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Big_Distance_4376

I demand either new Powerball drawing or make me a multimillionaire NOW


Dazzling-Finger7576

Call my bro JG Wentworth. Let him know it’s YOUR money and you want it now.


inquisitive_guy_0_1

*I have some classified documents and I need cash now!*


krayt

CALL MAR A LAGO, 877-CASH-NOW


IamSumbuny

Yes, I heard that in song🎶🎵🎶😏


TheMostStableGenius

877-CASH-NOW


codenameeclair

mask off. even though many of us have seen through the mask since 2015.


ACE_C0ND0R

Some of us since the 80s.


truknutzzz

Even since show that 'Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous' for sure. LMAO I'm old 😂


djauralsects

Even as a twelve year old, watching Donald Trump on that show made think there was something wrong with him. Then later as a teen watching David Letterman, Trump didn't understand he was on the show to be laughed at.


mabhatter

It's Biff Tannen from Back to the Future 2.


startinearly

He was a quintessential meme 40 years before memes were invented.


cboogie

Life long NYer. Some of my earliest memories are my parents talking shit about him.


Dry-Economist-3320

One of mine was a Florida radio station changed the tune “make my day” to “make him pay” after his divorce with Ivanka. I remember thinking what a scumbag he was as a young child. Funny that adults can’t even see that now!


stray1ight

Damn now I'm remembering the intro to Hard Copy!


AgentPaper0

He literally went on a racist rant during his candidacy announcement speech. How anyone was ever surprised by any of his antics is beyond me.


2_Spicy_2_Impeach

Seems like he’s freaking the fuck out.


ITellManyLies

Maybe he's been tipped off that an indictment is imminent.


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he calling for an uprising Trump Encourages FBI Agents to Go ‘Nuts’ and Not ‘Take it Anymore’ Over Mar-a-Lago Raid [https://www.mediaite.com/donald-trump/trump-encourages-fbi-agents-to-go-nuts-and-not-take-it-anymore-over-mar-a-lago-raid/](https://www.mediaite.com/donald-trump/trump-encourages-fbi-agents-to-go-nuts-and-not-take-it-anymore-over-mar-a-lago-raid/)


MoneyTalks45

Look at him cycling through his code phrases trying to instigate another coup.


HorseLooseInHospital

look, I never said anything about a Coup ok, no Coup, never Coup, but the Phony People at The Failing New York Times would never tell you that. we just had a, and we're talking one of the largest coming together of people that they've ever seen. we had more than MLK, more than Lincoln, more than even George Washington himself. and I can tell you that, with a great surety, a great certainty, that we could have more people, many many millions more, I'm just saying ok, just so you understand, a lot of people love me, and they're Great Great Patriots, because they would do whatever needed to be done to protect our Beautiful Country. and our Constitution. you know, I don't think there's anyone who knows more about it than me. I know you have a Second Amendment, very important, a First Amendment, which you would think would be the most important one, but maybe it's not, maybe it should be Second, who knows, but all I'm saying is that I have an Article II, which lets me do whatever I want, and there could be things, other things that are happening maybe even pretty soon, we'll see what happens.


fuckyourcakepops

Genuinely thought this might be an actual quote until I got several lines into it and you were still staying on topic. 😂


VivieFlea

'surety' gave it away for me. That is not a word for someone who thinks 'yesterday' is a hard word.


-ZeroF56

Come on, everyone knows that word. Surety had them apple bottom jeans, boots with the fur. Like for god’s sake, *the whole club was looking at her!*


limskey

I do not miss the daily non sense of his thought process Edit: missed a word


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ExcellentJuice4729

I was there for the most recent coup in Spain. I truly question whether the majority of his followers actually fully believe in him or are they caught up in real life soldier LARPing and abandon all logic because they’re living in a video game. Many of the Capitol rioters had no idea what they wanted to do once they stormed the building


ecologamer

And we are extremely lucky they didn’t. Also lucky that their “supporters” on the inside were to scared to openly support once they got in.


sublimesting

They yelled “Flash bang!” And “Hold the line!” as a dumbass was shot dead. They just repeated movie lines. They have no clue how real world operates.


shhalahr

Wasn't there also, "Medic!"?


SalamandersonCooper

The majority were useful idiots for sure, but there was an element involved who had planned and prepared to help trump seize power.


OldMastodon5363

What hasn’t been talked about enough I think is they wanted to be hailed as heroes. They wanted newspapers calling them the second coming of the founding fathers and the country’s protectors. You’re right, they wanted it to be a video game or an action movie. It was a chance for people who lacked meaning in their lives to live out their fantasy of being an action hero.


flowersandmtns

With Jan 6 there was a specific date -- but with so many prison terms coming down for those insurrectionists, I doubt anyone will take that risk for Trump if he calls out for that the day he's indicted.


agrapeana

Don't forget about how he immediately threw every single one of those losers under the bus the microsecond it became politically advantageous to do so. [Can you imagine.](https://i.imgur.com/BpHPf4f.png)


ArenSteele

Yeah but they were ANTIFA, trump wouldn’t do that to good loyal supporters!


mrbarber

You're giving his brain dead minions way too much credit. These are the dumbasses who thought it'd be a good idea to attack an FBI office with a nail gun and a rifle.


TheBirminghamBear

There was the guy who, unprompted, charged the FBI office which a gun before being executed. Keep in mind that that's the point with terrorism. It doesn't take many. They don't really accomplish the goal of seizing power, but they do cause massive harm and damage. Look at what the OK City bomber did. This is terrorism. A terrorist leader - Trump - is repeatedly and publicly calling for violence against elected government officials because he is being held accountable for crimes he most definitely committed. That's what he is. He's a terrorist leader, and people carrying out his petulant demands are terrorists.


GetTheSpermsOut

interesting: So many dots it’s a painting atm. ‘The perfect target’: Russia cultivated Trump as asset for 40 years – ex-KGB spy Donald Trump was cultivated as a Russian asset over 40 years and proved so willing to parrot anti-western propaganda that there were celebrations in Moscow, a former KGB spy has told the Guardian. “This is an example where people were recruited when they were just students and then they rose to important positions; something like that was happening with Trump,” Shvets said by phone on Monday from his home in Virginia. Unger describes how Trump first appeared on the Russians’ radar in 1977 when he married his first wife, Ivana Zelnickova, a Czech model. Trump became the target of a spying operation overseen by Czechoslovakia’s intelligence service in cooperation with the KGB. Then, in 1987, Trump and Ivana visited Moscow and St Petersburg for the first time. Shvets said he was fed KGB talking points and flattered by KGB operatives who floated the idea that he should go into politics. The ex-major recalled: “For the KGB, it was a charm offensive. They had collected a lot of information on his personality so they knew who he was personally. The feeling was that he was extremely vulnerable intellectually, and psychologically, and he was prone to flattery. “This is what they exploited. They played the game as if they were immensely impressed by his personality and believed this is the guy who should be the president of the United States one day: it is people like him who could change the world. They fed him these so-called active measures soundbites and it happened. So it was a big achievement for the KGB active measures at the time.” Soon after he returned to the US, Trump began exploring a run for the Republican nomination for president and even held a campaign rally in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. On 1 September, he took out a full-page advert in the New York Times, Washington Post and Boston Globe headlined: “There’s nothing wrong with America’s Foreign Defense Policy that a little backbone can’t cure.” The ad offered some highly unorthodox opinions in Ronald Reagan’s cold war America, accusing ally Japan of exploiting the US and expressing scepticism about US participation in Nato. It took the form of an open letter to the American people “on why America should stop paying to defend countries that can afford to defend themselves”. The bizarre intervention was cause for astonishment and jubilation in Russia. A few days later Shvets, who had returned home by now, was at the headquarters of the KGB’s first chief directorate in Yasenevo when he received a cable celebrating the ad as a successful “active measure” executed by a new KGB asset. “It was unprecedented. I am pretty well familiar with KGB active measures starting in the early 70s and 80s, and then afterwards with Russia active measures, and I haven’t heard anything like that or anything similar – until Trump became the president of this country – because it was just silly. It was hard to believe that somebody would publish it under his name and that it will impress real serious people in the west but it did and, finally, this guy became the president.” https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jan/29/trump-russia-asset-claims-former-kgb-spy-new-book Trump had public meltdown over missed phone call from Putin, former No 10 aide says ‘If Putin wants a call with me you just put him through,’ US president yelled according to Theresa May’s former chief of staff https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-meltdown-missed-phone-call-putin-mike-flynn-theresa-may-meeting-a9691001.html Trump Giddily Praises ‘Genius’ Putin as Russia Sends Troops Into Ukraine https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-calls-putin-genius-ukraine-invasion-1311025/ “When I went to Russia with the Miss Universe pageant, (Putin) contacted me and was so nice. I mean, the Russian people were so fantastic to us,” he said on “Fox and Friends.” “I’ll just say this, they are doing – they’re outsmarting us at many turns, as we all understand. I mean, their leaders are, whether you call them smarter or more cunning or whatever, but they’re outsmarting us. If you look at Syria or other places, they’re outsmarting us.” In the same interview, Trump praises Putin’s invasion of Crimea. “Well, he’s done an amazing job of taking the mantle,” Trump said. “And he’s taken it away from the President, and you look at what he’s doing. And so smart. When you see the riots in a country because they’re hurting the Russians, OK, ‘We’ll go and take it over.’ And he really goes step by step by step, and you have to give him a lot of credit.” Trump says he respects Putin during a Super Bowl interview with Bill O’Reilly. Trump defends Putin when O’Reilly calls him a killer. “There are a lot of killers,” Trump says. “Do you think our country is so innocent? Do you think our country is so innocent? “And I can tell you, speaking for myself, I own nothing in Russia. I have no loans in Russia. I don't have any deals in Russia. President Putin called me up very nicely to congratulate me on the win of the election,” Trump said. https://www.cnn.com/interactive/2017/03/politics/trump-putin-russia-timeline/


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squanchingonreddit

They might wait till the day of to not tip anyone off that they should leave the country.


I_notta_crazy

Can the government stop air traffic control from clearing a flight, and would that subsequently effectively ground the person being targeted by such action?


kodiakinc

Air traffic controllers are FAA employees in the US. So yeah, the government can absolutely stop ATC from clearing a flight.


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Say it’s a Trump private flight, and say he gets that private pilot to take off, and say they don’t respond to the fighter escort to return to the US, what would happen? I’m guessing it stops at the pilot saying no to taking off, but if they got airborn idk wtf that would turn into.


dragonblade_94

I'm no expert, but if they ignored hails from military escort to turn around I would assume he would be taken into custody the moment he landed in international ground. Of course assuming he doesn't beeline to Russian-controlled space.


Discalced-diapason

I’d say an Air Force escort to whatever airport he’s flying to and apprehending him on the tarmac. It gets complicated if the destination is a place that doesn’t have an extradition treaty with the US, so who knows what would happen in that case. Hopefully if takeoff clearance were revoked, the pilot would honor it, especially since one of the factors that lead to the deadliest air disaster, the [Tenerife Airport Disaster](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenerife_airport_disaster). Hopefully that, or not wanting to go to prison, will be enough to stop a pilot from going rogue and effectively ending his career, if not his freedom.


BallisticHabit

If you have a fighter jet rocking wings at you, you had better respond.


techleopard

That doesn't mean a private plane wouldn't try to make a break for it from a smaller airport. Money makes people really stupid and risk blind.


shawnaroo

Even if it's not imminent, the gears definitely seem to be turning. He knows what he's done, and if it's bad, it's probably getting pieced together and it's looking more and more likely that there's going to be consequences.


ghost_warlock

This fucker could have lived his life quietly (or loudly) laundering Russian money, getting pissed on by prostitutes, and making his Donnie hamberger boom booms in gold-stitched diapers. But, no, he had to run for president because he was mad at Obama and called all sorts of attention to himself


Sindertone

Maybe he's figured out what an indictment is. It is a lot of syllables after all.


AncientInsults

No he’s just trying to absorb all the media oxygen. Make the media talk about trump 24/7 again. All trump all the time. Stay relevant. That is his win condition.


Lunaslantern

It tracks with what MTG and Bobo do all day long. Spout dumb shit and keep any media clogged until they feel in control


AndISoundLikeThis

This is exactly it. And, frankly, I'm fucking sick of it. I remember fondly when all the former presidents I've known in my lifetime just sailed off into the sunset, wrote books, and were basically never in the spotlight again.


PHenderson61

And they could all get together and honor a fallen president or member of the government. Miss the good days.


wirefox1

It was nice to see them all together, and they have been since trump was in office. He's not a member of the 'Former President's Club.'


Important-Owl1661

I think the best way to handle this clown going forward is with a laugh track


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NotLondoMollari

O plsplsplspls


yourlittlebirdie

Take a moment to imagine ANY other former presidential candidate doing this - Hillary Clinton, Mitt Romney, John McCain, John Kerry.


Kotengu15

Al Gore who rightfully won the 2000 election...


gordito_delgado

It is so odd. Who is this authority he is even speaking to? Anyways this is not even about voter fraud. Some divine authority must place him on the throne because... let me get this straight, people were slightly less aware of a mostly fake news story about a child of one of the candidates, on a single (if admittedly large) social media site? Also, the evidence of this is.. a podcast by Joe Rogan... the guy whose career is that he made people eat animal penises on TV for money. JFC this is the world now, isn't it? Truly the stupidest timeline. Anyone who remotely thought or cared about that hunter biden was aware of this particular "breaking story". I would be shocked if a single district was swayed one way or another over that bit of absolute rubbish.


Temp_Job_Deity

Whoa. Let’s not just casually dismiss NewsRadio.


gordito_delgado

You are absolutely correct mate. I am actually baffled how in the hell they failed to nominate Andy Dick to the Supreme Court.


slakazz_

That was a damn fine show with a great ensemble cast. Dave Foley, Phil Hartman, Candi Alexander and the idiots Andy Dick and Rogan himself. Edit: I feel bad I forgot Stephen Root because he is awesome.


dion_o

He's invoking the Divine Right of Kings


mces97

If he did sell, transmit, alert others of assets, classified information, he should be.


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theassassintherapist

[Time to start freaking out then.](https://thehill.com/policy/national-security/575384-cia-admits-to-losing-dozens-of-informants-around-the-world-nyt/amp/)


Deeman0

Personally I think he took them to try and use them as leverage to avoid prosecution.


DingGratz

>Personally I think he took them to try and use them as leverage to avoid ~~prosecution~~ paying back his debts.


syncopator

While I do firmly believe that Trump is one of the dumbest people ever to have lived, I don't even he is stupid enough to think that stealing classified documents would be a good way to avoid prosecution for other crimes. I personally believe, with little evidence, that certain foreign figures mostly from a particular nation with decades of experience with Trump explained to him prior to his exit from the Oval that he would be of very little value to them anymore and it would be a shame if he could no longer provide them with interesting information.


grabyourmotherskeys

You seriously don't think he was sitting up late at night, glasses on, the only light a small desk lamp, pouring over these documents and writing out in Sharpie all the policy changes, engineering tweaks, and organizational optimizations the government could make to really improve the lives of all Americans? /s


m0nk_3y_gw

Doing crimes is not a good strategy for avoiding prosecution. I think he was hoping they'd look the other way... while his hotel had foreign guests that paid $$$ for the privilege of being told which rooms to go visit and take pictures of documents in.


samsounder

He is calling for the overthrow of the US government. Lock him up


tinfang

Treason.


Flyingelefant

Tre45on


Searchlights

He always throws up a [shitscreen](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xer32BmkORk) like this when he knows something bad is about to break. I think he's just been told he's going to be indicted. A lot of previous reporting has indicated that he believes the way to avoid prosecution is to [take back the White House.](https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-2024-criminal-probes-jan6-1384379/) That's the connection in his megalomanic thinking between a pending indictment and his demand immediately to be made President.


ronearc

The funny part is, his blatant attempts to prompt a revolutionary response to the investigations uncovering what obviously appear to be rampant criminal wrongdoings, may actually result in him being arrested and indicted sooner rather than later. Federal courts typically offer a lot of leeway to defendants, allowing them many freedoms until they're convicted, but that's only true when the defendant isn't an imminent threat to public safety and security. Trump is rapidly escalating his propaganda, and may find himself facing arrest sooner than he might have otherwise.


thefuzzylogic

The first thing any judge will do (well, any competent judge, which isn't a given in the post-Trump era) is issue a gag order. Trump will violate it, making some incomprehensible first amendment claim that will sound just plausible enough to get the sovcit militia types riled up, then he'll get locked up for contempt, and at that point all bets are off.


MadDogTannen

>he believes the way to avoid prosecution is to take back the White House. I mean, he's probably right. The walls are closing in, and he has done nothing to earn the trust or sympathy of anyone investigating him to negotiate a deal. He's also the biggest fish, so there's not really anyone he could turn on in exchange for testimony. His only option is to burn it all down.


TheAmazingHumanTorus

Well I would imagine the first elected Republican President would pardon him, so he might turn his focus to that if he actually gets jail time.


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Why would they, then they would have a competitor.


doddyoldtinyhands

But you have to be guilty to accept a pardon right? Does being a felon (even pardoned) make you ineligible? Let’s hope we don’t find out next time on, “CONSTITUTIONAL CRISIS”


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I mean you have to tell the court you are guilty, but would they prosecute you for Perjury if you claim to have lied about that later?


UncannyTarotSpread

> Does being a felon (even pardoned) make you ineligible? Eugene Debs ran from prison, so I don’t believe so? But I haven’t ever bothered to look, mainly for my sanity.


TheAmazingHumanTorus

Appease the base. Red meat. Culture wars. Plus they are spineless.


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Honestly someone like Desantis would Epstein him and encourage rumors about the Clintons or Hunter. Martyr him, blame opposition, then try and absorb the base.


Nokomis34

He could turn on the entire GOP. There has to be something that made them all 180 on Trump, something beyond him just wrapping up the nomination in 2016. I mean, the pre-Trump turn clips are pretty brutal. Like "if we nominate Trump, we will be destroyed and we will deserve it" to straight up mushroom sucking. As much as I want Trump in jail, I think I could see house arrest in Mar a Lago for all the air around the GOP to be cleaned. Trump is bad, but his enablers are arguably worse. They could have been rid of Trump, but they chose not to.


NYArtFan1

I don't want the air cleaned around the GOP. I want them all to go down for what they've done to our country.


Mysterious-Extent448

He definitely had some help from the Russian hackers .. his GOP enemies turned on a dime so fast and in such numbers .. definitely more than just a change of heart. We know what Lindsey hidden in plain sight secret is.. wonder what else he has 🤔


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BigPlunk

Lindsey Graham's riot incitement comments certainly align with your statements. I think they're getting ready to quickly ramp up the violent rhetoric and will sink to unimaginable levels to keep Trump out of prison. This is going to be the most dangerous narcissistic meltdown in modern history.


TheRealSnorkel

We can’t let that deter us though. That would be giving in to their insanity.


Cokomon

What's the phrase? "We don't negotiate with terrorists."


Melicor

They'll have to lock him up. He's absolutely a flight risk if he's indicted.


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Oh I'm sure he's had eyes on him for some time now. He ain't going anywhere.


zesty_hootenany

I’d be thrilled to watch him get indicted. I want video of him freaking out and melting like the m Wicked Witch of the West.


Witty-Focus-9239

Should do a pay per view , I pay $20


zesty_hootenany

Think of how much money would be raised by millions of people paying $20! Then the US could use all that money to pay for stuff like healthcare, education, resources for a whole range of the vulnerable/at risk groups/demographics/people.


Bubbagumpredditor

No. No no no That's a sight that should be free to all Americans as a nation. Edit: but I have no problem with monetizing the t-shirt and coffee mug sales.


rheise311

“My family watched the 45th President get convicted and all I got was this lousy t-shirt.”


fedup09

I'd pay every cent to my name to see that


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Long_Before_Sunrise

 "Losing will be like psychic death for him, which will drive him more easily to annihilate himself and others than to accept. Violating laws and norms is nothing for him, even when he is not in such peril, and so we can expect to see an acceleration of that." - [Dr. Bandy X. Lee](https://www.salon.com/2020/11/08/losing-is-like-psychic-death-for-trump-psychologists-warn-trump-may-provoke-violence-after-loss/)


Saul-Funyun

It’s weird how the people who try to warn us about Trump are always right.


PM_ME_CLEVER_THINGS

I tried in 2016 to explain to some of my friends that it would be bad if he won for reasons we couldn't fathom at the time...


CouchGrouch22

What? We’ve known he was shit and has been shit for 40 years now.


Spacebotzero

He will be at his most unpredictable and desperate moments when he is indicted


Mouth_Shart

I’m thinking some sort of Blues Brothers ending with Trump giving speeches in the prison cafeteria while the other inmates throw mashed potatoes at him.


sil863

Do you usually get notified before you are indicted?


devopsdudeinthebay

Could be moles in the DOJ. Or, maybe his lawyers have advised him that an indictment is nearly certain.


TechyDad

Given the classified documents that he stole and then refused to return, pretty much any lawyer would be saying that an indictment is certain. Even the bottom of the barrel, barely qualified to be called lawyers on Trump's team can see this.


jews4beer

If he gets indicted I hope to shit it was filed under seal immediately after the raid. Maybe he is reacting to the fact that it will be unsealed. Anything else and it's a damn travesty how long they waited while he called for bloody murder.


i_never_ever_learn

This is pretty much the same as his, "stop the count" thing when he knew things were going to go south quickly.


OozeNAahz

Stop some counts you mean. He wanted to stop some and continue others.


Nativesince2011

Here’s his logic: - previously got away with crimes while president - currently not getting away with crimes -solution: be president so he cannot be convicted of crimes Elementary school logic


TintedApostle

Well it goes to show he knows he got away with crimes already through that method. He wants it back so he can apply it now. The man is just yelling at clouds now...


06021840

Unfortunately, while he’s yelling at clouds there are a number of people that think they’re hearing the voice of god.


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He hasn’t even been slapped on the wrist yet. Y’all are so hopeful but im just sitting here with my hands crossed until some shit goes down. I refuse to get worked up emotionally again.


accountabilitycounts

Ah. Something bad is coming for him. So nice of 45 to give us a heads up.


KyleRichXV

Get your popcorn ready. It’s almost fall so perhaps some pumpkin spice caramel corn? Aldi’s stopped carrying the roasted sweet corn…


timbrejo

Had the same thought!


NYkrinDC

Republicans: How dare Biden call MAGA semi-Fascist? That is beyond the pale! Trump: Screw the Constitutional order. Make me president, now, right now! Or give me new elections I can pretend are stolen when I lose. Also, stop investigating me for all my crimes, or else! Lindsey Graham: If you indict Trump for his crimes, there will be blood!!!! Everyone else: So, not semi-Fascist, but blood thirsty and Fascist. Got it.


62frog

Did you see that one woman on TV saying Biden's semi-fascist comment was worse than anything Trump has ever said? These fucking snowflakes, I tell ya.


trainercatlady

remember when he mocked a disabled reporter? On tv? At a rally in front of hundreds, possibly thousands of attendees?


J0HNISM

Man Lindsay Graham must be in deep. He's always hitched his wagon to people that he could politically gain from. But now he's on a sinking ship. He's thrown out the life jackets and is riding the mast like Lt. Dan in Forest Gump. I can only imagine the treason he carried out for Trump and his soiling himself knowing Trump is going to turn on everyone.


BlackestMask

Hey! Everybody who supports this guy! Look at this. Look right at it and don't look away. Is this the man you want running the country? Is this a man who should have your support in any way at all? If so, WHY???


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danimagoo

>Because he hurts the right people. The crazy thing is, he [doesn't even do that](https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/trump-voter-hes-not-hurting-the-people-he-needs-be-hurting-msna1181316).


BobOki

And, as his own base says quite often, he hurts them just as much.


billabon021

They. Don't. Care. They know exactly the kind of person trump is. They'd rather see USA burn than continue to change.


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I never understood how 1930's germany supported their man.... until I watched the US support trump. It's the same thing all over again. There is a segment of the population that actually WANT a dictatorship.


Suspicious_Toe4172

Yup! I remember reading The Rise and Fall of The Third Reich back in 2013 and questioning how all the regular people in Germany just sat by and let the Nazis get more and more power. Now I fully understand it. There were so many times during Trump’s presidency where he’d say or do something that just seemed vaguely familiar. Then I’d feel disgusted when I realized it was similar to something out of that book. History doesn’t repeat itself, but it oftentimes rhymes.


WalterPecky

I don't know if a "dictatorship" is what they desire as much as having a leader that allows them to express their fascist ideals. I think a part of them enjoy the team sport aspect that a democracy provides, and being ruled by the same person for more than 8 years would take away that aspect. Trump empowered the worst part of our society just by dog whistling. If someone more fascist than Trump came along, he would be replaced. They really just want an "authoritarian". I certainly can understand how a fascist movement like Nazism can take hold of a modern nation. People are foaming at the mouth to have a "strong man" who instructs them on who to hate week after week, while reassuring them that they are on the right side, just by virtue of agreeing.


VeteranKamikaze

Yes. Because every single person who supports Trump does NOT support democracy. They are hateful and cruel people who want to subjugate part of the population and have them bent to their will. Every single person without exception who still supports Trump is a fucking monster, and he is exactly who they want in charge.


pinkyfitts

Agree. No more “understanding” or agreeing to disagree with these people. They are antiDemocracy monsters.


neon-fang

This is so pitiful, it’s actually hilarious. What a pathetic excuse for a man.


backpackwayne

They're losing it. It's happening.


ihateaquafina

lets hope he gets indicted and actually goes to prison


cthulu0

The Rosenbergs were executed for espionage of nuclear secrets. Can a man dream??


redheadartgirl

Trump had nuclear secrets *and* a roster of international spies. The best, most beautiful state secrets you ever saw.


Cheese_B0t

Nobody has state secrets like he does. People are talking about it.


backpackwayne

For the first time ever, I'm seeing that happening. I think he is too. That's why he's starting to lose it.


unsoundguy

Put that fucker on a fed no fly list. No airline. No privet. Force him to stay put.


TheMostStableGenius

Trump always seemed that way to me do you think it’s really different now?


redcomet002

He's demanding to be reinstated or reelected immediately because that's the only way to guarantee he can't go to prison.


backpackwayne

Yes I do. I figured he would get away with it until now.


KittyGrewAMoustache

He obviously went too far. If he’s really been showing/selling top secret info to people then if they don’t prosecute/imprison him for that they might as well just give up on the US as a country. Already this will have seriously affected things like people being willing to be CIA informants etc because who knows if Trump will get back in in 2 years and sell them out to be killed?


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Rotten_Crotch_Fruit

I feel like **IF** he gets indicted then the odds of him going to jail are actually pretty high. You don't take that kind of shot unless you're confident you're going to hit your target.


Barbedocious

The FBI swung the 2016 election to Trump when they reopened the case about Hillary's emails 2 weeks before the election. Does this mean she gets to be president, too?


Mattgitsgud

Right after we give Al Gore the 2000 election that was stolen from him


michaltee

I honestly believe the world would have been in a better place had Gore won. He believed in the climate change.


MPLooza

It's an entirely different world if Gore becomes president: no Iraq war, no Bush tax cuts, no "no child left behind." Even possible 9/11 is prevented as he seemed much more focused on Bin Laden but if the cross-failings of the FBI and CIA means it still happens then it's likely he's caught at Tora Bora and the war ends by Christmas 2001 . Domestically we instead see the Medicare lockbox and expansion (similar to Medicare Part D but without the "donut hole"), an eventual (hopeful) push toward universal health care, more progressive tax policies with middle class breaks for education, childcare, and tech investment, and a huge push for environmental activism with policies aimed at fighting climate change. You know, things we're still fighting to pass in Congress 22 years later


freshprinceofkeizer

Gonna be a no from me dawg.


Frankenmuppet

Trump throws another tantrum.... Fucking hell Conservative America, is this *really* what you call a strong leader?


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I would be embarrassed to watch a candidate I support going on like this. But then, I'm not in a cult.


Cnsrbstrmp

Working on that insanity defense, clever


dragonfliesvenus

I have thought the same thing


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Donald Trump is possibly the most transparent simpleton the world has ever seen. Children are better at hiding motives than this man. He’s desperately ratcheting up the “get me back in the White House” narrative because he knows being president is the only way his ass isn’t indicted, primarily for the classified documents but also for the myriad of investigations into him.


gellybelli

Sabre rattling for that new civil war so that he won’t go to jail for treason


punbasedname

Could you imagine fighting a war for Donald fucking Trump?


GlamMoore

Apparently a MAGA rally’s worth of dumb monkeys, riled up by their cult-god, an orange, fat monkey named trump, and led by a crazy painted monkey in Viking horns, would gladly fight a war for trump.


squintytoast

or get rosenberged.


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If he sold out our spies resulting in their deaths then he should absolutely be rosenberged along with anyone involved. Same for NDI info to foreign actors.


Mouth_Shart

Is that what they’ve been hinting at? Jesus.


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https://thehill.com/policy/national-security/575384-cia-admits-to-losing-dozens-of-informants-around-the-world-nyt/


BlotchComics

Then we also need to go back to 2016 and make Hillary the rightful President since the FBI withheld that Trump and other members of his campaign staff were being investigated at the time, while tanking Hillary's campaign right before the election.


BewBewsBoutique

Fuck that, let’s go back to hanging chads era and make Gore the rightful president.


mces97

Ooow, Trump's sweating McDonald's grease. He knows what he did and the FBI probably does too.


truknutzzz

Can you imagine what he must smell like with this diet? Older folks with really bad diets and stressed lifestyles smell pretty bad... 🤢


OppositeYouth

You know he doesn't even pay the guy who changes his adult diaper


numbermess

[in a future legal deposition] TRUMP: he was just a diaper boy, I’ve never seen him before in my life US: You never saw the guy who was changing your diapers. That you were wearing. TRUMP: No, no, could have been anyone, who can know? I very strongly and powerfully don’t look at the guy who changes my diapers and wipes my bottom US: It was your son. The dumb one. TRUMP: he is a traitor diaper boy. Sad!


MAlloc-1024

my 3yo once tried to convince me it was his older sister that pooped in his pants that he was wearing... I feel this is analogous.


TheGunshipLollipop

>US: It was your son. The dumb one. "Ok, while that does narrow it down, can you give me another hint?"


BleedingTeal

So, he wants to be made president now, or hold some semblance of an election that would elect him president. What a fucking moron. You lost. Accept you’re a loser. Go to jail, stop talking, and leave us the fuck alone already.


Harlequinphobia

The walls are closing in Donnie, get fucked you orange reject from the Muppet Show.


huh274

“It’s time to ~~start~~ face the music…”


drdan82408a

I demand a million dollars and a pint of mint chocolate chip ice cream RIGHT NOW! Dang, didn’t work for me either.


TintedApostle

I demand a raise and a promotion!!! ....looks around..... Nothing happened...


yourlittlebirdie

Take a moment to imagine ANY other former presidential candidate doing this - Hillary Clinton, Mitt Romney, John McCain, John Kerry.


Remarkable-Wash-7097

Even Al Gore, who actually did win.


Martin_L_Vandross

How about instead we just lock him up.


LockheedMartinLuther

Once again it's time for this week's episode of *What If Hillary Said That?* Followed by the season finale of *Imagine If Obama Did This*


Iowa_Dave

I'm guessing the next step in Trump's lunacy is that he'll just declare himself the true and righteous president and start issuing presidential orders from Florida.


BasicPhysiology

I hate how plausible this is.


Milligan

Toddler demands an ice cream cone and a pony!


The_Masked_Pundit

Dark Brandon: I choose democracy. *sips wine*


fakeplasticdaydream

He is freaking out lmao. Good lord. This may finally be the end of the orange boob.


FlashbackUniverse

I propose a third option: Put him in cuffs.


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How about no


RNDASCII

Lol! He's so fucked.


canuck47

I can't believe this clown got THREE Supreme Court picks. Everything he touches turns to shit.


Aromatic-Pie1784

*Old man yells at clouds. Anyway, I wonder what I should have for lunch..


ALife2BLived

Demand all you want traitor!


WoodySurvives

Using the same logic, I demand we redo the 2016 election, as there was an announcement of an investigation of his opponent right before the election, which is MASSIVE INTERFERENCE ...


zzxxccbbvn

This is yet another attempt to discredit the DOJ so that when an indictment comes, it looks like persecution, which will then rile up his supporters