All Things Trump: Is it over yet?

[L'Emmerdeur]

Is there a way for Trump to be replaced as the Republican presidential candidate?

Short answer: no. The long answer is boring and irrelevant.

[L'Emmerdeur]

Trump commanded law and order. "It has to show!"

Federal law enforcement officers have been using unmarked vehicles to drive around downtown Portland and detain protesters since at least July 14. Personal accounts and multiple videos posted online show the officers driving up to people, detaining individuals with no explanation of why they are being arrested, and driving off. The tactic appears to be another escalation in federal force deployed on Portland city streets, as federal officials and President Donald Trump have said they plan to “quell” nightly protests outside the federal courthouse and Multnomah County Justice Center that have lasted for more than six weeks.

https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/p ... ALoRsM5QdQ

It's a testament to the American 'can-do' spirit the way that Barr has conjured up a force of formidable federal peace-keepers and put them into action so smoothly. One might be inclined to think that plans were in place. It appears that they're answerable to nobody but him at the moment. It's a real comfort to know that law & order is in such trustworthy hands.

[JimC]

I guess the camo outfits cover up the brownshirts underneath...

A while back, I would have scoffed at the idea that a truly fascist atmosphere could occur in the US.

I no longer scoff...

[Brian Peacock]

Those with nothing to hide have nothing to fear. Dissident protests are antithetical to national unity, and as we all know, unity is strength.

[Svartalf]

Fuck off, djuachvili.

[Scot Dutchy]

The nightmare:

Trump will cling to power. To get him out, Biden will have to win big

Only a Democratic landslide can ward off the nightmare prospect of this president simply refusing to leave office

Let’s say he makes that same move in the three midwestern battlegrounds in November. Republicans are in charge of the state legislatures in all three. Now here’s where it gets nerdily arcane, but bear with me. Those Republican legislatures could refuse both to certify their state results and to send a slate of representatives to the electoral college, which has to meet by 14 December. Biden’s lawyers would plead his case all the way to the supreme court, but that court likes to stay out of elections. It could plausibly instruct the electoral college to meet on 14 December, with or without the disputed states. If it meets without them, and neither Trump nor Biden can reach the 270 electoral college votes required to win, then the constitution throws the question to the House of Representatives. Democrats control that body, but here’s the thing. Under the rules, the house would make its decision state-by-state, with one vote per state – so that tiny Republican Wyoming would have as much say as populous, Democratic California. By that count, Republican states would outvote Democratic ones by 26 to 24 – and Trump would remain president.

What a thought; American democracy.

[Tero]

[Scot Dutchy]

Thanks to the great American "democracy" Trump will always have the last laugh. "Make way for Dictator Trump". Who is going to stop him?

[Brian Peacock]

"Bullets can't stop him.
Tanks can't stop him.
We may need to use nuclear weapons.
Run for the shelter!
Run for the shelter!"

-- Cheapness, Frank Zappa.

[Tero]

I have family members that fall into the "he and" trap. The very confusing case of "object" for Americans. Prepositons take the object pronoun.



Donald J. Trump
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Saddened to hear the news of civil rights hero John Lewis passing. Melania and I send our prayers to he and his family.

[NineBerry]

You send prayers to God. That's the definition of prayers

[Tero]

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/202 ... rump-mayor

Keep your troops in your own buildings, or have them leave our city,” Wheeler told the president at a news conference on Friday.

The Democratic governor, Kate Brown, said Trump was looking for a confrontation in the hopes of winning political points elsewhere, and for a distraction from the coronavirus pandemic, which is causing rising numbers of infections in Oregon and across the nation.

Brown’s spokesman, Charles Boyle, said arresting people without probable cause was “extraordinarily concerning and a violation of their civil liberties

[L'Emmerdeur]

But, antifa!! Marxists!!! Coming for you!!!!

[Tero]

Test Trump aced had 35 questions, 5 were hard. One was the elephant:

They have a picture and it says ‘what’s that’ and it’s an elephant,” Wallace added while airing an image of the test page.

Wallace, for his part, explained that another question was “count back from 100 by seven,” quickly informing the president that the first step was the number 93.

“You couldn’t answer many of the questions,” an undeterred Trump continued. “I’ll get you the test, I’d like to give it. I’ll guarantee you that Joe Biden could not answer those questions. I answered all 35 questions correctly!”

https://www.thedailybeast.com/fox-news- ... n-elephant

[Brian Peacock]

I heard he said that Fauci was 'a little bit of an alarmist.'