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Agreed. My wife was born in Portland OR and we have travelled regularly across the border in the past. Even she wants it to remain closed.
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Agreed. My wife was born in Portland OR and we have travelled regularly across the border in the past. Even she wants it to remain closed.
Donnie Deutsch makes an interesting point. Trump always does what's in the best interest of Trump. And by far and away, pulling out LBJ style is far preferable to a crushing defeat.
"Trump's going to cut and run" is a fantasy.
One he knows damn well that once he's no longer President a lot of his "protection" goes away.
Two I question how much of a win he will see "getting out" will be.
One he knows damn well that once he's no longer President a lot of his "protection" goes away.
Two I question how much of a win he will see "getting out" will be.
dmaker
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Lying Barbie is holding a press conference in 10 minutes. I wonder how she will spin this one.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTp_3NsrH9g
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTp_3NsrH9g
Playing devil's advocate here...
He's poised to be a huge loser -- electorally and in terms of being seen as a dimwitted loser/clown. Remember how humiliated he was when Obama roasted him? This is orders of magnitude worse. The election represents an existential threat to his fragile, narcassistic ego. Protecting his ego is of paramount importance.
And then there's his "brand". That too takes a huge hit if he suffers a crushing defeat.
Oooooorrr he thinks/knows he's rigged the system so well he's still gonna win or he doesn't intend to "go away" (not necessarily step down, but just not "go away") come November/January.
And again Trump spend so much time laying the framework for "The election is rigged!" he's gonna "win" whether he wins or loses.
Also Trump's 74 and even he can't be so deluged as to think he's gonna live forever. I wonder how long term any of his plans/thinking really are at this point. As you said he's all about his ego, but he doesn't strike me as the kind of person who gives a wheat penny about whatever legacy he lives after he's gone.
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Clearly that's a typo but I rather like it!
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Three, if he did, wouldn't Pence take over as POTUS, and be much harder to defeat in November than Trump?
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Somebody please tell Congressman Clyburn, who doesn’t have a clue, that the chart he put up indicating more CASES for the U.S. than Europe, is because we do MUCH MORE testing than any other country in the World. If we had no testing, or bad testing, we would show very few CASES..
.....Our massive testing capability, rather than being praised, is used by the Lamestream Media and their partner, the Do Nothing Radical Left Democrats, as a point of scorn. This testing, and what we have so quickly done, is used as a Fake News weapon. Sad!
Somebody please tell Congressman Clyburn, who doesn’t have a clue, that the chart he put up indicating more CASES for the U.S. than Europe, is because we do MUCH MORE testing than any other country in the World. If we had no testing, or bad testing, we would show very few CASES..
.....Our massive testing capability, rather than being praised, is used by the Lamestream Media and their partner, the Do Nothing Radical Left Democrats, as a point of scorn. This testing, and what we have so quickly done, is used as a Fake News weapon. Sad!
Belz...
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Why does he keep repeating that as if it makes any sense?
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WaPo: The U.S. Postal Service is experiencing backlogs of mail after a top Trump donor running the agency put in place new procedures, alarming postal workers who warn that the policies could undermine their ability to deliver ballots on time.
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WaPo: The U.S. Postal Service is experiencing backlogs of mail after a top Trump donor running the agency put in place new procedures, alarming postal workers who warn that the policies could undermine their ability to deliver ballots on time.
"Without a shred of irony, McEnany says the Trump administration condemns Hong Kong's decision to delay its election because it undermines democracy"
https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1289220432290357254
https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1289220432290357254
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It's not backward. I was wrong. Hold a book up in your right hand. If the front faces you, the spine faces the left as you look at it. In the picture, the spine faces right as Trump looks at it.
Oh well.
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He didn't need to.
All he had to do was wear a tan jacket. Or use the wrong kind of mustard.
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We should all admire President Lincoln’s prescience.
President Trump keeps repeating that nonsense because “it is possible to fool some of the people all the time.“
Or perhaps President Trump keeps repeating that nonsense because he believes that he can “fool all of the people some of the time.”
Or perhaps he has simply fooled himself and his uncanny imitation of person with
Narcissistic Personality Disorder1 prevents him from even considering the possibility that maybe he might wrong.
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(1) the best impersonation ever. In the history of the world even. No one has ever done a better impersonation of a person suffering from NPD.
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alfaniner
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I'm not sure I get this, but I'm going to take a guess.
Is this a reference to the Nazi symbol getting burned off on the crate for the Ark of the Covenant in Raiders of the Lost Ark?
Segnosaur
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Actually I think Republicans are screwed either way.
Trump stays, moderates and never-trumpers vote fore Biden. He still has his hardcore base of always-republican, and the trump cultists but it's not enough to put them over.
Trump leaves, Pence takes over... Some never-trumpers (and maybe some moderates) return and you still have the always-republicans, but you lose many of the cultists, since pence would be seen as "just another politician". (They may not vote democrat, but they won't be as keen to get out and vote for pence.) Pence does not have the con-artist ability that trump has (I would call it charisma but that word just doesn't seem to describe the burning pile of rat feces that trump is) would have to defend his association with trump.
Plus, how would pence campaign? Keep Trump's policies and many moderates won't come back. Try to distance from trump, maybe reverse some policies, and trump cultists would rebel (plus trump himself might attack pence).
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Apologies if this has been posted before ...
Politico, yesterday, “Trump revisits his playbook for disastrous news: An explosive spectacle“, link
By now the tactic is well known, well understood, and increasingly called out as it unfolds. Trump will continue to do this, of course, and I’m not sure there’s really much more that can be done to respond better.
Politico, yesterday, “Trump revisits his playbook for disastrous news: An explosive spectacle“, link
By now the tactic is well known, well understood, and increasingly called out as it unfolds. Trump will continue to do this, of course, and I’m not sure there’s really much more that can be done to respond better.
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