US Presidential Election 2020

[urban.spaceman]

[That_Dude]

2 hours ago, HighPeakFox said:

Reconciliation with the hard right never works. They want more and more and never give way. 

Not everyone who voted for him is a hard right. I see an opportunity that could be exploited. Point is moot anyway since impeaching is very unlikely to happen.

[moore_94]

 seems like the name Adam Johnson is only given to scumbags

 

 

[HighPeakFox]

1 hour ago, moore_94 said:

 seems like the name Adam Johnson is only given to scumbags

 

 

I know a nice one  

[urban.spaceman]

 

[Babylon]

6 hours ago, HighPeakFox said:

We suffer with our own version of this delusion here too.

No doubt, just less inbreeding and guns to add in to the mix.

[urban.spaceman]

 

[urban.spaceman]

It gets more and more sinister the more details come out. 
 

 

[Pliskin]

Barring his social media activity now? Horse has bolted before the barn door closes? 

[Scotch]

1 hour ago, Pliskin said:

Barring his social media activity now? Horse has bolted before the barn door closes? 

It's the same as his staff members resigning with 10 days to go..... trying to save face. 

[StanSP]

 This cop...

 

Whether it was instinct or a well-thought out plan in a matter of seconds, it was an inspired act of thinking on his feet and potentially saving a life/lives...

 

[Koke]

Many of these MAGA terrorists are current military members. 25 identified so far. 

 

 

[Tuna]

Is it a realistic prospect that the second impeachment is successful? 

[StanSP]

 

 

[The Bear]

I saw earlier they're pushing ahead with the vote for it on, Tuesday I think. 

[leicsmac]

Realistically, there isn't much chance that Trump will actually be successfully convicted in the Senate - both because it's too late in the game (the Senate would have to reconvene, discuss and vote all in a couple of days) and because there aren't quite enough Repub Senators, even now, that would vote to see him sent down.

 

It's a symbolic gesture, really.

[HighPeakFox]

It needs doing, and fast. There are more attacks planned and the administration that is preventing the National Guard and potentially the army doing their jobs has to be removed. I fear it's going to be very bloody and that by the 20th things will be far worse than they already are.

[leicsmac]

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-55611630

 

More on the above.

 

It seems like Trump doesn't actually have to be a sitting President to be impeached and the Dems could do it a bit later on - as that's the case, I think it's a good idea.

[ozleicester]

On 09/01/2021 at 23:53, urban.spaceman said:

This pisses me off too... the gay couple with the wedding cake isnt trying to overthrow society... they have every right to be treated equally like anyone else.

Imagine the Christians refusing to bake a cake for a black couple.

[urban.spaceman]

Cue the Capitol COVID outbreak - some republican officials refused to wear masks in the bunker. 
 

Maybe THIS was Trump’s plan all along?!

[leicsmac]

"I see you, Donald Trump.

 

Well, I say that. Your visibility’s down somewhat, now that you’ve been booted off just about every form of social media going. Even Pinterest! What was your mood board on there? Recipes for covfefe, hamberders and white (power) Russians? It’s going to be interesting, watching you try to organise your next armed insurrection through Tinder. Swipe far right, kids, and try not to be disappointed when he turns up and is at least a hundred and fifty pounds heavier than he’s claiming to be.

 

So it ends. “There will be a peaceful transition of power”, mumbles the naked emperor from his embarrassed little podium, as the cattle prods to keep him on script hover just out of shot.

 

Congratulations, Donnie. You overplayed your tiny hand and will now forever be defined by this absurd moment. The party of law and order incited a violent coup d’twats, riling up a mob of domestic terrorists and seditionists who barged into the Capitol building and murdered a cop in the process. And they did it waving Blue Lives Matter flags. This is the culmination of four years’ worth of nationalism, entitlement, narcissism and mindless partisanship. People got themselves killed in the name of a duplicitous, criminal idiot who despises them.

 

It was utter lunacy, but the embarrassing incompetence of your naked grab at power shouldn’t dilute how horrifyingly dangerous it was. This wasn’t some grumbly protest that got a little out of hand, regardless of what that haunted ventriloquist’s dummy Tucker Carlson insists to the contrary. Military veterans entered Congress with zip ties looking to take hostages, chanting ‘Hang Mike Pence!’ and thirsting for violence. This was a mob genuinely convinced that their own government are child-torturing traitors and communists. Had they got their hands on Pelosi or AOC, it wouldn’t have ended in hair braiding and a ****ing drum circle. The only reason it didn’t work is that their dear leader handled his attempted overthrow of the government just as incompetently as he’s handled everything else.

 

If Joe Biden thinks he can reach across the aisle after all this, he’s been sniffing the wrong hair. The GOP and their financial backers have spent years flirting with hate in order to fund and facilitate their agenda, and now they’re feigning horror that hate has become what defines them. Cowards like Mulvaney, Devos and Chao aren’t doing the noble thing by falling on their swords. They’re rats fleeing a sinking ship. Even now the falsehoods about a stolen election are still being parroted by your wannabe heirs like Gaetz and Josh Hawley, a man with a face as long as the prison sentence he deserves. As for Ted Cruz? Christ. You could beat his wife to death with a brick in front of him, and that spineless cuck would only apologise for getting daddy's brick dirty.

 

Biden’s inauguration is set to be an absolute shitshow, with further violence planned by a nationwide movement of domestic terrorists that you've spent years tacitly encouraging. Watching the very social media companies who enabled your rise to power now rush to condemn you is nauseating, although there’s some pleasure to be had in it. Watching right-wingers protest the free market's decision that Donald Trump is no longer profitable when its autonomy is meant to be everything conservatives stand for is an irony so fabulously delicious that it's probably too gay for a Christian bakery to put on a cake.

 

This horror show should be the inflection point that leads to the collapse of the Republican party for a generation, but we shouldn’t hold our breath for that outcome becoming the reality. The GOP have learned that all it takes to hold on to its seats is complete and shameless dishonesty, enabled by a rightwing media oligarchy who paint anyone to the left of Reagan as communist maniacs. It’s a toxic playbook that will define politics everywhere for years to come unless Democrats find their spines and tear it out by the root. The ‘we have to listen to both sides!’ rhetoric is a Trojan horse for a tantrumming cabal of crybaby little bitches, incapable of entertaining the prospect that their favourite despot tanked his own re-election.

 

And that’s the real horrifying truth here; that if you’d just kept your moronic mouth shut, Donald Trump, none of this would ever have happened. If you hadn’t persuaded some of your own base away from the polls, if you hadn’t been so mindlessly crude and corrupt that it so energised the Democrats, you probably would have been re-elected. It’s rare that an American incumbent fails to get their second term. Nearly four hundred thousand Americans have died in this pandemic as a direct result of your incompetence, and you still got over 74 million votes. Republicans performed reasonably strongly down the ballot, meaning that it wasn’t the outright plutocracy and cruelty of your policies that turned people off, but the man at the helm of the party. That you can’t recognise that - when even now, you’re still convinced that the Democrats for some reason mobilised a national effort and conspired to fraudulently squeak control of the Senate by the slimmest possible margin - is proof of one thing and one thing only; just how pathologically ****ing stupid and deluded you are.

 

And a stupid, frightened animal is at its most dangerous when backed into a corner. There’s some sliver of hope to be had as a result of Wednesday’s madness - it’s surely destroyed Ivanka and Junior’s hopes for a future in politics. And the idea of Eric’s little heart sinking on his birthday, watching the man who’s never told him he loves him say it to his cult of worshippers, is inherently hilarious. But that doesn’t change the fact that the nuclear football needs to be wrestled off you before you can do any more damage.

 

It’s a fitting treason finale to the end of the most-watched show in American history; a House of Cards for the Twitter generation, helmed by just another sad little sex offender who deserves to never work again.

 

I see you, Donald Trump."

 

[ealingfox]

 

[Dahnsouff]

2 minutes ago, ealingfox said:

 

The legacy of these times will not be short lived 

[ealingfox]

14 minutes ago, Dahnsouff said:

The consequences of rioting at the actual seat of the US government in a baseless attempt to deny the outcome of a free and fair election because you lost will not be short lived 

 

Fixed it for you mate.

[Dahnsouff]

3 minutes ago, ealingfox said:

 

Fixed it for you mate.

Quite bloody right