This state of mind used to seem alien—and not a little jarring—to Americans, who were more used to the Cincinnatus tradition begun by George Washington, the citizen-farmer who self-effacingly retired from power. Not so with President Donald Trump. With his ego now fully unbound—his narcissism on full display—Trump has given us a much fuller measure of the man in his second term. Trump’s open coveting of other nations’ territory, his quasi-imperialist “Donroe Doctrine” of hemispheric dominance, his gilding and gutting of the White House as if it were just another Trump Tower, his regular calls for prison or death for dissenters, his hints at permanent reign—all of it has been rather shocking to many Americans.
I don’t know, the MAGAs who claim Trump isn’t really dead, that he went into hiding because the Illuminati were trying to “get him,” and will tell us all about their Trump/Elvis sightings near Area 51 for the next forty years will probably be pretty obnoxious, too.
There was a dumbass (regular commenter on Denver Post) that kept insisting, year after year, that “The Storm” was coming. First, it was the fall of 2017, IIRC. When myself and others would point out that it’s now 2018, and 2017 came and went, he’d insist it was any day now. We’d chide him and ask for more details on just who was getting arrested, and for what, and he made these claims on what evidence…he’d get rather cagey about it all.
But he’d be back, insisting it was coming any day now. We’d ask him to commit to a new date. He’d give one, like “November 2018”. This would of course come and go and no “Storm” to be seen. Hillary, Podesta and Obama all walking around quite free. This continued until the fall of 2020, and then I think he insisted that “The Storm” would happen before Donald leaves office.
He of course insisted that Donvict “really won” and he might not be leaving office in 2021. Well, most people could see that the annoying orange would rather not leave office and plotting a coup was not beyond him…
Anyway, I’m pretty sure this guy carried on with his belief in “The Storm” being just around the corner until 2024, when, not long before the election, the Denver Post shut down their comments. I’m sure he’s still neck deep in this kind of nonsense, thinking Q is still a thing…for these morons, “The Storm” is just like the way end times prophecy cults go on about their eschatology…