I think it doesn’t happen but not because it’s stupid.
It doesn’t happen because Trump doesn’t want to be stuck with shitty “low-class” loser states. He wants the respect and adulation of states like New York and California, all the while insulting them.
To those from whom he craves attention, he acts like he does towards women. He grabs them by the pu…acts like an adolescent and negs them.
I would not be at all surprised if Trump decamped to the Mar-a-largo Winter White House, claiming he was the rightful President and that he had been overthrown in a banana republic election.
This is not that surprising.
What I think might happen that we never imagined, is that the RNC will get behind him and a double digit number of congressmen, along with Josh Hawley and Ted Cruz, will follow.
Which will put the rest of the Republicans, like Lindsey and Mitch, in a situation so ridiculously humiliating they can never live it down.
But this might be wishful thinking on my part.
ETA- I think we did suffer from a completely understandable failure of imagination. I mean NO ONE guessed “Trump musters an army of brainwashed zombies on the White House lawn and sends them to declare war on Congress”. If I had, you would’ve called me crazy.
I’d prefer strapped to the roof of the space shuttle, space shuttle style.
8 days left and still a clusterfuck:
No shock. The CFSG can’t be bothered to learn that the Alamo and Alamo, TX are two different places.
5th dimensional chess again. Too late to change the signs leading to town and send him over the border to Mexico.
Or make signs saying “Welcome Shithole, don’t let the door hit you in the ass on the way out.”
I have said before that any non-rational action by Trump is on the table and I would believe almost any idea that Trump supposedly had. I do expect the people around him to be more sane (although in the case of Powell, et. al. it’s barely).
Well, heck, all of us knew. Don’t they read the SDMB down in the Valley?
At least it’s not the car rental place.
Are you sure? What if Rudy is in charge of making the arrangements and he’s going to the Alamo rental in Alamo?
I think the most literal interpretation would be
überkopfgegangen
which has the advantage that people like me, with a Hogan’s Heros level command of German might be able to semi-parse it.
A couple of stories that may have been posted before, but well worth a quick read:
I like the way the above was written up (bolding mine):
“If you read my speech, and many people have done it, and I’ve seen it both in the papers and in the media, on television, it’s been analyzed, and people thought that what I said was totally appropriate,” Trump claimed, citing nobody in particular.
… Trump in his speech had urged supporters in Washington to “walk down to the Capitol” where Congress was meeting to affirm President-elect Joe Biden’s victory, and he called on them to “show strength” because “you’ll never take back our country with weakness.” The subsequent pro-Trump riot at the Capitol left five people dead, and on Monday, House Democrats introduced an article of impeachment charging Trump with inciting an insurrection …
And in other news, companies he’s been depending on, including Deutche Bank, are refusing to do further business with him. This is the kind of thing I was hoping would happen – that Trump, having been unexpectedly elected to a job that he was totally unqualified for, would make such a total hash of it and expose himself as the vile criminal that he is, that it would destroy his shady private businesses in its aftermath.
I was the one who originally brought up the idea of Trump not being allowed to travel, but I wasn’t thinking so much about the US Do Not Fly list as other countries barring him from entry.
For example, the UK has a list of people who promote hate in their home countries that are never allowed to enter: List of people banned from entering the United Kingdom - Wikipedia
It will be interesting to see how many countries that Trump does business with put him on a similar list. Obviously the optics of blocking a former US President from most countries would be damning, but Trump is nothing if not unique.
Didn’t that Manny Peeples guy used to post here or something? When did he become such a trumpie?
Lindsey is on the plane with him heading for Texas. Don’t try to make him out to be what he isn’t.
Individual 1 still hasn’t said a thing about the dead Capitol policeman, but he wasted no time in sending out a letter mourning Sheldon Adelson.
I’m not sure why you envision any problem with the optics at all.
I would not be surprised at all to find that Trump did mix these two places up. In fact, I’d be shocked if he knew the difference, and expect him to make reference to “Remember the Alamo”. I hope someone points out that San Antonio is some distance away, and he’s a moron.
I read this as “they’ll have Nic Cage waiting for him.”
There’s a tie-in between Nic Cage being at the Alamo, and Rudy not being able to find the super secret Constitution that Trump needed Pence to locate.
I’m hoping Mexicans will throw stuff over the wall while he’s there.