Trump - a puzzling enigma

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Your list forgot to mention "defund police". Or does "military" cover it?
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LIBERATE MICHIGAN? Stand-by??
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commonsense wrote: Fri Oct 09, 2020 3:44 pm LIBERATE MICHIGAN? Stand-by??
I guess they're "freedom fighters" in someone's book.
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Just wondering if Trump will concede to a loss if he loses.

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/ar ... de/616424/
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Gary Childress wrote: Fri Oct 09, 2020 4:18 pm Just wondering if Trump will concede to a loss if he loses.

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/ar ... de/616424/
I'm wonderin' the same thing about the houseplant named biden
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henry quirk wrote: Fri Oct 09, 2020 5:20 pm
Gary Childress wrote: Fri Oct 09, 2020 4:18 pm Just wondering if Trump will concede to a loss if he loses.

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/ar ... de/616424/
I'm wonderin' the same thing about the houseplant named biden
I'm betting there's controversy either way.

If Trump wins, the Bidenettes will all scream that there wasn't enough mail-in voting counted into the mix, so the results are inauthentic and have to be disregarded. If Biden wins, it will be by mail-in voting, which will immediately open up reasonable suspicions of fraud. So what sense is there in capitulating to a fraudulent vote-count? That's not democracy, obviously, and as long as the votes can't be trusted, who's the real President?

The only way to real beat all that is to cancel mail-in voting, and make people show up with ID in hand to vote like voting should be done. But neither side is willing to do because of public fears of COVID, no matter how irrational those fears are in regard to voting.

So it's going to be a mess. I'm pretty certain of that.
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The only way to real beat all that is to cancel mail-in voting, and make people show up with ID in hand to vote like voting should be done.

yep


But neither side is willing to do because of public fears of COVID, no matter how irrational those fears are in regard to voting.

I'll vote in person, at the courthouse, beer virus be damned


So it's going to be a mess. I'm pretty certain of that.

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commonsense wrote: Fri Oct 09, 2020 3:44 pm LIBERATE MICHIGAN? Stand-by??
Kidnappings. Trials for Treason. Takeovers.

Putin must be creaming in his pants.
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Remember that one time Trump supporters were concerned about injustices that were happening to minorities...
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Gary Childress wrote: Fri Oct 09, 2020 11:21 pm Remember that one time Trump supporters were concerned about injustices that were happening to minorities...
the injustices foisted up by smokin' joe and harris the 'ho?
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henry quirk wrote: Fri Oct 09, 2020 11:25 pm
Gary Childress wrote: Fri Oct 09, 2020 11:21 pm Remember that one time Trump supporters were concerned about injustices that were happening to minorities...
the injustices foisted up by smokin' joe and harris the 'ho?
Yeah. I wonder if it has something to do with it being election time.
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Immanuel Can wrote: Fri Oct 09, 2020 5:27 pm
henry quirk wrote: Fri Oct 09, 2020 5:20 pm
Gary Childress wrote: Fri Oct 09, 2020 4:18 pm Just wondering if Trump will concede to a loss if he loses.

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/ar ... de/616424/
I'm wonderin' the same thing about the houseplant named biden
I'm betting there's controversy either way.

If Trump wins, the Bidenettes will all scream that there wasn't enough mail-in voting counted into the mix, so the results are inauthentic and have to be disregarded. If Biden wins, it will be by mail-in voting, which will immediately open up reasonable suspicions of fraud. So what sense is there in capitulating to a fraudulent vote-count? That's not democracy, obviously, and as long as the votes can't be trusted, who's the real President?

The only way to real beat all that is to cancel mail-in voting, and make people show up with ID in hand to vote like voting should be done. But neither side is willing to do because of public fears of COVID, no matter how irrational those fears are in regard to voting.

So it's going to be a mess. I'm pretty certain of that.
My guess is that besides crying foul play, trump will refuse to leave the white House and his post, if he loses. I am not much aware of presidential power according to US laws but my fear is that he may impose emergency or invoke military to keep him as president. On the other hand, nothing dramatic will happen if Biden loses.

Remember what trump said before last election result- if Clinton wins, it would be because of cheating and i will not accept it. However, if I win, it would be fair and square. He is saying the same now.

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