Donald Trump 2020

[Brisketexan 106,697]

I think I’d be making plans to move if I had any way to make money somewhere else. Not just because of trump but it has a lot to do with it. 

Trump is a symptom. This is the disease:

What we’re fighting against is these long-term trends in which being selfish, being tribal, being divided, and seeing others as an enemy — that has become a stronger impulse in American life,” Obama said.

These are the American ideals. And we are committed to them - at least, enough of us are that they will continue to be the giant turd that makes the punch bowl undrinkable.

Any place that can be accurately described as quoted is a shitty place. If we weren’t so deeply rooted here, and if my livelihood wasn’t so tied to the American legal system, we’d have been looking to move some time ago. And we expect it likely that one or more of our kids will make their lives somewhere else (maybe Germany or Canada), we’ve at least discussed the goal of living half the year there in our retirement.

Things aren’t going to get better here. They’ll only continue to get worse.

[Longhorn_Fan68 34,088]

8 minutes ago, 4th&Five said:

I think I’d be making plans to move if I had any way to make money somewhere else. Not just because of trump but it has a lot to do with it. 

as an architect (to be) I could ostensibly work anywhere in the world. I need to learn the metric system, though

[4th&Five 41,914]

Hook me up!

[thepop 4,418]

I did look into moving to Canada when Trump first won. Not because of Trump himself per se, but because the realization of how stupid this country really is. Or at least 40% of it.

[thepop 4,418]

4 minutes ago, Longhorn_Fan68 said:

as an architect (to be) I could ostensibly work anywhere in the world. I need to learn the metric system, though

As an elec engineer I’m more or less in the same boat, but I did look at some random job postings in the UK and found that salaries were 50-60% of what I’m making now. Maybe I need to look at other places.

[Jack Straw 2,955]

4 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

Things aren’t going to get better here. They’ll only continue to get worse.

and significantly worse starting in about 6 months after Trump is re-elected in a sham and getting 5+ million fewer (actual) votes.  the corruption, gross ineptitude, criminality and cronyism we are seeing now will pale in comparison. 

[RomaVicta 30,512]

2 hours ago, Biff Tannen said:

So he doesn’t want people to vote. Got it. 

I begin to think that I want the unlikely to happen: Trump tries to hold office after losing the election.

How tame are we? Would we let him stay in power with the Senate backing him up about the election pending his Supreme Court making a ruling? Would we abide by a ruling that says the election must be held again under martial law to protect polling with Trump remaining in power until it's resolved?

How tame are we in defending the values and very existence of the republic as we have always known it?

Will the elected Dems protest and dither?

Would there be a massive turn out of anti-Trumpers to shut down the nation until he goes?

How would the Guard, the Army, the Secret Service, Federal Marshalls, and local police act?

If deposed GOP governors join Trump in a general outcry against an alleged sham election of Dems, what next?

If the Dems protest in the streets, will we see these armed GOP hooligans in their Balaclavas and combat boots waving their assault rifles around?

What would I do? Would I load my mother's .38 and join the march for as far as these shitty knees will carry me? Will I post here and on facebook and feel like I've done my bit.

Maybe the country needs a full on gut check. We're failing miserably at the present gut check. How far does it have to go before public outcry even appears? 

I have a feeling we're counting on women to take up the banner. I hope I have the guts to follow if they do.

[4th&Five 41,914]

stone cold crazy

 

[Longhorn_Fan68 34,088]

 

[Guest Lobo]

3 minutes ago, 4th&Five said:

stone cold crazy

 

Thank you President Trump, for inventing the Grocery Store.  We'd shop at them with less fear were it not for your gross incompetence.  

[Jive Turkey 12,931]

55 minutes ago, Queen Bitch said:

 

The President’s preferred news source, everybody.

“Undo U.S. Constitution”

[SubliminalHorn 6,997]

14 minutes ago, Lobo said:

Thank you President Trump, for inventing the Grocery Store.  We'd shop at them with less fear were it not for your gross incompetence.  

Problem solved, no?? I mean, they still have to have all of that meat and dairy processed, which is currently unable to be processed due to some kind of virus. But you know, it’s all fixed now. 

[UTCzech III 2,933]

20 minutes ago, Longhorn_Fan68 said:

 

 

[HenryJames 67,137]

24 minutes ago, 4th&Five said:

stone cold crazy

 

Zippy Duvall?

[Bullneck 19,456]

39 minutes ago, RomaVicta said:

I begin to think that I want the unlikely to happen: Trump tries to hold office after losing the election.

How tame are we? Would we let him stay in power with the Senate backing him up about the election pending his Supreme Court making a ruling? Would we abide by a ruling that says the election must be held again under martial law to protect polling with Trump remaining in power until it's resolved?

How tame are we in defending the values and very existence of the republic as we have always known it?

Will the elected Dems protest and dither?

Would there be a massive turn out of anti-Trumpers to shut down the nation until he goes?

How would the Guard, the Army, the Secret Service, Federal Marshalls, and local police act?

If deposed GOP governors join Trump in a general outcry against an alleged sham election of Dems, what next?

If the Dems protest in the streets, will we see these armed GOP hooligans in their Balaclavas and combat boots waving their assault rifles around?

What would I do? Would I load my mother's .38 and join the march for as far as these shitty knees will carry me? Will I post here and on facebook and feel like I've done my bit.

Maybe the country needs a full on gut check. We're failing miserably at the present gut check. How far does it have to go before public outcry even appears? 

I have a feeling we're counting on women to take up the banner. I hope I have the guts to follow if they do.

I was listening to someone on NPR discuss this about 6 months ago.  As they guy put it, "There is no Praetorian Guard in the U.S."  He'll have to leave or face a march on Washington.

[henrygandorf 29,225]

38 minutes ago, RomaVicta said:

I begin to think that I want the unlikely to happen: Trump tries to hold office after losing the election.

i definitely want this.  in fact, i think it's probable, from a betting perspective. 

but how?  does he physically stay in the white house, or is it some smaller group of his administration that he tries to rule by twitter?  i think the most probable outcome is that he physically stays in the white house (he'll be there from early nov until mid jan anyway) and tries to involve lawyers, the supreme court, etc to investigate the "fake" election that he lost.  this is why it's so important that the election is a blowout.  anything close will trigger his supporters.  but they'll disappear real quick if he calls foul on a 100+ pt ec loss.

but what if he doesn't physically leave?

41 minutes ago, RomaVicta said:

How would the Guard, the Army, the Secret Service, Federal Marshalls, and local police act?

without knowing jurisdiction or protocol, this smells like federal marshals.  if they come to the residence, who stops them from forcibly removing a former president?  the secret service?  not likely.  the head of the secret service doesn't work for him, and their whole thing is being non-partisan.  they would surely stand down if it came to that.

and his tough guy supporters down in sec-sec-sec country would absolutely want it to come to that.  and they'd threaten to show up on the lawn with their long guns to help him hold down the fort.  but none of that will actually happen.  he'll be all talk for 2 months, then slowly slither away.  same with his hardline supporters.  they'll bark on twitter, along with dear leader, then they'll quiet down.

when biden gets sworn in on jan 20th, trump's orders no longer have any authority.  he can't do anything but leave.  and as much as i hope he locks himself in a broom closet, i think it's much more likely he skulks back to florida and continues to pout via twitter, until he inevitably crosses the line, and they ban his account.  then more lawsuits that he can't pay for.  it'll go on for a year or two, and then he'll start in on trump tv (oann) while grooming don jr or ivanka for 2024.

or, god willing, he tries to run again.

[Red Five 41,619]

1 hour ago, Firemans4Horn said:

How we elected such a dumb fuck I’ll never know. 
 

I guess George Carlin was onto something

 

I can't really tell if this is just typical dotard verbal nonsense, or if he doesn't understand how viruses are transmitted or how tests work. 

[ChiTownDoc 21,326]

16 minutes ago, Red Five said:

I can't really tell if this is just typical dotard verbal nonsense, or if he doesn't understand how viruses are transmitted or how tests work. 

It's all the same shit.  He's a fucking bozo of the highest order.  So what he thinks is just as stupid as what he says.  It's actually the only thing that makes sense about the dumbfuck. 

[SubliminalHorn 6,997]

Oh we know he’s going to bitch and whine and throw around the words rigged, scam, treason, blah blah blah. I think he’ll leave, but he won’t participate in any of the traditions between POTUS and POTUS-elect. No formal meeting. No assisting of the Biden transition team. He’ll be completely absent from Inauguration Day and will have left still yelling about scams and hoaxes on the White House lawn as he heads to marine one to take him to fly to either mar a lago or Moscow. I bet it’s St. Petersburg. 

[TwiceHorn 32,014]

A political app in general is kind of an appalling notion.

Particularly so for him.

The good news is that a shit-ton of his followers will be either unable to install it or unable to use it after they install it.

[TwiceHorn 32,014]

2 hours ago, Longhorn_Fan68 said:

as an architect (to be) I could ostensibly work anywhere in the world. I need to learn the metric system, though

As a drafter/designer, yes.  But wouldn't that whole licensure thing be a bit of a problem?

I guess much of architecture is such that only "the boss" seals anything?

Edited May 9, 2020 by TwiceHorn

[TwiceHorn 32,014]

1 hour ago, henrygandorf said:

i definitely want this.  in fact, i think it's probable, from a betting perspective. 

but how?  does he physically stay in the white house, or is it some smaller group of his administration that he tries to rule by twitter?  i think the most probable outcome is that he physically stays in the white house (he'll be there from early nov until mid jan anyway) and tries to involve lawyers, the supreme court, etc to investigate the "fake" election that he lost.  this is why it's so important that the election is a blowout.  anything close will trigger his supporters.  but they'll disappear real quick if he calls foul on a 100+ pt ec loss.

but what if he doesn't physically leave?

without knowing jurisdiction or protocol, this smells like federal marshals.  if they come to the residence, who stops them from forcibly removing a former president?  the secret service?  not likely.  the head of the secret service doesn't work for him, and their whole thing is being non-partisan.  they would surely stand down if it came to that.

and his tough guy supporters down in sec-sec-sec country would absolutely want it to come to that.  and they'd threaten to show up on the lawn with their long guns to help him hold down the fort.  but none of that will actually happen.  he'll be all talk for 2 months, then slowly slither away.  same with his hardline supporters.  they'll bark on twitter, along with dear leader, then they'll quiet down.

when biden gets sworn in on jan 20th, trump's orders no longer have any authority.  he can't do anything but leave.  and as much as i hope he locks himself in a broom closet, i think it's much more likely he skulks back to florida and continues to pout via twitter, until he inevitably crosses the line, and they ban his account.  then more lawsuits that he can't pay for.  it'll go on for a year or two, and then he'll start in on trump tv (oann) while grooming don jr or ivanka for 2024.

or, god willing, he tries to run again.

It is a bit of a conundrum.  Secret Service is Treasury, so Mooch.  Marshals are Justice, so Barr.  Pretty much all LEO are executive agencies with heads that owe their position to Trump.  I think the state entities would be without jurisdiction to act on federal property.

Yeah, I think the issue gets pressed if Biden becomes Commander In Chief.  Then he can order the military or any/all of the various law enforcement agencies to evict or arrest him.

Edited May 9, 2020 by TwiceHorn

[TexLonghorn 5,737]

So now he wants praise for Socialism??  Confusing messages from the republican party nowadays...

Oh, and "Great news for all!" that his "leadership" has taken the US to a point where it needs "Food Lines & Kitchens".  Bask in the "Great news for all!", these guys:

Edited May 9, 2020 by TexLonghorn

[TexLonghorn 5,737]

15 minutes ago, SubliminalHorn said:

Oh we know he’s going to bitch and whine and throw around the words rigged, scam, treason, blah blah blah. I think he’ll leave, but he won’t participate in any of the traditions between POTUS and POTUS-elect. No formal meeting. No assisting of the Biden transition team. He’ll be completely absent from Inauguration Day and will have left still yelling about scams and hoaxes on the White House lawn as he heads to marine one to take him to fly to either mar a lago or Moscow. I bet it’s St. Petersburg. 

What could possibly be offered from this administration to assist the Biden transition team?  If I were Biden, I would welcome Trump skulking away in the night with no ceremony - it would give more time to thoroughly disinfect the White House before moving in.

[Guest Lobo]

Shit, i never really gave much thought to Trump running again in 2024 after he loses this time around.  Statistically speaking, he'll be dead; but honestly...if he's not...there's a damn good chance he runs again for POTUS.  I know Rex Kramer and lot of folks on here will be a rudderless ship for four years so stands to reason he jumps back in the race.  

[SubliminalHorn 6,997]

4 minutes ago, Lobo said:

Shit, i never really gave much thought to Trump running again in 2024 after he loses this time around.  Statistically speaking, he'll be dead; but honestly...if he's not...there's a damn good chance he runs again for POTUS.  I know Rex Kramer and lot of folks on here will be a rudderless ship for four years so stands to reason he jumps back in the race.  

Or Don Jr. with daddy pulling his strings

[Underdog 29,113]

Can you run for President from prison?  

[Guest Lobo]

20 minutes ago, Underdog said:

Can you run for President from prison?  

Yeah, you just can't vote for yourself.  

[Bama Chick 28,596]

I was listening to someone on NPR discuss this about 6 months ago.  As they guy put it, "There is no Praetorian Guard in the U.S."  He'll have to leave or face a march on Washington.

There’s no Praetorian Guard YET.

 

These fuckers strapped up with bazookas to buy a philly cheese steak sandwich at gross ass Subway might be interested in the job.

 

 

 

 

[Bruh Man 3,160]

On 5/8/2020 at 4:57 PM, Bama Chick said:

Dayum

 

Where is Bloomberg? It's time to start the ad campaign. 

[Nivek 17,363]

4 hours ago, Longhorn_Fan68 said:

as an architect (to be) I could ostensibly work anywhere in the world. I need to learn the metric system, though

need a sidekick?  I can convert units like a mofo.

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[Bullneck 19,456]

13 minutes ago, Message Board User said:

 

Yeah, well:

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South Korea
Coronavirus Cases: 10,840
Deaths: 256
Recovered: 9,568

 

Edited May 10, 2020 by Bullneck

[JimmyJames 12,271]

12 hours ago, Bullneck said:

I'm trying to think of a more important election and can't.  First one (Washington)?  Civil War (Lincoln)?  

Either we become America again or it's late Roman Empire/Third Reich for us.

Washington and Lincoln are the greatest presidents we have ever had. 

But neither one took part in a more important election, because their opponent in those elections was not an absolute narcissist moronic disgrace such as the likes of donald j trump. 

If trump somehow steals yet another term, America is done and over with. It will be all over ‘cept the cryin. There is absolutely no doubt about that fact. 

So this election this fall in the year 2020 is kind of important. 

[Firemans4Horn 18,501]

Hopefully Stephen Miller and and Kushner join him on Golgotha. 

[henrygandorf 29,225]

43 minutes ago, Message Board User said:

 

"a whole school of thought" = trump and his idiots will 100% be blaming covid.  whatever it takes.

he had an opportunity to be presidential, or at the very least, look presidential, and he fucking blew it.

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3 hours ago, SubliminalHorn said:

Oh we know he’s going to bitch and whine and throw around the words rigged, scam, treason, blah blah blah. I think he’ll leave, but he won’t participate in any of the traditions between POTUS and POTUS-elect. No formal meeting. No assisting of the Biden transition team. He’ll be completely absent from Inauguration Day and will have left still yelling about scams and hoaxes on the White House lawn as he heads to marine one to take him to fly to either mar a lago or Moscow. I bet it’s St. Petersburg. 

So he will be like the Detroit Pistons.

[Grade of D as in David 13,255]

Yep our reality show president couldn't even act like the president on tv. Those apprentice editors must have been amazing.

[Chuckie Finster 22,994]

"a whole school of thought" = trump and his idiots will 100% be blaming covid.  whatever it takes.

he had an opportunity to be presidential, or at the very least, look presidential, and he fucking blew it.

“This is a very serious situation and I am putting Dr. Fauci in charge” and then chiming in now and again with some sort of inspirational message would have led to a landslide victory in November. The universe threw him a hanging curveball and he’s too busy eating the dirt in the batter’s box to take advantage.

[henrygandorf 29,225]

2 minutes ago, Chuckie Finster said:

“This is a very serious situation and I am putting Dr. Fauci in charge” and then chiming in now and again with some sort of inspirational message would have led to a landslide victory in November. The universe threw him a hanging curveball and he’s too busy eating the dirt in the batter’s box to notice.

yup.  stand with your citizens, be empathetic, give updates when you have them, try to hire inspirational speechwriters.

but no.  he tried to ignore it, then tried to defeat it, because that's what fake tough guys do. 

[Hugo Stiglitz 23,367]

6 minutes ago, henrygandorf said:

yup.  stand with your citizens, be empathetic, give updates when you have them, try to hire inspirational speechwriters.

but no.  he tried to ignore it, then tried to defeat it, because that's what fake tough guys do. 

Trump went FULL Baghdad Bob with Covid-19.  I cannot be the only one that noticed it.

[cactusflinthead 27,626]

9 hours ago, texas08 said:

November will be a shit show. I mean, it already is beyond a shit show...but November will be the greatest of shit shows. Shit for everyone!

Gif of dotard throwing paper rolls to Puerto Rican folks (replace the paper rolls with sacks full of shit).

[staboner 5,068]

7 hours ago, Brisketexan said:

Trump is a symptom. This is the disease:


These are the American ideals. And we are committed to them - at least, enough of us are that they will continue to be the giant turd that makes the punch bowl undrinkable.

Any place that can be accurately described as quoted is a shitty place. If we weren’t so deeply rooted here, and if my livelihood wasn’t so tied to the American legal system, we’d have been looking to move some time ago. And we expect it likely that one or more of our kids will make their lives somewhere else (maybe Germany or Canada), we’ve at least discussed the goal of living half the year there in our retirement.

Things aren’t going to get better here. They’ll only continue to get worse.

 

Twice this week I had colleagues/clients ask me on a Zoom call - what is wrong with America? Now that question comes at me maybe once a week already, but now it is backed up with videos, data and the constant bleed of a complete dolt blabbering on about nothing. I ask them what answer they want? the 10 thousand foot answer, the 1 thousand foot answer, or the answer? 1) no conflict for too long. no concept of public sacrifice/good, 2) the ideals of capitalism are overheated, 3) the divide is more important than the issue and people are increasingly and artificially fighting instead of cooperating. 

hey, pick one. its all the same same

Yes, Trump is the symptom. 

we left in early 2019. I wanted to seriously leave the US starting in 2010. I was entering adulthood and a profession around then and these issues became very clear to me. We flirted with Uruguay and other parts of SA but never had the right structure in place. Now I am overseas and of course its a mixed bag - some good, some bad, some ugly. I am happy I am here but I miss the shit out of my friends and family. This pandemic is scary in that I can't see a time when I will see my parents again. And they aren't spring chickens.

On the positive side - one can hope the pandemic will erase out 10% - 20% of the current toxic American individualism. Maybe the kids or teens now will have experiences from this that will make them appreciate some concepts of teamwork and public good. 

Nukes not welcome.  Hang in there my man. 

 

[burntorangebongos 10,809]

6 minutes ago, Hugo Stiglitz said:

Trump went FULL Baghdad Bob with Covid-19.  I cannot be the only one that noticed it.

I still don't even know why. He could have "chicken little'd" and started  the lock down way sooner. He was so concerned about the truth that was ugly and waited too long to start the mitigation earlier. FUCK THIS FUCKING COWARD IN THE ASS.

[RPM 26,579]

A virus isn't a bank loan. You can't declare bankruptcy and just watch it go away.

[Message Board User 12,405]

 

[tchookem 3,967]

“This is a very serious situation and I am putting Dr. Fauci in charge” and then chiming in now and again with some sort of inspirational message would have led to a landslide victory in November. The universe threw him a hanging curveball and he’s too busy eating the dirt in the batter’s box to take advantage.

He thinks he's Tanner, but we all know he's Lupus.

[tx 3 putt 78,514]

5 hours ago, TexLonghorn said:

So now he wants praise for Socialism??  Confusing messages from the republican party nowadays...

Oh, and "Great news for all!" that his "leadership" has taken the US to a point where it needs "Food Lines & Kitchens".  Bask in the "Great news for all!", these guys:

 

#trumpsamerica 

[Hugo Stiglitz 23,367]

31 minutes ago, burntorangebongos said:

I still don't even know why. 

Stock market, big donors, election, ego, corruption, incompetence.  Some combo or all of them.

[Fudge Nuggets 19,410]

1 hour ago, Message Board User said:

 

I’ve been reading about the dotard app and it seems a lot of people are scared that it’s going to brainwash even more idiots.  Does anyone really think anyone other than the “cult” is going to download that app?