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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHave you ever watched a movie and know that the villain is going down
and just can 't wait to watch him crash and burn.
Sadly this movie has been going on for three years but the end is nigh!
I so want to see total and complete humiliation before I see The End.
How did this ever happen?
From the day he first said 'no collusion', I knew there was massive collusion.
He is a treasonous criminal. Obstruction of justice coming up and much more.
ITTMF!
empedocles
(15,751 posts)necessary before we see 'The End'.
democratisphere
(17,235 posts)With the new Redumblicon party, what is to prevent it from happening again?! Lying, cheating and stealing to win elections is their new normal!
Scarsdale
(9,426 posts)election plans. This time, Russia "upped the ante" pouring much more money into the pot. Once they decided tRump was their guy in DC, they pulled out all the stops. He has come close to destroying this country, without a single shot fired from Russia. Wave a few million at the gop party, and they will crawl over broken glass to get it. If Putin decided to run for the WH, the gop would help him get US citizenship.
democratisphere
(17,235 posts)2naSalit
(86,943 posts)HipChick
(25,485 posts)I feel it's not over yet, like we won't discuss the entirety of the damage and corruption till after they have gone
malaise
(269,292 posts)to investigate this mess starting from the stealing of the 2000 Presidential Election.
Before that this Con and his fellow ReTHUG enablers have to be punished.
This is for profit and for power treason.
democratisphere
(17,235 posts)Is treason part of the Redumblicon's new normal?! I believe it is with drumpf having so many Redumblicon Congressional and Judicial supporters!
Mr.Bill
(24,368 posts)is lots of people going to prison for a long time. This is happening now because Nixon didn't die in prison.
No more trading amnesty for a resignation. They are criminals and need to be treated as such.
Nay
(12,051 posts)afraid of -- losing their personal physical freedom. All other 'penalties' can be smoothed over with money.
Botany
(70,643 posts)His family wiped out financially and have to give up all their ill gotten goods.
Trump, his family, and backers face criminal prosecution.
McConnell, Ryan, Sessions, and company who had knowledge of the Trump/Russia connections
be publicly exposed for their un-America actions.
Pressure put on to remove Trump's Supreme Court appointments.
Players like the Mercers, Bannon, and the Koch wiped out.
The link between Fox News/Hannity and Russia/Putin exposed.
malaise
(269,292 posts)2naSalit
(86,943 posts)Timmygoat
(779 posts)I cannot help think that Pence is a co-conspirator, he must be blind and deaf if he does not know what is going on.
2naSalit
(86,943 posts)I can't wait to see him perp-walked with the crime family.
Botany
(70,643 posts)empedocles
(15,751 posts)[WH staffers, lobbyists, fox in general, next levels of campaign contributors/political organizations like NRA/, political supporters, etc., . . .]
democratisphere
(17,235 posts)Seems to be in very short supply in these times.
FailureToCommunicate
(14,033 posts)llmart
(15,567 posts)It isn't enough to just get rid of Trump. His family needs to be prosecuted also and none of this "for the sake of our country we must move on" baloney.
Botany
(70,643 posts)... blocking Merrick Garland for even getting a vote in the senate for SCOTUS.
Russia couldn't have done what they did without help from inside of America.
Link to tweet
malaise
(269,292 posts)Putin pays the Con and lyin' Ryan, the Speaker no less told them to keep it secret.
And further they lied and said it was not true. When confronted with audio evidence, the enablers said it was a joke.
Botany
(70,643 posts)Theres two people I think Putin pays: Rohrabacher and Trump, McCarthy said, according to Entous, a superb reporter who heard a tape recording of the colloquy. Swear to God.
Dana Rohrabacher is a Republican from California with a peculiar amalgam of views: pro-marijuana, dubious about climate change, pro-torture. For this last position, in 2007, Keith Olbermann awarded him his periodic Worst Person in the World award, on his old MSNBC show. Like Trump, Rohrabacher has been highly solicitous of Russian President Vladimir Putin. Last year, Politico ran an article on Rohrabacher called Putins Favorite Congressman.
In the Post piece, McCarthys remark is met with laughter, and Ryan cautions his colleagues, This is an off the record . . . No leaks! . . . All right?
And then, amid more laughter, Ryan says, This is how we know were a real family here.
malaise
(269,292 posts)indeed.
I hope Ryan ends up in prison - the treasonous scumbag. I am convinced that this was the reason he did not run again.
duforsure
(11,885 posts)I'm hoping they sweep them all up as terrorists , and send them to Gitmo forever , and save millions in trials and legal costs for the country, and put them where they deserve to go. Special laws passed after 911 against terrorist would give them that option , because he's terrorizing this country with the gop helping for putin. Putin with trump and McConnell's help have been busy stacking the courts with appointments for their own self protection. This shutdown is another form of it .
Possible or not, I like the idea.
malaise
(269,292 posts)And since that would hurt my Cuban neighbors, I can't wish for that.
mwb970
(11,375 posts)One pattern I have noticed in movies and TV shows is that the villain is often portrayed in early scenes as impossibly, almost comically vile and evil, strangling babies or shooting children on Santa's lap or some over-the-top act like that. As soon as I see this I immediately think "Well, that guy is going to die before this thing is over".
I think the writers want to justify killing off a main character by making him SO bad that the audience WANTS him dead. This is pretty much where we are with trump now.
scarytomcat
(1,706 posts)for war crimes and lying to the country
PatSeg
(47,750 posts)No puppet. No puppet. Youre the puppet, to Hillary during a debate. She had obviously hit a nerve when she said, Thats because hed (Putin) rather have a puppet as president of the United States."
He was so rattled and uncomfortable, his guilt was on display for the entire world, except for those who refused to see. He could have admitted he was colluding with Putin and his hard core base still would have supported him.
malaise
(269,292 posts)projection
PatSeg
(47,750 posts)I always thought that to be a successful con artist, you had to have tremendous skill and charisma, like Harold Hill in The Music Man or Bill Starbuck in The Rainmaker. Oh no, a gross inarticulate old man with no single redeeming quality can win over these pathetic losers apparently by appealing to their hate.
Nay
(12,051 posts)a 7-11 cashier somewhere. And no one would pay one second's worth of attention to him.
I picture him as that disgruntled and annoying jerk at the end of the bar, complaining about his boss or his ungrateful wife or politicians. He would also be a Cliff Clavin style know-it-all that most patrons would avoid, unless he was buying drinks. His sexual prowess would be "legend" at least in his own mind and most people would be laughing behind his back.
Every bar has one and we've all met him!
TheBlackAdder
(28,253 posts).
In movies, the introduction of people has to come relatively early. All devices, capabilities and powers, that will be used later, have to be introduces and described. Only things that are important are described and shown, so there is very little fluff or obfuscation.
There are only 8 major pattern traits in people. Everyone thinks they are unique, but fall into one of them.
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malaise
(269,292 posts)narcissism, pathological lying and projection - attributing to others what he is doing. In his twisted mind, everyone is as venal and corrupt as his Con family.
TheBlackAdder
(28,253 posts).
He seems to exhibit many of the traits, including abandonment issues, aggrandizing people then turning on them, unsafe sex, the shifting of goals, desires and aspirations, self-damaging behavior, easily bored, mania, difficulty managing anger, etc.
While everybody focuses on his narcissism, I think they are missing the bigger picture... he's got fucking BPD w/NPD.
https://www.bpdcentral.com/
https://www.bpdcentral.com/narcissistic-disorder/hallmarks-of-npd/
https://psychcentral.com/lib/characteristics-of-borderline-personality-disorder/
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malaise
(269,292 posts)Bwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah! That's full blown.
I suspect that all his traits are why they sent him off to military school which clearly did not help.
Nay
(12,051 posts)edhopper
(33,666 posts)malaise
(269,292 posts)New York tower
coeur_de_lion
(3,688 posts)at home I fast forward to the end and watch the bad guy get his.
Fast forward broken on this movie.
malaise
(269,292 posts)coeur_de_lion
(3,688 posts)When we all feel like screaming instead.
Nay
(12,051 posts)coeur_de_lion
(3,688 posts)Definitely broken ideals, norms, expectations, values.
Time for all this to fucking over.
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,552 posts)I especially want the evil sidekick, Moscow Mitch, investigated.
Claritie Pixie
(2,199 posts)malaise
(269,292 posts)Cognitive_Resonance
(1,546 posts)malaise
(269,292 posts)NOW
underpants
(183,019 posts)malaise
(269,292 posts)Damn!