#JAILTOTHECHIEF- Shit Just Got Real

[Dakota Tebaldi]

...the fraq?

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

Steve King lost the Iowa GOP primary today. Although, people who would know better than me are saying his replacement isn't much better, just less direct.

 

[Free]

Steve King lost the Iowa GOP primary today. Although, people who would know better than me are saying his replacement isn't much better, just less direct.

He's never crawled back from being stripped of his committee assignments and basically made a nonentity for stuff he said even the GOP couldn't ignore. I mean, he's not the President, afterall.

 

[Free]

This.

 

[Bartholomew Gallacher]

Trump - the best president supporting the black since Lincoln!

 

[Jolene Benoir]

This.

That whole photo-op of him walking to the church with his thugs, yes, thugs,. beating anyone along the way, was about his fragile ego needing to be pumped up after he hid like a little girl in the bunker. He couldn't stand that.

Defile a church, in the process. He sure doesn't care. Hold up a bible, feed the base, even if they are too stupid to understand that he is the antithesis of someone who actually reads and lives by it. His followers ate it up; fools that the are. They don't want a true leader. They want daddy, who tells them they can and will rule by fist. They are the most irreligious people I have ever seen if such a display bolsters them.

He wants a civil war, but not for what you may think. He has no beliefs, other than that he was put upon this earth as it's very best man. He wants it only to retain power. He cares not for his people. He's an empty shell of a man.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

The rate of fresh affronts has often outpaced the capacity to digest – or even describe – them. Peaceful protesters, journalists, a young African American man pleading for mutual understanding, shop owners, residents are being targeted for arbitrary arrest or police beatings or both – especially if they are black.

Overnight the very language of governance has changed. The defence secretary has described US cities as the “battlespace” and the president has rejoiced in his administration’s “overwhelming force” and “domination” over the citizenry.

As each extraordinary moment slides by it poses its own question – “How did we get here?” – but then is swept away by the relentless flow of the Twitter feed. Simply trying to take stock is exhausting.

One reason it is so hard to keep track of the descent is the near instant normalisation of every bizarre new turn, administered like a fast-acting anaesthetic. Trump is surrounded by more coherent people insisting nothing out of the ordinary is happening. Anyone unable to restrain themselves from yelling “this is crazy” left the administration some time ago. In William Barr, Trump has an attorney general ready to draft executive orders at will, together with legal-sounding justifications.

'How did we get here?': Trump has normalised mayhem and the US is paying the price

More than 100,000 have died in a pandemic and troops are on the streets. The rate of fresh affronts has outpaced the ability to digest them

www.theguardian.com

 

[Kara Spengler]

...the fraq?

His cult will follow him no matter what. He is starting to lose big names in evangelism after his photo op stunt though.

 

[Kara Spengler]

That whole photo-op of him walking to the church with his thugs, yes, thugs,. beating anyone along the way, was about his fragile ego needing to be pumped up after he hid like a little girl in the bunker. He couldn't stand that.

Defile a church, in the process. He sure doesn't care. Hold up a bible, feed the base, even if they are too stupid to understand that he is the antithesis of someone who actually reads and lives by it. His followers ate it up; fools that the are. They don't want a true leader. They want daddy, who tells them they can and will rule by fist. They are the most irreligious people I have ever seen if such a display bolsters them.

He wants a civil war, but not for what you may think. He has no beliefs, other than that he was put upon this earth as it's very best man. He wants it only to retain power. He cares not for his people. He's an empty shell of a man.

Do nor forget he held it upside down (and part of the prep was chasing away a priest). An upside down us flag is a sign of distress so I wonder what an upside down bible means?

 

[Innula Zenovka]

 

[Sredni Eel]

Shit got real. Here's a llama activist, you guys.

https://twitter.com/CaesarTheLlama

 

[Sredni Eel]

 

[Free]

Trump - the best president supporting the black since Lincoln!

He sells himself and his "achievements" as well as he used to sell his steaks.

 

[Free]

I get the point of this, but I have a major problem having the symbol of the Schutzstaffel photoshopped on the helmets of U.S. troops. This is not their fault.

 

[Bartholomew Gallacher]

The German news magazine has today a column named "Donald Trump's putsch strategies" by Sascha Lobo. Content is exactly as the title suggests - how Trump might make a coup in November in case he looses the election, and the signs&stepping stones to that so far.

Should he lose the election in November, Donald Trump will probably not recognise the result. No one will be able to prevent him from staging a coup d'état, he and his allies have long made sure of that.

The protests following the racist murder of George Floyd in the United States are also a reaction to the country's racist structures, which Donald Trump has deepened and strengthened. And they point to the last missing piece of the puzzle in a monstrous strategy: Donald Trump is preparing a coup d'état (read the article by my colleague René Pfister). The clues are there, it is only necessary to put together a few circumstantial suppositions. Most of the coup scenario consists of Trump's own words and actions, supplemented by those of his party colleagues.

From 1865 - The older story

When slavery was officially abolished in the USA in 1865, the great fear of the white Southerners was that the black population would gain too much influence through voting rights. "Voter Suppression" was supposed to be an antidote, the deliberate making of voting more difficult, especially for black and also economically weaker Americans. From this attitude derives the current understanding of democracy by the Republican party leadership. Majorities are at stake - but not all of them. That is why prison inmates (40% black) are often not allowed to vote, for example. That is why tricks such as gerrymandering have been developed, in which electoral districts are tailored so that one party benefits from them, that is why in some states certain identity documents are required for voting, which poorer parts of the population rarely have.

Since 2001 - The recent history

With the victory of George W. Bush, an idea that has been discussed at least since the 1980s reached the White House: a "perpetual presidency" of the Republicans. The notorious strategist Karl Rove speaks of the "permanent Republican majority". And this is to be achieved by almost all means. Democracy should be the backdrop against which a permanent Republican rule is installed.

Not that one wouldn't trust Trump to do everything anyway, after he made out "very fine people" under swastika-waving Nazis and after children were put into cages in the USA. But a quote from 2016 seems almost like an announcement. Three weeks before the election Trump says: "I will absolutely accept the result of this great and historic election - if I win!"

January 2017 - start of the election rigging

The extreme narcissist Trump can't lose, and if he does, he invents a reason why he actually won. Hillary Clinton got more votes overall, Trump gets the majority of the electorate and becomes president. But his inauguration statement is a good one: he claims that Clinton was able to get more votes than him by rigging the elections. It is the beginning of the electoral fraud story, Trump's strategy to delegitimize election results at will.

From 2017 - The Projection

In psychology it is called projection, when you project your own plans onto others. "The Democrats are planning a coup," Trump has repeatedly claimed, for the investigation by former FBI Chief Robert Mueller and the Democrats' impeachment considerations. In my estimation, Trump's accusation is not only a right-wing pose to stage himself as the most powerful man in the world, nor a victim. It is also an attempt to turn the defence into an attack disguised as self-defence.

From 2017 - Creation of a Trump reality

Trump's followers are in a reality of their own; they do not care about factual reality, but develop a sectarian understanding of the world: Trump is always right, even when he is not right. Because everything that speaks against Trump is staged by his enemies. In case of doubt, it is a "deep state", an official conspiracy against Trump, of which he himself often spoke. It is a trick to make state action appear legitimate only when it has been approved by Trump: sheer authoritarianism, in other words.

April 2017 - Trumps first constitutional judge

The Supreme Court is essential in the American electoral process when deciding on controversial practices and situations. George W. Bush also won in 2000 because the Constitutional Court stopped a recount. At the beginning of 2016, a conservative constitutional judge, who should have been replaced by the then incumbent President Obama, will die. The Republicans use procedural tricks to delay the nomination, so that in April 2017 the first trump judge Neil Gorsuch is elected to the highest court.

June 2018 - The surprise resignation of another constitutional judge

The Supreme Court is such a central, political power body in the USA, because there the presidential power is to be controlled together with the laws. In June 2018, a rather liberal judge who was actually appointed for life resigns under strange circumstances. Trump gets his second constitutional judge and thus a clear, conservative majority in the Supreme Court.

September 2019 - The Impeachment Debacle

The Democrats, with their majority in Congress, are starting an impeachment process. A few months later, they will fail as crashingly as foreseeable against the Republican Senate majority, but now Trump's story that the Democrats are planning a coup against him has official fodder. Very cleverly, Trump builds a counter-narration that he posts on Twitter. where he posts, "DEMOCRATS WANT TO STEAL THE ELECTION!"

October 2019 - The minions radicalize

Trump's supporters have been radicalized since 2016. Even during election campaigns, the aggressive mood, for example against the free press, was described several times. In the meantime, things have gone far beyond that. In October 2019 the right-wing to right-wing extremist festival "Trumpstock" will take place in Arizona. One visitor says he has hoarded weapons in case Trump's re-election is not successful: "Nothing less than a civil war would happen. I do not believe in violence, but I will do what I must do." Two months later, a man at a Trump rally unflinchingly says to the camera of one of the biggest TV stations: "It won't be cancelled... my .357 Magnum feels good with it. End of story." Mind you, this is a perfectly normal, democratic process: a lost election.

November 2019 - The Insider's Warning

In the USA, the book "A Warning" is published, written by an anonymous person from Trump's immediate environment in the White House. It contains the following quote: "If Trump is removed from office, whether by impeachment or a narrow defeat at the ballot box, ... Trump will not quietly and simply resign. That's why he talks so often about coups in progress and a civil war on the horizon. He plants this tale in the minds of his followers, and this tale can end tragically."

April 6, 2020 - The Supreme Court Test Run

The Supreme Court will decide whether there can be an extension of the deadline for postal voting in Wisconsin. The Democratic governor had initiated several proceedings because of the Corona pandemic in order to be able to vote as safely as possible. But absentee voting is seen as an electoral facilitation that is more likely to benefit the Democrats. The Supreme Court rejects it.

April 30, 2020 - The militias threaten

Between 30 April and 15 May 2020 there are alleged "anti-Corona protests". In Michigan, they are mainly directed against Democratic Governor Gretchen Whitmer, a favorite enemy of Trump, who has often contradicted him. The protesters, recognizable by their signets as radical right-wingers, enter parliament armed and threaten the members of parliament. The Pro-Trump militias, which have formed, armed and trained throughout the country, can immediately recognize this visual language as a signal: When in doubt, we must use force of arms to put pressure on parliaments.

May 2020 - Trumps preparation

Picking up on the 2017 election rigging story, Trump continues to stress on Twitter that the November election could be rigged. He is particularly interested in the absentee ballot, which may be of benefit to the Democrats, but at the same time is only a pretextual argument. Trump is preparing to call an election outcome that does not suit him a falsification.

May 10, 2020 - Trump's propaganda channel immunized

Fox News, the lying propaganda platform for Trump disguised as a news channel, speaks over and over again of an alleged coup d'état by the left. It is ultimately the well-known story of self-defence.

 

[Bartholomew Gallacher]

14 May 2020 - Concern grows

Suspicions about Trump's plan of a coup had been raised again and again in smaller, leftist and more aggressive media over the years. Now even the Washington Post headlines with concern: "We must prepare ourselves for the fact that Trump will not accept the election results". The opinion piece asks what will happen if Trump tweets that he actually won and ends with the maximally helpless call: "Republicans who care about the Republic must act now. They have failed to do so in Trump vs. Democracy very, very often, actually every single time. The Republican party under Trump is not interested in democracy.

May 30, 2020 - The riots and the firing from the right

After the murder of George Floyd by police officers, there are protests all over the country. Trump himself pours oil on the fire, because the more civil-war-like the situation, the better for him, who wants to stage himself as a supposed "law-and-order" president. But right-wing extremist pro-Trump groups are also playing their part; they see their chance to pursue their racist agenda in the turmoil of a civil war. There are increasing signs that Nazi groups set fire to shops during the protests in order to harm the #BlackLivesMatter movement. Twitter reveals that the account "Antifa_US" actually belongs to right-wing extremists who want to discredit the antifascist movement. The secretly right-wing account had repeatedly called for violence and had been quoted in media.

1 June 2020 - Trump threatens military action

Trump threatens to deploy US military in the country itself - against protesting Americans. Put simply, the respective national guard, like the police, is more likely to be under the ruling governors of a state, whereas the army is clearly under the control of the president. Not only does this dangerously polarize him, but he also uses a law that is more than 200 years old, which allows him, as commander-in-chief of the armed forces, to directly exercise executive power on the streets.

2 June 2020 - The great danger

For years, too many observers did not take Trump at his word, thus playing down his monstrosities. But Trump is doing what he said he would: He deploys U.S. military forces in Washington, DC. Heavily armed soldiers under Trump's direct command. Helicopters flying low to use war tactics against unarmed protesters. Trump uses tear gas to clear the way to a church, where he presents himself with the Bible in his hand. An expert for the religious rights of the USA sees here the fundamentalist narrative "good vs. evil" in Trump, an end-time narrative with holy struggle, which is more important than any democracy. For Trump represents Jesus. Congressman David Cicilline tweets, "We have never been closer to a dictatorship."

November 2020 - An unfortunately likely scenario

Should he lose the election in November, Trump will stage a coup d'état and no one will be able to stop him. I fear he will not recognise the election results, prematurely claiming on Twitter that he has actually won and supported by trumped-up propaganda media such as Fox News. He will explain all differences with other media with the claim "This is fake news!", and all reports from government agencies with a "deep-state" conspiracy by the Democrats. He will immediately use the US military under his command against any protest, against Americans on American soil. He will eventually appeal to the Supreme Court to back up his version of the election results. The protests of the Democrats and the upright, critical media will be as helpless and ultimately ineffective as all rebellion so far.

Original article: Kolumne: Donald Trumps Strategien für den Staatsstreich - DER SPIEGEL - Netzwelt

Translation by Deepl.com

 

[Sredni Eel]

Trump Can’t Just Refuse to Leave Office

 

[Bartholomew Gallacher]

I would not count on it that this would prevent Trump from trying. The problem is that he silently installed over the last 3 1/2 years in many key positions his buttlicking, sycophants as allies so the outcome of such a coup would be uncertain and desastrous. Even if not, he would try regardless.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

To my mind, if/when he loses in November, Trump is going to claim the election was rigged, just as he complained in 2016 it was rigged even though he won, and, one way or another, the matter will have to be settled by the Supreme Court in Trump vs Biden just as, in 2000, they settled Bush vs Gore.

How that turns out is the big question, and one very likely possible outcome -- a partisan decision by the Supreme Court gives the disputed result to Trump -- terrifies me.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Oh good grief

Trump claims he was in bunker for a ‘tiny' period of time to inspect it

President also said on Fox News he visited the bunker in the daytime, not after dark as was reported

www.theguardian.com

I'm really looking forward to Sarah Cooper's performance of this

Kilmeade asked Trump if, as was reported, the Secret Service had told him he had to “go downstairs” in order to protect his welfare.

“No, they didn’t tell me that at all,” the president said, “but they said it would be a good time to go down, to take a look, because maybe some time you’re going to need it … I looked, I was down for a very, very short period of time … a whole group of people went with me, as an inspecting factor.”

It was reported at the weekend that first lady Melania Trump and the president’s son Barron Trump also went to the bunker.

“And Brian it was during the day,” Trump insisted, “it wasn’t during the night. I think they reported during the night. During the night, maybe some day it makes sense.”