My prediction if Trump loses, he'll do everything he can to start a revolution. And Trump will have the guns out for everyone on his enemies list.

President Harris will have to call for martial law to stop the destruction.

LAMP

FTA

"The chief justice is portrayed by some as a tragic figure, powerless to save his court from itself."

Not any more. He bent the knee. It's a "supreme" court now in name only.

I also remember when Roberts said that all of the Judges voted independently and that he had no influence over their decisions.

Turns out, Roberts was lying.

Turns out, the conservatives were playing Follow the Leader on Trump's immunity case.

It's finally been revealed. Roberts, who once vowed that he would not let HIS Supreme Court be used as a political football, did in fact, become the skunk behind the stink that's permeated the court which is now (laughingly) still called "supreme."

What surprises me is that Roberts would slip up and put it in writing.

It's one poll. Which Trump won't believe because his internal pollsters are telling him that he is leading in every state by margins that the world has never seen.

Trump is another one who won't believe his lying eyes.

I doubt if Trump will skip the country. He might take an extended vacation in a country that does not have an extradition treaty. Or, let's don't forget that Trump Tower his son-in-law is building in Saudi Arabia. The Saudis have every reason to shelter Trump to protect their investment.

Plus, Trump might get a good price for Melania.

HUGH

"He will forever be the face of that group, [Republican Party] the face of greed and hate and division."

Agreed that Trump will be remembered as the GOP's battering ram, chosen in 2016 to launch a plan, many years in the making, to change America's Democratic Republic to an authoritarian dictatorship, for obvious reasons. The fact that Trump wasn't smart enough to stick to the plan and, in fact, only proved himself to be an egotistical screwup with a bent to the maniacal, was little more than a speed bump to the goals of the GOP.

I'm sure the GOP had some regrets by 2020. How could they not? Trump's defeat made it impossible for them to keep their promises to Vladimir Putin and Putin's own plans to restore the USSR to its former glory by way of using Ukraine as a military launching pad.

How the GOP convinced Vladimir Putin that they had a plan to stop the certification of Joe Biden is a bit of a mystery. I really thought Mr. Putin was smarter than that. But such was not the case. He launched an invasion into Ukraine on February 21, 2021, confident that the U.S.A. and the new GOP overlords would soon be rushing to his side.

I needn't go on. We all watched the colossal failure of that plan as it played itself out on TV in real time. It was the worst day imaginable in the heartland of the GOP.

And now here we are in 2024 . . . and daja vu all over again. The "plan" is different, but the goals haven't changed. Russia still needs help, and the GOP still wants an autocracy.

I have faith that America will right its own Ship if State. It always has in the past. I just wish it wouldn't wait until the last minute to do it.

DONNER @ #7

Fast forward . . .

So will the 70+ appellate judges that Trump will be appointing due to empty seats and mandatory age retirements during a Trump administration.

Can you imagine the havoc Trump could raise with that many new appellate judges on the bench who owe their jobs to him.

That little factoid was brought up by Larence O'Donnell tonight on MSNBC

I'm wondering what would happen if a pregnant woman, under the same circumstances, was rushed to a hospital where her husband (or her father) was the ER doctor.

Would he let his wife (or daughter) die?

She got an advance copy of the questions.
Her earrings were receivers, and somebody was telling her what to say.
ABC never fact checked her.
ABC hosts were biased against him.
Harris was being mean to him.
The guy who did his makeup sprayed stuff in his ears.
Melania called and said she missed him. Please come home.
His cocaine supplier showed up late.
The debate was past his bedtime.

HUGH

"Fascism cannot come to power and stay in power without the utter corruption of the legal system, as both Germany showed and Russia shows."

Which is exactly why the U.S. Supreme Court is the disease (and not the symptom).

They are Trump's Ace up his sleeve.

SPEAKS

"He's trying to get one of his terrorist cult members to attack Swift or her fans, in order to terrify other liberal celebrities into silence."

Trump does love his dog whistles.

But Taylor Swift? That might be a boondoggle.

His cultists probably have wet dreams about her and would hate themself for harming a hair on her head.

The only mission ultra-Christins have had for many years and by way of many Presidents was to get rid of Roe V Wade. Trump accomplished that goal for them. It is their belief that God will forgive him for all the other transgressions, regardless how religiously egregious, he committed enroute to, and beyond, that goal.

And no amount of evidence to the contrary, in spite of what the bible says about beware of false prophets, is going to change their minds. The ultras truly believe that Trump is the living embodiment of God.

And God in Heaven is going to throw a big party when they all die and get there.

Not to worry, Christians among us.

When Trump becomes Dictator, the new Trumpian Constitution will make the Ten Commandments legally unconstitutional and ancient ----------.

QCP

You're right!

Unless there was a court order to cough up the money within a certain period of time, Mr. Grant, the songwriter, will have nothing but a piece of paper to hang on his wall.

Poor Judge Koeltl will now have to worry about death threats and fire bombs.

Now, now E1G1

It's been many years since a woman has looked at Trump with such adoring eyes. (Certainly not his wife). Loomer would pull a one-nighter with him at a No-Tell Motel if it wasn't for the Secret Service.

OTOH, what happens on the 757 stays on the 757.

HUGH

"Hey genius, someone took a shot at you a few weeks ago,"

You don't suppose that was a set up, do you? Trump's Dr. Ronnie claimed that Trump had a 2cm hole in his ear. A 2cm hole is about the same size as a penny. That's not something that disappears overnight. In fact, here's no evidence that he even got nicked.

Trump brought it on himself. He jumped the gun and published a lot of AI generated photos of himself and Swift together, claiming that he had her endorsement.

Fake photos is not how you win an endorsement. All it did was force her to respond with her REAL endorsement . . . which made him look like a fool. (granted, it was a short trip).

Trump has been his own worst enemy all his life. He's a self-defeater. It's no surprise that he'd take a nasty swipe at the most popular entertainer in the United States. Trump is so self-defeating that sometimes I think it's just a dare to prove everybody is wrong.

LAMP

"What information would you want to feed fmr Pres Trump so that you could keep your job?"

Isn't it obvious?

Create a diversion . . . like Hattians eating cats and dogs in Springfield, Ohio. The media and the public have been jumping all over that story since the debate. We're all being HAD!

Then the lie about visiting Springfield to keep the story front and center. Of course, the story is absurd. But Trump is getting all kinds of free publicity and loving every minute of it.

Diversions work!

What might shed some light on obvious bias of the U.S. Supreme Court is if the DOJ in a Harris administration launched an immediate investigation to provide concrete evidence of grifting and tax evasion among the Trump appointed justices ~ with an eye toward recommending impeachments to the House of Representatives and a guilty verdict from the Senate.

Of course, that would only work if Democrats have control of the House and the Senate. But that would be up to us, the voters, wouldn't it? If we fail in that respect, then we deserve what we get ~ a Supreme Court that will always give Trump a pass no matter how many trials find him guilty.

In a Harris administration, with control of both the House and Senate, it would be interesting to see how many justices opt to retire rather than face impeachment ~ a move that would put Trump and the GOP's plan for an autocracy, out of business, permanently.

I'm just saying. It's our responsibility to give President Harris the tools she needs to put an end to this bias and stop the Republicans from using our warped system of justice against us because
. . . justice delayed is justice denied.

And the GOP isn't going to stop just because Trump loses an election.

Let's keep in mind that this was a fake story told by a fake Vice Presidental candidate and exacerbated again by a fake former president, to draw the media's attention away from a televised debate performance that blew the cover on Trump's fake strongman image.

If you'll notice, the strategy is working. The media's attention has been drawn away from the disaster of Trump's performance ~ not by the media but by his political opponent that he called stupid.

Now, Trump is keeping the media attention alive, again, with another fake announcement about visiting Springfield.

And we're helping! Trump's not going to Springfield. He's just getting some free publicity.

ZED

Lindsey does seem to be a bit of a weather vane. Sometimes he's pointing right and sometimes he's pointing left. Down here in horse country call that straddling the middle of the fence. And sometimes that's how you get splinters.

Let's reverse Lindsey Graham's comment and say that conspiracy theorists shouldn't be hanging around with Trump. They keep getting arrested. 1,300 of J-6er true believers by current court records.

And then there's all those 18 defendants in Georgia and another bunch in Arizona. And I've lost count of how many fake electors in other states who are facing jail terms. Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania, etc.

I don't know how many more corks Trump can pop to win in 2024. To all appearances, he seems to be running low on money, too.

I keep thinking of that old song:

The ol' gray mare she ain't what she used to be
Ain't what she used to be
Ain't what she used to be

The ol' gray mare she ain't what she used to be
Many long years ago.

CBOB

The sane-washers have a vested personal interest in Trump's success. If he fails, so do they.

Smart people would be headed for the nearest exit ramp. But then, they've hooked their future to Trump's star so how smart can they be?

Trump is also consumed by a fear of failure and therefore, refuses to acknowledge its existence in himself. Which goes hand-in-hand with the extreme measures he takes to protect his delusion of superiority.

Need we be reminded that Trump's fear of failure to recognize a pandemic has already caused the Covid-19 death of millions of people here in the United States. Too bad we can't ask THEM if they're better off today than they were four years ago.

Trump hasn't been banging on all eight cylinders for many years and is probably incurable at his advanced age.

CORKY

"Ginni Thomas should be next."

If only! But John Eastman hasn't thrown her under the us yet. That will have to wait for the January 6 D.C. trial.

We might get a twofer. Ginni AND Clarence