He is going to declare the Democrats the enemy of America.

[kentuck]

And he will vow that he will not let it happen.

"We will stop the communists!", he will declare.

The time has come. He now sees that he is not going to win legally or legitimately. The address to the nation Thursday night will be his opening salvo in his war against our Constitution.

He will blame the Democrats for all his failures. His violent followers will be listening very closely. In my opinion, he will knowingly and intentionally attempt to divide this country into two sides.

It will be a very dangerous turn.

[Ocelot II]

1. He's been doing it for months. That's not new.

[BannonsLiver]

10. Yeah for real.

I can’t imagine giving a shit, let alone living in fear, of the fat
Orange pedo’s words 11 years into the fat orange pedo era. Oy vey.

[Scrivener7]

58. Plenty of those imagined fears that have been expressed have come to

pass in those 11 years. I can't imagine NOT fearing what he's planning to unleash on us now.

[BannonsLiver]

59. I don't fear his words but remain concerned about his actions.

Him calling me a member of the radical left, or mocking someone on the left, be it a pol or actor or whoever, long ago lost its power. Now it’s just background noise.

[Scrivener7]

60. He always tells us what he's going to do ahead of time.

[BannonsLiver]

61. Ok.

[MorbidButterflyTat]

64. Thank you.

[everyonematters]

2. It will only play with his base. He does this all the time. It is all he has got.

He acts like his base is 60% of the electorate instead of 25%.

[durablend]

7. You're forgetting

59% approve of him, or so he "thinks"

[ananda]

11. 59% of maybe 40%

LOL

[Blue Owl]

27. And that base is shrinking

It’s time to sweep this fat fuck out of the White House and out of our lives….

[0rganism]

53. Remember, even 25% is 80 million people

That's a lot of dipshit dumbasses to pull from, and if 1% of them are ready to commit violence on his behalf, well, that's 800,000 violent assholes causing problems around the country. I hope it doesn't come to this but it sure looks like darker times ahead.

[gab13by13]

3. Don't even watch Thursday night

He is still crying about his loss in the 2020 election. His pitch Thursday night will be an effort to explain why he plans to rig the next election.

He may get the former president of Venezuela to admit (falsely) that Venezuela rigged US voting machines. He freaking fired the election integrity commission. He wants to intimidate people from voting. He may try to send ICE or the Guard to polling places.

Don't waste your time listening to a sore loser. VOTE!

[Lovie777]

4. Keep the eyes on the prize...............

vote in numbers!

We the People, this is our country. Democracy, freedom, rights, etc.

[Chasstev365]

5. He is going to look more delusional and crazy then we've seen up to this point.

Rupert Murdoch, Mitch McConnell, John Roberts, and Merrick Garland got us here.

[Ponietz]

17. James Comey too

[no_hypocrisy]

6. Using the Joe McCarthy Playbook.

[eShirl]

8. and we already know he has no decency

[kentuck]

9. The danger is in those that listen to his orders...

...such as the Proud Patriots that showed up at the Freedom 250 celebration in Washington a week or so ago.

He will call for violence, is the message they will hear.

If we could only go one day without this danger hanging over our heads...

[Wuddles440]

21. Exactly!

And the aggressive, violent fanaticism of his hardcore cult is being dismissed by entirely too many citizens. They may be an overall minority of the population, but their dedication and fealty to the 'Orange MAGAT God' makes them incredibly dangerous to those advocating for a civil society.

[FakeNoose]

41. Yes but those orders go out to MAGA-cultists on his tweets, he's different on TV

At least that's been his pattern up to now.

[MorbidButterflyTat]

65. You mean those incel cowards hiding behind their masks?

[aeromanKC]

12. No Kings style Boycott TV Thursday night.

No worries, you can still watch Big Bang reruns.

[AverageOldGuy]

20. We are hooked on "Young Sheldon" reruns

[mdbl]

13. Yes, it's passed time he goes full-out Hitler on everyone

The Idiocracy has been primed.

[hamsterjill]

14. He is trying to incite violence.

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There's no other explanation. He's trying to rile up his base and have some crazy idiot start killing the people he deems are the "enemies". He knows he's losing ground and he is absolutely desperate.

The scary part is that there are crazies out there who will listen. Then Trump can stand back and say (just like January 6th) "Oh, I didn't do anything".

I hope measures are being taken to increase security around the Georgia senators, and anyone else who Trump decides are "illegitimate".

[FalloutShelter]

25. I agree totally...

Here's the problem-

WHAT'S OUR PLAN? No more carping, no more brilliant explanations about why and how fucked we are.
No more funny memes.

WHAT IS THE PLAN?

WE have a community here at DU that is visited by staffers of Democratic office holders...organizers ...Incivisible agents...Why are we never talking about a plan other than polite protests?

We are rapidly approaching the point of no return, and Polite protests.... getting millions into the streets WILL be met with violence from the right. WHAT IS THE PLAN?

Why am I not hearing an alarm sounded and a PLAN from my elected Democratic representatives? Forget network news and MSNOW. WE don't need brilliant analysis and hankie-twisting. We need a PLAN.
Grab a microphone and stand on any street corner. The independent media will come.

JMHO

[hamsterjill]

29. And I agree totally with your response.

About fucking time there was a plan!!!!

"WE have a community here at DU that is visited by staffers of Democratic office holders...organizers ...Incivisible agents...Why are we never talking about a plan other than polite protests?"

Are we sure that part is accurate?

[FalloutShelter]

35. As to accuracy...

It has been noted over the years that this site, if not visited, is at least scanned by staffers and Democrats running for and holding office.

That has been my understanding. Other members, who have been active here longer than I have (almost ten years), can weigh in on that.

[hamsterjill]

45. I've been here since 2004, and I've heard that before, but really never believed it.

We used to have a DU'er (now banned) who always said he had some inside information as to New York, in particular. He was married to someone important. I always found most of what he posted absolute blustering and common knowledge.

It was said that Elizabeth Edwards, before her death, frequented DU.

I've been told that Tom Hartman posts on DU.

Who knows, actually. But I can't imagine staffers actually having the time to screen through thousands of posts per day on a website. I could be wrong.

[Initech]

38. We can't fight authoritarianism with slop content from MSNOW.

We need action and we need it now! We're watching the world's largest political scandal unfold in real time on Fox News and the entire republican party is complicit. Nobody is stopping him no matter how evil he gets. They can't wait to bend over and kiss his worthless ass. We need to fight back now. Tomorrow may be too late.

[0rganism]

66. Apparently, there is no plan, and if there were a plan it would have sucked anyway

We're on the back foot here, no question. Already, fascists march proudly through our streets, paramilitary criminals murder civilians in public, the adjudicated-rapist would-be dictator intends to get handsy with state-run elections, and journalists get subpoenaed for exposing corruption. What is the plan?

It looks more and more like the tree of liberty is about to get watered with the blood of patriots. Frankly, that may have always been the plan all along, and I'm actually a bit surprised it took this long. Without the attack on Iran, it likely would have come sooner.

[FakeNoose]

43. I don't think he'll do that on TV, then it's too easy to pin the blame on him

He'll send angry tweets to his MAGA-cult when he wants violence done.

[hamsterjill]

47. He doesn't give a shit about any blame being pinned on him. It's whether it can be "proven" that he did something.

So far, it hasn't ever been made to stick. He comes out smelling like a rose because he's stacked the courts, etc. The Supreme Court might as well be known as Trump's posse.

As he becomes more and more desperate, he's not going to care. He's been sending angry tweets for years. He's upping the ante.

Let's see if he uses the word "communism" in his Thursday night address and if he calls the Senators out by name. That will tell me something, and I am betting that he does.

[FakeNoose]

48. If he calls us "communists" then none of it makes sense

Communists don't have any voting rights at all. Chump doesn't want us to vote ... I guess it means HE'S the real "communist," not us.

This is turning into Bizarro-World very quickly.

[hamsterjill]

50. I don't know how old you are, but he is signaling a specific sect of society with that word.

I'm old enough to remember it being thrown about before.

He is calling Democrats "communist" to signal to his base that it is the intent of Democrats to take away rights, etc. Specifically, the capitalism that they all know and love.

You come on down to Texas and tell Bubba that he can't have his car repair shop "bidness" because some "Dumocrat" wants emission control, etc. You tell them that Dumocrats want to take away their right to earn a living, etc. Tell them they want to take away their right to pray to their Christian God, and that their kids are going to be assaulted in public bathrooms by some trans-thing that is an abomination.

That's what he will mean when he says "communist", and his ignorant, shit-for-brains base will soak up and believe every single word.

[relayerbob]

15. Yes, but far from an "opening salvo"

He's been at this since Jan 6, 2021

[kentuck]

49. That is true...

And even before then.

But i should have stated an "opening salvo" in a different and dangerous direction.

[Ilsa]

16. It's a shame there isn't an insider who can

fuck with his teleprompter or the lighting or slow the transmission of his speech to make him sound dull and sleepy.

[paleotn]

18. Hasn't he already?

[TBF]

19. If Vought and Miller are really scared they will find

a way to stop elections. I know this will be called alarmist, and I'm writing it anyway because I sincerely believe those 2 are capable of anything.

[31st Street Bridge]

28. In the failed state that is the US ...

... they have Hitler's power. But do they have his balls to do everything they actually could get away with??

[hamsterjill]

34. It's not alarmist, and anyone who calls it that needs to just skip over posts like yours.

I'm really sick of the "everything is going to be okay after the mid-terms" posts. We don't know that because we don't want to believe he's capable of doing the things that he obviously is capable of doing. It's unimaginable. But it's happening.

So what if some here post alarming ideas. Good. Gives us a chance to have some contingency plans in place. If those are never needed, then that's even better.

But there is no one here who knows for sure what he's up to and how much he is going to be able to get away with.

[WorseDayEver]

22. Shitforbrains still doesn't think Democrats will fight back.

thinks only white supremacists have guns and guts.

as if Cheeto Pedo will actually run in front with no protection

[ihaveaquestion]

23. We knew that it would come to this eventually.

He already demonized brown people and that worked for him. It's wearing a bit thin because ICE is so hated, so he needs another scapegoat and here we are.

[FakeNoose]

46. Chump has made it clear to all minorities

... that they have nothing to gain by supporting him or voting for him. It think that point has been proven repeatedly. Chump would love nothing more than to start an old-fashioned race war, except the Democratic Party stands in the way of that ever happening.

[Buckeyeblue]

24. Their internals must look horrible for the midterms

This is the action of a cornered rat. Honestly, this would be the nuclear option. You can't walk this back. He is essentially declaring himself the dictator.

Hopefully if there are any Republicans who still care about the country, they will join their Democratic colleagues to block Trump. He can't primary them at this point.

[31st Street Bridge]

32. NO GOPricks care about the country

They no longer see nation-states. They see grift and lies and payments from Putin and billionaires and AIPAC.
Too bad the media are all dead. An unbelievable story is playing out in real time.
The US has become a failed state. And its child rapist president is about to go Reichstag Fire on us all.

[hamsterjill]

36. They also see an end in sight, and they are trying to stash as much as they can.

I truly believe that there are Republicans who see and understand what is going on. They know it's going to end one way or the other, and they are doing all they can to help themselves by whatever means they can before that happens.

[Nasruddin]

26. Wise up

Don’t be fooled by apparent low poll numbers again.
Most of the public is not tuned in, & they love him.
Even the ones who say they don’t anymore, they always come home. He always out performs.

My guess is he has got to make the election about him, he has to get on the ballot in some effective way, both for his psychotic needs and to make the magic happen,

[kentuck]

51. He is their messenger...

And he is psychotic. It is always about him.

We really need a "Have you no decency" moment.

[ProfessorGAC]

57. Unrec

A provocative post with no basis in fact.

[SuzyandPuffpuff]

30. 😴

🥱😴🥱😴🥱

[Initech]

31. He is worse than 10,000 Joseph McCarthys. Holy shit.

[FullySupportDems]

33. I wish more people would attack his constantly trying to turn us against each other

See through it already, red America! He's turning America against itself. Everyone has a label. Ask yourself why.
Dangit, he's more of a crook than Nixon!

[lpbk2713]

37. Goal: The end of the two party system in America

They have been salivating for this for decades. Once there are
only a few Dems left he will make himself Dictator for Life and
then pass it down to a family member when the time comes.

[Grim Chieftain]

39. That's rich, when he's an enemy of the world

His evil knows no bounds, no boundaries. Why can't this evil, evil cretin just die?

[DonCoquixote]

40. I know this will offend some, but it is the truth

This is not just the fact that Trump cannot accept losing 2020
this is not about the South admitting MLK beat them in the 60's

The CSA has never admitted losing the civil war, and they have been fighting it since. All they did was replace won CSA general (lee) with another m(Nathan Bedford Forest, founder of the KKK) and they have been fighting it ever since.

WE are going to need to accept that which held up the USA has some very deep foundational cracks that never got repaired, namely the things like electoral college. Of c ourse, there are two issues:

There are those who have kep the fight to enslave brown and black long before and after the civil war
Two: there are those who are comfrtbal ewith thigns as theyn are, even though they complain.

The second are the worst, because they love reapign the benefits of thew first, and will defended them, for fear a bunch of (insert minority here) will march them to the jails.

[Chi67]

42. Ok

We sensible states will be more than happy to join Canada.

[Wednesdays]

44. "His violent followers will be listening very closely."

[Fil1957]

52. I hope he goes all in on Thursday night. I hope he says he won the 2020 election. I hope he says the Democrats are

communists and enemies of America, should be outlawed and that Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff are illegitimate.

Because that will be a wake up call for the country. Even most Republicans would find those statements completely insane.

All Trump had to do this term was play golf, hold a few rallies, and leave everything else alone. If he just done that, inflation would be down, the economy would be humming, he could take the credit and his approval would be around 60%, instead of in the toilet like it is now. But like with the Iran, the reflecting pool and many other things, he created a series of disasters by becoming involved.

Like what happened in Iran and the reflecting pool, I think the crazier this speech is, the more it will backfire on him.

[betsuni]

54. It will be another Thursday in Trumpland.

[Doodley]

55. Did he ever address the nation when he started his wars? No. In his small mind, this is much bigger than that.

He will link protecting America and American freedom (Iran) with protecting America and American freedom (stopping those commie Democrats from stealing elections).

[Jack Valentino]

56. "Opening salvo" against the Constitution???

I think THAT train left the station in 2017, but even more-so in 2021....

"Communists" ?? Less and less people by the day even know what a "communist" used to be... Even TRUMP doesn't know. Some journalist with an ounce of courage should demand that he define it!

INDEED, Trump's "opening salvo" against the Constitution were the two times he took the oath of office promising to "defend" it--- and knowing that he was lying!!!!!

[Kid Berwyn]

62. National Emergency.

Martial Law.

Big Round-Up.

So, long "We the People."

That's his plan, but, boy, is he going to be surprised.

[MorbidButterflyTat]

63. And? Those things have already happened.

Are we supposed to huddle in dark corners waiting for the boogey man to come to the door? Arm ourselves so we can go out in a blaze of gunfire like some movie?

I can only imagine the anxiety in others caused by these "be afraid...be very very afraid!!" posts.

I refuse to be afraid of that sick criminal coward.

[GoodRaisin]

67. What is in his evil mind, as I have been observing for a while, he has been posturing in this direction.

Which is to declare that America is “under attack by communists” and that “he is going to save America from being taken over by the communists” (democrats).

He needs to be removed from office and placed in a strait jacket. Depending on how deeply delusional he goes on Thursday that could happen soon.