Have I seen too many bad movies or will the CIA take

[BigmanPigman]

care of dangerous situations in "top leadership" if necessary?

[Generic Brad]

1. Too many bad movies

No one is going to save us from this nightmare. And if the spooks or the military jumped in, we would be living a new nightmare.

[Cha]

2. No one is going to save

us But Ourselves!

[BigmanPigman]

3. I guess I have to hope that he strokes out then.

[BlueTsunami2018]

4. Only people who are trying to do good get "cleaned up".

Lincoln, JFK, RFK, MLK, Malcolm etc.

It’s very rare that the bad guys get it.

[BigmanPigman]

5. He probably won't stroke out than either.

He'll probably live to be 103 just to make us suffer even longer. Life really sucks sometimes.

[anarch]

10. with advances in medical science, probably 130

but only if he's not held accountable for his crimes; if it gets to the point that he's facing incarceration or otherwise about to get his just deserts, then he'll probably die before actually paying any kind of debt to society...b/c you know the man welches on his debts, and that's just how things seem to work.

[BigmanPigman]

12. Normally...but remember Bernie Madoff...

He is in the pokey for life. I hear he is running a ponsi scheme in there too...like Springtime For Hitler.

[Horse with no Name]

22. Because he stole from rich people

If he stole from poor people, he might have been elected President

[FiveGoodMen]

36. Exactly!

[PCIntern]

18. No...200 if you believe his "Doctor" in the WH

What a bunch of creeps.

[regnaD kciN]

26. I very much doubt the CIA whacked Lincoln...

[BlueTsunami2018]

35. I didn't say they did.

I said only good people get assassinated. The CIA didn’t exist in Lincoln’s time obviously but there certainly was a conspiracy.

[Squinch]

37. No, they did. They've been able to declassify the emails from the time They're proof.

[PatSeg]

6. I know

I keep picturing the military or the CIA intervening, because that is what I've seen in movies and television. It is rather scary that we don't seem to have a reasonable answer to this nightmare, unless republicans get their shit together.

[HipChick]

7. You are not the only one...

Republicans own this mess

[adVance democracy]

8. I've a suspicion there's a plan in place

In the military, at least.

[PatSeg]

11. I tend to want to believe

that behind the scenes, there are rational voices working together to prevent a major disaster, but it often looks more like Doctor Strangelove. It appears that nothing has prepared us for what is happening right now.

[adVance democracy]

13. This IS Unprecedented

But if there's one thing I've observed about us loud, fat, arrogant Americans, the one thing we excel in, light-years ahead of every other country on this planet, is innovation, of thinking on our feet. I'm confident there IS a "last resort" solution in place, and we're likely to find out in the next two weeks.



PS: I too will be supporting Biden for POTUS in '20. The stakes are too damn high for ideological "purity!"

[PatSeg]

14. Yes, the optimist in me will be hoping

for the innovation, thinking on our feet, "last resort" scenario (I remember Watergate), but meanwhile, the pragmatist in me is preparing for the worst.

We have so many great choices for the next presidential election and I agree, this is no time for ideological purity. This is about survival. What happens here could affect the entire planet. I don't think I ever appreciated what a major influence we were in the world. A delicate balance is being unraveled and there doesn't seem to be any other country capable up taking up the reins.

If Joe Biden is up for it in 2020, he could be our best choice. No time for on-the-job training.

[cwydro]

9. This is the second time I've seen you advance this "theory" here.

Just what is it that you think they might do?

[BigmanPigman]

17. I guess someone to grant my wish

and say, "Yes, they will swoop in and save the day/country". I am getting desperate for a miracle.

[cwydro]

19. So you're advocating for a government agency to illegally remove a president?

I’d consider that very unwise.

[ProudLib72]

21. Don't worry, BP

I got in trouble for advancing the theory that Germany would invade our country and put things right. The nay sayers told me that would be a declaration of war. They forgot that Russia has already invaded our country at the highest levels and has been waging war on us for the last two and a half years.

[BigmanPigman]

24. When Hillary was on her book tour (part two)

She said that what Putin did was an act of war...cyber war and attacked our country/democracy through that means. That is treason in my opinion. We were attacked and have been fighting for 2 1/2 years as you said. This is warfare in the modern tech era.

[cwydro]

34. Germany is going to invade our country?

Are you actually serious here?

[ProudLib72]

38. No more idiotic than what we have right now

And at the time, Merkel had just stood up to Donwald in a way that none of your elected officials had ever done. Don't see how that amuses you, that no one in our country is willing to do what it takes to get rid of a kakistocracy.

[Hortensis]

15. Fiction. This is real life. Roughly half of America's voters

elected Trump president, currently want him to remain in power, and are mostly still supporting all these moves. That's reality, and we shouldn't get so carried away by our own worries that we forget that.

Or forget to realize that a large majority of Americans, including Democrats, would be rightfully horrified at the idea of an intelligence service plot to overthrow democracy by assassinating the president.

[elocs]

16. Yes, nearly half of the electorate did vote for Trump

and they aren't going anywhere even if Trump does.
If Trump is removed by a coup, they will not go gently into that good night and frankly there will be millions on the Left who will have a problem with that as well because once we go down that road, where would it ever stop?
This experiment in democracy of the USA will be over.

[regnaD kciN]

28. I'm thinking that, if Trump is removed by electoral defeat...

...they STILL won’t surrender quietly — they’ll accept their leader’s claim that the results were due to “massive voter fraud,” and may well take up arms to prevent the “Democrat coup.”

I’m reminded of the pundit who said that, when it finally becomes clear that extreme conservatism won’t play in a democracy, the True Believers won’t abandon conservatism — they’ll abandon democracy.

[elocs]

29. In 2016, Trump was prepared to lose and then launch into a massive voter fraud

conspiracy which he did anyways. This would happen again if he survives to run in 2020 and he will inflame his rabid followers to violence but deny it was his fault at all.
They will view anything negative that happens to Trump as making him a martyr.

[Hortensis]

39. Oh, well. They're a minority. Societies have always

always had a duty to control the potential evils that could rise among them, as we do now. The midterms showed that majorities (the same majorities who elected Obama and Hillary plus others, including some who didn't bother to vote before) are seeing how we've been going wrong and beginning to do their duty.

[cwydro]

20. Thank you.

I won’t even write the word for the action that the OP is advocating.

It doesn’t belong on DU.

[allgood33]

23. Well, Trump is certainly a "clear and present danger."

[Ilsa]

25. My MIL says "hell yeah!"

I told we are still a little too far away from that happening, but I could be wrong.

Maybe CIA will slip something in his diet coke.

[BigmanPigman]

27. I am also hoping he will piss off Putin...

he is sneakier and more experienced at these things.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

30. I will do my part to "take care of" situations in "top leadership".

I'll vote in 2020. I have no clue who I'm voting for, but he (or she) will have a "D" next to the name.

[BigmanPigman]

31. Yep...and RESIST in the meantime.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

32. And pray for the health of RBG. nt

[sarisataka]

33. Is this really

The road you want to go down?