…7 million more votes for Biden don’t matter. That is the crime here. I don’t have any condolences to the losers mourning Trump’s loss today because they crowed victory when three million more votes for Hillary didn’t mean that she won. The struggle over the next four years will be to make sure that Donald Trump is the LAST president to hold the office without ever earning the support of the majority of Americans. No other political task is as important as this one goal. Destroying minority rule in the United States FOREVER.
one of the things that that has happened at least three times in American history is we go from a period where there is a focus on equality and on rights. And when that happens, when people, ordinary people start to have political power, they do, in fact, guarantee that they retain more of the value that they produce. And they want they want what they have done. They don’t want what anybody else has done, but they actually want what they have produced. And when that happens, the people who have tended to be able to accumulate wealth into their own hands start to worry that they are going to lose that power.
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When Mitch McConnell says we can’t call out Caudito Trump’s tantrums for what they are, he is pretending that other leaders in US history acted as he did. That is simply not the case.
Both Al Gore and Hillary Clinton should have been president. That didn’t stop them from graciously conceding the races they were deemed to have lost by legal fiat. Contrast Al Gore’s performance with Donald Trump’s, as was done in the above referenced episode of What Trump Can Teach Us About Con Law. Or you could just watch this video of Obama graciously explaining how Americans were just going to have to lie back and accept Donald Trump as president for four years.
Facebook (Obama’s announcement of coordination with the Trump Administration)
Ask any woman who is told that they have to “lie back and take it” about how well that suggestion goes over for them. If you survive the experience you will be able to appreciate the kind of hell that is waiting for Donald Trump and his Republicans as soon as they are no longer in power.
There are many out there who think that Trump is engaged in yet another con, when it comes to his shenanigans concerning the counting of votes, and on some level I imagine that Trump thinks this too. This doesn’t change the fact that he will do everything in his power to wreck the office that he will be kicked out of in January because he doesn’t care about anyone other than himself.
I don’t know if his destructiveness will lead him to try to call out the military to kill people directly. He is a pathological liar and a narcissist that could easily qualify as confinable by court ruling if he was brought before the court in a competency hearing. But he hasn’t shown himself to be capable of killing people on his direct order yet. One might actually say that he has tried to keep his hands clean so far, understanding that being seen to be a murderer would alienate the people who love him, no matter what he says about shooting someone on Fifth Avenue.
It is one thing to shoot someone that the crowd encourages you to shoot. It is another thing entirely to shoot someone that the crowd is sympathetic to. That would be a game changer in the true sense of the phrase.
I would never have agreed to run a stand-up campaign against Donald Trump and his merry band of felons-in-waiting. This is the difference between me and Joe Biden. Me and the press. Me and the Democratic party. To my mind, there is nothing legitimate about Donald Trump or his presidency. There never has been anything legitimate about it. I would never have stooped to covering his Tweets or his press conferences. I would never have assigned a reporter to the White House. I would never have agreed to debate Donald Trump on stage.
I expected either or both of the candidates to sabotage the debates simply because the debates were going to be shitshows no matter what. Either Biden would mop the floor with a clueless Trump or Trump would be allowed to bully Biden. In any case, I wasn’t going to watch because I can’t stand to listen to Donald Trump utter three words consecutively.
…I said this all five years ago. Donald Trump should have been hauled off in handcuffs the first time he told someone to rough up a protester at one of his events. He should have been hauled into tax court in 1980 when it was clear he was cheating on his taxes. Had the law been enforced then, we wouldn’t be here now.
Strangely, the evangelicals started abandoning Donald Trump after he contracted the coronavirus. I think I need to get one of them to explain to me why he can’t be god’s chosen one after he was diagnosed with the disease. I’ve also heard that the Qdrops are saying that he didn’t really catch it, it’s all part of the plan to surprise and start arresting those baby-eating sex fiends that run the Democratic party. I think they’ve all been mainlining whatever that is he puts on his face. That might explain everything.
(This trend reversed before the date of the election. I remain puzzled as to why it started and why it reversed. Looking forward to reading that research someday. -ed.)
It is most infuriating that so much of this Trump bullshit is still topical, and it is still topical because they are still doing the stupid stuff that failed to gain them victories in the midterms. There is landslide turnout across the country. Landslide turnout.
Now, you can ask, are Democrats the only ones that vote early? (many have asked that) and my response to that question is to ask a few questions of my own. Do you really think that this president is inspiring landslide turnout in favor of killing an additional four million Americans with COVID? Or do you think that this collapsed economy is the reason that people have turned out in record numbers in support of Donald Trump? Which is it?
…of course it is people who are dissatisfied who are voting. Stormtrumpers are defensive about voting for him in 2016, and fewer of them will be voting for him now. That is not the characterization of what most of us would think of as “winning.”
He can still cheat his way into a stalemate, and I expect that he will come very close to doing that. It won’t matter in the end. With no clear victory in the election, the military will simply hand the nuclear codes to the Speaker of the House (most likely Nancy Pelosi) on January 20, and we’ll just continue on from there. I’m good with that outcome too.
This is how Trump treats America. Trump doesn’t listen. Trump is a bully. Trump talks over the experts, the courts, congress, and every citizen. You’re looking right at it. How he treats Biden is how he treats YOU.
Stonekettle
