper than it appears is not going to fix the problem.

The fix to this is not winning the House and Senate.

The real fix to this will involve some unpleasant and difficult reform in order to get rid of the real rot that Trump has exposed and unleashed.

Because even if we manage to remove Trump, there's 20 others waiting to replace him. And then we have the real problem still...the billionaires.

Rose colored glasses and rah rah posts on a website are not going to fix that, and it's a fool's errand to believe that one man is the cause of all of this, and that the removal of one man will fix all of this. In my opinion, that is shallow thinking.

And the next trifecta of a Democratic president, a Democratic House, and a Democratic Senate will be so busy trying to undo the incredible damage that has been done...that nothing will move forward, people will forget, and the problem will repeat itself the next time around when a Republican gains power.

I really wish that people would give more thought to what the REAL problem is, rather than thinking that the removal of ONE MAN will fix the hell that has been unleashed by him, and the trust that has been lost by the rest of the world.

And to draw an analogy...this country was not fixed when the Civil War ended. The issues that fomented the Civil War were just pushed back under a rock.

Unless harsh and seemingly "radical" changes are made after Trump is gone, the problem still exists, and the mistrust by our allies will still exist.

Trump's demise would be nothing more than alleviating an acute flair-up of a persistent chronic condition.

As to your question in the next to last paragraph, I’ve often wondered the same thing.

I was responding to a post that claimed “the speaker would refuse to swear in the new Democratic congress members”, when the current speaker’s term expires on December 31, 2026, and cannot be extended by simply willing it to be so.

The new congress convenes on January 3, 2027, without a speaker, and there is nothing Trump or Johnson can do to change that reality.

Trump’s only real power is his power to sow chaos and destruction- he has very little actual, physical control over anything outside the executive branch, as we have seen time and time again.

He will make a lot of noise and tell a lot of lies when the Dems retake the house, and may even get some US attorneys at DOJ to sacrifice their law licenses by challenging the outcomes of some races, only to lose in court repeatedly as he did in 2020.

Most states are prepared to defend against the use of force to disrupt the certification of their elections (at least for anything save aerial bombing). They have had to deal with these kinds of disruption before, it’s not their first rodeo.

If he panics and attempts to use force to obstruct the convening of congress, he will only be delaying the inevitable, but as we have seen time and time again, at his core, he is a coward. It will just be another TACO Tuesday.

THE VOTERS HAVE TO GET OUT AND VOTE!!!

Rant off, but it's still true...if we don't vote in overwhelming numbers, it will be a very different scenario.

Surveys have shown repeatedly that Democratic voters are far more motivated to vote this year than republicans.

Here are some resources where you can play a part in making that a reality:

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10115179