It does bring to mind a pretty sinister scenario, however.
There was an episode of Agent Carter where evil hypnotist Ivchenko had his face wired shut and put in the same jail cell with evil scientist Dr. Arnim Zola. Zola told him “Despite all their seemingly bleak circumstances, you are a fortunate man. You are in an American jail, and America is the land of opportunity.”
He’s not worried about going to prison because he probably won’t even be prosecuted. He’s worried about losing the millions of dollars constantly flowing into his personal business from taxpayers. Also he wants to be adored, and losing would mean he isn’t adored, so he’ll do whatever it takes to cheat-win so he can claim he’s adored and 99% of the country wants to suck his disintegrating dick.
The Vermont AFL-CIO is preparing for a strike vote of the entire state if Individual 1 doesn’t step down after losing the election.
Plus the resolution calls for a national union strike “in the event of a coup.”
They’re not the only ones, but you can only stand to hear Cat Scratch Fever so many times.
It would be very very proper and very nice if a winner were declared on November 3rd, instead of counting ballots for two weeks, which is totally inappropriate and I don’t believe that that’s by our laws. I don’t believe that. So we’ll see what happens
– Trump before leaving WH
Of course votes are counted after Election Day. If there is a moment when he he has a lead in a state he will declare himself the winner and try to shut the vote counting down. Florida in 2000.
Good news everyody-- the trump admin has officially ended the pandemic!!
The whole point of Trump’s executive order that makes it easier to fire people is so that he can fire those who do not say what he wants them to say.
If Trump wins, expect all of our data to have been altered by sharpie before it is released to the public.
Covid will be over, everyone will have a job, and the environment will be cleaner than ever!
This country’s biggest denier of science has a “Science Office”?
Yes, just like the government of Oceania had a “Ministry of Truth”.
The actual press release linked in the story says
ENDING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC: From the outset of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Administration has taken decisive actions to engage scientists and health professionals in academia, industry, and government to understand, treat, and defeat the disease.
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which is rather ambiguous language that does not literally declare the pandemic over (except for cases where “literally” is used to mean “figuratively”).
I mean…this IS dumb, right?
"We’re gonna get your husbands back to work, because they are the workers. Not you, of course, because you have vaginas and are obviously not bread winners or major contributors to the household income… "
Dumb for sure, but also a sign of the social and intellectual bubble he’s lived in for 50+ years.
I think he simply may not realize that we aren’t living in 1970 and especially not in 1970 Brooklyn.
If we were, I’d buy up some cheap property near the river.
One of the reasons the electoral college votes so many weeks after election day is because it used to take weeks to tally all the paper ballots by hand before a winner was confirmed. As usual, $45 has no knowledge of history, and neither do his supporters.
Frankly, I could wish a return to paper ballots and hand counting, especially after following Jennifer Cohn on Twitter. She has some eye-opening and really, really terrifying reports on the safety of our voting machines. TL;DR: they ain’t very.
I did say “awaiting trial.” I’m in the camp that believes Trump won’t see the inside of either a jail or a prison. (I’d bet he flees the country unless given credible promises of having his sentence commuted.)
If he flees, it certainly is possible that Twitter would bar him from its platform. I don’t think that’s likely, though. Yes, he will probably be given less leeway than he enjoys now. But Trump has always followed mob-boss rules: he says stuff that’s just this side of illegality. He’s indirect and employs innuendo. He won’t say ‘followers, please shoot Biden’ even if he’s no longer President.
Look at the way he framed his ‘will no one rid me of this turbulent rival’ request today:
Trump’s defense here would be something like ‘I was telling them how terrible it would be if Kamala became President.’ The fact that he’s clearly fantasizing about Joe Biden getting shot—‘putting that idea out there,’ as it were—would be waved aside.
That’s how he’d continue to do things on Twitter, should he be expelled from the Presidency. They wouldn’t ban him just because he’s Donald Trump; there would have to be an overt act on his part that justified it.
(Obviously my bolding in the speech transcript.)
Hijack, but I’m curious: Have Republican voters ever noticed that there’s a Republican ritual of routinely, and erroneously, proclaiming any Senate Democrat who gets on a Presidential ticket to be “the most liberal person in the Senate”? IIRC, this goes back at least to the Clinton-Gore candidacy, although it seems to have skipped Lieberman in 2000.
Gore '92 (VP)
The claim also seems to have skipped Clinton '16, perhaps given the widespread awareness that her best-known competitor for the Democratic nomination was Sen. Bernie Sanders, an actual self-identified socialist.
And now Harris is getting her turn at the “most liberal Senator” accusation, even though she manifestly is not, and a fortiori not more liberal than Sanders.
Presumably the Republican campaign is banking on the expectation that their voters have forgotten any actual facts about specific policies that Sanders advocates, and will not notice how absurd it is to claim that Harris is more liberal than he is. They don’t seem to have noticed the absurdity of the previous “most liberal Senator” claims, after all.
These are people who actually believe the Democrats are socialist, Communist AND Marxist all at the same time. Expecting them to question the “most liberal” thing is unrealistic.
And of course these people don’t have a lick of an idea what socialism, communism and marxism mean and what the differences between them are, only that they’re BAAAAD, and “unamerican” (my “favorite” adjective).
Maybe, but I can’t help wondering if it’s dawned on any of them that the description is formulaic rather than factual. Democrats don’t seem to automatically start calling Senate Republicans “the most conservative Senator” when they get a Prez or Veep nomination, but if they did, I think I’d have noticed the ritualistic nature of the claim.
This X 1,000,000
I often wonder what the socialism-haters think it is?