Originally published at: Romney fears Trump's revenge: "How am I going to protect 25 grandkids?" - Boing Boing
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Sounds like the only solution is to get campaigning and make sure it doesn’t happen, then.
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If the Orange Shitler loses, his minions are still gonna be pissed and looking for retribution. Mitts (and Cohen and Cheney and…) should maybe be thinking about that too.
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Trump calling Americans “my people” is both presumptuous and ominous.
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I’m pretty sure they have.
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If the vulture capitalist is so scared, why isn’t he endorsing Harris as the only way to preserve democracy? Taxes will be the least of his concerns if a MAGA regime takes power.
Of course, if Reek was more broadly concerned about his grandkids he’d be using his power to help address the climate emergency. But instead I’m sure he’s more focused on leaving them enough money to buy their way out of the consequences other young people will face
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Leopards, faces, etc etc.
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The danger and solutions to random unhappy supporters is different than the danger imposed by the power of the state being used against you.
I’ve never heard Eric or Tiffany suggest they need to leave the county to be safe if Harris wins. Conversely, I’ve read many reports of people actively planning to leave for their safety if Trump wins.
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To give the man his due, he was also the first American Senator of any party to vote in favor of convicting a President of their own party in an impeachment trial. So it’s all the more frustrating he won’t step up now to endorse Harris as so many of his fellow Republicans have.
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I know, right? Who would have thought that Dick Cheney would be better on this (or any issue) than Romney?
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Cohen already said he’d have to leave the country.
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Well, he COULD endorse Harris and work for her to be elected since she isn’t going to go after people who disagree with her. But I guess being a Republican is more important than the lives of his 25 grandkids.
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Um, maybe not laying in the same bed with the party of fascists if you care about your descendants at all.
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Honestly, it doesn’t sound like Romney was scared until this interviewer kept pushing the idea that he should be. And even then, it sounds like he was more irritated by the question than scared.
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“How am I going to protect 25 grandkids?”
I dunno - maybe with some of those hundreds of millions of dollars you made dismantling companies for a living?
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When I try a thought experiment of Trump waging war on more than half of America I can’t tell how it plays out. Do clueless people wake up, or do more people just get scared and fall in line? I don’t know.
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I really am trying to have some degree of sympathy, if not for Mittens, then at least for the aforementioned 25 grandkids. (I am well aware that most kids and grandkids of people like that do not turn out to be like them, despite some prominent examples.) I have no real sympathy for him, even while thinking “Well, at least you did the right thing eventually.”
Still, I can’t help but hear the question as “How am I going to protect my 25 grandkids from this monster that I helped create?”
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Well, it depends. Children of shitty people frequently don’t grow up shitty (or at least grow out of it once they leave home). Children of rich shitty people, though, odds are worse.
I can’t imagine something I’ve done that would justify an investigation, let alone an indictment.
I mean, in a just world I’m sure a lot of things he did at Bain Capital would justify an investigation at minimum.
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