The Politics Thread

[SouthSideRyan]

Trump is the only President ever to lose the popular election vote twice. He's made history. I hope he takes solace in that.

Hopefully beat OMC to it before he posts 9 paragraphs, but Benjamin Harrison and John Quincy Adams both did it as well. Winning once while losing popular vote(Adams thru the House), then losing re-election.

[gflore34]

https://twitter.com/Santucci/status/1324763737862086656?s=19

There was no way Trump was ever going to concede even if he lost every state decisively. The best we could hope for is him eventually stepping aside peacefully but forever maintaining that it was rigged and stolen from him

Yeah that’s got to be the end game. “OK whatever but we all know it was fraud.” His supporters say “yep it was fraud.” Trump’s flood of fraud tweets slowly becomes an occasional tweet but never actually stops.

Then the question is what to do about these criminal charges once he’s a private citizen? Do they actually go for the jugular- jail time?

I was thinking about the possibilities of TV, how long will he be able to keep an audience by constantly whining about how this and that was done to him?

[JudasIscariotTheBird]

CNN, call this thing, you cowards

Nobody wants to do it. Nevada and Pennsylvania could both easily be called at this point.

[minnesotacubsfan]

There was no way Trump was ever going to concede even if he lost every state decisively. The best we could hope for is him eventually stepping aside peacefully but forever maintaining that it was rigged and stolen from him

Yeah that’s got to be the end game. “OK whatever but we all know it was fraud.” His supporters say “yep it was fraud.” Trump’s flood of fraud tweets slowly becomes an occasional tweet but never actually stops.

Then the question is what to do about these criminal charges once he’s a private citizen? Do they actually go for the jugular- jail time?

I was thinking about the possibilities of TV, how long will he be able to keep an audience by constantly whining about how this and that was done to him?

have you met his supporters?

[CoolHandLuke]

There is no way that trump has anything to do with the actual work of building or running a network. He'd probably just license his name to OAN, collect checks, and have an open line to go on any time he wants.

[CyHawk_Cub]

[OleMissCub]

Trump is the only President ever to lose the popular election vote twice. He's made history. I hope he takes solace in that.

Hopefully beat OMC to it before he posts 9 paragraphs, but Benjamin Harrison and John Quincy Adams both did it as well. Winning once while losing popular vote(Adams thru the House), then losing re-election.

[abuck1220]

https://twitter.com/SCOTUSblog/status/1324737753804918786

Good, we have a paper trail

Who exactly do you think runs SCOTUSblog?

see, this is exactly why you can’t miss a page of this thread.

[Tim]

There was no way Trump was ever going to concede even if he lost every state decisively. The best we could hope for is him eventually stepping aside peacefully but forever maintaining that it was rigged and stolen from him

Yeah that’s got to be the end game. “OK whatever but we all know it was fraud.” His supporters say “yep it was fraud.” Trump’s flood of fraud tweets slowly becomes an occasional tweet but never actually stops.

Then the question is what to do about these criminal charges once he’s a private citizen? Do they actually go for the jugular- jail time?

I was thinking about the possibilities of TV, how long will he be able to keep an audience by constantly whining about how this and that was done to him?

At least 4 years?

[David]

Good, we have a paper trail

Who exactly do you think runs SCOTUSblog?

see, this is exactly why you can’t miss a page of this thread.

i was going to make fun of him for this and make some sort of not understanding twitter/stuff in general joke and then i decided to just let it go

[Derwood]

Who exactly do you think runs SCOTUSblog?

see, this is exactly why you can’t miss a page of this thread.

i was going to make fun of him for this and make some sort of not understanding twitter joke and then i decided to just let it go

Yes, I totally believe that all 9 members of SCOTUS share the writing responsibilities for SCOTUSblog. This is a thing that I believe.

[David]

see, this is exactly why you can’t miss a page of this thread.

i was going to make fun of him for this and make some sort of not understanding twitter joke and then i decided to just let it go

Yes, I totally believe that all 9 members of SCOTUS share the writing responsibilities for SCOTUSblog. This is a thing that I believe.

jesus christ

almost

[CubinNY]

Trump is the only President ever to lose the popular election vote twice. He's made history. I hope he takes solace in that.

Hopefully beat OMC to it before he posts 9 paragraphs, but Benjamin Harrison and John Quincy Adams both did it as well. Winning once while losing popular vote(Adams thru the House), then losing re-election.

Learned something new.

[JudasIscariotTheBird]

[UMFan83]

i was going to make fun of him for this and make some sort of not understanding twitter joke and then i decided to just let it go

Yes, I totally believe that all 9 members of SCOTUS share the writing responsibilities for SCOTUSblog. This is a thing that I believe.

jesus christ

almost

Come on Derwood

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[Derwood]

Yes, I totally believe that all 9 members of SCOTUS share the writing responsibilities for SCOTUSblog. This is a thing that I believe.

jesus christ

almost

Come on Derwood

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Did I need to use green font? give a #sarcasm tag? Did you actually think that I believe that members of SCOTUS post on SCOTUSblog?

[The_Achiever]

Any good schadenfraude out there? I’ve seen a few crackpot posts on Facebook but nothing too bad.

My mug of GOP tears must be filled!

[minnesotacubsfan]

Any good schadenfraude out there? I’ve seen a few crackpot posts on Facebook but nothing too bad.

My mug of GOP tears must be filled!

Limbaugh called the election, thats at least a few drops.

[JudasIscariotTheBird]

Ok, I'm moving on. This cannot be allowed to happen.



Not only would the Dems again have an inneffective, decrepit centrist with 20+ years of Republican smears attached to her sinking, insanely unpopular ship, but...yeah, not sure where I was going. That's just the sitch.

Can the immensely underwhelming election results in the house and senate races be attributed to anything other than more failed centrist retread and chasing imaginary undecided voters?

[JudasIscariotTheBird]

Any good schadenfraude out there? I’ve seen a few crackpot posts on Facebook but nothing too bad.

My mug of GOP tears must be filled!

Portnoy (prob 3 pages back) is my favorite so far, but that was back when he was certain Trump was going to win Tuesday night. I haven't seen any real meltdowns yet. I'm sure a "schadenfraude" search on twitter will be fruitful tho.

[Brian]

Can the immensely underwhelming election results in the house and senate races be attributed to anything other than more failed centrist retread and chasing imaginary undecided voters?

the two sides are already blaming each other

[jersey cubs fan]

Ok, I'm moving on. This cannot be allowed to happen.



Not only would the Dems again have an inneffective, decrepit centrist with 20+ years of Republican smears attached to her sinking, insanely unpopular ship, but...yeah, not sure where I was going. That's just the sitch.

Can the immensely underwhelming election results in the house and senate races be attributed to anything other than more failed centrist retread and chasing imaginary undecided voters?

It can be to the extent that is already has been attributed to leftists and progressives by those failed centrist retreads and their allies.

[CyHawk_Cub]

[CoolHandLuke]

jesus christ

almost

Come on Derwood

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Did I need to use green font? give a #sarcasm tag? Did you actually think that I believe that members of SCOTUS post on SCOTUSblog?

I still can't tell if you know that it is a media outlet and not some sort of PR for the supreme court

[Brian]

Can the immensely underwhelming election results in the house and senate races be attributed to anything other than more failed centrist retread and chasing imaginary undecided voters?

the two sides are already blaming each other

This was yesterday