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Gaugamela

(3,071 posts)
Wed Oct 22, 2025, 06:40 PM Oct 22

It's ALL revenge -- everything since he lost in 2020.

Stealing the classified documents, J/6, likely stealing the 2024 election, the tariffs, destroying the trust of our allies, destroying our international trade relations, destroying FEMA, decimating the CDC and other agencies, demolishing the White House, the vindictive prosecutions, the ICE raids, murdering foreign citizens in boats . . .

It's all revenge for being rejected in 2020, being impeached twice, the J/6 committee, being indicted and prosecuted. All his empty rhetoric and sweet talk about how wonderful it's all going to be is just the putrid sarcasm of a James Bond villain in a cheap suit.

It wouldn't surprise me if the demolished East Wing just sits there for years while he pockets the donations of his rich suck-ups. Soon he'll be starting wars.

The people who could stop him are all too craven to do anything. Congressional Republicans, the MAGA justices on the Supreme Court, his own cabinet. They are all chickenshit to the core, every last one of them, and so they just go along and keep their heads down.

And the whole world sits and watches, hoping we'll all wake up from this nightmare.

The only real hope we might have is massive demonstrations on a weekly basis and a general strike. We need to squeeze corporate balls so hard they start to sit up and notice. We need to make them more afraid of us than the freak show in the White House. We need to start talking loudly about the end of capitalism and a new beginning. Make them realize that they can either clean up their mess, or they'll be hoeing beans on the collective -- if they're lucky and we feel charitable.

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It's ALL revenge -- everything since he lost in 2020. (Original Post) Gaugamela Oct 22 OP
DURec leftstreet Oct 22 #1
It wouldn't shock me durablend Oct 22 #2
Bingo n/t Timewas Oct 22 #3
This goes back long before his loss in 2020. debsy Oct 22 #4
K&R. Bingo. c-rational Oct 22 #5
The most powerful office in the world is run by a highly disordered, limited, small man. This is the biggest wiggs Oct 22 #6
Trump feels inadequate. Aussie105 Oct 22 #7

leftstreet

(37,856 posts)
1. DURec
Wed Oct 22, 2025, 06:46 PM
Oct 22

This makes total sense.

He has two modes: claiming to be a victim, or victimizing someone else

durablend

(8,672 posts)
2. It wouldn't shock me
Wed Oct 22, 2025, 07:12 PM
Oct 22

If he comes out and says "If Democrats don't come crawling to me on their hands and knees maybe I'll just demolish the rest of it. Be a shame if that happened."

debsy

(698 posts)
4. This goes back long before his loss in 2020.
Wed Oct 22, 2025, 08:46 PM
Oct 22

It goes back at least to the White House correspondents dinner when Obama roasted him. It might go back farther than that but that particular moment made his blood boil.

wiggs

(8,535 posts)
6. The most powerful office in the world is run by a highly disordered, limited, small man. This is the biggest
Wed Oct 22, 2025, 09:44 PM
Oct 22

and only story that should be in MSM news.

Aussie105

(7,346 posts)
7. Trump feels inadequate.
Wed Oct 22, 2025, 09:46 PM
Oct 22

He has felt inadequate all his life. Was told, by many people. Including his father.

Never learnt to ignore the feeling, never learnt to adjust to being not-perfect, criticised, told he was wrong, told he was an incomplete human being with erroneous thought processes.

So he has gone for the nuclear option, to prove everyone in the country and the country itself, is inadequate, less adequate than he is.
Working on that, he is - and he will continue to do so until that deep dark hole in his soul is filled to his satisfaction.
It never will.

Someone, or something, should stop him. Soon.

History books will speak poorly of him, and learned people will write books about his psychopathy, and why the country never stood up to him.



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