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    Do you disagree with their statistics?

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    How Trump Could Lose the Election—

    And Still Remain President


    it is increasingly looking as if Joe Biden can beat President Donald Trump in November.

    The president seems more and more out of step with the national mood, from his handling of the pandemic to his response to racially biased policing, not to mention a wide array of other issues.

    Even in key swing states, Trump is losing ground that will be difficult for him to make up.


    For Trump, there are two broad pathways to maintaining power.

    First,

    we can already see very clearly a strategy designed to suppress voter turnout with the purging of registration rolls of large numbers of mostly urban voters;

    efforts to suppress mail-in ballots, which are more necessary than ever, given COVID-19;

    a re-election apparatus that is training 50,000 poll watchers for the purpose of challenging citizens' right to vote on Election Day;

    and significant efforts to make in-person voting in urban areas as bersome as possible in order to have long lines that discourage people from exercising their voting rights.

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    The second pathway

    to subverting the election is even more ominous—but we must be cognizant of it because Trump is already laying the groundwork for how he can lose the popular vote, and

    even lose in the key swing states necessary for an Electoral College victory, but still remain president.


    Recent press reports have revealed the compilation by the Brennan Center at New York University of an extensive list of

    presidential emergency powers that might be inappropriately invoked in a national security crisis.

    Attorney General William Barr, known for his extremist view of the expanse of presidential power, is widely believed to be developing a Justice Department opinion arguing that

    the president can exercise emergency powers in certain national security situations,

    while stating that the courts, being extremely reluctant to intervene in the sphere of a national security emergency, would allow the president to proceed unchecked.

    Something like the following scenario is not just possible but increasingly probable because it is clear Trump will do anything to avoid the moniker he hates more than any other: "loser."

    Trump actually tweeted on June 22: "Rigged 2020 election:

    millions of mail-in ballots will be printed by foreign countries, and others. It will be the scandal of our times!"

    With this, Trump has begun to lay the groundwork for the step-by-step process by which he holds on to the presidency after he has clearly lost the election:


    1. Biden wins the popular vote, and carries the key swing states of Arizona, Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania by decent but not overwhelming margins.
    2. Trump immediately declares that the voting was rigged, that there was mail-in ballot fraud and that the Chinese were behind a plan to provide fraudulent mail-in ballots and other "election hacking" throughout the four key swing states that gave Biden his victory.
    3. Having railed against the Chinese throughout the campaign, calling Biden "soft on China," Trump delivers his narrative claiming the Chinese have interfered in the U.S. election.
    4. Trump indicates this is a major national security issue, and he invokes emergency powers, directing the Justice Department to investigate the alleged activity in the swing states. The legal justification for the presidential powers he invokes has already been developed and issued by Barr.
    5. The investigation is intended to tick down the clock toward December 14, the deadline when each state's Electoral College electors must be appointed. This is the very issue that the Supreme Court harped on in Bush v. Gore in ruling that the election process had to be brought to a close, thus forbidding the further counting of Florida ballots.
    6. All four swing states have Republican control of both their upper and lower houses of their state legislatures. Those state legislatures refuse to allow any Electoral College slate to be certified until the "national security" investigation is complete.
    7. The Democrats will have begun a legal action to certify the results in those four states, and the appointment of the Biden slate of electors, arguing that Trump has manufactured a national security emergency in order to create the ensuing chaos.
    8. The issue goes up to the Supreme Court, which unlike the 2000 election does not decide the election in favor of the Republicans. However,


    it indicates again that the December 14 Electoral College deadline must be met;

    . that the president's national security powers legally authorize him to investigate potential foreign country intrusion into the national election;

    . and if no Electoral College slate can be certified by any state by December 14,

    . the Electoral College must meet anyway and cast its votes.


    1. The Electoral College meets, and without the electors from those four states being represented, neither Biden nor Trump has sufficient votes to get an Electoral College majority.
    2. The election is thrown into the House of Representatives, pursuant to the Cons ution. Under the relevant cons utional process, the vote in the House is by state delegation, where each delegation casts one vote, which is determined by the majority of the representatives in that state.
    3. Currently, there are 26 states that have a majority Republican House delegation. 23 states have a majority Democratic delegation. There is one state, Pennsylvania, that has an evenly split delegation. Even if the Democrats were to pick up seats in Pennsylvania and hold all their 2018 House gains, the Republicans would have a 26 to 24 delegation majority.
    4. This vote would enable Trump to retain the presidency.


    We cannot let ourselves believe that this is a far-fetched scenario.

    We have just seen Trump threaten to invoke emergency powers under the Insurrection Act of 1807 to call up the U.S. military against domestic protesters.

    The remarkable apology by Joint Chiefs Chairman General Mark Milley, stating that it was wrong to create a perception that the military would get directly involved in a domestic political protest and intervene against American civilians, underscores the corrupt use of executive powers Trump is willing to employ.

    As Fareed Zakaria recently said in summing up the lessons of former national security adviser John Bolton's new book:

    "Donald Trump will pay any price, make any deal, bend any rule, to assure his own survival and success."


    So what do we do as citizens to face the impending reality of The Plot Against America?

    We must "out" this scenario—and do so loudly and consistently.

    We have an imperative to build a "people's firewall" that reaches deeply across the country and reflects public revulsion at the potential for Trump to undermine our entire democratic system of governance.


    Nancy Pelosi, the House speaker, should immediately ask the Judiciary, Commerce, Armed Services and Intelligence Committees to hold hearings on

    how steps can be taken to safeguard against this scenario, especially how to confront any invocation of emergency powers by the president.


    There needs to be an outpouring at all levels of society that this will not be tolerated

    from government officials and lawmakers at all levels;

    to civic associations and civil rights groups;

    to business groups and trade associations, who have to recognize the economic chaos that would result from this kind of coup;

    to lawyers, academics and student groups practiced in resisting government policies;

    and, of course, to the editorial voices of the press, both local and national.


    The recent resistance of our military establishment is an encouraging sign and necessary component of the "people's firewall."

    The president has to know there will be overwhelming resistance to any post-election chaos to undermine our cons utional order.

    He must know that the "people's firewall" will not yield to lawlessness.

    He has to be confronted with the reality that The Plot Against America must remain a work of fiction.

    https://www.newsweek.com/how-trump-c...pinion-1513975
    Last edited by boutons_deux; 07-11-2020 at 07:52 PM.

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    Damn

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    Of course he folded. He always does

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    his mask has the Presidential seal WH probably paid $1000 for it

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    Boutons loves the trump great thread
    He lives in it

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    Boutons loves the trump great thread
    He lives in it
    Mask looks good on Dear Leader tbh. Tones down the orange quite a bit

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    (South Korea announced their first COVID-19 case the same day as the USA.)

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    Do you disagree with their statistics?
    Statistics are more of an art than a science, but I'm pretty sure Taiwan had more of a nationally coordinated response and more community participation than we did, with the results you see.

    Play ball!

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    To answer your question directly, I have no reason to think Taiwan is outrageously fudging its numbers, do you, DMC?

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    Walk us through your conspiracy theory about how no other countries in the world managed to tame their COVID-19 caseloads, profe

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    Trump supporter complains about being socially toxic:

    ‘People unfriend you’




    < a couple hilarious tweets, surely 100s more to come >

    https://www.rawstory.com/2020/07/trump-supporter-complains-about-being-socially-toxic-people-unfriend-you/

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    Trump was so insecure about the mask that he forced all his sycophants to tweet about how pretty he looked

    HE'S GOT A MASK NOW! BIDEN IS FINISHED!

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    Postcard from Bergamo, Italy


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    So, according to Bolsonara, Trump now officially is a got.


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    Republicans facing ‘tsunami’ of losses as Trump drags GOP candidates down with him

    Republicans are facing massive losses in November because an increasingly unpopular Donald Trump has become an “anchor” that is dragging down fellow GOP lawmakers who will also be on the ballot.

    Buffeted by a collapsed economy,

    due in no small part to the coronavirus pandemic that has been mismanaged by the Trump White House,

    Republicans are now also saddled with the

    president’s increasingly inflammatory rhetoric which polls show is not helping his re-election.

    “Both Democratic and Republican operatives increasingly view

    Trump as a drag on GOP candidates in many key Senate and House races —

    especially in suburban areas,

    where polling and focus group data suggest he has been bleeding support,”

    “Voters’ disapproval of Trump’s handling of the pandemic and of the racial justice movement, as measured in public surveys, has buoyed Democrats down the ballot.

    https://www.rawstory.com/2020/07/republicans-facing-tsunami-of-losses-as-trump-drags-gop-candidates-down-with-him-report

    Heckuva job, Donnie



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    Rudy Giuliani unexpectedly reveals ‘all’ of Trump’s IRS audits have been ‘settled’



    attempted to connect liberal billionaire George Soros

    to a prosecutor’s effort to subpoena the president’s financial records.

    The president’s lawyer also claimed that “all” of Trump’s tax audits had been “settled.”

    Giuliani said that a Supreme Court case which found that the president does not have “absolute immunity” against prosecution was “terribly decided.”

    “They have no reason to believe that there is anything wrong with his tax returns,” the president’s lawyer insisted.

    “All of them have been audited and all of them have either been passed on or settled.”

    Trump has said that he would release his tax returns when they are no longer under audit,

    although the president has never provided proof that the IRS is auditing his financials.

    “In other words, we get audited, we make a deal, we pay the government — you don’t come after me forever for that.

    And also, this is the president of the United States.” above the law!

    up to 4,000 prosecutors can now “come after” Trump’s financial records.

    “We have Soros-elected anarchist DAs.

    They’re not there to prosecute the law.

    They’re there to undermined the law. He put them there.”

    “I mean, why would Soros pay for DAs other than to undermine our government?”

    “For five years, Soros has been funding these and nobody paid attention to it,” Giuliani added.

    “But he had a reason. It’s to undermined our government.”

    https://www.rawstory.com/2020/07/rudy-giuliani-unexpectedly-reveals-all-of-trumps-irs-audits-have-been-settled/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaig n=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story%29

    Julie Annie is really ed in the head, matching Trash's ed in the head



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