Think about that.
The very person who should wake up each day prepared to move mountains to protect our democracy, is actually discrediting our elections and telling Americans not to trust the results, that the election is rigged.
Simultaneously, Trump is filing lawsuits to make it more difficult to vote, and already game planning with GOP state legislatures about how to manufacture fraud complaints of their own election protocols, in order to bootstrap justification for a hand picked electoral college.
the idea that he won't leave office if he loses, right? He loves this. How can you folks be this stupid for this long? You're going to lose again and I think more of you sense this at some level.
I kept reading all this stuff how Pelosi has his number, gets under his skin, plays him like a fiddle but every time he opens his yap she, or some other Dem, responds with something equally stupid!!!
Ignore him. Starve him if the oxygen he so desperately craves! Shut the fuck up! But no! Every damn tweet is a "threat to the Republic!" Sweet Jesus Mary and Joseph!!!
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I mean, he allows an election with a, theoretically, viable opponent. That's odd. He actually defers more to the other branches than the last five presidents. Also odd behavior for an autocrat. You sound no less foolish than your partisan opposites who claimed the same about Obama. Four years later and virtually none of the hysterical predictions made at the outset have come to fruition.
All current autocrats, from Putin to Erdogan to Maduro, allow elections.
Democracy erodes slowly, imperceptibly to those not paying attention.
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But, please, tell me about "history."
Until opponents have little chance. They demonize the media and opponents, and lie like fiends.
I’m happy to teach you about history. But I’d just come off as one of those crybabies who warn about Trump’s obvious threat to this republic.
I like it. Let's build.on this, Ned where you at? This is one of those teachable moments...
Additionally, many autocrats throughout history have not relied on gradual power grabs. Sometimes they do. You're not teaching anyone anything about "history."
Fascists do indeed demonize the press and any dissenters. The problem you have here is that our major media is self-demonizing. Their behavior has been generally appalling and you yourself have repeated at least two of the greatest examples of their whoppers, rationalizing it, naturally, by asserting that they are professionals and thus they try to be objective and honest at all times. Your pathologies appear to be obvious to nearly everyone but yourself.
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Do you think Trump will definitely refuse to relinquish power if he loses the election?
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the past four years? Let's start with the First Amendment. When we do that, let's place it in context by comparing this administration's actions with regards to these rights to the past several administrations, so we can gauge how consistent you and others have been over time.
Which this pussy of an autocrat quickly pulled back when it was obviously not popular.
I guess populist (some would say nationalist) autocrat might be the ironically correct term here.
Get all those non serving, cowardly, punk ass bitches who support Donald and the white supremacist cause. Think, what would Hitler do? Time to burn down the Capitol Maybe?
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You're self-marginalizing.
I think you guys might lose the Senate.
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