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DFW

(54,349 posts)
Mon Nov 2, 2020, 08:34 PM Nov 2020

What do you think would happen under the following scenario?

Biden convincingly wins enough states to secure a convincing indisputable victory in the electoral college. The media, including Fox, start calling him "president-elect Biden." Trump refuses to concede, and tells the media to stop calling Biden "president-elect." They don't stop. Trump goes berserk. He tells Barr to make them stop. Barr explains that he has no power to do that.

His blood pressure rises to the point where his eyeballs protrude like Marty Feldman, and the frothing at his mouth makes people wonder if he has contracted hoof and mouth.

Ah, one can dream..............

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Siwsan

(26,259 posts)
3. I wonder if someone will explain to trump* that his concession isn't required - it's just a courtesy
Mon Nov 2, 2020, 08:37 PM
Nov 2020

Which, of course, would make it completely out of character for him to do, anyway.

DFW

(54,349 posts)
10. Even Trump never claimed courtesy to be one of his strong points
Tue Nov 3, 2020, 10:23 AM
Nov 2020

That is one lie he didn't have to bother with.

Siwsan

(26,259 posts)
12. It's a given someone would have to read the definition, to him, from a dictionary
Tue Nov 3, 2020, 10:47 AM
Nov 2020

SLOWLY and REPEATEDLY.

DFW

(54,349 posts)
14. He'll learn to pronounce it eventually.
Tue Nov 3, 2020, 10:56 AM
Nov 2020

He still won't get what anyone is talking about, though.

"Curtis WHO? I don't even know anyone named Curtis!"

TwilightZone

(25,464 posts)
4. I think that's the scenario regardless of context.
Mon Nov 2, 2020, 08:38 PM
Nov 2020

Losing isn't something he can tolerate. When he loses, he's going to lose it, for lack of a better phrase.

I think we'll probably just hear the same stuff we're been hearing for months and that he's ramped up this week. He's not terribly original. Maybe we can hope that he goes so nuts that he has to be institutionalized.

dchill

(38,472 posts)
6. I think what would happen in your scenario...
Mon Nov 2, 2020, 08:46 PM
Nov 2020

...is exactly what happens in your scenario. I like it so much that I won't tax my imagination trying to come up with something else.

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