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trump knows that winning by votes is off the table. he doesn’t care. votes and vice presidents don’t matter when your plan is to take over by force
He’s going to find that a tall order when he’s not an elected official this time.
his muppets in congress, state legislatures, and trailer parks will be doing everything for him. like before, the only thing trump will do is shout “election fraud” every 5 seconds
I don’t think it will work. Governors certify the votes, and every swing state except Georgia has a Dem governor. And the governor of Georgia hates Trump.
It’s getting really hard to claim fraud the more Republicans that are coming out against him. If he loses the popular vote by 10-20 percent, that is a real big percent to claim was fraud. But then again if he loses the popular vote by 10-20 percent and he gets the courts to overturn the election there are going to be some riots to get us to abolish the electoral college bullshit.
Look, I hear what you’re saying. I’m disgusted by the way Trump faced almost no repercussions for January 6th with so much damning evidence against him.
Last time he literally tried to have his own VP killed by a mob working under his direction while he sat and watched Fox News and refused to respond to the Capitol being attacked.
Even if he tries that again, Biden will call out the National Guard immediately, and I imagine that they will be prepared for a repeat attack this coming January anyway.
Things will not go down the same way again.
Granted.
But where is their intelligence, counter-intelligence, surveillance, counter-surveillance, 5 eyes, the biggest military-industrial complex, organization, planning, infrastructure, communications, and the thousands of other advantages that the current President and -elect have at their fingertips?
Not downplaying the threat or likelihood, but if it happens, there’s 0% possibility of them succeeding at anything short of mass suicide.
Who gives a shit? He’s not an elected official. And even when he was president and attempted the coup, they weren’t successful because of how fucking stupid they are. We have the military on our side this time.
Dan Quayle must be happy to pass that “worst VP ever” torch on to someone else.
i miss the days when the fuckup someone is remembered for was misspelling potato
Putting an e on the end of potato basically ended his political career and now Trump supporters shout “covfefe” because they think it’s somehow smart. I think about that a lot.
Or the fact that people largely see the photo that Dukakis took in a tank as the moment HW Bush won the 88 election - compared to Trump’s photo op in a Fire Truck…
Simpler times. He gave us these nuggets of wisdom:
- “You take the UNCF model that what a waste it is to lose one’s mind or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is”
- “The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation’s history. … No, not our nation’s, but in World War II. I mean, we all lived in this century. I didn’t live in this century, but in this century’s history”
- “I have made good judgments in the past. I have made good judgments in the future”
- “I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy, but that could change”
- “potatoe” (when trying to “correct” a 12-yr old’s spelling of “potato”)
Worst is subjective. I’d argue that Cheney’s support of blood for oil and Halliburton rebuild scheme was far worse than anything Quayle did.
Yeah, same thought. Cheney was the worst because he was smart, competent, and evil. That beats incompetent.
At least Dan Quayle convinced Pence not to play ball with Trump’s schemes.
Go figure, people don’t want zealots chiming in about why they are or why they are not having children?
I got so much concern trolling for saying Biden was bad and should step down. People accused me of wanting fascism. They insisted I was naive and we should be standing behind Biden.
I just want to say to those people: you were wrong. Dumping Biden has wildly hurt Trump’s chances, and you were the ones arguing against it.
I was on that side a bit and the thinking was if we aren’t united behind Biden, tRUmp will divide and conquer the rest. I think we were just trying to show solidarity. we all knew he was weekend at Bernie-ING but didn’t think/know how positive it would be on this side of that decision. so for that, sorry.
I was definitely one of those people that thought we should stick with Biden because his name was known, and that we were too close to the election to get a new candidate enough exposure to be competitive. It wasn’t that I thought Biden was the best choice for president, just that I thought the timing was too tight.
I’m so happy to be wrong about this. The enthusiasm for Harris is fantastic, and she’s doing great with the spotlight on her. The candidate switch has stolen the media attention from Trump and it’s pretty clear he doesn’t know how to handle it. Younger people are more interested in voting, minorities are more interested in voting, women are more interested in voting - it’s fucking great.
I was wrong. And I couldn’t be happier about it.
I’m with you. I wasn’t sure we should stick with Biden, but I wasn’t sure we shouldn’t, either. Being an incumbent does count for something, and I’d never heard people being that excited about Harris. To be it was whatever gave us the best chance of keeping Trump from winning.
But I couldn’t be happier with how it’s turning out, and I very much hope we can keep the momentum going.
I also thought it was too late to replace Biden and they should have done it at least six months earlier. But now I think the timing is pretty much perfect.
Republicans focused all their efforts on bashing Biden instead of getting people excited for their own policies. Now that whole campaign has just imploded on itself and there’s not enough time to come up with and enact something new. Plus, Harris and Walz have all the attention now, they dominate the news.
I think there would be enough time if the Republicans brought in the cavalry, i e. experienced spinners of truth and benders, if not breakers, of rules like Karl Rove. But even for these people with absolutely no regard for political mores the maga movement is too extreme to stomach. Too many of the GOP brain trust have been alienated, which is a stroke of luck for the Dems.
I am happy to admit I was wrong, I really thought Biden was the best shot this late in the race. I grossly underestimated how strong and positive the response would be for Harris, given her performance during her previous presidential run. It feels fantastic to be wrong.
With that said, I think it’s a bad faith argument to lump all concern together as concern trolling. If enthusiasm had been weak, the shoe could have just as easily been on the other foot, with countless armchair politicians lamenting those ‘fascist agitators’ who convinced Biden to drop out, thereby handing Donnie Dipshit the presidency.
Hindsight is 20/20, I’m just glad we’re still in this.
With that said, I think it’s a bad faith argument to lump all concern together as concern trolling. If enthusiasm had been weak, the shoe could have just as easily been on the other foot, with countless armchair politicians lamenting those ‘fascist agitators’ who convinced Biden to drop out, thereby handing Donnie Dipshit the presidency.
Hindsight is 20/20, I’m just glad we’re still in this.
I don’t think you are listening, people were saying this over and over again BEFORE Biden stepped down, we didn’t need hindsight, YOU did because you refused to listen.
I love that y’all admit you were wrong superficially but then insult people who have been making strong arguments for quite a long time that Biden should step down and not run again with statements like “well, who could have known!” with a happy shrug.
We did and people like you almost cost us the election. Do you understand how dangerous a role people like you played in shutting down criticism of Biden and attacking concerned Democrats like they were all Russia trollbots or something?
You speak of the danger of divisiveness, of having democrats split up and fractured… hopefully you do realize that is PRECISELY what democrats shouting down concerns about Biden were doing? Can you at least see that in 20/20 hindsight?
What have you learned that will lead you into NOT making the same potentially catastrophic miscalculation next time around?
…because you realize y’all look like clowns in the wake of Harris raising 200 million and 170,000 volunteers in a week right?
Honestly, you need to stop commenting on politics until you dismantle your world view and understanding of how US politics works please, you don’t understand very basic shit here. I don’t know what more proof you need than the last month or so of politics.
Don’t give me this “Wow, happy surprise! Who woulda thought things could go so well!” nonsense, it is insulting and minimizing to those of us who have actually been paying attention and understood the political forces at play.
Absolutely. These libs were out in force calling us Russian bots.
They’re the same libs who are now shushing us for calling out Kamala on being a genocide supporter.
“If you want Donald Trump to win then keep saying that. Otherwise I’m speaking!” 👏🏻 👏🏻 👏🏻 yaaaasss queen!!!
It’s sickening.
The fact is that if Kamala were actually stand up to her fascist Israeli masters instead of being a meek little pawn she would only gain more respect and more people energised to vote for her.
Chasing the Donald Trump genocide-voting crowd isn’t doing her any favors. Fuck those people. Actually stand for something and show you have a shred of humanity and real humans will be engaged.
