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lunatica

(53,410 posts)
Sat Jul 4, 2020, 02:02 PM Jul 2020

I think Trump isn't fighting to be elected anymore.

I think he’s at that stage where many dictators have been before him where he’s decided to destroy everything before he leaves. Where he will make even his base suffer as much as possible because in his mind they don’t 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 he’s trying very hard to have, this country would be destroyed. He’s 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 it’s him who destroyed us.

He is stupid. Not innocently stupid though. He’s vengefully stupid. He is going to punish us all by destroying our lives.



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I think Trump isn't fighting to be elected anymore. (Original Post) lunatica Jul 2020 OP
Trump lives for revenge. dalton99a Jul 2020 #1
Yes, indeed! MyOwnPeace Jul 2020 #2
That's pretty much what Hitler did. Turbineguy Jul 2020 #3
It's what all dictators do when they're forced to lose. lunatica Jul 2020 #7
Sounds about right. TreasonousBastard Jul 2020 #4
I get the feeling that the guy just takes in right wing disinformation Cary Jul 2020 #5
Well, not strategic in the normal way we think of it lunatica Jul 2020 #11
I don't know. You give the lizard brain more credit than I Cary Jul 2020 #13
All consuming revenge isn't that difficult to feel lunatica Jul 2020 #15
I am to the opinion he's only looking for ways to stay out of jail at this point. Lock him up. Jul 2020 #28
Once the Treasury has been totally looted, he'll be gone. He wants to be sure President Biden has NO BamaRefugee Jul 2020 #6
One flaw in your logic Shermann Jul 2020 #8
He is just doing things to piss us off now marlakay Jul 2020 #9
Yes. And he's deliberately lunatica Jul 2020 #14
Getting him elected isn't Putin's goal teenagebambam Jul 2020 #10
Yes! LuvNewcastle Jul 2020 #30
The key word in malignant narcissism Bradshaw3 Jul 2020 #12
AmeriKKKa,... only trDumpie can fix it,... absent that he will crush it and turn it all into dust. magicarpet Jul 2020 #16
Donnie Disease and Mikey Microbe sure behave like... Buckeye_Democrat Jul 2020 #17
If it quacks and looks like a duck... lunatica Jul 2020 #18
"he's decided to destroy everything before he leaves" Yavin4 Jul 2020 #19
The Mad King Slayer? lunatica Jul 2020 #20
His name is Jaime! n/t Yavin4 Jul 2020 #21
I still think he is setting up his new "conservative " TV network... ashredux Jul 2020 #22
Yeah, maybe that's why he's "turning" against Fox QED Jul 2020 #24
Exactly.... ashredux Jul 2020 #26
There's so many of them now! Buckeye_Democrat Jul 2020 #27
This is what I have always said and believe to be true. Dan Jul 2020 #23
2 things are absolutely true of Chump kairos12 Jul 2020 #25
I am not sure his goal is to destroy so much. Gore1FL Jul 2020 #29
If he's not rage tweeting and trashing Democrats bucolic_frolic Jul 2020 #31
I think it's more that he's decided to ignore the results of the election if he loses... regnaD kciN Jul 2020 #32

MyOwnPeace

(16,887 posts)
2. Yes, indeed!
Sat Jul 4, 2020, 02:05 PM
Jul 2020

I agree 100% - and he keeps displaying it daily. He really does believe it will be "our loss!"

lunatica

(53,410 posts)
7. It's what all dictators do when they're forced to lose.
Sat Jul 4, 2020, 02:16 PM
Jul 2020

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.

Cary

(11,746 posts)
5. I get the feeling that the guy just takes in right wing disinformation
Sat Jul 4, 2020, 02:13 PM
Jul 2020

He seems to be unable to be in any way strategic.

lunatica

(53,410 posts)
11. Well, not strategic in the normal way we think of it
Sat Jul 4, 2020, 02:18 PM
Jul 2020

but he has a plan. It’s to destroy everything that makes this country a Democracy.

lunatica

(53,410 posts)
15. All consuming revenge isn't that difficult to feel
Sat Jul 4, 2020, 02:32 PM
Jul 2020

or to act on. A toddler throwing a full out tantrum and breaking shit doesn’t require a brain.

Lock him up.

(6,873 posts)
28. I am to the opinion he's only looking for ways to stay out of jail at this point.
Sat Jul 4, 2020, 04:14 PM
Jul 2020

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

(3,476 posts)
6. Once the Treasury has been totally looted, he'll be gone. He wants to be sure President Biden has NO
Sat Jul 4, 2020, 02:15 PM
Jul 2020

funds for fixing the debacle he's going to leave behind.

Shermann

(7,355 posts)
8. One flaw in your logic
Sat Jul 4, 2020, 02:16 PM
Jul 2020

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

(11,370 posts)
9. He is just doing things to piss us off now
Sat Jul 4, 2020, 02:16 PM
Jul 2020

Messing up virus, putting up statues of himself and others most Americans don’t want to see.

lunatica

(53,410 posts)
14. Yes. And he's deliberately
Sat Jul 4, 2020, 02:30 PM
Jul 2020

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 he’s got plenty of time to have Steven Miller pick out other historical sites of racial importance.

teenagebambam

(1,592 posts)
10. Getting him elected isn't Putin's goal
Sat Jul 4, 2020, 02:18 PM
Jul 2020

His goal is to keep firing up the troglodytes, so whoever is elected can’t govern effectively

LuvNewcastle

(16,820 posts)
30. Yes!
Sat Jul 4, 2020, 04:22 PM
Jul 2020

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.

Yavin4

(35,354 posts)
19. "he's decided to destroy everything before he leaves"
Sat Jul 4, 2020, 02:52 PM
Jul 2020

Paging Jaime Lannister. Paging Jaime Lannister.

lunatica

(53,410 posts)
20. The Mad King Slayer?
Sat Jul 4, 2020, 02:56 PM
Jul 2020

I kind of like the way Tyrion Lannister ended Tywin Lannister’s life. It’s more fitting somehow.

ashredux

(2,593 posts)
22. I still think he is setting up his new "conservative " TV network...
Sat Jul 4, 2020, 03:41 PM
Jul 2020

He is now lurching to the far right....

QED

(2,730 posts)
24. Yeah, maybe that's why he's "turning" against Fox
Sat Jul 4, 2020, 03:44 PM
Jul 2020

I think I read he or his kids bought part of OAN or whatever it's called.

Buckeye_Democrat

(14,846 posts)
27. There's so many of them now!
Sat Jul 4, 2020, 03:50 PM
Jul 2020

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.

kairos12

(12,817 posts)
25. 2 things are absolutely true of Chump
Sat Jul 4, 2020, 03:44 PM
Jul 2020

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

(21,027 posts)
29. I am not sure his goal is to destroy so much.
Sat Jul 4, 2020, 04:20 PM
Jul 2020

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

(42,656 posts)
31. If he's not rage tweeting and trashing Democrats
Sat Jul 4, 2020, 04:48 PM
Jul 2020

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

(26,035 posts)
32. I think it's more that he's decided to ignore the results of the election if he loses...
Sat Jul 4, 2020, 05:12 PM
Jul 2020

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."

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