It comes at the surprise of no one: Trump refusing to admit defeat. He never did, and...I don't think anyone thought he's going to. Ever. It's just not his nature. Ask him about any of his tremendous amount of defeats and he'll deflect it onto scapegoats, say you're misinformed or ridicule you behind his back.
Is there fraud in the election? Yes and no. The 'no' is easy: every US citizen had at most one vote. There weren't additional votes cast, there weren't removed either. The entire process is so closely monitored not just by the US but by the entire world that anything but accidental miscounts or the occasional incompetence is flat out impossible. Is anyone suprised by Trump's team of lawyers coming in with the most ridiculous claims? No. More so: I presume everyone was expecting them.
The 'yes' is the sort republicans want to sweep under the rug because anything is fair in love and war, and they conceive "winning the election" as a war on democrats. That's why they don't consider the following not as fraud:
* abusing presidential power to strongarm a foreign nation into gathering dirt on a political opponent
* when Biden encouraged voting by mail, Trump replied by having his henchman Louis DeJoy blatantly sabotage timely delivery of ballots
* calling the victory early in states that were still counting the mail-in votes (that leaned heavily toward democrats...see also the above)
There's also the "holding superspreader events in a time of national crisis", but that only works if you acknowledge there's a crisis. That's why Trump had full stadiums (well...sort of), whereas Biden had almost exclusive events where everyone should practice social distancing. It's not fraud, but a cruel rearranging of human priorities for political gain.
Biden won regardless. The surprising part wasn't that, but how well Trump actually did. I'm sure that if you show Trump's course to the next generations, you wouldn't get them to believe that he actually try to WIN the election. I mean...
"I pay less tax than you. I consider at least half the nation as my enemies. I suck up to every dictator on the planet. I'm about to go bankrupt again. My former employees and family consider me a monster. I threated to fire the nation's leading virus expert. WHAT THE FUCK DO I HAVE TO DO FOR YOU FUCKS TO NOT VOTE FOR ME???!!!!???!!!!"
In any normal country, my ten months old daughter would easily beat Trump. But because we're talking of the US, it means Trump got 72 million votes, as of this writing. More than in 2016, I must add. As far as US experts go, they all say that if it wasn't for the incredibly incompetent handling of the covid crisis, he would simply have been re-elected. So this whole "longest government shutdown in modern history", "blackmailing foreign countries", "leaving UN, WHO and several international treaties", "disassembling of the state" and even his trademark anti-diplomatic skills don't mean jack shit for most americans (okay: provided they've got a job). But ey...I'll admit that the current death count of 243'000 citizens seriously overshadows any of those blunders.
Don't get me wrong: it'd be impossible to avoid any deaths, and the best you can hope for is that A) Biden's upcoming plan isn't sabotaged (because let's be clear: it won't be popular) and B) that it has a decent effect to begin with.
Speaking of sabotage: Trump's unfunded claim that swing states that didn't favor him must have been fraudulent. I'm just glad to see that after Pennsylvania went to Biden, it just lost steam. As upcoming president, Biden will have a full plate tackling the virus in and off itself, let alone rebuild international relationships that were damaged in the last years. He doesn't have time to occupy himself with the petty mood of a sore loser. And it's not like Trump's lawyers believe in what they bring to the court: hearsay, unsigned post-it notes and rumours. And rightfully so: it'd be different if we had a 2000-scenario on our hands (where it all hinged on Florida, where the results were extremely close), but Biden won with a comfortable lead in many states, and the popular vote with over 5 million votes over Trump. *sarcastically* Oh, no...perhaps the polls indicating that Trump's popularity never rose over 50% WEREN'T fake news after all!"
Oh, and a sidenote to all you "Biden stole the election" drones...if he did, why not steal senate as well? As it stands, Mitch will just continue blocking anything republicans don't like, so it's not much of an improvement.
So...with all the smoke and mirrors cleared up: why the hell is Trump fighting this uphill battle? As of current, he's starting to get flak from the republican party because his refusal to admit Biden's the president-elect is starting to have effect. James Lankford, Oklahoma's republican senator, claimed he'd "intervene" if Biden was kept out of security briefings' loop. And for right reason: it's hard to keep the claim that Hillary Clinton was "the worst candidate in history" alive when she's less a sore loser than Trump...with a much closer race, no less.
So it's not like Trump's attempt at a coup is going anywhere (nope...rearranging the pentagon ain't working either, Donnie). But perhaps there's a much simpler explanation: if Trump has the most loyal fanbase (and it's hard to argue against that) and he can tell these guys anything...why not play them for the suckers that they are?
Trump's army of lawyers isn't working for free. So in order for them to keep fighting "the just cause" republicans receive letters where campaign donations are requested for these legal fees and to alleviate the debt of Trump's campaign team. Wait...what was that last part? Nothing special. Just that the majority of the donations go to repay debt.
Yeah, I kind of snuck in Trump's financial record there in that parody of him. But it's no joke: somewhere during the campaign, one of my requested youtube-video's thought it was odd that certain campaign adds were suddenly removed little over a week before the election. While obviously not the prime source, the guy pondered whether or not the Trump campaign had ran out of money. Which wouldn't be too surprising, considering it's always a costly affair (Biden's probably not counting his personal cash either). But...debt? Could it actually be that while most of the people on this planet expected Trump to sue the country over this election, Trump himself hadn't kept money aside for this stuff?
And there's more: at one point, Trump suggested that he "might leave the country" if he lost. Of course, this was met with joking replies (he's probably welcome in Russia), but what if it's serious? Trump's casino and university went belly-up, but it's like he never faced real consequences on that. What if he intends to cash in on his fanbase one last time to leave for some no-exchange country while the rest of his US government team remains with nothing but IOU notes?
Is there fraud in the election? Yes and no. The 'no' is easy: every US citizen had at most one vote. There weren't additional votes cast, there weren't removed either. The entire process is so closely monitored not just by the US but by the entire world that anything but accidental miscounts or the occasional incompetence is flat out impossible. Is anyone suprised by Trump's team of lawyers coming in with the most ridiculous claims? No. More so: I presume everyone was expecting them.
The 'yes' is the sort republicans want to sweep under the rug because anything is fair in love and war, and they conceive "winning the election" as a war on democrats. That's why they don't consider the following not as fraud:
* abusing presidential power to strongarm a foreign nation into gathering dirt on a political opponent
* when Biden encouraged voting by mail, Trump replied by having his henchman Louis DeJoy blatantly sabotage timely delivery of ballots
* calling the victory early in states that were still counting the mail-in votes (that leaned heavily toward democrats...see also the above)
There's also the "holding superspreader events in a time of national crisis", but that only works if you acknowledge there's a crisis. That's why Trump had full stadiums (well...sort of), whereas Biden had almost exclusive events where everyone should practice social distancing. It's not fraud, but a cruel rearranging of human priorities for political gain.
Biden won regardless. The surprising part wasn't that, but how well Trump actually did. I'm sure that if you show Trump's course to the next generations, you wouldn't get them to believe that he actually try to WIN the election. I mean...
"I pay less tax than you. I consider at least half the nation as my enemies. I suck up to every dictator on the planet. I'm about to go bankrupt again. My former employees and family consider me a monster. I threated to fire the nation's leading virus expert. WHAT THE FUCK DO I HAVE TO DO FOR YOU FUCKS TO NOT VOTE FOR ME???!!!!???!!!!"
In any normal country, my ten months old daughter would easily beat Trump. But because we're talking of the US, it means Trump got 72 million votes, as of this writing. More than in 2016, I must add. As far as US experts go, they all say that if it wasn't for the incredibly incompetent handling of the covid crisis, he would simply have been re-elected. So this whole "longest government shutdown in modern history", "blackmailing foreign countries", "leaving UN, WHO and several international treaties", "disassembling of the state" and even his trademark anti-diplomatic skills don't mean jack shit for most americans (okay: provided they've got a job). But ey...I'll admit that the current death count of 243'000 citizens seriously overshadows any of those blunders.
Don't get me wrong: it'd be impossible to avoid any deaths, and the best you can hope for is that A) Biden's upcoming plan isn't sabotaged (because let's be clear: it won't be popular) and B) that it has a decent effect to begin with.
Speaking of sabotage: Trump's unfunded claim that swing states that didn't favor him must have been fraudulent. I'm just glad to see that after Pennsylvania went to Biden, it just lost steam. As upcoming president, Biden will have a full plate tackling the virus in and off itself, let alone rebuild international relationships that were damaged in the last years. He doesn't have time to occupy himself with the petty mood of a sore loser. And it's not like Trump's lawyers believe in what they bring to the court: hearsay, unsigned post-it notes and rumours. And rightfully so: it'd be different if we had a 2000-scenario on our hands (where it all hinged on Florida, where the results were extremely close), but Biden won with a comfortable lead in many states, and the popular vote with over 5 million votes over Trump. *sarcastically* Oh, no...perhaps the polls indicating that Trump's popularity never rose over 50% WEREN'T fake news after all!"
Oh, and a sidenote to all you "Biden stole the election" drones...if he did, why not steal senate as well? As it stands, Mitch will just continue blocking anything republicans don't like, so it's not much of an improvement.
So...with all the smoke and mirrors cleared up: why the hell is Trump fighting this uphill battle? As of current, he's starting to get flak from the republican party because his refusal to admit Biden's the president-elect is starting to have effect. James Lankford, Oklahoma's republican senator, claimed he'd "intervene" if Biden was kept out of security briefings' loop. And for right reason: it's hard to keep the claim that Hillary Clinton was "the worst candidate in history" alive when she's less a sore loser than Trump...with a much closer race, no less.
So it's not like Trump's attempt at a coup is going anywhere (nope...rearranging the pentagon ain't working either, Donnie). But perhaps there's a much simpler explanation: if Trump has the most loyal fanbase (and it's hard to argue against that) and he can tell these guys anything...why not play them for the suckers that they are?
Trump's army of lawyers isn't working for free. So in order for them to keep fighting "the just cause" republicans receive letters where campaign donations are requested for these legal fees and to alleviate the debt of Trump's campaign team. Wait...what was that last part? Nothing special. Just that the majority of the donations go to repay debt.
Yeah, I kind of snuck in Trump's financial record there in that parody of him. But it's no joke: somewhere during the campaign, one of my requested youtube-video's thought it was odd that certain campaign adds were suddenly removed little over a week before the election. While obviously not the prime source, the guy pondered whether or not the Trump campaign had ran out of money. Which wouldn't be too surprising, considering it's always a costly affair (Biden's probably not counting his personal cash either). But...debt? Could it actually be that while most of the people on this planet expected Trump to sue the country over this election, Trump himself hadn't kept money aside for this stuff?
And there's more: at one point, Trump suggested that he "might leave the country" if he lost. Of course, this was met with joking replies (he's probably welcome in Russia), but what if it's serious? Trump's casino and university went belly-up, but it's like he never faced real consequences on that. What if he intends to cash in on his fanbase one last time to leave for some no-exchange country while the rest of his US government team remains with nothing but IOU notes?
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. Saves on time, soap, water and money having to wash them.