Trump’s Plans for a Coup Are Now Public

Trump’s Plans for a Coup Are Now Public 

"Last year, John Eastman, whom CNN describes as an attorney working with Donald Trump’s legal team, wrote a preposterous memo outlining how then–Vice President Mike Pence could overturn the 2020 election by fiat or, failing that, throw the election to the House of Representatives, where Republicans could install Trump in office despite his loss to Joe Biden. The document, which was first reported by the Washington Post journalists Bob Woodward and Robert Costa in their new book, is a step-by-step plan to overthrow the government of the United States through a preposterous interpretation of legal procedure."

Treason, Sedition, and Insurrection were heavily restricted by SCOTUS after WW2 because during WW1 and post WW2 those were used with extreme crookedness for political ends.

What we know now does meet the criteria for Sedition and/or Insurrection. They're STILL doing it, and they need to rot in jail for Twenty years, which is the maximum legal punishment. Not many of them got twenty years left in them anyway... so it's basically "forever".

The DOJ shouldn't just go after the insurrectionists on the ground, it needs to go after the plotters and schemers. And Manchin, Synema, et al. need to realize that American democracy and the right to vote are vastly more important then a stupidly devolved filibuster rule in the Senate.

What's sad and the worst part. All these so called constitutional loving patriots don't care, it's a hypocritical shit show. They are so deep in MAGA loving dick they don't realize how dangerous this is, even for them in the long run. To think that they support this shit and when the GOP comes for their social security and the little bit of medicare they have is completely insane to think they also won't be victims. The GOP hates their base and cares nothing for them.

But then it's to late, their fascist regime is in place.

It's no longer a question of IF TRUMP DID IT.

This is how cults operate. January 7 to March was denial that it happened. Trump's terrorist attack was "fake news".

Now 21 million people last week admitted that they want Trump to violently overthrow the government.

They are not denying that they want violence. They're saying that it's the only way forward. Trump will forever be their martyr.

Memo proves real Trump coup was underway Jan. 6

"Thanks to the work of the congressional committee investigating Jan. 6 and journalists connected with the Washington Post and other outlets, we now know that an actual coup was underway before and on Jan. 6 when the Capitol came under siege from right-wing mobs. The conspiracy went far deeper than just the thugs and gangs that laid siege to Washington, D.C., that day, however."

"The Eastman memo makes it clear that the biggest security threat the nation faces now is not foreign terrorists, it’s not a fanatic wearing bull horns as he prances around the Capitol, or even the COVID-19 pandemic. It is a significant section of the so-called mainstream of America, including and especially the Republican Party itself."

Fox News, Newsmax, OANN, and others are conditioning people for fascism.

Well, it's obvious the executive branch was all about taking a dump on the constitution. We were fortunate in this case, the other branches of government held. Congress ultimately did their job, and the courts tossed out frivolous election challenges faster than yesterday's burrito exited my colon. It's hard to say what the future will bring, but I'm voting blue until the GOP scrapes this shit off their shoes. Quit pandering to extremists, quit pandering to right wing Christianity, quit pandering to QAnon and other ridiculous conspiracies, quit attacking women, quit attacking the LBGTQ community. How about start with some basic policy positions that we can comprehend and use this to convince Americans you can govern effectively.

Grifter keeps on Grifting

Trump releases statement falsely claiming GOP audit in Arizona uncovered 'undeniable evidence' of fraud after the audit confirmed Biden won.

"Former President Donald Trump backpedaled from praising a group of "highly respected" GOP auditors in Arizona after their audit of the state's election results confirmed that Joe Biden won the general election. Trump also released a misleading statement on Friday morning that said the audit found "significant and undeniable evidence of FRAUD!""

This multi-bankrupt orange bloated trust fund weirdo who had zero taste and no class was judging people groveling for a job. He clearly didnt know anything about actual business, just spoke in vagaries and had a total lack of shame or self awareness.

He was a joke, but his confidence was as absolute as it was unearned. Since you can't understand it, you stare at it hoping you do.

I'm grew up in the media market he so desperately wanted to be the center of. It was SO obvious and SUCH a joke. He was a clown.

Who could have thought his transparent and silly attempts to hijack page 6 to stroke his own ego would ALSO work for national news outlets? And that people saw the disaster unfold and thought THATS MY GUY.

Fucking wild.

Trump has been saying for months that the AZ audit would prove he won. then the media gets a draft of the final AZ report hours before it's to be released saying that AZ lost even more bigly

so now trump is complaining that the media is calling the results prematurely.... although that's what he's been doing for months.

TRUMP PRETENDS ARIZONA ELECTION AUDIT FINDINGS DIDN’T COMPLETELY EMBARRASS HIM

"Donald Trump made clear over the weekend that he still wants to force Republicans to pay a political cost for failing to help him overturn the 2020 election results. “The people of Georgia must replace the RINOs [Republicans In Name Only] and weak Republicans who made it all possible,” Trump said at a rally in Georgia on Saturday, referring to his election loss. Trump called Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, the Republican who refused to help him “find” enough votes, “incompetent and strange.” He also turned Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp, who he declared  “a complete and total disaster on election integrity,” into a rally joke. The former president suggested he would have preferred Democrat Stacey Abrams, who ran in 2018, over the incumbent Republican. “Stacey, would you like to take his place?” said Trump, per the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. “It’s OK with me.”"

 It’s not about shame or self reflection or empathy or anything a normal human being would factor in.

He is just continuing to push the narrative that repubs need to hear to overthrow democracy. It’s a long game and ppl keep missing it.

He is upset that he didn't get his way. He was raised in an environment that encouraged his antics and behavior. And being told "no" or "you are wrong" for the basically first time in his life (I count all the election shenanigans as one thing, so it might not be the "first time" if you consider different instance separately) and the fact that he isn't able to have enough money thrown at the problem to get his way is just so new to him. He simply doesn't know what to do because these tactics that have succeeded for him all his life are failing, and he has no sense of trying something new or thinking "ok, I didn't get what I want and I am not going to, so what do I do next?"

He’s not pretending. To the faithful, the “audit” findings didn’t embarrass him.

If you read the report, the Cyber Ninjas basically said “gosh, there are a lot of things we don’t really understand. Could be fraud, but maybe not! Someone should really look into that.”

Trump’s faithful supporters heard “could be fraud” and ran with it. They’re on Twitter blathering about deleted files (which weren’t deleted; they were archived and CN never subpoenaed the archives), bizarre scan images (which look bizarre because of how the files are stored, not because of something nefarious), duplicate ballots (not duplicate) and a dozen other things. Cyber Ninjas displayed a criminal lack of understanding of our elections system and the Trump faithful do not care because they also do not understand the elections system, and anything they don’t immediately understand MUST be fraud.

Don’t believe me? Go look at the Twitter accounts for Wendy Rogers (@WendyRogersAZ), Kari Lake (@KariLake), Karen Fann (@FannKFann) or Mark Finchem (@RealMarkFinchem).

These people are elected officials or are running for elected office. They are all amplifying lies about the findings of the audit. They might be stupid enough to believe that there was fraud, but I think it’s more insidious: they know that what they’re saying is based on a lie, but they don’t care because the lie personally benefits them and they won’t experience ANY repercussions whatsoever.

Exactly zero people were convinced that the election was safe and secure. We’re just more divided about the security of the election than before.

And Arizona was just the first. These audits are going to become more commonplace after every election until the ones running them and/or advocating for them are held accountable for their lies.

How to tank world economy?

 Mitch McConnell says the GOP will vote for the US to default on its debt

"As the White House stressed the urgency of raising the debt ceiling to avoid a government default, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said on Monday that the House would pass legislation to fund the government that includes a debt-limit suspension through the end of next year.

It was a dare to Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, who would need to lend ten Republican votes for it to avert the filibuster and clear the Senate. The Kentucky Republican was unfazed.

"We will not support legislation that raises the debt limit," McConnell said after Pelosi and Schumer's announcement. "Democrats do not need our help.""

Collapsing the U.S. economy and making the dollar no longer the currency most valued in the world... all to own the libs and play politics. What more needs to be done to show Republicans do not deserve office?

No. This is about collapsing the democratic government so it can be replaced with a plutocracy.

McConnell will never follow through on this threat. We've seen this every September with a democrat in the White House for over two decades. Next up is the government shutdown theater.

Edit for clarification: while McConnell and his bosses the rich want to replace the current government, they do not want to destroy the dollar as a currency... wealth is the foundation of their power. These late summer posturing shenanigans are a scheduled opportunity for republicans to pressure democrats for smaller things they want, because they know democrats will cave.

To quote a show that was super popular then suddenly not, "They're willing to burn the country down just so they can rule over the ashes."

Remember this Americans… the party supposedly of fiscal responsibility doesn’t want to pay its bills.

The party that goes out of its way to destroy the economy to prove government is bad.

"There's no such thing as a good boss"

takes a boss position and purposely bankrupts

"See?"

They’re doing it to wreck the economy and blame it on Biden. It’s worked in the past when Democrats are in power. I don’t know why the public doesn’t see it but this was common during Obama.

They want to make Biden look bad so much that they are willing to let the U.S. default, killing jobs in the process.

Fourteenth Amendment, Section 4: The validity of the public debt of the United States, authorized by law, including debts incurred for payment of pensions and bounties for services in suppressing insurrection or rebellion, shall not be questioned.

The constitution is pretty explicit. These people are traitors to their oaths of office to allow American finances to become a joke.

The party of fiscal responsibility all.

2 trillion for war? Sure! (300 million a day for 20 years) 2 trillion for tax breaks? Sure! 3 trillion to fix infrastructure that would lead to jobs? No! Socialism!

The stock market didn't crash under Biden like they all said it would, so now they have to force it to crash.

It is going to crash, but because we never fixed shit back in 08, and the “solution” to COVID was to artificially prop up the stock market with trillions. The Fed prints 120B monthly, with pretty much all of it going straight to banks/HF to pump straight into the market.

Fed can’t taper because stock market will crash, Fed can’t raise rates to curb inflation due to printing and asset purchases. So either the market will crash and our shit will be worthless or we plunge into hyperinflation and money will be worthless. Don’t worry though, the Fed board managed to liquidate their personal holdings due to potential “conflicts of interest.”

Full-Scale Republican Meltdown

 Biden’s COVID Vaccination Strategy Triggers Full-Scale Republican Meltdown

"Let’s begin with the obvious: Joe Biden is not a “dictator” for expanding vaccination and testing requirements, nor is he “trampling on civil liberties.” None of the steps outlined Thursday to combat COVID-19, which is still rampaging 18 months into the pandemic despite the widespread availability of safe and free vaccines, amount to “tyranny.” Those seeking to give you a Pfizer shot are nothing at all like the “gestapo,” and Americans should absolutely comply with public health guidelines—regardless of what some hysterical guy standing in a cornfield at night might tell you."

Well, the Supreme Court already ruled that a vax mandate is legal.

Mandatory vaccination laws were first enacted in the early 19th century, beginning with Massachusetts’ smallpox vaccination law in 1809.7

Jacobson v. Massachusetts is the seminal case regarding a state or municipality’s authority to institute a mandatory vaccination program as an exercise of its police powers. In Jacobson, the Supreme Court upheld a Massachusetts law that gave municipal boards of health the authority to require the vaccination of persons over the age of 21 against smallpox, and determined that the vaccination program instituted in the city of Cambridge had “a real and substantial relation to the protection of the public health and safety.”

This kind of reminds me of something extremely ironic:

• Conservatives suggest that Biden's vaccine strategy is communist/socialist/authoritarian/anti-democratic.
• Conservatives understand that we have selective service and they could -- if the need arose -- be required to report for military duty.
• They do this while knowing they probably will never have to actually report for duty because other people have volunteered to go instead. Kind of like how they feel like the pandemic is no big deal and they don't need the vaccine -- but it's really only true that the pandemic has gotten better because other people have voluntarily gotten the vaccine.

Biden’s Vaccine Push Aligns Him With a Fed-Up, Vaccinated Majority

"Polling from across the country shows that broad numbers of Americans support tightening vaccine requirements for schools, hospitals and workplaces. Majorities favor showing proof of vaccination to travel by airplane, attend a concert, eat at a restaurant or stay in a hotel. And most vaccinated voters blame the unvaccinated — not the administration — for the skyrocketing resurgence of the virus."

"After President Biden resisted comprehensive vaccine mandates for months, his forceful steps on Thursday to pressure the 80 million unvaccinated Americans to get their shots put him squarely on the side of what had been a fairly quiet but increasingly frustrated majority: vaccinated Americans who see the unvaccinated as selfishly endangering others and holding the country back."

All the politicans and pundits melting down publicly "own" the fall and witer spikes we'll inevitably be dealing with. joe Biden has done all he can. He's not a perfect president but he's put his entire legacy on the line in a last-dicth attempt to help the American people get out of this mess whether they want to or not. Those fighting back are 100% responsible for what comes next.

Critics Remind Dan Crenshaw That Mandatory Vaccines Have Existed In U.S. For Decades

"Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-Texas) ominously warned of a “revolt” after President Joe Biden unveiled new COVID-19 vaccination requirements — and critics on Twitter piled on to remind the lawmaker that mandatory vaccinations have existed in the U.S. for decades. 

He also called vaccine requirements “cheap governance” and ordered the Democrats to “leave people the hell alone” in a tweet on Thursday."

Does he not remember getting mandatory vaccines while in the military? Perhaps time for one of Trump's cognitive tests...

What a disgrace to the code.

The SEAL Code

• Loyalty to Country, Team and Teammate • Serve with Honor and Integrity On and Off the Battlefield • Ready to Lead, Ready to Follow, Never Quit • Take responsibility for your actions and the actions of your teammates • Excel as Warriors through Discipline and Innovation • Train for War, Fight to Win, Defeat our Nation’s Enemies • Earn your Trident everyday

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Republicans Want the Freedom to Live in a Pandemic Forever

"The Department of Labor will enact an emergency rule to require major employers to ensure their workers are either vaccinated or tested on a weekly basis, President Joe Biden announced on Thursday. The move is a significant step toward ensuring that enough Americans are vaccinated to put the pandemic behind us, and it naturally prompted immediate outrage from Republican politicians and conservative pundits, who drew from a familiar arsenal of strange notions of “liberty” and fantastical understandings of American history."

Honestly, it’s the stacking of unsafe behavior that bothers me more than anything. Like, if you’re worried about the vaccines but take full precautions like masks and wash your hands consistently, that’s fine. You get vaccinated and wear masks, but don’t like social distancing, that’s okay. But when EVERY step to reducing the spread of COVID is rejected, I can’t help but come to the conclusion that you’re dangerous to society, regardless of your motivations.

They have the problem that if they do ANYTHING about it, that is tacitly admitting its a problem. And if its a problem, you have a responsibility to do something about it. And if you do something about it, that's just following the direction of "liberals" and "experts" who are pushing them.

By doing absolutely nothing about it, you are 1) making a statement that you aren't afraid, 2) reaffirming your "freedom" to make your own choices even if they are stupid, 3) not accepting "mainstream" conclusions and instead sticking to your "trusted" conclusions. Thats why they are so eager to take unvetted and unapproved medications because "Their Side" is pushing them, not the mainstream.

‘It’s about time’: Biden puts the screws on the unvaccinated

"Joe Biden finally figured out he’d been talking to the wrong people.

For months, it was the vaccine-resistant that the president treated with kid gloves, sprinkling words like “unity” into his remarks about fighting the pandemic and sidestepping others, like “mandate,” for fear he’d scare off vaccine holdouts."

If you want to put the screws to them have the insurance companies cover nothing if their are hospital or health related costs for covid patients who are unvaccinated without a reason.

I had a boss explain to me once that everyone has a choice in life. Have a good job but dont like it? You can quit. Tired of working then get unemployed. You always have a choice, but those choices come with consequences.

Unemployed too long? Hard to find a good job. Bounce around to alot of jobs? A lot of jobs won't hire you.

Consequences for your choices. The choice to not participate in public safety should have it's consequences also.

Donald Trump Booed suggesting COVID-19 Vaccine

 Donald Trump Booed at Alabama Rally After Encouraging Crowd to Get COVID-19 Vaccine

"Former President Donald Trump was booed by his own supporters during a rally in Cullman, Alabama Saturday night after he encouraged the crowd to get vaccinated against COVID-19.

"I believe totally in your freedoms, I do, you gotta do what you gotta do, but I recommend take the vaccines. I did it. It's good," he said, drawing boos from the crowd of supporters."

Almost year ago when he was hospitalizated for Covid-19 he said:

"'It's going to disappear':

A timeline of Trump's claims that Covid-19 will vanish"

"In his first speech after his hospitalization for Covid-19, President Donald Trump stood on a White House balcony on October 10 and made a grand declaration about the coronavirus: “It’s going to disappear. It is disappearing.”

His words might have sounded more dramatic had he not been saying the same thing for eight months.

Trump has stuck to the refrain no matter what has been happening with the pandemic. Since February, the President has declared at least 38 times that Covid-19 is either going to disappear or is currently disappearing."

He fucking hates these rednecks. He thinks they're low class. Now imagine how he has to go on stage and pretend to love them. Its shows how truly desperate for attention he is.

Trump is disgusted by the people who think he's one of them. Absolutely disgusted. Not just becsuse they're low class but because they represent the fear he has that deep down he's also one of them.

He fears becoming one of these "dirty" low class people so much that they disgust him.

And they somehow think he's one of them. Yes, he's one of them, separated by millions and millions of dollars not to mention fame and infamy.

They have to boo. If they cheer, they are admitting to themselves that the left/dems/scientists were right ALL along. They can not accept loss, and they are willing to die on the hill they believe in even if it means turning on their Master. The Master changed his tune, but they are so entrenched in their war, they will go down fighting before admitting defeat.

It is oddly impressive. Sad, but impressive.

I don’t think they’ll abandon him entirely, but it goes to show that the voters are using trump as much as he’s using them, and if he won’t stand up for their “freedoms” then they’ll find someone else who will, which is why we see the race to the bottom we currently see among the republican terrorists.

I’m kinda surprised trump even went there at one of his rallies. An interview with a news outlet? Sure. But the rally setting is his bread and butter and usually where he relies on some of his crazier stuff. I’m guessing he’s being pressured by someone, but he will likely walk it back or just ignore it and people will forget. I certainly wouldn’t expect him to become a vocal vaccine proponent now that he knows how his base will respond.

Frankenstein, Pandora’s box, etc.

Die Hard Trump Supporters Increasingly Demand Violence

 Die Hard Trump Supporters Increasingly Demand Violence If He Isn’t Reinstated, Homeland Security Warns

"The Department of Homeland Security issued a warning on Friday: believers in the false conspiracy theory that Trump will be reinstated have increased their calls for violence if the former president isn’t back in the White House soon.

“Some conspiracy theories associated with reinstating former President Trump have included calls for violence if desired outcomes are not realized,” the DHS bulletin, obtained by ABC News, said."

So, in other words, violent extremist domestic terrorists.

Imagine being such a fervent admirer of Donald Trump, of all people. He's so blatantly tacky, crass and repulsive. From his toupee-crowned head down past his sloppy baggy suits to his orange toes. Every time he opens his mouth, nothing comes out but a vapid, self-obsessed word salad. He's seriously the most obnoxious, garish moron I've ever seen.

I just can't fathom how anyone could ever see and hear Trump, and then decide to dedicate their lives to making him their supreme ruler for all time.. Just, wtf.

It’s telling that one of the Congresswomen who survived the Jonestown shooting recently likened Trump to Jim Jones. He’s a cult leader. His supporters don’t care about the superficial shit because he makes promises that are just too good to be true: get those job-stealing Mexicans back across the border, stop the “radical left” from allowing trans women (who are obvious predators) to participate in society, etc.

He voices their unpopular opinions, onto the grandest stage the world has seen, with the loudest megaphone the world has ever heard. He legitimizes their downright-evil philosophies. “Oh, there are this many others like me all over the country? Maybe we ARE an ‘unspoken majority’ after all!”

This is the reason why they don’t care that Trump has been quoted as a predator, wanting to date his daughter and rape women. This is why they don’t care that Trump has called veterans “suckers and losers”. This is why they don’t care that Matt Gaetz is a proven child sex trafficker. This is why they don’t care that Marjorie Taylor Greene harassed school shooting survivors.

They don’t care because the promises made to them are catered just to them, and them alone. Anything else that their holy figures do isn’t bad enough for them to say, “maybe this isn’t worth it”. They’ve been brainwashed to a point of no return.

I think because the normalization of Trump and his erosion of political norms over the last 5 years, many people don't seem to see just how unfathomably dangerous and downright fascist this entire situation has become.

Donald Trump lost. He lost. That is irrefutable and indisputable. He has refused to concede. Not only has he refused to concede, he's actively telling his millions of supporters that he actually won and that the opposition STOLE the election from him. He's not saying there was some counting error or computer malfunction. He claims that a crime was committed. It's absolutely inexcusable and outright seditious, as many in this subbreddit already know.

The founding fathers, for all their faults as men, were not stupid. Far from it. They understood how critically important it was that the absolute powers of a monarch (or a despot/dictator) needed to be diffused among many, and that those many separate entities would need to act as checks on one another. That's why there's essentially three branches of government in every iteration of democracies around the world; they each hold a fraction of the power that was once reserved for a sole monarch. This division is a check against corruption and the inherent nature of power to corrupt those who wield it. The only reason that democracy - any democracy, not just the American version - can survive is through a peaceful transfer of power. Without it, there is chaos. Several thousand years of recorded history taught the founding fathers that when absolute power is concentrated in one individual, when that individual dies or are overthrown, countless people suffer. Endless wars of succession and conflicts over who has the rightful claim to power plagued us for generations. Without a peaceful and legally delineated method to hand diffuse power from one individual to the next, there's nothing to stop someone from raising an army, crossing the proverbial Rubicon, and grabbing the reins of power by force. That's the real magic of a democratic system: that we all collectively agree that the power of the state is peacefully and legally passed down without bloodshed or recrimination. It's something that only works because we all believe it does, much like the inherent value of money. It's something we take for granted, but it's really astonishing given most of human history.

There is a method baked right into the constitution for someone who thinks they lost an election if they believe it was unfair, or corrupt, or stolen: You take it to the courts - to the separate branch - for it to be ruled on. It's the reason why the president-elect doesn't just assume power the day after the election. If there's a legitimate claim to malfeasance or miscounting, it goes to the courts, each side presents its case, and the judicial branch has the time to weigh the evidence and make a ruling.

This isn't just hypothetical - it's already happened. In 2000 the electoral college came down to one state: Florida. Gore lost to Bush by less than a thousand votes. The night of the election Gore conceded, and then in the following days as the picture became more clear, he retracted his concession and took the matter to the courts. It went all the way to the Supreme Court, and he lost. They made their ruling and gave the election to Bush. That's the way it's supposed to happen, it's how the founding fathers designed it. No civil war. No bloodshed. 

Did Gore claim that the Bush stole the election? Did he sulk away to his mansion and call himself the "real" president? Did he whip his supporters into a frenzy, tell them to "stop the steal" and unleash them on the capital building when the votes were going to be certified? No. He conceded. Not only did he concede, he thanked his supporters for their hard work, congratulated Bush, and told his people to throw their support behind the President-elect. Because that's what you do in a democracy. It's not because he's some decent guy, it's your responsibility as a participant in the electoral process.

You throw your hat into the ring. You run your campaign and try to sway the voters. If you lose, you concede. It's not just a formality, it's critically important to the health of the country as a whole. Every candidate knows this. Kerry conceded in 2004. McCain in 2008 and Romney in 2012. Nixon conceded when he lost to Kennedy in 1960, and Nixon was an irredeemable piece of shit. (Skip to 5:50 to hear Nixon describe the importance of concession and uniting around the victor)

Each speech is essentially the same: thanking supporters, officially conceding, and throwing your support behind the new president-elect and urging your supporters to do the same. Candidates, even the irredeemably shitty ones, know that elections are vicious and divisive, so effort needs to be made to try and unite afterwards. No one man is bigger or more important than the whole.

People need to have faith in the process, that elections are fair and free, and that the candidate with the most votes (or electoral votes) wins. If they doubt that very foundational premise some of them will resort to violence. They'll resort to violence because they'll believe that the legal channels for peaceful resolution aren't relevant. That's why the insurrectionists on January 6th thought they were being "patriots". It's a mass self-delusion that was perpetuated and allowed to fester and grow because Trump spent five years gaslighting the country and refusing to concede an election he lost. They might be ignorant authoritarians, but they wouldn't be storming the capital without Trump and his big lie.

Trump had every legal right to contest the results of the 2020 election in the courts. He did. Over 60 lawsuits filed in multiple states. It went to the Supreme Court. He lost every single one. Those lawsuits failed or were tossed out because there was legitimately zero proof of the massive fraud and theft Trump was claiming.

The recent Vanity Fair interview with Trump is probably one of the scariest things I've read in a long while. Among the never-ending predictable lies and bullshit we come to expect from Trump came the fact that he was disappointed in the federal and state judges he appointed that decided against him or tossed out his lawsuits. He was upset with Brett Kavanagh and the conservative judges on the Supreme Court for their disloyalty. THEIR DISLOYALTY. 

This is surreal. It's beyond the pale. The President of the United States is upset that a separate branch of the federal government didn't show him sufficient loyalty. What the everlasting fuck is this fascist nonsense? The federal government is not a mafia family. Federal judges don't owe anyone loyalty - regardless of whether they're from the same party or if they've been appointed by someone. Your merit is not judged on your loyalty, especially when your very role is to remain impartial and interpret the law. Judges are loyal to the constitution, not the President!  It's in their very oath of office!

This is why Trump is such a threat. It's not just his ignorance, his incompetence, his vanity, his vindictiveness, his narcissism. Those are all horrible qualities to have. He's a threat because he's willing to completely disregard and tear down the very bedrock principles of democracy (the separation of authority and the peaceful transfer of power) to serve his needs. His ego can't handle a loss, so the constitution and everything that makes democracy a functional alternative to despotism and authoritarianism can burn. 

Trump isn't just the worst president in history, he's a threat to the very fabric of the country. Because of the slow crawl of his erosion of norms, the frenetic pace of 24 hour news, the short attention span of our modern society, and a media obsessed with ratings over information, Trump has been allowed to get away with this behaviour. The fact that Republicans are lining up and falling over each other to supplicate themselves before this man should be a stain that should never wash off and should be their legacy. If there is any justice in the world, history will not be kind to these enabling sycophants who actively helped this cancerous growth. 

I wish I was being hyperbolic, I really do. But there's no other way to see that one political party and millions of Americans are not only fine with authoritarianism, but will actively cheer it on and promote its rise.

Sure, a case can be made that this was inevitable given the course of the Republican party for the last 30 years. Trump is a mutated strain of their brand of "conservatism" which doesn't really seem to stand for anything at this point beyond the acquisition and protection of power. But Trump is still far more dangerous than the original pathogen: he's a force that wants to ensure that facts don't mean anything and that loyalty is the only currency that matters. 

Sometimes I feel like I'm screaming into the void about some of this, but I feel like Trump's antics and firehose of bullshit is causing millions of people to lose sight of the forest for the trees. Hell, they're losing sight of the galaxy for the pebbles of sand on the beach.

The only way I see out of this is if he faces legal ramifications for what he's done. If he's permitted to get away with it, and run in 2024, and win? That's the absolute nightmare scenario.

These people are the Reasonabilists

 So, hey, it's August — is Trump being "reinstated" as president or what?

The highly anticipated month of August is finally here, but so far Donald Trump has yet to be reinstated as president.

Many in TrumpWorld have been led to believe — and pushed others to believe — in a grand and "inevitable" to nullify the 2020 election due to baseless claims of fraud, Trump remains far from the reins of power in Washington. Admittedly it's very early in the month, but the prospects for any sort of Trump reinstatement, powered by a thus-far-imaginary Supreme Court decision, are fading more and more with each passing hour.

Remember when the Trump supporters on here were saying, unlike Hillary supporters, they would get up and go to work, business as usual should Trump lose the election?

Yeah, that didn't quite pan out.

Democrats accepted the loss, but we still all want to know the influence of foreign powers had over Trump and not just Russia that we still don't have a complete picture of today. Democrats never said the election by voters was a fraud. But Democrats were rightfully concerned with the Russian election meddling and funding. He may have been elected in 2016, but it was all very shady. Not this made up crap that Republicans are coming up with now. When it comes to score keeping to see which groups is using facts over conspiracy, all any one has to do is look at the conviction and pardon rate of the two groups.

Parks and Rec had it right. These people are the Reasonabilists. Every prediction they have is wrong so they keep pushing the date back.

These people are like the fools who think the end of the world is coming. They set the date, tell everyone they somehow know the mind of god, wait for it, and then, when the Rapture doesn’t occur, they pick a new date. They all say, “Something was misinterpreted” or “God spoke to us again and said he wasn’t ready.” It’s all the same magical, nonsensical thinking. It’s all delusion—a real sickness of the mind—and it’s dangerous every time.

Donald Trump lost the election, fair and square. Joe Biden won. Donald Trump is no longer President of the United States, and nothing is going to change that. In fact, there is no legal way for Joe Biden to be unseated and replaced with Donald Trump. Read your Constitution, folks—the Founders knew you’d be coming eventually, and they intentionally made certain there are no “redo” opportunities after an election has been certified. You will not find any language in the Constitution that supports your goal. Joe Biden will be president until at least January 2025.

I know, I know… in their frantic desperation, these people have borrowed several ideas from the Sovereign Citizen movement. They believe there are magical legal words they can say. They believe some nonsense about every president being illegitimate since some point in the 1800s (including Donald Trump, I assume), and they think somehow… you know what—I’m not even typing any more of that nonsense, because it’s insane. It’s not real. These fantasies are not real, and I’m tired of talking about them. We shouldn’t even be entertaining this nonsense or giving it our time. I don’t listen to the lunatic on the street corner who says “the end is nigh,” and I see these people as being no different than that lunatic.

Donald Trump lost. The election was certified. Joe Biden was sworn in as president. There is no way that changes. The end.