D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser fleshed out an incident stemming from the George Floyd protests in June 2020 during her interview with the Jan. 6 committee, the transcript of which was released Thursday.
Other than protests, it is not clear what could have done to stop this. Was there any legal basis for this one way or the other?
Trump wants to be a dictator. It’s just that plain and simple.
So Trump doesn’t like protests… 
, especially outside his residence?
Wanted to be a dictator, yes.
Occupied the most powerful office in the history of human civilization, yes.
And failed.
Why?
Part of the reason has to be his own laziness and ignorance. But part of the reason is also because this scenario, the President-who-would-be-King, is exactly what the original authors of our political system were afraid of, and explicitly designed safeguards to prevent it.
And y’know what? It worked. Just barely, but the damned creaky old machine actually did what it was supposed to do.
That’s worth noting. And studying. And reinforcing, because the next time the forces of darkness will be smarter about it.
We should count our lucky stars that we got a dipshit dictator wannabe instead of smart dictator wannabe.
Maybe nobody else was dumb enough to try.
It’s not his house. The White House is ours.
the next contender is named deSnivel
Just one more thing in a long list of things that that dumb sonofabitch never understood.
Trump looks at government and says ‘all of this belongs to me now’.
A grasping clown, surrounded by houris, building with their degradation his self esteem. Paraphrasing McNeice in Autumn Journal.
Trump didn’t/doesn’t understand that part. Donnie sees himself as a conqueror…well he’s a loser.
His self hatred must be powerful. Having the money to surround yourself with flatterers must inevitably lead to some dichotomy somwhere.
Basement full of dead hookers, maybe. Certainly he was an Epstein customer. These fuckers were living in the Middle Ages, mores-wise.
Yep. We (well not I) were letting him live there on our dime.
De Santis is going to shrivel up on the national stage, just like Rand Paul, and Greg Fuck from Texas.
Americans are a hopeful people. Every single soul, myself included, is or has come from someone with a powerful and hopeful vision.
Hate is too mealy for the truly proud. These guys will arrive with all the pomp of a fart. Compared to them Trump had a sense of humor.
Compare it with, say, the description in Team of Rivals of how the Lincolns ran the people’s house, with the citizenry walking in and out. Just one more reason why, in my unguarded moments during the previous ghastly misadministration, I would fantasize about the statue from the Lincoln Monument coming to life, like Pushkin’s Bronze Horseman, and chasing that guy through the streets of D.C. and into the Potomac.
Nor does the fascist majority of scotus. We, the riff-raff, shall not sully their existence with our petty expectations of 1st amendment rights.
This is a conundrum. Which would be worse - a dumb-ass like DFG, or a smart-ass like Cancun Cruz? I hope we don’t have to find out.
but it was okay to gather on the Ellipse and march to the Capital building - armed no less.
Because they weren’t there to hurt him.
I really do think that the military academy that he got banished to didn’t teach him about leadership, THANK GOD.