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I don't think that's true (that dictators don't have to ask for permission). Dictators need the support of their ruling cabal. They aren't one-man shows. They may even need to have the pretense of following the law to maintain that support. Having the fiction of a Constitution isn't keeping Trump from being a dictator. I would say Trump's not a dictator because the opposition party is still too strong and he (probably) can't manipulate the elections to stay in power. But beyond that, it's sadly been exposed that our Constitution won't hold him back if one party is willing to let him become dictator. The Republican Senate , the Justice Department, and the Republican Party voters are in full-throated support of him becoming a dictator, and he'll soon have the Supreme Court in his corner, too. (Probably. Not sure how far Gorsuch will go with him.)
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Apparently there are many in Dopey's camp who are now publicly referring to Biden as a "professional" after months of denigrating him. Why you ask? Because Dumb Donald is so dumb, he's labeled Biden as such a feeble pushover that if he loses the debate next week - which many of these people are expecting will happen -- it will be a massive humiliating self-own.Comment
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Of course they are. Pretty much everyone has learned the lesson from the Gore/Bush debates in the 2000 election year. For example, while I've been very critical of Hillary Clinton's campaign management, this was one area they nailed well. They successfully tamped down expectations, even though most of us (me included) figured Clinton would handily win a debate against Trump.I'm just here for the baseball.
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The great irony of Dopey's election fraud allegations is that he himself is absolutely trying to throw the election, right in front of your eyes:
"President Trump's campaign is discussing "contingency plans" that would involve bypassing the result of November's election, reports The Atlantic.
The report delves into possible scenarios if Trump apparently loses the 2020 presidential election but doesn't concede, noting that although we're used to electors being selected based on the popular vote, "nothing in the Constitution says it has to be that way." Citing Republican Party sources, The Atlantic says that Trump's campaign is "discussing contingency plans to bypass election results and appoint loyal electors in battleground states where Republicans hold the legislative majority."
The campaign would reportedly assert that this step was necessary due to claims of supposed voter fraud, which experts have noted is extraordinarily rare, ahead of the "safe harbor" deadline to appoint 538 electors on Dec. 8.
"Trump would ask state legislators to set aside the popular vote and exercise their power to choose a slate of electors directly," The Atlantic reports. "The longer Trump succeeds in keeping the vote count in doubt, the more pressure legislators will feel to act before the safe-harbor deadline expires."
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Or maybe he has figured out a better way. Instead of giving your opponent respect, so that your debate victory will be more impressive, denigrate your opponent heavily beforehand and regardless of what happens at the debate, which many won't even watch, boisterously claim total victory to all on social media, where your followers who didn't bother to watch will assume you did as you say.Comment
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More evidence that Trump sees himself as president just of a certain type of person and that any person of color who disagrees with him is not American. He tries to suggest a person of color is not American and does not belong here, just like he did with Obama, and as he has repeatedly done: https://www.businessinsider.com/omar...a-rally-2020-9
He complains that rep Omar is trying to "tell us how to run OUR country" and asking "how she did where she came from" as if to suggest that Omar is not American, and somehow ran Somalia when she was 8.Last edited by Sour Masher; 09-23-2020, 02:48 PM.Comment
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I've always told my Trumpie supporter friends that he's so incompetent, if in an alternate reality he were your landscaper, you'd fire him. He's so incompetent, if anyone had an equivalent amount of knowledge in their job, you'd have fired them for anything you hired them to do.Comment
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