Posted on 01/07/2021 1:00:58 AM PST by Berlin_Freeper
President Donald Trump publicly acknowledged that he would leave office on January 20 for the first time Thursday, pledging an orderly transfer of power after Congress affirmed President-elect Joe Biden's Electoral College win.
"Even though I totally disagree with the outcome of the election, and the facts bear me out, nevertheless there will be an orderly transition on January 20th," Trump said in the statement, repeating false claims he has made throughout the last two months. "I have always said we would continue our fight to ensure that only legal votes were counted. While this represents the end of the greatest first term in presidential history, it's only the beginning of our fight to Make America Great Again."
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On his last day
Reports say the democrats and outside groups spent over 11 billion dollars to try to beat this guy and they “won” by less then 45,000 votes in 3 states what he did was borderline amazing....he’ll be back the media can’t live without him
So is it true that Italy sent an affidavit showing where votes were changed at the behest of Americans in the Embassy in Rome? Apparently it was received today or yesterday. Invoking the EO, with this sworn affidavit, can’t this halt things going forward with the fake president elect? Or because the electoral college certified yesterday, it’s a done deal? I’m not a constitutional scholar, but I’m curious.
There’s so much damage done to the Trump/Pence relationship at this point, I would wonder if the duo would stay together if we had such a miracle happen that Trump could keep the Presidency based on the information provided by Italy? I’m just sickened.
On his last day!
Yes Jan 19, 2021!!
😊
Did he say from whom to whom?
DeSantis is better where he is. So is Noem.
Initially yes, you are correct however all of them WITHDREW their objection citing the “MOB Violence” as their reason for withdrawing.
Please watch the first few mins of this analysis of the so called “mob violence”. Police officer opening the fence line encouraging the ANTIFA mob to come in past the fence.
The real peaceful protestors trying to STOP them were over powered.
The Second Coming
BY WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS
Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
Surely some revelation is at hand;
Surely the Second Coming is at hand.
The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out
When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi
Troubles my sight: somewhere in sands of the desert
A shape with lion body and the head of a man,
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.
The darkness drops again; but now I know
That twenty centuries of stony sleep
Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?
“...repeating false claims he has made...”
Who are you trying so hard to convince, fake news? Yourself?
[Also, I’ll make another point: If they were spread too thin, it wasn’t for lack of available manpower. I am a fairly experienced trial and appellate lawyer, and I responded to a call for volunteer lawyers from the Trump campaign, through a conservative former Senator and his organization, and offered to put my life and my practice on hold, fly out to wherever they needed me on my own dime, and help the campaign any way they wanted pro bono. Drafting briefs, reviewing documents, taking depositions, observing counts, making coffee, whatever. There was also a prominent local businessman here in Houston willing to finance other lawyers to come with me.]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sean_Reyes#Unsuccessful_attempt_to_overturn_Trump‘s_2020_election_defeat
It’s not clear to me what Trump was trying to accomplish legally. My guess is that his intent was more political than legal - to emblazon on the minds of GOP voters that this election was fraudulent, to taint Biden’s victory in the same way that the Dems worked him over after 2016.
Which means there’s a good chance he goes for another bite at the apple again in 2024, with the vote by mail shenanigans from 2020 as his bloody shirt. Everyone’s running the odds today, and the Dems are probably working any legal angle they can to prevent him from doing so, including by tying him up in sham prosecutions. What do you think the odds are of Trump winning the nomination in 2024, if he does run?
Yes, 11 billion, 98% of the media including most of Fox News, a worldwide pandemic, the political establishment of both parties, the Deep State, corporate America, the education system K-12 and universities, the professions, and yeah, 10’s of thousands of votes was the margin. Amazing when you think about it.
I think highlighting the vote-by-mail shenanegans is not only a worthy goal, but an imperative one. I wish he and his team would have focused on that rather than chasing their tails on the Dominion and “Kraken” nonsense, pushing Flat Earth legal theories like claiming Pence can unilaterally reject electors, and making outlandish claims like he won by a “landslide” or by “hundreds of thousands of votes” in Georgia.
He has taken a very important message on mail-in voting and tossed its credibility into the woodchipper with this crap. We can’t afford that when the entire Democrat propaganda apparatus is mobilized to protect mail-in voting at all costs.
I also wish he wouldn’t beat up his own supporters like Kemp and Raffensperger, both of whom are on our side with regard to absentee voting: Kemp wants to add an ID requirement, and Raffensperger wants to get rid of “no excuse” absentee voting entirely. I’ve said more than once that ending “no excuse” absentee voting and greatly narrowing its availability should be the top priority for Republican state legislatures in 2021, other than redistricting, and we need a nationwide mobilization of the entire party to push that through.
I came up with odds on what was going to happen with Trump in 2024 last week, but I’ve changed them since the Jan. 6 fiasco. Here are my odds, which is, of course, a total guess at this early stage:
70%: Trump does not run at all in 2024 or is out before Iowa. This also includes the small-but-non-zero chance that the current articles of impeachment have 67 votes in the Senate and he will be precluded from holding office again.
20%: Trump runs third party. If he does, my prediction is his running mate will be Tulsi Gabbard.
10%: Trump runs for the Republican nomination. If he does, 20% chance he wins it, but that’s obviously highly dependent on who else runs.
0%: Trump is actually elected President in 2024. This is less of a total guess than the rest. I’m pretty confident his political career as anything other than a gadfly or spoiler is over.
[0%: Trump is actually elected President in 2024. This is less of a total guess than the rest. I’m pretty confident his political career as anything other than a gadfly or spoiler is over.]
People who had never done anything political before went to DC to hear him speak. That’s not something Dubya, McCain or Romney could have gotten people to do in their behalf. These are not wealthy people, so it’s really touching. I don’t know if he appreciates it, but it is a phenomenon. People opposed to him who are writing his political obituary may be engaged in wishful thinking.
I certainly could be wrong, and his ability to win over the politically-disengaged and even a number of lifelong Democrats cannot be denied. But it takes a lot more than personal popularity to win an election, and don’t discount everything an established, national political party brings to the table, including all the infrastructure needed to raise money and get out the vote. That takes more than a couple years to build on a national scale, which is why we’ve had the same two parties dominating American politics since 1856 even as the coalitions that make them up continue to shift and realign. Trump could never have won without the Republican Party behind him and will not win as a third-party candidate.
And I did not mention impeachment idly. I really don’t know what will happen when Pelosi sends the articles of impeachment over to the Senate. McConnell will be in a hell of a pickle with no good options: He can push for an immediate vote, requiring his colleagues to go on the record, or he can drag things out until after January 20. If he does the latter, the trial would not be moot because they could still disqualify him from further office, and that would give the new Democrat majority the ability to drag the trial out into a show trial for propaganda purposes.
If it goes to trial next week then, depending on when each Georgia election is certified, they only need 17 or 18 Republicans (they only need 66 votes to convict as long as Perdue’s seat is vacant). I wouldn’t be at all surprised if they had the votes. If Trump wanted the support of Republican Senators, he probably should have considered refraining from siccing an angry mob on them.
[If it goes to trial next week then, depending on when each Georgia election is certified, they only need 17 or 18 Republicans (they only need 66 votes to convict as long as Perdue’s seat is vacant). I wouldn’t be at all surprised if they had the votes. If Trump wanted the support of Republican Senators, he probably should have considered refraining from siccing an angry mob on them.]
At last count, 84% of strong Republicans (i.e. likely primary voters) disapproved of Romney.
To the potheads and fags at CNN. That wasn’t no riot. The crap pulled by your Black Looters Movement and their Aunt Teefah buttboys is what a riot looks like. I saw no graffiti, no statues being destroyed, no cop cars burning, no cops being killed. THAT’S WHAT A RIOT LOOKS LIKE. You CNN ***holes need to find jobs that aren’t above your max pay grade.
Trump kicked all their asses all the way to the moon. He set fire to politics as usual and the scared the hell out of democrats and republicans alike because it put THE PEOPLE IN CHARGE!!!
To hell with socialism in the USA!!
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