stay tuned!

[d0rkyd00d]

[iambiguous]

Headlines:
"Pence and Lawmakers Evacuate as Protesters Storm Capitol, Halting Count of Electoral Votes"
"Capitol on lockdown as protesters breach building"

You know what the Chinese say: "May you live in interesting times."

Of course that is generally thought to be a curse.

So, are they freedom fighters or Sturmabteilung? Liberators or thugs?

Yo, dasein!

Oh, and this part:

Headline:

With brazen assault on election, Trump prompts critics to warn of a coup

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics ... story.html

During four years in office, President Trump has trampled political norms, attacked democratic institutions, sought to discredit government agencies, peddled baseless conspiracy theories and been impeached by the House.

Since his defeat in the November election, Trump’s critics have warned that his scorched-earth effort to invalidate the outcome amounts to a new level of danger: the first attempted coup d’etat in U.S. history to illegally maintain power.

The chorus of alarm grew this week after the disclosure that Trump bullied and threatened Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger in an hour-long private phone call Saturday, during which the president demanded that Raffensperger find thousands of votes for Trump that do not exist.

On social media, conservative and liberal pundits alike used the word “coup.” So did former George W. Bush aide Nicolle Wallace, Trump biographer Timothy L. O’Brien, political analyst Larry Sabato and Garry Kasparov, the Russian chess grandmaster and founder of the Renew Democracy Initiative. The Atlantic, the New Yorker, the Nation, Vanity Fair, New York magazine and the BBC have invoked the term to explore the ramifications of Trump’s assault on the nation’s democratic foundations.

“If this isn’t an attempted coup then what is it?!” Charles M. Blow, a liberal columnist for the New York Times, asked on Twitter.

Historians described Trump’s actions as dangerous, irresponsible, harmful and unprecedented, but most said his behavior does not yet meet the formal academic definition of an attempted coup, which typically describes a military-backed effort to seize power from a legitimate government. Senior Pentagon officials have made clear that the military has no role in the fallout over Trump’s election defeat.

[iambiguous]

He blinks!

"Transfer of Power: Trump acknowledges new administration."
"In a new video, Trump addresses violence at the Capitol and says ‘a new administration’ will be sworn in."

So, shouldn't we expect some of the fulminating fanatics here to condemn this? Isn't Trump being a traitor to the cause? What, no evoking the Insurrection Act? He sends them to Capitol Hill claiming he will never concede. Then the very next day he does.

Or this all just another ruse...

[iambiguous]

Yep, it's gone this far:


"Pelosi says she spoke to nation’s top military leader about ensuring Trump doesn’t launch a nuclear attack"

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) told colleagues in a letter Friday that she has spoken to the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Mark A. Milley, about keeping an “unstable president” from accessing the nuclear codes.

Her letter came shortly after President Trump tweeted that he would not attend the inauguration of President-elect Joe Biden on Jan. 20, breaking with a long-standing tradition of outgoing presidents attending the swearing-in ceremony of their successors. Biden told reporters that he agreed with Trump’s decision to skip the ceremony, though he would welcome Vice President Pence. Washington Post

That's something I've thought about from time to time. Someone like Trump or Putin or Kim Jong-un figuring to take as many of us out with them when they go.

Like someone with HIV or another deadly disease deliberately infecting others out of bitterness or despair. Only with nuclear warheads.

[promethean75]

This is all trumpf's father and grandfather's fault, really. He was psychologically traumatized by the tremendous, tremendous pressure put on him to succeed, and the incredible, incredible impact that had as he felt unable to live up to that standard. It's not that don is a failure, but that he is beyond his means and his place. He should've never been bought through school and instead shoulda took up a job selling car insurance. Something more fitting to his true menial character and nature.

A simplistic bore like him should never have that much money. That just cant be right. It should be like a violation of the laws of physics or something.

[Meno_]

Yep, it's gone this far:


"Pelosi says she spoke to nation’s top military leader about ensuring Trump doesn’t launch a nuclear attack"

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) told colleagues in a letter Friday that she has spoken to the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Mark A. Milley, about keeping an “unstable president” from accessing the nuclear codes.

Her letter came shortly after President Trump tweeted that he would not attend the inauguration of President-elect Joe Biden on Jan. 20, breaking with a long-standing tradition of outgoing presidents attending the swearing-in ceremony of their successors. Biden told reporters that he agreed with Trump’s decision to skip the ceremony, though he would welcome Vice President Pence. Washington Post

That's something I've thought about from time to time. Someone like Trump or Putin or Kim Jong-un figuring to take as many of us out with them when they go.

Like someone with HIV or another deadly disease deliberately infecting others out of bitterness or despair. Only with nuclear warheads.

Biggy, ill get You for plagarism, my mention of this came before Your notice in my 'Trump takes the stage' forum. Just putting You on notice.



Nought! Justt kidding.!

[Meno_]

But seriously, what probibility is there, that Trump could risk such a foolhardy attempt?

[iambiguous]

The next outrage?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/ ... story.html

Federal prosecutors in Washington say they may investigate whether President Trump broke the law Wednesday when he urged a crowd of his supporters to “fight like hell” to overturn the election results shortly before a mob surged into the Capitol and disrupted the certification of the electoral college vote. The prospect of a seditious conspiracy charge — or any other — against Trump only increases the chances that the nation will enter uncharted legal territory soon. Unless the president plans to step down at the 11th hour of his term, allowing Vice President Pence to assume office and pardon him, he has only one option to shield himself from potential prosecution: a self-pardon.

But if Trump tries that, he will set in motion an endgame that may prove to be his own undoing.

He already faces criminal jeopardy on multiple fronts: The U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York is in possession of evidence of a potential campaign finance violation that Trump may have committed before he became president. Special counsel Robert S. Mueller III compiled evidence of multiple instances of obstruction of justice, outlined in his 2019 report. And Trump’s call last weekend to Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger provides at least a basis to investigate possible violations of federal law against election fraud.

Again, this is purely a gut feeling on my part but I suspect that, given my own understanding of the "deep state", the powers that be will do little or nothing to actually "lock him up".

Instead, the argument will revolve around bringing the nation together. Yeah, Trump was a particular grotesque outlier, but it's time now to move forward and return the country back to "normal".

Stay tuned.

[iambiguous]

Bottom line [mine]:

There were generally two dire concerns on the part of many in regard to the timespan between the election and the inauguration:

1] that Trump would declare martial law to remain in power
2] that he would instigate some sort of international crisis that might lead to one or another rendition of war -- with Iran, with North Korea...with China?

It didn't happen. I suspect because he is putting all of his eggs in a Don Sr, Don Jr. or Ivanka presidential campaign in 2024.

Now the question becomes whether or not my own rendition of the Deep State decides to go after him legally or not. My gut says no.

Then this part:

Inauguration Live Updates: Biden and Harris Are Sworn In, Kicking Off New Era in Washington
headline in New York Times

Right. Like the Clinton or the Obama administration ushered in a "new era" in regard to the crony capitalist plutocracy that still rules the roost.

Yes, in regard to any number of "social issues", the Democrats are in fact "in reality" different from Republicans. And that's no small thing.

But in regard to meat and potato economic and foreign policy issues Biden and the Democratic Party leadership are, in my view, still very much ensconced in this: https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/viewtop ... s#p2187045

Therefore, the focus of this thread -- stay tuned! -- will revolve around that. Measuring my own perceived gap between a Bernie Sanders "democratic socialist" agenda and a Joe Biden "crony capitalist" agenda.