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Speaking from some experience, sexual assault victims don't often figure "timing" into when they speak out.
They also don’t usually brag about spending time working for their abuser and tell other people to listen to him, but here we are.

The fact that we’re now finding out her description of events matches a scene from one of her father’s books continues to make this shit more and more surreal.
 
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If he loses the election, he simply won't be President as of Noon Jan 20th. If he's physically still in the White House, at that point he'd be a squatter and can be dragged out.
That presumes he doesn't declare martial law and cancel the elections. He seems to have the support of the Senate if he tried something like that. I wouldn't rule out the possibility he could pull it off.
 
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That presumes he doesn't declare martial law and cancel the elections. He seems to have the support of the Senate if he tried something like that. I wouldn't rule out the possibility he could pull it off.
Elections are run by the states. He doesn't have the power to cancel them. Also his narcissism won't allow him to do that, because it would be admitting he's a loser.
 

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That presumes he doesn't declare martial law and cancel the elections. He seems to have the support of the Senate if he tried something like that. I wouldn't rule out the possibility he could pull it off.
He can't 'cancel' the election. Article II doesn't give him the powers he thinks it does.
 

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That assumes the rule of law is still respected which when he stacks the supreme court is not a given.
Despite his bluster, he's really not the King. And he's not going to suddenly become one.
 

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My mom predicts that the GOP will fuck up the census and fuck with the elections. But that's the worse they can do, well, outside of the mess in Michigan today [brownshirts..... why couldn't this have happened 20 years ago, when I was in much better shape o_O]

Our only hope is a virus that doesn't discriminate.
 
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Let's pretend for a moment there is incontrovertible evidence Biden is guilty of what Reade is accusing? What do you suppose would happen? The DNC would just pick someone else?
 

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Let's pretend for a moment there is incontrovertible evidence Biden is guilty of what Reade is accusing?
Never give them what they want. Down that road lies madness (and you're meant to lose).

What do you suppose would happen? The DNC would just pick someone else?
Biden gives up his candidacy! It's all they really want, besides Bernie restarting his campaign and winning simply due to being in second place right now and/or he gets knighted at the convention. The problem with this is, if all the DNC lynchpinning they're sure of is in fact happening, they won't let that happen, the convention leads to a meltdown of the party, and Trump wins again!
 

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if we have a second wave of this virus worse than the first and the economy is in shatters I wouldn't count on it. I'm sure the Republicans will back him up.
Except it would have to go through the Democratic-held House of Representatives, too.

AND the Constitution states that the term of the President and Vice-President ends on January 20th at noon. Whether or not there's an Election. So, regardless...on January 20th at noon, he's no longer President unless he's been re-elected by ballot.
 

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Except it would have to go through the Democratic-held House of Representatives, too.

AND the Constitution states that the term of the President and Vice-President ends on January 20th at noon. Whether or not there's an Election. So, regardless...on January 20th at noon, he's no longer President unless he's been re-elected by ballot.

All of this depends on Congress and the Military upholding the rule of law and the Constitution. Our institutions have been gutted by this man. He's replaced key people with sycophants. I like to think this is impossible. But, I have learned that we are in a post-normal age.