Trump on Biden: He's Going to be your President

Trump on Biden: He's Going to be your President

By Orion on Thu, 11/26/2020 - 11:24pm |

It seems he conceded back in July. :P

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https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-election/trump-biden-2020-election-love-twitter-poll-a9587501.html?amp

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https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-election/trump-bide...

by Orion on Thu, 11/26/2020 - 11:25pm

but in Sept. he was thimking again about what that would mean:

I’m Joe Biden and I approve this message. pic.twitter.com/TuRZXPE5xK
— Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) September 20, 2020

by artappraiser on Fri, 11/27/2020 - 1:16am

Meanwhile Thanksgiving evening he's absolutely flipping out over not being able to manipulate Twitter like he used to do with NYPost's Page Six in the 1980's:

A story told in four parts #DiaperDon pic.twitter.com/Z3ngKYSZSF
— MeidasTouch.com (@MeidasTouch) November 27, 2020

All he ever wanted to do is be his own P.R. agent. and spin tales about self.

by artappraiser on Fri, 11/27/2020 - 1:28am

more on that, retweeted by Meidas Touch:

Q: “Mr President, will you accept the results of the election?”
A: “Depends!” https://t.co/r5HsuH77lO
— Eric Ortner (@eortner) November 27, 2020

The staffer in charge of the optics of this tiny Resolute Desk must be a secret resister

His makeup artist has clearly always been one of us#DiaperDon pic.twitter.com/EaH1RC433I
— Lindy Li (@lindyli) November 27, 2020

by artappraiser on Fri, 11/27/2020 - 1:49am

More important, our team is sending out signals that it's time - Rise Up, Les Enfants de la Patrie! To the Bastille!

Trending:

While playing horror game Slender: The Arrival, popular streamer Quackity referenced Hillary Clinton's viral 2015 Snapchat video, in which the former Democratic presidential candidate said she was 'chilling in Cedar Rapids', Iowa pic.twitter.com/kHueGZaSyY
— ducki (@lilspecialduck) November 27, 2020

by PeraclesPlease on Fri, 11/27/2020 - 1:53am

It's all on Drumpf now he's going to have to make up even more spectacular stories if he wants to keep the meme going:

Ding....
It's time for these losers to pack it in.https://t.co/FBGCBHNjZh
— Richard W. Painter (@RWPUSA) November 27, 2020

by artappraiser on Fri, 11/27/2020 - 2:37pm

uh oh getting real now:

Donor In Trump's Election 'Fraud' Fight Sues To Snatch Back His $2.5 Million Contribution | HuffPost https://t.co/x0WAt51XCk
— Joy WE VOTED!! WEAR A MASK!! Reid ) (@JoyAnnReid) November 27, 2020

by artappraiser on Fri, 11/27/2020 - 3:19pm

Uh, isn't this what Bannon got busted for largely?

by PeraclesPlease on Fri, 11/27/2020 - 3:23pm

Trump campaign paid $3 million for a recount in WI that added 132 more votes to Joe Biden’s win: https://t.co/jidzl2SzwO
— Will Steakin (@wsteaks) November 28, 2020

Biden plays chess while Trump/Giuliani feebly try to scratch out tic-tac-toe boards on butcher paper. https://t.co/Lk1mUTMKot
— Glenn Kirschner (@glennkirschner2) November 28, 2020

by artappraiser on Fri, 11/27/2020 - 8:45pm

Imagine if we had all taken this sane and accurate approach to Trump's blather for the last four years instead of shrieking about a fascist takeover. https://t.co/L0cRDf1TCN
— Alice who is always cold (@AliceFromQueens) November 26, 2020

by artappraiser on Fri, 11/27/2020 - 4:03pm

Uh, we came close to a fascist takeover.

by PeraclesPlease on Fri, 11/27/2020 - 5:22pm

It is a case of the fellow travelers being more important than the market meat. Trump is a swinging door, not the packages moving through the opening. Enough people decided the party is over.

"My good man, pull the car over here."
"But we are on the bridge, sir."
"Perfect."

by moat on Fri, 11/27/2020 - 5:54pm

I don't really agree, I'm more with her. Though it does all depend on what your definition of "fascist" is, of course. If it had been Pence instead, for example, many might call him fascist, possibly even more so than Trump. I don't use the term that broadly. Trump is a populist demagogue into it for narcissist reasons who basically wasn't able to enact much of what he promised because he was an incompetent at running a real estate business organization much less a huge fascist machine. Only thing he ended up doing is Grover Norquist's wet dream of sabotaging Federal government to nearly its death. Fascists are pretty damn competent runners of big government machines. Even things like sending Federal goons in to quell protests--are those protesters still not on the streets? Another #FAIL as they say on Twitter.

by artappraiser on Fri, 11/27/2020 - 7:04pm

Ok, we came close to a shithead takeover. I really don't care what it's called or its exact pedigree. I care about the effect.

by PeraclesPlease on Fri, 11/27/2020 - 7:38pm

Shithead Takeover would be a hell of a title for a rock album.

by Orion on Sat, 11/28/2020 - 1:33am

a reminder from Dan Barry of the NYTimes (& Prof. Omar Wasow of Politics at Princeton):

“The worst thing in his world would be to be a loser. To avoid being called a loser, he will do or say anything.” https://t.co/QJXTebaPLp
— Omar Wasow (@owasow) November 26, 2020

edit to add excerpt which exhibits "the first PostModern president" thing"

[...] Such behavior by the president reflects a binary-code approach to life that spares no room for nuance or complication. If a person isn’t a one, then that person is a zero.

“You are either a winner or a loser,” Michael D. Cohen, Mr. Trump’s former lawyer and fixer, said in an interview last week. “Reality is secondary. It is all about perception." [...]

Mr. Cohen recounted how, in 2014, CNBC was preparing a poll of the 25 most influential people in the world. Mr. Trump, who initially ranked 187th out of 200, ordered Mr. Cohen to improve his standing.

“Just make sure I make it to the top 10,” Mr. Trump said, according to Mr. Cohen.

Mr. Cohen hired someone to assess the options. After that person determined that the poll could be manipulated, $15,000 was spent to buy discreet I.P. addresses through which votes for Mr. Trump could be cast. The scheme worked, with Mr. Trump elevated to ninth place when all the votes were counted.

“Before long, Trump believed he really was rated in the top 10 and was regarded as a profoundly important business figure,” Mr. Cohen wrote.

But CNBC removed Mr. Trump from the list without offering an explanation. The infuriated future president ordered Mr. Cohen to get the network to change course. This failed. He then ordered him to plant a story in the media about “the terrible treatment Trump had received at the hands of CNBC.” This also failed.

Still, Mr. Trump managed to exploit the fake ranking before he was dropped from the list. “He had hundreds of copies made, and he added the poll to the pile of newspaper clippings and magazine profiles of himself that he would give to visitors,” Mr. Cohen wrote.

This fear of being seen as somehow less than the very best is a recurring theme in the mountains of books and articles written about Mr. Trump [...]

by artappraiser on Fri, 11/27/2020 - 8:22pm

oh geez and how very sick in the head he is now, fantasizing yugest alpha winner and "woe is me" at the same time, no one knows the travails of the greatest president ever to prowl the earth

So much truth! https://t.co/KGBQDEPEkV
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 27, 2020

by artappraiser on Fri, 11/27/2020 - 10:04pm

going forward, there's so many narratives out there to chose from

It runs very very very deep https://t.co/fcmdtKFJKZ
— Rick Hasen (@rickhasen) November 28, 2020

by artappraiser on Fri, 11/27/2020 - 9:37pm

Never forget that our parents waited until December 12, 2000 to find out Bush won
— its upsetting me and my ancestors (@sydneenoelle) November 5, 2020

by artappraiser on Mon, 11/30/2020 - 11:27am

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