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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(107,757 posts)
Mon Nov 16, 2020, 03:41 PM Nov 2020

Lock him up! If Trump refuses to leave the scene after his defeat, there's an obvious solution

The national celebrations after Joe Biden decisively defeated Donald Trump in this month's election focused heavily on the image of Trump being pushed out the door. People took to the streets and boogied down to Steam's 1969 hit "Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye." Signs carried by celebrants tended to focus more on Trump's loss than Biden's victory. During Saturday's underwhelming MAGA march in Washington, counter-protesters chanted, "Trump, pack your shit! You're illegitimate!"

Alas, like Freddy Krueger or the shark from "Jaws," Trump will not be easy to get rid of. It's not just that he refuses to concede and keeps telling his supporters he will find some legal miracle to invalidate the election, a ruse that stopped being serious several days ago and is now mostly the mercenary pitch of a con man.

"Donald Trump may not be president much longer, but he still wants to run the Republican Party for the foreseeable future," David Jackson and Phillip M. Bailey write in USA Today. "From setting up a political action committee to suggesting he might run again in 2024, Trump is already working to keep his hold on the GOP after his term ends."

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Trump likes to talk, of course, and most of what he says is hot air. As Haberman writes, Trump is merely "trying to survive from one news cycle to the next" — as if "surviving" the news cycle somehow means anything after losing an election — and his energies are focused on not losing his grip on "his Republican base," the cow he milks for endless attention and vast amounts of cash.

https://news.yahoo.com/lock-him-trump-refuses-leave-180002846.html

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Lock him up! If Trump refuses to leave the scene after his defeat, there's an obvious solution (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Nov 2020 OP
There must be some simple, incontrovertible, offense to deposit trump before empedocles Nov 2020 #1
If nothing else he has got to be tagged the sorest "SORE LOSER" of all time Submariner Nov 2020 #2
Forget the qualifiers of "if he..." SheltieLover Nov 2020 #3
Trump will continue to seek power because he can make money doing so. Thomas Hurt Nov 2020 #4
Anything to keep on Vladimir's good side!!! Nt Mopar151 Nov 2020 #6
Fire up the cattle prod Blue Owl Nov 2020 #5
Red Don will be on the "scene" until he dies or goes to jail. Red Don was a loud mouth before uponit7771 Nov 2020 #7

empedocles

(15,751 posts)
1. There must be some simple, incontrovertible, offense to deposit trump before
Mon Nov 16, 2020, 03:49 PM
Nov 2020

a judge . . . and then penal custody . . . and then an indictment . . . and then . . .

Submariner

(12,498 posts)
2. If nothing else he has got to be tagged the sorest "SORE LOSER" of all time
Mon Nov 16, 2020, 03:50 PM
Nov 2020

for the rest of his days we shall hang him with moniker.

Thomas Hurt

(13,903 posts)
4. Trump will continue to seek power because he can make money doing so.
Mon Nov 16, 2020, 03:58 PM
Nov 2020

He will not stop on his crusade to be an autocrat. Hitler did 9 months for treason, got out and went right back to working toward absolute rule.

I think Trump needs more power to feed his narcissism. Bigger and bigger fixes to feed his pathology.

If we have learned nothing else in the last four years is that Trump is persistent and is always pushing legality, pushing common decency and getting even.

Frankly, the only way I think he quits is if he is dead.

uponit7771

(90,304 posts)
7. Red Don will be on the "scene" until he dies or goes to jail. Red Don was a loud mouth before
Mon Nov 16, 2020, 05:58 PM
Nov 2020

... his presidency and has every benefit of being such afterwards.

I don't see Red Don just going away, he has a literal cult following

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