30 October—Donald Trump intends to be the next President of the United States. Even when he loses the upcoming election fair and square. His disgraceful gang of shysters, goons, thugs, yes-men, and other misfits will see to it. Just you wait. And they fully intend to do absolutely everything they deem necessary to get their unstable and deranged messiah where he wants to be, not stopping at bribery and intimidation and subverting the law whenever it gets in the way. As for violence, don’t rule it out. That’s where intimidation comes in. It’s all about fear.

Another Trump presidency is certainly nothing to look forward to, not a particularly appetizing scenario—to the intelligent, thoughtful, principled people who haven’t succumbed to Trump’s unscrupulous demagoguery, anyway. But based on Trump’s cavalier disregard (and disrespect) for the law and the abominable record of the Trump 45 administration, as well as his sociopathic rantings and life, we shudder to consider what a Trump 47 administration would be like. (Here we use conditional “would” rather than indicative “will” in the hope that our lead paragraph is overly pessimistic.)

Remember that Trump told a receptive Ohio crowd in March, “Now, if I don’t get elected, it’s going to be a bloodbath for the whole . . . that’s going to be the least of it. It’s going to be a bloodbath for the country.” His faithful spinners tried to morph his clear threat into no more than a prediction about the automobile industry. But even though Trump tends to blather incoherently rather often, he knew precisely what he was saying.

And don’t forget that last year Trump had boasted to a Conservative Political Action Conference gang bang, “I am your retribution!” What he meant, of course, was, “‘Vengeance will be mine,’ saith your lord, for I am the only one who matters!”

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On the subject of spinners, trying to get in the act after Tony Hinchcliffe’s untoward remark about Puerto Rico (among his many other tasteless remarks at the Trump American Bund’s Madison Square Garden rally), yesterday Joe Biden blurted, “The only garbage I see floating out there is his supporters.”

Who let Joe out in front of the cameras? the POTUS keepers must have been wondering. So Joe’s faithful spinners cleverly put a strategic apostrophe in the transcript of his video: “The only garbage I see floating out there is his (Trump’s) supporter’s,” alluding, presumably, to Hinchcliffe. The spin doesn’t really make sense, so don’t overthink it. Of course, the spinners made it clear that Joe wasn’t in any way referring to all Trump supporters.

But we all know he was. And he made his point very clearly without the apostrophe . . .