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(32,787 posts)Irish_Dem
(47,228 posts)more dangerous. She said he should be removed immediately.
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(36,747 posts)Bev54
(10,066 posts)Larissa
(790 posts)The leaders of this country know that Trump is lethal rat garbage. Yet they are moving at glacier pace running the clock down to his last day. Some think that Trump will go away gracefully. Trump will leap out of his garbage can and leave a lasting rabid bite on America's neck before he exits. For four years he has never failed to outdo himself in doing worse. He has set the bar low, as low as I've ever seen it in my life, in the desecration of this country. And what was Trump's concern yesterday? Trump was raging because the "poor white trash mob" made him look bad. Trump felt embarrassed. Apparently, Trump has never checked out the crowds at his own rallies. Trump cultivates trash that has run this country into the ground. When Trump saw pics of the half-naked guy in the fur hat he started to complain that they looked "cheap and poor." These cretins defecated on the floors of the Capitol Building and tracked and smeared their excrement on the floors and walls though out. Trump owns this.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jan/10/mary-trump-my-uncle-is-unstable-he-needs-to-be-removed-immediately
Two weeks before the election, Mary Trump described her uncle Donalds campaign to me in stark terms: He knows hes in desperate shape, so hes going to burn it all down, sow more chaos and division
[and] if hes going down, hes going to take us all down with him. In the Observers Biden/Harris victory edition, as she considered the losers remaining weeks in office, her tone was still edgy. I worry about what Donalds going to do in that time to lash out.
The storming of the Capitol still shocked her. What struck me first was how degrading it was. That amount of desecration. The tawdriness of it. Tawdriness is who Donald is, but playing out in the halls of Congress. She describes the people vandalizing offices, carrying Confederate flags, wearing Camp Auschwitz T-shirts and yet Trumps message to them was how much they were loved.
It was the last four years in real time, distilled to its very essence, proving how much the very worst people among us have been so enabled and emboldened. It hit me later that the next people in line for the presidency were in the same room, and how unfathomably dangerous that was.
The ramifications need addressing now, she says. This is not a time to deliberate. Its time to act quickly. She believes the 25th amendment should be invoked, not that she thinks it will be by Mike Pence (because hes the biggest coward on the planet). Cabinet members resigning this week are not doing so because they cared about what happened on Wednesday either, she thinks, but because theyre trying to avoid the political fallout.
What legacy will this leave for Republicans? If they dont vote to convict him, they will own this disaster for ever. It will burn them down.
The Biden administration also has to act quickly after inauguration, she says, or it too will be tainted, and not just by last weeks events. Prompt investigations should begin into the human rights violations at the Mexican border, for example, and into whether last weeks riots were coordinated and planned.
Every person that stormed or should I say, strolled, and meandered, with impunity, arrogance and disdain into the Capitol needs to be arrested, indicted, convicted and given serious sentences, she adds. They desecrated the foundations of our democracy.
The instability of her uncle right now remains the most pressing issue. Remember: this is the man who tried to invalidate mail-in ballots in the middle of a pandemic. This is the man who forced resignations of high-level officers in the Pentagon, replacing them with sycophants. This is why, for six hours on Wednesday, the Pentagon blocked the National Guard from containing an insurrectionist mob. Our system failed miserably because this mans been allowed to dismantle every institution this country counts on.
And its not that her uncle believes he won legitimately, she argues. Hes never had a legitimate win in his life. All that matters is getting the win, no matter if theres an asterisk next to it.
With this in mind, we shouldnt underestimate him. In less than two weeks, he wont have the Oval Office to protect him from lawsuits, bankruptcies and criminal indictments. I dont know what hes going to do, but we need to understand hes capable of doing anything. And the clock is ticking.