2020 Presidential Election part 2

[Andy_Ross]

Trump Tweets

I had such a big lead in all of these states late into election night, only to see the leads miraculously disappear as the days went by. Perhaps these leads will return as our legal proceedings move forward!

 

[eerok]

Ah, Trump. The man for whom "cognitive dissonance" doesn't really exist.

He's a special guy.

Today, he is saying it's wrong to claim victory while lawsuits are ongoing. Yesterday, he "hereby" claimed victory.

I make fun of "hereby" because when most people use it, they don't understand what it means. It's just one of those words that morons use to make their language sound more high-fallutin'.

Trump is like the circus. You can enjoy going to the circus, but you don't want to live in the damn circus. I'm looking forward to Trump getting slowly bumped out of the news cycle, because I just don't want any more circus for a long while.

 

[Orphia Nay]

Trump Tweets

I had such a big lead in all of these states late into election night, only to see the leads miraculously disappear as the days went by. Perhaps these leads will return as our legal proceedings move forward!

His inability to understand the facts has no relevance to the factfulness of them.

 

[TragicMonkey]

Trump Tweets

I had such a big lead in all of these states late into election night, only to see the leads miraculously disappear as the days went by.

"Miracle", as in "direct intervention by God Himself, in violation of the normal order of the cosmos, to achieve a result God deems worthy"? Yes, I'd say it may well be a possibility.

 

[Mumbles]

There's good reason why Stacy Abrams was one of the popular potential choices for VP, despite being fairly lacking in direct qualifications compared to the other likely candidates.

Oh, absolutely, as I noted at the time - and also stated that she'd be the ideal pick to push voting rights along. at the federal level, if she were the choice.

Still preferred Warren and Harris to her, at the end of the day, though.

 

[qarnos]

Trump Tweets

Joe Biden should not wrongfully claim the office of the President. I could make that claim also. Legal proceedings are just now beginning!

He's got a point. I've heard you can look real stupid if you claim victory and then lose.

 

[Mumbles]

Trump Tweets

I had such a big lead in all of these states late into election night, only to see the leads miraculously disappear as the days went by. Perhaps these leads will return as our legal proceedings move forward!

It's the exact way his cronies wanted.

"I can't believe that the exact people I've insulted and cheered the murders of for the past decade have decided to vote against me! And after out state legislators said they could only be counted after election day, their ballots are being counted after election day! What madness is this!? Sad."

Just...I dunno, imagine your own random capitalizations and shouted words.

 

[thaiboxerken]

The only way Trump retains power now is by force.

 

[dudalb]

He's a special guy.



Trump is like the circus. You can enjoy going to the circus, but you don't want to live in the damn circus. I'm looking forward to Trump getting slowly bumped out of the news cycle, because I just don't want any more circus for a long while.

I am just looking forward to having a President who does not make me embarassed to be an American.

 

[acbytesla]

Trump can claim that all he wants. As much as I despise this SCOTUS, every single decision has been to uphold whatever the individual State law is on how they handle elections. I don't see them somehow changing that somehow now.

Some states limit it to election day and other States like Washington State include all ballots postmarked by election day received within 17 days of the election because that's when they certify it.

 

[Minoosh]

He's making a prime time speech tonight. I agree with Meadmaker that it will be sort of, kind of, but, yeah ... you know...Wink... Wink, type of speech.


Diplomatic, IOW.

One thing I really hope he doesn't say ... "It's time to heal the nation."

Or that the result is "humbling."

Actually I don't care what he says. Any sane, normal thing is fine. I expect to hear a commitment to following the process, but stressing that there is a process that doesn't depend on who tweets what.

 

[Elagabalus]

Trump Tweets

I had such a big lead in all of these states late into election night, only to see the leads miraculously disappear as the days went by. Perhaps these leads will return as our legal proceedings move forward!

***Delivered in a Trumpian monotone***

We had all the finest bottles of bubbly on ice ready to celebrate. Only the finest spirits with the greatest, best bubbles. Bubbles that tickle your mouth when you drink them. Like there's a party's in your mouth and everyone's invited. Scrubbing bubbles! Bubbles to make you laugh and sing ...

But the Dems, they came in the night and took away all of our bubbles. They stole our bubbles! And now we don't have anymore.

 

[dudalb]

Trump calls for ballot counting scenario where votes legally cast by military would be thrown out




Biggest. Douche. In. The. Universe.

Also Biggest. Idiot . In. The. Universe

 

[pgwenthold]

He's making a prime time speech tonight. I agree with Meadmaker that it will be sort of, kind of, but, yeah ... you know...Wink... Wink, type of speech.


Diplomatic, IOW.

He's going to say, "We believe that when all the votes are counted, we will be the winner. And when that happens, we are going to do X"

It's not all that different from what he said the other day.

 

[dudalb]

Trump can claim that all he wants. As much as I despise this SCOTUS, every single decision has been to uphold whatever the individual State law is on how they handle elections. I don't see them somehow changing that somehow now.

Some states limit it to election day and other States like Washington State include all ballots postmarked by election day received within 17 days of the election because that's when they certify it.

Sources say the Justices are furious at Trump over his Tuesday Night rant when he asked them to overturn the election, basically.
No judge in the world wants to have his independence openly put into question like that.

 

[Thermal]

He's a special guy.



Trump is like the circus. You can enjoy going to the circus, but you don't want to live in the damn circus. I'm looking forward to Trump getting slowly bumped out of the news cycle, because I just don't want any more circus for a long while.

This. I just want to see the occasional mention on the news that former President Trump was found guilty of another felony, or lost another appeal, or Russian collection agencies are forclosing on his properties or something.

 

[slyjoe]

Sources say the Justices are furious at Trump over his Tuesday Night rant when he asked them to overturn the election, basically.
No judge in the world wants to have his independence openly put into question like that.

I"d like to see those sources. Those judges are usually tight lipped.

 

[eerok]

I am just looking forward to having a President who does not make me embarassed to be an American.

I understand and I sympathize.

 

[lionking]

So Trump gets through his presidency without revealing his medical or tax records. Scumbag.

 

[Marcus]

Yep. I've said this for many months now - the greatest tragedy of Trump's COVID failure, and now his loss in the election, is that he had it in his hands to get everything he ever wanted, but he dropped it like a wide receiver with butter on his hands.

It's pathetically obvious that what Trump truly wants, over all else, is to be publicly hailed as a hero, to have everyone - literally everyone - sing his praises, like Julius Caesar riding into Rome at the head of a Triumph.

And he could have actually been such a hero, and actually been deserving of praise, if, at the start of this pandemic, he'd just gotten his head out of his ass long enough to listen to what all the specialists were telling him about how serious this would be, and what needed to be done to curb the damage. If he'd truly gotten out in front of this, and championed a national level effort at limiting the spread of the disease, and using some of the vast wealth of the US to offset some of the inevitable economic damage that was always going to happen, the US would have been much better off than it is, and he would have been the one responsible for that.

But like in a Greek Tragedy, his hubris was his downfall. He couldn't admit that something out of his control was going to mess up his lovely economy, and so he chose to just ignore it. And now he's not only paid the price at the polling stations, he's finally facing the truth that he'll never be Julius Caesar riding into Rome.

It would have been so easy for Trump to hold on to power. All he had to do was modify his narcissism a bit, and act like a president, for FSM's sake. I might even have voted for him if he had done these things.