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applegrove

(118,915 posts)
Tue Jan 9, 2024, 04:53 PM Jan 2024

Trump Warns of 'Bedlam' If He Loses Election

Trump Warns of ‘Bedlam’ If He Loses Election

January 9, 2024 at 3:05 pm EST By Taegan Goddard 127 Comments

https://politicalwire.com/2024/01/09/trump-warns-of-bedlam-if-he-loses-election/

"SNIP.........

“Donald Trump on Tuesday threatened unrest if the criminal charges against him cause him to lose the 2024 election,” the Washington Post reports.

“Speaking to reporters after an appeals court hearing in which Trump’s lawyers said he should be immune from prosecution for trying to overturn the 2020 election, Trump claimed without evidence that he was being prosecuted because of polls showing him leading President Biden. He warned that if the charges succeed in damaging his candidacy, the result would be ‘bedlam.’”

.........SNIP"

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Trump Warns of 'Bedlam' If He Loses Election (Original Post) applegrove Jan 2024 OP
I think we'll have bedlam either way gratuitous Jan 2024 #1
Agreed.................................... Lovie777 Jan 2024 #3
Yes, that would be "good" bedlam. nt JustABozoOnThisBus Jan 2024 #18
Bring. It. On. JadedButHopeful Jan 2024 #49
My only response to Pol Potbelly is, "Eat shit, motherfucker!" SoFlaBro Jan 2024 #81
He needs to be in jail redqueen Jan 2024 #2
Oh shut up, Donald. CrispyQ Jan 2024 #4
Would be the worst disaster ever - the end of the universe as we know it. dalton99a Jan 2024 #5
I'm tired of being threatened EndlessWire Jan 2024 #6
Agree MorbidButterflyTat Jan 2024 #21
He's threatening America now Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jan 2024 #7
And? TwilightZone Jan 2024 #8
Bring it... Ohio Joe Jan 2024 #9
I hate nazis I_UndergroundPanther Jan 2024 #61
If he try's that again in DC this administration will be more than ready for these Nazi freaks FloridaBlues Jan 2024 #91
Good. See what you can do fuck face. I want a lot of bedlam when you lose. More of your idiots can Autumn Jan 2024 #10
Here he goes, threatening another insurrection, if he loses again. Which, IMHO, he will lose again, and lose SWBTATTReg Jan 2024 #11
Exactly Farmer-Rick Jan 2024 #30
OMG, will a jail accept the smell of Trump. A lot of inmates are going to be gagging non-stop. RKP5637 Jan 2024 #12
He is not going to lose because of the criminal charges. LiberalFighter Jan 2024 #13
Is Melania being replaced? GreenWave Jan 2024 #14
More projection. His personal life will be bedlam when he loses again. tinrobot Jan 2024 #15
Hey MF.. we've seen your Domestic Terrorism.. Cha Jan 2024 #16
I dare him to define that word without looking up its origin and true meaning. I triple dog dare him. PCIntern Jan 2024 #17
Oh no!! nocoincidences Jan 2024 #20
British mental hospital. The Wizard Jan 2024 #86
If his militia kicks up a ruckus BlueIdaho Jan 2024 #19
His militia won't have tanks. Aristus Jan 2024 #24
Wish I could drive a tank.. I_UndergroundPanther Jan 2024 #63
Most incredible feeling in the world. Aristus Jan 2024 #72
Well, in Orlando FL Conjuay Jan 2024 #73
it will be worse than "bedlam" if he wins. honest.abe Jan 2024 #22
Bethlehem Royal Hospital eShirl Jan 2024 #23
He's threatened this before. BadgerMom Jan 2024 #25
Worthless loser! bluestarone Jan 2024 #26
I would exempt Mary Trump I_UndergroundPanther Jan 2024 #64
I do agree here. 100% bluestarone Jan 2024 #76
Bedlam Turbineguy Jan 2024 #27
Oh, bring it, shithead. Habibi Jan 2024 #28
Hey, fat man! The majority of your violent fanboys is in prison Warpy Jan 2024 #29
I wondered I_UndergroundPanther Jan 2024 #68
You got farther than I did Warpy Jan 2024 #90
if any touch me in an innapropriate way, good luck with that. AllaN01Bear Jan 2024 #31
Crazy Jean Genie Jan 2024 #32
He keeps predicting this, and it doesn't happen. Sky Jewels Jan 2024 #33
Actually, his threats have led to murder & mayhem all along. Currently all kinds of public servants are Hekate Jan 2024 #84
if the supreme's... myohmy2 Jan 2024 #34
If by "bedlam" he means dancing in the streets, singing, celebrations and fireworks (though I hate fireworks) japple Jan 2024 #35
Indeed...bring it! PortTack Jan 2024 #42
Fuck off, Captain Pantload Blue Owl Jan 2024 #36
Bring it on, loser. Mr.Bill Jan 2024 #37
"Trump claimed without evidence" hibbing Jan 2024 #38
He is a sad, sick human being who clearly stands only for himself and is driven by his own PatrickforB Jan 2024 #39
Ya he told his cult to show up at his indictments..even in his home turf..FL only a few stragglers showed up PortTack Jan 2024 #40
Loser also thought he'd be reinstated after 2020 malaise Jan 2024 #41
He's missing the cookie from his happy meal. twodogsbarking Jan 2024 #43
Even bedlam... GiqueCee Jan 2024 #44
yeah, bring it on, you orange pustule. lastlib Jan 2024 #45
There will certainly be bedlam in MAGAmurica Shermann Jan 2024 #46
With every speech, Joe needs to keep calling Dipshit..."LOSER" ProudMNDemocrat Jan 2024 #47
Don't make me get out my pussy hat...this pussy has claws and teeth GuppyGal Jan 2024 #48
This Panther I_UndergroundPanther Jan 2024 #69
He said that last time. This time his crews are gone, not standing back or standing by. ancianita Jan 2024 #50
Issuing terroristic threats is The Wizard Jan 2024 #51
Why the Helll 3auld6phart Jan 2024 #52
nah. His star is fading WhiteTara Jan 2024 #53
I am sick of his shit liberal N proud Jan 2024 #54
This is desperation talking, y'all. ShazzieB Jan 2024 #55
Keep yappin', Donny. Jack Smith can always add more charges. tanyev Jan 2024 #56
so much losing, so little time. (fuck off, LOSER!) nt orleans Jan 2024 #57
More "Coded" language from the mob boss. Just like Michael Cohen described years ago. It is working. n/t Evolve Dammit Jan 2024 #58
You're Under Constant Active Surveillance Now, Asshole Beetwasher. Jan 2024 #59
Yeah, unlike you, Conjuay Jan 2024 #80
Good I'm sure that will help your sentance after you're convicted IbogaProject Jan 2024 #60
In other words COL Mustard Jan 2024 #62
He's inciting them again. Baitball Blogger Jan 2024 #65
Great!! More MAGAt's going to prison. aeromanKC Jan 2024 #66
Bedlam is where Trump belongs. LudwigPastorius Jan 2024 #67
He is not mentally ill I_UndergroundPanther Jan 2024 #70
I'll go out on a limb here peggysue2 Jan 2024 #71
WaPo headline editors stike again, watering down and normalizing Trump. JHB Jan 2024 #74
He doesn't know what the word bedlam means, no way. betsuni Jan 2024 #75
Deja vu. greatauntoftriplets Jan 2024 #77
Shades of 2020, he's figured out he is gonna lose and already setting up the reason Attilatheblond Jan 2024 #78
Isnt Bedlam an area in Queens? getagrip_already Jan 2024 #79
No, you might be thinking of Flushing. Conjuay Jan 2024 #82
Bedlam is his basic MO. Therefore, I wish everybody in the legal system & law enforcement ... Hekate Jan 2024 #83
yep, its a cult, and he is the cult's king. CarolinaNC Jan 2024 #85
I think the word he was looking for was "pandemonium" Mossfern Jan 2024 #87
It will be the same either way nt doc03 Jan 2024 #88
Bedlam Kennah Jan 2024 #89
Bedlam in his belfry maybe bucolic_frolic Jan 2024 #92

gratuitous

(82,849 posts)
1. I think we'll have bedlam either way
Tue Jan 9, 2024, 04:54 PM
Jan 2024

But it will be a lot more endurable when that spoiled brat loses again.

Lovie777

(12,393 posts)
3. Agreed....................................
Tue Jan 9, 2024, 04:57 PM
Jan 2024

lose - bedlam

win - bedlam

in-between - bedlam

I'll go with Loser.

JadedButHopeful

(11 posts)
49. Bring. It. On.
Tue Jan 9, 2024, 07:00 PM
Jan 2024

Tired of being gaslighted and threatened.

Let's do January 6th again and this time, let's make sure the National Guard is there and ready to handle business.

Fascists want us to be afraid.

We are not afraid of them.

EndlessWire

(6,574 posts)
6. I'm tired of being threatened
Tue Jan 9, 2024, 05:01 PM
Jan 2024

by Donald "Two Scoops" Trump. Just bring it, asshole. We know you'll be sneaking out the backdoor to whatever other country agrees to shelter you while your idiot base fights for your "honor." Please leave.

TwilightZone

(25,517 posts)
8. And?
Tue Jan 9, 2024, 05:05 PM
Jan 2024

Changes nothing, Donnie. If you told people to stand down, they would. If there is bedlam, it's entirely your fault.

I_UndergroundPanther

(12,508 posts)
61. I hate nazis
Tue Jan 9, 2024, 07:37 PM
Jan 2024

Narcissists and sociopaths
Trump is all three.

Die trump you bag of shit.

And if ANY of your pustule gobbling followers kill anyone may they get a bullet in the head and die where they stand.

FloridaBlues

(4,014 posts)
91. If he try's that again in DC this administration will be more than ready for these Nazi freaks
Tue Jan 9, 2024, 10:16 PM
Jan 2024

They won’t know what hit them this time they won’t be going back home after the riots

Autumn

(45,120 posts)
10. Good. See what you can do fuck face. I want a lot of bedlam when you lose. More of your idiots can
Tue Jan 9, 2024, 05:10 PM
Jan 2024

go to jail.

SWBTATTReg

(22,205 posts)
11. Here he goes, threatening another insurrection, if he loses again. Which, IMHO, he will lose again, and lose
Tue Jan 9, 2024, 05:12 PM
Jan 2024

Last edited Wed Jan 10, 2024, 03:11 PM - Edit history (1)

badly.

On edit: Nail his ass for making terrorist threats. If one doesn't call this a terrorist threat, which by the way, I've seen hundreds of his moronic followers get nailed for making such similar threats. And he is at the center of all of these people/threats.

Hell, when they track murderers and the like (crime solvers) and pin up all of the events on a geo map, and all of the paths run through a center point (in our case here, tRUMP and all of his BS threats, texts, etc.), they nail the culprit as a result, you have tons of his texts as evidence. You have tons of recovered top secret materials in his possession (but a crappy, un-American judge) to back up the terrorist threats against us.

Farmer-Rick

(10,240 posts)
30. Exactly
Tue Jan 9, 2024, 06:20 PM
Jan 2024

He encourages violence at every step. It comes down to:

"If I don't get what I want you all will suffer."

LiberalFighter

(51,349 posts)
13. He is not going to lose because of the criminal charges.
Tue Jan 9, 2024, 05:13 PM
Jan 2024

It will be part of it. But mostly because he is a scumbag.

tinrobot

(10,927 posts)
15. More projection. His personal life will be bedlam when he loses again.
Tue Jan 9, 2024, 05:24 PM
Jan 2024

He'll be abandoned and left to rot in jail once that happens.

Aristus

(66,527 posts)
24. His militia won't have tanks.
Tue Jan 9, 2024, 05:53 PM
Jan 2024

I know all of the effective and interesting ways a tank can kill people who don't have armored vehicle protection. If there is bedlam, I'd like to volunteer to be on the tank force pushing back.

Aristus

(66,527 posts)
72. Most incredible feeling in the world.
Tue Jan 9, 2024, 08:07 PM
Jan 2024

Actually, I much preferred it up in the turret, rather than down in the driver's hole (although the driver does have the best place to sleep!).

Riding head and chest out of the loader's hatch, manning the machine gun, feeling the wind in your face, enjoying the sensation of invincibility that crewing a tank creates.

Nothing else like it...



Conjuay

(1,448 posts)
73. Well, in Orlando FL
Tue Jan 9, 2024, 08:17 PM
Jan 2024

You Can.

There is a place called "Tank America" where you can rent a tank! We were going to do this for our son in law, but we're afraid he might try to drive it to Tallahassee.

eShirl

(18,509 posts)
23. Bethlehem Royal Hospital
Tue Jan 9, 2024, 05:43 PM
Jan 2024
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bethlem_Royal_Hospital
Bethlem Royal Hospital, also known as St. Mary Bethlehem, Bethlehem Hospital and Bedlam, is a psychiatric hospital in Bromley, London. Its famous history has inspired several horror books, films, and TV series, most notably Bedlam, a 1946 film with Boris Karloff.

The hospital is closely associated with King's College London and, in partnership with the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, is a major centre for psychiatric research. It is part of the King's Health Partners academic health science centre and the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) Biomedical Research Centre for Mental Health.

Founded in 1247, the hospital was originally near Bishopsgate just outside the walls of the City of London. It moved a short distance to Moorfields in 1676, and then to St George's Fields in Southwark in 1815, before moving to its current location in Monks Orchard in 1930.

The word "bedlam", meaning uproar and confusion, is derived from the hospital's nickname. Although the hospital became a modern psychiatric facility, historically it was representative of the worst excesses of asylums in the era of lunacy reform.

BadgerMom

(2,772 posts)
25. He's threatened this before.
Tue Jan 9, 2024, 06:04 PM
Jan 2024

Last year he said charging him would lead to riots in the streets of NY. Lawrence O’Donnell went to the courthouse the day DJT was charged. Very few folks were there. Trump threatens, but I’m no longer frightened. I’m not sure I ever was, but now I believe he’s just a bag of wind. The danger is that a lone MAGA wacko will sneak through the cracks and successfully pull off an act of terrorism. But Trump’s dream of a war over him? Rubbish. He’s a loser.

I_UndergroundPanther

(12,508 posts)
64. I would exempt Mary Trump
Tue Jan 9, 2024, 07:44 PM
Jan 2024

She has done an excellent job on Msnbc and other public venues explaining what a narcissistic sociopath he is,she is a psychologist. She had her inheritance stolen by donnie dipshit.

Warpy

(111,456 posts)
29. Hey, fat man! The majority of your violent fanboys is in prison
Tue Jan 9, 2024, 06:16 PM
Jan 2024

and the cult you have left is a lot less likely to turn violent in any organized manner no matter what you post online or squawk at your pep rallies for hate. It's not that they're particularly deterred by prison, they're just lazy. While they're waiting for The Turner Diaries to come true, they'd rather dream about being a hero than actually do it.

We can cope with the lunatics who act out in the wee hours, a snootful of Ole Popskull propelling them to greatness. We've always had those around, you didn't make it that much worse.

So dream on, Motherfucker. The rest of us are going to VOTE and with the continued fear and revulsion you're drumming up, we will win. Again.

I_UndergroundPanther

(12,508 posts)
68. I wondered
Tue Jan 9, 2024, 07:50 PM
Jan 2024

When I was younger I wondered what the big deal was about the turner diaries .So I saw it at a flea market,paid 50 ¢ and I read it.

Worst written book ever,its racist fantasy and totally unrealistic. And because it was such a badly written book I could not finish it,and it was disgusting too.There were little line drawing illustrations who ever drew them sucks at drawing,looked like something a 6 year old would draw.

Warpy

(111,456 posts)
90. You got farther than I did
Tue Jan 9, 2024, 09:39 PM
Jan 2024

I found some excerpts online years ago and got maybe a quarter of the way through and all I could think was "Shit guys, read porn, the characters are much more carefully delineated."

Definitely for people who can barely lipread and skip to the gory parts.

Jean Genie

(287 posts)
32. Crazy
Tue Jan 9, 2024, 06:21 PM
Jan 2024

Bedlam = Insane Asylum.
Which is what this country has become.
Origin of Bedlam = Bethlehem.
My hometown. So I know of what I speak.
The whole world has become nucking futz!

Sky Jewels

(7,202 posts)
33. He keeps predicting this, and it doesn't happen.
Tue Jan 9, 2024, 06:25 PM
Jan 2024

His indictments didn't lead to any violence. It's wishful thinking on his part.

Hekate

(91,013 posts)
84. Actually, his threats have led to murder & mayhem all along. Currently all kinds of public servants are
Tue Jan 9, 2024, 08:44 PM
Jan 2024

…being “swatted.” Paul Pelosi had his skull viciously cracked with a heavy hammer. And much more, too numerous to mention.

myohmy2

(3,217 posts)
34. if the supreme's...
Tue Jan 9, 2024, 06:25 PM
Jan 2024

...rule this asshole is above the law because he was president then let's have Joe start breaking some laws...

...start with the election process and rig it so we don't lose in November...

...if trump's their dictator then Joe's our dictator...

...start dictating...

japple

(9,850 posts)
35. If by "bedlam" he means dancing in the streets, singing, celebrations and fireworks (though I hate fireworks)
Tue Jan 9, 2024, 06:29 PM
Jan 2024

it will indeed bedlam. Like the Martha Reeves & the Vandellas kind!

hibbing

(10,113 posts)
38. "Trump claimed without evidence"
Tue Jan 9, 2024, 06:42 PM
Jan 2024

Glad they got that part right. Just like everything else he does or claim.

Peace

PatrickforB

(14,604 posts)
39. He is a sad, sick human being who clearly stands only for himself and is driven by his own
Tue Jan 9, 2024, 06:46 PM
Jan 2024

anger, pride, greed, envy, lust, and gluttony.

The saddest thing is that he has seduced such a large number of Americans to engage in this destructive, hateful behavior.

If any of you watched Rachel last night, she talked about how utterly messed up the Republican party actually is. And Trump is only the symptom. When leaders in the GOP started to embrace immoral behavior just to win, a great tragedy began to unfold.

It is sad that we are all forced to live this tragedy - because if Trump does win again...well, you know.

PortTack

(32,821 posts)
40. Ya he told his cult to show up at his indictments..even in his home turf..FL only a few stragglers showed up
Tue Jan 9, 2024, 06:47 PM
Jan 2024

I call f..king BS!

GiqueCee

(665 posts)
44. Even bedlam...
Tue Jan 9, 2024, 06:51 PM
Jan 2024

... would be better, by several orders of magnitude, than the horrific specter of another Trump presidency. The purveyors of the bedlam he predicts are idiots, and thus, easy targets. It'll all be over before lunch. "Clean up on aisle 45. Bring a mop."

ProudMNDemocrat

(16,897 posts)
47. With every speech, Joe needs to keep calling Dipshit..."LOSER"
Tue Jan 9, 2024, 06:58 PM
Jan 2024

Drive him nuts. Mock him. Keep telling the truth.

ancianita

(36,221 posts)
50. He said that last time. This time his crews are gone, not standing back or standing by.
Tue Jan 9, 2024, 07:01 PM
Jan 2024

Any political violence happening right now are randos, paid cutouts, or russian cyber crews.

The biggest LOSER in US history has nothing to fall back on for PR fundraising but protection racket fearmongering.

No one has come to save him at any of the court houses he's appeared; no one's coming for him post primaries or post Nov 5 general election.

Fuck Trump and the christofascist elephant he rode in on.

3auld6phart

(1,059 posts)
52. Why the Helll
Tue Jan 9, 2024, 07:06 PM
Jan 2024

Are tha asshole so called reporters giving t hat lump filth a platform to spew his shit sick bastards the lot

ShazzieB

(16,645 posts)
55. This is desperation talking, y'all.
Tue Jan 9, 2024, 07:11 PM
Jan 2024

The only thing he knows how to do is threaten and bully. When that doesn't work, he's got nothing else to fall back on.

Trump...warned that if the charges succeed in damaging his candidacy, the result would be ‘bedlam.’”


In your psychedelic orange tinged dreams, Donnie Boy.

You know damned well that no matter what your goons may try, the U.S. Government is more than able to handle it. Things are a lot different when there's not a psychopath in the White House keeping the National Guard, law enforcement agencies, et al., from stopping them.

I know bullying is your go-to tactic, but for it to work, the parties being bullied have to actuLly be intimidated by you. It's a shame you never learned any other coping strategies, but them's the breaks, dude!

Beetwasher.

(2,986 posts)
59. You're Under Constant Active Surveillance Now, Asshole
Tue Jan 9, 2024, 07:35 PM
Jan 2024

I guarantee everything you do is completely monitored in an active counter-intel operation, and all your lackeys too. Biden is President, you are a national security threat. He has enormous powers to address national security threats and you would know nothing about any of it. Do the math and keep talking and keep digging your own grave traitor.

Conjuay

(1,448 posts)
80. Yeah, unlike you,
Tue Jan 9, 2024, 08:31 PM
Jan 2024

Biden actually listens during his national security briefings.
You're in a lot of crosshairs, comrade.

IbogaProject

(2,856 posts)
60. Good I'm sure that will help your sentance after you're convicted
Tue Jan 9, 2024, 07:36 PM
Jan 2024

Once convicted any and everything is taken into consideration, nothing excluded. And proactive statements like this or other things that show stochastic violence or just low morals will all be fair play for the judge during sentencing.

COL Mustard

(5,969 posts)
62. In other words
Tue Jan 9, 2024, 07:39 PM
Jan 2024

The world's oldest toddler will throw another tantrum. Poor ketchup. I would feel sorry for the cleaning crew, but they signed up to work for him.

peggysue2

(10,850 posts)
71. I'll go out on a limb here
Tue Jan 9, 2024, 08:01 PM
Jan 2024

I predict bedlam if he wins.

This man needs to be shut down, permanently. The damage he's already done, the damage he promises to do?

Throw his ass in jail!

JHB

(37,166 posts)
74. WaPo headline editors stike again, watering down and normalizing Trump.
Tue Jan 9, 2024, 08:18 PM
Jan 2024

He didn't warn of bedlam, the threatened it.

Attilatheblond

(2,277 posts)
78. Shades of 2020, he's figured out he is gonna lose and already setting up the reason
Tue Jan 9, 2024, 08:24 PM
Jan 2024

Reason he expects to lose: The charges and trials against him.

He is simply not capable of taking ANY responsibility for his self authored losses. It's ALWAYS someone else's fault and ALWAYS some horrible injustice done to him.

If he isn't an addict, like he claims, he is a frikken dry drunk.

getagrip_already

(14,970 posts)
79. Isnt Bedlam an area in Queens?
Tue Jan 9, 2024, 08:24 PM
Jan 2024

I seem to remember a subway stop for it.

There is also the Bedlam highway. No big deal to new Yorkers.

Hekate

(91,013 posts)
83. Bedlam is his basic MO. Therefore, I wish everybody in the legal system & law enforcement ...
Tue Jan 9, 2024, 08:40 PM
Jan 2024

Last edited Wed Jan 10, 2024, 01:04 AM - Edit history (1)

….& politics & media would just stop kowtowing to him and simply plan accordingly. Stop the violent bastard before he does more harm.

Mossfern

(2,605 posts)
87. I think the word he was looking for was "pandemonium"
Tue Jan 9, 2024, 09:25 PM
Jan 2024

but he couldn't remember it, so he used another word ending in "m."

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