Trump’s Washington, D.C., takeover targets a host of groups, many of them vulnerable
Some residents are skeptical that President Trump’s use of tough police tactics will work to solve complex social ills.
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Best Wishes and Hugs,Scottie
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Some things you need to know are often the things you really really dont WANT to know and yet still have to process it, if not for sanity’s sake, but just because you know it’s real. As near as I can tell, those kids are about to become adults very very fast, and I can only hope one of them takes aim at the right guy.
It would be so easy to end this debacle with a well placed shot into that mound of nonsense someone elected (mostly I suspect because a white bloviated supremacist is far far more equal to the job than a feeemale black woman…)
We are about to get what a lot of people think we deserve.
Leans forward. Stares into the screen. Tries not to cry.
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I hear you talking. I really do.
The problem with any violent solution is that:
1. Trump promptly becomes a martyr and you’ll never hear the end of it.
2. After a very undignified tussle in which Vance tries to hang onto the post and others think it’s their turn, The regime will continue and play the sympathy card while 70,000,000 who voted against them run out of barf bags.
3. Who knows how many unhinged folk in a land with far too many guns will go looking to take reprisals?
We can all but hope that this collection of neurotics, bigots and fools implodes in an ugly in-fight over something taking Trump down with them, because that is the only heritage they deserve.
Speaking as a Brit, and I have been pushing this line for sometime to my American friends is what worries me is with this polarisation based on hate and prejudice you experience your own version of Northern Ireland in the latter third of the 20th century, and with a lot more guns.
Take care
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Hi Roger. I so agree with everything you said. I can’t respond any better than you did. Thank you. Hugs
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Thank you Scottie.
I do dread the idea of Trump being assassinated. It would start off a violent cycle and his martyrdom.
An humiliation, overall public disgust and rapid dissociation by those close to him is the only just fate awaiting him, and his clique.
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Hi Roger. Yes when he passes the maga will make him their god, like they did with Reagan. The question is who will take tRump’s place as head of the maga cult? I don’t think anyone could but tRump. He has created a cult based on himself and the pretend story of his own greatness. But Republicans will all fight each other to claim the title to e the next king / cult leader. Hugs
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In a situation where as many people loathe and admire someone like Trump their heritage will always be a fragile thing.
Oliver Cromwell the first and only person to effectively run a republican government in the UK (Lord Protector 1653-1658) had a failr shrewd idea of that fragility. When a colleague remarking on cheering crowds said it was good to hear the on their side Cromwell remarked: “Do not trust to the cheering, for those very persons would shout as much if you and I were going to be hanged.”
When Trump does go the Republican struggle will be anasty and ugly scramble for the throne, hopefully the Republican Party as it is now will tear itself apart.
If Trump does try and hang on too long he will naturally decline and there will be another sort of ugly set too over who shoves him off or takes hold and has him simply as a mouthpiece.
Whichever way it goes it is likely to be ugly and divisive. It always is when a populist goes.
Take care you guys.
Roger & Sheila
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Hi Judy. I can understand your emotion but when you write … and I can only hope one of them takes aim at the right guy. It would be so easy to end this debacle with a well placed shot into that mound of nonsense someone elected … I have to voice and believe you mean that in a political and news media way. Remember I don’t encourage any physical violence that is not to stop immediate attacks on another person.
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I’m going into corner and snarl a lot, until I calm down.
Sheila does get worried that one of my loud commentaries will lead to me having a stroke…
I used to laughingly deny that would happen……years ago.
Take care you guys
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Hi Roger. I agree with you and Sheila. But I love your loud commentaries here, as they often make the more rational like myself stop and think about what we are pushing. Right now I feel any acts of violence plays into the orange dictators hands. It gives him a reason in the minds of the public to do the asinine anti-constitutional shit he is doing. Hugs
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He make think its plays into his hands, but those who play with violent cards solely as their only major weapon will find the whole thing spirals out of their control.
War be it on an international stage, or a domestic stage at a cultural level carries risks way beyond the expectations or intentions of original motivators.
Take care you guys.
Roger & Sheila
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