scared shitless

just wait till we break out the torches and pitchforks for the march in January.

1. No tiki torches.
2. Should the pitchfork tines be sharpened, for easier and deeper penetration, or left dull and rusty for inflicting greater damage? (To hay bales, of course!)

Would you like to head the committee?

As attractive as your kind invitation is, I would gladly defer to someone more experienced in leadership of political upheaval.

That said (written), I would be happy and honored to serve on the Pitchfork SubCommittee, given my experience with that particular tool in gardening and compost. Perhaps in a leadership role, unless someone more experienced emerges. Again, professional guidance on sharpening/rustiness would be appreciated.

And there must be someone out there who knows something about torches.

Not to mention the leadership skills required to balance both tactical resources. I mean, after all, we're not like the brainless, neo-Nazi*, khaki-pantsed, white shirted, tiki-torch-wielding thugs who showed up in Charlottesville and elsewhere. C'mon, we must rise above them!

Besides, I'm holding down two part-time jobs that barely cover my health insurance premium.

See you at the next town meeting/rally/street-protest!

*Yes, I know: "brainless" and "neo-Nazi" are redundant, but they're added for emphasis.

I'll be the one in the red toque carrying the pike sporting Kathy Griffin's 45 mask. (just joking... I can't believe that I just typed that, but Sam Seder and all).

In the future we will not be famous for fifteen minutes...we will be famous for two minutes and apologizing for thirteen minutes. I wonder what Warhol would make of all of this. Anyway... I digress.
Have fun storming the castle.

This was the lyric

The lunatic is in my head
The lunatic is in my head
You raise the blade, you make the change
You re-arrange me 'til I'm sane
You lock the door And throw away the key
There's someone in my head but it's not me.

Wonder if that fear is running through a frightened orange head today

He's never faced consequences for his actions. He believes all he has to do is some softball lies and thing will go his way as they have for years. The only emotion he knows is anger.

Normal people would be scared in this situation. He's not a) normal, or b) scared.

Saying he's scared is underestimating his capacity for havoc, chaos, and revenge. It will get uglier and uglier.

45 is an absolute freak. He is without empathy. He is without love. He is all rage and hate. He does not exist in a world of facts and measurable reality. In short, he’s delusional.

When under stress and agitated, the sickness quickly takes over. He’s so deluded that he seems to ENJOY being the object of so much vitriol, and he gets a charge from spreading his own hatred and discord; further, he has a Machiavellian distrust of most everyone. One minute he’s praising someone to the skies, and the next, he’s ready to publicly execute that same individual.

I also doubt that he’s feeling any fear. If he actually believes his own bullshit (and there are indications that he does), he has no sense of impropiety and/or shame.

There is no way in hell that this extremist head-case will give up his crown voluntarily and quietly, even if presented with the bare facts, just as Barry Goldwater did (with great effect) to Richard Nixon decades ago.

Time is running out

is sort of ominous.

I guess he has a plan.............

Regardless of advice given him, I am sure he will do two things. First, he will fire Mueller, and second, he will instigate a distraction big enough to bury the resulting impeachment push.

It is my belief he will either attack North Korea, or have the New FBI Director Wray arrest Hillary, and try to stage a show trial.

The GOP will back him in both scenarios.

You really think these two things will happen? You don’t think his administration or lawyers will talk him out of firing Mueller? That would be catastrophic.

Too many Republicans know that Cheeto is off his rocker. They're reading the same tweets we are, they can see it too. This has gone way too far already. I believe they're ready to turn their backs on him.

Yes a few of them are complicit - McConnell, Ryan and a few others. But they'll go down too. From the very beginning, this was all about getting the tax reform bill passed, not about Trump. He was just a useful idiot and now he's no longer useful.

They don't need him now, so will they keep him to sign cuts to Medicare, Social Security and Medicaid or just cut him loose first chance they get? I think if Pence isn't part of the charges, they cut him sooner rather than later

They got a little, now the republicans in congress will want more. They'll keep him because now they think they can control the parts of him they want to ---- and steer the ship towards more safety net cuts.

1. He cannot directly fire Mueller but will have to go through his AG who said he will not do it. Fire the AG and find someone who will, as Nixon did? Mueller probably has contingency plans for this scenario. He knows TRump's psychology well by now.
And there's always NY state AG with whom Mueller is sharing info.

2. A couple of DoD/Pentagon folks have said they will not comply with a launch order if it comes down. Whew, that was a relief to hear.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/10029437205

http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=JkR104fzYYw86qjVqdfVv9N2JdENqFX9

Utter Chaos is his escape plan ... predictable pattern preceded this anticipated move...

It's a win-win!

If anything, party bigwigs might convince him that he should retire due to health concerns. That way, he can walk out upright, keep up his MAGA rallies, bring in new converts, and continue benefiting from a compliant congress.

who want Pence as Prez to impeach and convict the Pussy-Grabber-in-Chief. In that case, maybe it's better to keep Dotard in office for 2020 and an easier win? idk

Back to greatness. Led by none other than Bob Mueller and his investigation of a criminal cabal.

The shuffling that is rumores with Tillerson has the current head of the FBI taking his spot and 45 putting Tom Cotton in as the head of the FBI.

SO, a balls out, right wing ideologue who is a full on GOP toadies more than happy to engage in out and out treason.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/wp/2015/03/13/tom-cotton-picked-apart-by-army-general-over-mutinous-iran-letter/?utm_term=.087fec97d556

We are in such a dangerous place. Practically any scenario is possible with this group.

is how many GOP Congress folks he can count on, how many might abandon him if he does this, and what it will take to buy-off, scare-off or eliminate enough of those who might show loyalty to the country rather than him. He wants Cotton and is plotting a path. Don't be surprised if Pompeo has already gathered significant goods he can leave in Cotton's hands to convince some folks of their support for the fuhrer.

That's what I think.
Everything has been just to get their tax breaks for the rich.

They'll feed him to the piranhas at that point.

I hope he sends out a hundred of these things a day. Even the Republicans will start to think 25th Amendment if he maintains this pace.

I'm sure those were the exact ones his lawyer wrote.

or he's had VERY LITTLE sleep and woke up still pissed off and fuming.

He's sleep-deprived either way. This makes him very dangerous, not only to himself but the entire planet.

General Mattis? I hope you're in close proximity AT ALL TIMES to this madman with nukes. I also hope you will do the right (unthinkable) thing if necessary.

Is my computer making the adjustment?

Kinda bugged me out months ago if I saw a tweet on someone's page (which I think defaults to PT) but then noticed that if I embedded the same tweet here, it would display the time in my own zone (ET).

He is on East Coast time.

Proves that he isn't totally incontinent yet...

If you follow the far right - especially the militia / "Patriot" / gun nut crowd, they hate the FBI and the DoJ. Attacking them is straight out of the Alex Jones playbook. They have long wanted the FBI and DoJ to cease any activities against white people PERIOD.

Unless the FBI go after brown/Black people. Like Sessions did with the BLack Identity Extremists. As long as the target is non-white, their in favor of it.

Different day. Should he be in church?

closes in on his worthless ass.

And I'm fucking loving it!

I'm just afraid that Trump will fire Rosenstein and then go down the line until he finds somebody that will fire Mueller. And, the spineless GOP in Congress will do nothing

Country into a constitutional crisis. They will be forced to take notice.

You're going down asshole! Bwhaahhaha!

You're pissin' the IC off mightily. Bigly, even.

I think he pissed them off right away with his "speech" in front of The Wall of Heros early in his tenure. Told my wife then that he picked the wrong people to piss off. They'll sink him.

The Dumpster feels the noose tightening and he's grasping at delusional straws.

A person on welfare make more $ than somebody who has 3 jobs.

BTW a MD audience of Trumpheads applauded that codswallop.

Gives Trump and his sycophants ammunition to call into question Mueller's investigation, Comey's investigation into HRC's emails and stoking his base about fake news. Will dominate news as media will tries to bend over backward to show how unbiased they are. Just when Mueller's investigation is gaining traction.

There are not parallel tracks of news and investigations. Mueller is going his own way. I wouldn't be surprise if Ty Cobb is directing Trumpy to ONLY watch Fox News. He can stay in his bubble and not be motivated to break loose the hounds of hell. FNC is now providing the bubble that we all need to stay minimally safe. As long as they keep it up with the propaganda, Trumpy will tweet more obstruction counts, but he'll remain in his psychological cage. Meanwhile, Mueller tightens his noose. Slowly.

He knows he is in bigly trouble.

Hope he looks good in orange.
Personally, I think it will clash with his hair and skin tone.

Without access to product, he'd revert fairly quickly back to white on white.

It’s his go to color anyway

What is it now? Fifty counts?

He won't admit that he made it up in the spot (that is to say: he lied.)

And he can't admit that he tweeted it (he did), because he's now been informed that it's an obvious federal crime.I

That's why he's using what basically amounts to the "I was hacked" defense.

Link to tweet

The subject is getting buggy?

Comey likely has a recording of the conversation.

Trump is preparing for his impeachment trial when he should be resigning ASAP.

This is either the lawyers or the communications staff trying to put the WH spin on the narrative.

It’s far too coherent.

Everything has worked for him so far. After he signs the tax bill, he can quit and enjoy his extra millions.

for the mother lode of distractions. He is lunatic enough to see that as nuclear war. Another possibility is some action that will precipitate civil unrest which he has been priming his base for. His goal will be total chaos.

Imagine being one of his lawyers! They probably would love to handcuff him to a bedpost so he can't tweet.

You're welcome ...

Seriously, he needs to STFU. To me, this is more confirmation that the stock markets do not reflect the true state of the economy.

the man is nuttier than a squirrel turd.

because he knows that Mueller already has enough to indict and convict him and his whole bunch of deplorables and end this madness.



Happy New Year, America!