Now That Trump's President... (not any more!)

[EdamAnchorman]

I think if Trump wins you'll see exactly what happened for the month after George Floyd, lots of mostly peaceful protests and some violence instigated by general hooligans on both sides.

I think if Trump loses, what we'll see depends on how badly he loses.  If there's no doubt he lost, I am hoping there will only be isolated pockets of violence, probably in battleground states, that will die down quickly.

If it's close and Trump loses, holy shit, I think there will be an endless cacophony of shit in the media and in the streets.

If Trump does lose, I am expecting some sort of shenanigans at Biden's inauguration when Trump has to literally and figuratively hand over power.

[zero]

16 minutes ago, dingformung said:

but if I had to take a guess I'd say that the civil unrest in case of him winning would be worse: Leftists would go nuts in the streets and the right would use that as a legitimisation for measures against them, more so when they have the government on their side. Trump must not win.

this is my take on it as well. donnie and his gang would be pointing fingers right away - "see, I told you dems/left wingers are the real nut jobs here. look at them destroying property, yadda, yadda." 

either way win or lose, we're fucked here. chance of violence this week is 100%. he's not going to stop campaigning even if he loses, and will continue to incite his base into doing who knows what. like usual, he probably won't spell it out, but will make vague hints at things that his base will interpret as they see fit.

[dingformung]

Sad thing is that Trump is a leftist within his own party. His manners and rhetoric suggest otherwise but others of his party would, in the end, probably be worse than him while having a more tactful rhetoric and have gotten rid of pension plans and other social politics all together, a wet dream of the Republican Party. Trump didn't do it mostly because of the incompetence of his administration. Now imagine a Republican (or a Republican in Democrat disguise) in office, who is a thinking man and not just a propaganda spitting machine. A thinking far-right man in office could have led the world to the verge of total erasement (as far as organised humanity goes). Trump "only" managed to ruin the political culture of the US while putting a couple of kids into cages and threatening millions to take away their healthcare plans, which is bad enough but if he had some more creativeness and intelligence, he could have done a lot of even worse things.

[EdamAnchorman]

9 minutes ago, dingformung said:

 if he had some more creativeness and intelligence, he could have done a lot of even worse things.

He has creativeness and a certain kind of intelligence, but they're ALWAYS directed at enhancing his own "brand".  IMO it's not that he doesn't have those things, he just doesn't have the capacity or will to focus his energy on anything other than himself which I think is why Republicans (I declare them the party of selfishness) identify with him so much.

Edited November 2, 2020 by randomsummer

[ignatius]

Win or lose I hope trump falls down the stairs while deplaning air force one.


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[Hi Guys]

I can’t fucking believe it’s actually like something we all have to wonder or worry about. Fuck trump

[may be rude]

8 hours ago, zero said:

serious question - do you think there'll be more civil unrest if trump wins or loses?

if he wins, then no doubt there will be massive protests in urban down town areas that usually at some point turn violent.

if he loses, what are the trumpo's going to do? drive their trucks into things? they usually only congregate en masse when their king is present.

the concerning scenarios are centered around neither being a clear winner. the fbi has released a warning that we should expect foreign disinformation interference to the effect of a PERCEPTION HACK, possibly focused on the IDEA of an ELECTION HACK. trump has said that if he loses then it's rigged. he said the votes shouldn't be counted after election day, though there are millions of mail ballots in many states, and many states have laws preventing counting UNTIL election day. and, in every single election, vote counting goes beyond election day. he said he considers the democrats to have attempted a coup on him, and he said that in response to a question of whether he will concede. 

he provoked unrest, he fed the false ideologies that fueled things like the el paso mass shooting and the guy living in a van who mailed bombs to obama and others. he created the environment that led to an attempted kidnapping of the michigan governor, and then immediately continued the exact same rhetoric against the michigan governor a day later. and he spoke up for kyle rittenhouse, after he trekked to wisconsin to shoot people. he overtly wields influence over AG barr. he says the guys crashing their trucks into biden caravans are good guys who didn't do anything wrong, influencing the fbi investigation into it.

he has been misleading people about mail ballots. every single day he makes a point to spread the message, despite it being harmful misinformation that twitter had to flag, it was so egregious. he's been laying those seeds every day for months, especially in swing states. the mail ballots are seeing significant late deliveries, meaning we may see large numbers not arrive by election day. the partisan difference in early voting vs day-of means that some states will see blue mirages, but many will see red mirages, on election day, depending on whether mail ballots were allowed to begin getting counted early.

and, he, in a perfectly bizarre way, allowed covid to spread, so that the country is thoroughly seeded with it, now. more than half of the deaths only happened because trump decided to go that way. he already has blood on his hands, and i've found it very strange, this whole time.

people should be ready to act very responsibly. and that means not violently.

Edited November 3, 2020 by very honest

[drillkicker]

What does Trump do if Kanye gets voted in

[zero]

3 hours ago, Upset man said:

I can’t fucking believe it’s actually like something we all have to wonder or worry about. Fuck trump

exactly. the fact that this is coming down to a nail biter is 100% the dems fault. the day after shit head became president, it should have been an all hands on deck moment to start figuring out how to beat him in 2020. instead, we got what felt like leftovers from the Hilary missteps trotted out (except Bernard). and sure enough, one by one they crumbled (Elizabeth Warren? c'mon). now we're left with 2 seventy something year old white guys, shaking their angry old man fists at the sky, while the rest of the multicultural country is left saying "are they even talking to me?"

FFS my kid's t-ball coach gave more inspirational speeches than Biden. where is Obama 2.0? was there no one else willing to step up here? could they not have even found some Jordan Belfort type to out scam the donald? 

 

[ambermonk]

Just now, zero said:

exactly. the fact that this is coming down to a nail biter is 100% the dems fault. the day after shit head became president, it should have been an all hands on deck moment to start figuring out how to beat him in 2020. instead, we got what felt like leftovers from the Hilary missteps trotted out (except Bernard). and sure enough, one by one they crumbled (Elizabeth Warren? c'mon). now we're left with 2 seventy something year old white guys, shaking their angry old man fists at the sky, while the rest of the multicultural country is left saying "are they even talking to me?"

FFS my kid's t-ball coach gave more inspirational speeches than Biden. where is Obama 2.0? was there no one else willing to step up here? could they not have even found some Jordan Belfort type to out scam the donald? 

 

Yeah not to say Biden doesn't stand a chance still, but Super Tuesday was a major cock block this year for Team Dem. The fact that the voting gap is still as narrow as it is between either side given the circumstances is unfortunate.

[Hugh Mughnus]

Aren’t the current polls suggesting a double digit lead Biden over drumpf? About double the estimate for Hillary in 2016. 

do you guys think it will be close? 

[ignatius]

7 minutes ago, Hugh Mughnus said:

Aren’t the current polls suggesting a double digit lead Biden over drumpf? About double the estimate for Hillary in 2016. 

do you guys think it will be close? 

the polls are similar in places but not exactly the same. there are plenty of differences though. 

anyway.. the trump mob of CHUDS are roaming around the country in different places instigating shit and trying to draw people in to confrontations. i hope that they get too drunk to leave home tomorrow or something.  the trump train car caravans are idiotic. 

 

Edited November 3, 2020 by ignatius

[may be rude]

41 minutes ago, Hugh Mughnus said:

Aren’t the current polls suggesting a double digit lead Biden over drumpf? About double the estimate for Hillary in 2016. 

do you guys think it will be close? 

national polling can be misleading, because of the electoral college. the republicans have only won the popular vote once in the last 30 years, in presidential elections. what matters is florida, pennsylvania, who knows where they've been secretly engineering opinions, strategically. in 2016 no one expected wisconsin or michigan to go red. 

but yeah polling in swing states shows biden ahead in PA, close in FL, with a lead in MI and WI, favored for AZ and NV, and with a shot in OH and even TX, NC, and GA. 

but there was a lot of weird shit in 2016 and there is even more weird shit, this year.

Edited November 3, 2020 by very honest

[Hugh Mughnus]

1 minute ago, ignatius said:

the polls are similar in places but not exactly the same. there are plenty of differences though. 

Think it will be close tomorrow though? Like as close as the 2016 election? I have no idea what to expect tbh.

Just now, very honest said:

it's not a direct vote, though, because of the electoral college. what matters is florida, pennsylvania, who knows where they've been secretly engineering opinions, strategically. in 2016 no one expected wisconsin or michigan to go blue. 

but yeah polling in swing states shows biden ahead in PA, close in FL, with a lead in MI and WI, favored for AZ and NV, and with a shot in OH and even TX, NC, and GA. 

but there was a lot of weird shit in 2016 and there is even more weird shit, this year.

Yeah I get that... what a mess 

[dcom]

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In September 2019, Donald Trump’s lawyers debuted a bold new legal argument. Attempting to quash a subpoena from the Manhattan District Attorney’s office, which had requested eight years of tax returns to determine if the Trump Organization has falsified business records relating to payouts made to a porn star and a Playboy model, the president’s attorneys insisted that such a request was unconstitutional because the founding fathers believed sitting presidents should not be subject to the criminal process, which would “distract the president” from his duties. Pressed by a judge on this argument, and the hypothetical Trump busted out during the 2016 election—that he could “stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody” and not “lose any voters”—attorney William Consovoy insisted that yes, that kind of thing would fall under this concept of “presidential immunity,” i.e. Trump could put a bullet in a random pedestrian and avoid prosecution until moving out of the White House.

Unsurprisingly, actual legal experts weren’t convinced of this argument and neither was the Supreme Court, which ruled last July, in the words of Reuters, “that there are limits to the powers of the presidency and stoutly reaffirmed the principle that not even the president is above the law.” Still, Trump’s lackeys, which include the Attorney General of the United States, have done their part to shield him from situations wherein he could be convicted of a variety of crimes, getting him through almost an entire term without an embarrassing situation wherein a sitting president is, say, found guilty of falsifying business records regarding a hush money payment he made to an adult-film star.

Report: Trump is terrified about going to prison after losing the election, as he should be (Vanity Fair/Hive)

Edited November 3, 2020 by dcom

[dingformung]

Would he go to a normal prison with other prisoners? How would prison for a former president look like? Are there hookers?

[dcom]

3 minutes ago, dingformung said:

Would he go to a normal prison with other prisoners? How would prison for a former president look like? Are there hookers?

Orange would be the new black, both figuratively and not.

[Limo]

1 hour ago, dingformung said:

Would he go to a normal prison with other prisoners? How would prison for a former president look like? Are there hookers?

If Al Capone's cell in the Eastern State Penitentiary in Philadelphia (you can go sightseeing there now) is any indication, his quarters will be small but comfortable:

https://www.easternstate.org/explore/exhibits/al-capones-cell

[zero]

1 hour ago, dingformung said:

Would he go to a normal prison with other prisoners? 

sadly, he'll never go to prison. he's going to get away with it all...

[dcom]

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Deutsche Bank AG is looking for ways to end its relationship with President Donald Trump after the U.S. elections, as it tires of the negative publicity stemming from the ties, according to three senior bank officials with direct knowledge of the matter.

Deutsche Bank has about $340 million in loans outstanding to the Trump Organization, the president’s umbrella group that is currently overseen by his two sons, according to filings made by Trump to the U.S. Office of Government Ethics in July and a senior source within the bank. The three loans, which are against Trump properties and start coming due in two years, are current on payments and personally guaranteed by the president, according to two bank officials.

In meetings in recent months, a Deutsche Bank management committee that oversees reputational and other risks for the lender in the Americas region has discussed ways in which it could rid the bank of these last vestiges of the relationship, two of the three bank officials said. The bank has over the years lent Trump more than $2 billion, one of the officials said.

One idea that has come up in the meetings: sell the loans in the secondary market, two of the bank officials said. But one of the officials said that idea has not gained traction, in part because it is not clear who would want to buy the loans and the attendant problems that come with it.

Exclusive: Tired of Trump, Deutsche Bank games ways to sever ties with the president - sources (Reuters)

[Braintree]

Thought this was a good live analysis of the way Tucker Carlson speaks to the MAGA audience.

tldr; they're in a cult.

[Brisbot]

The only way Trump gets to 270 now is if he loses 50 pounds

 

On 11/3/2020 at 7:27 AM, dingformung said:

Would he go to a normal prison with other prisoners? How would prison for a former president look like? Are there hookers?

He probably won't be going to prison. I just don't see it at this point.

He will also probably run in 2024.

Edited November 6, 2020 by Brisbot

[caze]

31 minutes ago, Brisbot said:

He will also probably run in 2024.

Hopefully as a 3rd party candidate because the GOP abandons him and it really pisses him off.

[ignatius]

dude.. this fucking asshole and all these assholes are just emboldening the psychos

https://www.newsweek.com/bannon-calls-fauci-beheading-1545287

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Steve Bannon Calls for the Beheading of Dr. Fauci on Podcast

 

[Braintree]

So we've reached the middle ages again.

"BEGONE WITH YOUR WITCHERY, SCIENTIST."