Renzatic on 20/11/2020 at 20:41
Canmerico FTW!
Tony_Tarantula on 20/11/2020 at 22:34
Quote Posted by Nicker
They don't have the military.
They do have an army of dangerous idiots.
We should be worried. About 60% of the military voted for Trump. A lot of those dangerous idiots are in the military.
Jason Moyer on 21/11/2020 at 05:37
The left has guns, too. And we don't have to worry about friendly fire since the enemy likes to wear bright red hats that say MAGA on them. It's not going to come to that, but I'm pretty sure I wouldn't be alone on declaring open hunting season if a Trump coup were actually successful.
SubJeff on 21/11/2020 at 06:03
Quote Posted by Tony_Tarantula
We should be worried. About 60% of the military voted for Trump. A lot of those dangerous idiots are in the military.
How do you get this figure?
caffeinatedzombeh on 21/11/2020 at 14:03
Quote Posted by SubJeff
How do you get this figure?
You make it up, have you not been listening to how Trump reckons this whole election thing should work?
Tocky on 21/11/2020 at 17:22
Today is the day two Michigan legislators are being alternately cajoled and threatened to disenfranchise the majority of voters so that Trump can win the state. Although it is against the law for them to do so he will tell them they can be pardoned by him for giving him the electoral votes which are not his by law. Will they resist and do the right thing? I can't even imagine having to contemplate such a choice. Ruining over two hundred years of democracy for one man would not even be a choice for me, not for him nor Biden nor anyone, but that is what they will face and deal with. Will they bring down democracy in the US? We will know Monday.
Starker on 21/11/2020 at 17:57
I thought a president couldn't pardon state crimes?
SubJeff on 21/11/2020 at 19:05
It'll never happen Tocky, it's too crazy.
demagogue on 21/11/2020 at 20:06
There were faithless electors in the 2016 election voting against Trump, so something like it can happen. But state rules are all different. I don't know if a few faithless electors could swing a whole state (the whole set of electors), as opposed to just their individual votes. It's not a thing we've ever had to think about or deal with.
I guess while I'm posting I can post my pick for op/ed of the day, that I know of anyway.
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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/nov/21/trump-monumental-sulk-president-retreats-from-public-eye-covid-ravages-us) Trump's monumental sulk: president retreats from public eye as Covid ravages US
There was one thing that even Donald Trump's harshest critics were never able to accuse him of: invisibility.
The outgoing US president held endless campaign rallies, verbally sparred with reporters on the way to his helicopter and spent so long on the phone to Fox News shows that even pliable hosts had to gently but firmly hang up. He was the master of saturating every news cycle with his voice and image.
Yet two weeks after his defeat by Joe Biden in the election, Trump has effectively gone missing in action. Day after day passes without a public sighting. He does not hold press conferences any more. He has even stopped calling into conservative media.
For critics, it is evidence of a monumental sulk as Trump contemplates his imminent loss of power and exit from the White House. In their view, it is also a staggering abrogation of responsibility as the coronavirus pandemic surges to new highs, infecting more than 158,000 Americans - and killing in excess of 1,100 - every day.
Amid the deafening silence, Trump's only “proof of life” since Biden's victory has been a handful of public events at the White House and a military cemetery, weekend outings to his golf course in Virginia and a barrage of tweets airing grievances and pushing baseless conspiracy theories that the election was stolen from him.
“I don't think we've had a president since Richard Nixon who is as far in the bunker and detached from the country as Donald Trump is right now,” said Larry Jacobs, director of the Center for the Study of Politics and Governance at the University of Minnesota.
“Donald Trump has not only suffered a catastrophic political defeat, he's clearly also suffering from a deep emotional break. This behavior is even more erratic than usual and he has retreated. He has put himself in a form of psychological isolation. His emotional state is clearly abysmal. In the popular lexicon, he's lost it.”
Trump's hermit-like status has proved irresistible to comedians, historians and overseas commentators. He has been compared to a tyrant in a fragile democracy holed up in a presidential palace and plotting either an internal coup or a sudden escape across the border. Late-night TV host Stephen Colbert observed: “Well, history famously holds happy endings for autocrats who lose and then retreat to their bunker.”
