I was totally baked when I voted. Still count? Personally, I think it should count double.
Donald Trump-Less of a human being, more of an ambulatory Yahoo comments section.
The Times (finally!!) has begun fact-checking Trump in its headlines. About time.
Other papers need to follow suit.
From a Times reporter: “Trump has a torturous relationship with the truth.”
Donald’s original tweet:
This actually sounds like a blonde joke (are we allowed to say that anymore?), or in Texas, an Aggie joke.
Donald seems to be channeling Yogi Berra:
And they clearly hacked Twitter to get to Trump’s actual feed. An impressive accomplishment indeed. Just wait until the kidnap him and replace him with a lookalike who sputters out the same nonsense in press briefings. Or have they done it already? Do we need to bring Derek Flint out of retirement to investigate?
And this is the danger; that his spewing idiocy could be taken as just “the new normal” and becomes the standard practice which is no longer questioned as abnormal. Tacitly accepting this as precedent is even more dangerous, as is responding to every stupid thing he says on Twitter.
I think the appropriate response to discovering that two candidates of vastly differing political views have questioned the validity of the vote count is to file amicus curiae briefs in all states requesting judicial intervention and a mandate to investigate the electoral process from end to end to ensure that corruption and error have not compromised the vote. In the interim we can appoint Uggie, the dog from The Artist as the President (Sitting, Good Boy); given his qualifications, temperament, and training, as well as a record free of scandal and mischief, he is imminently more qualified than…well, pretty much everyone who was nominated to run this year. In fact, we could just vote him President-For-Life with assurance that we’ll only have to put up with him for another twelve years, fifteen years tops. I hear he also has an excellent energy development policy. Well, at least in comparison to the other contenders.
Yes, it is a stupid, unworkable, and pointless suggestion, but so is everything that Trump tweets out, which is why the focus should be on what he does and how it is actually a danger to national security and prosperity. The story here shouldn’t be “Trump says another stupid thing on Twitter” but “Trump spends his time on Twitter rather than preparing to run the largest military and economic powerhouse in the free world.”
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Democratic response: Hey, there is some weird math. It’s probably nothing. We should double check to ensure the Democratic process.
Republican response: Holy shit! I have no data to back up any of this, but brown people voted illegally!
To be clear, the vote recount movement in Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania was led and funded by Jill Stein, the Green Party candidate. Clinton and the DNC said that they would participate in the Wisconsin recount (e.g. they will have observers in place) but have not expressed the opinion that fraud occurred or that a recount is necessary.
It is Trump, and Trump alone among Republicans who is insisting that there is still widespread electoral fraud in the popular vote. This is an important distinction because however you feel about the Republican candidates or party in general, none of the Republicans in Congress have expressed support for the notion that there is widespread fraud in this election or refused to accept the results of this election, and save for current North Carolina governor Pat McCrory hoping to retain his position, there are no major state level challenges. If Trump continues into real media to contest the validity of the election and damages public confidence in the electoral process without any basis in fact it just serves as more evidence that Trump is a bombastic demagogue, which we can only hope is going to come back ground and bite him at some point when he fails to delivery on any of the promises he made while campaigning.
Stranger
Trump is the leader of the Republican party, and I haven’t heard any prominent members of his party disagreeing with his statements. His statements can, and should, be taken as the opinion of the Republican party.
Because he still can’t believe he pulled off this publicity stunt gone terribly wrong. He’s looking for any excuse so he won’t have to actually do the job of POTUS.
I think they’re too embarrassed. It’s a case of, “I don’t know that man, never met him, have no idea who he is.” Not that that’s an excuse.
Absolutely.
But lest’s break it down.
During the election, he kept saying it was all rigged and crooked.
He “hinted” he would not accept the results if he lost… Recount?
Then he won…
He lost the popular vote but won the Electoral College.
Winning meant the election was legit, to him.
But now, the Green party has started a movement to have the election audited in a few sates, with a possible recount maybe happening.
He is dead against it now that he won.
BUT!!! He is also saying he would have won all the states (or something) or ALL the popular vote (or something), except for the MILLIONS of fraudulent voters.
If the vote was so rigged that MILLIONS of votes were fake, then wouldn’t anyone who isn’t absolutely fucking crazy want an audit, Just To Make Sure???
Technically, as Chairman of the Republican National Committee, Reince Prebius is the leader of the party. Donald Trump is a just-in-time Republican who hijacked the rhetoric of the neoconservative and Tea Party segment and promised to follow through on the implied statements that actual politicians were too timid to voice, serving as a demagogue to align the various disenchanted factions and other non-GOP voters behind a chorus of isolationism and corruption reform, even he has personally benefitted from international trade agreements and is corrupt as a five-day-dead roadkill skunk.
Actually, they’re outside with bowls because they heard it is raining soup. They are only starting to discover that it is now raining shit and they’re going have to eat a really big bowl of it if they want to get their way.
You are attempting to play a logical game of chess against a man who is sweeping the pieces off the board and propositioning you to arm wrestle. Only, the size of his tiny hands means that you can only get one finger in his grip while each of his sons are grabbing your balls and his spokesperson Kellyanne Conway is blowing an air horn in your face every time you protest that this isn’t the way to play the game.
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I don’t know how it’s actually psychologically possible to, on the same fucking day, take Jill Stein (and the ‘badly defeated’ democrats) to task for demanding a recount, and claim that the election was fraudulent (because he lost the popular vote). I just don’t.
But that’s a part of why I think it’s dangerous to label Trump a liar. A lie has a relationship to the truth—a negative one, but still. The liar wants you to believe their lie; so, fundamentally, a liar still cares about what is true, and what isn’t. Trump’s statements, simply, bear no relation to the truth at all. He just doesn’t fucking care if what he says is true or not; the sole object of all his utterances is self-promotion. He’s what the philosopher Harry Frankfurt called a bullshitter, and we haven’t entered any post-factual era or anything like that—we’ve simply just seen the demonstration that bullshitting works, setting a precedent that’s going to set the tone in politics and society for the immediate future.
I don’t know what’s worse. Trump’s failure to think through the implications of what he says even when it takes less than one second of mental processing to do so and respect for our democratic institutions is on the line. Or the fact that he wantonly advertises this failure using a sounding board made for screen-addicted teenagers, despite being the goddamn president-elect of the US.
Are there no Republicans worthy of even moderate respect, any more? A full day has passed, have any of them spoken up? John McCain? Lindsey Graham? Even the reprehensible Ted Cruz is lining up to give Il Douche a tongue-bath. Not even one?
Every leader dreams of a communication channel from their mouth/fingers directly to some very large number of constituents. That’s Twitster.
crickets
Trump’s unsupported claim of voter fraud appears to have Texas roots
Often these days, I’m embarrassed to be a Texan. I promise we’re not all like this. All of the counties from Austin and San Antonio south went for Clinton.
*I think Alex Jones was the guy who said that Obama and Clinton both stank of sulphur because they hung out with Satan in hell. Or maybe I have him mixed up with some other highbrow.
No; no one deserving respect would join or support the Republican party.
I think he simply doesn’t give a fuck.