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Old 30th November 2020, 06:50 PM   #1
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Trump et al continued “2020 election” conspiracy theories

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Originally Posted by The Great Zaganza View Post
It's all Rudy's fault for bringing cold coffee.

No. It's Trump's fault for firing all his competent covfefe boys.
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Originally Posted by slyjoe View Post
I get THAT.
Originally Posted by eerok View Post
It makes sense according to Trump's toady army. Krebs said that it was a fair and secure election, so he's contradicting Trump's BS narrative, and he is therefore the enemy.
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I'd explain it but Eerok ninja'd me.
I get THAT.

But Drawn and Quartered kind of negates the need for being shot at dawn, doesn't it?

... and then the pieces should be horsewhipped.
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Originally Posted by trustbutverify View Post
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Are you saying you see incompetent parents with toddlers in the supermarkets?
The ignore the tantrum strategy is a catastrophic failure in my neck of the woods. Perhaps those parents don't know how to ignore properly.

A lot of it probably depends on where you choose to exercise that strategy.

Public venues (grocery stores, restaurants, etc.) are probably not the best venues.

Home is okay.
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Old 30th November 2020, 06:57 PM   #4
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National Review just broke with Trump calling his post election conduct "Disgraceful" . A bit too late, but still telling given the Review's clout as one of the foremost Conservative websites.
I think they broke with Trump a while ago.

Sigh, ninja'd again.
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Old 30th November 2020, 07:02 PM   #5
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I used to be one of those people who tsked-tsked when I saw a parent with a toddler having a meltdown in a store. And I could handle a room full of middle schoolers with no problem. Then I had a kid with ADHD. Was that ever an eye opener. Sometimes the only thing you can do is just leave the store which I had to do on more than one occasion.
I understand your pain. I imagine it was tough.

My son had one actual tantrum. I ignored it and he never had another one. But he was a pretty mellow kid.
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Old 30th November 2020, 07:08 PM   #6
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The ignore the tantrum strategy is a catastrophic failure in my neck of the woods. Perhaps those parents don't know how to ignore properly.
The highlighted is the problem.

Not counting special circumstances like Stacy described, you can't just ignore a single tantrum in the store. It's the pattern of positive parenting that one needs to use from the beginning which kids learn from.

Trump, for example, has never felt any actual consequences for anything. He's beyond hope at this point.

With toddlers, parents need parenting education and they rarely get it.
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Old 30th November 2020, 07:09 PM   #7
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Originally Posted by Stacyhs View Post
I used to be one of those people who tsked-tsked when I saw a parent with a toddler having a meltdown in a store. And I could handle a room full of middle schoolers with no problem. Then I had a kid with ADHD. Was that ever an eye opener. Sometimes the only thing you can do is just leave the store which I had to do on more than one occasion.
I don't think that I ever tsked at that... but then, I was a kid that was diagnosed with ADHD. I have no memory of having a temper tantrum at a store, but I wouldn't be surprised if my parents had such a memory of me doing so. I definitely had a number of tantrums at home, though.
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Old 30th November 2020, 07:12 PM   #8
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Originally Posted by slyjoe View Post
I get THAT.

But Drawn and Quartered kind of negates the need for being shot at dawn, doesn't it?
They have to shoot each individual piece.

ETA: Sigh. Everyone else has already posted stuff funnier than this.

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Old 30th November 2020, 07:13 PM   #9
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A lot of it probably depends on where you choose to exercise that strategy.

Public venues (grocery stores, restaurants, etc.) are probably not the best venues.

Home is okay.
We are getting too far off topic here, but if the kid is throwing a tantrum in a public place then there's a good chance that is not their first tantrum and there's a good chance (with some exceptions) that earlier tantrums were not ignored, rather they were successful as far as the toddler was concerned.

Again, getting back to Trumpy the widdle toddler, he was screwed up by his father and according to Mary Trump, the niece, his mother didn't cross his father so she was no help. Bullying worked for Trump from an early age.
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kids are little humans, there’s not a universal manual for them
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Originally Posted by Stacyhs View Post
I used to be one of those people who tsked-tsked when I saw a parent with a toddler having a meltdown in a store. And I could handle a room full of middle schoolers with no problem. Then I had a kid with ADHD. Was that ever an eye opener. Sometimes the only thing you can do is just leave the store which I had to do on more than one occasion.
(Off topic. Probably.)
True story.
Screaming kid in the supermarket. "No Momma! Don't! Stop! Noooo!"
And she just went right on buying vegetables.
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It will also be interesting to see what crimes he pardons his kids for.
Blanket pardon for all past and future crimes. I think (not sure) that's what Ford's pardon of Tricky Dick said.
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Dems should call for a 2nd vote, including all down-ballot offices: Republicans would literally kill Trump before they let that happen.
I think you've identified an issue that would have enthusiastic support on both sides of the aisle.
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Trump Tweets

I’m not fighting for me, I’m fighting for the 74,000,000 million people (not including the many Trump ballots that were “tossed”), a record for a sitting President, who voted for me!

First highlight:


Second highlight:
Wow, 74 Trillion supporters. He should have won the election!
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The "hearing" was, of course, a Republicans-only press conference in a hotel.
Hey, they're getting better. Last one was in a parking lot.
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First highlight:


Second highlight:
Wow, 74 Trillion supporters. He should have won the election!
He meant to do that. He's playing 4d Chess.
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I get the humor of someone being drawn and quartered and then taken out at dawn and shot.

But I mentioned this because this was the President's lawyer suggesting on TV that a Trump appointed government servant be executed for doing his job.
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Do quartered bodies become zombies in the Walking Dead?
As long as there is a working brain, they "live" even if the body is not intact. A severed head can still kill. A torso with a head can still crawl with one arm. I've got to get a life.....
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As long as there is a working brain, they "live" even if the body is not intact. A severed head can still kill. A torso with a head can still crawl with one arm. I've got to get a life.....
I really don't want to know this.
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I was thinking it was a starfish scenario where he could keep growing back unless the brain is destroyed
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kids are little humans, there’s not a universal manual for them
Truer words were never spoken. You have to learn what works for each child.

What worked for mine? I left her with her grandpa when I went shopping where both were happiest. She grew up to be damn near perfect.
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The "hearing" was, of course, a Republicans-only press conference in a hotel.
Hey, they're getting better. Last one was in a parking lot.

As a fun aside. I read that a petition is going around to put the site of that one on the National Register of Historic Places.

In a way that makes sense. It almost perfectly exemplifies the Trump reaction to losing the election.
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Thank you! A lot of Senators and House Members are very happy that I came along. Think I’ll stick around for awhile!
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The Republicans are too wimpy to stop absolute theft of the Presidency from a candidate 95% of their voters LOVE
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They’re asking him to go away so he doesn’t drag them down with him in GA. But, something tells me they will be, most appropriately, disappointed
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Originally Posted by dudalb View Post
National Review just broke with Trump calling his post election conduct "Disgraceful" . A bit too late, but still telling given the Review's clout as one of the foremost Conservative websites.
I dunno about their clout. Remember that National Review ran an entire issue on why Trump was not qualified to be president. Of course, it's fair to note that the vast majority of Trump's minions don't read NR.

ETA: As already noted by Meadmaker.

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Donald Trump Calls In to Arizona Voter Fraud Hearing: We‘re Fighting Back https://breitbart.com/politics/2020/...fighting-back/ via @BreitbartNews.
A very inspiring hearing. Such great support from both witnesses to election fraud and political leaders!
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As long as there is a working brain, they "live" even if the body is not intact. A severed head can still kill.
Yes, it can even make a useful weapon.



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Explain to me exactly “what” an election company is doing donating to ANY political side of an election they are contracted to run?

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They were wrong.
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when they made fun of people calling complaining on twitter "activism" i thought to myself, yeah that's a pretty good point.

so, yeah that's a pretty good point
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If you want to understand Trump's behavior take a glance through the 'Trump has pathologic narcissism' thread. Or read Mary Trump's book which explains how he got the way he is.

People watch and follow him because he's a very good con artist. But he's a phony. You could call the fact he gets out of his failures and continues to keep the con going a form of success.

He is incapable of admitting failure. I don't mean he just doesn't want to, I mean he is incapable. So he has manufactured this nonsense about voter fraud. His lawyers dropped out leaving behind the likes of Giuliani.

He won't concede but he will slink away to Mar-a-Lago at some point. I'm pretty sure our tax dollars and/or donations are paying to remodel the place before he lives there full time instead of going back to NY. He will continue to get whatever he can from us in the way of charging high rates for the secret service ex-presidents are entitled to.

But his escape from the law may be coming to an end and he knows that. He can't pardon himself from state crimes and some of his tax fraud can be prosecuted by the states. What I'm curious about is will he pardon himself from the money laundering he's been doing via his real estate deals? He'll have to admit to it if he wants to try to pardon himself for it.

It will also be interesting to see what crimes he pardons his kids for.
I agree with the whole post.

But when I read the highlighted segment, I realized that in early January, Team Trump will argue that presidential pardons do apply to state crimes. And the true believers will agree with his silly claim. A flurry of lawsuits will follow.
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Trump speaks out. and spouts BS as usual.

Trump slams judges' election decisions: 'What kind of a court system is this?' [foxnews.com]
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"We’re not allowed to put in our proof. They say you don’t have standing," Trump told "Sunday Morning Futures." "I would like to file one nice big beautiful lawsuit, talking about this and many other things, with tremendous proof. We have affidavits, we have hundreds and hundreds of affidavits."

"You mean as president of the United States, I don't have standing? What kind of a court system is this?"
They are allowed to put in their proof. The Trump campaign simply has not done so. Powell did. Hundreds of pages of affidavits and so on. But Trump kicked her to the curb before doing that. If Trump wants to file a big beautiful lawsuit with hundreds of affidavits and other things, there is nothing stopping him. He has had almost a month to do so.

Trump does not have standing as President of the United States. Why would the President have standing? Trump could maybe have standing in some cases as a presidential candidate. But he hasn't even filed any complaints as a plaintiff. The cases are all filed by his campaign organization.

The reason there are issues with standing in many of these cases is because they are taking issues with state law to federal courts. I assume this is because they keep losing in state court and Trump is hoping to get a case to a federal judge who he appointed and therefore owes him one. That isn't happening.

Federal courts deal with federal law. Now, if there is a case that deals with federal law but then incidentally has associated state laws, the federal court can deal with that. But they keep trying to shoehorn the state law issues in with some Constitutional basis and there actually isn't a Constitutional basis which means there is no standing.
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Explain to me exactly “what” an election company is doing donating to ANY political side of an election they are contracted to run?

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They never thought Trump and We the People would call ******** and fight back hard.
They were wrong.
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(Off topic. Probably.)
True story.
Screaming kid in the supermarket. "No Momma! Don't! Stop! Noooo!"
And she just went right on buying vegetables.
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I agree with the whole post.

But when I read the highlighted segment, I realized that in early January, Team Trump will argue that presidential pardons do apply to state crimes. And the true believers will agree with his silly claim. A flurry of lawsuits will follow.
I would not be surprised.
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They are allowed to put in their proof. The Trump campaign simply has not done so. Powell did. Hundreds of pages of affidavits and so on. But Trump kicked her to the curb before doing that. If Trump wants to file a big beautiful lawsuit with hundreds of affidavits and other things, there is nothing stopping him. He has had almost a month to do so.

Trump does not have standing as President of the United States. Why would the President have standing? Trump could maybe have standing in some cases as a presidential candidate. But he hasn't even filed any complaints as a plaintiff. The cases are all filed by his campaign organization.

The reason there are issues with standing in many of these cases is because they are taking issues with state law to federal courts. I assume this is because they keep losing in state court and Trump is hoping to get a case to a federal judge who he appointed and therefore owes him one. That isn't happening.

Federal courts deal with federal law. Now, if there is a case that deals with federal law but then incidentally has associated state laws, the federal court can deal with that. But they keep trying to shoehorn the state law issues in with some Constitutional basis and there actually isn't a Constitutional basis which means there is no standing.
i don't want to be the one to say it, but asking a bunch of guys that just started their federal judge career with a lifetime appointment to end democracy might not have been a good plan
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In Trump's last days apparently cruelty relieves his stress:

Trump loosens US execution rules, allowing poison gas, firing squads
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The changes could allow for capital punishment by firing squad or poison gas instead of lethal injection. Critics say Donald Trump is trying to rush through tougher punishments before he leaves office. ...

... The rule — which goes into effect on December 24 — comes as the Justice Department has scheduled five executions during the lame-duck period, including three just days before President-elect Joe Biden takes office.

A Justice Department official told The Associated Press (AP) that the federal government "will never execute an inmate by firing squad or electrocution unless the relevant state has itself authorized that method of execution.”

The official said two executions scheduled in December would be done by lethal injection but did not provide information about three others scheduled in January.
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Originally Posted by Captain_Swoop View Post
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Dominion Voting System donated thousands of dollars to an anti-Trump Republican PAC linked to our Sec of State in Nevada.
Explain to me exactly “what” an election company is doing donating to ANY political side of an election they are contracted to run?
I call BS. If you go Mindy Robinson's twitter, she claims the Dominion donated $5k to the "anti-Trump" PAC Republican State Leadership Committee which is actually a PRO-Trump PAC:

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The RSLC and state Republicans are on offense this year – and President Donald Trump is powering the way. Across our 12 target redistricting states, at least 115 districts are currently held by a Democrat, but were won by President Trump in 2016. We are going to flip them to Republican when he wins them again this fall.
Mindy got this nonsense straight from...surprise, surprise...Sidney Powell who accused Nevada election officials of being in on the rigging.
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I see that one of President Trump's lawyers Joe Digenova said today that Trump appointed former head of CISA "should be drawn and quartered...taken out at dawn and shot"
Is such a statement covered by the 1st amendment?
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Is such a statement covered by the 1st amendment?
Yes. There are some laws against threatening government officials. But he is no longer a government employee. And simply saying that he should be executed is not an actual cause or excitement to action.
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