Forecasting Trump
The left loves to tell us the awful things that Trump is about to do. And since Trump is infinitely flexible in his awfulness, sometimes those things are contradictory.
For example, there’s been a spate of articles on how, if Trump loses in November, he will refuse to concede and refuse to leave. At the same time, we have pieces like this one in which the ever-obnoxious James Carville says that Trump stands a good chance of dropping out of the race before the election to avoid a defeat.
What do these two versions have in common? Quite a bit, actually. One is that of course – of course – the polls are correct and Trump will lose the election. Yay, team! Another is that Trump is a loose cannon, poised to do just about anything the left can imagine.
Both predictions have something else in common: the idea is that since Trump will inevitably lose, if he does by some strange chance end up winning – as in 2016 – he is an illegitimate president whom the Democrats must spend all their energy trying to remove, utterly discredit, and/or block.
https://babylonbee.com/news/trump-might-not-accept-the-results-of-the-2020-election-says-movement-that-still-hasnt-accepted-results-of-2016-election/
H/T Instapundit
Wishcasting and projection.
“The Atlantic” stays classy:
https://twitter.com/omriceren/status/1286773121807253506
“…an illegitimate president…”
Funny they should say that….
https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2020/07/24/meet_steele_dossiers_primary_subsource_fabulist_russian_at_us_think_tank_whose_boozy_past_the_fbi_ignored_124601.html
https://dailycaller.com/2020/07/25/igor-danchenko-steele-dossier-source/
Fiona’s in trouble…
John Huber’s in fine form…
https://twitter.com/JohnWHuber
Related (another great thread by Catherine Herridge):
https://twitter.com/CBS_Herridge/status/1286421469753483268
I believe that this new Leftist meme–that if he loses the Presidential election President Trump won’t voluntarily leave office–is the Left/Democrats “preparing the battle space,” for what might happen if, via massive and all too obvious election fraud, they win the Election.
If there were to be such massive and obvious Leftist/Democrat election fraud, of course President Trump might take the position that, since this Democrat “victory” was fraudulent, he was not going to be the usual spineless,nice guy, milque toast Republican, and quietly vacate the Office of the Presidency but, instead, he was going to stay in Office, in the White House, and to fight this fraudulent result.
I believe that this new Leftist meme–that if he loses the Presidential election President Trump won’t voluntarily leave office–is the Left/Democrats “preparing the battle space,” for what might happen if, via massive and all too obvious election fraud, they win the Election.
Snow on Pine: Triple bang-on!
Snow on Pine:
Absolutely.
“the idea is that since Trump will inevitably lose, if he does by some strange chance end up winning – as in 2016 – he is an illegitimate president whom the Democrats must spend all their energy trying to remove, utterly discredit, and/or block. neo
“I believe that this new Leftist meme–that if he loses the Presidential election President Trump won’t voluntarily leave office–is the Left/Democrats “preparing the battle space,” for what might happen if, via massive and all too obvious election fraud, they win the Election. Snow on Pine
That will leave Trump with a binary choice; the fate* of Russia’s last Czar or Martial Law… followed by Caesar.
In either case, the American Republic will be history.
* they will legally crucify Trump, his family and anyone who has assisted him. Imprisonment and Epstein’s fate will follow.
I recall the hearing same thing said about GW Bush before the 2004 election, likely on NPR. The opinion was that, losing the election, he would literally “go nuclear” in the middle east. Just the worst, most irresponsible sort of commentary: But you have to understand, it was NPR.
Andrew McCarthy weighs in:
https://www.nationalreview.com/2020/07/claim-trump-wont-leave-office-if-he-loses-is-foolish/
I’m waiting to see if Neo will decide to self censor herself when Trump begins talking about Roswell, aliens, and time travelers. Oh wait, look the New York Times are doing it too.
I also wonder when you will find out just how mind controlled you are, when you told me to self censor myself on Flat Earth theory here. After obeying etheric Authority in blocking all conversation here between individuals.
There are many things people are not allowed to talk about, but directly chief amongst them is Ephesians 6:12, where the human slaves are not even allowed to think about contesting the so called “true rulers and powers”.
Yammer has to yammer and citing the New York Times. Too sad.
Proverbs 26:11 – As a dog returns to its vomit, so fools repeat their folly.
Our fool is being censored, and oppressed! 🙂
And here’s Wretchard with an additional angles:
https://pjmedia.com/columns/richard-fernandez/2020/07/20/self-fulfilling-nightmare-n661120
preference falsification. See the Bradley Effect. And some time ago, a Brit writer called an election for the Conservatives, against the polls. Conservatives in the UK are slagged, smeared, ridiculed, considered moral reprobates by the Right Sort of People including entertainment.
So when the nice middle class lady with the nice middle class accent wants to know how you’re going to vote….
Something said about this wrt brexit.
Ymarsakar:
You can talk about flat earth beliefs anywhere else without “self-censoring” yourself. There is no dearth of places online where you can talk about it as much as you like. I have already explained my policy here several times, and I’m not going to repeat myself.