Well, yeah. The article begins with the implicit assumption: “let’s assume that the election is over and the results are certified and Biden has a majority of Electoral Votes.” Which is a fair place to start, but we have a few hurdles to overcome before we get there.
He was very thorough. The whole White House also made sure that the “off” setting on their lightbulbs was working at the same time.
Unless it’s a close election I think the GOP will abandon Trump. I think most of the leaders would love to be rid of him as long as they don’t piss off his base too much. If Trump loses big (I can dream, can’t I?) then even the base won’t protect him. I do worry what Trump will do between November and January.
If the election is close (God forbid) then we could be in for a bumpy ride. Trump will declare fraud (with no evidence) and the GOP will have to decide if it’s worth fighting for Trump to keep a Republican in the White House. (Even if he gets trounced Trump will declare that he won but I can’t imagine the GOP will try to fight that battle when he so clearly lost.)
Steve King’s defeat last night was a very positive development. I don’t want to assume anything, but it might possibly be a sign that people have had enough of the insanity. To that end, it’s important to keep protesting, to keep putting pressure on the extremist bloc.
The Mueller investigation and impeachment didn’t work because there was no pressure for the Republicans to retreat. Constitutions can’t save republics and democracies, only people can. Maybe we’re doing that now.
I seem to recall stories about the Trump team not knowing how to work the light switches when they first moved in, so maybe they were just practicing.
Hence my employment of the terms, ‘harebrained’ and ‘nutty’. I never said the plan would work – only that Trump may attempt it. And that only after your aforementioned tactics had not. Obviously he’ll try all you mentioned first. They’re doing it as we speak.
But if you think he’s unhinged now, just wait till he grasps the full knowledge of what’s coming. He’s barely restrained as it is and he still sort of believes he can pull out a win in November. Who knows? With enough help from Putin again and his own corrupt party, maybe he can.
I never imagined TrumpCo would think to try to take over the D.C. police department, either. But they did, as noted in Rick Kitchen’s article referenced in Post #44222.
It’s worth reading this David Frum piece in The Atlantic from March 2017. Horrifying how much of what he predicted has come to pass.
I have long been extremely concerned about the stretch between November 3rd and January 20th. Lots of bad things can happen during that time.
And we had better start thinking about what to do with all the packed courts and the autocratic structure of power Trump/McConnell will have left behind once power has been wrested from them. An immense amount of damage has already been done.
In a perverse way, COVID-19 might be the thing that saves our democracy. Trump’s inept, inadequate response to the predictable pandemic, which heralded the collapse of our economy while simultaneously requiring out-of-work people to stay home for a couple months and watch a lot of tee vee – where they witnessed yet another shameless homicide committed by those sworn to protect and serve.
I am heartened to see the level of anger revealed through the breadth and depth of the demonstrations. People get it. Let’s hope the outrage can carry us to November 3rd and beyond. A decisive election is our best strategy.
Sadly, the really hard work doesn’t start until January 21, 2021. With our short attention spans, will Americans keep in mind the threat posed by this kleptocracy we’re fighting against for long enough to destroy it? Or will the kleptocrats just be back in 4-8 years, as they were from George W. Bush to Trump, with a President Pompeo carrying on with their relentless agenda?
Turns out that the voter fraud was coming from inside the White House.
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“The voter application is dated Sept. 27, 2019 — the same day that Trump made the domicile change. On one of his forms that day he was telling Florida officials that his “legal residence” was Washington, D.C., and on another he was saying he was a “bona fide resident” of Palm Beach.”*
“Trump, however, has sent confusing signals about his official state of residence beyond the recent change on his Florida voter-registration forms. On Monday, he declared, “I live in Manhattan,” during a call with the nation’s governors about the response to unrest related to protests over the death of an unarmed black man who had been held down by police in Minneapolis.”
He won’t need force. All the other means you listed, and some others not, are all he’ll need. I expect, should he somehow lose the election despite all the vote-suppression shenanigans, he and/or trusted party members will find a flimsy reason why the election was invalid and the senate and supreme court will back him. It will probably have something to do with voter fraud, and someone will find ‘evidence’ of it in a few key swing states - maybe a sloppily stuffed-ballot-box situation. A flimsy excuse with the SC & senate backing it will be all it takes for the military to follow him, and for the secret service and US marshals to continue as things were. They need a clear mandate, and with everyone but the house backing him, Trump will remain.
If Trump loses the election, I won’t be relieved until he’s out of the White House. He and others have bent and tortured rule of law & tradition since he took office, and as much as he NEEDS to remain president, I expect it to only get worse from here.
He also said he’s visited the bunker two and a half times before.
Here is aVox article that lays out a plausible enough scenario (close election, initial results change based on counting mail-in/absentee ballots) that caused my normally conspiracy-rejecting self to go “Huh, that could actually happen”.
Individual 1 singled out one guy in a video as an anarchist, and he’s now getting death threats. He claims he was there to be peaceful and did not do anything violent.
He went there but only put one foot through the door?
Or he went there, but pushed Eric in to make sure it was safe while he waited outside?
I’m not sure if this article has been posted:
British Writer Pens The Best Description Of Trump I’ve Read
Those are just the last paragraphs. The whole article is a nice takedown of Trump.
That was a while back - at least 2 or 3 years now. It hasn’t aged as well as it should - they themselves backed Boris Johnson not long after. Sure, he’s better than Trump, but so is rotten toe fungus.
Individual 1’s press sycophant compares Individual 1’s stroll to the church to Churchill visiting bomb damage during World War II
I didn’t realize it was that old–I saw a link to a blog post dated Apr. 24th, 2020. Still, Trump hasn’t improved with time in office. He just gets more unhinged and he’s mostly surrounded by incompetent sycophants.
Individual 1’s press sycophant compares Individual 1’s stroll to the church to Churchill visiting bomb damage during World War II
My dog always inspects under the bed during a thunderstorm.
All he needed to do, was to say something like “The Secret Service, in an abundance of caution, thought it best that we relocate to the secure facility for a brief time, and I saw no reason to overrule their always excellent advice.” It’s not like the SS would contradict him in public.
He’s not just a liar…he’s really bad at it.
Sorry, no, unless overt racism is your only definition for insanity. King’s defeat was probably more due to his being stripped of committee assignments, so he had no power to do anything for his district. The guy who beat him, Feenstra, says on his website that he
“is a true Christian conservative and has been a leading voice defending life, including fighting to defund Planned Parenthood, sponsoring a bill that defined life at conception and is a strong supporter of amending the Iowa Constitution to not grant the right to an abortion.” He’s also strongly in favor of more tax cuts, and opposes any form of gun control.
So at best, he might be less racist than King, but he’s certainly nothing for Dems to celebrate.