Trump himself consents to transition
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wrote on 24 Nov 2020, 13:37 last edited by
Well, she should be redeplatformed immediately!
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@jon-nyc said in Trump himself consents to transition:
Uh, hard nope! Never lionized her, totally not a fan. Actively spoke out against her to friends who talked about her as VP candidate.
I wasn't directing that at you, specifically, but generally to others who think that she's the (big) tits. I have yet to see a Democrat in any kind of political position denounce her for not conceding. Instead, she was given a platform at the Democratic Convention.
wrote on 24 Nov 2020, 14:10 last edited by@George-K Article about what you are talking about.
From the article
“Gabriel Sterling, Georgia's voting system implementation manager, said in a November press conference that both claims are false.
"For the people out there who are irritated with people talking about voter fraud right now, they should be equally irritated with people who talked about voter suppression two years ago," he said. "Both undermine confidence in the system." “
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wrote on 24 Nov 2020, 16:47 last edited by Copper
@jon-nyc said in Trump himself consents to transition:
Larry you’re definitely part of the ‘some’ people that he can fool all of the time.
Ya, like those people who thought Mr. Trump wouldn't leave if he lost.
If he loses he will leave just like every other president left.
The TDS stories about how he won't leave were, and are still, just plain stupid. Made up out of thin air.
Mr. Trump is doing exactly what he said he would do, and exactly what Ms. Clinton advised. Fight for as long as you can.
It is a heroic plan.
Good for him, he is fighting for his supporters like he has for 4 years.
If he simply conceded such a close election it would be like OJ simply pleading guilty.
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wrote on 24 Nov 2020, 16:56 last edited by
Yes my prediction has always been that he'll leave office just like all the others always have after losing an election, and there will be some heat but no light regarding not conceding. TDS makes this heat meaningful to some, but it is not meaningful to the rest of us.
The saddest losers in this whole situation are the progressives looking forward to the violent protests by the right. Divorced from reality as always, their predictions are just plain stupid.
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wrote on 24 Nov 2020, 17:15 last edited by
Next prediction....
Even as the MSM can find little fault with Biden, they will continue to feed the ravenous TDS crowd. Defeating Trump in the election is simply not good enough. In order to catch eyeballs, they must destroy him.
The Deep State demands it.
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Yes my prediction has always been that he'll leave office just like all the others always have after losing an election, and there will be some heat but no light regarding not conceding. TDS makes this heat meaningful to some, but it is not meaningful to the rest of us.
The saddest losers in this whole situation are the progressives looking forward to the violent protests by the right. Divorced from reality as always, their predictions are just plain stupid.
wrote on 24 Nov 2020, 17:35 last edited by@Horace said in Trump himself consents to transition:
Yes my prediction has always been that he'll leave office just like all the others always have after losing an election, and there will be some heat but no light regarding not conceding. TDS makes this heat meaningful to some, but it is not meaningful to the rest of us.
TDS makes the heat meaningful to some.
But Horace is that really your position? Am I deranged for thinking that the US president claiming an election is rigged and a seemingly significant fraction of the population believing him is a meaningful (and concerning) thing?
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Yes my prediction has always been that he'll leave office just like all the others always have after losing an election, and there will be some heat but no light regarding not conceding. TDS makes this heat meaningful to some, but it is not meaningful to the rest of us.
The saddest losers in this whole situation are the progressives looking forward to the violent protests by the right. Divorced from reality as always, their predictions are just plain stupid.
wrote on 24 Nov 2020, 17:38 last edited by jon-nyc@Horace said in Trump himself consents to transition:
Yes my prediction has always been that he'll leave office just like all the others always have after losing an election, and there will be some heat but no light regarding not conceding.
You gave me more of a hard time than anyone else when I said back in June he would (1) try to eliminate whole classes of votes, and (2) try to get friendly legislatures to throw out the vote and appoint competing electors.
You were even a bit of a bull dog about it, asking me multiple times for the precise mechanism, as if I was going to cite PA election law or give you the Michigan canvasser’s name or something.
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wrote on 24 Nov 2020, 18:10 last edited by
No, you had what some electors did to try to win the election for Hillary in 2016 in your back pocket but never played the card because you enjoyed the smug knowledge.
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@Horace said in Trump himself consents to transition:
Yes my prediction has always been that he'll leave office just like all the others always have after losing an election, and there will be some heat but no light regarding not conceding. TDS makes this heat meaningful to some, but it is not meaningful to the rest of us.
TDS makes the heat meaningful to some.
But Horace is that really your position? Am I deranged for thinking that the US president claiming an election is rigged and a seemingly significant fraction of the population believing him is a meaningful (and concerning) thing?
wrote on 24 Nov 2020, 18:12 last edited by Horace@Moonbat said in Trump himself consents to transition:
@Horace said in Trump himself consents to transition:
Yes my prediction has always been that he'll leave office just like all the others always have after losing an election, and there will be some heat but no light regarding not conceding. TDS makes this heat meaningful to some, but it is not meaningful to the rest of us.
TDS makes the heat meaningful to some.
But Horace is that really your position? Am I deranged for thinking that the US president claiming an election is rigged and a seemingly significant fraction of the population believing him is a meaningful (and concerning) thing?
It was certainly a predictable thing based on Trump's personality. I don't think I ever claimed he wouldn't do it. I always claimed it would be heat no light. You can be concerned with it, that's fine. We all weigh our concerns differently. I was rather concerned with the floyd protests, but the left seemed not to be, at all. So let's try to play fair.
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wrote on 24 Nov 2020, 18:21 last edited by
For me, the concern is the general erosion of belief in democratic principles. A group of people willing to riot, or so angry about perceived injustice that they feel they have no other recourse, another group willing to waste months on an investigation that was clearly going nowhere, and then a President who is unwilling to accept the results of a general election, and who is more than happy to fire up his supporters so that they also don't believe that the next incumbent has a right to the position.
And the internet really isn't helping.
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wrote on 24 Nov 2020, 18:27 last edited by
Trump "firing up his supporters" is qualitatively different than the left firing up their supporters. We are watching the proof. It would be good if we could all admit to it.
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No, you had what some electors did to try to win the election for Hillary in 2016 in your back pocket but never played the card because you enjoyed the smug knowledge.
wrote on 24 Nov 2020, 18:28 last edited by@Horace said in Trump himself consents to transition:
No, you had what some electors did to try to win the election for Hillary in 2016 in your back pocket but never played the card because you enjoyed the smug knowledge.
Nope. I was very explicit. Invalidate whole classes of votes and enlist legislatures to appoint competing electors. I even referenced the precedent of 1876.
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wrote on 24 Nov 2020, 18:30 last edited by
And I was explicit that if loopholes exist, they need to be closed. I think we're all convinced at this point that the security of the system is paramount. Not the personalities in alleged charge.
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Trump "firing up his supporters" is qualitatively different than the left firing up their supporters. We are watching the proof. It would be good if we could all admit to it.
wrote on 24 Nov 2020, 18:36 last edited by Doctor Phibes@Horace said in Trump himself consents to transition:
Trump "firing up his supporters" is qualitatively different than the left firing up their supporters. We are watching the proof. It would be good if we could all admit to it.
Joe Biden or Barack Obama have never, as far as I am aware, suggested that people should commit crimes, or riot, or behave violently.
Donald Trump has very clearly lied about the election result being fraudulent, and has also made oh-so-funny suggestions regarding how protesters should be treated.
In my previous post I was going to say "and all the while, their supporters play games of whataboutism", but didn't. Clearly I didn't need to bother.
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wrote on 24 Nov 2020, 18:39 last edited by
Whataboutism is a great excuse for those who just choose to hate everything. Congratulations, you can accuse every part of every discussion of whataboutism. But actually whataboutism is how ideas and opinions are refined. There's nothing inherently wrong with whataboutism. it would be difficult to think about other people and how they think, without it.
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wrote on 24 Nov 2020, 18:40 last edited by Doctor Phibes
If all we ever do is point the finger about how the other side are worse or as bad, how is anything ever going to get better?
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wrote on 24 Nov 2020, 18:40 last edited by jon-nyc
This was my concern expressed 5.5 months ago.
What saved us is the answer to my last question was 'yes'. Other institutions saved us from Trumps attempt to subvert our democracy. Specifically, state courts and the conscience of Michigan's GOP leaders. In absence of the latter it's highly likely that Michigan's state courts would have protected us. This time.
But yes, I agree with your point, @Horace. We need to make sure some other Trump-like figure couldn't do this again.
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wrote on 24 Nov 2020, 18:41 last edited by
And again, to take no personal responsibility for the floyd riots is disingenuous for anybody who enjoys expressing righteous outrage every time a narrative is created around how awful the lives of minorities are. When the narrative is clearly disingenuous to begin with.
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This was my concern expressed 5.5 months ago.
What saved us is the answer to my last question was 'yes'. Other institutions saved us from Trumps attempt to subvert our democracy. Specifically, state courts and the conscience of Michigan's GOP leaders. In absence of the latter it's highly likely that Michigan's state courts would have protected us. This time.
But yes, I agree with your point, @Horace. We need to make sure some other Trump-like figure couldn't do this again.
wrote on 24 Nov 2020, 18:41 last edited by@jon-nyc said in Trump himself consents to transition:
This was my concern expressed 5.5 months ago.
What saved us is the answer to my last question was 'yes'. Other institutions saved us from Trumps attempt to subvert our democracy. Specifically, state courts and the conscience of Michigan's GOP leaders. In absence of the latter it's highly likely that Michigan's state courts would have protected us. This time.
But yes, I agree with your point, @Horace. We need to make sure some other Trump-like figure couldn't do this again.
Right, it's just a Trump-like figure. Not the electors that tried to steal the election from him in 2016.
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wrote on 24 Nov 2020, 18:42 last edited by
Dude - do some googling. More electors abandoned Hillary than abandoned Trump.
