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The 2020 Loss -- A Blessing In Disguise?
American Thinker.com ^ | April 21, 2022 | M Schubert Sheppard

Posted on 04/21/2022 3:59:04 AM PDT by Kaslin

Let’s be totally frank: if on election night 2020 a total of just over 40,000 votes across Georgia, Wisconsin, and Arizona had gone for President Donald Trump instead of Biden it would have eventuated in a complete disaster for both Trump and the GOP with the latter likely out of the presidency for a dozen years or more.

Trump’s 269/269 Electoral College tie “win” i.e., being put into office by a majority of state delegations in the House of Representatives even though he had lost the popular vote by an unprecedented seven million votes, 4.3% behind the “loser,” would have made the 2016 protests against his, also minority popular vote win, seem a Sunday picnic.

The media, already hateful, would have turned venomous, and the atmosphere leading up to the House meeting and determining him re-elected would have been filled with commentary calling on the House delegates to switch their votes, further inflaming the environment.

But should the constitutional process have worked its way through on strictly partisan basis, including Vice-President Mike Pence casting the deciding vote for himself, a sullen quiet would have descended on the country.

Again, being frank, the current inflationary economy commenced its stark rise, caused in the main by the massive creation of money, just after Biden’s inauguration along with the supply chain bottlenecks. Trump would have owned all of it.

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1 posted on 04/21/2022 3:59:04 AM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

Completely ignore the election fraud why don’t you?


2 posted on 04/21/2022 4:02:44 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Humans live on 1/4th of what they eat; on the last 3/4ths lives their doctor. --Egyptian Inscription)
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To: Kaslin

The theft. And we’d still have our own energy production, for starters.


3 posted on 04/21/2022 4:03:08 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: Kaslin

IF a frog had wings..............


4 posted on 04/21/2022 4:05:05 AM PDT by Graybeard58
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To: Kaslin

Lemonade from lemons; finally, even for the slow learners, the democrat corruption is on display in plain view.

Still not worth it.


5 posted on 04/21/2022 4:07:29 AM PDT by muir_redwoods (Freedom isn't free, liberty isn't liberal and you'll never find anything Right on the Left)
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To: muir_redwoods

Lemonade from lemons; finally, even for the slow learners, the democrat corruption is on display in plain view.

Still not worth it.


The President has only so much power—Trump in my opinion slowed things in the right direction on COVID and Inflationary spending, so it would likely have been worse had he not been in (though perversely sometimes theoretical liberals become much more practical when they realize that they will be the sole owner of the consequences), but the inflation train wreck has been in the cards for a while.

GOD knows what He is doing.


6 posted on 04/21/2022 4:19:05 AM PDT by Hieronymus
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To: Kaslin

This guy thinks that all these “events” were predetermined and that the commie pigs running the white hospice aren’t responsible for it.

Like Trump would have been powerless to stop the oil debacle, hyper-inflation, the war in Ukraine, the border, and the supply chain issues.

His policies were in place to deal with all of those.


7 posted on 04/21/2022 4:19:58 AM PDT by HYPOCRACY (This is the dystopian future we've been waiting for!)
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To: HYPOCRACY

China would have been begging for mercy by now, instead of sabre rattling.


8 posted on 04/21/2022 4:20:59 AM PDT by HYPOCRACY (This is the dystopian future we've been waiting for!)
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To: HYPOCRACY

Talk-Radio is talking “Communist” instead of Democrat. Probably a good thing.

We also need to rid us of the “Red States” moniker.


9 posted on 04/21/2022 4:26:10 AM PDT by Does so (https://youtu.be/3PxEWB6W8ig ......Uke's Independence Day Parade. Anthem starts at 15:00)
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To: Kaslin
Nope. We needed/need POTUS Trump in the White House. Even though he was perpetually hamstrung by 60 years of corrupt govt agencies, we would be 100 times better off than now.

This country is an abominable farce led by a bunch of mildly retarded children in all three branches of govt. Trump, at least, kept a lid on the wetback invasion and, most important, the economy in order.

10 posted on 04/21/2022 4:28:54 AM PDT by LouAvul
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To: Kaslin

Article makes interesting points. But it is all based on the assumption that the same bad things all would have happened under T. Also it glosses over the part where the election was stolen. Last, while there is merit to the logic that suffering will influence future votes, the article does not mention vaccine mandates. What kind of suffering will come from that? Like most government induced suffering, 1/2 will blame T for rushing the vax and the other 1/2 will blame B for mandating it. It’s called divide and conquer.


11 posted on 04/21/2022 4:30:28 AM PDT by Neverlift (When someone says "you just can't make this stuff up" odds are good, somebody did.)
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To: Kaslin

Biden is destroying the country from open borders to inflation to the destruction of the fossil fuel industry. And the election was stolen setting the stage for more of it. No, there is no pony in this pile of shit.


12 posted on 04/21/2022 4:32:20 AM PDT by kabar
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Republicans always look for the pony in the dung pile when they are beaten in elections.

The truth is, had the fraud been revealed and the proper votes restored, President Trump would have kept the pipeline, we would have continued with energy independence, our economy would continued to grow strong and Russia would not have dared to invade Ukraine - among many other positive things. We would have had our true leader and our country would have kept its hope.

Stupid Republicans!

13 posted on 04/21/2022 4:36:32 AM PDT by Chainmail (99.36% of all statistics are made up on the spot)
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To: Does so

That’s a good thing. I like the term “commie” making a comeback.

The Red State moniker isn’t going anywhere. We need to make it a reclaimed term and wear it proudly. The commies did it to bother us. Red is a color on the US flag. We need to call them Yellow states.

Call them yellow diaper babies. Yellow is a commie color too and has an even better connotation to Americans.


14 posted on 04/21/2022 4:37:19 AM PDT by HYPOCRACY (This is the dystopian future we've been waiting for!)
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To: Kaslin

Nice strawman the author concocted.

Inflation coincided with Biden because of his own actions. To state it was inevitable is illogical and flat out wrong.


15 posted on 04/21/2022 4:39:10 AM PDT by MortMan (You better bring yours, when you come to take mine. - Creed Fisher)
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To: LouAvul
"three branches of govt."



It's actually 4 branches now. You forgot about the 3 letter agencies that can now make their own 'laws'. (CDC, FDA, EPA, etc.)
16 posted on 04/21/2022 4:42:31 AM PDT by Bikkuri (I am proud to be a PureBlood.)
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To: Kaslin
40,000 votes?

Probably closer to 4 million plus votes Trump won by. The election fraud was enormous. I'm afraid massive Democratic voter fraud can now be expected in every election. I hope I'm wrong.
17 posted on 04/21/2022 5:29:57 AM PDT by salmon76 (Ranked: Washington>Lincoln>Reagan>Trump>Teddy>JFK>Clinton>Carter>Obama>Biden)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

The writer of the piece is an idiot.


18 posted on 04/21/2022 5:33:24 AM PDT by abbastanza ( )
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To: Kaslin
"The media, already hateful, would have turned venomous..."

WTHeck is Sheppard talking about? They turned venomous when Trump came down the escalator.

19 posted on 04/21/2022 6:02:46 AM PDT by sauropod ("We put all our politicians in prison as soon as they are elected. Don’t you?" Why? "It saves time.”)
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To: Kaslin

I agree. We’re so lucky to have lost. So lucky that President Trump isn’t around to manage a comeback from the economic disaster and lockdown of society. We should be happy that immigration was not kept under control, that Russia wasn’t given license to invade, that the Keystone was canceled, that gas costs nearly twice as much, that our savings and retirement plans are leaking value. Yeah.

Maybe the GOP should throw away the looming advantage for the coming mid-terms so we can even be luckier that we cannot put a stop to Brandon’s dictatorship of the lunatic. Yeah, that’s the ticket.

Here’s a reasonable assumption: Even if Trump won in an Electoral College landslide (and he very likely did), the press would never have been kind to him or to us. The tech giants would never (and may never) rehabilitate their oppressive behaviors.

When the lunatics on our side are writing that losing is lucky, you know the prospects to ever escape the damage of the last year or so are dimming fast. Think of it: four years of effort against all odds to reverse energy dependence to total independence; invasion at the border reduced to a trickle; no new wars involving the US. Undone in a matter of months. We’re lucky? Has American Thinker ever been so thoughtless? Lucky?

No! I refuse to accept such a stupid idea. We must become an Army of John Galts. If we celebrate a loss after the election irregularities of 2020 we will get more such elections.


20 posted on 04/21/2022 6:42:08 AM PDT by StAntKnee (Add your own danged sarc tag)
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