Ron Ecker

I know nothing about Twitter trends or the 2nd American Republic. If I gave you any help, it certainly wasn't intentional.

Thanks. I thought maybe I was just crazy. Almost four years of Trump will do that to you.

If Trump wins, why limit him to "four more years"? Are his authoritarian aspirations not crystal clear by now? Re-electing him will be virtually a mandate to scrap the Constitution. Or someone tell me I'm wrong.

I understand the illegitimacy. My point is, no one can do anything about it. Trump is out of control and no one can do anything. All things considered, I don't think this republic stands a chance. There are too many Americans today who don't even want it.

So who's going to disobey them? Who's going to do something about it? Are there going to be mass resignations at Homeland Security? Trump is in dictator training, and this is just part of laying the foundation.

SO WHAT?

Well, I think they just got General Milley fired.

Okay, thanks. Just another day in Trump's America.

Sorry but I have to ask. Is "News Break" a legitimate website or just another fake news mill? (IOW have you been taken in? I have more than once by these "news" websites.) The article is well-written, but removing mail sorting equipment in the name of efficiency just sounds too absurd even for this absurd administration.

The only thing I can think of is a physical threat. Remember the "assassination plot" (involving Lee Harvey and Osvaldo) against Jimmy Carter in L.A., which prompted the peace-loving Carter to support the Mujahadeen in Afghanistan? "Russia's Vietnam," as national security advisor Zobig Brzzzzzinski (sp) put it.

I don't understand why Trump did that. I mean, he has nothing but contempt for the intelligence people holding those records. He ignores or doesn't believe what intelligence tells him, and he and his supporters love conspiracy theories (at least if they're crazy enough). So when Trump "got rolled," in exactly what way?

I don't care how you vote, Trump is going to "win" this election one way or another.

Why should Trump want his face up on Mount Rushmore with those lesser presidents? His supporters should find an unused similar mountain, call it Mount Rushlimbaugh, and put Trump's face up there. To make it mult-faced like Rushmore, they could add the faces of Trump's two best buddies/lovers (oh those private unrecorded meetings!) Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong Un. There could also be an inscription, one of Trump's most famous quotes, like "Grab 'Em by the P" or "Disinfectant That Knocks It Out in a Minute." So much more than being just another face on Rushmore.

Donald Trump (parphrasing Nixon's "I gave them a sword and they stuck it in"): "They gave me enough rope and I hung myself."

I've found a subliminal message of major JFK import in this NBC headline: New York Attorney General Leticia James files lawsuit to dissolve NRA. Anyone else see it or am I just imagining things? https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/new-york-attorney-general-letitia-james-files-lawsuit-dissolve-nra-n1236009

Statement from the NRA (with apologies to Charlton Heston): "They'll have to pry the association out of our cold dead hands."

Well said. And why most Americans don't feel this way is sad and hard to fathom. Or maybe it's not hard to fathom in a country where people pull guns or have fist fights over simple mitigation, or get together like sardines in a can to party, during a pandemic. We live in a selfish and surprisingly ignorant society.

I don't think it's guilt. How does a narcissistic sociopath feel any guilt? If I knew one, I would ask him.

That describes Donald Trump. "It is what it is."

That's the thing. Trump is hoping that in-person voting will kill more Democrats than Republicans. He's so stupid it doesn't occur to him that they will have already voted before they die.

The election is going to be a mess, much worse than 2000 with its hanging chads etc., with a postal service that Trump has crippled if it even exists in November for lack of funds. (At this moment the Republicans are resisting assistance to the postal service, one of the things holding up the new stimulus bill. They would rather let people starve than try to have an orderly election which Democrats would win. The corruption in this administration is on a wide screen in living color.) That's on top of Trump's drumbeat of the biggest electoral fraud in history, and plenty of Americans still listen to him no matter what nonsense he utters. His former right-hand man Michael Cohen testified that there would be no peaceful transition of power and I fear that Cohen knew what he was talking about. Trump is going to do anything and everything he can to steal the election, and it helps to be in control of the executive branch and have sycophants running things like the DOJ, the Senate and the crippled postal service. I see no cause for optimism whatsoever.

All the more reason why he won't leave office. The White House is so much more comfortable than jail.

Bernie Sanders is irrelevant. Biden will win what election there is, but it won't make any difference because it was "fraud, fraud, fraud." Trump will stay unless the military removes him, and what are the chances of that? If the military tried to make a move, he would tweet them into retreat.

I can't think of any president in my lifetime before Trump that could get away with such open and across-the-board corruption. Nixon was the closest and he was forced to resign. I'm beginning to realize that Trump will probably not be leaving office but will become a dictator, because I'm beginning to realize that this sad country is simply unable to stop him.

I would call in a bomb scare to the TSBD about 12:25 on 11/22/63. That is, if the phones were working. The evacuation would at least get Oswald out of the building and mess up the plan. Then, when JFK was safely past the TSBD, I would call in a bomb scare to the Trade Mart. By that time JFK might decide they need to go somewhere that's safe. One of the Secret Service agents might suggest Jack Ruby's Carousel Club.