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Todays little spectacle was meant to convey a sense of power and might. But it wasnt about protection of the nation; it was about his own personal protection
This isnt just about political survival and re-election here. This is about a man fearing for his own physical safety.
We know Trump is a coward shit, he cant even handle tough questions from female reporters without running away. We also know that due to continual drug abuse coupled with obvious mental instability, he is extremely paranoid.
He has not listened to the protestors, but he has heard them. He has heard the sound of their anger, much of which is directed at him. The cries of adoration he has been deprived of since his rallies were shut down have been replaced by the shouts of those who despise him, and hold him responsible for everything he has refused to take responsibility for.
He is now living with the fear of a sniper taking him out from afar. He wonders who among his SS detail would simply look the other way if he were in imminent danger. He suspects everyone around him of being part of that deep state conspiracy that he invented in his own mind.
Donald Trump is scared shitless. He really doesnt care if the country believes he has the military might to bring about law and order he just needs his perceived enemies to believe that given his pOTUS status, he can get to them before they get to him.
Wounded Bear
(58,656 posts)I couldn't do that job, not for Trump.
rockfordfile
(8,704 posts)NBachers
(17,110 posts)Warpy
(111,261 posts)the economic summit, make it a G-8 again. Putin would like that and Dummy would be safe.
What he's really terrified about is all those people massing in Lafayette Park and other places in the city. He can't control them. He can't bullshit them. He can't bully them. None of his usual tricks are working.
So he's doing the schoolyard bully's trick of running to teacher to tattle. He's trying to hide behind the US military, who don't seem to be having any of it, not yet.
(I'd just like to know which dumbass handed him that bible. It didn't fool anybody, not even the fools.)
SleeplessinSoCal
(9,120 posts)Captain Zero
(6,806 posts)I hope nobody else fucking comes to it. Let 'em sit with the June Bugs at Camp David,
Of course Putin will bring a cadre of KGB to steal all the info in and about the place that they can.
Lock him up.
(6,929 posts)Few minutes later, the peaceful protesters the doped maggot was just lying about being an ally of, got gassed and shot rubber bullets at without warning, in order for Coronaorange the 1st to use the Presidents Church to make a clown of himself while holding a Bible he doesn't know how to read as a prop for a Reality-TV photo-op declaring himself a dicktweetertot!!
Peaceful protesters don't need enemies, I guess...
herding cats
(19,564 posts)He's seen the anger rising up, and the international reaction to his weakness. He reacted today like a bully who'd been confronted by a victim and panicked in an attempt to pull his faux visage back over him like a cloak. It was a sign of weakness and he looked scared and cornered.
BamaRefugee
(3,483 posts)All of this is the rehearsal for how he shuts down the election and stays in power.
And well wring our hands and create snarky memes and cutting tweets, and demand lawful orderly life to return, but weve been doing that for three and a half years and he just keeps getting more heinous, and unchecked and emboldened.
roamer65
(36,745 posts)I dont foresee shutting it down, but I smell violence at the polls.
That is why they are fighting vote by mail schemes tooth and nail. You cant intimidate and suppress the vote when there are no people there to do it.
not_the_one
(2,227 posts)in SUPPORT of the turd.
Don't think they can't, or wouldn't. They have essentially changed all the rules, doing as they please because no one will stop them.
roamer65
(36,745 posts)Colorado did it in 1876.
wnylib
(21,466 posts)and attack them or steal mail. Vandalism at post offices or at postal boxes is also a possibility.
mwb970
(11,360 posts)GoneOffShore
(17,339 posts)volstork
(5,401 posts)The states administer the election process. At any rate, his term ends on January 20, 2021 no matter what.
BamaRefugee
(3,483 posts)I'm not happy about it, trust me, but remember the heady days on DU when we all posted "WE'VE GOT HIM NOW!".
Wait, that was 3.5 years worth of days that we posted those.
He's the Energizer Bunny from Hell.
MyOwnPeace
(16,926 posts)SO many times we've posted:
We've got him now!
THIS is the straw that'll break the camel's back!
He'll NEVER get out of this!
Mueller Ain't Going Away!
I'm now counting on the November election. Anything that kicks his FAT a$$ out before that is just a bonus!!!!
BamaRefugee
(3,483 posts)over and over again and expecting different results
But we all post "HE MUST BE STOPPED" over and over and over, so.....WE ARE F*CKING NUTS, if we're honest.
MyOwnPeace
(16,926 posts)BunkerBoy has been pushing us that way!
BamaRefugee
(3,483 posts)pundit, ANYBODY, would post the actual concrete steps to do something about that will actually stop him in his tracks.
Never seen it.
MyOwnPeace
(16,926 posts)to do what they should be doing to maintain the "balance of power" as was designed in the Constitution. Try as Speaker Pelosi has, Moscow Mitch has all of the power in his slimy, bony hands (he SHOULD have been found guilty at the hearings).
The only thing that anyone can figure for the Congressional "roll over and die" act is the somehow BunkerBoy has some powerful pictures from years past!
BigmanPigman
(51,593 posts)before he told the governors to get tough. Putin IS supporting him throughout this...never forget that.
herding cats
(19,564 posts)While I don't disagree he'd gleefully love to see a second term of Trump. I also think he's perfectly happy with where things are right this moment even if Trump loses. No matter what, he's won the day and history will show such. His legacy is set, and he knows this already.
Remember: Putin isn't Trump's friend, and if he sees him imploding he'll definitely lead him astray to the worst possible detriment of the US before his toy is lost to him.
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,346 posts)The Grotesque Orange Pustule is scared of what his master might do.
Captain Zero
(6,806 posts)He's not an original thinker.
Putin is interfering in our government again too.
I think a lot would be solved with some ju jitsu to Putin's voice box.
wnylib
(21,466 posts)smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)I agree. Why else would he have been hiding out in the WH basement bunker w/ the lights off for days? Why else would he only come out once a huge military presence arrived for his sake alone?
It's just more posturing to make him look like a tough guy, but his little stunt is failing miserably. It only makes him look like an even bigger coward. He's not fooling anybody.
He is finally beginning to see just how many people really hate him with a passion and he realizes that he will never, ever be safe again.
wnylib
(21,466 posts)really was cowering in the WH bunker. There is a lot of security around the WH and I don't believe he was ever in danger from protesters, or ever perceived himself to be in danger from them.
But I can easily imagine him playing that role as an attempt to make the protestors look dangerous. When it only got him called out as a coward, he tried the tough guy with a Bible image.
He is dealing with the protests the same as with the virus -- try various image projections to see what will work. He is searching for the right image that will gloss over reality and give him the superficial appearance of being in control. It's always been just a game show with him.
Lady_Chat
(561 posts)He's so good at hiding, did it during Vietnam too. As the protesters got closer one night, he tweeted out to his MAGA Supporters that they should come down to the White House. Guess he thought they'd come and protect him? Unfortunately they are as big a group of cowards as he is. So they never showed. So today, he crawled out his bunker, tail between his legs, and had cops rough up peaceful protesters for a photo op by a church. The guy who never goes to church, suddenly gets religion. His ratings must be dropping like lead with his Evangelical crowd. I can no longer even put in words how much he disgusts me.
Lock him up.
(6,929 posts)... the bomb bursts and rubber-bullet's rounds were being shot at the peaceful protersters in the audio through the mic...
Let that sink in... (disgusting). What an imbecile.
Duppers
(28,120 posts)Gothmog
(145,264 posts)Maeve
(42,282 posts)To pose for a blasphemous photo op at St. John's Episcopal Church
Roc2020
(1,616 posts)he can't go overseas. he can't go to his new york penthouse or mara lago the protest there would put his life in more danger. he can't do maga rally's because of covid-19. he has to stay at the white house in the white house. And watch America burn and the fire right outside his window. He has good reason to be terrified. swell.
KSNY
(315 posts)I would feel pity if he weren't able to harm so many people.
He knows deep down what he is..incompetent, ignorant, weak, and impotent.
yellowcanine
(35,699 posts)homegirl
(1,429 posts)BRILLIANT!!!
The Wizard
(12,545 posts)facing a mongoose.
ananda
(28,860 posts)And it is SO ugly.
pandr32
(11,585 posts)Aussie105
(5,397 posts)First he sends his goons (aka police) to use force to clear the path.
Then he walks all that way (what, no golf buggy?) surrounded by a different lot of goons (aka secret service).
Holds up a Bible in front of the church. Upside down. For why? for a photograph!
(At that moment, me and a lot of others prayed . . . please Lord, just one well placed bolt of lightening, and I will be a True Believer!)
Not a good look at all.