30 minutes ago, newnative said:

     Yes it did.  And, if I may, I'd like to send a great big thank you note to Donald Trump for being, in the immortal words of Rex Tillerson, his hand-picked Sec. of State, a 'moron'.  And, thank you also, Trump, for moronically forgetting that the quest for the Presidency is a race.   Candidates run for President.

     I wonder, Trump, if you were running in a 2-man track race, would you allow your competitor to get half way around the track before you started running?  I doubt it.  However, that's exactly what you moronically did with the 2020 Presidential race.  

    You allowed Joe Biden to get half way around the track by trashing mail-in voting and urging all your supporters to wait until election day to vote.  Thank you, once again for being a moron.  By waiting, you gave the Democrats a huge advantage in time.  A huge advantage day after day to contact voters and make sure they got their ballots in well before election day. 

    The Democrats had a large voting window of weeks.  Republicans, if they listened to you, had just the election day hours to 'get out the vote'.  If you were a Republican volunteer, would you prefer weeks to find your voters and get their votes in or just a few hours?

    In many states, Democrats hold the advantage in the number of registered voters.  Knowing that, it puzzles me why you would reject getting a head start on finding as many Republican voters as possible before election day to try to make up the difference.  

   Had I been you, I would have seized on mail-in voting as a golden opportunity to find every single Trump voter I could before election day rolled around.  Instead, like a moron, you let Biden do exactly that while you sat on the sidelines trashing mail-in voting as a fraud.

     I know, your moronic strategy was to make the whole election a fraud and hope the Supreme Court will award the Presidency to you.  We'll see how that works out.  Meanwhile, I wonder if you might have been able to find a few more voters in the states you narrowly lost had you started the race at the same time as Biden.  Moron, thy name is Trump.  Again, thank you!

      

Maybe Trump thought it would be  clever to simply stay put at the start /finish  line  and when Biden made the full circle  declare he (Trump)  was the  winner simply  by virtue of "already" being there?

The " I could  stand on ...and shoot somebody " delusional mentality is embedded !

 

65 more days and the opportunity to ‘cut a deal’ has already passed.

 

 

2 hours ago, placeholder said:

The Top 1% of Americans Have Taken $50 Trillion From the Bottom 90%—And That's Made the U.S. Less Secure

According to a groundbreaking new working paper by Carter C. Price and Kathryn Edwards of the RAND Corporation, had the more equitable income distributions of the three decades following World War II (1945 through 1974) merely held steady, the aggregate annual income of Americans earning below the 90th percentile would have been $2.5 trillion higher in the year 2018 alone. That is an amount equal to nearly 12 percent of GDP—enough to more than double median income—enough to pay every single working American in the bottom nine deciles an additional $1,144 a month.

https://time.com/5888024/50-trillion-income-inequality-america/

Yep, and far too many refuse to understand that the citizens will not continue to voluntarily support the injustice. You want them to believe in and support the country (not you) ... said of those who fail to see the society belief in rough fairness will destroy the country just as surely as bombs. Just takes longer.. 

On 11/16/2020 at 6:39 AM, placeholder said:

 

You mean because only Democrats were allowed to use mail-in ballots? I got news for you: that's not the case.

No he means Republicans are to low educated to handle mail-in ballots.

Here's a not comforting historical perspective on this current American crisis of a president who has lost but doesn’t agree to leave.

 

The founders of the constitution failed to address.this grim possibility.

 

It seems to me that if we get through this a constitutional amendment is in order to patch this hole. 

 

Of particularly relevant and chilling interest is the quote from an Old Whig later in the linked article. 

 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2020/11/21/founders-constitution-president-trump-concede/

 

The Founders didn’t prepare for a president who refuses to step down, historians say

 

President Trump continued Friday to deny the results of the election, pressuring state officials in Michigan and Georgia to overturn the will of voters, and increasing fears that he might refuse to cede power to President-elect Joe Biden.

But those looking to the nation’s Founders, or the Constitution they framed, for answers to such a crisis will come up empty-handed. There is nothing in the Constitution about what to do if a president refuses to step down when his term expires, according to three historians and a constitutional law professor.

Edited November 21, 20205 yr by Jingthing