Presidential candidates are only entitled to Secret Service protection until so many day after the election (IRCC until the EC meets in December). They leave once that window is up regardless of whether Trump dismisses them or not.
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And rested! Don’t forget rested!
No projector. No projector! YOU’RE the projector!
They can certainly leave earlier- Romney and McCain both lost their’s the day after the election.
ETA: Also according to that article, if you win, your detail instantly becomes much larger.
'Tis but a flesh wound.
Toooootally missed that one. Must be due to my impaired liberal sense of humor.
Opposing them, and voting no, is one thing, but not even allowing the nominee to come to a vote is something else again.
This is why we need to flip the Senate. Not just the SC, but all the lower Federal judgeships that have been delayed, blocked or otherwise left unfilled because the Republicans petulantly refuse to act on them.
On NPR I heard a little while ago-- Trump saying (It was Trump himself talking) that there was one way he would accept the results, “IF I WIN.” (Link to CNN.)
ETA: What a fucking blowhard.
Watch out: we might find that a single ballot fell behind a desk in Kenosha, WI, not to be discovered until early January. Then opponents could claim, “A ballot wasn’t counted; it wasn’t a fair election.” We’re dealing with that kind of reasoning.
Again, I would insist on us defining what a “rigged election” is, and that isn’t it. A rigged election would be one where, in the judgment of a reasonable person, a conspiracy took place to substantially alter the results of the election, and succeeded in doing so by a margin sufficient to make a substantial difference in the election results as measured in electoral votes (even if the conspiracy is uncovered and the electoral vote assignments corrected prior to the Electoral College meeting.)
Glinda the Good Witch was the Witch of the South (book) or North (film). The Wicked Witch of the East was only ever seen flattened under Dorothy’s house.
The impertinent, though, is whether he[sup]*[/sup] will be, uh, armed.
*his supporters
I’m trying to imagine the America as destroyed by Trump, and the only thing that comes to mind is Biff’s hotel/casino in the 1985 alternate timeline in Back to the Future II.
Can someone please check to make sure Trump doesn’t have Gray’s Sports Almanac in his back pocket circa the 1960s?
Cute.
Before I clicked I guessed what I might find. I was disappointed to see it wasn’t the two doors labeled “Gropers” and “Gropees”. Though I suppose that was last week’s doors. I gotta try harder to keep up.
I think you’re right that Trump would find that validating, but for all his and his followers’ blather, I think any kind of armed revolt is highly unlikely. You might have a few ultra-right idiots that do something like the Bundy family did and try to take over some remote bit of federal land, but no mass movement.
“We’ll rise up and have a revolution to protect our country” is the right-wing flagwaver’s equivalent of the left wing’s “I’m moving to Canada”. Almost nobody actually takes that action.
The country is more divided than it’s been in the recent past, but we’re a long way from actual civil war.
The good witch is from the North. The witch of the east was the dead one whom Dorothy landed on, the Wicked Witch of the West’s sister.
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Perhaps you did not watch the debate? Trump was not asked to concede last night; he was asked if he would concede if he lost the election. It was a conditional question. You can answer those.
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Post a transcript and highlight where your outrage is coming from.
Has Trump had a problem accepting defeat in the election?
There have been posters that have claimed that this election could be rigged, yet you choose to pester me because I made a very modest claim that someone who accepts an outcome without witnessing whether or not it was fairly executed is a chump. I assume your silence on the matter is because only Russians and Republicans can rig elections.
So now you think I’m a chump? It would cost me over $5000 in time and energy in trying to prove the election met the agreed upon standards.
Didn’t she wear blue at one debate, red at one, and white at the third?
Yeah, I think that’s all that was. No need to read anything deeper into it.