This is it, this is the whole thing. As long as Trump is lying about the election—as long as he is lying about having the election stolen from him—and as long as *people believe him*, we are in serious jeopardy as a nation. This is not an exaggeration! thetriad.thebulwark.com/p/the-biggest-…
If you can’t back the impeachment and conviction of Donald Trump when he is literally putting the country at risk because he’s so comically, buffoonishly self-obsessed that he would rather spark a civil war than admit he lost, when *could* you back it?
I just don’t understand the argument that impeaching him and convicting him and banning him from holding office now will inflame people more. You know what might inflame them? Allowing a defeated president to run around the country telling people the Biden government is illegal!
Alright. Debate thread! Please mute this thread if you generally prefer my (infallible) movie takes as opposed to my (often quite fallible) political takes.
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Joe Biden: “I am the rules.”
(Congrats to the six of you who get this reference.)
If you don’t at least find the Trump taxes story *interesting*—if your default response is a casual “no one cares” or a strained “AvOiDanCe IsN’T EvaSioN!”—I am kind of curious what would you *would* find interesting.
I don’t think this is going to have 1/1000 of the impact on the election the SCOTUS fight will have. I don’t really care if it changes a single vote. (It probably won’t!) But an in-depth look into the taxes of a fabulously wealthy celebrity is kind of by-definition “interesting.”
The number of panicked Trump fans replying to this thread suggests maybe I was wrong and this thing does move the needle. I guess we’ll see as this story drips out the rest of the election and he’s forced to talk about how little money he has for the next six weeks.
Knowing 2020, we’ll have a 269-269 EC split decided by a 4-4 SCOTUS.
::SCOTUS fails to stop premature end of vote counting in Wisconsin due to 4-4 split, sending 269-269 EC split to House::
::House delegations split 25-25::
::2020 spikes football right in all of our stupid faces::