Everyone has a tipping point, and for most American’s their tolerance for our bloated orange gremlin of a president has been pushed past its boundary for some time now. Donald Trump is now pushing those boundaries even further by attempting the slowest coup possible and many people aren’t taking this seriously enough. The excuses being made for Trump are similar to those made by people when he came down that escalator and announced that he was running for president. Instead of outright saying he has no chance of winning, a new set of excuses are being offered — “chaos is just what he loves” and “let’s just humor him.”
Fight Club actor Edward Norton sees the true danger in the Trump campaign’s actions and he described it perfectly with a poker metaphor:
I’m no political pundit but I grew up w a dad who was a federal prosecutor & he taught me a lot & I’ve also sat a fair amount of poker w serious players & l’ll say this: I do not think Trump is trying to ‘make his base happy’ or ‘laying the groundwork for his own network’…
— Edward Norton (@EdwardNorton) November 20, 2020
…or that ‘chaos is what he loves’. The core of it is that he knows he’s in deep, multi-dimensional legal jeopardy & this defines his every action. We’re seeing 1) a tactical delay of the transition to buy time for coverup & evidence suppression 2) above all, a desperate endgame
— Edward Norton (@EdwardNorton) November 20, 2020
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His ‘turn card’ bluff will be an escalation & his ‘River card’ bluff could be really ugly. But they have to be called. We cannot let this mobster bully the USA into a deal to save his ass by threatening our democracy. THAT is his play. But he’s got junk in his hand. So call him.
— Edward Norton (@EdwardNorton) November 20, 2020
I will allow that he’s also a whiny, sulky, petulant, Grinchy, vindictive little 10-ply-super-soft bitch who no doubt is just throwing a wicked pout fest & trying to give a tiny-hand middle finger to the whole country for pure spite, without a single thought for the dead & dying
— Edward Norton (@EdwardNorton) November 20, 2020
But his contemptible, treasonous, seditious assault on the stability of our political compact isn’t about 2024, personal enrichment or anything else other than trying to use chaos & threat to the foundation of the system as leverage to trade for a safe exit. Call. His. Bluff.
— Edward Norton (@EdwardNorton) November 20, 2020
Faith in the strength of our sacred institutions & founding principles is severely stretched…but they will hold. They will. He’s leaving, gracelessly & in infamy. But if we trade for it, give him some brokered settlement, we’ll be vulnerable to his return. We can’t flinch.
— Edward Norton (@EdwardNorton) November 20, 2020
Mr. Norton doesn’t pull any punches here when he calls out what should be obvious — Trump knows he doesn’t have any other choice but to attempt this coup. He knows he has multiple subpoenas from New York waiting to be unsealed the moment he is out of office. And there is danger involved in not calling his bluff, because every day that he stalls, the more havoc he gets to wreak. Every day he doesn’t coordinate with the Biden transition team, the deeper in the hole we get with coronavirus. We should take this grave advice, we should indeed have faith in our government, but more importantly, we can’t let Donald Trump’s antics make that faith waiver, we have to call his bluff and make him fold.
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