BashiBazouk wrote:

I am less concerned with Trump's post election hissy fit than I am about what he will do once he accepts he's out. I expect corruption and malfeasance at levels never seen before with an out going president. Doubly so if the Senate flips. I would expect a lot of damage to be done in short order if Trump is out and Mitch is kicked back to the minority leadership...

This truly wouldn't surprise me, although it might be smarter if Trump does no such thing. If he's worried about impending investigations (now that he cannot run out the Statute of Limitations) he may not want to stoke the fires of public indignation against him.

In any event, the denouement will soon be at hand, Trump will become more and more vulgar in his words and deeds as November, its first Tuesday and his complete and utter presidential debacle align to complete the circle of abject failure, Trump's only reliable truism.

LL&P

Maybe

But I'm willing to at least vote for a Corporatist Hillary-with-a-penis Joe Biden because it's likely that President Joe will be fighting of us Progs as much as the Repugs haha

Brother Don wrote:

If you are that worried about a close election, then do something about it by informing citizens how they can demand that Biden takes the action available that could earn the votes instead of hoping enough people only blame Trump and buy into the same old you have no other choice narrative that led to Trump being elected in 2016.

K, you haven't convinced me that going "small doner" will attract enough additional electoral college votes to make spotting the Repugs a $400 million advertising funding advantage worth it.

Wouldn't you agree that since bleeping Newt Gingrich set Congress afire back in the day that roughly 44% will always vote GOP and another 44% always Democratic? And the last 9th (11%) will tip the election by a combination of their votes and their failure to show up? Please convince me that if, say, Hillary ran a small doner campaign back in '16 that doing so would convert Repugs who'd been fed anti-Hillary for decades?

I just can't see that.

I'm not especially worried about any sort of pro-Trump civil War. The first couple of times any of our 2nd Amendment "Defend Liberty" nutjobs goes up against our militarized local and state law enforcement and gets effing wiped out will quiet such foolishness. I'd wanna get some popcorn and just watch, Mommy!

Andygaus you're right. No debate, no Congressional testimony no harsh questions from our Press. Nothing that might stop or contradict the reality he's been selling his base for 5 years.

So, this piece concludes, Trump will only start to panic about a probable loss around late October, when polling etc. will continue to show an electoral failure - and then it will be too late for him to plot or plan any way to avoid the defeat.

To be honest, I don't know which direction to steer my heart and brain - yours or the Weekly Sift's. One is pessimistic, and one is slightly more optimistic.

As many commentators have noted, despite this year's consistent state-by-state polling and the 2018 congressional election, liberals burned by the 2016 upset may be pessimistically gaming the 2020 election purely as a defensive mechanism. They want to avoid another psychological meltdown the day after the election - but by any reasonable standard of political thought, this president has no strong reason to expect re-election and Democrats ought to be fighting the campaign from strength, not self-imposed weakness.

Here's the link: https://weeklysift.com/2020/05/18/trump-has-no-endgame/

I may be the only one HERE that holds the big money Dems responsible for the deaths instead of just Trump, but I am not the only one in the country.

I hold Don Harris responsible for every one of the deaths -- including every death in every country not named the United States -- for his utter failure at selling his "idea."

I am not going to track it down, but I know that I said that one way for Biden to get people like myself to vote for him so he could achieve the blowout was to commit to running a small donor only campaign.

Thank you for yet another demonstration of your lazy-ass inability to get your message out. It is this candy-ass inaction and lack of motivation that is definitely responsible for every single one of the deaths; we have your unmotivated lackadaisical indolence to thank for all of it.

If you are that worried about a close election, then do something about it by informing citizens how they can demand that Biden takes the action available that could earn the votes instead of hoping enough people only blame Trump and buy into the same old you have no other choice narrative that led to Trump being elected in 2016.

All of us on the blog including you have already been informed that this repetitive trolling of yours does not and will not motivate the author of this blog. My solution is that you read that paragraph of yours directly above a few times and see if it motivates you to get off your lazy ass and do what you're requesting the author to do. If you won't, then check your mirror for the stupid mofo who's refuses to rise to the challenge and get out the message.

You can either spend the next five months preparing for the close election which Trump could challenge or respond to the current challenge by demanding the Dems stop offering more of the same false big money choice that led to Trump and death and offer a real alternative that could lead to a better future.

You should report forthwith to the nearest mirror and be demanding that guy to accept your challenge... or eff right off. You decide.

Thanks. I just knew I didn't imagine it!

But of course you didn't just imagine it, invent it, or pull it straight out of your backside; that would make you a rightie. ;)

Ahhh, but that's the whole problem...

The mask would smear the makeup, which is why Trump has resisted it so fiercely. He probably demanded a "makeup retouching session" after having to wear a mask, that's my guess!

Hey, that's what I said! *grins*:

I haven't yet seen anybody state the obvious -- unless, of course, I missed seeing it -- but Donald's "complexion from a tube" isn't exactly amenable to having a mask rubbing all up and down on its oily orangeness.

http://www.chrisweigant.com/2020/05/09/ftp573/#comment-159132

GMTA and now I can't say I haven't seen it! :)

Ahhh, but that's the whole problem...

The mask would smear the makeup, which is why Trump has resisted it so fiercely. He probably demanded a "makeup retouching session" after having to wear a mask, that's my guess!

Heh.

-CW

Thanks. I just knew I didn't imagine it!

:-)

-CW

https://twitter.com/NBCNews/status/1263654664655994881/photo/1

Now I ask you: How totally devoid of self-awareness does one have to be in order to go out in public near every damn day wearing a thick layer of brightly colored orange clown-like cosmetics yet not wish to be seen wearing a mask!? *falls to the floor laughing*

Nancy Pelosi, or Nancy, as I call her.

1. Answer the phone; it will be Vladimir Putin.
2. Supplicate
3. Follow instructions

I used a cop-out in this article by saying "some Democrats were saying" because I know one particular Democratic officeholder said it, but could not track it down by searching for the phrase (not sure whether they said "blowout" or "landslide," for instance).

So does anyone remember maybe 6 months ago hearing some Dem say this?

Nancy Pelosi... about a year ago, give or take. She genuinely did not want to impeach Trump... said something about impeaching him would be falling into his trap. It was after the midterms but before Trump left her no choice but to impeach him. She said Democrats needed to win in 2020 by a margin so big that Trump can't challenge it.

Since I couldn't track it down, I had to go with the "some people are saying" dodge, for which I apologize.

No apologies. Be right back:

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/04/us/politics/nancy-pelosi.html

:)

even with all that donald has currently stacked against him, and it pains me to say this, but biden winning is STILL a big if.

JL

I used a cop-out in this article by saying "some Democrats were saying" because I know one particular Democratic officeholder said it, but could not track it down by searching for the phrase (not sure whether they said "blowout" or "landslide," for instance).

So does anyone remember maybe 6 months ago hearing some Dem say this? Who was it? I remember it as being Schumer, but I could very easily be wrong about that. Since I couldn't track it down, I had to go with the "some people are saying" dodge, for which I apologize.

-CW

Heh.

-CW