Yes, but they more than double his means of self-expression!
And see:
So now Trump has to be pissed off at McConnell. What good is appointing all those conservative judges if they aren’t going to help you overturn an election?
He’s making that sound like a bad thing.
Only a modern day Republican could make it sound like there was actually a difficult choice between changing the party or abandoning democracy.
Sounds like he’s channeling Trump, with something he said back in April:
see also
And the foundation of this bizarre argument is entitlement: people with an ‘R’ after their names are ENTITLED to governmental power. Even if the only way to achieve that is to abandon democracy–and abandon the republic, too. Authoritarian one-party rule is what they are entitled to.
No. Just no.
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eta: So this software turns [( R )] into the ‘registered trademark’ symbol…okay, good to know.
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Pro-tip: Put a back-slash before both the left and right parentheses, like this: \(R\) and it will usually display it as (R) like you might with. Usually. The software is buggy in this area so even then it doesn’t always seem to work right.
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Thanks, Senegoid—I’ve copy-pasted your suggestion into a doc so I can refer back to it when I inevitably forget!
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Here are three substantial documents everyone should bookmark (or, bookmark this post):
Markdown Reference – The “Markdown” mark-up codes, much or all of which is used by Discourse.
BBCode tags reference – Our late lamented VBulletin mark-up tags reference, some more-or-less reasonable subset of which is also supported by Discourse.
GreysonCarlisle’s Discourse Tutorial Thread – Don’t be lulled by the title. This thread, posted on this board shortly after the switch-over, is no mere tutorial. It appears to be a fairly extensive user’s manual for Discourse users.
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ETA: The Markdown reference mentioned above is just a brief list of some of the more commonly used codes. It is far from comprehensive. See GreysonCarlisle’s thread for a far more thorough treatment.
Over the past week, President Trump has axed his defense secretary and other top Pentagon aides, his second-in-command at the U.S. Agency for International Development, two top Homeland Security officials, a senior climate scientist and the leader of the agency that safeguards nuclear weapons.
Engineering much of the post-election purge is Johnny McEntee, a former college quarterback who was hustled out of the White House two years ago after a security clearance check turned up a prolific habit for online gambling.
A staunch Trump loyalist, McEntee, 30, was welcomed back into the fold in February and installed as personnel director for the entire U.S. government. Since the race was called for President-elect Joe Biden, McEntee has been distributing pink slips, warning federal workers not to cooperate with the Biden transition and threatening to oust people who show disloyalty by job hunting while Trump is still refusing to acknowledge defeat, according to six administration officials.
More firings are expected, White House and agency officials said, including a top cybersecurity official whose agency on Thursday disputed Trump’s unfounded claims of election fraud. While the motives are not always clear — is the White House pursuing last-minute policy goals or simply punishing disloyalty? — critics say the dismissals threaten to destabilize broad swaths of the federal bureaucracy in the fragile period during the handover to the next administration.
…“Johnny is loyal to a fault to the president, but doesn’t have the basic understanding of how departments operate and what skills are required to hold certain Cabinet-level positions,” said one senior administration official, speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss internal matters. “It’s actually hampered the president by putting unqualified people throughout senior roles.”
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Ya think?
“It’s actually hampered the president by putting unqualified people throughout senior roles.”
That almost killed me.
Trump to the people of the United States of America: Do what I want or I will literally kill you.
It did kill a quarter of a million and counting.
“Back off or the nation gets it!”
Nothing has pissed me off today: as in, Trump has decided that since he will no longer be president, he doesn’t have to pretend that he gives a shit about the virus and can just sit in a corner doing nothing. Will his rabid supporters ever figure out that he really despises them and doesn’t give a damn what happens to them through his inaction? Probably not, unless there are mass deaths among them. Why should he make any appearances to reassure the people? After all, it won’t bring any benefit to him one way or another, right? And there are no consequences for ignoring the people who elected him. The morons will still send money to his slush fund PAC.
Trump to America: “If I can’t have you, nobody can!”
I wonder if I can get him to bet on whether Trump’s legal beagles will find some way to overturn the election results.
Since he’s repeatedly demonstrated the ability to paint himself into a corner of the Oval Office, sitting in the corner should be easy.