Posted on 12/05/2023 7:52:53 AM PST by Heartlander
A new set of anti-Trump talking points has been cropping up in the corporate press recently, warning of the horrors that will come to pass if Trump wins the election. Most of it is shameless fearmongering, but there’s something else going on too.
Democrats are afraid that if Trump is elected he’ll do to them precisely what they’re currently doing to him. When Trump fearmongers in the media cry out with one voice that Trump will weaponize the Justice Department and the courts, rig our elections, and shred the Constitution, it’s pure projection. Because that’s exactly what they’re doing right now in a desperate bid to prevent Trump from winning office again.
It should go without saying that this suddenly ubiquitous media genre is extremely dangerous. As my colleague Mollie Hemingway aptly put it in response to a hysterical Trump-as-dictator piece by Robert Kagan in The Washington Post, you might as well call it “assassination prep.”
That’s according to their own logic. After all, these people claim the republic itself is at stake and that we’re about to descend into autocracy. Liz Cheney went on NBC News over the weekend to flog her new book and warn in dire tones that in a second Trump term there’ll be “no guardrails that can stop him.” She says if Trump wins he’ll become a fascist dictator, never leave office, and plunge the United States into tyranny.
She’s not alone in this absurd belief. The prospect of dictator Trump is more or less the entire theme of a new special edition of The Atlantic, ominously titled “If Trump Wins,” for which the magazine’s writers dutifully churned out two dozen essays fantasizing about the hellscape America will become if Trump is ever allowed back into the Oval Office. Nearly every facet of our national life would be left in ruins, they say, and America will be changed forever.
CNN’s Jake Tapper was apparently so scared out of his wits by these essays, he brought some of the writers and editors onto his show to talk about their prognostications of doom for the republic under Trump — including, Tapper said with a straight face, “how women could be targeted” under a Trump “retribution presidency.”
Atlantic Editor-in-Chief Jeffrey Goldberg replied to Tapper that a second-term Trump would be “bent on revenge,” because he “knows how he was thwarted” the first time. Well, yes — but not necessarily in the way Goldberg means it.
Trump was certainly thwarted the first time around — not thwarted in some dictatorial scheme but in the normal exercise of his office. A deeply corrupt media establishment — including the likes of Tapper and Goldberg — worked hand-in-glove with anti-Trump elements in the federal bureaucracy to peddle the Russia-collusion hoax in an unprecedented attempt to oust him from office or, failing that, undermine his presidency. During the 2020 election, many of these same elements succeeded in suppressing the Hunter Biden laptop story. And after Jan. 6, 2021, they have cheered on the blatant weaponization of the justice system unleashed by Biden and the Democrats.
You almost have to admire the audacity of Democrats actively doing to Trump everything they say Trump will do to them if he regains the White House. You can’t get more on-the-nose in this regard than a triple-bylined piece that ran in The New York Times on Monday warning, “Mr. Trump’s vow to use the Justice Department to wreak vengeance against his adversaries is a naked challenge to democratic values. Building on how he tried to get prosecutors to go after his enemies while in office, it would end the post-Watergate norm of investigative independence from White House political control.”
It’s almost like the Times is trolling its readers with this. Surely the reporters and editors behind this laughable piece of agitprop know that this is exactly what the Biden Justice Department and powerful Democrats nationwide are now doing to Trump. The idea that Merrick Garland is some sort of straight-shooting attorney general is a joke. Not one person in America really believes it.
So what do Democrats and their media courtesans do? They lean into the gaslighting, claiming over and over in the most outlandish terms that a second Trump term will bring about everything that’s happening now under President Biden.
Why? Because they’re desperate. They know that owing to the weakness and corruption and unpopularity of the current president, there’s a chance Trump just might win next year. That’s why Democrat attorneys general and federal prosecutors want so desperately to convict him of a crime, any crime, and why editors and writers at the Times and The Atlantic will say almost anything to scare voters with horror stories about what will happen if Trump wins.
They also crave power. For people like Cheney and Kagan and Goldberg and every other establishment player, Trump’s great crime wasn’t anything he did or said on Jan. 6, it was that he won the election in November 2016. That wasn’t supposed to happen. Democrats and the permanent regime in Washington were supposed to remain in power forever. Trump had the audacity to win, and they can’t let it happen again.
In that effort, they’re willing to do and say almost anything. Throughout Trump’s stint in office, Democrats, establishment Republicans like Cheney, and nearly every major media outlet worked overtime to trample norms, bend the rules, break various laws, and undermine a duly elected president simply because they were incensed that they weren’t in power.
Remember that when they say what Trump will do in a second term. They’re doing it right now.
And ... I hope he includes the administrative state members of the propaganda outlets, too.
bkmk
Sunk there.
What goes around comes around. They all know it, and they should expect it.
The State will not allow Trump back into the white house.
The only question is how far will they go? It is already hinted that you need to be VERY careful supporting Trump, or the consequences will be brutal.
However there is a large population with nothing left to lose.
This is why they must stop Trump at all hazards. If it looks like he will win they will do a Robert Kennedy on him. He must not serve one day as President. They will nuke a rally, shoot down his plane, poison his burger, or anything to stop him—least their own crimes be exposed. They will risk Civil War to stop him. They have no choice. I believe many would go to jail if we knew what they did—or maybe the electric chair for treason. Survival makes people desperate.
It’s time those spoiled leftist brats received a taste of their own medicine, given that their parents probably didn’t spank them enough.
Then he can go after Gyorgy Schwartz!
They will reap what they sowed someday. And may that day come soon!
We can hope.
The extreme language coming from Democrats is not politics.....it is a shocking display of the criminal mind at work.
Democrats’ incessant demeaning of conservative Americans and the labeling of their fellow citizens is calculated and well thought out.
It is intended to give Democrats the moral high ground to justify extreme action against anybody they label as evil.
When you are labeled a terrorist, everything is permissible.
When you are labeled a NAZI or Hitler, everything is permissible.
When you are labeled a white supremacist, everything is permissible.
This language substitutes a criminal mindset for politics.
It’s a declaration of war by the Democrats on their political opponents.
*Bump*
Of course the difference is that Trump’s “revenge” will be justified and lawful. It will be about setting things right, not doing evil as the Democrats did.
It may have been going on even earlier, but we’ll never know.
In March 2020 Trump closed Cheyenne Mountain which is where all of our nuclear command and control reside. He stood out front and made some remarks regarding the covid crisis and mentioned perhaps we are already at war. Cheyenne Mountain is still closed.
The Pentagon informed Biden during the transition that the nuclear stuff was none of his business. He has never received the nuclear codes.
Trump never conceded the election and left town with the nuclear football. If you are watchful at all of the events Trump attends you will from time to time glimpse the guy following him with the football.
Space Force which is aligned with Trump controls all the satellites. So in short Trump let the Biden bunch take control of some of the military administratively. That means he can let A tranny be an Admiral and pay for military transgender surgery and abortions and other things to get the public all worked up.
They cannot launch nuclear weapons. They cannot use the military to move in force against the US population or anybody else unless Trump OKs it. Try to move a tank division when your GPS won’t work and you can’t bring up your mapping app or the command comm system won’t work. Space Force controls all that stuff.
When the time comes likely in the next 3-6 months the commands will go out to the various military divisions over the central command system and everyone will do what they’re told. That’s how the military is set up.
Trump keeps saying he’s a war time President. My guess is Hes going to come back through his role as Commander in Chief and that’s how we get to military tribunals. There is no way the Deep State can be destroyed through the justice system. Its too corrupted.
Listen to what Trump says and then learn to read between the lines. He keeps telling us what’s going to happen. A lot of people just don’t listen because they really don’t want to know.
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On Day Two.
X10
They should be afraid. But not of Trump bringing fake charges against them. Rather, they should fear the truth of their nefariousness becoming public knowledge.
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