ngl, a small part of me would like to see him try this "i'm not leaving" gambit, because at 12:01pm on january 20th, president biden/pelosi will just order the secret service to remove the trespassers from the restricted area of the white house. how dope would it be to see them literally get thrown out of the white house at the end of all this.
I have been longing for a scenario like that for some time now. It'd be great if his time in office ended in the most humiliating way imaginable, the kind that gets played on a constant loop on TV and becomes a lasting image of the embarrassment that was his presidency.
Wow, I feel such a loss of respect for a person I've always admired. His right of course, but I just don't get it.
Bobby Orr endorsed Donald Trump for president in a newspaper ad
October 30, 2020 | 12:57 PM
Bruins legend and Hockey Hall of Famer Bobby Orr says he’s supporting Donald Trump for president.
Orr, a Florida resident, made the endorsement in an ad in Friday’s edition of the New Hampshire Union Leader, the state’s largest newspaper. A note at the bottom says “Paid for by Bobby Orr.”
“When I look at America during these turbulent times, I keep trying to separate style from substance, fact from fiction,” Orr wrote. “This much I know. Our current President has had to operate under extremely difficult conditions over these past several years. In addition, no leader anywhere signed up with the idea that dealing with a worldwide pandemic would be a part of their mandate. The attacks on our president have been unrelenting since the day he took office. Despite that, President Trump has delivered for all American people, regardless of race, gender, or station in life.
I'm not familiar with this guy, but, okay, first off, regarding his last sentence, the hell kind of crack is he on?
Second, uh, yeah, dude, I'm sure there's
lots of things presidents in general don't sign up for when taking this job. Like terrorist attacks. Or world wars. Or extreme natural disasters that affect a great deal of the country. Or things of that sort. I imagine most, if not all, of them hope their time in office is relatively calm and uneventful. It's how they
deal with those extraordinary moments when they happen that matters.
And I'd remind him that Trump was given a heads up about a potential pandemic, and even had an entire staff and playbook in place that the previous administration had prepared in order to help him manage it better should it happen. And yet he fucked that up on a grand scale.
Also, he can spare me the crap about Trump being "attacked" since the day he took office. 1) Every president has gone through that-hell, some of them have been assassinated, or come close to being assassinated. Trump wanted to be president, his supporters wanted it, this is what comes with the job. Suck it up and deal.
And 2) Considering Trump himself spent virtually all of Obama's presidency fanning the flames of racist birther crap against him, and considering how much shit Obama and his family got from people who couldn't deal with the fact we had a black guy in office, Orr can frankly sit down and be quiet.
Even Walmart is taking guns and ammo out of their stores in some states.
I never thought I'd live to see such times, honestly wish I hadn't.
And the big reason people are worried about violence is because the guy in charge couldn't just shut his fucking mouth and let our elections run smoothly. In a year where we were already dealing with a lot of stress and anxiety, he decided, "Hey, let's just up the ante!"
Fucking asshole. He can't leave soon enough.
That said, however, while all the concerns about Trump contesting the results are valid, if it does turn out to be a blowout, and if any attempts he makes to contest the results
don't wind up going anywhere, who here wonders about the likelihood of Trump trying to flee the country? 'Cause he has also spent the last month on the campaign trail talking about how he may never return to certain states if he loses and whatnot. He knows his goose is cooked in terms of him facing a mountain of legal troubles once he leaves. I truly wouldn't put it past him to try and get out of here and go to a country where he can hide out, too.
let's just say we all had a stressful day and leave it at that
All I mainly remember of the 2016 election is sitting here that night and begging states to start turning blue, and becoming increasingly horrified as the night went on.
I try not to think about that night if I can help it.
These morons still don't understand the concept of a lag. Hospitalizations in the midwest and places like El Paso are reaching alarming levels, mortality will follow. Not at the rates we saw in the spring, but a surge in deaths is coming.
There's also the fact that even if people survive this, it's still a problem. It's still a tough virus to deal with, and many survivors have reported lingering health effects afterwards, some of which may be permanent.
But psh, who cares about those pesky facts and logic, right?