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FakeNoose

(37,035 posts)
Sat Mar 29, 2025, 01:26 PM Saturday

Steve Schmidt: The comeuppance is going to be brutal

Link: https://steveschmidt.substack.com/p/the-comeuppance-is-going-to-be-brutal

JD Vance is telling preposterous lies that fit easily within a Hitlerian frame of believing that the bigger lie is often easier to believe than the smaller one. The Trump administration has broken faith with the American creed, all of our traditions and our foundational purpose. It is not an administration. It is a regime, and henceforth, it will be referred to as such here — always.

The Trump regime is a danger to humanity, and an affront to American values. It is a menace to liberty, a threat to freedom, the rule of law, public safety, the American economy, family security, American alliances and simple decency.

What it is and stands for needs no more deciphering, strained wonderment from credulous corporate media scribers in Washington, DC, or any interpretation from paid liars like Scott Jennings, or any reverse engineering necessary from one of Maggie Haberman’s anonymous sources saying, “No, it’s not like that. Trump doesn’t really mean it. Don’t worry about it. We got it.”

They haven’t, they didn’t, and they won’t.

... [snip] ...

Here is JD Vance’s Hitler-like absurdism, accusing Denmark of somehow failing to protect Greenlanders, which must now be liberated by America:

Length: 5:45, closed captions available


It is obscene. In fact, it is sick. The one thing that we know for sure is that, should it come to pass that young Americans are killed trying to fulfill one of Trump’s delusions or fantasies, the men and women who order his or her death won’t give a shit about it.
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Steve Schmidt concludes today's "The Warning" by saying that "A small cabal of politicians have taken power in America, and badly overreached. The comeuppance is going to be brutal."

Please read the rest on "The Warning with Steve Schmidt."

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regnaD kciN

(26,873 posts)
1. I just hope we see a "comeuppance"...
Sat Mar 29, 2025, 01:36 PM
Saturday

...at this point, I'm not so sure (at least in my lifetime). History has shown that, absent a stronger military alliance arrayed against it, a newly-established authoritarian system generally lasts for decades before it finally collapses under its own weight.

Bernardo de La Paz

(53,705 posts)
3. Mass action early, mass action often, mass action in all ways big or small. There is safety in numbers. . . . . nt
Sat Mar 29, 2025, 02:23 PM
Saturday

birdographer

(2,886 posts)
8. Yeah, I don't think I will see it.
Sat Mar 29, 2025, 03:29 PM
Saturday

If someone was going to do the obvious thing to create a gigantic speed bump to their whole regime, I believe they would have done it by now. Trump appears to be ill, but if he dies of natural causes it won’t make a bit of difference to what they are doing (although Lindsey will probably be able to breathe for the first time in years, his kompromat gone with donny), they barely acknowledge his existence now. This will just get worse with every day for a very long time before it fails. IMO.

lees1975

(6,369 posts)
2. It's a "comeuppance" that needs to happen soon.
Sat Mar 29, 2025, 01:44 PM
Saturday

We'll see if public opinion in the United States, and what results from its expression, is going to meet this challenge in a timely, and Constitutional, manner.

totodeinhere

(13,587 posts)
4. What he is saying in this case is true.
Sat Mar 29, 2025, 02:30 PM
Saturday

However, I do not trust Mr. Schmidt. He helped GWB steal the 2000 election from Al Gore. And that action set in force the forces that have caused us to be where we are now with a Nazi regime in power in Washington. I can never forgive Steve for that no matter what he says now.

Dark n Stormy Knight

(10,287 posts)
13. He also brought the mother of the Tea Party, grandmother of MAGA,
Sun Mar 30, 2025, 11:45 AM
Sunday

Sarah Palin, on the scene. She had a large role in normalizing the crazy, the nastiness, and the blatant dishonesty & astounding hypocrisy that define the Republican party now.

If only Schmidt had put his considerable skills to bear in the side of good from the start...

Trust_Reality

(2,128 posts)
5. Note to "R" politicians and infamous John Roberts Court MAGA members...
Sat Mar 29, 2025, 02:57 PM
Saturday

If you let (facilitate) Trump establish the dictatorship he desires, your services will no longer be needed.

In other words, you will be powerless, and YOU will be disposable.

Note to voters: Replace "R" politicians ASAP.

Paladin

(29,917 posts)
6. Schmidt phrases things as well as anybody out there.
Sat Mar 29, 2025, 03:10 PM
Saturday

So glad we have somebody with his skills on our side.

Linda ladeewolf

(804 posts)
10. Indivisible has demonstrations set for April 5, it's a Saturday. It's only a few hours. They are occurring in
Sat Mar 29, 2025, 03:45 PM
Saturday

Almost every state.

ThoughtCriminal

(14,475 posts)
12. We wil all pay the comeuppance
Sat Mar 29, 2025, 10:47 PM
Saturday

In fact, the people who are most opposed to the regime will probably pay a higher price. But it must be paid.

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