Clay Bennett for May 04, 2024

Yep. Horrifying and it’s all really what he’s intent on doing.

Fortunately, we CAN prevent it, but it means voting not just for Biden but Blue candidates all the way down.

It’s the Rump supporting MAGAts’ wet dream.

If he wins, kiss democracy goodbye.

And the most terrifying thing is that Project 2025 is worse than what he talked about, and that’s what is going to be done. Republicans have to lose in November, or Democracy is done. Not just here but everywhere as the rest will collapse in short order.

Please, please, please. Let media actually headline the article and its contents. Let people actually read it. Let the public have the imagination to picture and realize what life would truly be like if Trump is elected. Let people vote Blue and more Blue and more Blue, so that even corrupt courts and gerrymandered maps will not be enough to let our democratic values be destroyed.

The most terrifying publication to date. It even scares Stephen King.

Today, in 1970, was the Kent State shooting by the National Guard.

Isn’t that what you MAGAs want, a half century later?

It’s not only Trump who is the danger — he is the useful figurehead that the media often make seem amusing. It is TRUMPISM that has taken deep root.

I wonder what they wrote about why all these horrors never happened when he did win in 2016.

Sad the Dems have nothing to really run on in terms of policies.

Some ask why Trump didn’t do all this the first term. The answer is simple. He didn’t have enough time. But he laid the groundwork by replacing the judiciary with yes-people. He undermined all the foundations of democracy including the very electoral system to the point where Republicans in legislative bodies have openly said they don’t actually have to recognize vote counts if they don’t like them. As has been said many times of Republicans — all of them, not just Trump — they want to rule, not represent. If they get the power they want, they will finish the job, and our experiment with representative democracy will be over.

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.

In Missouri (unfortunately, my home state) more than 380,000 Missourians signed an initiative petition to put abortion on the ballot. All they needed was 171,000 signatures. Wouldn’t it be great if we swung the state to Biden? It is still a long shot, but it will make more Democrats and independents show up than ever before, so now we have a chance.

Google: Time Magazine if he wins

It ain’t pretty. The following is just a sample.

“Donald Trump thinks he’s identified a crucial mistake of his first term: He was too nice.

We’ve been talking for more than an hour on April 12 at his fever-dream palace in Palm Beach. Aides lurk around the perimeter of a gilded dining room overlooking the manicured lawn. When one nudges me to wrap up the interview, I bring up the many former Cabinet officials who refuse to endorse Trump this time. Some have publicly warned that he poses a danger to the Republic. Why should voters trust you, I ask, when some of the people who observed you most closely do not?"

I find Trump’s political views and his demeanor abhorrent. I see him as one of the most transparently self-serving people on Earth who, by far, wants nothing more than to get elected for the sole purpose of pardoning himself and making himself richer.

Tell me again how a bitter, irrational person spreading lies, division, and hate — even toward fellow citizens — can peacefully unite/strengthen a nation.

Now do one if Biden gets re-elected. You know like, Inflation will continue, as will high interest rates, high grocery prices, high number of illegal aliens (another 9 million?), increasing crime in major democrat run cities, concerns with the axis of evil (Iran, China, Russia, and North Korea) because none of those leaders fear or respect the guy that enters and exits AF1 by the luggage entrance.

Good discussion of this last night on PBS News Hour Brooks and Capehart segment. You can Google it.

Speaking of now doing one…………Clay, you’re the perfect artist for this, please do one with a barefoot, pregnant handmaiden wearing an ankle monitor.

The republican party has gone rogue.

Reelecting traitor Trump would be The USA’s greatest disaster.

We’re in Arkansas and his former press secretary is acting just like she can do anything that she wants and get away with it!!

When asked how fascism starts Bertrand Russell once said, “First they fascinate fools, then they muzzle the intelligent”.

are we supposed to be grateful they did not say “when”? what’s next? a Vogue cover for Malaignia?

Weekend at Bernie’s Biden is losing support from Hispanic voters, bigly.

Inflation seems to be a local/state governing problem … NOT an issue that a president can correct.

usatoday .com/story/money/2024/04/09/states-highest-lowest-inflation/73184932007/

I’m waiting for rump to be on the cover of “Serving Time”

I just started following Clay Bennet. As a conservative Republican, I’ve been pretty amazed by your level of Trump hysteria. You guys have truly turned Trump into a boogyman in your minds. This is unhealthy. Trump can’t do any more damage to this country than Biden has done. You’ll cope.

Article on CNN’s website today, detailing 32 blatant lies told by Trump in the interview.

Higher prices, a broken border, raging wars, violent campuses — is this what Joe Biden promised Americans four years ago?

If he wins America will become unrecognizable.

Trump: 20 to 24 years in jail.

Vote for the party that doesn’t shoot their dogs.

I was shocked to see that…. there is still a Time magazine!

Oh dear God know

…and if you thought Stephan King wrote horror stories, The Dumpster has him beat!

If.. he wins it will further prove there are two justice systems in America. It will prove that America elects leader on popularity not ability or competence, a practice that would spell doom for any fortune 500 company. And it proves that he who controls the popular media wins, propaganda works.

If the article included MTG, Bobo, Hawley, Noem etc.. Even Stephen King would have sweaty palms.

This COULD become our worst nightmare…..

Dear Lincoln Project…need to run an ad on Faux News, etc…Trump’s quote that he liked the Time Magazine article and then lay out the worst aspects. The MAGA QAnon will LOVE IT, no harm there, but those that have ears, eyes, minds and hearts may open them to the TRUTH.

I hope he can be stopped before it’s too late for the U.S.

I’ve seen in former Twitter comments by author Steven King about Trump, not a fan of the Tr/D umpster fire. It could be far more pointed if his was the horrified face reading Time but King’s face isn’t more immediately iconic.

And anytime you have to explain a joke, it loses effect.

Traitor Trump has no intelligence, no honesty, no morals, no ethics, no honor, no integrity, and no patriotism. If he actually believes the drivel he spouts, he has no SANITY.

Vote for Biden in 2024, but don’t forget that every seat in the House and one third of the Senate (33 seats) are up for reelection as well! We need to keep the White House blue to be sure, but we also need to widen our Senate majority and flip the House from red to blue! If there are local races (Mayor, City Council, School Board, etc.) in your area, those are important too! In 2016, 49% of eligible voters didn’t bother to cast their ballots! We can’t let that happen again.

A second Trump win is the second plane hitting the second tower. We will be clearly under attack from within. And we will be sunk.

This is the real fear many of us face, what if Dump should win. But, I suppose this has always been a possibility for our democracy. In 2016, the Repub leadership didn’t believe that Dump had a prayer is becoming their candidate. But, the Repub voters thought otherwise. And, thanks to Dump’s campaign manager running a well fought campaign, Dump won the electoral college vote. Now, we see that old Repub party is no more, and the new party of Dump is in the mainstream and it is just possible, once again, that Dump could win the presidency. But, again, this is the threat of having a democracy. We have no filter to weed out incompetent candidates from running for the highest position of all. And, I’m not so sure we’d want such a filter as who would design it? This sounds too much like a current Russian state of democracy. VOTE BLUE EVERYONE. VOTE BLUE. VOTE BLUE.

From the first part of the article: “To carry out a deportation operation designed to remove more than 11 million people from the country, Trump told me, he would be willing to build migrant detention camps and deploy the U.S. military, both at the border and inland. He would let red states monitor women’s pregnancies and prosecute those who violate abortion bans. He would, at his personal discretion, withhold funds appropriated by Congress, according to top advisers.”

IF he does, the United States of America is over.

WHEN SOMEONE TELLS YOU WHO THEY ARE, BELIEVE THEM!

Donald Trump and the GOP and Project 25 have all made it clear their goal is to end American democracy in favor of an Orban style theocratic autocracy. The GOP has embraced bigotry and isolationism and white supremacy. They have promised to round up 11 million immigrants and put them in detention camps on the way to deportation (if they make it that far). They have promised vengeance against their political enemies, and the recent sweep up of peaceful protestors shows they have an army of police on their side.

Anyone who thinks they’re going to treat any of these prisoners with basic human dignity or support their human rights is fooling themselves. You know what they’re going to do. They know what they’re going to do. And Kristi Noem is angling to be Trump’s VP pick because she knows he will need a strong running mate who will have no problem with his plans for rounding up innocent people, reporters, immigrants, professors, and anyone else who speaks out publicly against them. Choosing to include in her book a story of her willingness to slaughter an innocent creature without remorse was not a dumb move or a mistake on her part. It was an audition.

The simple-minded RWNJ commenters, just on this one Bennett toon, all adopt a simplistic reason for all problems, foreign and domestic, and all the wars everywhere in the world:

It’s all the fault of “Biden” and “Leftists” whenever they have the Presidency.

There is no reasoning with them, no pointing out reality. Like any thoroughly-radicalized terrorist or religious zealot, they refuse to accept anything their lyin’ eyes and ears tell them that goes against their programmed bias. They truly are permanently brainwashed.

The Diaper Don is a Sith lord.

According to Trump’s own Homeland Security Dept, 2020 was the most secure election in American history. 2024 will be the most manipulated election in American history. In order to win republicans will openly purge as many potential democratic voters as possible by any means possible.

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