I cannot underscore this any stronger: **This is not normal**.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

Normal presidencies--even bad ones--do not engage in personal vendettas and enemy listing of people who simply have expressed their opinions.

This is the mindset of a wannabe dictator, plain and simple.

[triron]

1. MSM continues to act that way. They are complicit in out democracy's demise.

[Eko]

4. Watching MSNBC right now

and they are not acting like it is normal at all.

[triron]

5. Disagree. Don't hear them condemning it (at least not very strongly).

[Eko]

7. Well then,

acting like it is not normal and condemning it strongly are not the same thing at all.

[catbyte]

32. Turn on CNN. Everybody is horrified.

[BigmanPigman]

11. Ali Velshi and Katie Tur did cover it well

and were the first to call it for what it is...a petty DISTRACTION from the book coming out as well as the silencing of critics and prominent Dems.

[Cosmocat]

13. I haven't watched yet, but I imagine Nicole Wallace and Company

piled on pretty hard ...

[BigmanPigman]

14. She's about to go into it again

after commercial

[demmiblue]

16. I don't think that person is actually watching MSNBC or CNN, imo. n/t

[lapfog_1]

6. Until 10 million of us march on Washington and scare the shit out of Congress

Congress won't do shit... they may not do shit even then... but

It may take 50 million people marching on Washington to save our democracy.

The MSM won't do much in the meantime.

[jaysunb]

36. Bingo ! n/t

[Old Vet]

54. Count me in, Ive been waiting................

[bdamomma]

52. that will be the only way

we have the numbers, and we have a stupid POS a wanna be dictator ruining the country, What is wrong with this picture, and fucking Congress especially the repigs their wicked/greedy/traitorous ways are all over this. Complicit POS.

[Haggis for Breakfast]

41. I think what you want

is for someone to stick their head out of a window and scream (ala William Holden in "Network," 1976), "I'm as mad as Hell and I'm not going to take it anymore."

I think my neighbor did that on the last 4th of July (blame the beer).

[Dave Starsky]

47. That was Peter Finch who did that.

Got an Academy Award for it, too.

[Haggis for Breakfast]

57. Ooooops. my mistake.

One of his last roles, too. The great Peter Finch.

[RockRaven]

2. It shows how small and craven the people around Trump, like John Kelly and SHS, are.

If they had any morals or dignity they'd just say "no, I'm not participating in this."

[FiveGoodMen]

34. If they had any morals, Trump would never have offered them jobs.

[Eliot Rosewater]

3. Sure but seems like yesterday when I would hear

"cant put my finger on it, just cant trust her"

or

"she did give a speech once to rich people, you know"

or


"She was in a picture with KISSINGER, anything is better than THAT"

sigh

[Voltaire2]

8. Nixon.

[Older Than I Look]

12. Who resigned in disgrace under threat of impeachment.

Which is a fate too good for Trump.

[lame54]

9. Notice how they are doing them one at a time...

Their box of distractions

[malaise]

10. I was just thinking that executing a coup

is so much easier than ousting the coup leaders and their sycophants.

[orangecrush]

15. #BASTA

Enough is enough.

[Honeycombe8]

17. No argument here. Will no one be able to rescue us from this tyrant? nt

[KPN]

18. At the way things are going, and they certainly aren't in an uptrend, I won't be entirely

surprised to see his presidency end in a fashion much like Mussolini. Lord help us we don't get into WWIII because of him, but it's certainly not without possibility.

We need to neuter him this fall by taking at least the House.

[pansypoo53219]

19. maybe he is hoping for HIS 9/11?

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

24. Unfortunately that's true. Hopefully, unlike the Bushes he does not have the ME contacts to MIHOP.

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At least I hope he doesn't.

My biggest nightmare scenario is the SOTU speech, when literally everyone -- both houses of Congress, all the SCOTUS justices, the secretaries of the Cabinets, the Joint Chiefs, and the FLOTUS -- are tightly gathered in one room. Eliminate that room while Donnie Two Scoops' motorcade is just leaving the WH (he's late, as always, because making people wait is a big "fuck you" ) and "poof!" everyone who is standing in the way of him and absolute power and happiness is gone.

Of course, journalists -- the enemy of the people -- would have to be rounded up and stuck in the cages the children once occupied, and pollsters would be taken out and shot. There will be only one official state pollster, and the results will always show 100% approval.

That will only happen once he gets tired of picking off his "enemies" one by one. He's like a drug addict -- every time he wants to feel better he either goes to a rally or fires someone. If he found some way to get rid of Sessions, Rosenstein and Mueller on the same day -- and I figure Kavanaugh and the Supremes figure in there somewhere, with a little help from Roger Stone, who's appealing his subpoena on the basis the Mueller investigation is unconstitutional --he'll orgasm with joy. He'll repaint Air Force One with his garish colors and name, hold one of his "IT'S ALL ABOUT ME!!!" parades once a month, each bigger than the one before, and force all the world -- with the exception of Putin, of course -- to bow at his feet.

I'm old enough -- over two-years-old -- to remember when our political process made sense, the U.S. was respected at home and abroad, and we didn't have an insane narcissist in the Oval Office.

[ffr]

20. Conseяvatives did this.

Consider that the next time you're in the voting booth. There are no good conseяvatives.

[Texin]

22. Didn't Johnson also have a file on Martin Luther King?

[FakeNoose]

27. No but I believe J. Edgar Hoover did

Hoover kept files on everybody, including Presidents and member of Congress.

[raging moderate]

31. Yes, and Nixon had an Enemies List.

I remember there was some joking about how everyone should submit an application to be put on Nixon's Enemies List.

[True Blue American]

45. Trump is following the same play book Nixon used

Yesterday I listened to an Author say, memories seem to smooth over things, but Nixon had the same group of die hard backers, a lily livered Congress, until the tapes came out. Baker turned on him, then it went down hill.

https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/03/john-farrell-nixon-book-excerpt-214954

[mudstump]

23. We are seeing just exactly what the right-wing is...

and the kind of leadership and policy they have in mind. Is it frightening enough for you?

[mudstump]

21. We know this isn't normal...the question

is what are we going to do about it? What if voting is so rigged against us we can't change this by putting sane people in office?

[spanone]

25. he's the most dangerous man in the world with the codes to planetary annihilation

really...

[Eyeball_Kid]

30. There is STILL very big money behind Trumpy.

Lots of money is made in a fascist dictatorship. Major sources of capital have already lined up, waiting for a suspension of the Constitution. They presently are the businesses and people with whom Trumpy talks at night before his tweet rants.

Of course I don’t know the above for certain, but it DOES fit with the logic of the situation. Trumpy knows filthy rich opportunists. He considers them his friends. He will reward them with more unimagined riches if they stick with him. He rewards wealthy people who support him.

[Pachamama]

43. Exactly

[Atticus]

26. "By any means necessary-----". nt

[SergeStorms]

28. I didn't think it possible...

but I hate that orange, lying, cheating, thieving, racist, sexist, criminal Trump more with each passing moment. I will be satisfied with nothing less than his incarceration for the remainder of his wretched life.

NOTHING LESS!

[yuiyoshida]

44. I am with you there ...

We have all had about enough.

[olegramps]

49. I don't stop there. I extent it to every damn Republican alive. They are the scum of the scum.

I have no hesitancy in stating that because they continue to support this monstrosity without any reservations. The ignoramuses and deplorable racists have prevailed while the majority of citizens are in total agreement with Malaria "I really don't care."

[SergeStorms]

56. As one 'olegramps' to another...

I can't argue with you one bit about that! They're all co-conspirators as far as I'm concerned.

[Cha]

29. NO SHIT!

[diva77]

33. "not normal" is not strong enough - the Rethugs are criminals who have gone rogue

and are ramping up flagrant violations of the law with no accountability.

[FiveGoodMen]

35. The Rethugs are Nazis who have taken over America and don't intend to relinquish power. Ever.

[lpbk2713]

37. Even Dumbya tried to pretend he was president of all the people.

Trump doesn't even bother to pretend. He doesn't care what anyone thinks.

[yuiyoshida]

38. Trump wants to be more like PUTIN

Putin must be Trump's personal hero...

[Haggis for Breakfast]

42. More like Stalin

Who once commented that he had "disposed" of more people than Hitler did. And without a scintilla of remorse.

I think trmp resembles Stalin more than Putin or Hitler. Remember that Stalin was NOT Russian, he was Georgian. He did not speak Russian at all fluently and he was widely mocked for that. He despised the power brokers because they never accepted him as a peer or respected him as a leader, in much the same way that Washington (and the high society of NYC before) have never accepted trump as an equal, much less a better.

[Amaryllis]

39. WHich is what Brennan said and just about everyone else on MSNBC today. Swallwell just said it.

[McCamy Taylor]

40. trump is crazy and Russia wants him that way since it weakens the US.

[jambo101]

46. trump is slowly but surely

Destroying America and its values and it seems no one can stop him, he is backed by a lunatic base and the same do nothing GOP Obama had to deal with.

[Nitram]

48. Trump is a Petty Tyrant.

[PatrickforO]

50. Just got off the phone with my Republican US Senator's office.

I started off by asking why a space force is better for me and my family than healthcare, or the $40 million in federal monies we still lack for an important highway widening project.

Then I mentioned the revocation of Bannon's security clearance and said I thought it was a last ditch attempt at obstructing justice by a traitor. I then went on to tell the staffer that I know how easy it is for people inside the beltway to get out of touch, but I let him know that among my many contacts, even the staunch Republicans are disgusted by Trump.

I told the staffer that people out here in reality are seething, because Trump has ignored the emoluments clause, and his administration doesn't even try to hide its utter corruption. It has disgusted and driven away most decent people.

I then said that the only people who still like Trump are the slathering white nationalist nazis, and they don't represent us. They don't represent our America. That isn't us.

Finally, I wound up with a short critique of the giant tax cut for billionaires and corporations and how that didn't help either of my children, who work for publicly held companies because CEOs upheld their fiduciary responsibility and bought back shares, which is the best thing for shareholders. But how does that help me or my children?

I said it would be wise for this Senator and other sane members of the Republican party to do more to hold Trump in check, and I mentioned he is lucky he's not up for reelection this year, because I said I expect a 'change of the guard' come November.

Not that it did much good, but I call his office every week to register my opinion about current events. Hope you all do also. And...fuck the rules...don't bother being brief. We're being attacked on a thousand fronts. Make your calls L A S T ! !

[diva77]

51. I hope you said "Brennan" instead of "Bannon" !!!! :)

[PatrickforO]

53. LOL yeah I think I did.

[Uncle Joe]

55. I totally agree.

Thanks for the thread Tommy_Carcetti.