(November 6, 2020 at 4:54 am)Eleven Wrote: https://www.newsweek.com/trump-tweets-st...ts-1545133

Trump says votes arriving post-election day will be ignored.

Quote:The entire premise of Donald Trump’s life is that he has never once been defeated. His project, and that of those around him, then, has been to maintain that illusion. This hasn’t always succeeded. He’s lost plenty of things—money, court cases. But never before has he faced the kind of public humiliation he seems poised to as Joe Biden’s victory becomes inevitable. How does someone who delights in calling others “losers” react to becoming a loser himself, in the most concrete sense of the word? How does the most vainglorious man in America bring himself to accept defeat and concede?

The answer, of course, is that he doesn’t. Unable to face the reality of his circumstances, he is doubling down on his delusions—that the world is conspiring against him; that he’s the big, strong winner he’s always claimed to be. He wants to convince his supporters, the courts, and himself that he is both victim and victor and has made clear that he’ll burn everything to the ground to do so. This is unsurprising. If his decades of public life have taught us anything, it’s that he simply can’t help himself. But the aides and allies who have enabled him these past four years are not bound by his paranoias and neuroses. They’re making a choice. And while some who have stood by him now seem to be taking tentative steps backward, others are sticking, enabling him still as he tries to take a blowtorch to the foundation of democracy.

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That the president reportedly has no plans to concede is predictable. That anyone is going along with him still is shameful, particularly given Graham and McCarthy won reelection this week in the very process the president is decrying as fraudulent. It begs the question: Why stay loyal to him? Any cynical self-preservation instincts that may have contributed to their sycophancy, and that of the Republicans still queasy about fully denouncing him, are falling into the widening gap between Biden and Trump in the vote count.

Moreover, in their continuing deference to Trump, they’re helping to animate the most dangerous elements of Trumpism. Already we’ve seen Trump supporters, some of them armed, descend on ballot processing centers in states like Arizona and Michigan, and on Thursday authorities in Philadelphia thwarted a potential attack on the Pennsylvania Convention Center, where votes were being tabulated. Since he came into power, Trump has turned the country into a tinderbox. Now that it seems he’s about to lose it, he’s trying to set it ablaze. Democrats can try to cool tensions, and responsible Americans can put out some of the smaller fires. But it’s only the people in his administration and his party who can knock the matches out of his hand. So far, they haven’t.

Quote:In conversations with allies in recent days, President Trump has said he has no intention to concede the election to Joe Biden, even if his path to a second term in office is effectively blocked by losses in places like Georgia and Pennsylvania.

Aides, including his chief of staff Mark Meadows, have not attempted to bring Trump to terms of what’s happening and have instead fed his baseless claim that the election is being stolen from him.

Trump’s allies have grown concerned that someone is going to have to reckon with the President that his time in office is potentially coming to an end, though they have not decided who should be the one to do it. There has been talk of potentially Jared Kushner or Ivanka Trump doing so, sources said.

(November 5, 2020 at 1:19 am)Rev. Rye Wrote: And, odds are, if you’re in a position where you’d need to do it, you’re probably not in much of a position to set up any kind of pulley system, let alone a block and tackle.

(November 7, 2020 at 9:20 am)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote:

(November 7, 2020 at 8:53 am)Eleven Wrote: Trump has told people he has no plans to concede

Quote:In conversations with allies in recent days, President Trump has said he has no intention to concede the election to Joe Biden, even if his path to a second term in office is effectively blocked by losses in places like Georgia and Pennsylvania.

Aides, including his chief of staff Mark Meadows, have not attempted to bring Trump to terms of what’s happening and have instead fed his baseless claim that the election is being stolen from him.

Trump’s allies have grown concerned that someone is going to have to reckon with the President that his time in office is potentially coming to an end, though they have not decided who should be the one to do it. There has been talk of potentially Jared Kushner or Ivanka Trump doing so, sources said.

A nurse at work this morning stated that she had voted for Trump, that she's an unapologetic Trump supporter, and that she believes there is election fraud afoot. I just listened to her nonsense silently.