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deetoo- you can always start another thread under "US Predictions...", you might want to re-post and start a new discussion.
Baba - love your brief vision, may it come to pass!
TriciaCT - on the one hand, yes, YAY! On the other, by 2025 the statute of limitations will have run out on most of the crimes... also, I fail to understand why we can't do both. Impeach now, arrest later!!
4th of July - not getting a sense there will be any "troubles", that it will just be Twitler further manipulating the base, they'll be very happy with it.
Yay, Tammy!
Re the 4th Celebration: coincidentally (?) I turned on Rachel Maddow last evening and she was addressing this very topic. She introduced what T was planning by first discussing how Nixon did something similar in July of 1970. Nixon didn't address the crowd, but created an "Honor America Day", which many people viewed as a thinly-veiled, pro-Vietnam rally. It didn't go well. https://www.history.com/news/richard-nixon-honor-america-day-july-4-1970
I don't know whether PBS will be airing the Little Dictator's speech. I often tune it to see the national fireworks, but we have a fireworks display in our town, so I don't need to see the national one. The town park is directly behind where we live, so you can imagine the noise. We used to give our sweet dog, Gracie, some Benadryl to calm her down. BOOM, BOOM!!
He's an artifact of all of America's grand institutions--from Wharton to the NRA and organized religion. I keep looking at the photograph of Trump, boxtox Barbie in shirt dress, puffed and bobby pinned Tiffany draped in southern plantation red, and Eric's wife in breeding; they're so embarrassingly American and look like so much pond scum next to the Royals (not that they aren't unravelling at the seams of pretention, too). Just glossies; "myopic echo chambers." The sooner they're relegated to the land of myth, along with all of those institutions, the better.
From seeing so much of Trump speak over the years, I would say his IQ is somewhere in the low 70s. His analytical and problem solving abilities are substandard at best. This is why he is so impulsive. He relies on instinct because he is incapable of logically thinking his way thru a situation. Im not trying to poke fun here, but he is a real life Billy Madison without the charm.
I've always believed that T. has a learning disability. I've also sensed there is severe trauma in his history, which contributes to his inability to learn. But to me, his total lack of emotional intelligence is what really makes him dangerous. He's an unstable genius in the art of self-promotion and manipulation.
Jeanne stated "I'd like to understand that kind of intelligence and what it signifies for a world that has given him so much power." It's a mystery to me as well, although I do think that whatever this intelligence is, it isn’t self-sustaining. In other words, it requires other people’s energy to give it life. Regarding the masses who have surrendered their energy/power: I think it begins with people not being in touch with the core of their being. If you're solid within yourself, then you're not going to blindly give your power away. Your fears, anger, prejudices, etc. will still surface, but you’ll see them for what they are, and not allow these feelings to control your life and your decisions.
Think about the power we would have if we all came from that sacred space. Can you imagine what good we could accomplish? Do you honestly think these clowns in the WH and Congress could survive in their positions of power? I’m not just talking about peaceful protest, although that could be a part of it. We’re more powerful than we think we are. We’re just looking in the wrong places.
I’m not sure where to post this, but Shawn’s comments sparked the following questions from me to all of you: on Presidential election eve 2016, did anyone feel a dramatic shift in time and space? The election results were coming in, and for a short period of time, I suddenly lost my bearings. I can’t describe it, except it felt to me like we had crossed over some portal. It went far beyond the shock I was feeling by the mounting election results. I felt like we’d suddenly entered another dimension. I thought I was losing my marbles. To calm myself I recall kiddingly saying to my husband, “I think we’ve entered the twilight zone.” But actually, I wasn’t kidding. I sensed this dramatic and unexpected shift in the universe ... as if the world around me had suddenly sped up. I kept saying to myself, "oh my God ...". I am 66 years old, and up until that evening in November 2016, had never experienced anything like that in my lifetime. Am I making sense? Can anyone relate to this?
Hi deeto, I am just catching up on this thread again and saw your post. I know exactly what you are talking about! I had that same sensation as a falling dream. Like the center of gravity left me inside my body. Then I had the dread feeling inside my solar plexus and tears just sprang to my eyes. This was before the results were all in and Trump was a confirmed electoral successor. What was in were the Republican majority forming up--there were some still out but it was getting close. Seriously, I could not believe it. Maybe that is the core of his support-- a deal that was struck?
I think Pence is actually doing the job of the executive- the meetings etc. The scut work. Previous presidents did not have the time to go on weekly golf retreats and stay up all night watching news and tweeting and attending to all his social/press/publicity rallies. Trump has no actual grasp on foreign policy etc.
Re Tiffany Trump: As you can see, his character is genetic. If she had any, she would have gotten a job or enlisted or served in the Peace Corps. Her mother should have also moved on with her career.