What Could Possibly Turn Things Around Quickly and Decisively?

[MineralMan]

Just fantasizing about things that might occur that might rapidly lead to the end of the Trump administration, through a sudden resignation or other non-violent process. Here's my fantasy list. A combination of some of these things might do the job:

1. A simultaneous release across the Internet of a series of videos showing Trump and others high up in his administration having sex with underaged persons. Not fake videos, but older videos that are quite obviously done with older technology and are amateurish in every aspect. Think of old home-made sex tapes from the 90s. Single-camera, unedited video. If released on a wide array of web sites that are public in nature. the source of the videos does not need to be known. They would speak for themselves.

2. A similar release of a range of pertinent records from the Epstein files, unaltered and unfiltered. These should include both textual and graphic information. A comparison with files that have been redacted would verify the authenticity of those un-redacted files and evidence.

3. Detailed information, also released on multiple independent websites, providing details of the location of the bodies of people who have been "disappeared" by persons of interest. Details, also of how and why they were disappeared and the back story of the same. No identification of the revealer of this information is needed. Checking the accuracy by finding those bodies would be more than sufficient.

4. Similar wide releases of other well-documented, but so far unknown, scandalous, heinous, illegal, and destructive behaviors by the target subjects, with copies of actual documents, images, videos, and other evidence. Again, the person(s) releasing the information can remain anonymous, as long as the information is verifiable through investigation.

That's the idea. A massive information dump across the Internet, internationally. Both social media outlets, traditional news outlets, and non-traditional information centers should receive all information as a package that can easily be unpacked and broadcast. Flood the media with it. Overwhelm every other news story that is current. Make the scandals and the crimes and the disgusting behavior the only topic being discussed by people everywhere. Make it all impossible to ignore by making it totally ubiquitous. The Internet makes that possible, and even easy, really. It also makes it impossible to remove, once released.

I can't do it. I don't have any of that information. If I did, I would have already done so. Others, however, do. May they all finally decide that the time has come to lance the boil and let the poison out so the world can heal from the toxic state is has been in.

[DBoon]

1. Trump invading Iran and decisively losing might do it

The attempt by the Argentine Junta to invade the Falklands and their defeat by the UK was the Junta's last straw.

[edhopper]

2. He won't invade

he will just bomb the shit out of them and try to get rid of the government.
He doesn't really do the stuff after. Look at Venezuela.

[leftstreet]

3. I think we're down to dead corpses

Sounds offensive, but no matter how much information is being culled from the released files, our lawmakers and judiciary are seemingly satisfied to DO NOTHING

[MineralMan]

5. So it seems. However, a huge public outcry can alter almost anything.

I think we may be on the verge of that, actually.

[dwayneb]

15. You are hopeful - I'm not

We've been on the "verge of a huge public outcry" since Trump appeared on the scene. Sure we've had some protests on a small scale and a few noisy legislators, but nothing that I can describe as a movement, like we saw in the 60's in response to the Vietnam War.

I have concluded that Americans in general are too mesmerized by their electronic toys and too absorbed with what they are going to binge watch next and where they are going out to eat, to ever spend any of their self-obsessed energies on an "outcry".

The kind of people that truly understood the cost of liberty died with the Greatest Generation, and their Baby Boomer sons and daughters will soon be dead and gone too.

With their passing we will have forgotten in large part what it truly means to be under the boot of an autocrat. It's not the people here on the website we need to be worried about. It's the poorly educated masses out there that really don't understand history and really can't comprehend that it can repeat itself that are leading us to the precipice.

[Fichefinder]

4. A live boy or a dead girl

[MineralMan]

6. Think of plurals of those. I think they're out there.

[usonian]

7. The Crypto Bro's decide it's time for themselves to take charge.

When Trump kicks it, the Crypto Bro Troika will control currency, and hence Wall Street and the world.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=20543966



They bought the election and want return on their investment.

[MineralMan]

8. The New Three Stooges, you mean...

[usonian]

14. Maybe they get to question that sexy spy.

[bluestarone]

9. How long can their money cover tracks? I don't think

Forever? So we'll see that when it busts loose Lot's and Lot's of people running for cover. I just hope it's in my lifetime!!

[MineralMan]

10. Yes. Exactly. We're one disgruntled person with access

away from a release of information that blows the whistle.

[bluestarone]

11. Agree. The way it's going, i feel that when that right time (person) happens it's

Going to go BIG and FAST!

[jmbar2]

12. A stroke or heart attack

[usedtobedemgurl]

13. Taking away people's guns.

[GoodRaisin]

16. I don't think it will happen fast unless it's a massive heart attack or stroke.

He’s already protecting 3 murderers in the Minnesota shootings by his goon squad and not being held accountable, which in itself blows my mind.

I think if such videos turned up he would claim they are fake and the Republicans in Congress would continue to do nothing.

[wiggs]

17. A lifetime of cheating, lying, assault, criminality, racism, credible accusations of sexual assault, grifting,

bullying, incompetence, bribery, blackmail, traitorous actions, emoluments violations, illegal killings....is well described and well known. If media outlets would remind us of this context when discussing the daily outrage perhaps things could be different.

In a healthy democracy with effective public discourse any of these personal failings would be dealt with swiftly and as matter of course. So I hope that you're right and that there's something out there bad enough to make a difference, and so widespread beyond TSF that the backlash against concentration of wealth and power and against Trumpism is immediate and thorough and durable...undoing 50 years of planning and investment. (Though I'd also be happy if it's just TSF that goes down, as a start!)

When thinking about our public discourse and structure of our politics, I'm reminded of the ending line in a great, prescient movie in which Cliff Robertson asks whistleblower Robert Redford 'How do you know they'll print it?'

[MineralMan]

18. Great movie quote!