Trump Kicking and Screaming Transition Thread

The country burning is a feature, not a bug.

Whether conscience or not, Conservatives understand they have lost the majority of the nation. It's what, 7 out of the last 8 popular votes they have lost? That's once in the last 30 years and even that one has an asterisks due to 9/11 flag rallying. That's why 10 years ago they started blocking court appointments so that if they did win the presidency they could pack the judiciary as a last redoubt. It should give them just enough time to suck the last bit of resources out of the country before they die off.

Since they have 'lost the country' all they want to is to extract the most wealth possible while owning the libs and taking the country down with them.

Some good reads:

https://newrepublic.com/article/143083/republicans-rolling-coal-party

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/04/29/opinion/nihilism-mitch-mcconnell/

It's not about the tax breaks and never was.

There are two things, in order of importance:
1. Liberals are ruining the country!!!!
2. Liberals are killing unborn babies for fun and profit!!!!

And, that's really it.

Nope. That's how the rich people get the poor dumb people to vote in their candidates.

For the tax breaks and the insurance that no social safety network is ever sufficient to break their hold on the country.

and, that IS how they continue to win in poor areas. So, I don't see how your statement contradicts mine.

I've read this several times and can't figure out what it is you're trying to say here.

Pretty much, yeah.

I don't think I ever thanked you calling me out back when I got sucked in by Sokar and the other pond scum back in the day, BTW. I wasn't listening back then, but I'm glad someone said something.

Yes.

Capitalism is the unofficial religion of 'Murica, even more that the warped Mary Sue-ified version of Jesus they celebrate.

I turn 35 in 2 months. In my lifetime, the GOP has won two popular votes in '88 and '04

Seems like a clear mandate to me.

The only thing that worries me, is that he goes to the SCOTUS, and demands they choose the next president.

Supreme court judges may be impeached. This plus peer-pressure should keep them from doing anything too outrageous.

I assume this is meant in jest? Without 2/3rds approval in the Senate, any impeachment is as dead in the water as Trump's was. They could catch Kavanaugh choking a prostitute to death and the GOP wouldn't vote to kick him out.

sorry, what was i thinking.

I'm just going to leave this here. Let's remember a time when Republicans and Democrats alike respected the democratic institutions of the United States of America.

How about that time an outgoing Republican president invited the Democrat president-elect to the White House?

Can't approach the SCOTUS from federal prison

You know that moment where someone’s having a meltdown in a movie and a friend says, “Stop it, you’re embarrassing yourself.”? This is the equivalent of going past that about 16 times.

Whaaaaa......?

In fairness this is someone who possibly spends her life in a tiny cubicle and last had to speak publicly in school, doubtless being on TV, especially in the midst of all this, is daunting.

Not sure I can agree with this. Why do you think it's unofficial?

My own take on it is that the country's motto actually has a typo in it, and is supposed to be: "In gold we trust."

shit you're right

William Jennings Bryan is shaking his fist at you from the beyond.

Paladin will have you know that Trump is just exploring his legal options.

Possibly a personnel freeze, along with some other limitations on major actions. Say no Executive Orders, no treaty negotiations, and such like.Would take an act of Congress of course.

Imagine a Democratic president exploring his legal options to reverse election results. Republicans would lose their shit.

Is there anything Democrats do that Republicans don't lose their shit over?

I mean, remember when they were giving Obama shit for using a teleprompter like every fucking president has done since teleprompters were invented?

Tan suit. Mustard.

I fear that this is going to get very ugly.

The number of texts I’ve been getting from the Trump campaign has slowed slightly and the time between texts is getting longer.

Sadly I agree.

It's entirely possible. Trump's latest moves could easily mean he is setting up a military option of some sort.

But it is still very much possible that he will just sulk, refuse to admit he lost, and then make a martyr of himself as he leaves the White House after having the election 'stolen' from him. About a quarter of the American population will, unfortunately, believe him, despite there being absolutely no evidence whatsoever of that, and plenty of solid proof to the contrary. But Trump's whole approach to 'truth' is basically the same as that of the propaganda ministry of any given dictatorship: 'Truth is what we say it is, and the people have the responsiblity to accept it.'

Not wearing a jacket in the Oval Office. Playing golf on the weekend.

"Very much possible" that it won't degenerate into violence is pretty depressing, wouldn't you say?
Although when I say that it will get ugly, that includes what will happen over the next few years. The democratic process may have been fatally undermined. Republicans try to undermine electoral politics at every chance they get - and both they and their followers are not likely to accept results that they don't like in future either.