My thoughts are more optimistic. I don’t think it’s fun for him anymore and, just maybe, he’s looking for an exit. He’s reached ‘cheering crowd’ celebrity status and will always be worshipped in red states. I bet he can live with that.
That and blowing his mouth to rile up his crowd for shits and giggles, along with an endless assault of conspiracy theories and utter stupidity, which they all continue to lap up.
He’s shifted his residence to Florida so his assets, like OJ, seem untouchable. I’m thinking they’ve all had plenty of time to inside trade, sell off influence and assets. Pretty much stripping every dime they could out of the public purse, by hook and by crook. And while the rest of the country holds its breath in fear, they’re busy wreaking havoc, destroying records, in every department, so what they’ve been up to is WAY too impossibly chaotic to unravel.
And he’s loving the press winding everybody up, then he just waltz’s out and waves Goodbye! Retires to Mara Lago and golfs.
I sure hope you’re right. 335 should put things out of the range of the lawyers and courts disputing anything. I fear it will get tighter than that tough.
Will there be a surge of panic shopping on or around Election Day? Will the shelves be stripped bare? Is it happening already?
SHOULD I BE DOING MY PANIC GROCERY SHOPPING TODAY? (I’m talking about foodstuffs. I’ve already got plenty of toilet paper.) Is it already too late? NEED ANSWER FAST!
Was 2016 that horrifying to watch? I was indeed surprised and found it very surreal and weird, but people talk about Election Night 2016 as if they went into a doctor’s office for a routine checkup and got told “You have cancer.”
That seems pretty accurate. The fact that enough Americans would vote for someone so unqualified, unethical, and stupid was a shock, absolutely. I think we’ll get rid of Trump tomorrow, but the root problem remains.
I comfort myself with the knowledge that more people voted for Al Gore and Hillary Clinton. The American voters weren’t dumb enough to elect George W. Bush or Donald Trump. We just need to have a system that lets the voters decide who becomes President. We could call it “democracy”.
I was legitimately shocked. I thought Americans were a lot more patriotic and loved their country too much to hand it over to such an obvious conman. Trump talking about shooting people on 5th avenue, 2nd amendment solutions, not having an election and declaring him the winner, asking Russia for help, and the list goes on and on. I really thought any one of those cost Trump the election. I was very wrong.
When I woke up the morning after election day, I felt EXACTLY the same grief and terror in my body that I felt the day after my husband died 16 years previously. I am not exaggerating.
I don’t know about this. In 2016 he ran the perfect campaign against a candidate many people hated and who ran the worst campaign since Dewey. Already Trump is losing the key states he needs to win like Pennsylvania and Michigan.
Wow, I totally believe it (and I’m sorry for your loss).
For me, the closest feeling (and, like you, I do include physical, short- and long-term bodily reactions) I could compare it to was that following 9-11.
OK, here is where I must differ and say that though I was very unpleasantly surprised and pissed off I was not so existentially horrified at the 2016 result. More like, “goddamn, she could not close it and the motherf----r pulled it off with all the SOBs!” Then again it probably was a matter of knowing that yes it could happen and that no, we’re not exceptional about this sort of thing. Parts of the after-election Chappelle/Rock SNL sketch about “election night with the liberals” rang right with me: hell yes this country is capable of this.
