Not to be a Junior Mod, but shouldn’t threads about warnings go in ATMB?
I’ma report this thread for relocation, then settle back and read it…
I think there’s around a 50/50 chance that Trump will get re-elected in 2020 due to widespread fraud (with or without Russian interference).
But 2024? I don’t think even the Republicans will be able to steal a third term.
Where?
Okay, nevermind.
If the GOP gets in again in 2020 due to widespread fraud (Russian or otherwise), then the odds that there will be elections at all in 2024 go way down.
Or if there are any, they will be of the banana-republic/Putinesque “95% of votes were for Our Leader” variety.
I like to think that in the worst case, he would not be hauled out of the Executive Mansion in handcuffs or a straight jacket. I prefer to think if it reaches that level, once the sedation took effect, he’d be hauled out on a gurney to an ambulance to a mental health facility.
I think they’re too smart to do away with elections entirely. Folks do love that pageantry of a contest and all that. Too many people focus on the regimes of Hitler and the like and don’t realize that what we’d be far more likely to see is “Fascism-American Style” (Sounds like the title for a bad TV series, doesn’t it?) in which all the forms are followed but the substance is lacking.
And as far as hacking in 2020 goes, there is the fact that a big fat zero has been done to secure the elections against foreign interference. But once you leave the door open there’s no telling who’s gonna walk in. The Russians, the Chinese, the Iranians, the Israelis, the North Koreans, the Albanians, for Christ’s sake. You’d thing that folks who are sooooo concerned with “voter fraud” would want to see the American President actually picked by Americans, but nooooooo.
Americans are hackers too.
Maybe the next president will be decided by a 300 pound guy living in his mother’s basement. What’s more american than that?
I’m more worried that Trump will actually win re-election – legitimately.
Your hypothetical left out perhaps the nuttiest visual of all. If Trump was indeed refusing to leave the White House on January 20, *of course *he’d set up a mini-inauguration of his own in the Oval Office at noon, competing with the actual ceremony in front of the Capitol (and broadcast on Fox News). And he’d claim his inauguration had far more audience members there in the Oval than there were out on the Mall.
I believe the new Congress is sworn in and takes office on January 3 every two years. Certification of the election results would be by the new Congress. I’m almost positive about that.
Back in July 2016, when Clinton was ahead by close to 20 points in the polls, my wife visited her overwhelmingly “blue-collar-union-member-but-fairly-progressive-on-social-issues” relatives. She came back saying, “Trump could win.”
So, yeah, I’m also worried Trump could win re-election because people vote for him, and not just because someone cheats, manipulates, suppresses or whatever.
Why would he stop with the stuff he installed? He’s a real estate guy. When there’s a tenant/landlord dispute that results in the tenant leaving or being evicted, it’s not uncommon for the tenant to totally trash the place before he goes.
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I don’t think he’ll have even that much authority. Doesn’t the White House domestic staff work for the President? I can imagine him waiting for someone to come take his order, and then storming into the kitchen to scream he wants his Egg McMuffin and Diet Coke, only to be met by blank stares and a quiet statement: “We don’t work for you.”
Robert Reich on the topic what if thump refuses to leave office:
“Would be endangering their [sic] own life”?? WTF??
“an insurrection like you’ve never seen”
They can claim this type of bullshit all they want. Just keep in mind that the people who would be involved in such an insurrection are the tiki torch douchebags and 4chan trolls. Nothing to fear.
Can’t edit. Also, the one’s making these claims sure do have a way of going to prison.
That makes Roger Stone Trump’s Silvio Dante! 
But the Antifa…
What’s the [sic] for? 
The sentence appears in the article as
In this part
“their” should be “his” or “her” or both, since the antecedent is the singular “any.” I know these days we use their (plural) because nobody wants to use the technically correct singular his, but I’m not lettin’ Stone get away with anything.