…I expect we will have another bloodbath.

We're going to have bloodbaths between now and 2028, even if they are somewhere beside the U.S. Capitol. I don't see any better days ahead for people on American soil.

Despite the quiet surrender of most Democrats in the Congress, Trump will have his Night of the Long Knives. It might not be abductions and executions, as it was when Hitler consolidated power, but it will come. With luck it will just be in the form of using the “justice” system to meet out punishment. You know, charge everybody with everything. Use the courts to tie up and bankrupt Schiff, Pelosi, and every other outspoken Dem.

It’s said that a good prosecutor can get a grand jury to indict a ham sandwich (Merrick Garland not withstanding). I look for spurious felony charges that will allow the Rethugs to arrest and arraign their enemies. I wonder how many House Dems and other prominent Democrats see jail time in their futures? You can be sure they won’t get the kid glove treatment Trump got when he was arrested and mug shorted.

Yes, the Night of the Long Knives is coming. We just don’t know exactly what it will look like yet.

...is that the Trump DoJ will, as promised, "investigate" the 2020 election and, without evidence, declare that Trump clearly won that election. That will be the leadoff to the arrests and imprisonment on treason charges of everyone from Biden and Harris to every Democratic governor, secretary of state, county executive, mayor, and elections supervisor in states won by Democrats. Since there will be no evidence whatsoever to sustain those charges, they'll make sure to get the cases before MAGA judges who will deny bail on the grounds of them all being flight risks, and order them held until trials that will never take place. Eventually, they'll all die in prison.

This is exactly what I’ve been thinking. Well said.

Rulers love free and fair elections. For instance, in Syria in 2021, Bashar al-Assad won with 95% of the vote.
There were very few improper votes (not enough to swing the result, anyway).

We’ll have a chance to make gains in the House and Senate, and change the calculus. Might even have some bright spots at the state and municipal level, too.

I’d rather look on the bright side. Remember: things CHANGE.

And we start building that change RIGHT NOW!!!

That's what happens when one side is brainwashed by propaganda for 50+ years and thinks they are entitled to absolute power.

That Trump blocked the National Guard from coming in to help and Capitol security was told not to fire their guns, among other things. Biden would have ensured protection was in place.

Surely more boots on the ground would have put down the insurrection very swiftly.

Maybe the biggest reason it got so bad is that the Commander-in-chief refused to act as a CIC

driver and security detail to take him to the Capitol that day.

He expected and knew there would be armed people in the crowds. He knew because he'd been told they were there by the coup facilitators in the "war room". He knew because that is what he'd told them to do at the rally and online, what his warm up speakers had told them to do and his mouthpieces on FOX and the other stations had said.. It was what the MAGA faithful been told to do every day since before the election he lost.

another when you face lots of trained soldiers who face you with bayonets and know how to use them to inflict pain.

Republicans know how to win. They win, or they overturn the results if they don't and take office by storm. They're immune.

Did they take office by storm in 2021? Nope.

They are immune. And in power.

And rules don't matter if a bully can just threaten and carry out violence against everyone else and intimidate them into submission.

The current state of justice and equality in this country at the moment make it very difficult to keep these things in sight. Especially when the ones who are being unjust and inequitable are the ones who are in power and were put there by the voters.

It is as if there are two justice systems. And, that it is by design. And that it will never change because the powers that be won't ever let it.

Honestly, doing a Kent State on their ignorant, toothless asses wouldn't disturb my sleep one bit.

Duh! Democrats are a lot of things but stupid ain't one of them. I would rather had lost 'blood' than have him in the Whitehouse.

sage

It would have been handled correctly and the goons would not have been coddled. I also imagine some pro-democracy folks would have shown up to counter them.

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The Biden Administration would have had it under control. And if you do't believe that, then why are you here?

We keep playing footsie with them and here we are.

Another case of shoulda, woulda, coulda in America which has obviously turned us in a bad way.

They are not alarmists so this is disturbing to hear from them. I guess I'm living in my nice New Haven bubble and they are getting a bad vibe down in D.C.

and they have to win it just to end this nightmare's nightmare, and take us back to the regular nightmare

We would have been ready for it this time.

how many people were afraid to vote for her

So be it. It would have been a maga bloodbath though