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	<title>Comments on: Waiting For Trump To Go</title>
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		<title>By: John M from Ct.</title>
		<link>http://www.chrisweigant.com/2020/12/17/waiting-for-trump-to-go/#comment-172988</link>
		<dc:creator>John M from Ct.</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Dec 2020 01:39:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>For some reason, I&#039;ve been putting a lot of hope on the idea that Twitter will shut him down. I don&#039;t know why, as they have benefited tremendously from the free publicity his tweets give their platform. Maybe they&#039;re sick of him, too, by now?

Another angle you didn&#039;t explore is the possibility that much of the press and media might decide to just, well, ignore him. Sure, his personal outlets will continue to cover him, from Fox to the weird ones. But if the regular, respectable political press simply don&#039;t cover or report his outrageous, ridiculous, pathetic, or criminal commentary on the Biden administration, I suspect he&#039;ll be surprised, hurt, angry - and unable to do anything about it, as his protests will equally go uncovered, or noted on an inside page in the second section (and equivalent space in media platforms). He is, to a very large extent, the creation of the mainstream media, and they have the power to make him largely go away from the actual political discourse and governance of the country starting this winter. 

And the Biden administration could certainly help here, by letting all the right people know who gets the inside access to actual Washington information and face time - people who readily admit in public that Biden is the legitimate president, and who publicly don&#039;t give ex-President Trump the time of day in their campaigning or their reporting.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>For some reason, I've been putting a lot of hope on the idea that Twitter will shut him down. I don't know why, as they have benefited tremendously from the free publicity his tweets give their platform. Maybe they're sick of him, too, by now?</p>
<p>Another angle you didn't explore is the possibility that much of the press and media might decide to just, well, ignore him. Sure, his personal outlets will continue to cover him, from Fox to the weird ones. But if the regular, respectable political press simply don't cover or report his outrageous, ridiculous, pathetic, or criminal commentary on the Biden administration, I suspect he'll be surprised, hurt, angry - and unable to do anything about it, as his protests will equally go uncovered, or noted on an inside page in the second section (and equivalent space in media platforms). He is, to a very large extent, the creation of the mainstream media, and they have the power to make him largely go away from the actual political discourse and governance of the country starting this winter. </p>
<p>And the Biden administration could certainly help here, by letting all the right people know who gets the inside access to actual Washington information and face time - people who readily admit in public that Biden is the legitimate president, and who publicly don't give ex-President Trump the time of day in their campaigning or their reporting.</p>
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		<title>By: dsws</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Dec 2020 01:08:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;i&gt;If Trump does make good on his threat to hold a rally on January 20th to compete with Joe Biden&#039;s inauguration, and Trump uses it to throw his hat right back in the ring, then he&#039;ll have to form an official campaign apparatus and solicit donations for it.&lt;/i&gt;

What?  Anyone can announce a rally and then spew word-salad at whoever shows up, without actually having a campaign for anything -- even if the word-salad sounds as though they&#039;re saying they do.

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I still think there&#039;s too much emphasis being put on Trump.  The problem is the millions of people who like everything Trump stands for, and constitute a majority of Republican primary voters.  They&#039;ll still like it after he&#039;s gone.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><i>If Trump does make good on his threat to hold a rally on January 20th to compete with Joe Biden's inauguration, and Trump uses it to throw his hat right back in the ring, then he'll have to form an official campaign apparatus and solicit donations for it.</i></p>
<p>What?  Anyone can announce a rally and then spew word-salad at whoever shows up, without actually having a campaign for anything -- even if the word-salad sounds as though they're saying they do.</p>
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<p>I still think there's too much emphasis being put on Trump.  The problem is the millions of people who like everything Trump stands for, and constitute a majority of Republican primary voters.  They'll still like it after he's gone.</p>
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		<title>By: John From Censornati</title>
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		<dc:creator>John From Censornati</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Dec 2020 10:05:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Red Hat = &lt;a href=&quot;https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/12/trump-betting-markets-sportsbooks-offshore-2020-election-gambling.html?via=taps_top&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;B&gt;Sucker!&lt;/B&gt;&lt;/a&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Red Hat = <a href="https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/12/trump-betting-markets-sportsbooks-offshore-2020-election-gambling.html?via=taps_top" rel="nofollow"><b>Sucker!</b></a></p>
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		<title>By: MtnCaddy</title>
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		<dc:creator>MtnCaddy</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Dec 2020 05:05:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Sure Trump has played our system of so-called justice all his life. But there are a staggering number of legal and financial issues facing him. Do you think he&#039;ll get much better legal representation than his &quot;elite strike force&quot; of lawyers who are  1 win 59 losses last I checked? What top drawer lawyer is going to sacrifice their career for this un-American wannabe Dictator? Lots of Repugs hate Trump, to boot, so when the knives come out there will be a lot of blood.




And (shhhh!) we still have the Deep state on our side.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Sure Trump has played our system of so-called justice all his life. But there are a staggering number of legal and financial issues facing him. Do you think he'll get much better legal representation than his "elite strike force" of lawyers who are  1 win 59 losses last I checked? What top drawer lawyer is going to sacrifice their career for this un-American wannabe Dictator? Lots of Repugs hate Trump, to boot, so when the knives come out there will be a lot of blood.</p>
<p>And (shhhh!) we still have the Deep state on our side.</p>
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		<title>By: John From Censornati</title>
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		<dc:creator>John From Censornati</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Dec 2020 04:04:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;i&gt;The Republican Party right now exists only to feed Trump&#039;s ego and assuage all his many complaints and rages. That&#039;s really it.&lt;/i&gt;

Well, Biden is apparently, looking for Republicans to appoint to his administration so that he can fantasize about it looking like America and him being the President of Everybody. I hope this terrible idea does not come to fruition. The only way it could be good is if he appoints a sitting GOP senator from a state with a Dem governor to be Ambassador to Planet Nine.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><i>The Republican Party right now exists only to feed Trump's ego and assuage all his many complaints and rages. That's really it.</i></p>
<p>Well, Biden is apparently, looking for Republicans to appoint to his administration so that he can fantasize about it looking like America and him being the President of Everybody. I hope this terrible idea does not come to fruition. The only way it could be good is if he appoints a sitting GOP senator from a state with a Dem governor to be Ambassador to Planet Nine.</p>
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		<title>By: andygaus</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Dec 2020 01:11:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>In paragraph 7, please change &quot;They&#039;re problem is&quot; to &quot;Their problem is.&quot; It hurts my eyes real bad.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In paragraph 7, please change "They're problem is" to "Their problem is." It hurts my eyes real bad.</p>
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