I went to a mini brunch (technically lunch since it was a weekday) party with some friends to watch/toast the 2008 inauguration pomp and circumstance.
Thoroughly disenchanted by 2012, nodded knowingly when Romney kicked Obama’s butt in their first debate because arrogant baby jesus did not prepare properly.
Abstained from the rock and a hard place choice of 2016.
Embracing voting “for” Trump in 2020, which will of course end in a shit show of litigation and dueling narratives.
I voted “for” L’Orange, and I can’t listen to the man for more than 30 seconds.
Those of youse who hate him, yet are such experts on his proclamations and utterances, must be masochists.
His last speech was hilarious.
At first he looked tired and I was expecting a more subdued Trump just doing some motivational speech for the fans that stuck around. Then he perked up and talked about going to court and calling everything fraud and stuff and I started lol-ing.
Then CNN got massively triggered. It’s more entertaining than reality TV shows.
Can’t watch that stuff. Scripted reality, how’s that for an oxymoronic phrase?
I was on an episode of Judge Judy though lol. Apparently, I was referred to as a “bodybuilder” (5’8", low 170s) LOLLLL.
You’re kidding, right? Which episode was that?
Oh God CNN is just hilarious. They keep calling Trump an idiot so why in the world are they assuming Trump actually KNOWS that he can’t just go STRAIGHT to the Supreme Court? Fucking clowns lololol.
To those of us not in the US (Australia in my case) it’s honestly like a soap opera and keeps you on the edge of your seat.
Trump diagnosed with COVID! Will he die? Will Pence take over? How will this affect the election? Will Biden get it next?
Then next week he’s fine, but says/does something controversial and the news cycle is aflame until the end of the week. Then everyone forgets about it and something new happens the next week. It’s amazing TV.
You could have replaced that silly “returning to the White House” video with The Amazing Race theme and it would have fit.
At least my wife has calmed down. Looks like Biden’s gonna take it if it’s true the majority of the uncounted votes in Michigan and Wisconsin are the mail-in ones.
US politics is a reality show. Trump was on one before running for president, that was his training.
Last time I throw my vote away on an independent.
All those self proclaimed Marxists, and not one of them bothered to read up on Mao and how he defeated the Nationalists.
Trump said, “We want the law to be used in a proper manner. So we’ll be going to the US Supreme Court. We want all voting to stop. We don’t want them to find any ballots at 4 o’clock in the morning and add them to the list, okay?”
This is about as surprising as the sun rising in the east but I still don’t understand how his supporters just don’t give any type of fuck when he attacks foundational principles like counting votes, 1st amendment, etc.
One would think we could all get together on counting votes, but apparently not.
I suppose the short answer is that a lot of people don’t see the world like you do.
I’d rather Trump had said what Pence said, but then he’d be Mike Pence and not Donald Trump. I don’t think that’s an uncommon view.
What isn’t happening is the follow-on conclusion that you’d like to see. Few Trump voters are concluding that a vote for an empty suit and the open Marxist likely to assume the Presidency is somehow an improvement.
This is easy for me to understand, but you can always just keep on wondering if you want. There are also lots of narratives available to explain this from people who’ve been making a career out of being wrong. My favorite is that we’re all unrepentant racist scum.
Sure looks like I lost my bet! C’mon Supreme Court, give me my money!
Some care about winning more than Democracy. Other things too, but that is one of them.
This. And, when you give someone a legitimate-sounding pretext, it’s that much easier to put any lingering internal conflict to rest.
At least the Republicans held the Senate. No court-packing. The filibuster remains. No statehood for Puerto Rico or D.C. And hopefully gridlock for 4 years.
I get that. I’m saying I’m surprised that “well it’s Donald Trump so all good just another BS statement” is never called out by his supporters and always dismissed. I mean the President is saying don’t count votes and his supporters are really going with “hey that’s Donald for you, he ain’t perfect but he’s Donald. We like a bit of zany.”
Who would that be? Because it is not Harris.
Try and keep up. After Obama took all the guns and got rid of capitalism Biden is here to clean up anything around before we fully turn into Venezuela or something.
