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babylonsister

(172,527 posts)
Sun Jan 12, 2025, 09:46 AM Jan 2025

Let the Games Begin... And the Carnage

http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/jaime-o-neill/112654/let-the-games-begin-and-the-carnage

Let 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.
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Let the Games Begin... And the Carnage (Original Post) babylonsister Jan 2025 OP
Sadly, I agree with every word of this. PittBlue Jan 2025 #1
Me too! JMCKUSICK Jan 2025 #11
Me too DENVERPOPS Jan 2025 #26
Even 1% of the nukes will do the job. BidenRocks Jan 2025 #27
Hey BR DENVERPOPS Jan 2025 #31
Two mentally compromised idiots who somehow MadameButterfly Jan 2025 #30
Regretfully DENVERPOPS Jan 2025 #32
Can you say martial law? Tickle Jan 2025 #2
I will not hear any of it because I will not waste any of my time listening to it. It is the same shit he has been state of stupid Jan 2025 #3
"We're facing the kind of unstable leadership that has, historically, led to every imaginable kind of woe and trouble." CrispyQ Jan 2025 #4
Martial law with 475,000,000 privately owned firearms? Aviation Pro Jan 2025 #5
First they have to get rid of all the Beck23 Jan 2025 #7
I don't think that's what the commenter meant 4catsmom Jan 2025 #10
exactly rainin Jan 2025 #14
Excellent point Cirsium Jan 2025 #28
Sure it was. Remember, they called Obama a tyrant Dark n Stormy Knight Jan 2025 #33
The private gun owners are going to be on the side of the martial law MadameButterfly Jan 2025 #29
Egg prices will explode Beck23 Jan 2025 #6
If only that were the worst of our problems . . . NH Ethylene Jan 2025 #8
Faux News will pin the blame on Dems or DEI Blue_Tires Jan 2025 #16
I agree with all that, except for the part where smirkingchimp says "we will hear another inaugural speech." Scrivener7 Jan 2025 #9
I have a daydream BonnieJW Jan 2025 #17
I'll be doing something that day too. BobsYourUncle Jan 2025 #34
"I don't care about you, I just want your vote." Harker Jan 2025 #12
It's time to make civil disobedience great again. CaptainTruth Jan 2025 #13
I just don't know how we battle an enemy who makes up literally anything Blue_Tires Jan 2025 #15
It'll be so great when he just fucking dies already Orrex Jan 2025 #18
Live, mid-rant. Let one of his ludicrous word salads be his Last Words. ms liberty Jan 2025 #36
About that... Orrex Jan 2025 #37
We as a Nation had a choice between morning and a dark, stormy night. COL Mustard Jan 2025 #19
Look for some hope in Prairie_Seagull Jan 2025 #20
I am doing my best not to give in to despair Mountain Mule Jan 2025 #21
Yup. OldBaldy1701E Jan 2025 #25
Rec for " tangerine cry baby" NT BobsYourUncle Jan 2025 #35
"state of the country is ... much worse now" Martin Eden Jan 2025 #22
Might be saying that-that- is what drumphf will declare [not what's real re: the country under Biden.] mho electric_blue68 Jan 2025 #24
Not enough people seem to remember that Donnie Blue_Tires Jan 2025 #23

DENVERPOPS

(13,003 posts)
26. Me too
Sun Jan 12, 2025, 09:23 PM
Jan 2025

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

(2,656 posts)
27. Even 1% of the nukes will do the job.
Sun Jan 12, 2025, 10:27 PM
Jan 2025

The rest are overkill, never to be used.

Whoopie!! We're all gonna die! Country Joe and the Fish.

DENVERPOPS

(13,003 posts)
31. Hey BR
Mon Jan 13, 2025, 01:45 AM
Jan 2025

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

(3,696 posts)
30. Two mentally compromised idiots who somehow
Mon Jan 13, 2025, 01:43 AM
Jan 2025

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

(13,003 posts)
32. Regretfully
Mon Jan 13, 2025, 01:47 AM
Jan 2025

if we lose our nukes, NKorea, China, and other Tyrant nations will never get rid of them.....

 

Tickle

(4,131 posts)
2. Can you say martial law?
Sun Jan 12, 2025, 09:53 AM
Jan 2025

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

(129 posts)
3. I will not hear any of it because I will not waste any of my time listening to it. It is the same shit he has been
Sun Jan 12, 2025, 10:17 AM
Jan 2025

saying since Obama's birth certificate fourteen years ago. It is newest way to say the same old -
same old a different way.

CrispyQ

(40,562 posts)
4. "We're facing the kind of unstable leadership that has, historically, led to every imaginable kind of woe and trouble."
Sun Jan 12, 2025, 10:30 AM
Jan 2025

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

(15,168 posts)
5. Martial law with 475,000,000 privately owned firearms?
Sun Jan 12, 2025, 10:42 AM
Jan 2025

Good luck with that, President Motherfucker-Felon.

Beck23

(405 posts)
7. First they have to get rid of all the
Sun Jan 12, 2025, 11:03 AM
Jan 2025

Blacks, browns, and women in the military, between 300K and 400K people.

4catsmom

(667 posts)
10. I don't think that's what the commenter meant
Sun Jan 12, 2025, 11:25 AM
Jan 2025

I expect more gun owners in the US are more eager to shoot 'the other' than they are to prevent martial law

Cirsium

(3,269 posts)
28. Excellent point
Mon Jan 13, 2025, 01:07 AM
Jan 2025

The entire RKBA movement was never about "opposing tyranny" as they claim.

Dark n Stormy Knight

(10,479 posts)
33. Sure it was. Remember, they called Obama a tyrant
Mon Jan 13, 2025, 06:26 AM
Jan 2025

for providing healthcare. They are ready now to act against him.

MadameButterfly

(3,696 posts)
29. The private gun owners are going to be on the side of the martial law
Mon Jan 13, 2025, 01:38 AM
Jan 2025

It's the people who support democracy who don't have guns.
We wont win a gun fight.

Beck23

(405 posts)
6. Egg prices will explode
Sun Jan 12, 2025, 11:01 AM
Jan 2025

Due to the epidemic of bird flu. Thousands of chickens have had to be destroyed because of the bird flu.

 

Blue_Tires

(57,596 posts)
16. Faux News will pin the blame on Dems or DEI
Sun Jan 12, 2025, 12:00 PM
Jan 2025

And they'll have another boogeyman to chase

Scrivener7

(58,025 posts)
9. I agree with all that, except for the part where smirkingchimp says "we will hear another inaugural speech."
Sun Jan 12, 2025, 11:14 AM
Jan 2025

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

(3,072 posts)
17. I have a daydream
Sun Jan 12, 2025, 12:14 PM
Jan 2025

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.

 

Blue_Tires

(57,596 posts)
15. I just don't know how we battle an enemy who makes up literally anything
Sun Jan 12, 2025, 11:59 AM
Jan 2025

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

(66,549 posts)
18. It'll be so great when he just fucking dies already
Sun Jan 12, 2025, 12:27 PM
Jan 2025

Like, better than literally almost anything.

ms liberty

(10,893 posts)
36. Live, mid-rant. Let one of his ludicrous word salads be his Last Words.
Mon Jan 13, 2025, 09:30 AM
Jan 2025

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

(66,549 posts)
37. About that...
Mon Jan 13, 2025, 09:36 AM
Jan 2025

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

(7,909 posts)
19. We as a Nation had a choice between morning and a dark, stormy night.
Sun Jan 12, 2025, 12:29 PM
Jan 2025

More than enough of us chose the dark, stormy night. The rest of us will pay for that choice.

Mountain Mule

(1,174 posts)
21. I am doing my best not to give in to despair
Sun Jan 12, 2025, 01:10 PM
Jan 2025

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.

Martin Eden

(15,266 posts)
22. "state of the country is ... much worse now"
Sun Jan 12, 2025, 02:03 PM
Jan 2025

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

(25,429 posts)
24. Might be saying that-that- is what drumphf will declare [not what's real re: the country under Biden.] mho
Sun Jan 12, 2025, 04:29 PM
Jan 2025
 

Blue_Tires

(57,596 posts)
23. Not enough people seem to remember that Donnie
Sun Jan 12, 2025, 02:05 PM
Jan 2025

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...

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