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Draghinazzo (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: I get a feeling so complicated...
#336676: Nov 1st 2020 at 1:19:56 PM

There's been speculation down here in Brazil that it's possible he'll try to flee here because Bolsonaro will welcome him to open arms. I certainly hope that won't be the case, but we unfortunately do have a habit of welcoming white supremacists into the country, including confederates and nazis so...

Edited by Draghinazzo on Nov 1st 2020 at 5:31:32 AM

megarockman from The Sixth Borough (Experienced Trainee)
#336677: Nov 1st 2020 at 1:20:27 PM

Wonder if 2 could require him to forfeit having a presidential library.

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sgamer82 Since: Jan, 2001
#336678: Nov 1st 2020 at 1:21:19 PM

Not to mention the Nazis that fled to South America. Trump has just enough of both for that to be plausible.

Edited by sgamer82 on Nov 1st 2020 at 1:21:38 AM

Steven (Edited uphill both ways) Relationship Status: YOU'RE TEARING ME APART LISA
#336679: Nov 1st 2020 at 1:22:34 PM

Well they can at least share their COVID together.

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Galadriel Since: Feb, 2015
#336680: Nov 1st 2020 at 1:35:08 PM

I don’t see Trump fleeing the country. The probability of him actually being prosecuted for anything seems very low,

Rationalinsanity from Halifax, Canada Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: It's complicated
#336682: Nov 1st 2020 at 1:44:44 PM

Any country that takes Trump in is looking at serious retaliation. Suspension of diplomatic restrictions and economic sanctions would just be the start.

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#336683: Nov 1st 2020 at 1:52:30 PM

Trump's Presidential library would mostly be filled with coloring books and porn mags.

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#336684: Nov 1st 2020 at 1:53:00 PM

[up] And White Supremacist Literature.

SpookyMask Since: Jan, 2011
#336685: Nov 1st 2020 at 1:53:56 PM

I thought his library would be full of blank papers ready for photoshoot tongue

Ultimatum Disasturbator from the Amiga Forest (Old as dirt) Relationship Status: Who needs love when you have waffles?
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#336686: Nov 1st 2020 at 1:55:27 PM

Trump's Presidential library should be a literal hall of a shame that you walk through in complete darkness until you reach the end,once it's over you're glad to be out

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Rationalinsanity from Halifax, Canada Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: It's complicated
#336687: Nov 1st 2020 at 1:56:04 PM

The library proper would just be a barely used storage closet. Most of the floor space would be a giant gift shop.

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sgamer82 Since: Jan, 2001
#336688: Nov 1st 2020 at 1:57:25 PM

[up] And White Supremacist Literature.

So an entire wing consisting solely of copies of The Turner Diaries?

Galadriel Since: Feb, 2015
#336689: Nov 1st 2020 at 2:06:42 PM

[up][up][up] Part of me would like something in that style, reminiscent of the museums that eastern European countries have about their communist regimes, or South Africa has about apartheid. “This was the Trump Presidency: never again.”

But I think it would be a self-indulgent distraction. Trump has made many things worse, yes, but he’s built on injustices and bigotries and forces of oppression that already existed through Democratic and Republican presidencies alike. The focus needs to be on real, substantive change to root out those evils, not just saying “Oh good, he’s gone and things can go back to normal; everything bad was just Trump, not a sigh of anything deeper”.

Eschaton Since: Jul, 2010
#336690: Nov 1st 2020 at 2:10:56 PM

It'll almost certainly be a private, non-NARA library. Trump will want to personally control its contents to stroke his ego for all eternity, so no way he's gonna allow a federal agency to have any say in the matter. And hopefully NARA will refuse to play ball with his inevitable selfish demands.

Edited by Eschaton on Nov 1st 2020 at 2:11:20 AM

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#336691: Nov 1st 2020 at 2:15:07 PM

The Trump Presidential Library would just be his kids trying to bilk the die hards for cash donations and build a tent for it.

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#336692: Nov 1st 2020 at 2:15:29 PM

If Trump loses, my prediction for him is the same as it's always been. He'll flee to "Southern White House" Mar-a-Lago and claim that he actually won the election but the Democrats cheated and stole it from him - playing up his debunked claims that mail-in votes are voter fraud and that millions of Mexican border-crossers illegally voted.

From the safety of his Florida resort, Trump will declare himself Totes Actually President for Realsies and proceed to try and legislate from afar. This will consist entirely of Tweeting about what he thinks Republicans should be doing, complaining about crooked Democrats, ranting on whatever his new conspiracy theory of the day is, and performing stochastic terrorism. Same stuff he does now, minus the power to actually do things. He may even try to get Trump TV up and running.

Edited by TobiasDrake on Nov 1st 2020 at 2:16:59 AM

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Rationalinsanity from Halifax, Canada Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: It's complicated
#336693: Nov 1st 2020 at 2:16:09 PM

In news that's only surprising but I thought he was too smart to say the quiet part out loud; Lindsay Graham is a massive misogynist.

https://www.rawstory.com/2020/11/lindsey-graham-tells-women-theres-a-place-for-you-in-america-if-you-follow-traditional-family-structure/#.X57CAurvA_N.twitter

"“I want every young woman to know that that there’s a place for you in America if you’re pro-life, if you embrace your religion and you follow traditional family structure,” he added, “that you can go anywhere, young lady.”

Way to win over all those suburban women, pal.

And FYI, Graham never married.

The quote in question was in reference to the "success" of Barret.

Edited by Rationalinsanity on Nov 1st 2020 at 6:16:54 AM

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#336694: Nov 1st 2020 at 2:18:14 PM

Sad thing is, to a suburban Christian housewife, "You can be anything, even Supreme Court Justice, if you live your life by Christ's law," probably does sound pretty empowering.

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#336695: Nov 1st 2020 at 2:18:44 PM

The GOP's going full steam ahead on trying to recreate the conservative dream world everyone thinks the 50s were.

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Balmung Since: Oct, 2011
#336696: Nov 1st 2020 at 2:19:25 PM

So an entire wing consisting solely of copies of The Turner Diaries?
Nah, gotta leave room for Mein Kampf, Siege, Victoria, and Caliphate. There's a lot of this disgusting drivel.

Edited by Balmung on Nov 1st 2020 at 2:19:46 AM

Rationalinsanity from Halifax, Canada Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: It's complicated
#336697: Nov 1st 2020 at 2:20:19 PM

[up][up][up]But those women are already firmly in the Republican column. The moderate white women who helped turn the Midterms and seem to be polling in the Democrats favor right now are another story.

Edited by Rationalinsanity on Nov 1st 2020 at 6:22:11 AM

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Draghinazzo (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: I get a feeling so complicated...
#336698: Nov 1st 2020 at 2:23:48 PM

Lindsey also said there was nothing wrong with black people walking around in SC as long as they were conservative.

In Harrison's words, he's a relic of the old south. I hope Harrison trounces him at the polls.

Edited by Draghinazzo on Nov 1st 2020 at 7:25:08 AM

WillKeaton from Alberta, Canada Since: Jun, 2010
#336699: Nov 1st 2020 at 2:26:34 PM

Everyone's talking about the presidential election, but there's also a bunch of senate positions up for grabs. I'm assuming that due to all the mail-in voting those results also won't be known for a while?

MichaelKatsuro Since: Apr, 2011
#336700: Nov 1st 2020 at 2:38:04 PM

Nah, gotta leave room for Mein Kampf, Siege, Victoria, and Caliphate. There's a lot of this disgusting drivel.

Bad dystopian fiction is the go-to tool for people who want to spread ideology without having to limit themselves to actual facts. Since it takes place in the future, and is labeled fiction, you can create any situation that you want to and you won't get sued for slander.

Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four was written to show how dictatorships work. Bad dystopian fiction, on the other hand, just work on the principle that "I hate [group of people], so I'm gonna prove that they're evil by writing a fictional story where they do evil things."

EDIT: Also, sometimes it's easier to convince people through fiction. If an Islamophobe simply say "Muslims want to kill us all!" people will point out that that's not true. But if he writes a novel about Muslims wanting to kill us all, people will be more susceptible to that false claim since they're not being directly asked to accept it as true; they're just asked to imagine that scenario.

Edited by MichaelKatsuro on Nov 1st 2020 at 11:40:19 AM


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