Trump

[Deckard]

Always is -

[rowan]

it's just 16 minutes of Trump rambling on about how he really won everything and how the postal votes continuing to come in are all CHEATING and FRAUD and he's not gonna take it and he'll be going to COURT because obviously everyone else is CHEATING because he ALREADY WON and yet MYSTERIOUSLY there are BIDEN VOTES in these awful POSTAL VOTES that he WARNED us all were going to be TOTALLY CHEATING and he REALLY WON and he's going to COURT and it's NOT FAIR and and...

It's extraordinary to see any adult that still hasn't learnt to lose graciously but for a leader of a superpower?..
In his 70s and he still hasn't grown out of being a silly, petulant child. Dear lord.

[F-ZeroOne]

They played some of the speech George W. Bush made after he lost to Obama on the radio today and it says a lot about Trumps speaking... style that he sounded like Winston frickin’ Churchill in comparison.

It’s been pointed out to me that the person I heard was Mitt Romney, and not George W. Bush. I missed the start and clearly made an assumption.

[skab]

ABC and MSNBC cut his speech short and immediately started to correct his lies. CNN showed his miserable shitshow and then complained about it for hours, calling it, rightfully so, an attack on democracy.

Can't wait to never see his fucking face again. Which is probably a pipe dream, people are speculating that he will start his own news network, now that Fox News became communist traitors.

[KlaxonCow]

people are speculating that he will start his own news network

Don't worry, it'll undoubtedly fail like all his other business ventures.

[skab]

They played some of the speech George W. Bush made after he lost to Obama on the radio today and it says a lot about Trumps speaking... style that he sounded like Winston frickin’ Churchill in comparison.

It’s been pointed out to me that the person I heard was Mitt Romney, and not George W. Bush. I missed the start and clearly made an assumption.

You weren't that far off, though. George W. granted Obama a graceful transition and Bush Sr. left his infamous encouraging letter for Clinton in the oval office. I don't expect anything near as classy from Trump. I'd rather expect him to smear his own feces all over the White House, just before he gets thrown out by force. Which is obviously already on the minds of Biden's team:

In a statement, Biden campaign spokesperson Andrew Bates said: “As we said on July 19th, the American people will decide this election."

"And the United States government is perfectly capable of escorting trespassers out of the White House,” added Mr Bates, in apparent reference to the Republican president.

[venusian]

Whereas in the UK we're going to get a Farage News Channel because there are too many lies to fit on the current channels.

[KlaxonCow]

Whilst not officially called yet, the Twitter-verse is preparing to bombard @realDonaldTrump with all the memes:

[Harlequin]

this is his speech from last night, I watched it live and good lord was it awful

And this is Stephen Colbert's eloquent response, preceding his usual monologue:

There should be an age limit to being PM or President - I arbitrarily choose 50 - I find it hard to care about either of these stupidly old white privileged men.

Donald J. Trump was the oldest president sworn-in at 70 years 220 days.
John F. Kennedy was the youngest elected president at 43 years 236 days.

I would suggest an upper limit of around sixty-five.

[SuperMappy]

Trump will 'run for re-election in 2024' if Biden is declared the winner


https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/other/tr ... r-BB1a99cB

[Harlequin]

Trump will 'run for re-election in 2024' if Biden is declared the winner

https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/other/tr ... r-BB1a99cB

Can one run a country from a prison cell?

[KlaxonCow]

And this is Stephen Colbert's eloquent response, preceding his usual monologue:

Just watching this now, and Colbert expresses a passing thought that also occurred to me.

That if the Democrats really are masterfully coordinating all this, to the degree that Trump is alleging, then they're displaying such amazing inhuman competence here that, you know, maybe America should let them win - because, gorram, the world needs some political competence now more than ever.

The old Conspiracy Theorist's paradox that, to explain away the illogic of it all, they build up these alleged conspiracists to have, frankly, god-like powers.

They can just click their fingers and take over the universe, apparently. They can coordinate human beings on a global scale, and every single event is deliberate - by this view, there is simply no randomness in the universe at all, because if anything's even slightly amiss then it's the conspiracists controlling it all - like, quite genuinely, the Gods of Olympus.

Well, if they're that damned good, we can't possibly resist. But, equally, if they're that damned good then let's convince them to magically solve world hunger, and rid of us of disease and pandemics once and for all, and cure death... because, apparently, conspiracists are capable of anything. Easily. With not a single misstep or whistleblower, holding the evidence, of any kind whatsoever.

They can just click literal magic from their finger tips, whenever it suits the narrative...

...but then, at the same time, every other human being who's ever existed is this incompetent mess who can't magically control every single aspect of reality to their whim and somehow set up 70 year conspiracies that, at no point, suffers a single whistleblower or memo leak ever.

If they're really that good, then we can't resist them. But, also, if they're that good, then maybe we shouldn't - they're so god-like in their powers, they could magically fix everything by a week next Tuesday with a single Thanos snap of their fingers.

[rowan]

And this is Stephen Colbert's eloquent response

I've always disliked Colbert, his ego or abrasiveness a bit much.
But I'll concede with the right target, it's near music.

[KlaxonCow]

[Little stoned kiwi]

So, the possibility of civil war. Who's side will the military be on?