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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forumsdonnie's meltdowns remind me of a great quote from "the sting", the 1973 redford/newman/shaw classic
(technically a bit of a spoiler alert, but this is a movie from 1973...)
robert shaw as crook doyle lonnegan is, among other things, a card cheat.
to hook lonnegan in for a later big con, paul newman as henry gondorff joins lonnegan's regular poker game to out-cheat him.
on the key hand, we see gondorff gets a really good hand and all the chips go into the pot.
lonnegan confidently reveals a better hand than the one we saw, and after a nice little pause, gondorff somehow shows an even better hand to win the pot and break lonnegan!
lonnegan then storms into the bathroom with one of his henchmen and says:
"what was i supposed to do - call him for cheating better than me, in front of the others?"
i think this is exactly how donnie feels. he thought he had everything cooked up to steal the election. disinformation, mail delays, vote suppression, etc., and he's pissed because he thinks that biden cheated better than he did.
of course, we know we didn't win because of cheating, we won because we got out the vote in droves, and because donnie is certifiable. but that's the way donnie thinks, anyway; he thinks he's been out-cheated and he's pissed because he can't just say he deserved to win because he cheated hard for it.
rocktivity
(44,573 posts)Last edited Sat Dec 5, 2020, 12:53 PM - Edit history (3)
was expecting Biden supporters to join his supporters in refusing to vote by mail.
It also didn't hurt that the Dem-pire struck back by saving the counting of the ballots from the bluest parts of NV, GA and PA for last.
rocktivity
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(52,163 posts)i think he lost a *lot* of votes due his his completely worse-than-incompetent handling of something that's governance 101.
every mayor in the country knows how to handle a tornado or hurricane. hell, even the inept ghouliani figured out how to look great after 9/11. you stand there looking like you're leading while you let the experts tell everyone what's going on and what to expect and what's happening next.
instead he decided to make mask-wearing a political issue. as if republican doctors always go into surgery and demand everyone take off their masks because "freedummmmb!"
volstork
(5,399 posts)Well played, rocktivity. Well played.
Xipe Totec
(43,889 posts)Wounded Bear
(58,618 posts)they think everybody is just like them and operates with the same lack of respect for rules and norms, and that such things are for "weaklings." So they pretty much have to believe they got "out-cheated" because they can't allow that they were beaten fair and square.
Mike 03
(16,616 posts)The best movies keep giving and giving.