BTW: If Trump loses, he could run again in 2024.

I wonder if he'll be out of jail by then?

The New York Times - Opinion - King Kong Trump, Losing His Grip

today

You can only let King Kong* smash up the metropolis for so long.

 

Donald Trump does have a gift for symmetry, though, you must admit.

 

He began his presidency with an epic tantrum about pictures showing that his Inaugural crowd could not compare with Obama’s.

 

And now he could be ending his presidency with another epic tantrum about crowd size. 

 

After Lesley Stahl trolled him during a “60 Minutes” taping, saying, “You used to have bigger rallies,” you could almost see steam pouring out of the president’s ears.

 

He stormed out of the interview a short while later.

 

He may be finishing right where he started, focused on himself. ...

 

“Normal life, that’s all we want,” Trump said at the Florida rally.

 

But his only normal is chaos.

 

* Don McGahn, Trump’s first White House counsel, dubbed his former boss "King Kong"

Watch the video... "It's coming"

https://mobile.twitter.com/ProjectLincoln/status/1319656235981959169 

Context: The final Presidential Debate and the Borat Subsequent Moviefilm (co-starring Rudy Giuliana tucking his shirt in - “I assure you that’s all I was doing”) were showing simultaneously.

(I preferred the Borat movie.)  🙂

 

freitasm:   Watch the video... "It's coming"

 

https://mobile.twitter.com/ProjectLincoln/status/1319656235981959169 

 

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kingdragonfly: New York Times: The US Electoral College Is the Greatest Threat to Our Democracy

It has not stood the test of time.

It’s still well under the radar, but the movement to circumvent the Electoral College gained ground this week. On Sunday, Jared Polis, the governor of Colorado, said he would sign a bill to join the National Popular Vote interstate compact, whose members have pledged to give their electoral votes to the winner of the national popular vote. The Maine Legislature, likewise, is mulling membership and will hold hearings to discuss the issue.

Attacking those lawmakers, Paul LePage, the former governor of Maine — who still calls into conservative radio shows from his retirement home in Florida — dismissed the proposal as an attack on the political rights of white people. “Actually what would happen if they do what they say they’re going to do is white people will not have anything to say,” he said. “It’s only going to be the minorities that would elect. It would be California, Texas, Florida.”

That is racist nonsense. But it’s useful to think about, in a way, because beneath LePage’s objection is an unintentionally keen observation about the electoral status quo. If direct election of the president would give equal weight to all votes, then the Electoral College works to give outsize weight to a narrow group of voters in a handful of states. That bias is why Donald Trump is president. A healthy plurality chose his opponent, but his supporters dominated key “swing” states.
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The last paragraph says it all.

LOSING COULD EXPOSE TRUMP TO PROSECUTION FOR ANY NUMBER OF CRIMES

https://theintercept.com/2020/10/18/trump-election-crimes-prosecution/

Well worth the short read.

freitasm:

Watch the video... "It's coming"https://mobile.twitter.com/ProjectLincoln/status/1319656235981959169

What I know of Americans (and I know a fair few) is a majority are resistant to change (as I said previously). Just replacing the electoral college with MMP - as an example - would be very difficult to sell and explain to a lot of them.

God, a good proportion still somehow think universal health care is a bad thing!

geekIT:

 

LOSING COULD EXPOSE TRUMP TO PROSECUTION FOR ANY NUMBER OF CRIMES

 

https://theintercept.com/2020/10/18/trump-election-crimes-prosecution/

 

Well worth the short read.

 

We all suspect... But until there is hard evidence presented in front of a court, good luck with that. 

And that's also the gist of the article. 

Any article with the word "could" in the headline is just wishes from the writer.

quickymart:

 

God, a good proportion still somehow think universal health care is a bad thing!

 

Yes. Unbelievable how people have to pay thousands of dollars for an ambulance, go bankrupt because of a hospital stay and yet a vast number of idiots think universal health care is "socialism" (and they think "socialism", "communism" and "dictatorship" is all the same thing...)