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Trump PTSD

Trump PTSD is the WMD of psychological warfare, so methodically it afflicts, so many dear friends and family and people we thought we knew. They're living on a different planet, shellshocked into aversion to conflict, driven to avoidance of protest however righteous and urgent, blizkrieged into submission to every cry of outrage we plaster on social media walls.

Flat. Numb. Silent.

Kids in cages, suffering, hidden, alone. Motherless infants.

Children in schools fearing for their lives, their parents shocked by strings of arrests of white supremacists found with weapons stacked in military bunkers, plans to exterminate Hispanics, threats to massacre Jews in community centers following the Tree of Life homegrown terrorist attack, calls for a pure white homeland that has Hitler rising from the dead.

“Thank God everyday President Donald John Trump is President and that he will launch a Racial War and Crusade to keep the Niggers, Spics, and Muslims and any dangerous non-White or Ethnically or Culturally Foreign group ‘In Line’ By In Line’ it is meant they will either be sent to ‘Concentration Camps’ or dealt with Ruthlessly and Vigorously by the United States Military.”

People are dying.

Too many, already gone.

x 22 people in my hometown are dead after an act of terror inspired by your racism. El Paso will not be quiet and neither will I. https://t.co/dakFPKj0vJ Ã¢ÂÂ Beto O'Rourke (@BetoORourke) August 7, 2019

We sense wreckage creeping along, mortal wounds racing towards us like killer planets blasting so close that small explosions sprout before impact, shaken from inertia like renegades.

Our Universe tumbles and churns upside-down in reverse, shaky unsteady, unreal, where black holes spin us from wormholes wheeling through dimensions unknown, penetrating for the first time, dense dark eternity.

Night of nights. Dark of darkness. Trails of faint light fading invisible.

The coma shut down all systems, full collapse.

Hearts pound against the mattress like bodies falling from tall buildings towards concrete pavement, eyelids strain and struggle to awaken.

Mother Earth gasps in shallow, soft pulses of quiet exhale, an inescapable horror chorus that jolts us from our pillows — crashes towards the piercing yellow glow of the innocent moon inflating like an asteroid, stronger than a nuclear bomb as we collide.

The crash is coming.

Apocalyptic nightmare turning real.

“I’m confident that if at this moment, we do not wake up to this threat, then we as a country will die in our sleep.” — Beto O’Rourke responding to the El Paso shootings.

x Our planet is on fire. Our farms are under water. Our future is in jeopardy. And in our complacency, in our inaction, in our excessesÃ¢ÂÂall of us are responsible. https://t.co/ZtweiAlJG7 Ã¢ÂÂ Beto O'Rourke (@BetoORourke) August 22, 2019

We sleep...

x Our house is burning. Literally. The Amazon rain forest - the lungs which produces 20% of our planetÃ¢ÂÂs oxygen - is on fire. It is an international crisis. Members of the G7 Summit, let's discuss this emergency first order in two days! #ActForTheAmazon pic.twitter.com/dogOJj9big Ã¢ÂÂ Emmanuel Macron (@EmmanuelMacron) August 22, 2019

Earth dies...

EndGame

Trump seized the Infinity Stones when nobody noticed until it was too late.

Trump Endgame subliminally scroll-dances the final credits through our minds. As we witness friends and family suffering catastrophic paralysis induced by Trump PTSD, we cry out from our nightmare.

We must make racism wrong again and push for game-changing action on climate change.

The Heat Is On

Avowed arsonist Trump claims he will help the Amazon. Overgrown Orange Gargoyle strikes match, promises to stomp fire. The same denialist who calls climate change a hoax made up by China.

x The concept of global warming was created by and for the Chinese in order to make U.S. manufacturing non-competitive. Ã¢ÂÂ Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 6, 2012

The finger that pulls the trigger for his fossil fuel oligarch backers who took a FLAMETHROWER to the Amazon and fought inconvenient truths for decades...

x Just spoke with President @JairBolsonaro of Brazil. Our future Trade prospects are very exciting and our relationship is strong, perhaps stronger than ever before. I told him if the United States can help with the Amazon Rainforest fires, we stand ready to assist! Ã¢ÂÂ Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 23, 2019

Yet Trump continues to squeeze…

We cannot remain silent, not now, not when Trump's 2020 campaign for re-election is mathematically dead, not when he's been all but mathematically eliminated, not when his most madman behavior towards background checks, Amazon fires, recession, Mueller’s investigation elicits the final desperate days of a suicidal, paranoid Adolf Hitler, blatantly killing himself electorally like only his caustic hate can do and has done.

Alienating, offending, terrifying and mobilizing all of us.

His assault on Democracy has driven up his own negatives and left him vulnerable to counterattacks from the very same people he endangers, tramples and left for dead.

The planet strikes back.

Statistical Proof

One unlikely prodigal math guru from an underdog VA-based small liberal arts college named Christopher Newport University (CNU) who, after outsmarting and loop-lapping her envious, ill-equipped man-child colleagues by predicting the 2018 midterm elections with greater accuracy than even the most revered statisticians in politics today, including 538 mastermind Nate Silver (known here as 'Poblano' originally in the early days of DKOS), now predicts with statistically significant confidence based on her groundbreaking voter-turnout model that Trump has virtually lost the 2020 election.

x TrumpÃ¢ÂÂs 2016 path to the White House, which was the political equivalent of getting dealt a Royal Flush in poker, is probably not replicable in 2020 with an agitated Democratic electorate.



Find out why Dems are poised to win the Electoral College https://t.co/BKwnuEMP0C pic.twitter.com/7QWA90WOUD Ã¢ÂÂ Rachel "The Doc" Bitecofer Ã°ÂÂÂÃ°ÂÂÂ­Ã°ÂÂÂ¿Ã°ÂÂÂª (@RachelBitecofer) July 1, 2019

Dr. Rachel Bitecofer asserts the generic Democratic nominee (insert his/her name here) has all but locked up more than the necessary tally needed to win, precisely 278 electoral votes, attributable to "negative partisanship". Democrats really don’t like him and we’re highly motivated to vote him out.

Notice I nominate Beto. And his name stays in the diary title. Tough tootles.

Sure, with negatives so high, Dennis Kucinich could beat Trump right now. So you can take issue with me inserting Beto's name in the headline. But feel free to plug in your candidate as well, or Kucinich. I won't stop you.

Beto makes the most sense as a surefire win with landslide potential. Here's why...

Negative Partisanship 2.0

Front-runner Biden's handlers knew of "negative partisanship" from the beginning when at the launch of his campaign he implied Trump is a dictator while later in the ad evoked Charlottesville. He set the tone for the field and in fact banked his candidacy as the answer to stopping Trump.

Folks, America’s an idea, an idea that’s stronger than any army, bigger than any ocean, more powerful than any dictator or tyrant... We can’t forget what happened in Charlottesville. Even more important, we have to remember who we are.

Joe was right. The anti-Trump election strategy is a mathematical winner AS IS and it's the right thing to do and the very thing we need to defend our Democracy from fascist takeover.

Biden's data compelled him from the beginning to leverage negative partisanship.

Here’s the rub. Beto's faithful campaign team commandeered by 2012 Obama reelection superstar Jen O'Malley Dillon knows the stats too! The numbers don't lie.

Biden sold his candidacy as the only one built to beat Trump when we now know, at bare minimum, every candidate is built to beat Trump as long as Trump remains a target. The question becomes this, who can seal the deal and run up the score we need to pass urgent legislation on climate change, gun safety, universal health care, humane immigration, election protection and more.

Beto has taken negative partisanship to a whole new level - demolishing Trump fresh, raw, unscripted and without teleprompters, despite pushback and frames of inevitable Biden vs. also-ran Beto.

Beto in a fury of serendipitous scorching has burn-blister-branded Trump Diablo a racist, a white supremacist, a sick man, a fascist, who is owned by the NRA. Impervious to the shock-waves absorbed when a possessed killer motored 600 miles to massacre innocent people, Trump continues to enlist white supremacists, remote controlling them from all directions, red states and blue, knowing the end is near for his reign of terror, scouring votes even if it means activating terrorist cells bloodthirsty for more carnage. As if we haven't had enough and as if he hasn't fully tapped out that poison well.

x The KKK is standing on American streets, in the light of day, in 2019Ã¢ÂÂwith the comfort of knowing their president called some of them Ã¢ÂÂvery fine people.Ã¢ÂÂ https://t.co/hfu0UcUKzY Ã¢ÂÂ Beto O'Rourke (@BetoORourke) August 25, 2019

There's so much time left to continue to make Trump more unpalatable to the electorate, and with his help, which is a bonus. If we buy into the premature defeatist idea Beto can't win the primary, we squander the very real possibility Beto will smash 278 and win in a landslide.

More evidence

Now, before someone we know disrupts my statistical moment of Zen with more salty cracker-ass-crackpot-Evangelical pandering, please take heed of some additional happy tabulation that further thoroughly rectifies Trump's looming mathematical elimination at the hands of Beto.

Very few Americans approve of this monumental embarrassment of a President, evidenced by his very sad 36 - 62 approval rating (with a greater percentage of those disapproving determined to vote against Trump compared with a smaller percentage of those approving motivated to vote for Trump). This shows an incumbent overexposed to rebellion and extinction. Those most complicit Republican sympathizers cling to seats most unsafe.

We're coming for their government fat cat jobs because they're all incompetent sellouts to oligarchs and enablers of attacks, foreign and domestic.

WE are the sufficient coefficient, the primary factor contributing to the proper probability-curve-shaped underground railroad force tilting the outcome of 2020.

Our collective disgust for Trump is the sacred fabric weaving together our families, blanketing us comfort and giving us an emotional starting point where we can begin to embrace ideals that Biden outlined at the start, promises that Beto continues to glorify and guard as he campaigns towards fulfillment.

We can live and thrive in a free and fair world we feel grown cold and empty like a prison cell.

No arrogance allowed

The bad news is, we haven't yet squiggled and squirmed through the globs of swamp goop clogging the dungeon sewage pipe leading to the promise of fresh river water raining down from the cumulonimbus cloud spigot of the free open skies, like Andy Dufresne so magnificently maneuvered towards the ending of cult-classic Shawshank Redemption (available on Netflix).

The ending is yet unwritten.

At best, 278 EV for any candidate is a tortuous election day squeaker that should have us organized, unified, super-laser-Beto-focused with our eyes on the prize, a bad-ass-mean-as-a-mother wolf with ferocious fangs for Trump's fatuous fanny as he, with maniac-sick-man-bloodshot-eyes wields a Russian-rocket launcher pointed directly at our precious little baby cubbies.

We need landmark margins of victory to counter Russia's cyber-cheat machine. We need GOP electoral extinction.

Beto may be the dark horse in this Primary but let's not conflate.

With his 50-state strategy he's the only candidate positioned for a landslide in the General.

And when he gets through with Trump and the GOP, he will have amassed the political capital to turn the whole state of Texas into a fucking WIND FARM! Then invite Trump to cut the ribbon in exchange for his release from prison attached with an order for 24-hr return.

We need you now more than ever to power Beto For America with anything you can muster, donations, canvassing, fundraising, signage, advocacy. No PAC's. All donations over $200 rejected if the contributor works for an oil company.

Join Beto as we righteously, rightfully and strategically seize the flamethrower that will blowtorch Trump's negatives, incinerating him with powerful truths that flare up all over live TV.

x This guy knows exactly what heÃ¢ÂÂs doingÃ¢ÂÂripping apart an already divided country and inviting violence into our communities. Latinos here in El Paso, throughout America, feel like they have a target on their back. pic.twitter.com/BQpKujVU3i Ã¢ÂÂ Beto O'Rourke (@BetoORourke) August 24, 2019

Endgame II

He won't go quietly.

Republicans sellouts like #MoscowMitch sit on election security bills, voting rights bills and gun safety bills knowing damn well the last floating device in their quicksand swamp is to trigger us with Russian bots and live plants coaxing us to tear down our allies and drive up our negatives, to make us more hated than Trump, blunting our numbers in the House and the Senate so that nothing gets solved - illegal elections continue, schools remain hostile to our traumatized children, the Earth continues to smoke with cataclysmic pollution, medical bills pile up bankrupting families, a generation of students unable to escape debt have to wait one more decade to settle with banks and qualify for a mortgage home, start a family of their own.

For *national security threat* Trump and his *sellout* Republicans, 'winning' directly translates the extent Trump can trigger Republican sympathizers to hate everything the Democratic Party stands for, enraging them to the extreme point where not only will they get off their asses and vote unwittingly for oligarch-owned Republicans, but the occasional brainwashed white supremacist will descend upon schools, places or worship and other community spaces with assault weapons cocked and loaded to preserve the twisted illusion of Trump's make-pretend promise white power.

Trump has weaponized attack politics into literal warfare. Don't get too carried away with his 2016 staged success and Crooked Hillary BS and copycat him carelessly while you usher your candidate towards the Democratic nomination. Attack politics got him elected so if you use it on anyone or everyone other than him, it will get him reelected.

Prepare for the unthinkable

This means no turning against our side and driving up our negatives by calling our candidates dumb and attacking gender or race, age, character, or anything else including white privilege.

It's a disgraceful losing formula, for numbers in the House, risking perpetual minority power in the Senate, endangering the nominee and facing the unthinkable, reliving of 2016.

We are all damn fine human beings who support damn fine human being candidates.

Be suspicious of your so-called social media friend connections who you see trashing anyone other than Trump himself. Defend candidate victims and supporter victims and refocus the big fat bullseye on Trump. It's far more fun that way. Trust me, being a Beto supporter is a BLAST. We get to watch him harpoon and scalp Trump daily. The material is endless and cathartic.

Consider that aggressors have been triggered by opposition psychological warfare hidden behind phony accounts, sometimes displaying pirated pictures. It's not all automated bots.

Understand the difference between the sounds of unifying voices heard from our real allies vs. Trump-Terror-Trolls trying to drive up our negatives via instigation initiatives, provocation plots, outright masterful manipulation and premeditated propaganda, prompting Beto supporters along with every supporter of every other candidate to help do their dirty work for them in hopes of rescuing their fast-sinking Trump Reich battleship as it goes BLOOP BLOOP BLEEP bubbling 20,000 fathom deep into untravelled ocean depths.

Our Squad is black enough. White enough. Woman enough. Man enough. Straight enough. Gay enough. We are the rainbow that arches over the SS Trump Craptanic.

Instead of driving up Trump's negatives and dumping dirt on his electoral grave, Republicans, NRA, Fox News, oligarchs and Russia need us helping Trump drive up our own negatives, dimming and burying the lanterns of our primary candidates, opening the coffin for the mummy-rise of Trump-Zombie Apocalypse. He is Thanos.

He will eat us alive and Republicans will eat it up.

This is our election to lose.

Don't help them win. Our candidates are the Avengers and we pledge to defend.

Please think hard about it, my fellow Thunder Cats, before you dare breathe your Mumm-ra morning breath in the faces of Democratic party supporters of: Bernie, Warren, Biden, Kamala, Buttigieg, Booker, Castro and the rest (even Tulsi), heads rested on the pillow right next to you.

Run up Trump's negatives and do it with fierce vigilance 24-7. Howl past the crickets in their orbits, transcend the stratosphere and touch the moon with your fingertips while barefoot, planted in the soil. Keep your head on and keep it up too.

GOTV on the ground with #FairFight2020. Help Stacey Abrams shake up races in battleground states and flip House races and Senate seats as we push to restore Democracy across this beautiful land.

x I am excited to announce the launch of #FairFight2020, a comprehensive initiative to staff, fund, and train voter protection teams on-the-ground in battleground states across the country.



Join our fight to protect the vote at https://t.co/kwO6JZ0kHE. pic.twitter.com/ymf3rSf5GD Ã¢ÂÂ Stacey Abrams (@staceyabrams) August 13, 2019

Indicators of Democratic turnout show we very likely already reached the critical mass required to Nazi-neuter Heir Trump and the Axis of evil, the most significant quest to castrate fascism since World War II.

My fellow Americans, it's time to Kyoto-Treaty-Karate-kick their dicks off in one last triumphant feat of Nazi dismemberment. Off with their appendages!

More subtley, we move to load #TraitorTrump into the cannon, launch him out of our White House (even if it requires secret service escort). Impeach him along the way. Beto was the first candidate to call for it BTW.

x As you digest the #MuellerHearings, here's @BetoORourke talking impeachment on *AUGUST 23, 2017*:



"In a Tuesday interview at one of his stops in Killeen, the El Paso Democrat spoke about his support for impeaching President Trump."



Leadership. #Beto2020https://t.co/udUAZ1xQkj Ã¢ÂÂ Rob Friedlander (@robsfriedlander) July 24, 2019

We advance, crashing the gates, emboldened by a noble mission envisioned by Markos Moulistas of yesteryear, backed by the force of a savage heat-seeking missile, a fumigation Squad ready at all costs to thrust wide open the Overton Window so we can finally air out the swastika smoke that has shrouded the Oval Office walls, so dull and gray.

With the winds of change may we sweep the mess we face as a country starting right now.

Let's fight like a tornado that sweeps away sellout Republican traitors and Trump sponsors of terror, enemies foreign and domestic.

Let's run up 278 to a LANDSLIDE!

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Parting shots

Take it to your Wall Street bank, tuck it in your portfolio, Tweety:

x If he gets the Democratic nomination, @BetoORourke is asked if he'll carry Texas in 2020.



"Absolutely."#Hardball Ã¢ÂÂ Hardball (@hardball) August 23, 2019

Texodus is starting to get to someone, another sicko:

x When a president calls immigrants rapists and criminals,



When a governor tells his supporters to Ã¢ÂÂtake matters into their own handsÃ¢ÂÂ against them,



When our leaders spew hatred, ignorance, and bigotry,



We cannot be surprised when it leads to violence. https://t.co/3J9Xqbs5lj Ã¢ÂÂ Beto O'Rourke (@BetoORourke) August 23, 2019

Beto about to take a bite out of some DNC ass. Inslee would be proud:

x We need to start treating the fight against climate change like our future depends on itÃ¢ÂÂbecause it does. ThatÃ¢ÂÂs why we need a climate debate. Ã¢ÂÂ Beto O'Rourke (@BetoORourke) August 24, 2019

Smear: Local reporter predisposed to paint Beto as empty suit using El Paso for political gain schooled in Iowa

Truth: Beto warned of Trump's racism and domestic terrorism long before El Paso:

x Reporter: Why did it take the tragedy in El Paso for you to start talking about TrumpÃ¢ÂÂs racism?



Beto: It didnÃ¢ÂÂt. It might have taken the El Paso shooting for you to notice. pic.twitter.com/9c8ZN9Rf9f Ã¢ÂÂ Team Beto (@TeamBeto) August 23, 2019

Beto days indeed:

Even Rihanna follows Beto on Instagram:

x Please follow him!

HeÃ¢ÂÂs got great stuff on Instagram everyday! https://t.co/UjMveE4s5A Ã¢ÂÂ BetoMedia (@BetoMedia) August 22, 2019

Beto the cat lover:

x Beto with animals always cheers me up. Ã°ÂÂ¥Â° pic.twitter.com/vuHfpgXJLm Ã¢ÂÂ Schuyler Smith (@schuylerannemac) August 21, 2019

"Immigrants make America great"

See you all 9am ET next Sunday for the Sunday edition of our Beto For Democracy diary series on DKOS!

Supporters and leaners please feel welcome to join our DKOS group Beto For Democracy! We're the underdog today, powerhouse tomorrow, weakening Trump through "negative partisanship" for the general election for all candidates, while elevating the voices of our Democracy for the future.

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