Trump Can’t Do Anything But Amp Up Threats Of Election And Transition Chaos | Talking Points Memo

When President Trump could have thrown the smallest of bones towards the ideas underpinning a stable democracy, he tripled down on the idea that he owed no such thing to the country.


This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1335294

If nothing else I would have to say to Chris Wallace:
Bye Felicia.

Trump is fomenting more chaos and violence.

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“I hope we don’t need them, in terms of the election itself, but for the ballots, I think so,”

Oh, god. He doesn’t understand elections either.

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Debate take-away:

  • Trump really loathes the democratic process
  • You can’t be the strong man and the grievance-riddled victim
  • They really need a mixing board with faders
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Proud Boys had threaten to spoil any ballots put in a collection box…

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Sounds like we should place cameras watching every ballot drop-box, or at least the ones near Clackamas County.

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It would be so nice if someone got a hot mic moment with Chris after the debate.
Since the debates are run by the Presidential Debate Commission and each and every detail has to be agreed on by both parties I don’t think that there was anything Wallace could do.
So the next debate is town hall style and the last would be the same as this one, then the moderators of the next debate might want to consider getting one of these,

because in the next two settings I don’t think the moderator would have access to a garden hose.

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Ankle monitors on each and every PB?

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I have a hunch most of them are already on parole for something.

Ear tags! That’s how they handle most herd mentality types, right? Do it for Marlin Perkins.

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“I’ll observe the enraged orangutan from the relative safety of the Land Rover, while Sen. Harris attempts to insert the suppository.”

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A tranq gun would have helped Wallace a ton.

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What about CA condor style?

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I noted on another thread Wallace needed a 60 year old nunn with a metal yard stick!

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Narcissism run amok.

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How many more times do we get to hear Trump say “the ballots are a disaster - you know it and I know it” before 2020 comes to a merciful end?

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Of course not. I think, if you read but for the ballots, I think so to mean something on the order of for the whole business of the fraudulent mail-in ballots, we’ll need a bought-and-paid-for Court, I think his diction gets less in the way of the fullness of his thought. But of course not.

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For a debate with Trump, the debater should be someone like Bill Maher. He has the right mentality for taking on a sociopath. Joe is a decent enough bloke, and did fine up against the crazy man. But Bill Maher would have shoved an impaling spike up Trump’s fat arse six different times live on TV.

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he made clear that he’s counting on the Supreme Court to take a “look” at the ballots.

  1. After a comment like this you would think that if they were NOT entirely in the bag for Trump the GOP would call off the hearings.

  2. After a comment like this any nominee who valued their country over their party would STEP DOWN, or at least agree that they would RECUSE from any election related matters before the SC.

Sadly, we are talking about Republicans here, so neither of the above will come to pass.

Will the mainstream media start highlighting this shit? I seriously doubt it.

Trump has clearly gone all-in on the strategy of the wife beater. He knows America wants to leave him so he needs to make America fear that he and his militia buddies will kill her if she tries. Meanwhile half-heartedly trying to gaslight that he’s misunderstood, and only beats America because he loves her so much and it’s her fault for making him angry in the first place. Chris Wallace looked like the victim trying to placate him.

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