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Him conceding or not is irrelevant when it comes to whether or not he is president. What's he going to do, just refuse to move out of the White House?
Refuse to and dispute the votes taking it to Supreme Court. Why Dems need to have a resounding victory, put it beyond doubt.
 

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I've seen this before, but whenever I read about it, it seems that the conventional wisdom which presumes that mail votes increase a democratic vote isn't necessarily true. There's a good article summing that up here:

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/25/us/vote-by-mail-coronavirus.html

So I just don't get why he's hellbent on spreading the idea of fraud.
One thing the GOP are great at is winning elections. They definitely have the better tools (including data science) to achieve that. If the GOP are trying to stop mail in voting it means it will be a negative for them and I would trust them on this more than anyone else.
 

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Refuse to and dispute the votes taking it to Supreme Court. Why Dems need to have a resounding victory, put it beyond doubt.
The constitution doesn't allow for him to just sit in office waiting for a SCOTUS decision.

Twelfth Amendment:

Section 1. The terms of the President and Vice President shall end at noon on the 20th day of January, and the terms of Senators and Representatives at noon on the 3d day of January, of the years in which such terms would have ended if this article had not been ratified; and the terms of their successors shall then begin.
 

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The constitution doesn't allow for him to just sit in office waiting for a SCOTUS decision.

Twelfth Amendment:

Section 1. The terms of the President and Vice President shall end at noon on the 20th day of January, and the terms of Senators and Representatives at noon on the 3d day of January, of the years in which such terms would have ended if this article had not been ratified; and the terms of their successors shall then begin.
I mean its not like people don't interpret Amendments to suit them

Second Amendment

"A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed."

I mean is a well regulated Militia necessary to the security of a free state - that part of it seems to be dropped to suit the NRA agenda

Could see trump saying its his duty not to hand over power as he has string evidence that the Chinese interfered to help Biden steal a victory and its his duty as an American not to allow a foreign agent to take power... and its the peoples duty to exercise their second amendment rights and fight anybody trying to help the Chinese coup...

Could see him tweeting that with an accompanying picture



AKA - go shoot those dems
 

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I mean its not like people don't interpret Amendments to suit them

Second Amendment

"A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed."

I mean is a well regulated Militia necessary to the security of a free state - that part of it seems to be dropped to suit the NRA agenda

Could see trump saying its his duty not to hand over power as he has string evidence that the Chinese interfered to help Biden steal a victory and its his duty as an American not to allow a foreign agent to take power... and its the peoples duty to exercise their second amendment rights and fight anybody trying to help the Chinese coup...

Could see him tweeting that with an accompanying picture



AKA - go shoot those dems
The thing is its not even a joke anymore. I could see him in all honesty attempt exactly what you describe.
 

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Publicity Don said:
'In 2016 when Joe & his wacky future ex-wife, Mika, would endlessly interview me...'
And yet, Trump bravely put his moral qualms and personal safety concerns aside in order to keep being interviewed by someone he thought might be a murderer...
 

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I can't really have any sympathy for Joe and Mika. They can handle themselves.
It's more the widow is having to plead to Jack Dorsey directly to stop it that blows my mind. I would LOVE to see that poor man sue Donald Trump and all the other f*cking cretins tweeting this sht out.
 

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Trump's beyond embarrasment but it should embarrass him to be the first President to be warned by soddin' Twitter (of all things).
 

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fecking hell I hate Donald Trump. There have been some real feckers as President of the US (including a handful of slave owners and a bunch of war criminals), but I genuinely think he must be the most despicable of the lot.

I wouldn't want him to be assassinated and become an alt-right basket of deplorables martyr, but hopefully he finds a more natural way to die soon.
 

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Isn't it about time Twitter just disabled his account? :lol:
 

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Trump's that twat everyone had in their school group who had others do his work so he could spend all his free time playing CoD and then demanded that he be the person who stands in front of the class and reads out the report.
 

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Trump's that twat everyone had in their school group who had others do his work so he could spend all his free time playing CoD and then demanded that he be the person who stands in front of the class and reads out the report.
That was me, I was always with the group of nerds who were scared of speakung in front of the class.
 

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Deadline.com said:
After weeks of singing the praises o hydroxychloroquine as a preventative measure against the coronavirus, and saying last week that was taking the drug himself, President Donald Trump revealed in an interview that he had “Finished, just finished,” his course of the unproven treatment. “And by the way, I’m still here…To the best of my knowledge, here I am.”
 

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Twitter adds warning label to Trump’s tweet for promoting misinformation — the first time they’ve done so

On Tuesday, Twitter added a warning label to President Donald Trump’s tweets ranting against mail-in voting — the first time the social media network has ever done this to a message from the president of the United States.

The pair of tweets in question claimed, with no factual basis, that absentee ballots will be “substantially fraudulent” and that people will “rob” mail boxes and “forge” or “illegally print out” ballots — something that there are already robust safeguards against in state election systems.

The link attached to the tweet says “Get the facts about mail-in ballots” and takes users to the Twitter topic on the subject, which includes several news articles debunking the president’s claims about voter fraud.

Trump has repeatedly attacked the concept of mail-in voting as the system gains in popularity due to the coronavirus outbreak — despite the fact that he himself used a mail-in ballot to vote in the state of Florida.
 

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It's a start but I'd rather it be immediately viewable to the reader rather than rely on a practically unlabelled 'warning' click.
 

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Twitter are setting a precedent that could create a lot of work for themselves. Trump's feed would be a full time job for someone in itself. It should help with the spiralling unemployment though I guess.
 

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Twitter are setting a precedent that could create a lot of work for themselves. Trump's feed would be a full time job for someone in itself. It should help with the spiralling unemployment though I guess.
Yea that could cost them, like, an intern or something.
 
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So the focus should be how great a job Trump has done in saving 1.9 million lives.

He really has a unique way of viewing reality.
Wait, I thought he said that it was originally only going to be two or three deaths, only 20k deaths, 40k deaths, 50k deaths, under 100k deaths?
 
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