'Keep an eye on this guy. He's going to be a powerful political figure in the future, whether you like him or not."

I have-- I noticed he was against Trump from the beginning, even though he was still pretty lockstep with the idiot during the middle two years of his presidency. But he's still a neocon and aligned with that snake Bill Kristol.

SMH. Life imitates art. There's a Monty Python sketch for everything:

I read what I know refer to as "Trump's playbook" (Robert Greene) back when I was around 22. I did so in order to become more powerful and confident in my dealings with other people, especially on the internet, however when I had finished I realized I did not want to be the type of person that the book purportedly helped one become-- but, by reading, I felt I had become armed and therefore protected from those amoral people who DID try to use the method to become powerful. I quickly realized it was "The Prince" for the 21st century. At first I thought it described Obama to a T, but then I slowly came to realize that it didn't quite mesh with everything Obama represented. And when Trump came along, it was almost as if the book had miraculously become solid form, and then I suddenly realized what he was up to and the number of followers he would quickly acquire. As soon as the normally rational Antiwar.com website jumped on the Trump bandwagon I knew we were in DEEP trouble.

Trumptards have been taught to love their version of America so much that they are willing to die for a master manipulator like Trump.

But just like the average suicide bomber, they fear dying alone, so they seek to take as many innocents with them as they can.

In the end, they are, as they lived, the perpetual victim.

"Limbaugh praised the insurrectionists."

Rush sits his sweat-stained carcass in front of a stinking microphone each day thinking that he's some Minuteman standing on Lexington Green on a dewy April morning back when they still treated infected mosquito bites with mustard poultices, vinegar enemas and copious bloodletting. He's totally bought in to the ego-driven idea of himself galloping along on Paul Revere's horse with his buddy Trump in tow carrying a Culpepper flag and an armful of greasy, fast-food take-out sacks. They both have an easily manipulated cult following.

Crazy, militarized chickens coming home to roost.

One thing all those trumptards had in common-- they believed in the "big lie"-- that the election was stolen.

Seriously, they were all manipulated by a master manipulator. and now they will pay-- because that's the way America does it. America punished the entire countries of Iraq and Afghanistan for the actions of a dozen Egyptians and Saudis. The carnage is still going on 20 years later. America's best friend Israel has punished innocent Palestinians for the past 70 years.

Unfortunately, those two examples involve mostly innocent people who were simply caught up in the collective punishment from a marauding beast of a government and military apparatus. They weren't manipulated into supporting falsehoods and exaggerations like the morons at the 'Stop the Stool' rally.

I mentioned it back in 2017 when I was just a relative noob, but I'll mention it again-- if you truly want to understand not only Trump but his idiot family and zombified followers and why they cling onto him in such a way, read that bastard Robert Greene's "48 Laws of Power".

They are all f----d. And if they continue doing stupid s--t like they did last Wednesday, they'll be f----d some more.

"Tune in tomorrow for the first day of impeachment hearings. Should take about 15 minutes. Trial in the Senate tomorrow afternoon. Trump out by the weekend..."

Well, perhaps all those pro-Biden '46' hats and shirts need to be updated to 47 cuz ol' Pence might get to be '46' after all-- for 13 days!

I am just as horrified by this as I was while Antifa and others were looting, rioting, burning down businesses and tearing down statues. Those were sad days for America and today is a sad day for America."

The ultimate "bothsides" sentence of all-time.

The emergency recess was easy to predict. The Iranian false flag card didn't even need to be played.

Trumptards to America:

"It rubs the lotion on its skin or else it gets the hose again'

From a global perspective, Trump and his cult followers are America in a nutshell-- a bunch of entitled crybabies who in reality have the best of what life has to offer but they somehow think that they can just go around and automatically get more of what they want-- and when they don't they turn into sniveling little vengeful bitches. The hubris astounds...

9-11 set all this into motion, y'all'know.

If these results start to look bleak for the GOP then something desperate might happen-- perhaps tomorrow's certification will be delayed because of a "credible threat" (ahem) from "Iran" (double a-hem) targeting the US Capitol with a drone, but perhaps I am reading prematurely into breaking developments elsewhere in the mediashpere.

I always ask myself "Cui bono?" America is such a glutton for misdirections, false flags and fake news.

He does a pretty piss-poor imitation of Winston Churchill.

"If this last-ditch attempt at a coup fails you know the man will start making bombs"

Based on his crackbrained posts here, he'd probably accidentally blow himself up before he got near his intended target. I'd feel bad for his obligatory loner dogs, though.

Zed, why oh why are arguing a stench-laden sock puppet who hasn't reared his cretinous cranium since that fine week in November when Trump got his ass handed to him? It is quite obvious GTJR has been busy staying up all night in his soiled skivvies scouring Trump-cult websites collecting and memorizing a dizzying array of blockheaded talking points.

"You can do better than that.
How about "those who can, do; those who can't teach"

Because teaching is also a form of "doing" so that frequently misunderstood quote is inane.

However, there are many self-proclaimed "educators" in this country that continue having a hard time coping with the FACT that Trump lost the election fair and square. They refuse to be educated by FACTS (as in the facts that Trump had 7 million fewer votes and 60 fewer electoral votes than his opponent).

Trump got bested by a hoary eyed, run-of-the-mill Democrat who barely campaigned. How completely embarrassing, but not quite as embarrassing as the morons who continue to proclaim he won.

Educators often have a hard time getting educated.

This thread is obviously good therapy for BillJohnson, who is still trying to come to grips with the fact that his cult leader lost the 2020 presidential election fair and square.

"Qanon is a terrorist organization and anyone who identifies with it, including elected members of Congress, should be investigated and exposed for what they are"

Exposed? By whom? The problem is that no one trusts the media on both sides of the aisle. The pathetic coverage and distortions of the Iraq invasion and subsequent military escapades around the globe effectively put an end to that.

What we have is a country that has cried wolf one too many times expecting someone to come and help it now that the real wolves have been identified. That will not happen unless something fundamental changes, and in my opinion, the only way to save face is to scale back our military adventures overseas and start focusing on our inward demons.

Trump will attack Iran before 1/19. Count on it. The lamestream media is already laying down and playing dead.

Brave Sir Trumpy ran away...

Trump's "say hello to my little friend" moment looks to be coming soon;

Followed closely by his "the world is yours" swimming pool moment.

"time for history to repeat itself."

You do realize that those 14 expulsions were followed by a four year civil war that killed or maimed 5% of the American population (about 15 million in nowadays numbers).

Back then, civil war was easy-- the south was the south and the north was the north. The south didn't have pockets of heavily armed sympathizers in every northern state/county/city/town and vice-versa. The armies that represented the 2 warring factions marched around in swamps and forests until they met one another by some creek or in some cornfield and then they lined up and shot at each other in a very simple, straightforward way. The war ended when the commanding generals of the opposing factions (a teacher and his former student) met peacefully at some stately courthouse and graciously agreed to end hostilities in a rather honorable and gentlemanly fashion. The student let the teacher and his men keep their swords and horses and go back to their homes without hindrance or humiliation.

So some parts of history can and might very well repeat itself-- but other parts of history will not repeat, or may not repeat in the way that you might envision or desire.