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ecstatic

(35,046 posts)
Wed Nov 6, 2024, 04:27 PM Nov 2024

Simple question: Are we in danger, come January 20, 2025?

Last edited Wed Nov 6, 2024, 06:45 PM - Edit history (1)

Do you believe that we will be placed in harm's way when trump takes over next year?

My answer: Yes, I think we are in danger. I don't have to rehash all the reasons why. The fact is, the danger that he poses has been evident for years, but it was made crystal clear on January 6, 2021. Yet the speed at which the FBI/DOJ moved was not in sync with the danger that we were in. It wasn't taken seriously.

Would any other terrorist leader be allowed to roam around freely for 3+ years and then run for office and win? No. Of course not.

Our nation's agencies are supposed to protect us. Why didn't that happen?

This is not justice at all. We were let down, big time. Millions of people don't see it yet, but they will, assuming they don't die first.

Clarification: By "we," I'm not referring to DU, I'm referring to the American people. All of us who live in this country.


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cilla4progress

(26,522 posts)
1. He's a fucking embarassment, as well as being a sadist and
Wed Nov 6, 2024, 04:30 PM
Nov 2024

sociopath!

Vance is gonna get him booted asap, and turn us into a fake christonationalist nation!

See: women in Iraq and Afghanistan before their "revolutions."

Wingus Dingus

(9,173 posts)
5. It would almost be hilarious to see the same
Wed Nov 6, 2024, 04:36 PM
Nov 2024

reaction to masks or distancing and quarantine measures if it came to an ebola outbreak or a similar disease. "I'm not wearing masks because they can't stop a fart!!" And then they all start bleeding through their eyeballs.

Lonestarblue

(13,439 posts)
4. It's a hard question to answer because it depends on our responses to him.
Wed Nov 6, 2024, 04:34 PM
Nov 2024

For example, when he was first elected, millions participated in the Women’s March on Washington and in cities around the country. His government will refuse to allow any organized protests in DC. Blue cities will allow them and he could very well federalize the National Guard and send them to stop the protesters. There is definitely danger there. But are we in physical danger because we post negative comments about him on DU? I think the risk is small because he is looking to make examples of the well-known people who cross him.

Retrograde

(11,412 posts)
7. The Treasury is certainly in danger
Wed Nov 6, 2024, 04:36 PM
Nov 2024

He's going to get his big military parade down Pennsylvania Avenue, and we're going to pay for it - as well as the rest of the pomp he'll insist on. Then after the party, the retributions will start.

 

Yavin4

(37,182 posts)
8. What happened during Bush II and Trump's previous presidencies?
Wed Nov 6, 2024, 04:37 PM
Nov 2024

9/11
Two wars in Iraq and Afghanistan
Hurricane Katrina
The Great Recession
Numerous other hurricanes
White supremacy marches in VA
Covid


The pattern will continue.

still-prayin4rain

(525 posts)
10. If you mean we, the American people, yes, but mostly
Wed Nov 6, 2024, 04:39 PM
Nov 2024

from the sheer incompetence and bad governing that is coming our way.

We as DU posters or merely by being democrats, very unlikely in my opinion.

Ping Tung

(4,369 posts)
11. He's like an attention seeking 3 year old with a leaky tank of gasoline and a lighter.
Wed Nov 6, 2024, 04:41 PM
Nov 2024

The whole world is in danger with that psychopath having the nuclear codes and the empathy of a hungry hyena.

ecstatic

(35,046 posts)
14. Good point. It's not just Americans
Wed Nov 6, 2024, 06:49 PM
Nov 2024

but the entire world. But oh well. People made their choices and now we'll have to live with it.

ck4829

(37,593 posts)
12. God, I hope so. I am so not looking forward to being old and destitute in a climate change dystopia.
Wed Nov 6, 2024, 04:46 PM
Nov 2024

Might as well make the decline exciting.

The Dylann Roofs are going to have to catch me if they want to shoot me in the back. And then they’re going to have to eat me.

 

alarimer

(17,146 posts)
13. Yes, he's going to put RFK, Jr in charge of HHS
Wed Nov 6, 2024, 04:55 PM
Nov 2024

And we will all die of communicable diseases.

Or adulterated food (recall the Pure Food and Drug Act which ensured food was, well, food and not sawdust or actual poison).

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