Time for Democrats to Call Trump's Bluff

[Nevilledog]

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Tweet text: Dennis Herring
@dcherring
fuk I LOVE this piece:

“What makes a card player like Trump so supremely exploitable...is that he will fold when his bluffs encounter high resistance. In addition to protesting Trump’s vile political manners, Democrats need to visibly lawyer up...”

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/09/24/time-for-democrats-to-call-trumps-bluff-421381

If your central nervous system didn’t register a jolt on Wednesday when President Donald Trump refused twice to promise a peaceful transfer of power if he loses the November election, you should probably book an appointment with your neurologist.

“We’re going to have to see what happens,” Trump said, delivering a word scramble about “the ballots”—presumably absentee ballots—being a “disaster.”

“Get rid of the ballots and you’ll, we’ll have a very peaceful—there won’t be a transfer frankly. There will be a continuation,” Trump rambled.

Other presidential candidates, especially in the 19th century, have challenged the results of elections. In 1800, 1824 and 1876, resolution of the presidential election extended almost to Inauguration Day, with Congress determining the winners. Southern politicians vowed to secede during the 1860 race if Abraham Lincoln won. But Trump seems to be the first contending presidential candidate, not to mention being an incumbent, to explicitly express zero faith in the election system.

We could say that Trump’s words open a new frontier of political chaos and turmoil except that he has been consistent in treating elections as something plastic that he can mold to his liking. In an October 2016 debate with Hillary Clinton, he claimed without proof that the election was being stolen and declined to say he would accept the results. “I will tell you at the time. I’ll keep you in suspense. OK?” Trump said. Days later, he said he would accept the count “If I win,” but promised to contest the results if he didn’t. Then-Senator Barbara Boxer tweeted, “Only a dictator would say he will accept the election results on one condition—if he wins.”

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[Doodley]

1. Demand that Trump sign a statement that he won't accept the result if he wins.

[Sogo]

2. Biden has a team of hundreds of lawyers

specifically so that Trump can't steal the election....

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-biden/biden-pulls-together-hundreds-of-lawyers-as-a-bulwark-against-election-trickery-idUSKBN24305H

[crickets]

3. Vote. him. OUT.

Blue tidal wave incoming. That smarmy, smirking little asshole has got to go, and his grifting family with him.