Isn’t the issue not so much if Biden wins will trump let go- but the likelihood of an unclear result. If some measure in contested then there’s a problem. I just watched the show The Great about Catherine the great and there is a line in it that I’m sure the writers meant for people to hear now: ‘ the first lie is the one they believe’. I don’t even need to explain how that resonates- and the danger it implies.
@lawrence I'm really an amateur at visioning, but this morning while meditating, I saw the lower part of the White House looked black as if the blackness was creeping slowly up the facade. After your post, I thought that maybe I did get something.
Hubris. The dam has burst, the elephant booty Jeanne predicted is on full display.
The Emperor has no clothes.
EVERY day now, somebody grows a spine, finally. I am enjoying this as much as it can be enjoyed with grief in America feeling colossally large. I see a huge wave, tsunami cresting.
Barr uses big words incorrectly. He does think he is the smartest in the room, also like Jeanne said.
I know that some see Trump as being scared to lose because he will then be exposed as a fraud. I don't know if that is right or not, but I don't think he sees himself as a fraud. His delusions of grandeur are very real in his brain. He truly sees himself as more intelligent--a truly stable genius and better informed (after all he had an uncle at MIT and that alone makes Trump--in his mind-- brilliant and well educated. He knows more than scientists, more than the generals, etc. In terms of future criminal charges, he truly believes that he knows how to handle them --by being a bully because that has worked numerous times in NY. I think what he's MOST afraid of is all about APPEARANCE. He couldn't stand the idea of being impeached. He cannot stand the idea of losing at all so his solution is to fire the pollsters in order to get better polls. He cannot stand when he's ridiculed (baby blimp drives him nuts). The whole "holy walk" the other day was because he thought that when the Secret Service took him to the bunker, he looked weak. His problem is he thinks that the only way to look strong is through bullying. He doesn't have any kind of strategy. He just reacts. And, to me, that's what makes him so dangerous. Steve Bannon thinks that he's capable of suicide if he deems the election loss to be too humiliating. However, I suspect--with no credentials here--that he'll just delude himself into thinking he really won and the election was rigged. He'll organize rallies to feed his ego and soak up the worshipers who he calls his base. I guess we'll know in 5 months.
I don't think I can really talk you down from your short-term fears. I've written before about why a coup or declaration of martial law will at most be temporary and will only serve to wash out the current dispensation from Washington. But still, any attempt at a coup/martial law can still lead to pain and fatalities, as Tricia pointed out. So I'll echo Seeker4: heed the red flags.
The topic of heeding our intuitions about foreboding has been on my mind; I just posted a new thread about a tropical storm that is heading across the Gulf of Mexico towards the US and has me concerned. Now isn't that ominous: a literal hurricane striking the country while all of this is going on.
Did you all read what he said today about it being a "great day" for George Floyd? I am hard pressed to say anyone is beyond redemption but he is one sick f*ck.
Jeanne, I wish I could talk you down about the unidentified troops but it is alarming. T. is the frontman for some very scary stuff going on behind the scenes. I remember reading what you posted some time ago about Prince and I think we are seeing it.
@polarberry and @jeanne-mayell
As difficult as it is to know he could inflict some pain and death (hec he's already RESPONSIBLE for the deaths of approx 70K Americans with his mishandling of the virus) I feel he's "hanging himself" here now. I've actually spoken to folks who will no longer vote for him. Never thought I would hear that. Now Lisa Murkowski and Mitt Romney (very late to the party I might add and where were you during the vote for impeachment) are now saying they won't vote for him. Here's the thing - he is like a caged animal now with a thorn in his paw - he will strike out. We just have to be prepared!