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Dennis Donovan

(18,770 posts)
Sat May 16, 2020, 01:35 PM May 2020

This is a dangerous tweet. We ignore it at our peril.



Donald J. Trump ✔@realDonaldTrump

Mitch, I love you, but this is 100% true. Time is running out. Get tough and move quickly, or it will be too late. The Dems are vicious, but got caught. They MUST pay a big price for what they have done to our Country. Don’t let them get away with this! @LindseyGrahamSC

Sean Davis ✔@seanmdav

Mitch McConnell has spent years pretending as though the Russian collusion hoax never happened. If he thinks he's going to keep the Senate majority and confirm more judges without addressing the hoax and holding the hoaxers accountable, he's lost his mind.


11:51 AM - May 16, 2020


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This is a dangerous tweet. We ignore it at our peril. (Original Post) Dennis Donovan May 2020 OP
Every projection is a confession. dalton99a May 2020 #1
It's the Dictator Shtick. Newest Reality May 2020 #2
"Mitch, I love you" milestogo May 2020 #3
He knows his only hope is to have Biden, or KPN May 2020 #4
I would like to know HOW we are going to take back the Senate. Because Maraya1969 May 2020 #5
Realistically, we need to flip 4 seats (since we are more then likely to lose our seat in AL). Grown2Hate May 2020 #17
Well that information is very comforting! We really need to make sure Maraya1969 May 2020 #25
"Mitch, it's not you, it's me... ME ME ME ME ME ME ME ME ME ME!!!!!!!!! Blue Owl May 2020 #6
They are running out of time to form their dictatorship lame54 May 2020 #7
WTF is he talking about? bamagal62 May 2020 #8
Well dumpie just said the following is 100% TRUE.... KS Toronado May 2020 #9
My question, exactly. nt Progressive Jones May 2020 #10
Telling Mitch to get the Senate to go after the Dems DesertRat May 2020 #14
He wants endless Senate "investigatory panels" or whatever can be cobbled together muriel_volestrangler May 2020 #16
He had decades of investigations against the Clintons to go after Hillary wryter2000 May 2020 #21
Likely the Flynn unmasking thing. jmg257 May 2020 #23
This Is Not About Justice. It Is About The Trump Re-election DallasNE May 2020 #11
In peril? As if the whole nation isn't already? What do you think this is code for? ancianita May 2020 #12
the best way to rid washington of the orange shit is to stop giving certainot May 2020 #13
It's not a matter of ignoring this tweet, or it's meaning. Law and order is gone for republicans. johnthewoodworker May 2020 #15
Any reason to think it's not 1939? /nt bucolic_frolic May 2020 #18
Yes. SouthernAtheist May 2020 #24
On The Bright Side... ProfessorGAC May 2020 #19
Flailing wryter2000 May 2020 #20
+1, uponit7771 May 2020 #22

dalton99a

(81,648 posts)
1. Every projection is a confession.
Sat May 16, 2020, 01:39 PM
May 2020

No. Republicans MUST pay a big price for what they have done to our Country.


Newest Reality

(12,712 posts)
2. It's the Dictator Shtick.
Sat May 16, 2020, 01:41 PM
May 2020

He has implied that for a while.

Like we have seen in past atrocities, he would, (if possible) arrest, imprison, torture and summarily execute those who oppose him, or that he just doesn't like. No problem. Any proceedings would be the GOP on kangaroos. Eventually, that formality would be dispensed with.

There is a dictator in there all the time just waiting to come out of the closet. Another term? Well, you can see where that would go if he continues to scapegoat, accuse, incite, etc.

His personality disorders are not just annoying or self-centered, they combine into a dangerous, devious, plotting tyrant. This is NOT they kind of person you put in the position he is in unless you want to destroy everything and put a dystopian, Orwellian structure in place of it.

KPN

(15,668 posts)
4. He knows his only hope is to have Biden, or
Sat May 16, 2020, 02:14 PM
May 2020

at least Obama or Comey (ergo Viden by association) indicted before the election. He’s increasingly desperate.

Maraya1969

(22,507 posts)
5. I would like to know HOW we are going to take back the Senate. Because
Sat May 16, 2020, 02:18 PM
May 2020

I am not comfortable thinking that just because people can't stand Trump the Senate is going to go.

Grown2Hate

(2,013 posts)
17. Realistically, we need to flip 4 seats (since we are more then likely to lose our seat in AL).
Sat May 16, 2020, 04:18 PM
May 2020

Our best shots are Kelly in AZ (+9% at last measure), Hickenlooper in CO (last 2 polls had him 17% and 18% ahead!), Cunningham in NC (ranging from up 8-10% to tied in recent polls), and Bullock in MT (only one poll, but he was a pretty popular Governor and was up 7% in that poll).

I've also seen Gideon leading Collins in ME, Maura and Greenfield running dead even with Ernst in IA, and we're at least within shouting distance in both GA races (they're both pretty unlikely, but we consistently trail by 4-6%).

There are long-shots that will depend on turnout like McGrath vs Asshole in KY and Harrison vs Graham in SC that would be BRILLIANT to see flip as well.

All in all, hitting the target of 4 seems very doable with heavy turnout, and as many as 9 in a blue tsunami. Here's hoping for gale-force winds!

Maraya1969

(22,507 posts)
25. Well that information is very comforting! We really need to make sure
Sat May 16, 2020, 06:45 PM
May 2020

people do not become complacent thinking that we've got it in the bag. If every, we need to GOTV!

KS Toronado

(17,383 posts)
9. Well dumpie just said the following is 100% TRUE....
Sat May 16, 2020, 03:35 PM
May 2020

Mitch McConnell has spent years pretending ........ he's lost his mind.

Go figure......he's calling McTurtle an IDIOT......LOL

DesertRat

(27,995 posts)
14. Telling Mitch to get the Senate to go after the Dems
Sat May 16, 2020, 04:13 PM
May 2020

for some imagined crimes? Time is running out, meaning the election is in a few months?

muriel_volestrangler

(101,391 posts)
16. He wants endless Senate "investigatory panels" or whatever can be cobbled together
Sat May 16, 2020, 04:17 PM
May 2020

to throw shit at the wall on the subject of Biden, and Democrats in general, in the hope that it induces some doubt in independents and keeps them from voting for Biden and Democratic senate candidates. He knows the endless BS about emails and Benghazi in 2016 helped him eke out wins in PA etc., along with the Russian bots. He's still got Russian bots on his side, but they need ammo fed to them by complicit Republican congressmen.

wryter2000

(46,102 posts)
21. He had decades of investigations against the Clintons to go after Hillary
Sat May 16, 2020, 04:34 PM
May 2020

And the "news" media loved all of it. He doesn't have that with Biden.

DallasNE

(7,404 posts)
11. This Is Not About Justice. It Is About The Trump Re-election
Sat May 16, 2020, 03:45 PM
May 2020

Justice doesn't run on a clock (running out of time) but a re-election sure does. And it is the perfect definition of a real witch hunt. In an earlier era we called what Trump is proposing McCarthyism.

ancianita

(36,161 posts)
12. In peril? As if the whole nation isn't already? What do you think this is code for?
Sat May 16, 2020, 03:49 PM
May 2020

What do you think he's planning?

The only real dangers to him are two. One is the Democratic win on Nov 3.
The other, before that, is the Democratic caucus visiting Trump without masks, saying, "We're here because you've unmasked us!"

 

certainot

(9,090 posts)
13. the best way to rid washington of the orange shit is to stop giving
Sat May 16, 2020, 04:07 PM
May 2020

RW talk radio monopoly a free speech free ride, as if 95% of americans prefer that racism, global warming and covid denial, stupidity, and lies

once every advertiser on every rw station gets asked if they actually support trump etc many will head for the hills. to avoid that the ad industry will start to democratize it. along with imbaugh's imminent croaking many of those stations will change programming.

the GOP will lose the only unique advantage it has. without it mcconnell and many republican senators will lose. even before the elections they might end support of trump if they know those stations won't be there to attack them if they turn on him or excuse their licking of trumps private parts for 3 years

 

johnthewoodworker

(694 posts)
15. It's not a matter of ignoring this tweet, or it's meaning. Law and order is gone for republicans.
Sat May 16, 2020, 04:15 PM
May 2020

The coup that started with the impeachment acquittal will be finalized in November on election day. All rational people know that cat grabber is a maliciously corrupt, moronic liar. In a normal situation republicans would be sprinting away from trump as he makes his moronic statements, like; ' we wouldn't have so many cases if we didn't do all the tests'. Instead, they are in lock step. because the fix is in.
So vote, get angry, but don't imagine that things are normal and this is like any other election cycle. We are in for 6-8 months of escalating craziness from the white house with no consequences. Buckle up, republicans have taken over.

 

SouthernAtheist

(45 posts)
24. Yes.
Sat May 16, 2020, 06:35 PM
May 2020

Brown shirts are OUT, and camo shirts are IN. Other than that there's not much difference.

OH, oh... <throws up hand again>

They're not speaking German this time?

wryter2000

(46,102 posts)
20. Flailing
Sat May 16, 2020, 04:31 PM
May 2020

I don't think his darling Mitch wants any part of it. He could get some crazies in the House, but we control that house.

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