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napi21

(45,806 posts)
Wed Feb 12, 2020, 10:53 PM Feb 2020

Are you watching Rachel's show tonight

She went through all the interference DT has done in the different Departments throughout the Gov't. It was astonishing how many times and how long it took to get through the list and how many career people have quit or were fired, all for disagreeing with DT. Geesh! She has me more scared for our Country now than I was before.

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Are you watching Rachel's show tonight (Original Post) napi21 Feb 2020 OP
Not A Huge Rachel Fan Me. Feb 2020 #1
Go, Rachel marieo1 Feb 2020 #17
A must see show! Bev54 Feb 2020 #2
RM has been at the forefront of pointing out NoMoreRepugs Feb 2020 #3
However scared you are for our country... localroger Feb 2020 #4
Lawrence O'Donnell voiced this tonight. Duppers Feb 2020 #9
I'm plenty scared, and have been luvallpeeps Feb 2020 #13
Yes! Honestly I got scared Leith Feb 2020 #5
Maybe my day was more stressful than usual... MontanaMama Feb 2020 #6
Rachel scared the hell out of me tonight PlanetBev Feb 2020 #7
Love Rachel, did not see the show, but I am already frightened. 58Sunliner Feb 2020 #8
We need someone with national exposure ringing the alarm loud and clear. Dem2theMax Feb 2020 #10
Yes, and our candidates and leaders. 58Sunliner Feb 2020 #15
I would love to hear what Obama has to say about this whole nightmarish situation Bayard Feb 2020 #16
I think DENVERPOPS Feb 2020 #19
I'm not crawling in a hole and giving up. Dem2theMax Feb 2020 #21
Me neither, DENVERPOPS Feb 2020 #23
Recording later benld74 Feb 2020 #11
This message was self-deleted by its author The_jackalope Feb 2020 #12
Love Rachel seta1950 Feb 2020 #14
I have been scared shitless since Nov., 2016 (seriously). BigmanPigman Feb 2020 #18
The Handover With Lawrence DallasNE Feb 2020 #20
Rachel was great last night Gothmog Feb 2020 #22

Me.

(35,454 posts)
1. Not A Huge Rachel Fan
Wed Feb 12, 2020, 11:00 PM
Feb 2020

But she was excellent tonight and you're panicked because she is. Brutal reality is hitting home that a monster is attacking our country and we all better take it really seriously and figure out how we're going to fight back. He will steal this election if he can, he has as good as told us so.

marieo1

(1,402 posts)
17. Go, Rachel
Thu Feb 13, 2020, 12:52 AM
Feb 2020

Rachel is the best - she doesn't just deliver news, she covers all the background and helps us all understand it and see what we are facing!! It is a scary time and I appreciate Rachel helping us understand what is happening in our country and I'm glad she doesn't sugar coat any of it!!

NoMoreRepugs

(9,431 posts)
3. RM has been at the forefront of pointing out
Wed Feb 12, 2020, 11:33 PM
Feb 2020

RUMPS many transgressions - here’s hoping hundreds more across the country join the chorus in the media.

localroger

(3,626 posts)
4. However scared you are for our country...
Wed Feb 12, 2020, 11:33 PM
Feb 2020

...you probably aren't scared enough. I have passed beyond the barrier of thinking that Bill Maher is being an idiot when he says Trump won't go. If all the enforcement mechanisms are corrupted, what stops anybody from doing anything?

luvallpeeps

(935 posts)
13. I'm plenty scared, and have been
Thu Feb 13, 2020, 12:33 AM
Feb 2020

since T rump's "American Carnage" inauguration. This has been a slow, steady deterioration of our laws and norms. I'll tell ya, after an American journalist was sawed alive I pretty much haven't had an entire day of peace of mind. This right here is when it really sunk in that we are in it for realzy.

Leith

(7,809 posts)
5. Yes! Honestly I got scared
Wed Feb 12, 2020, 11:35 PM
Feb 2020

I used to get up every morning wondering what fresh hell was in store that day.

Now I ask that every few hours.

MontanaMama

(23,319 posts)
6. Maybe my day was more stressful than usual...
Wed Feb 12, 2020, 11:37 PM
Feb 2020

But Rachel brought me to tears tonight. This all feels very heavy...as it should.

PlanetBev

(4,104 posts)
7. Rachel scared the hell out of me tonight
Wed Feb 12, 2020, 11:41 PM
Feb 2020

God knows where this is going to end up if we don’t get this criminal and his friends out of the White House.

58Sunliner

(4,386 posts)
8. Love Rachel, did not see the show, but I am already frightened.
Wed Feb 12, 2020, 11:43 PM
Feb 2020

We need to get our leaders to focus on mass protests now. I think we should all be making contact and communicate that we expect our leaders in the democratic party to respond with us and help coordinate this nationally. We need someone with national exposure ringing the alarm loud and clear.

Bayard

(22,075 posts)
16. I would love to hear what Obama has to say about this whole nightmarish situation
Thu Feb 13, 2020, 12:47 AM
Feb 2020

Once we have a nominee, I'm sure he'll jump in and campaign his heart out.

DENVERPOPS

(8,835 posts)
19. I think
Thu Feb 13, 2020, 01:34 AM
Feb 2020

that would send Republicans and their minions off the deep end. A black person leading the charge against Trump and republicans??????
It would be suicidal for Obama, and his entire family, if he were to say a single word.......
There are 50 million voters out there who would be emboldened to do something really really really really really crazy...........

Same with big huge demonstrations and rallies to challenge them......Do you want another Gettysburg????????????????
In a New York second, Trump would order martial law in the entire nation, by the U.S. military, giving himself even more absolute power.
They already tried to over throw the Posse Comatutus law during the Cheney/Rumsfeld administration, they would toss it out in 24 hours this time........

We don't have the FBI, Military, DOJ, alot of local police, or anyone with any kind of power to help us in any way...............

I tell people the reason Trump wants the wall is to keep US from getting out in the future...........

There are many many many of us who have been screaming about what was happening for DECADES and no one was listening.
If they aren't listening now, they soon will be, when the FASCIST CORPORATE REPUBLICAN COUP is completed Nov. 3rd.

REMEMBER: Hillary got laughed off the stage when she said that there was a huge Republican Conspiracy taking place......

WASF

DENVERPOPS

(8,835 posts)
23. Me neither,
Thu Feb 13, 2020, 02:45 PM
Feb 2020

but we can't be running around shooting from the hip without considering the reality of the backlash from the Republicans.

I continue to believe that the Democrats are still wandering down the jungle path, swatting at mosquitoes and oblivious to the herd of stampeding elephants coming down the path.

No one is "stepping up" to take on the Republicans........

It should be painfully obvious by now to all Dems, that the only person the Repubs fear in an election is BIDEN......
And even Biden is not rising to the occasion out of fear of drawing even more fire from the despicables..........

Response to napi21 (Original post)

BigmanPigman

(51,607 posts)
18. I have been scared shitless since Nov., 2016 (seriously).
Thu Feb 13, 2020, 01:27 AM
Feb 2020

The fucking moron must be stopped by any means available, and I mean ANY! I won't say what exactly since I will get the DU jury deleting my post for "kooky/extreme" ideas. Sometimes "extreme" is necessary. I believe we are in that area right now.

My sister assured me (tried to calm my realistic fears) throughout 2016-17. Then she realized how seriously dangerous the fucking moron and GOP are and she now sees that I was right to sound the alarms. A shining knight in white armor is not going to come riding in to save the day, we have to save it ourselves through any means possible.

DallasNE

(7,403 posts)
20. The Handover With Lawrence
Thu Feb 13, 2020, 01:44 AM
Feb 2020

Was interesting when he brought up that the question of electability is only directed at the two women and the same isn't asked about a white gay male or a Jewish candidate, leaving open the sexist nature of the election coverage. Shows we still have a long ways to go.

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