863 upvotes, 13 direct replies (showing 13)
I hope he realizes that means he won’t be president on January 20th either way. He’s so stupid he probably think it makes him automatically president again if the results aren’t finished being tallied.
Comment by [deleted] at 16/08/2020 at 12:14 UTC*
584 upvotes, 5 direct replies
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Comment by Bigmodirty at 16/08/2020 at 12:22 UTC
82 upvotes, 1 direct replies
Don't act like he won't steal this shit
Comment by [deleted] at 16/08/2020 at 12:44 UTC
14 upvotes, 1 direct replies
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Comment by Wtfmymoney at 16/08/2020 at 14:03 UTC
4 upvotes, 0 direct replies
None of this matters if we don’t actually vote his ass out
Comment by jayfrancy at 16/08/2020 at 13:44 UTC
17 upvotes, 2 direct replies
What seriously makes you think anything would change from now until then. Constitutionality clearly is not binding, and if he borks the elections, then the GOP still holds the senate. Who is going to hold Trump accountable on 1/20? What, if any, indications lead you to believe he can’t just dig his heels in while this runs up the chain to the SC?
Yes I know what the laws are - they literally have not mattered in the last 3.5 years.
Comment by groundedstate at 16/08/2020 at 15:23 UTC
2 upvotes, 0 direct replies
The electoral college will be forced to cast their votes based on the ballots that were received. You're only going to see ballots for Trump.
Comment by jedre at 16/08/2020 at 15:50 UTC
1 upvotes, 0 direct replies
I *hope* that all his attempts at setting things up to claim that his losing the election was due to election “fraud,” is merely to land a job (like he only wanted in 2016) as a talking head, or to start Trump News Network or something. Like the first year of programming is just him rambling and ranting about conspiracy theories and whining.
He has no interest in being president. He never did.
I could live with that; I would just ignore it, and if there is any shred of justice left in the world, he’d soon be in jail.
Comment by Kingofearth23 at 16/08/2020 at 16:14 UTC
1 upvotes, 1 direct replies
Laws and regulations are just words on a piece of paper When (Not If) the US military decides that Trump is President for Life.
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/07/17/trump-loyalists-pentagon-366922
Trump skirting Congress to install loyalists in the Pentagon
Experts and Democratic lawmakers alike decried the campaign to root out those seen as disloyal and replace them with Trump acolytes
Comment by [deleted] at 16/08/2020 at 18:06 UTC
1 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Yes. All of that.
Comment by sotonohito at 16/08/2020 at 14:14 UTC
1 upvotes, 1 direct replies
I think he will ignore that part and the Republicans will join him in ignoring it. The law only works when it's enforced. And it isn't enforced on Trump.
Comment by [deleted] at 16/08/2020 at 15:58 UTC*
1 upvotes, 0 direct replies
I wish people realized that logic and "rules" don't matter with him, and thinking the system will magically kick him out on the 20th is a pipe dream if he's even half of what we think he is.
People in this thread: "he's evil, he's a dictator, he's a fraud, he's a fascist" (correct imo)
Also people in this thread: "surely he will abide by the rule of law come January 20th".
Comment by Gold_Seaworthiness62 at 17/08/2020 at 00:47 UTC
0 upvotes, 0 direct replies
There's literally always a couple of you in the comments for these threads.
And by god on earth do I hope you're right.
But They PLAINLY don't care about laws. He's broken dozens upon dozens of laws. He doesn't care. He instructed staff to ignore congressional subpoenas. They did, without repercussion.
He's all but called pelosi and Biden terrorists and had them locked up.
The Senate is compromised and captured.
The DOJ is compromised and captured.
The DHS has been compromised and captured.
Thre SCOTUS is all but compromised and captured.
The USSS is likely compromised and captured, trump replaced the head.
And Countless other things.
Comment by yirboy at 16/08/2020 at 13:34 UTC
-11 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Maybe he wins again though. He was also behind in the polls in 2016.