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- dbloc10
Edward Norton: Call Trump's Bluff
"I’m no political pundit but I grew up with a dad who was a federal prosecutor, and he taught me a lot.
I’ve also sat at a fair amount of poker tables with serious players, and l’ll say this: I do not think Trump is trying to ‘make his base happy’ or ‘laying the groundwork for his own network’ or that ‘chaos is what he loves’.
The core of it is that he knows he’s in deep, multi-dimensional legal jeopardy, and this defines his every action.
We’re seeing 1) a tactical delay of the transition to buy time for a coverup and evidence suppression 2) above all, a desperate endgame, which is to create enough chaos and anxiety about a peaceful transfer of power, and fear of irreparable damage to the system, that he can cut a Nixon-style deal in exchange for finally conceding.
But he doesn’t have the cards. His bluff after ‘the flop’ has been called in court. His ‘turn card’ bluff will be an escalation and his ‘river card’ bluff could be really ugly. But they have to be called. We cannot let this mobster bully the USA into a deal to save his ass by threatening our democracy.
THAT is his play. But he’s got junk in his hand. So call him.
I will allow that he’s also a whiny, sulky, petulant, Grinchy, vindictive little 10-ply-super-soft bitch, who no doubt is just throwing a wicked pout fest and trying to give a tiny-hand middle finger to the whole country for pure spite, without a single thought for the dead and dying.
But his contemptible, treasonous, seditious assault on the stability of our political compact isn’t about 2024, personal enrichment or anything else other than trying to use chaos and threats to the foundation of the system as leverage to trade for a safe exit.
Call. His. Bluff.
Faith in the strength of our sacred institutions and founding principles is severely stretched, but they will hold. They will. He’s leaving, gracelessly and in infamy. But if we trade for it, give him some brokered settlement, we’ll be vulnerable to his return.
We can’t flinch."
- oey_oey-2
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">If Vice President <a href="https://twitter.com/Mike_Pence?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Mike_Pence</a> comes through for us, we will win the Presidency. Many States want to decertify the mistake they made in certifying incorrect & even fraudulent numbers in a process NOT approved by their State Legislatures (which it must be). Mike can send it back!</p>— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1346698217304584192?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 6, 2021</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
- this worked exactly how I expected :-Doey_oey
- https://twitter.com/…oey_oey
- lowimpakt1
lost the popular vote in 2016
lost the House in 2018
lost the presidency in 2020
lost the Senate in 2021
fuck me, Donal Trump is a massive loser.
- fake news!oey_oey
- tired of winning?renderedred
- lost his mind since birth.neverscared
- PhanLo1
Why'd you no save Trumpy?
-- LOL epic!renderedred
- So many hurt butts on that plane. As if Romney could change the outcome. Derp.monospaced
- If I were Mitt, I'd get my assistant to order me some ANC headphones pronto.Continuity
- Good for him. At least he stands up for what he believes in, including the Constitution (mostly). And fuck Romney anyway.monospaced
- MAGA sounding like a bunch of little kids these days, so butt hurt - lolwhatthefunk
- Jesus.. America is fucked.bogue
- Well we won’t have to worry about these psychos in a few weeks. Now he’ll be accosted by psychos freaking out on him for getting their gender pronouns wrong lol_niko
- Those psychos are now a part of his party, it must be a head scratcher in meetings trying to work out how they'll keep them once Donnie is out.PhanLo
- Easy to see why rep senators are so afraid of going against Trump...but yeah too bad..inv
- renderedred1
will melania bail soon?
- Contract is up July 4th.PhanLo
- Maybe she will, but not because she's philosophically opposed to him in any way. She's a racist grifter tooallthethings
- ********0
- dasohr3
Kimberly Guilfoyle is such a troll
- PhanLo1
Graphic design is my passion.
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- UNITEEEYYYY
https://www.youtube.…tank02 - omahadesign represents!!!zaq
- UNITEEEYYYY
- Bluejam0
- That 'My Pillow' logo is a fucking disgrace btwBluejam
- lol, you watching this? Fucking Don JR is such a dope.dasohr
- one speakers is all tea party and breaking apart the repubs, the next speaker is all proud of being a repub. Couldn't be more confused. Typical.dasohr
- LOL 50% of their broadcast is advertisingrenderedred
- "follow me on twitter" "support us" "give us money" man!renderedred
- and don jr., his feral girlfriend, rudy... what a shitshow.renderedred
- LOLZ what million people or even hundreds of thousands, the camera just panned there's maybe a few thousand...renderedred
- Elton John listening party12xu
- What a giant douchebag he is, jesus christ. Giant gas-filled douchebag.elahon
- nb2
https://www.c-span.org/video/?50…
I'm watching a live stream. Right now no one speaking, just music streaming.
So far:
Elton John - Tiny Dancer
Village People - Macho ManCrowd dancing hard!
You can tell a macho, he has a funky walk
His western shirts and leather, always look so boss
Funky with his body, he's a king
Call him Mister Ego, dig his chains
You can best believe that, he's a macho man
Likes to be the leader, he never dresses grandCOME AND FEEL MY BODY
SO HOT, MY BODY- Journey – Don't Stop Believin'nb
- OMG Titanic Theme Songnb
- Gross.ideaist
- What time does Lynyrd Skynyrd take the stage?ideaist
- On now: Gloria! This is a really gay-friendly playlist! <3nb
- "Take a lover in the afternoon?
Feel your innocence slipping away. Don't believe it's comin' back soon" LOLOLnb - Trump walked out, music kept going. Song ended. Finally went to speak, no one turned the mic on. LOLOLOL fail.nb
- Trump claiming hundreds of thousands of people from all over the world are here but that the media won't turn their cameras aroundnb
- jfc i tried to watch it, but I can't stand the sound of bs from that lunatic. fucking noise.bezoar
- Thrilled my tax dollars are paying for this stunt. Not like we could use these resources anywhere else this year!FNP14
- NBQ001
Grab the popcorn
- imbecile2
- yikes. every thread title screams "I couldn't pass a 4th grade math test if my life depended on it".section_014
- Ramanisky22
like the drug deal scene from Boogie Nights
- neverscared0
Donald Trump has delivered Republicans a trifecta of defeat.
- "only the best defeats"Bluejam
- a bunch of dumb motherfuckers, all off them...the worst america has to show the world.neverscared
- nb4
"We will never concede!"
"Third world countries have better elections than what we have."
"If Mike Pence does the right thing, we win the election. All VP Pence has to do is send it back to the states to recertify and then we become the president."
"We're going to have someone in there [as President] that we don't want in there. The country will be destroyed. We won't allow it."
"Our election was so corrupt. We don't have fair elections. The press has become the enemy of the people." (After this tirade about how shitty America is, he goes on to say that his followers built the country while everyone else in the country is trying to tear it down.)
- PRESIDENT Donald Trump
This is by far the worst speech by a president in the history of the country. He sounds like a dictator. It will be recorded in history. It will be in the same big folder as the Gettysburg address, Lincoln's second inaugural, Washington's Farewell.
Shame on America for electing this buffoon.
- this speech really is something else.fadein11
- It just REALLY gets to me that America elected a president who doesn't give a shit about America.nb
- it is 100% the speech of a dictator. quite disturbing now actually.fadein11
- insane speech...wtf.neverscared
- landslide broneverscared
- "This is maybe the most corrupt election in the HISTORY OF THE WORLD" - hahahanb
- wow that speech... That cant lead to nothing positiveBennn
- Ramanisky21
Biden picks new AG .... Merrick Garland
