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Any attack now can be safely assumed to be engineered by Trump and his minions. That should be the automatic default presumption.

Retarget a dozen Minuteman missiles and within 6 minutes, Denver, Kansas City, Minneapolis, OKC, Dallas, Phoenix, St. Louis and SLC are all cinders. Communications over half the continent wiped out by EMP.

Where did the nukes come from? We'll only have the word of Donald Trump.

 

Jesus, this is the plot of the TV show Jericho in real life.

 

"The Obama administration at times seemed almost paralyzed about how to respond to Russia’s unprecedented attack on the U.S. election system, even as officials watched it unfold. It wasn’t until weeks after the election that the Obama administration sought to punish Russia.

The Obama team was similarly slow in its deliberations over whether and how to confront the fledgling Trump administration over what it had uncovered in Flynn’s conversations with Kislyak."

Flynn’s swift downfall: From a phone call in the Dominican Republic to a forced resignation at the White House

Obama, the most educated, intelligent, charismatic, inspiring, handsome, scandal free president of all time. Too bad he never grew a pair.

 

...And, the meanypants meanies in the media being mean to him.

Don't underestimate Trump's support. You even see it here - there are people who will defend anything he says or does simply because he's Trump, or because he's a "Republican." It doesn't need to be grounded in reality, and it's actually preferable sometimes that it's completely made up. They will defend everything up to and including possible treason or nuclear war.

It was never about "truth," or "policy," or "governing," or "American values," or "the economy."

It was about a large group of people who didn't want to be bothered with basic human decency anymore.

And if and when Trump falls, it won't be because they came around to the fact that he's a laughingstock. He'll be a martyr to them, and embolden them even more.

 

I asked a Trump supporter I know if she wasn't rattled by the reports from Mar-A-Lago and the revelations about Flynn.

Her responses: "Hospitality is his second nature." and "He's a loyal friend. In fact, he's too loyal."

A decade or two from now he'll be canonized the same way many look upon the shade of St. Ronnie.

Edited to add: I'm not wishing bad fortune on him by bringing this up. Around here, nostalgia for Reagan started popping up sometime late in Clinton's first term. So yeah, I can see the same thing happening again ten years from now.

 

I can't keep up with this thread. Anyone hearing the BHO counter-government effort to undermine Trump?

I'm convinced a civil war will break out, or at least some wild-assed white unrest, if Trump were impeached or taken out.

I thought my need to buy ammo was over. Better keep stocking up to defend ourselves.

Does anyone else have non perishable food supplies and a bug out kit? And keep your car gassed up!

I'm feeling all kind of small potatoey this morning.

 

I've been wondering if I need to do that. Nashville is a terrible place to be for a disaster. People drain the gas pumps dry at the whisper of a shortage and some suburbs were physically cut off from the main metro area the last time we had floods. Actually, moving sounds pretty good right now.

 

In a country of 320 million people, all opinions have lots of vocal supporters. Nobody wants to admit to themselves they were duped by a con artist. Nobody ever admits to themselves they're a bigot. Sure a lot of Trump supporters will stay with him. Hell, half of all Republicans polled were with Nixon the week before he resigned. The thing is, that was like 25 percent of the country. There were a significant percentage of Trump's supporters who admitted they were taking a flyer due to a vague desire for change or a real desire to see improvement in their specific communities. It's the Trump voters you don't hear from now that ought to worry the Republicans.

 

I don't think many of them were duped or conned. They wanted Anyone But Her and boy did they get their wish. Now their behavior is little more than convincing others (and themselves) that there was some deeper thinking behind their selection and that they chose wisely.

 

Roy Blunt, whose main attribute to Missouri voters is being the incumbent, says it's time for an investigation: GOP senator calls for exhaustive investigation into Trump-Russia connections

 

At some point, you got a hard-on about Noah, and it's not necessarily warranted. Credit the man for fighting the good fight, if nothing else.

And frankly, he does a kick-ass stand-up when he's not doing the show.