Democratic politicians do a good job of fighting and winning for us. They really do.

If there's one thing they underestimate, it's how far removed from reality a lot of Democratic supporters are, after MSNBC spends all day convincing them of impossible doomsday scenarios.
Democratic politicians are always trying to convince us to get up and fight and win, which is the right approach. But far too many of us are too busy hiding under our beds from imaginary ghosts, all because MSNBC wants to hit its ratings marks.
Are we really going to ask Democratic politicians to spend time coddling us and convincing us to come out from our beds? Because when they have to push those narratives, they can't really push the narratives that win political battles. Those narratives aren't compatible.
Imagine an adult trying to negotiate effectively with a conman, while a child keeps asking that adult if any of the scary things that are being said are really going to happen. If the adult has to stop and explain it to the child, it undercuts the adult's argument with the conman
It really comes down to whether we want to be coddled, or whether we want to win. For a long list of reasons, those two things are not compatible. Some of you want Biden up there angrily stomping his feet, but that would completely erode his leverage against Trump.
If you stand up and fight to win, your odds of winning are infinitely better than if you hide under your bed and obsess over how you might lose. If you want to be taken seriously as a political activist, no one should EVER have to tell you to get out from under the bed.
Also, no serious political activist stares at MSNBC all day and waits to be told which highly unlikely doomsday scenario they should fret over next, then frets about it on social media all day. Turn that shit off if you want to be meaningfully involved in politics at all.

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The remainder of Trump's life will largely be dictated by whether the judge gives him 1) bail, 2) house arrest, or 3) jail, while he awaits trial. If it's 1 or 2, he'll likely try to delay his trial for the last couple years of his expected lifespan. If it's 3, he'll just rot.
Trump will argue that with his age and poor health, he shouldn't rot in a cell while awaiting trial, particularly during a pandemic (which he ironically created).

Prosecutors will argue that Trump is a risk of flight, and a risk of selling state secrets, if he's not monitored.
It'll all come down to the whim of whichever New York state judge gets his case. But the most likely compromise could be house arrest at Mar-a-Lago, with his visits and electronic communications monitored.
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It's never about whether a Republican will grow a conscience or a spine. Those concepts simply do not exist on the Republican side. It was always a question of at what point a defeated Trump would begin to get in the way of their own corrupt ambitions.
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- Vornado cancels property sale that would have benefited Trump

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Now that Trump has lost, his financial world is collapsing.
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The Michigan certification is not being magically postponed by two weeks. That wouldn't even be legally possible. Everyone please stop panic tweeting nonsense. You are absolutely not helping our cause by spreading this kind of doomsday false information.
"But I heard..."

No, don't do that.

"But I heard" isn't a source.
Also, just because someone on the other side announces that they want something evil to happen, it doesn't mean that thing is true, or will happen, or is even physically capable of happening.

We have GOT to stop mistaking the other side's fantasies for actual real things.
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Leaks about cabinet positions are often false. Someone who wants a job leaks that they're under consideration when they're not, etc. Feel free to loudly push back whenever a bad name leaks. But don't assume Biden is behind that bad name. Most of these cabinet leaks are bullshit.
Remember the nonstop false leaks about Biden's running mate? Same thing with the cabinet. The media knows it won't face any penalty for publishing a cabinet leak from a sketchy source, because when it ends up being someone else, the public will just assume Biden changed his mind.
And yes, sometimes an administration leaks a name in order to take the public's temperature on that name. Like I said, feel free to loudly push back, just to leave no doubt.
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