Before you obsess about Trump's comments about "delaying the Election"

[brooklynite]

This is NOT the next step in imposing a dictatorship. This is Trump free-associating as he does endlessly, and generating buzz which makes him the center of attention. He won't be delaying or canceling the election because he can't.

[lagomorph777]

1. You are correct.

States control this and if a few states decide to postpone, all they are doing is eliminating themselves from the race entirely.

[still_one]

20. Congress has the power to delay the election

[lagomorph777]

22. The House is controlled by Democrats.

[still_one]

23. yup, and that is our firewall, though I suspect even in the Senate there would be enough republicans

to vote against delaying the election if it came to that

[lagomorph777]

25. No I don't think so (Senate). But the House will be fine and sufficient.

All remaining Russiapublicans are all-in for corruption.

[still_one]

26. A few Senate Republicans have already come out against a delay. We only need four

[lagomorph777]

30. Oh please. A brief show 'til they can get Trump to stop letting the cat out of the bag.

If you hear a Russiapublican saying the right thing, you know it's a lie.

[NightWatcher]

2. It got us to stop talking about the horrible GDP for a few minutes

[earthside]

7. Exactly.

Ninety percent distraction; five percent the usual 'hey, pay attention to me'; and five percent Trump fantasy to be more like Putin.

[crickets]

31. +1

[getagrip_already]

3. not legally... but...

enuf said.

[jrthin]

4. That you! from an anxious heart.

[Polly Hennessey]

5. I like the free-associating.

It is what he does always. He also knows what buttons pushed will drive the gullible wild.

[duforsure]

6. He uses projection like this to suggest he could do this

When he knows he can't, trying to instill fear for distraction. He's telling children and teachers they have to return to school , and Governors have to reopen businesses , now claiming he can and wants to do this,lol. He's undermined his own message.

[soothsayer]

8. Well just in case... is this right?

https://people.howstuffworks.com/postpone-presidential-election.htm

Can the 2020 U.S. Presidential Election Be Postponed?

Snip but I kind of mean the whole thing

Another wrinkle: If a national election is postponed beyond a certain point, there won't be a House, either. (All Representatives, remember, have to be elected every two years. No election, no House.) In that case, it falls to the Senate to pick the president because the Senate is a "continuing body;" two-thirds of its members are always sitting, with staggered elections only every six years. If none of that works, the selection of the president reverts to the rules of succession: the Speaker of the House (if there is one) will act as president and, if not him (or her), the Senate's President pro tempore assumes the acting gig. This has never happened.

[ChazII]

9. Thank you for your post.

I appreciate your common sense and knowledge.

[C_U_L8R]

10. It's revealing

He knows he's going to lose.

[Wounded Bear]

11. Yep! It's how he dreams up his "best" stuff...

He just spouts crap and sees how "popular" it is.

I remember his rallies. I didn't watch many of them, but it goes like this:

1. He'll spout some off the wall bullshit and judge crowd response.

2. He'll repeat it, usually several times. If the crowd response increases, he'll incorporate it into his stump speech.

3. He'll start making ads, showing him saying bullshit and showing the crowd response.

4. Lather, rinse, repeat. He's doing the same shit on Twitter.

It's all about image and marketing to him.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

12. He can't delay the election.

But once he loses, I fully expect him to throw every possible stumbling block out there to try and prohibit the Electoral College from ratifying the results.

That's where I think the real problem will lie.

[Mike 03]

13. Just like he can't take money allocated by Congress to the Pentagon and divert it

to build the wall. At least that is what all the experts said.

[Miguelito Loveless]

17. Just like he cannot disobey the SCOTUS

who ruled against him on immigration.

[Miguelito Loveless]

14. It is a call to stir up his armed loonies

It is part of a multi-part effort to destroy/discredit the elections. Among the things he wiil do/is doing:

1) Cripple the Postal Service and its ability to handle First Class mail (ballots)

2) Send in his Gestapo to "protect" cites from violence his own supporters will foment. This will be expanded to protecting polling places with police, military, paramilitary, and armed Trumpers.

3) Sue, sue, sue, sue. Get to the SCOTUS, home of Bush v. Gore.

4) Massive disinformation campaign by Putin and his Russian trolls.

5) Force children back to public school, spread the pandemic, more excuse to "postpone the election" due to an "unprecedented national emergency"

6) Use any other emergency (hurricanes, fire, floods, etc) as MORE justification to postpone the election.

7) In states he controls, eliminate/curtail early voting, close voting precincts in Democratic strongholds.

8) Contest everything, lie, cheat, steal. No lie is too big, or too outrageous.

9) Declare any efforts to stop him a "coup" and issue a call via Twitter for all of his heavily armed believers to "protect" him and the country.

10) The GOP will back him in this, as this is how they stay in power. they know that if they fail, jail awaits.

Oh, and one more:

11) Unleash Barr. Begin investigating every Demo leader and candidate. Accuse them of massive collusion with Russia/China/Lichtenstein/The Underpants Gnomes. Arrest people on bogus charges.

[greenjar_01]

15. Some folks gonna be saying "Be sensible, they couldn't possibly be marching us to shooting pits!"

As we're being marched to shooting pits.

[Miguelito Loveless]

18. Precisely!

People keep denying the obvious path this has been following for years now.

[SoonerPride]

21. They think a piece of paper is going to stop him?

It is maddening.

[Demsrule86]

16. That is correct.

I believe Trump will lose in November and in January 2020, he will go.

[Demsrule86]

19. That is correct.

I believe Trump will lose in November and in January 2020, he will go.

[Docreed2003]

24. Exactly

And I think he threw out that outrageous idea because he wants the news cycle and is hoping to steal a bit of it from the Lewis funeral.

[GusBob]

27. Own the libs distraction

every time there is a milestone in COVID deaths he pulls this shit

[smirkymonkey]

28. I wish he would just do us all a favor and stroke out already.

I think I can safely say that a majority of us are completely fed up with his daily bullshit. I'm so over it. Fuck him.

[Cosmocat]

29. It is not even remotely that benign

it is the another step toward challenging the election ...

You think that is a nothing burger?

Has he been held account to the emolument clause?
Has he complied to subpoenas?
Did he just give the Supreme Court the middle finger?
Has the republic party backed every single play he has made?