(This will probably get summarily censored --for one reason or another— but I don’t really care. It’s super-important, and needs to be said.)
I spent much of the day today pondering the situation, and trying to discern what I thought was likely to happen in the next four days. (Three and a half now.)
Here’s where I ended up.
I think there’s a pretty good chance that Trump will launch some kind of a terrorist attack on America between now and Wednesday.
After all, that’s exactly what he did ten days ago --and it seems like it might have come damn close to working. Now, he’s even more desperate than he was before that.
Trump’s a moron, no doubt, but there are some limits to his stupidity. It’s possible he didn’t completely grasp just how much trouble he was in before Jan. 6, but after all the events of the last ten days, I really doubt he fails to get it now. After Jan. 6, and the reactions we’ve seen, and the info we’ve already gleaned, and the hints of what’s still to come, he HAS to understand at this point that he’s truly very likely to spend the rest of his miserable, twisted life in an actual jail-cell.
As the evidence of all of his life is that he genuinely cares about NOTHING but himself, it’s a damn good bet that his priorities have now boiled down to ONE thing in all the Universe: How the fuck do I keep myself in power --because that’s the only way I’m keeping myself out of jail.
His effort on the 6th (and everything that led up to it) was as deadly serious as it gets. He tried to get his own VP, and Dem Congressional leaders, physically torn to pieces on national TV. He wanted that to happen. He sat there chuckling happily at the TV as he watched it, and turned morose and disappointed when it --just barely— failed.
Anyone who still believes --after watching all that unfold— that there are limits to the depths of his depravity,… is just an idiot. If you think this guy would flinch at nuking a city in his own country, if someone convinced him it’d keep him in power, you’re just not paying attention.
The most incredible thing about Trump (among so many) is that he’s an open book. He tells you who he is, and what he’s gonna do, and still people refuse to believe it.
Any Max Frisch fans here? Every day with this Psycho Nazi Fuckwad (Trump) is Biedermann und Die Brandstifter. He comes into your house; you ask him what he does for a living; Oh, he says, I'm an arsonist. You chuckle, and let him be.
Later, you catch him hauling in cans of gasoline. What're you up to there? you ask him. Oh, yeah, I'm, uh, gonna burn down your house, with you in it.
You laugh again, nervously, and go about your business.
Next day you find him sprinkling the gas all around the baseboards, and you go and ask your neighbor, What do you think he's up to?
HE TOLD YOU WHAT HE'S UP TO; WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU???!!!
Trump’s been telling us for close to four years now that he’s not planning to leave at the end of his term. He long ago made it clear there is no crime he won’t commit to make that happen. He made it plain as day he planned to steal this election, and when he lost, he made it plain he’ll do anything to steal it post facto.
When all of those efforts failed, he literally incited a violent mob-terrorist attack on the nation’s Capitol, and came horribly close to a mass-murder of the people in his way.
For many months, he’s been doing things that directly hint at his ‘Break-Glass-for-Emergency’ last-ditch plan. Along with his installation of the most vile of his toadies in key positions in DOD/DOJ/Intelligence infrastructure, we’ve seen constant talk from his closest scumbag advisors of ‘Emergency Powers,’ ‘Martial Law,’ and the Insurrection Act.
Do you think that his interest in these things is academic? You think he’s interested in writing a dissertation on ‘Insurrection in a Constitutional Republic?’
He’s interested in these things because THESE THINGS ARE HIS PLAN.
They may have been his ‘last-ditch’ ‘break-glass’ plan, but guess what? That’s exactly where he IS now. The last ditch.
Everything else has failed. Donny’s going down, forever. He can’t let that happen.
Here it is, his last fucking weekend, and as far as we know, he only allowed TWO visitors: Rudy G, and Mike Lindell --who arrived with his ‘INSTANT COUP PLAN’ tucked under his arm, as he’s too fucking stupid to remember to conceal it.
You wanna know why his only two visitors on his last weekend were guys whose primary interest and function appears to be be in planning a coup? BECAUSE HE’S PLANNING A FUCKING COUP!!
You wanna know why he’s spending his last Saturday as Prez desperately trying to install his vilest scumbag toady, Michael Ellis, as top lawyer at the NSA? BECAUSE HE’S PLANNING A FUCKING COUP!!
The thing about ‘Martial Law,’ or the Insurrection Act: they only apply to situations of National Emergency. So Trump needs to create one, PDQ. He tried, awfully hard, last Wednesday, but it didn’t quite work.
You know what would’ve happened if those psycho scumbags had gotten a hair luckier, and had gotten to Mikey Pence and Nancy P and Chuck Schumer before the cops managed to whisk them away, and had murdered them all on live TV?? Trump would’ve declared a ‘National Emergency,’ given himself all kinds of ‘Emergency Powers,’ and used them to try very hard to stage a coup.
Well, it came close, but it didn’t quite work. Now he’s got three fucking days left in his life --cuz after Wednesday, he’s dead meat and he damn well knows it.
So what’s he doing this weekend? Sharing some special time with his family? Thinking about his Farewell Address? NO. He’s meeting with some scumbag with an ‘INSTANT COUP PLAN’ tucked under his arm, and another scumbag who’s supposed to be his ‘lawyer,’ but whose actual position would more accurately be described as ‘Coup-Master.’
HE’S PLANNING A FUCKING COUP!!
The ‘Plan’ sketched on the imbecile Lindell’s dirty cocktail napkin clearly referenced all the obvious touchstones we know he’s been thinking about anyway: Insurrection Act, Kash Patel, NSA.
What does he need to conceivably make any of those things happen? A National Emergency. He knows he won’t get away with just declaring one out of nowhere, so he’s got to create one.
He’s got three days.
A larger-scale assault, like we had on 1/6, is pretty unlikely to happen in DC on or before inauguration Wednesday, but I think there's a pretty good chance of some kind of terrorist attack of a more traditional kind. (The kind that can be carried out by one guy, or a small group of guys who know what they're doing.)
It won't come from Al Qaeda, or Iran, or Bogeymen from Neptune; it'll come from some agent of Trump, or someone acting on his behalf,... and the point of it will primarily be to create chaos, and provide an excuse for him to try and invoke the Insurrection Act/declare 'Martial Law' of some kind/ proclaim a 'National Emergency,' etc.
I don't claim to know what that might be. It could probably be just about anything, or maybe a few things at once. If I had to guess, I'd say the most likely thing is probably some kind of cyber-attack, or infrastructure attack, or some combo of the two.
They'll have some faked-up bullshit in place ahead of time, to try and blame it on 'Antifa,' or Iran, or China --or Antifa working with Iran or China. (Probably try to connect the Bidens to it, too.)
I doubt they think they'd have to kill 100,000 people or something to achieve their goal. A major internet outage, or a big-scale power failure, or a small-scale 'dirty-bomb' scare, or maybe an assassination or two, could probably suffice.
But he’s gonna try something. In his warped and tiny mind, he feels he has no choice. (And he could not possibly care less about the consequences.)
Whatever they try, it’s gonna have multiple steps, and each will probably have to go just right for it to work (maybe they’ll have a Plan B for a couple of the pieces), and that’s unlikely to happen.
He'll probably fail. But do I know that for sure? NO. Do I know, for sure, that he doesn't have a loyal scumbag in charge of one of these National Guard battalions guarding the Capitol? Or that he'll fail in whatever the fuck he's desperately trying to pull at DOD and the NSA right now? NO.
I'd hope that the people who matter are doing every Goddamn thing in the world to make sure none of Trump's Nazi Psycho plan succeeds, but am I sure they are,... or are most of them just watching --assuming it'll probably all be fine? (Assuming that the whole idea is, ya know, too ridiculous to take seriously.)
(Ya know, like it was ridiculous to think he'd actually put children in cages, or actually enlist the help of the Russian Mafia to steal an election, or actually prod his thugs to hack to death his own Vice President, on national TV. Ridiculous, right?)
I hope to God I'm horribly wrong about this, and he doesn’t even have the will left to get anything going. Or even if I'm right, that they’ll fail spectacularly, and it never even gets off the ground.
But with Trump's finger still on the button, and this stupid fucking disgrace of a country in the state it's in right now,... probably just about anything could happen.
So yeah, after reading and thinking about if for much of today, I'm now officially really fucking scared about the next few days.
And I’m especially scared that --once again— people will refuse to take it seriously enough, and we might possibly walk into the biggest catastrophe yet.
I wish I wasn't, but there it is.
(Now I’ll look forward to the usual DK response: 77 imbecilic, totally non-responsive insults,… and maybe a handful of actual thoughtful comments.)