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http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/jaime-o-neill/112654/let-the-games-begin-and-the-carnageLet the Games Begin... And the Carnage
by Jaime O’Neill | January 12, 2025 - 6:30am
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But Trump, liar that he is, has upped his game. He lied again, even more extravagantly when he said he knew nothing about Project 2025, or when he said he would bring down prices at the grocery store or at the gas pumps pretty damn quick. He didn't try very hard to appear convincing, however. He'd learned that enough people didn't care whether he was lying or not. Repetition of the lies was useful, but selling the lies just wasn't worth the trouble. Truth just didn't matter to enough people to matter very much at all.
Still, compulsive liars lie compulsively. They are rarely conversant with reality. And so, in a few weeks, we will hear another inaugural speech from this man who has visited so much chaos and confusion on this suffering nation. We will be told what a sorry state the country is in, as we were told after the black guy left office, though it's much worse now. We will hear about deporting millions upon millions of Mexicans. We will hear saber rattling. And there will be blood that comes from that as our most unstable people have an array of new enemies pointed out to them. Greenlanders and Danes, for instance. And here at home there are unpatriotic men and women, lawyers, and prosecutors, and judges who must be locked away, or eliminated. There will be explosions, and there will mass shootings starting up where they had left off. And should an epidemic or a pandemic strike again, as it almost surely likely, we will once again be in the reckless and feckless hands of the man who oversaw so many hundreds of thousands of unnecessary deaths the last time he was in charge.
It will be a fun house where hardly anyone but the wealthy will be having much fun. And if you aren't scared now, you will be. We're facing the kind of unstable leadership that has, historically, led to every imaginable kind of woe and trouble. Economies quake, wars are engendered, goods and services fluctuate in price wildly. Musk told the truth when he said there would be suffering, and that we should believe. There will be suffering, but not for the people who will be profiting most from it.
The same monotonous lies will be repeated. New ones will be added. The lesson to Americans will be that the enemies are within and without, and they're everywhere. We must fight, fight, fight them to the tooth and to the nail or we won't have a country anymore. It's madness, and it's ours. We have politicians without honor or integrity, we've got throngs of rich people chomping at the bit to get richer. It's a perfect storm. And try as we might, most everyone knows how bad it is and how bad it will get. But power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. The election taught us all just how absolute that power has become.
The convicted felon will be taking office soon, blaming everyone but himself for anything and everything, sans facts, sans truth, and without an iota of responsibility for what might come from his reckless and ruthless lies.
And it's going to cost us more than we can imagine. One truth he did tell was that we really won't have much of a country anymore.
Do I exaggerate? We can only hope so.

PittBlue
(4,495 posts)I am terrified.
What we have here, is two geriatric tyrants, Putin and Trump who are text book cases of being extremely angry Psychopaths, Narcissists and Sadists. Who happen to have, at their fingertips, 99% of the worlds nuclear weapons, capable of the destruction of humanity on planet Earth, one thousand times over............
Either one, if ever brought down, can and will rationalize in a Nano Second,...... It I go, you all go........I'll show you. kind of thing...........
BidenRocks
(1,270 posts)The rest are overkill, never to be used.
Whoopie!! We're all gonna die! Country Joe and the Fish.
DENVERPOPS
(11,613 posts)I totally agree, when Trump fulfills Putin's Wet Dream of withdrawing all military and financial aid from Ukraine, Putin will Probably drop a tiny nuke on several cities, just to intimidate in giving him the entire Ukraine nation......
MadameButterfly
(2,736 posts)never learned about love or real happiness trying to find it by destroying everything and everybody else. And not reflective enough to notice it's not working even for them.
But these guys do somehow manage to self destruct in the long run. In the short run it could be really bad.
Yeah, if we survive this maybe then it's time to get rid of the nukes. We thought they were safe with us, we just had to get rid of them everywhere else. Guess we've learned out lesson.
DENVERPOPS
(11,613 posts)if we lose our nukes, NKorea, China, and other Tyrant nations will never get rid of them.....
Tickle
(3,827 posts)That's one way to get your dictator hat. Let's hope those things don't happen, or we could skip elections.
state of stupid
(121 posts)saying since Obama's birth certificate fourteen years ago. It is newest way to say the same old -
same old a different way.
CrispyQ
(39,383 posts)A spot on commentary. I know I'm very nervous about what's coming. Trying not to get to downhead even though I tend that way, but humanity as a collective is on a bad trajectory.
Aviation Pro
(14,154 posts)Good luck with that, President Motherfucker-Felon.
Beck23
(368 posts)Blacks, browns, and women in the military, between 300K and 400K people.
4catsmom
(623 posts)I expect more gun owners in the US are more eager to shoot 'the other' than they are to prevent martial law
Cirsium
(2,192 posts)The entire RKBA movement was never about "opposing tyranny" as they claim.
Dark n Stormy Knight
(10,290 posts)for providing healthcare. They are ready now to act against him.
MadameButterfly
(2,736 posts)It's the people who support democracy who don't have guns.
We wont win a gun fight.
Beck23
(368 posts)Due to the epidemic of bird flu. Thousands of chickens have had to be destroyed because of the bird flu.
NH Ethylene
(31,077 posts)Blue_Tires
(57,596 posts)And they'll have another boogeyman to chase
Scrivener7
(55,041 posts)As the piece accurately states, there will be nothing but lies in that speech. So I won't be listening. I will be doing something else that day. I won't watch and I won't listen. There is nothing to be gained from either.
And in the future, I'll watch the news for things he DOES. I'll ignore what he says.
BonnieJW
(2,840 posts)It's inauguration day and felon47 gets up to speak. Out of his ugly mouth comes lie after lie claiming that the outgoing administration ruined the economy. They allowed crime to go way up. They allowed illegal migrants to take over neighborhoods and steal our jobs.
Slowly, Joe and Jill stand up, turn, and walk out. Slowly, Barack and Michelle stand and follow the Bidens. The Clinton's stand and leave followed by the Bushes.
Great dream.
BobsYourUncle
(169 posts)I think I’ll have to peel an orange.
Harker
(15,977 posts)Donald J. Trumpsky.
CaptainTruth
(7,518 posts)Blue_Tires
(57,596 posts)And has it magically become the new accepted narrative... Donnie is the literal embodiment of "I REJECT YOUR SCIENCE AND FACT-BASED REALITY AND INSERT MY OWN! AND I DON'T EVEN HAVE TO SHOW ANY EVIDENCE OR PROOF; ALL I EVER NEED TO DO IS SAY IT LOUD AND OFTEN AND IT BECOMES TRUE!"
It also hasn't escaped my notice that all those white folks in the flyover states aren't complaining anymore about not affording bacon and cereal or whatever for breakfast... Funny how that works.
Orrex
(64,950 posts)Like, better than literally almost anything.
ms liberty
(10,118 posts)Although a stroke type event that left him incapacitated but fully aware and unable to make himself understood...that would be okay, too.
I knew someone who lived about 30 years like that, to me it was karma bc he beat his kids. Not sure if he hit his wife too, but the kids were bad enough. He had a terrible temper, and the dysfunction was unfortunately passed on to his children, and grandchildren.
Orrex
(64,950 posts)During the campaign, the sentiment was "I want him to live long enough to be sentenced and to see himself lose the election."
Well, here we are.
I'd be happy with him stroking out at any time. Yes, we'll get Vance, but fuck him. I'll wish for his stroke next.
COL Mustard
(7,322 posts)More than enough of us chose the dark, stormy night. The rest of us will pay for that choice.
Prairie_Seagull
(4,055 posts)possible exaggeration? This has me twisted.
Mountain Mule
(1,108 posts)But right now despair is winning. A long disabling illness and endless medical bills devastated my finances. I now get by on a small social security payment plus a housing voucher and Medicaid/Medicare. The orange horriblus and his pet boy Musk can't wait to get rid of these programs and enact tax cuts for all those deserving billionaires. This will have a horrific impact on millions of low-income and working class Americans. The second term of the tangerine cry baby will amount to a death sentence for many of us.
OldBaldy1701E
(7,563 posts)And, in my case, what they don't destroy, reality seems willing to finish off.
BobsYourUncle
(169 posts)Martin Eden
(14,084 posts)I have to disagree with that. Joe Biden has left the country in much better shape than he found it, economically better than other advanced industrial nations.
Of course there are problems, the most immediate being the ascension to power of a demented narcissist with his coterie of nutjobs and grifting billionaires.
electric_blue68
(20,621 posts)Blue_Tires
(57,596 posts)Promised "military tribunals and firing squads" for his "political enemies"... He's said that non-MAGA generals would be removed and replaced... And he's said on REPEATED OCCASIONS that he'd rule like a dictator...