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Should be on the chamber of horrors
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Should be on the chamber of horrors
scifisam
feck! arse! girls! drink!
No. Pence would have to be approved and sworn in as President.
Zapp Brannigan
Built like a steakhouse, handles like a bistro
They're basically doing what JTG was doing (number of votes remaining to be declared, trend and demographic analysis of where they're coming from), with a few subtle differences.
There's whole teams doing it, no 5-9 hour time difference, they're paid for it, and they probably drink less wine.
Kevbad the Bad
Amiable Bowel Syndrome
Spelling mistake? Shouldn't that read "mob-related president"?
keybored
Well done. You remember cat good.
MickiQ
In My Defence I was left Unsupervised
Surely if he can fire the current holders so casually then Biden can do the same for their replacements? I think this is just 'getting even' with people that he doesn't like or he thinks aren't sufficiently loyal. Perhaps they dared to bring up the subject of handing over to Bidens team.
Petty and vindictive is far more Trumpish than scheming and forward thinking.
bimble
floofy
yep, looks like it'd have to be the old 25th amendment, say he's unable to discharge his duties because he's out of his tiny mind and then two-thirds of both houses of Congress would have to agree, unlikely but i don't think totally impossible at this point.
rubbershoes
not the only raver in the village
That's more like it
scifisam
feck! arse! girls! drink!
Yeah, not impossible. But it wouldn't be quick and easy, like if he resigned, Pence would automatically take over straight away. You'd think it should be as simple as that, really, since Pence was elected too.
The reason I keep see this coming up is from people who assume Trump will be tried for various crimes and will need to be pardoned. I'm having to sit on my hands the way some people on here probably do when I don't understand more esoteric political machinations. (Well, I assume some do; this is urban, so most don't).
mauvais
on reddit or something
Will this person ever speak to the press? I really hope we find out the full story behind this, it's one of the great episodes of our age.
Its too ridiculous for the human mind to fully comprehend
SpookyFrank
A cheap source of teeth for aquarium gravel
No doubt but I doubt Trump will be doing much work for the next few months, and it's then a question of what the republicans can get away with in that time. Mitt Romney seems to have got himself appointed head of something or other...
E2a: can't find a source for the Romney thing. As you were.
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
I don't know how much there is to celebrate in today's news beyond the toppling of trump. Any hopes that the presidential result could lead to the last four years being put behind us and the us could start to move on in a good direction seem unlikely to be realised while the senate can frustrate him on partisan grounds. So we seem to have at least two years of drift ahead of us. And that's before looking at the great challenges facing biden, from repairing the most egregious acts of trump at home to facing a confident and aggressive china to bringing the us to face up to climate change.
So to celebrate today is to celebrate a great illusion, to laud a victory that contains seeds of defeat. This will be the most miserable of presidencies which won't satisfy democrats and will lead to more anger among republicans. On their own terms the democrats have got someone whose instincts are compromise when they need someone with a bold vision and the vigour to carry it out.
So I don't think today's a day for celebration, also because celebrating this is also a kick in the teeth for people democrats want on side, namely the many millions of working class Americans who voted republican. The millions of people so fearful of the future they trusted trump. Without their concerns being addressed (tho not kow-towed to) the next four years will be an utter waste.
this would all tax a more capable person than Biden. So if I see little cause to celebrate when looking at this from the pov of a democrat how much less from the point of view of an anarchist or socialist. The change desired is not in the gift of Biden or Harris or the senate or house of reps. The cops will still kill people with impunity. Drones will still be used to assassinate people across the world. The interests of corporations will still trump those of working class communities. It's like celebrating the fall of major and the tories in 1997 without recognising the authoritarianism inherent in new labour. There is nothing to celebrate here as trumpism hasn't been vanquished and may yet vanquish biden
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Dogsauce
I’ve got Skol but I’m not a Scholar
Guiliani is deep state, his mission to make sure Trump has such a humiliating exit that he can’t come back. That’s my best guess.
Yeah, balance of probability, size of gap etc etc. States can release data on what votes are left and where (depends on the states and even the counties as to how solid this data is) and then the data people can project based on trends.
It's been really hard this year with the states that count their mail votes after the election day vote, they've had to wait n see, wait n see...
AZ still looks like a premature call to me. Now ploughing through provisional ballots and others and the gap steadily narrowing.
scifisam
feck! arse! girls! drink!
Ah, there's Thanksgiving and Christmas, and the rest of the time he'll just rant on Twitter. Well, hopefully - apart from the ranting that's the way it usually goes.
Being a lame duck couldn't be more appropriate for someone named Donald.
It's going to be glorious knowing that people will be calling him that and there's nothing he can do about it.
teqniq
DisMembered
Oh I dunno, epic fuckup pretty much covers it for me.
Supine
Newt Member
All 15 miles of it that got built?
bimble
floofy
The actual owner of Four Seasons Total Landscaping? You're duty bound to send a polite enquiry, maybe pretend you need some landscaping done as well.
mauvais
on reddit or something
Yes. Although it turns out everyone in the world is a third degree connection. It's slipped from my grasp again
A wall taking down perhaps?
bendeus
Bellend Tagline Generator
Sadly not, no, and I doubt I'll be able to winkle any more detail out of him (assuming he had any more detail to begin with). Agree, though, something hilarious lurks below the surface of this one.
gentlegreen
I hummus, therefore I am ...
They do "seedy" spectacularly well in the USA ...
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So anyone who doesn't like Biden and is unhappy that he's said anarchists should be locked-up is 'pro-Trump? That sounds really dumb to me.
krtek a houby
Kick me again Jesus
The same guy who, along with his family, has extensive business interests in China, who has praised Xi numerous times and put trade over the imprisonment of Uighurs?
Fair enough.
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