Recommended by Ricochet Members Created with Sketch. In the Spirit of Bipartisanship, Comity, and Goodwill

 

As the chances for President Trump to pull out a judiciary-based win become slimmer and slimmer I have a proposal. Republicans, in the spirit of “National Healing,” “Coming Together,” and “Ending the Partisan Divide” need to offer to (maybe, probably) President-elect Biden and his administration every single courtesy and benefit of the doubt that the Democrats gave Trump.

Every. Single. One.

Published in General
This post was promoted to the Main Feed by a Ricochet Editor at the recommendation of Ricochet members. Like this post? Want to comment? Join Ricochet’s community of conservatives and be part of the conversation. Get your first month free.

There are 178 comments.

Become a member to join the conversation. Or sign in if you're already a member.
  1. DrewInEastHillAutonomousZone Coolidge

    Judge Mental (View Comment):

    MarciN (View Comment):

    He starts his speech this way:

    To Trump supporters, he said: “I understand the disappointment tonight. But now let’s give each other a chance. It’s time to put away the harsh rhetoric, lower the temperature… To make progress we have to stop treating our opponents as our enemies. They are not our enemies, they are Americans.”

     

    What he’s saying is that he doesn’t want us to do to him, what they did to Trump. “We treated you like enemies, but now that I’m in charge, you should give me the chance we never gave Trump.” Pretty sure I can boil my response to that down to just two words.

    Is the second word “you”?

    • #121
    • November 8, 2020, at 12:46 PM PST
    • 9 likes
  2. Judge Mental Member

    DrewInWisconsin, Man of Consta… (View Comment):

    Judge Mental (View Comment):

    MarciN (View Comment):

    He starts his speech this way:

    To Trump supporters, he said: “I understand the disappointment tonight. But now let’s give each other a chance. It’s time to put away the harsh rhetoric, lower the temperature… To make progress we have to stop treating our opponents as our enemies. They are not our enemies, they are Americans.”

     

    What he’s saying is that he doesn’t want us to do to him, what they did to Trump. “We treated you like enemies, but now that I’m in charge, you should give me the chance we never gave Trump.” Pretty sure I can boil my response to that down to just two words.

    Is the second word “you”?

    Yeah. It’s You for You-nity.

    • #122
    • November 8, 2020, at 12:49 PM PST
    • 7 likes
  3. kedavis Member

    E. Kent Golding (View Comment):

    If , ( and I think it will), the electoral college votes in Biden or some other democrat, Trump should go on a Pardon Frenzy, starting with Scooter Libby. Once Trump has pardoned all those he should Pardon, he should resign. And President Pence should pardon Trump.

    It’s a nice sentiment, but if a pardon is only for federal issues, and since the left seems to want to get Trump for state charges involving New York, then a presidential pardon wouldn’t help.

    • #123
    • November 8, 2020, at 12:57 PM PST
    • 2 likes
    • This comment has been edited.
  4. Django Member

    Western Chauvinist (View Comment):

    Federal mask mandate coming soon. We’ll be on the British model before you know it.

    Good. I think young people will chafe. And buyer’s remorse will set in PDQ.

    Do I miss Trump yet? Yes, yes I do.

    Wait until Headboard Harris gives her executive orders on gun control confiscation. 

    • #124
    • November 8, 2020, at 12:58 PM PST
    • 5 likes
  5. kedavis Member

    Django (View Comment):

    Western Chauvinist (View Comment):

    Federal mask mandate coming soon. We’ll be on the British model before you know it.

    Good. I think young people will chafe. And buyer’s remorse will set in PDQ.

    Do I miss Trump yet? Yes, yes I do.

    Wait until Headboard Harris gives her executive orders on gun control confiscation.

    But she can’t do that! Gary didn’t vote for that!

    • #125
    • November 8, 2020, at 12:59 PM PST
    • 11 likes
  6. Ed G. Member
    Ed G.Joined in the first year of Ricochet Ricochet Charter Member

    DrewInWisconsin, Man of Consta… (View Comment):

    Judge Mental (View Comment):

    MarciN (View Comment):

    He starts his speech this way:

    To Trump supporters, he said: “I understand the disappointment tonight. But now let’s give each other a chance. It’s time to put away the harsh rhetoric, lower the temperature… To make progress we have to stop treating our opponents as our enemies. They are not our enemies, they are Americans.”

     

    What he’s saying is that he doesn’t want us to do to him, what they did to Trump. “We treated you like enemies, but now that I’m in charge, you should give me the chance we never gave Trump.” Pretty sure I can boil my response to that down to just two words.

    Is the second word “you”?

    No it’s “off”.

    • #126
    • November 8, 2020, at 1:00 PM PST
    • 5 likes
  7. kedavis Member

    Ed G. (View Comment):

    DrewInWisconsin, Man of Consta… (View Comment):

    Judge Mental (View Comment):

    MarciN (View Comment):

    He starts his speech this way:

    To Trump supporters, he said: “I understand the disappointment tonight. But now let’s give each other a chance. It’s time to put away the harsh rhetoric, lower the temperature… To make progress we have to stop treating our opponents as our enemies. They are not our enemies, they are Americans.”

     

    What he’s saying is that he doesn’t want us to do to him, what they did to Trump. “We treated you like enemies, but now that I’m in charge, you should give me the chance we never gave Trump.” Pretty sure I can boil my response to that down to just two words.

    Is the second word “you”?

    No it’s “off”.

    Oh, I know! I know!

    It was a movie!

    “Noises off!”

    • #127
    • November 8, 2020, at 1:05 PM PST
    • 1 like
  8. DrewInEastHillAutonomousZone Coolidge

    Ed G. (View Comment):

    DrewInWisconsin, Man of Consta… (View Comment):

    Judge Mental (View Comment):

    What he’s saying is that he doesn’t want us to do to him, what they did to Trump. “We treated you like enemies, but now that I’m in charge, you should give me the chance we never gave Trump.” Pretty sure I can boil my response to that down to just two words.

    Is the second word “you”?

    No it’s “off”.

    Still works.

    • #128
    • November 8, 2020, at 1:06 PM PST
    • 2 likes
  9. ToryWarWriter Thatcher

    Trump Nation is never going away. Every other week, President Trump will be out holding rallies for tens of thousands talking about how the Presidency was ripped from him.

    Meanwhile when VP Biden does anything thousands of Trump Nation people will arrive at every event and fundraiser harassing him wherever he goes.

    Till 2023 when the VP is impeached over his corruption.

    • #129
    • November 8, 2020, at 1:25 PM PST
    • 4 likes
  10. Ray Kujawa Coolidge

    With this election, the Democratic Party has become the DCP to me — the Democratic Communist Party. If the CCP were running the Democratic Party, this is exactly how they would behave.

    • #130
    • November 8, 2020, at 1:28 PM PST
    • 11 likes
  11. DrewInEastHillAutonomousZone Coolidge

    ToryWarWriter (View Comment):
    Meanwhile when VP Biden does anything thousands of Trump Nation people will arrive at every event and fundraiser harassing him wherever he goes.

    I hope so. Mockery, mockery, and more mockery is called for. Angry Joe won’t be able to handle it.

     

    • #131
    • November 8, 2020, at 1:42 PM PST
    • 9 likes
  12. EHerring Coolidge

    Judge Mental (View Comment):

    Boss Mongo (View Comment):

    Can’t wait to hear SJWs wail about a future GOP pol, “He is literally Trump!!

    Whenever it is, I want the next candidate to be the guy who makes them talk about how presidential Trump was.

    This comment is so good, I almost want to create a 2nd Ricochet account so I can like it again.

    • #132
    • November 8, 2020, at 1:43 PM PST
    • 14 likes
  13. EHerring Coolidge

    MarciN (View Comment):

    Get ready, everybody. Nice Guy Biden is about to cancel Thanksgiving and Christmas:

    Also part of Biden’s mandate, he said, is to address the coronavirus crisis, an issue that defined the presidential campaign and which many say potentially led to his victory.

    “Our work begins with getting COVID under control,” Biden said, noting his plan to announce a panel of coronavirus advisers for his transition team. He added that Americans will not be able to experience “all the moments that matter most to us until we get it under control.”

    He starts his speech this way:

    To Trump supporters, he said: “I understand the disappointment tonight. But now let’s give each other a chance. It’s time to put away the harsh rhetoric, lower the temperature… To make progress we have to stop treating our opponents as our enemies. They are not our enemies, they are Americans.”

    The president-elect also said he wants the parties to begin “to cooperate with one another,” calling polarization between the parties “a choice.”

    “If we can decide not to cooperate, then we can decide to cooperate,” Biden said, claiming cooperation as part of the “mandate” from his election. “They want us to cooperate in their interest, and that’s the choice I’ll make.”

    So does that mean if we have our friends and family at our home for dinner on Thanksgiving, he plans to cooperate with our choice to do that? I hope so.

    My town just eliminated the mask order. Screw lockdowns. We aren’t Democrats.

    • #133
    • November 8, 2020, at 1:46 PM PST
    • 11 likes
  14. Percival Thatcher
    PercivalJoined in the first year of Ricochet Ricochet Charter Member

    DrewInWisconsin, Man of Consta… (View Comment):

    ToryWarWriter (View Comment):
    Meanwhile when VP Biden does anything thousands of Trump Nation people will arrive at every event and fundraiser harassing him wherever he goes.

    I hope so. Mockery, mockery, and more mockery is called for. Angry Joe won’t be able to handle it.

     

    Joe has a short fuse and a big mouth. Soft answers turning away wrath is beyond him.

    • #134
    • November 8, 2020, at 1:46 PM PST
    • 10 likes
  15. Jules PA Member

    Judge Mental (View Comment):

    MarciN (View Comment):

    He starts his speech this way:

    To Trump supporters, he said: “I understand the disappointment tonight. But now let’s give each other a chance. It’s time to put away the harsh rhetoric, lower the temperature… To make progress we have to stop treating our opponents as our enemies. They are not our enemies, they are Americans.”

     

    What he’s saying is that he doesn’t want us to do to him, what they did to Trump. “We treated you like enemies, but now that I’m in charge, you should give me the chance we never gave Trump.” Pretty sure I can boil my response to that down to just two words.

    ABCDE

    QRST

    Yup. Don’t resist.

    Resistance is FUtile. 

    If Biden’s success depends on my compliance, he surely will fail. 

    • #135
    • November 8, 2020, at 1:47 PM PST
    • 5 likes
  16. Matt Balzer, Imperialist Claw Member

    DrewInWisconsin, Man of Consta… (View Comment):

    ToryWarWriter (View Comment):
    Meanwhile when VP Biden does anything thousands of Trump Nation people will arrive at every event and fundraiser harassing him wherever he goes.

    I hope so. Mockery, mockery, and more mockery is called for. Angry Joe won’t be able to handle it.

    You’re a lying dog-faced pony soldier!

     

    • #136
    • November 8, 2020, at 1:51 PM PST
    • 9 likes
  17. Ray Kujawa Coolidge

    Maguffin (View Comment):

    Steve C. (View Comment):

    Ralphie (View Comment):

    He could be on track to break WH Harrison’s shortest time in office.

    Has it dawned on anyone else that this is a zero ending Presidential election and if that is ominous or something. I know that Reagan broke the dying in office trend started by Harrison, but he was shot. GW had 9/11 which was a major national tragedy. It’s just something I sometimes think about. I don’t want to imply I want it to happen, just that it is a historical coincidence that enters my mind sometimes.

    By the way, the doc about Garfield’s assassination was really interesting. Can’t remember what channel I saw it on. It seems that today, he probably would have survived. I didn’t realize he lingered so long.

    We probably need to give the President’s security detail a lot of credit. I wonder what Joe’s codename is. Could it be Sleepy?

     

    Skinny.

    Sniffer?

    Dopey?

    • #137
    • November 8, 2020, at 1:53 PM PST
    • 1 like
  18. Judge Mental Member

    Ray Kujawa (View Comment):

    Maguffin (View Comment):

    Steve C. (View Comment):

    Ralphie (View Comment):

    He could be on track to break WH Harrison’s shortest time in office.

    Has it dawned on anyone else that this is a zero ending Presidential election and if that is ominous or something. I know that Reagan broke the dying in office trend started by Harrison, but he was shot. GW had 9/11 which was a major national tragedy. It’s just something I sometimes think about. I don’t want to imply I want it to happen, just that it is a historical coincidence that enters my mind sometimes.

    By the way, the doc about Garfield’s assassination was really interesting. Can’t remember what channel I saw it on. It seems that today, he probably would have survived. I didn’t realize he lingered so long.

    We probably need to give the President’s security detail a lot of credit. I wonder what Joe’s codename is. Could it be Sleepy?

     

    Skinny.

    Sniffer?

    Dopey?

    Pretender-One

    • #138
    • November 8, 2020, at 1:54 PM PST
    • 6 likes
  19. Django Member

    Ray Kujawa (View Comment):

    Maguffin (View Comment):

    Steve C. (View Comment):

    Ralphie (View Comment):

    He could be on track to break WH Harrison’s shortest time in office.

    Has it dawned on anyone else that this is a zero ending Presidential election and if that is ominous or something. I know that Reagan broke the dying in office trend started by Harrison, but he was shot. GW had 9/11 which was a major national tragedy. It’s just something I sometimes think about. I don’t want to imply I want it to happen, just that it is a historical coincidence that enters my mind sometimes.

    By the way, the doc about Garfield’s assassination was really interesting. Can’t remember what channel I saw it on. It seems that today, he probably would have survived. I didn’t realize he lingered so long.

    We probably need to give the President’s security detail a lot of credit. I wonder what Joe’s codename is. Could it be Sleepy?

     

    Skinny.

    Sniffer?

    Dopey?

    Was there a Sleazy? 

    • #139
    • November 8, 2020, at 1:54 PM PST
    • 7 likes
  20. Steve C. Member

    Steve C. (View Comment):

    Percival (View Comment):

    How many weeks before we start asking old Joe if he kowtows to Xi before, during, or after the phone calls. Or is it all three?

    Joe will announce an “exciting new deal” with the Chinese. The advantages to the Chinese will be real. The advantages to the US will be cosmetic. Joe’s courtiers at the New York Times, the Washington Post, et freakin’ al will swoon at the “leadership.”

    How many days into his administration will there be a leak of the first phone call with a foreign leader?

     

    I’m guessing 1460. 

    • #140
    • November 8, 2020, at 1:57 PM PST
    • 4 likes
  21. Steve C. Member

    Jules PA (View Comment):

    More code name options

    Handsy

    Plausible Deniability

    Shi-Shi or Xi-Xi

    Suave

    47-2-46

    Buck

    • #141
    • November 8, 2020, at 1:58 PM PST
    • 2 likes
  22. Steve C. Member

    Bruce Caward (View Comment):

    Brian Watt (View Comment):

    Percival (View Comment):

    How many weeks before we start asking old Joe if he kowtows to Xi before, during, or after the phone calls. Or is it all three?

    Joe will announce an “exciting new deal” with the Chinese. The advantages to the Chinese will be real. The advantages to the US will be cosmetic. Joe’s courtiers at the New York Times, the Washington Post, et freakin’ al will swoon at the “leadership.”

    If Biden is certified as President after all is said and done, pray for the people of Taiwan especially as January 20th approaches.

    If it happens, they will blame it on Trump.

    Trump will now be blamed for everything bad that happens.

    Now?

    • #142
    • November 8, 2020, at 1:59 PM PST
    • 7 likes
  23. Jules PA Member

    Steve C. (View Comment):

    Jules PA (View Comment):

    More code name options

    Handsy

    Plausible Deniability

    Shi-Shi or Xi-Xi

    Suave

    47-2-46

    Buck

    snafoo

    • #143
    • November 8, 2020, at 2:00 PM PST
    • 2 likes
  24. Steve C. Member

    Ronald Reagan’s Secret Service code name was Rawhide.

    In that grand tradition, Biden should be Naugahyde.

    • #144
    • November 8, 2020, at 2:05 PM PST
    • 14 likes
  25. Percival Thatcher
    PercivalJoined in the first year of Ricochet Ricochet Charter Member

    Django (View Comment):

    Ray Kujawa (View Comment):

    Maguffin (View Comment):

    Steve C. (View Comment):

    Ralphie (View Comment):

    He could be on track to break WH Harrison’s shortest time in office.

    Has it dawned on anyone else that this is a zero ending Presidential election and if that is ominous or something. I know that Reagan broke the dying in office trend started by Harrison, but he was shot. GW had 9/11 which was a major national tragedy. It’s just something I sometimes think about. I don’t want to imply I want it to happen, just that it is a historical coincidence that enters my mind sometimes.

    By the way, the doc about Garfield’s assassination was really interesting. Can’t remember what channel I saw it on. It seems that today, he probably would have survived. I didn’t realize he lingered so long.

    We probably need to give the President’s security detail a lot of credit. I wonder what Joe’s codename is. Could it be Sleepy?

     

    Skinny.

    Sniffer?

    Dopey?

    Was there a Sleazy?

    He was never around. The rest of the Dwarves had jobs.

    • #145
    • November 8, 2020, at 2:08 PM PST
    • 5 likes
  26. kedavis Member

    Jules PA (View Comment):

    Steve C. (View Comment):

    Jules PA (View Comment):

    More code name options

    Handsy

    Plausible Deniability

    Shi-Shi or Xi-Xi

    Suave

    47-2-46

    Buck

    snafoo

    Oh yes! FUBAR!

    (Actually the acronym is “SNAFU.”

    • #146
    • November 8, 2020, at 2:10 PM PST
    • 4 likes
    • This comment has been edited.
  27. kedavis Member

    Steve C. (View Comment):

    Ronald Reagan’s Secret Service code name was Rawhide.

    In that grand tradition, Biden should be Naugahyde.

    “Rich Corinthian Leather.”

    • #147
    • November 8, 2020, at 2:11 PM PST
    • 3 likes
  28. Django Member

    kedavis (View Comment):

    Jules PA (View Comment):

    Steve C. (View Comment):

    Jules PA (View Comment):

    More code name options

    Handsy

    Plausible Deniability

    Shi-Shi or Xi-Xi

    Suave

    47-2-46

    Buck

    snafoo

    Oh yes! FUBAR!

    (Actually the acronym is “SNAFU.”

    BOHICA

    • #148
    • November 8, 2020, at 2:13 PM PST
    • 6 likes
  29. Jules PA Member

    How about code name Haldol?

    • #149
    • November 8, 2020, at 2:15 PM PST
    • 5 likes
  30. Percival Thatcher
    PercivalJoined in the first year of Ricochet Ricochet Charter Member

    Percival (View Comment):

    Django (View Comment):

    Ray Kujawa (View Comment):

    Maguffin (View Comment):

    Steve C. (View Comment):

    Ralphie (View Comment):

    He could be on track to break WH Harrison’s shortest time in office.

    Has it dawned on anyone else that this is a zero ending Presidential election and if that is ominous or something. I know that Reagan broke the dying in office trend started by Harrison, but he was shot. GW had 9/11 which was a major national tragedy. It’s just something I sometimes think about. I don’t want to imply I want it to happen, just that it is a historical coincidence that enters my mind sometimes.

    By the way, the doc about Garfield’s assassination was really interesting. Can’t remember what channel I saw it on. It seems that today, he probably would have survived. I didn’t realize he lingered so long.

    We probably need to give the President’s security detail a lot of credit. I wonder what Joe’s codename is. Could it be Sleepy?

     

    Skinny.

    Sniffer?

    Dopey?

    Was there a Sleazy?

    He was never around. The rest of the Dwarves had jobs.

    Besides, Sleazy is reserved for Hunter.

    • #150
    • November 8, 2020, at 2:27 PM PST
    • 5 likes