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This is, well, nuts. We’re not going to have a do-over. Everyone knows it. Surely he knows it. If he wants to run again rehashing 2020 in every speech, he’s certainly entitled to do so, and see if it resonates. But there’s something else here.
Put me down in the “not terminating all rules, regulations, and articles, even those found in the Constitution” camp.
Granted; don’t think he wants to terminate all rules and regulations. Just the ones that impede reinstallation. How this would be done is left to our imagination, but perhaps Congress can vote to override the Constitution just this once? Because something happened that required capital letters?
There’s Very Stable Genius territory, and then there’s this.
Before anyone says he’s just being him, you anti-Trumpers are obsessed – he’s a candidate for the Presidency. They have to take an oath about protecting and defending the Constitution, right? Or are we back to calling the Constitution’s defenders vellum fetishists?
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Every statement Trump makes these days just feels like yesterday’s news. Like if Sarah Palin showed up to the 2016 debates sipping a Super Big Gulp between winks.
Whenever the latest outrageous missive drops from Mar-a-Lago, I mutter, “Oh, yeah. I remember that show,” before continuing to scroll through the channels.
At this point it does not matter much. We have seen them steal POTUS and senate level elections. I don’t see it changing any from this point forward. GOP can run who ever wants to run in 2024. Wish them well.
I wouldn’t say it’s “nuts” myself -it strikes me as typical Trumpian hyperbole. Something to be taken seriously, but not literally.
On the other hand I really wish Trump would stop talking about the 2020 election in this way. I would much rather hear about how we will fix elections in the future, along with a plan to restore the American political culture to sanity.
Odd. I’m 64 years old. My first vote was for Carter in 1976.
With one exception, I have voted on the day of election since then.
it’s a little alarming to come to the realization that I have probably never voted in a “free and fair election”.
So all y’all – keep on keeping on.
#pathetic
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Not Trump. Not if he keeps this nonsense up.
So … somebody from the B team.
We don’t have a B team.
I saw this too, James. It certainly comes as no suprise. This is who he has always been, a man about himself. There is no higher principle involved; no defense of the republic, it’s constitution or values. Just a man who loves those who praise him, no matter who they are, and hates those who question him.
Now get ready for the envitable deluge of comments from those who now believe every election we lose is stolen, all hope is lost, let’s just drive out into the woods and blow are brains out crowd.
is there any reason to believe it wouldn’t continue? where has president Trump pumped the breaks in the last 6 years?
Back in 2016 I was an outspoken Trump critic — right up until he got the nomination. I thought we were squandering a wonderful opportunity to put a responsible conservative in office. I opposed Trump vehemently, and had good reasons for doing so.
But he got the nomination, I voted for him, and he won — and I was pleasantly surprised by the quality of his administration. I voted for him a second time in 2020 and was disappointed by his loss. I think the country would probably be in much better shape if he had won, though of course, thanks to Biden, that bar is decidedly subterranean.
I now find myself almost back where I was in 2016. I am eager for someone else — someone who has the pugnacity of Trump but the judgment of an adult — to step up and represent my party. I won’t badmouth Trump as aggressively as I did in 2016, because I still believe that, on balance, the man has been subjected to far more unjust than just criticism and I won’t join in.
But I will be very disappointed if we don’t choose a new standard bearer. And the thought of being faced with a Trump-or-a-Democrat choice in 2024 would be torture: I will never vote for a Democrat, but I would find it very hard to cast my vote for Trump.
We can rally behind another choice without dwelling on Trump. Let’s do that.
There will be a primary.
is there anyone who will spare me from this insufferable throat clearing?
As I tweeted to Claire earlier today, “I hate when former President Trump is as bad as President Biden.”
I understand why people are reacting this way to Trump’s tweet.
However, I don’t understand why the 2019 election is not being seen as between the Democrats and Republicans, two political parties who have vastly different agendas and philosophies.
A great many people were affected by Biden’s team assuming office.
This should not be viewed as being between likable Biden versus unlikable Trump.
The issues are much larger than that.
As bad as Trump is, you’d think it would be easy for the Democrats or Republicans to find someone better to run for President. But so far they have failed at that task. Maybe another time.
It should not be overlooked that many people – and a few states – that went for Obama both terms, then flipped to Trump. If you show those states just some typical GOP boilerplate candidate again, they might feel justified in flipping back to the Dimocrats.
the choice doesn’t have to be between either a sociopath or a boilerplate R. the states Trump flipped in 16 flipped back in 2020, with a few more (AZ and GA) flipping that had been solidly R in most pres elections (trump was only +4 in AZ in 2016, the writing was on the wall, while mcain won that senate race by +13). Today’s Democrat party isn’t the same party as Obamas in 08 and today’s R party isn’t the same as Romney or McCains. There are some candidates who are neither the awful McConnell establishment nor the living in a false reality bubble Trump type that do exist.
He DOES have every right to be angry about this, though. This isn’t all in his head.
But he’s never going to take a few deep breaths before he lets it fly, for better or worse.
And sometimes it’s going to almost as crazy as the things Biden says/does.
So what do you do when you think there is credible and growing evidence of widespread fraud and deception, including colluding with Big Tech? Just move on? Isn’t history supposed to be that thing all the smart folks tell us we’re supposed to learn from?
In polite society one doesn’t brag, one doesn’t bluster, and one certainly shouldn’t be a sore loser. I’m not sure that’s how you defend a democracy.
He’s wrong. We don’t throw out any rules. What we do is impeach, convict, and install the next in line. That is the remedy. That would leave us with President McCarthy.
So the fraud Deniers who claim to be Republicans have no problem with fraud. No wonder the Democrats are able to get away with it. Expect more of the same except much larger volume in 2024 thanks to weak, milquetoast Republicans.
If you think this is about the past, you are delusional.
It’s still not even really about Trump. My interest in the topic, that is.
So we don’t suspend all the rules.
What is the remedy then (which inthink Skyler already offered)? Why are you not calling for it rather than taking more pot shots at Trump? Priorities, priorities.
I’m sick of his outrageous comments and making excuses for him. I’m getting very worried. . .
If the election processes, including the electoral college, are part of the problem – and historically, I’d say that’s a yes – then his hyperbolic statements make sense. It’s over the top, but that’s part of his charm.
Other than the electoral college piece, most of the way the elections are run are determined by the state, for how they will do it. There’s nothing to throw out from a constitutional perspective, unless, in an odd twist of fate, we do so and federalize national elections – meaning they’ll be run centrally from D. C. Fairly certain nobody wants that, for a hell of a lot of good reasons.
Net: Still back to square one. Instead of committees devoted to rooting out election fraud, or election influence from the US government to news or information platforms (which should be the *real* investigation, since that way lies madness), we get a riot investigation with no Republicans.
Our grand project is failing. If we’re speaking of founding fathers and vellum.
No. We have an A Team of governors that would be fantastic candidates.
Same old bs that was said about the 2016 candidates. None of them are from where the election is to be decided because of the gross stupidity of establishment Republicans and their refusal to fund candidates after they lost primaries. If these grifters think they can win, they are even denser than they have shown themselves to be in the past.
It seems to me that the termination of rules and regulations is par for the course for the Democrat Party.
So, Dude, what do we do with the massive fraud and deception perpetrated by Big Tech, the DNC, and the MSM that aided and abetted the Biden Crime Family?
Oh dear, James. Do you think the Democrat Party cares one wit for the Constitution?
Y’all seem to want to use the same playbook as Obama – the “gosh, if we’re nice to Iran they’ll be nice to us” hogwash. I hope y’all realize that the Democrat Party is a corrupt, authoritarian thugocracy.
I would hope that Trump’s over-the-top rhetoric would light a fire under people to realize how corrupt and dangerous the Democrats are. But, no, the chattering classes will continue to be outraged on the fainting couch by whatever Trump says as we are hammered into a third-world hellhole by the Dems.
If I may, I’ll borrow a line from @annefy
#pathetic
I’d love to rally behind anyone who is willing to actually fight the swamp.
Who do we have?
To me is has never been about any one person, but someone who will fight.
Trump was robbed, of that I have no doubt. Same as Nixon.
And
Nixon showed more class.
You’ll probably be blocked for that.
“Word of warning though, if he does lay into ya, it’s best to just let ‘im finish.”
President Trumpin’
On your leg and humpin’
A little bit embarrassin’ but
at least he’s doin’ sumpin’