All he’s got now is breaking stuff
Mary Trump tells us what to expect from her evil uncle:
This is what Donald’s going to do: he’s not going to concede, although who cares. What’s worse is he’s not going to engage in the normal activities that guarantee a peaceful transition. All he’s got now is breaking stuff, and he’s going to do that with a vengeance…
He’ll be having meltdowns upon meltdowns right now. He has never been in a situation like this before. What’s interesting is that Donald has never won anything legitimately in his entire life, but because he has been so enabled by people along the way, he has never lost anything either. He’s the kind of person who thinks that even if you steal and cheat to win, you deserve to win.
But there is some poetic justice here because he has been cheating for months. Now his tactics are coming back to bite him. He told Republicans not to vote by mail and they didn’t, but the result is he has been experiencing this slow drip-drip of disaster over the past few days. Oh, you have these huge margins! Now your margins are shrinking. Oh, Joe Biden’s ahead. Now his margins are growing. It must have been like slow torture, but he set up this failure for himself.
Will he ever grasp that fact though? It seems unlikely. Grasping facts does not seem to be one of his skills.
From what I understand, the thing that really ruined his election night was Fox News – his safe zone – calling Arizona days earlier than everyone else.
Good. I hope it burns.
After January, things look bleak for Donald. He has more than $400m of debt coming in the next four years. Why at this point would his lenders cut him any slack? He has never paid anyone back. His businesses are in the tank. He has destroyed his brand.
Maybe he can sell everything and move to Oklahoma to live a quiet life.
I’ve seen a few takes of what awful things D(elirium) T(remens) will do until 20 January*.
What can he do beyond stealing the light-bulbs and dropping spoons down the garbage disposal unit?
Start a war? Won’t he just sit and tweet like a maniac and try and rile up his base?
*Will not do my British scold about chucking him out of 10 Downing Street the day after the result.
Okay – I’ve read the article – a radical move before commenting on it:-
“I worry about what Donald’s going to do in that time to lash out. He will go as far as he can to delegitimise the new administration, then he’ll pass pardons that will demoralise us, and sign a flurry of executive orders. Remember, he will also still be in charge of the US response to the pandemic. There could be a million Americans dead by then under his watch.”
So can he do all this stuff? Won’t people be quietly not carrying out his orders?
I think there could be some quiet non-execution of orders, but I expect there will also be plenty of eager compliance.
Sorry for the multi-posting but the highlights video embedded in the article is a great watch.
Related to this is another Guardian piece looking at the potential for damage by Trump. There’s little in the report that hasn’t already been said in respect of what he may do but this line has all the signs of a journalist who really hasn’t been paying attention for the last four years )emph. mine):
As if he’s ever been focused on anything but himself, for crying out loud. Even when he did appear to be doing politics the underlying cause was always himself. He has never, for a single second, been interested in, much less motivated by politics, his motivating force was, is, and always will be Donald J. Trump.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/nov/08/donald-trump-lame-duck-damage-dangerous
What mean sorry?? Nothing wrong with multiple comments! Not that three even counts as multi.
Without losing elegance and flow, they could have been incorporated into one comment.
Ah, that. Never mind, happens to me all the time.
I know it wouldn’t be a good look for the Biden Administration to go after Trump, (though it looks like there are plenty of other entities lined up to have a go at him for quite some time), however much he desrves it, but I do hope they investigate his interference with the Post Office. It sure looks like it was a plot to take advantage of people’s reluctance to vote in person during the pandemic and to delay, block and dismiss the millions of mail in votes, which were guaranteed to be heavily Democrat. The combination of Trump months-long delegitimizing voting by mail (essentially a command or warning to his supporters not to use this avenue to vote), and putting one of his own stooges in charge of gumming up the works at the post office sure looks like a put-up job. If there was any “stealing” of the election going on, that was where it was happening.
I also hope that those involved were stupid enough to commit their thoughts to writing, and these records will be discoverable and acted upon. This is much bigger than the financial corruption, self-dealing and venality that Trump flaunted, which was itself bad enough. The election interference goes to the heart of American democracy itself. This has to be pursued, as Trump has laid down a path that others may try to follow, learning from his mistakes. That path must be blocked, securely and permanently. America’s next would-be dictator may not be as flagrantly interested in gross, obvious financial gain, and may not be such a complete fucking moron.
Pence could actually do something useful in his life and get the cabinet to invoke the 25th Amendment.
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Impeach him again. He’s been attempting to conduct a coup–incompetently, yes, but that’s no defence. It could have worked. It could have led to bloodshed. It’s tempting to just wait out the next ten-or-so weeks, but a lame-duck president can still cause a lot of harm. Impeach him for all his crimes: the big ones, the (relatively) little ones, the ones over the last four years, the ones in the last few weeks. Recalibrate our standards of how a president should behave, and measure him against that standard, not against the debauched standard he’s established.
Now is not the time for Democrats to be reaching out across the aisles to work with Republicans, now is the time to keep the pressure on his enablers. Don’t let them get away with pretending that their support of this moronic gangster organization is ancient history.