Trump is President for 10 more weeks - what damage can he do?
Assuming Biden won (if you count all the votes, looks like it)...Trump still has 10 weeks to fuck shit up....so what might he do?
Trump can still send the military into action (for 90 days before needing congressional approval)....he can still sign executive orders (that Biden will nullify on day 1 of his term)...so much fuckery if he really wanted to burn it all down...
Trump might also consider running again in 2024...in which case he would concede graciously now, in order to present "Presidential behavior" to prep for his next run.
thoughts?
Well he's already said he'll probably fire Fauci
Biden won. It is a mathematical certainty.
The main issue in these next 10 weeks is going to be Donald Trump's continued campaign of undermining public confidence in American government and the sanctity of American elections, not out of some evil autocratic plan, but just out of his own blustering ego. He's going to continue to show his ass, throw temper tantrums, and then try and take his ball and go home, only ever caring about himself and not the country he leaves behind.
Most people won't be affected by this, even most Republicans, but the people in the streets right now who are confused if they should be chanting "stop the count!" or "count the votes," or the QAnon lunatics, or the screaming MAGA die hards are going to follow his lead.
Frankly, that's sad, both in a Donald Trump is pathetic kind of way, but also in a it's sad for our country to see a President try to burn it all down because he can't get his way sense. It's sad to see so many people that detached from reality who are more likely to believe conspiracy theories than empirical facts. It speaks to a failure of our education system, the media, and social media that we have so many braindead individuals in this nation.
"Mathematical certainty" that assumes there was no foul play, which nobody knows for sure at this point.
The country has a system where its innocence until proven guilty- and for criminal cases, beyond a reasonable doubt. That hasn’t come forward. If it does, I’ll fully admit I was wrong. But that burden of proof rests on the proof it happened beyond a reasonable doubt.
I mean, yes they do, because "voter fraud" isn't a thing, but I am in favor of double checking everything just to make sure.
I hope you your view does not represent the majority of views at Merrill these days.
There always have been little bit of "foul play" from all sides in all elections.
Thing is US voting system is secure enough that those "foul plays" are so minimal and don't affect the results.
This is the exact reason that we need to look at all the key ballots very closely. We need to dispel the conspiracies that the election is a fraud given the way Trump is acting.
The only way to do that is to perform a bipartisan audit of the results or else this conspiracy is not going away.....might even continue regardless after that.
I think part of the problem is the mathematics. Trump was way ahead in a bunch of states by huge margins which just kept dissappearing and the votes outstanding number just kept changing. I don't blame the average Joe for questioning how exactly that happened. If all the votes showed up on the same day, I think that there would be much fewer concerns but here we are.
For most reasonable people, I think an audit would do a lot to alleviate their concerns. Anyone who cares about democracy should be more than happy to have one done.
How many states should we audit - 1, 2 or 10? Why not audit all states that Biden won to make sure there is no left wing conspiracy?
Yeah they have something called mail-in ballots. The same shit that this president and the RNC told his supporters not to do. Those are counted last along with absentee ballots. Biden and the DNC on the other hand told their supporters to use mail-in ballots by all means. So yeah Trump got a bump early in the election in most states because his supporters showed up on Election Day and early voting days. Those votes were counted first and always will be counted first. From there you can do the rest to see why the scale has tipped toward Biden with roughly 70-80% of mail-ins favoring Biden.
Trump was ahead by huge margins in states where they counted in-person voting first, which disproportionately favored him. Those margins disappeared because then mail-in-ballots were being counted, which disproportionally favor Biden. This is not rocket science. This is not magic.
Is there any self-awareness here re: Russian “hacking” of the 2016 election and the use of unproven DNC opposition research to obtain a warrant in foreign surveillance courts against a US citizen and presidential candidate? Or are we just like nah, how dare anyone question the government here?
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Biden mosty likely won. There still is a very slim chance that Trump might still win but it's NOT A CERTAINTY.
I'm not celebrating until it's 100% sure that Biden wins PA or AZ+NV.
Trust me, I know my probability theory.
It's done bro. It's honestly amazing that every media outlet hasn't called it.
Statistically, that is true as their is a non zero probability that Trumps wins. There is also a non zero probability that I will play centerfield for the Mets next year.
The main thing is create noise, he'll be screaming rigged for the rest of his life in order to sooth his ego. He'll try to take revenge on people, and he may pardon a person or two. But he's a lame duck now, so he can't do much except make noise.
He may just settle into a period of golf and going to rallies and Mar-A-Lago dinners to get the adulation he craves.
I think he’ll just be despondent towards his job. He won’t care for stimulus. He won’t care for curbing the spread of the virus. He’ll continue to tweet fallacies and conspiracies. He’ll just kick back because in his eyes, the people didn’t do enough for him so why should he do anything for us?
I agree with your assessment. I think Trump's focus will be golf and the "Trump empire."
That’s literally all he does
He will do whatever he thinks is necessary to promote his upcoming media empire.
Don Jr. is definitely going to upper deck one of the White House toilets before they leave.
Then snort a fat line off the seat before he goes.
1) Fire his cabinet
2) Set fire to a copy of his inauguration speech he prepared a year ago.
3) Set fire to the White House. "If Donny can't live in it, no one can!"
I think he will be indifferent. Sucks to lose, but he has a super hot wife, a mansion in Florida and a bunch of golf courses. He will live his life and probably enjoy it more than we enjoy ours.
Do you really believe someone of Trump's temperament enjoys his life? I don't.
He won’t be able to run for president again. He’ll be a convicted felon.
Maybe Trump and Hunter Biden can be cellmates....who knows? We'll see.
No one cares about Hunter Biden except Joe Biden and Fox News
He can actually do a tremendous amount of good here that would be supported by most Americans as an anti-establishment guy that Biden nor any future administration would never do in a million years
1. Pardon Snowden.
2. Pardon Assange.
3. Release classified info about why we got into Iraq/Afghanistan.
4. Release classified info about the JFK assassination as he has hinted at before.
5. Release classified info about operation fast & furious.
If these things are in the interest of the people and would be widely popular why has he not already done them?
All five would massively piss off the intelligence agencies which were already working against him (Russia Hoax, FISA wiretaps, Steele Dossier), but would undermine him even more if he won another term or was up for re-election.
Would like to see Mike Pence separate himself and start hitting covid a little harder before we start having 4-5k a day dying but that may be too much to ask for.
Truth
And there it is. All major media outlets call it for Biden.
Congratulations to the United States! I feel like it is a Martin Luther King moment: free at last!
I already have a bottle of Dom on ice. Today is going to be fun.
On repeat today:
Daniel Cameron 2024!
And on Daniel Cameron’s last week as President, he nominates himself and gets confirmed as a supreme court justice. That’d be hilarious.
Ugh so much damage ugh! Let’s all hide! Hopefully AOC can save us! Yaaaaaass
You're supporting a candidate who if was given enough power would likely dismantle Wall Street in a finance forum? Good for you.
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