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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
So I guess in the end, when they are backed against the wall, they will pull the "We totally won for real, but these evil Dems are so wicked, they destroyed all the evidence, so we have no choice but to concede!" card.
Certified: 48.0% West Asian, 6.5% South Asian, 15.8% North/West European, 15.7% English, 7.4% Balkan, 6.6% ScandinavianIt is almost like, they were supporting a con man or anything like that.
Serves them right, if they are dumb enough to donate to Donald Trump and believe his bullshit, then they deserve to lose money.
Now they are going to see their lawsuits never go anywhere, just like Trump has been doing with his creditors.
There is no I told you so sign big enough for these people.
Inter arma enim silent legesThis is already in the COVID-19 thread, but Gov. Mark Gordon (R) has tested positive for the Coronavirus after resisting calls for a mask mandate.
I wish these people would be smarter than this.
Serves them right, if they are dumb enough to donate to Donald Trump and believe his bullshit, then they deserve to lose money.
Now they are going to see their lawsuits never go anywhere, just like Trump has been doing with his creditors.
There is no I told you so sign big enough for these people.
I mean. You're not wrong. But personally, I would prefer it if Trump's attempts to steal the election didn't end up turning a profit, and I don't see any other way to stop that from happening. And, like, if the two sides in a court case are 'a con man' and 'people who unwisely gave money to a con man', well, I know whose side I'm on by default.
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You can be smart, or you can be Republican. You can't be both.
If AOC thinks Joe Biden can, then he can. Anything is better than Betsy Devos at the White House ruining education for youngsters.
IMO, that's a somewhat misleading headline. Rep. Ocasio-Cortez isn't the only one suggesting Executive Action is sufficient to cancel student loans - Sens. Schumer and Warren think it can be done, too. They even put out a thorough proposal earlier this year.
Whether or not the idea is possible, Betsy DeVos will still be replaced.
Edited by nova92 on Nov 26th 2020 at 5:30:38 AM
So, according to CBC (who themselves got it from Reuters, I think)
, T**** has said that if the electoral college confirms Biden, he'll leave the White House, but he still will refuse to admit he was defeated.
Progress?
Edited by Resileafs on Nov 26th 2020 at 8:30:30 AM
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If he leaves the moment Biden is certified, Pence could manage the White House as acting president before Biden is inaugurated. Even though Pence is a Heteronormative Crusader, he's loads better than Donnie Tinyhands.
Part of the problem that people had with Pence vs. Trump is they assumed that Pence was worse because of his being a true believer but missed that Pence was a lot more of a conniving politician than they believed and Trump had plenty of nasty beliefs that made him every bit as much a bigot as Pence (look at his treatment of trans Americans).
Author of The Rules of Supervillainy, Cthulhu Armageddon, and United States of Monsters.Trump is malicious and incompetent.
Pence is malicious and competent.
The biggest difference between them is how much harm Pence could do without being blatantly obvious or drawing so much attention.
As awful as Trump is, his tendency of not keeping his mouth shut, alienating potential allies and attacking every possible opposition, means that all the malicious shit Trump has ever done or tried to were painfully obvious to the public, thus easy to rally against.
Pence was in position to pass so much worse things without drawing attention, but the Mango Moron couldn't keep his toilet seat shut.
Inter arma enim silent leges@sgamer82 Nah, I think what Trump is saying is that he isn't going to camp in The White House if the electors say he lost. He doesn't think he lost legitimately, but he won't fight it to the extent that he's gonna have to get his ass thrown out.
Leviticus 19:34

Huh? Just a week or so ago Loeffler and Perdue were demanding that the Republican, Trump-supporting Secretary of State of Georgia Brad Raffsomething resign because Trump didn't win Georgia.
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