Trump Could Maybe Refuse To Accept A Loss in 2020

Here's a somewhat worrying story.

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North Korean state media has yet to acknowledge that Joe Biden is now the American president.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-56391445

This essay is also worrying. Trump admires the way Xi Jinping runs China, but it is not good. Trump's policies towards both Korea and China have screwed up America's position in the region, quite thoroughly.

China’s Great Leap Backward

The left-wing media still makes out the January 6 riots to be the closest thing to a coup in our nation's history.  Me, I'm not convinced a bunch of cosplay couch soldiers with Trump flags ever had a chance of anything but embarrassing themselves.

Meanwhile, the right-wing media is downplaying the whole day as just a bunch of exuberant patriots having a party.  That's not right either.

There have been over 450 arrests, and all of these people plus whoever else they can sweep up need to be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.

But that's the sideshow.  The MAIN offense on January 6 -- the one that needs to be fully prosecuted up to the Supreme Court -- but probably won't -- is the 147 Republicans who voted to overturn the election. These seditious traitors need to be charged with treason, summarily tried, and shot by a firing squad in front of the Capitol.

IMHO.

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Senators who objected:

Ted Cruz (TX)
Josh Hawley (MO)
Cindy Hyde-Smith (MS)
Cynthia Lummis (WY)
John Kennedy (LA)
Roger Marshall (KS)
Rick Scott (FL)
Tommy Tuberville (AL)

House members who objected:

Robert Aderholt (AL)
Rick Allen (GA)
Jodey Arrington (TX)
Brian Babin (TX)
Jim Baird (IN)
Jim Banks (IN)
Cliff Bentz (OR)
Jack Bergman (MI)
Stephanie Bice (OK)
Andy Biggs (AZ)
Dan Bishop (NC)
Lauren Boebert (CO)
Mike Bost (IL)
Mo Brooks (AL)
Ted Budd (NC)
Tim Burchett (TN)
Michael Burgess (TX)
Ken Calvert (CA)
Kat Cammack (FL)
Jerry Carl (AL)
Buddy Carter (GA)
John Carter (TX)
Madison Cawthorn (NC)
Steve Chabot (OH)
Ben Cline (VA)
Michael Cloud (TX)
Andrew Clyde (GA)
Tom Cole (OK)
Rick Crawford (AR)
Warren Davidson (OH)
Scott DesJarlais (TN)
Mario Diaz-Balart (FL)
Byron Donalds (FL)
Jeff Duncan (SC)
Neal Dunn (FL)
Ron Estes (KS)
Pat Fallon (TX)
Michelle Fischbach (MN)
Scott Fitzgerald (WI)
Chuck Fleischmann (TN)
Virginia Foxx (NC)
Scott Franklin (FL)
Russ Fulcher (ID)
Matt Gaetz (FL)
Mike Garcia (CA)
Bob Gibbs (OH)
Carlos Gimenez (FL)
Louie Gohmert (TX)
Bob Good (VA)
Lance Gooden (TX)
Paul Gosar (AZ)
Garret Graves (LA)
Sam Graves (MO)
Mark Green (TN)
Marjorie Greene (GA)
Morgan Griffith (VA)
Michael Guest (MS)
Jim Hagedorn (MN)
Andy Harris (MD)
Diana Harshbarger (TN)
Vicky Hartzler (MO)
Kevin Hern (OK)
Yvette Herrell (NM)
Jody Hice (GA)
Clay Higgins (LA)
Richard Hudson (NC)
Darrell Issa (CA)
Ronny Jackson (TX)
Chris Jacobs (NY)
Mike Johnson (LA)
Bill Johnson (OH)
Jim Jordan (OH)
John Joyce (PA)
Fred Keller (PA)
Trent Kelly (MS)
Mike Kelly (PA)
David Kustoff (TN)
Doug LaMalfa (CA)
Doug Lamborn (CO)
Jacob LaTurner (KS)
Debbie Lesko (AZ)
Billy Long (MO)
Barry Loudermilk (GA)
Frank Lucas (OK)
Blaine Luetkemeyer (MO)
Nicole Malliotakis (NY)
Tracey Mann (KS)
Brian Mast (FL)
Kevin McCarthy (CA)
Lisa McClain (MI)
Daniel Meuser (PA)
Mary Miller (IL)
Carol Miller (WV)
Alex Mooney (WV)
Barry Moore (AL)
Markwayne Mullin (OK)
Gregory Murphy (NC)
Troy Nehls (TX)
Ralph Norman (SC)
Devin Nunes (CA)
Jay Obernolte (CA)
Burgess Owens (UT)
Steven Palazzo (MS)
Gary Palmer (AL)
Greg Pence (IN)
Scott Perry (PA)
August Pfluger (TX)
Bill Posey (FL)
Guy Reschenthaler (PA)
Tom Rice (SC)
Mike Rogers (AL)
Hal Rogers (KY)
John Rose (TN)
Matt Rosendale (MT)
David Rouzer (NC)
John Rutherford (FL)
Steve Scalise (LA)
David Schweikert (AZ)
Pete Sessions (TX)
Jason Smith (MO)
Adrian Smith (NE)
Lloyd Smucker (PA)
Elise Stefanik (NY)
Greg Steube (FL)
Chris Stewart (UT)
Glenn Thompson (PA)
Tom Tiffany (WI)
William Timmons (SC)
Jefferson Van Drew (NJ)
Beth Van Duyne (TX)
Tim Walberg (MI)
Jackie Walorski (IN)
Randy Weber (TX)
Daniel Webster (FL)
Roger Williams (TX)
Joe Wilson (SC)
Rob Wittman (VA)
Ron Wright (TX)
Lee Zeldin (NY)

NoCoPilot wrote:

The left-wing media still makes out the January 6 riots to be the closest thing to a coup in our nation's history.  Me, I'm not convinced a bunch of cosplay couch soldiers with Trump flags ever had a chance of anything but embarrassing themselves.

They couldn't succeed. But it was what they were trying to do. That is important.

The Republicans in Congress were trying to do the same thing, and 1) they had the power and 2) they took an oath not to.

Agreed.

The "armchair warriors" were laughably misinformed, but posed a real and palpable threat.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/oath-keepers-militia-capitol-riot-indictment-conspiracy_n_60b5661ce4b01de8b78650ab

If this isn't ultimately dealt with as sedition by the DoJ it'll never be adequately put to bed.

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During an event in Dallas on Sunday that was also attended by prominent peddlers of the QAnon conspiracy theory, [Trump lawyer Sidney] Powell suggested Trump could be reinstated as president even now, saying that "it should be that he can simply be reinstated, that a new Inauguration Day is set."

According to CNN legal analyst Steve Vladeck, "Powell is just making stuff up. There's no regulation, rule, statute or constitutional provision that comes within a million light-years of what she's describing. There is no mechanism for 'reinstating' a former President. There is no procedure for setting a 'new Inauguration Day.' "

Trump is apparently going batshit crazy over the lost election.
https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2021/06/03/trump-mindset-2020-election-bash-kinzinger-ac360-sot-vpx.cnn/video/playlists/top-news-videos/

All during his reign, from the fudged inauguration attendance figures, to the rallies full of bused-in supporters, to his fantasies about great COVID responses and everything else, DJT surrounded himself with sycophants who fed his delusion of popularity. He truly believed the polls were wrong.

Reality is hard to face when your whole sense of worth comes from public opinion.

Posted by Jim Wright (Stonekettle Station).

One of Trump's "Kraken" lawyers filed suit against Major League Baseball, alleging that MLB is actually part of the government and as such moving the All-Star game out of Georgia violates Georgian's civil rights.

"Our REAL President"

NoCoPilot wrote:

 The MAIN offense on January 6 -- the one that needs to be fully prosecuted up to the Supreme Court -- but probably won't -- is the 147 Republicans who voted to overturn the election. These seditious traitors need to be charged with treason, summarily tried, and shot by a firing squad in front of the Capitol.

I've softened on this.  No need to inflame the KKK.

My new plan is this:

1. Execute by firing squad every tenth person on this list.  That's what's known as "decimating" and it's a well-established military tactic
   
   
2. Strip U.S. citizenship from the rest and deport them for life
   

Holy crap.  The Heritage Foundation has gotten into Guatemala.  Although, realistically speaking, they must be Americans who traveled to heckle Harris, not locals.

Oh the irony!

"Traitors need to be executed." I soitinly agree Maynard!

I wonder what-in-the-world Arizona Republicans think will come out of their fraudit? The election results were professionally verified 3x, the election was certified, and the new president was sworn in.

This whole deal is just exceedingly odd.

I thought Trump didn't drink? He sounds three-sheets-to-the-wind in this phonecall.
https://twitter.com/Acyn/status/1405343301033631746

Watch this, it'll explain everything and curl your hair in the process.
https://nyti.ms/2UUXgu0

Republicans are doing everything in their power to prevent any investigation of the January 6 insurrection. This is because they know nothing ends well for them in such an investigation.

147 Republican congressmen supported it.

More than a few active-duty Capitol police supported it.

Mike Flynn’s brother in the Pentagon — and an unknown number of others — supported it.

A number of active-duty military participated.

A number of active-duty or retired law enforcement officers participated.

An unknown number of Republican Congressmen not only supported the insurrection, but also provided logistics in the form of Capitol building tours, providing maps, giving directions to Nancy Pelosi’s office and the chamber where the count was taking place.

Possibly/probably some of the far-right think tanks -- Heritage Foundation, Cato Institute, AFP, Crossroads -- supported/sponsored it, and did so with the same Russian money they have been propping up GOP candidates with.

Probably a number of Trump cabinet members and/or family members provided materiel aid.

In short, this thing is much huger and much deeper than anyone has so far publicized.  It was, to put it bluntly, a botched and very amateurish -- but real -- attempt to overthrow the government.  It wasn't just Proud Boys, Oath Keepers and Three Percenters ginning up a mob.  I suspect/expect it was much more "official" than that and the politicians behind it didn't want to get their hands dirty (and also wanted plausible deniability if it failed).  

We probably will never get the full story unless and until the bulk of the GOP accepts the results of the 2020 election.

Politico wrote:

The handling of the DOJ’s investigation will have far-reaching consequences for the stability of our country. And right now, the public’s understanding of the DOJ’s work is based largely on what the department releases through public indictments—which most people will never read—and what a handful of news outlets distill from them.

There are major outstanding questions, as well as areas in which the public record has not been as fulsome as it should be. They include whether the department is undertaking any review of the conduct of White House officials, including former President Donald Trump himself, or whether it will simply wait to see if the current investigations end up leading there—a potentially yearslong, risky and unnecessary slog that ignores the fact that there is already reason enough to conduct an investigation.

Similarly, the public deserves to know whether and to what extent the department is investigating Republican political officials’ potential connections to the attack, which, notwithstanding the understandable sensitivities about how such an investigation would need to be handled, is something the public needs to know, irrespective of the outcome. This does not need to be a reckless and politically volatile disclosure akin to those that former FBI Director James Comey made about Hillary Clinton; a simple acknowledgement, without any suggestion that any conclusions have been reached, would suffice. Indeed, clearing Republican lawmakers would be just as valuable as inculpating any of them.

In a situation as unique as this, in which political partisans are doing everything they can to distort what happened, transparency is itself a substantive good that will be crucial to building Americans’ trust in the outcomes, at the various levels of policy, reform and prosecution.

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2021/07/06/department-of-justice-january-6-capitol-riots-investigations-498253

I think I said as much yesterday.

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Aug. 13 will probably be very unlucky for Mike Lindell ― and anyone else who thinks Donald Trump will soon be reinstated as president of the United States.

The MyPillow CEO-turned-conspiracy-theorist is saying that the 13th ― which lands on a Friday, naturally ― is the day all Trump’s false claims about the election being stolen will finally be proven true.

Lindell made the dubious prediction Sunday on the conservative Worldview Weekend Broadcast Network.  “By the morning of Aug. 13, it will be the talk of the world,” Lindell said, imagining that people will be saying, “‘Hurry up! Let’s get this election pulled down, let’s right the right. Let’s get these communists out.’”

On the morning of the 14th -- when the world hasn't ended -- d'ya think Lindell and all his Q-Anon buddies will drink the spiked Kool-Aid?  Or will they say, "Oh it'll still happen, it'll just be AFTER our next fund raiser"?

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You know your election fraud conspiracy theory has problems when even Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) says it’s false.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/marjorie-taylor-greene-mike-lindell-conspiracy-theory_n_60e5e808e4b07d48e65a736d

Kevin McCarthy plans to imbed some conspiracy theorists in the insurrection investigation to make sure any guilt coming back to Republicans is muted.

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Initially, there was an internal debate inside the House GOP about whether the California Republican should appoint members to the select committee or just skip it altogether as a way to paint the entire effort as partisan. But McCarthy indeed plans to place Republicans on the high-profile panel, CNN has learned, according to multiple GOP sources familiar with his intentions, and is in the process of making his selections. The thinking among Republicans is that the perch will enable them to shape a counternarrative to a probe that could ensnare not only Donald Trump, but also other members of their party.

Calling this "batshit crazy" would be too kind.


Although... hey, I like that part about impeachment rendering all acts of the impeached president null and void.

The Arizona idiot squad just got their asses whupped.