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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsI think Trump isn't fighting to be elected anymore.
I think hes at that stage where many dictators have been before him where hes decided to destroy everything before he leaves. Where he will make even his base suffer as much as possible because in his mind they dont fight for him enough. His biggest demand has always been what he alone defines loyalty to him to be. Being the egomaniacal Malignant Narcissist that he is he is full heartedly implementing his own brand of a scorched earth legacy.
If he had his way, which I think hes trying very hard to have, this country would be destroyed. Hes having a tantrum right now, destroying everything. Everything.
In his twisted mind no one, including his base, deserve him because he is too good a leader and we are too stupid to deserve him. So he must destroy everything. He wants to leave a Trump created dystopia which will maximize our suffering and minimize our ability to recover and have a decent life. And he wants us to know its him who destroyed us.
He is stupid. Not innocently stupid though. Hes vengefully stupid. He is going to punish us all by destroying our lives.
dalton99a
(81,515 posts)There is a lifelong pattern
MyOwnPeace
(16,927 posts)I agree 100% - and he keeps displaying it daily. He really does believe it will be "our loss!"
Turbineguy
(37,342 posts)lunatica
(53,410 posts)No dictator has ever left a decent government for the next guy. Trump must be feeling particularly offended because he never quite became the dictator he wanted to be. Had he been successful he would have persecuted and eliminated whole swathes of Americans who he considers to be his enemies. He would throw us into death camps and have his base be the guards.
TreasonousBastard
(43,049 posts)Cary
(11,746 posts)He seems to be unable to be in any way strategic.
lunatica
(53,410 posts)but he has a plan. Its to destroy everything that makes this country a Democracy.
Cary
(11,746 posts)lunatica
(53,410 posts)or to act on. A toddler throwing a full out tantrum and breaking shit doesnt require a brain.
Lock him up.
(6,930 posts)He knows Barr is doing everything he can to protect him. So he's going all in on his agenda of white supremacy like his father and see if he can create a new civil war for the con-federacy.
BamaRefugee
(3,483 posts)funds for fixing the debacle he's going to leave behind.
Shermann
(7,423 posts)This would require him to concede defeat before the election has even gotten underway.
I don't believe he is remotely capable of that. In his own mind, he's a fierce undefeated world champion.
In reality, he's a dirty street fighter who landed a few lucky sucker punches.
marlakay
(11,473 posts)Messing up virus, putting up statues of himself and others most Americans dont want to see.
lunatica
(53,410 posts)and methodically flipping his middle finger at each ethnic group individually, one by one. Juneteenth rally to stomp all over Black American history, Mount Rushmore to flip off Native American history, and hes got plenty of time to have Steven Miller pick out other historical sites of racial importance.
teenagebambam
(1,592 posts)His goal is to keep firing up the troglodytes, so whoever is elected cant govern effectively
LuvNewcastle
(16,846 posts)He wants the QAnon and Alex Jones freaks to revolt and spread their brain poison. Maybe in the midst of a pandemic and racial strife we'll have some home-grown chaos on our hands. That's what Putin wants, to bring this country to its knees and split us up.
Bradshaw3
(7,522 posts)is malignant. Hence the desire to take everyone down with him.
magicarpet
(14,155 posts)Buckeye_Democrat
(14,855 posts)... that's their intention.
lunatica
(53,410 posts)Yavin4
(35,441 posts)Paging Jaime Lannister. Paging Jaime Lannister.
lunatica
(53,410 posts)I kind of like the way Tyrion Lannister ended Tywin Lannisters life. Its more fitting somehow.
Yavin4
(35,441 posts)ashredux
(2,606 posts)He is now lurching to the far right....
QED
(2,747 posts)I think I read he or his kids bought part of OAN or whatever it's called.
Buckeye_Democrat
(14,855 posts)I don't have cable, so I'll sometimes stream from the free "Pluto TV" instead.
This is the right-wing trash that they offer:
OAN
America's Voice
The First
Blaze TV
NEWSMAXTV
No Fox News there, at least!
They also offer CNN, MSNBC, skyNews and a CBS 24-hour news channel that I never knew existed.
Dan
(3,568 posts)kairos12
(12,862 posts)He accepts no community standards or appraisal, and he will never accept being called a loser, so he will never back off.
We are in the fight for our very lives.
Gore1FL
(21,132 posts)I think it is more to loot everything while disregarding any destruction it might cause. Same thing with McConnell. Destruction isn't a goal, it's a side effect for which no fucks are given.
bucolic_frolic
(43,176 posts)you can be he's up to no good. It's a rope-a-dope strategy because he knows the fix is in and it's in the bag for him.
So if he's trying to appear reasonable, which is what Mt. Rushmore and Gallery of History is all about, beware tenfold.
regnaD kciN
(26,044 posts)I suspect that, the minute the race is called against him, he's going to start beating the drums of "massive voter fraud," and trying to encourage Republican-controlled legislatures in blue-voting states to simply overrule the will of the voters and appoint pro-Trump electors (which is perfectly Constitutional, although probably electoral suicide for those who do it). If enough don't go along to gift him another four years, look for him to declare the alleged voter fraud a "coup attempt" and institute an indefinite state of emergency that would allow him to rule by decree "until we have it all sorted out."