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librechik

(30,674 posts)
Sun Jun 24, 2018, 03:50 PM Jun 2018

So Trump predicts a Red Wave this November

I'm trying to talk myself out of believing him this time.

Maybe we are screwed no matter how many votes we bring in because Putin.

I'm also trying to prepare myself for that horrible outcome.

Losing faith. Talk me down?

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So Trump predicts a Red Wave this November (Original Post) librechik Jun 2018 OP
It's gonna be a red wave alright...coming out of his wherever. Trek4Truth Jun 2018 #1
Losing faith is out of the question eleny Jun 2018 #2
Thanks, eleny. I know that! librechik Jun 2018 #18
Hey, you hang in there or I'll have to come find you eleny Jun 2018 #23
A red wave to that sociopath malaise Jun 2018 #3
This message was self-deleted by its author Anon-C Jun 2018 #17
Thank you for your concern. You can sit and bite your nails in front of the screem RandySF Jun 2018 #4
thanks librechik Jun 2018 #10
My apologies RandySF Jun 2018 #30
It will be pretty obvious if it's rigged. roamer65 Jun 2018 #5
seems to me there was a lot of evidence of rigging in 2016. What happened with that? librechik Jun 2018 #14
"It will be pretty obvious if it's rigged." mitch96 Jun 2018 #24
Climb down and calm down vlyons Jun 2018 #6
Why do you need to talk yourself out of believing him? GoCubsGo Jun 2018 #7
Hope you are right librechik Jun 2018 #12
Could you have ever imagined the leader of the Party of Nixon and Reagan... yallerdawg Jun 2018 #8
This isn't even an . . . peggysue2 Jun 2018 #27
If he says it enough times, his base will believe him and DeminPennswoods Jun 2018 #9
Hmm... Music Man Jun 2018 #11
Red as in Russian "Commie?" OhZone Jun 2018 #13
good point! n/t librechik Jun 2018 #19
Trump don't know shit edhopper Jun 2018 #15
I understand your fear. murielm99 Jun 2018 #16
He always lies, and the opposite always turns out to be true. So read as: fierywoman Jun 2018 #20
Maybe he's just color blind. It is more common with men: tandem5 Jun 2018 #21
He obviously has faith Soxfan58 Jun 2018 #22
If you're worried about the security of our elections crazycatlady Jun 2018 #25
Everything he says is a lie wryter2000 Jun 2018 #26
Hasn't he done this before? duforsure Jun 2018 #28
He's counting on a "red wave" from Russia. nt woodsprite Jun 2018 #29
 

Trek4Truth

(515 posts)
1. It's gonna be a red wave alright...coming out of his wherever.
Sun Jun 24, 2018, 03:52 PM
Jun 2018

But I know what you mean....maybe he knows something we don't know.
Now he's gonna repeat this shit a million times.
Let's not lose faith until after the election.

I was talking with a RUMPer last night and I said no matter what just believe what Bob Mueller comes out with...and he agreed.

eleny

(46,166 posts)
23. Hey, you hang in there or I'll have to come find you
Sun Jun 24, 2018, 04:57 PM
Jun 2018

I'm in Lakewood so I may not be that far away!

Btw, we're atheists here, too. Feels just right.

All the best always!

Response to malaise (Reply #3)

RandySF

(58,939 posts)
4. Thank you for your concern. You can sit and bite your nails in front of the screem
Sun Jun 24, 2018, 03:56 PM
Jun 2018

Or you can use the keyboard to look for the following groups to see how you can help:

-DCCC

-DSCC

-DLCC

-NDRC

-Flippable

-Sister District

-Swing Left

-Postcards for Progressives

-Text the Vote

-The Colorado Democratic Party

-Jason Crow for Congress


You are not helpless. Don't be hopeless. Do not be paralyzed.

librechik

(30,674 posts)
10. thanks
Sun Jun 24, 2018, 04:22 PM
Jun 2018

but i am in fact disabled Some good suggestions there for people who can't move around, like me. Been there, done those.

However, none of that will have the slightest effect on Putin lying about our turnout, and hacking our off-year election infrastructure. Which was hacked in Colorado in 2016.

RandySF

(58,939 posts)
30. My apologies
Sun Jun 24, 2018, 06:34 PM
Jun 2018

But there are activities on these sites that don’t require leaving home or spend Ming much money. The worst thing you can do is decide you’re helpless or decide all is lost. Then they WILL win.

mitch96

(13,913 posts)
24. "It will be pretty obvious if it's rigged."
Sun Jun 24, 2018, 05:01 PM
Jun 2018

And you know what he's gonna say and do if the Big Blue Wave crushes him and his cronies..
THE ELECTION WAS RIGGED DEM'S RIGGED MY ELECTION.
So if he pulls that shit what can he do? Martial law? Demand a recount?
You know he's not gonna go down without a fight...

m

vlyons

(10,252 posts)
6. Climb down and calm down
Sun Jun 24, 2018, 04:02 PM
Jun 2018

Trump lies about everything. Beginning every morning when he looks in the mirror and admires himself for being so great, so smart, so rich, so wonderful - the likes of which the world has never see. Greater than Caesar, greater than Alexander the Great, greater than Lincoln.

And if Dems don't win the House, so what? Are we going to quit and abandon our ideals? Are we going to stop fighting for justice and defending the Constitution. I'm sure not. Hang in there. Practice patience and sharpen your resolve to rid our country of Fascism. We are not powerless.

GoCubsGo

(32,086 posts)
7. Why do you need to talk yourself out of believing him?
Sun Jun 24, 2018, 04:09 PM
Jun 2018

That fuckstick has never told the truth in his miserable, stinking life. Nor, has he ever been right about anything. What makes you think this time will be any different? He's full of shit.

librechik

(30,674 posts)
12. Hope you are right
Sun Jun 24, 2018, 04:24 PM
Jun 2018

So far, Trump being a lying shit sack has not effected his progress in the least.

yallerdawg

(16,104 posts)
8. Could you have ever imagined the leader of the Party of Nixon and Reagan...
Sun Jun 24, 2018, 04:11 PM
Jun 2018

- a leader also known as "Putin's Puppet" - promoting a "Red Wave" while a former KGB agent attacks US elections with disinformation and cyber-warfare?

This ain't your father's Republican Party.

peggysue2

(10,835 posts)
27. This isn't even an . . .
Sun Jun 24, 2018, 05:33 PM
Jun 2018

American Party, let alone your Pop's.

And yes, no one would have dared use the phrase 'Red Wave' when I was a kid--back in the day--without being condemned a Commie. My dad and my father-in-law, both dead now, were WWII vets. My father was a solid Republican, small business man, hated taxes and groused about politicians in general.

But he also sobbed when JFK was assassinated, grieved along with the entire country. It was the first time I saw my father cry.

It didn't matter that Kennedy was a Dem or that my father had complained about his policies, much to my mother's chagrin. My father knew what that murder meant for JFK's family, his friends but even more so, for the country.

It was a different time, a different world. As a kid, it bewildered me. But those reactions, those sobbing, grieving, frightened adults stayed with me.

OhZone

(3,212 posts)
13. Red as in Russian "Commie?"
Sun Jun 24, 2018, 04:25 PM
Jun 2018

Didn't help with a lot of special elections so far.

So so far so good.


Oh! Oh!


I just thought of a new meaning to "Better Dead than Red!"

ha

edhopper

(33,591 posts)
15. Trump don't know shit
Sun Jun 24, 2018, 04:26 PM
Jun 2018

he won because he was lucky and the election was corrupted.
He has lost every special election he has been involved in since.

Fuck Trump!

murielm99

(30,745 posts)
16. I understand your fear.
Sun Jun 24, 2018, 04:27 PM
Jun 2018

45 is good at that. He likes to keep people off balance and on the defensive. Be brave. Don't fall for it. GOTV.

fierywoman

(7,686 posts)
20. He always lies, and the opposite always turns out to be true. So read as:
Sun Jun 24, 2018, 04:31 PM
Jun 2018

"There's a blue wave coming this November."

crazycatlady

(4,492 posts)
25. If you're worried about the security of our elections
Sun Jun 24, 2018, 05:13 PM
Jun 2018

Then you should pay attention to the only cybersecurity expert running for Congress.

wryter2000

(46,051 posts)
26. Everything he says is a lie
Sun Jun 24, 2018, 05:31 PM
Jun 2018

Don't let him get to you. Unless some reliable source says it, I don't believe it.

duforsure

(11,885 posts)
28. Hasn't he done this before?
Sun Jun 24, 2018, 05:35 PM
Jun 2018

Is he bragging they'll fix and rig this upcoming election and he's telling and projecting he'll win, and able to say, I told you, believe me.

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