A general thread to discuss Trump

[Seabag]

keano77 Wrote:

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> Keano is unavailable for comment at the moment as

> he is taking his last few sackfuls of Biden votes

> down to Peckham sorting office.

2/10

See me after.

[JohnL]

George W has now said the vote was fair and congratulated Biden although W is now closer to the Obama's than Trump.

[Sephiroth]

Because of COURSE keano believes in conspiracy theories

Dat Sovrin-T virus again

[Blah Blah]

Trump's tweets are becoming multi tweet rants. Now he is even blaming the machines! The descent into madness deepens. But at some point, someone is going to have to stop it. Someone is going to have make him hand over the office. He has no say or power over that.

[malumbu]

Funny world isn't it. We were promised an easy Biden victory but woke on Wednesday to find it difficult to understand what was happening. Those more in the know new that Trump would fare better than expected and it would be a slow burn victory for Biden. But even so the Beeb was so cautious contributing to our mass anxiety.

Looking back at other predictions this article was published on 15 October and on avoiding prosecution "That seems to be what Trump is preparing now: insurance against a loss, so he can skate past criminal charges and live out the playboy post-presidency he has longed for since taking office." interesting reading including comparison of Trump with Mussolini https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/10/lazy-cowards-dont-start-civil-wars/616720/

Title is Lazy cowards don't start civil wars.

[johnie]

Well, I'm jolly happy. My son is a communist, my mother is daily degenerating with dementia in a nursing home and I can't see her, my wife though excellent isn't getting any younger and I seem to be getting more and more dick-heady by the day. But I have danced my little sandals off since the orange plonker missed the putt, the absolute cock.

[OutOfFocus]

One feature of the election that confuses me is Congress. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2020/nov/03/us-senate-house-of-representatives-elections-2020-full-results-congress

The senate seems to be stuck on D 48(+1) R 48(-1) . Who are the 4 remaining states?

Actually in practice i think it is D 48.5 as the D vice president has casting vote.

[Seabag]

Dave Chappelle

Post election blues

[JohnL]

OutOfFocus Wrote:

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> One feature of the election that confuses me is

> Congress.

> https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive

> /2020/nov/03/us-senate-house-of-representatives-el

> ections-2020-full-results-congress

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> The senate seems to be stuck on D 48(+1) R 48(-1)

> . Who are the 4 remaining states?

> Actually in practice i think it is D 48.5 as the D

> vice president has casting vote.

Georgia is likely to have a run off in January for two seats. Then you've got Alaska and North Carolina from that link.

At the moment only the second Georgia seat is Democrat and the only chance for a second is the other Georgia seat .... I think.

[JohnL]

So if you open up this (Boris congrats to Biden)

save the picture, lighten it up a bit and look above the BIDEN word - You can see TRUMP :)

[Sue]

This is a bit unexpected (by me anyway):

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/nov/09/william-barr-vote-irregularities-donald-trump-election?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

[KidKruger]

They held a press conference last night (not sure where, a tiny room somewhere..) with Kayleigh McEnany spearheading the session with her summary of outright fraud, then backed-up by a couple of other sycophants. Most commentators and outlets were aghast at what was being alleged by that team.

The people nailing themselves to Trump's mast (ooh-err), probably have no other options and are aware their careers are effectively over if the ship actually sinks. Which it already is, BTW.

Trump has said for weeks this is what he'll do, now he's doing it.

Scary side to this is Trump's cult followers will believe this is a just cause and we get more showing-of-arms, protests, clashes, then inevitably, harm and deaths.

Shameful behaviour from a desperate, psychopathic, paranoid, traitor.

[KidKruger]

...Even FOX NEWS gets nervous around the 1minute mark, saying these allegations seem dubious and some evidence would be required.

[Sue]

I know it was always predicted as a possibility,but everything I had read till now suggested it wouldn't get this far.

Yes, utterly shameful, and also Trump still has weeks to do his worst re foreign policy and God knows what else.

[malumbu]

Have I missed something? - did not our own President, sorry PM, nail his colours to the mask with his support of Trump? I assumed DT had had preferential treatment in terms of Presidential state visits, but it just felt that way due to the massive media interest. And that these visits were very different to the welcoming arms that Obama got. BJ never reflected that difference in public opinion, but I suppose that you can also argue that many in middle England supported Trump so out antipathy wasn't that clear cut.

[JohnL]

Sue Wrote:

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> This is a bit unexpected (by me anyway):

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> https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/nov/09/wi

> lliam-barr-vote-irregularities-donald-trump-electi

> on?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

Steve Cortes is his strategist here and the 4 main points as listed in today's Guardian are

"His key points boil down to this:

The levels of voter turnout ?defy reasonable expectations?.

He doesn?t believe that ?a candidate as doddering and lazy as Joe Biden? could out-perform Barack Obama who ?boasted rock star appeal?.

There were too many ballots cast just for Joe Biden without filling out the Senate and House races.

States haven?t been rejecting enough mail-in ballots compared to historic levels."

Points 1-3 of them can be answered by many people really really really hate Trump.

Point 4 - Probably in % terms and we are in a pandemic and a lot of people stayed at home to vote and took extra care over that vote.

Here's the Cortes article in some right wing mag.

https://thenationalpulse.com/news/case-against-biden-win/

[malumbu]

This thread has over 26,000 views - no doubt all of you have managed to put an illegal vote in for Biden, so that makes things a bit closer

[Sue]

malumbu Wrote:

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> This thread has over 26,000 views - no doubt all

> of you have managed to put an illegal vote in for

> Biden, so that makes things a bit closer

Actually I put in hundreds of illegal votes.

I didn't think anyone would notice, it being such an unimportant election 🤣

[JohnL]

There's no evidence of anything - they're just trying to keep Trump happy and it's far too late - Biden's not going now.

Could you imagine the chaos.

[JohnL]

Hey Joe, Joe you've got 43 missed calls from Boris Johnson.

Okay I'll ring him.

[ianr]

malumbu wrote:

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> This thread has over 26,000 views -

> no doubt all of you have managed to

> put an illegal vote in for Biden,

> so that makes things a bit closer

Over its 45 months that's less than twenty views per day.

[Blah Blah]

This article pretty much nails it. Trump is heading for nothing but embarrassment in the courts.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/nov/10/donald-trump-longshot-election-lawsuits

So what then? And that is the really scary question. Trump is ramping up the rhetoric on twitter. There is an emerging insanity which is then echoed and amplified by an army of gullible supporters.

Where are the adults in the room? Who in the GOP has the balls to tell him it is over?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/president-trump-lost-too-many-republicans-keep-pretending-he-didnt/2020/11/09/01ff8684-22c6-11eb-952e-0c475972cfc0_story.html

Is Trump really going to incite civil war, or his armed supporters to lay siege to the White House? Or will he eventually leave, but vow to be back, and spend the next four years taking America further into a divisive abyss? Undermining Biden in every way he can. This is a dangerous family, judging by comments also made by his sons.

[alice]

And what of Mike Pompei?

[malumbu]

ianr Wrote:

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> Over its 45 months that's less than twenty views per day.

It was a joke, silly, to highlight how ludicrous things are over the pond.

[JohnL]

alice Wrote:

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> And what of Mike Pompei?

Biden got it right with him when he sort of repeated his name slowly and laughed