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Miles Archer

(22,278 posts)
Wed Aug 19, 2020, 02:04 PM Aug 2020

Biden is ON IT, we need to address the "what if Trump refuses to leave" while not agonizing over it

There was an article yesterday...I didn't post it, someone else may have, but it basically said that the Biden team has "contingency plans on top of contingency plans" for every nightmare scenario surrounding Trump challenging the election and "refusing to leave."

If we're going to trust Biden to lead, I think we have to trust him to be aware of this (he is), to plan for it (he is), and to take whatever action is necessary when the shit hits the fan (he will).

Just don't lose sleep over it, folks. I am NOT suggesting that you turn a blind eye to it...it's real.

But it's also great clickbait and cable news fodder, it's sensationalism.

Trump isn't Superman. Hell, he's not even Lex Luthor.

He's a bigoted, adulterous, self-obsessed former reality TV star, failed casino owner, failed fake "university" dean, failed real estate tycoon, he's intellectually incurious, the jury's out on whether he can actually read (and at what grade level, if he can), he plays golf and tweets book reviews and slams Fox for not consistently and appropriately adoring him.

So ask yourself this...if you're Joe Biden, and you know all of this, how completely are you planning for what Trump has been broadcasting seven days a week?

Be aware, be concerned, just don't allow yourself to slip into high anxiety over what the orange baboon "might" do. And if Joe Biden IS certified as the winner, it will be President Pelosi if Trump tries to go past 10 seconds at midnight, January 19th. Don't assign superhuman / supernatural powers to this baboon. He will try to get away with anything he can, and he'll then hit the wall.

Peace and out.

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Biden is ON IT, we need to address the "what if Trump refuses to leave" while not agonizing over it (Original Post) Miles Archer Aug 2020 OP
handcuffs and taser? Thomas Hurt Aug 2020 #1
Blockade the hamberder supply. Turd will crawl out in an hour or so. lagomorph777 Aug 2020 #5
FYI:posted on DU a few days ago- Biden has amassed a team of 600 attorneys to deal with this Thekaspervote Aug 2020 #2
Yep soothsayer Aug 2020 #4
Assumed it had been posted... Miles Archer Aug 2020 #6
Can those attorneys keep busy right now, forcing DeJoy to un-break USPS? lagomorph777 Aug 2020 #7
Yep. FM123 Aug 2020 #11
I'm rooting for a televised removal - with him in cuffs and perp-walked out of 1600 PA. Ave. Moostache Aug 2020 #3
With Joe Biden watching. Delmette2.0 Aug 2020 #8
Televised perp walk and handcuffs would make me happy. lagomorph777 Aug 2020 #9
8 Secret Service people carrying Trump out face first. sarcasmo Aug 2020 #10
That we even are seriously discussing this is absolutely mind-blowing ailsagirl Aug 2020 #12
Everytime that I think one of these improbable concerns is crazy I am proven wrong. CentralMass Aug 2020 #18
1000% stopdiggin Aug 2020 #13
all true, 1000% certain the nutjob is going to try though. Thomas Hurt Aug 2020 #15
The danger isn't that Rump won't leave, it's the damage he'll do in the days between flibbitygiblets Aug 2020 #14
As long as our lawyers are better than his...and the judges are honest. Nt Fiendish Thingy Aug 2020 #16
If those mail in ballots don't get delivered and counted none of it matters. RDANGELO Aug 2020 #17

Miles Archer

(22,278 posts)
6. Assumed it had been posted...
Wed Aug 19, 2020, 02:12 PM
Aug 2020

...I've not been "regularly active" on DU lately because I succumbed to Trump fatigue. I posted about that a while back and said that I probably wouldn't be interacting here daily for a while, for that reason. It's just too damned much. I've gotten to the point where the minute his face is on the TV and he opens his mouth, I reach for the remote. But yeah, thanks for confirming that folks here are aware of it.

Moostache

(11,107 posts)
3. I'm rooting for a televised removal - with him in cuffs and perp-walked out of 1600 PA. Ave.
Wed Aug 19, 2020, 02:09 PM
Aug 2020

It would be a delicious irony to see Speaker Pelosi become Madam President Pelosi for a few hours to usher in Joe Biden then as the 47th President instead of the 46th...

Or being shot by Secret Service like Tony Montana character in the end of "Scarface"...bloated, hepped up on a pile of coke and screaming incoherently while being shot to death.

Regardless how, the more humiliating the better IMO.

Delmette2.0

(4,480 posts)
8. With Joe Biden watching.
Wed Aug 19, 2020, 02:12 PM
Aug 2020

While holding his two dogs on leash. I know the dogs are not aggressive, but jist the sight of them would scare The Dipshit.

lagomorph777

(30,613 posts)
9. Televised perp walk and handcuffs would make me happy.
Wed Aug 19, 2020, 02:14 PM
Aug 2020

Then toss him in one of his baby jails and let him sleep on concrete and eat moldy crackers until he dies.

stopdiggin

(15,194 posts)
13. 1000%
Wed Aug 19, 2020, 02:33 PM
Aug 2020

#1 -- not gonna' happen.
#2 -- already got hundreds of people on top of it. names and numbers on speed-dial.
#3 -- there is virtually no support (in Trump's party or any other place) for nullifying an election.

#4 -- refer to #1

Thomas Hurt

(13,976 posts)
15. all true, 1000% certain the nutjob is going to try though.
Wed Aug 19, 2020, 02:45 PM
Aug 2020

I could see him trying to con some of the GOP Red state's legislatures and govs into trying to pull some shenanigans.

flibbitygiblets

(7,220 posts)
14. The danger isn't that Rump won't leave, it's the damage he'll do in the days between
Wed Aug 19, 2020, 02:34 PM
Aug 2020

He's vengeful, petty and vindictive. And his sole remaining value as a Russian asset between 11/4/20 and 1/20/21 will be the amount of damage and chaos he can cause.

That's the short-term danger.

The long-term danger is that the losers, crazies and outright traitors who created and supported Trump will still be around, paving a path for someone much smarter and better at fooling the masses.

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