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White House poker. Biden trumps Trump. (Trump thread #115)

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TheNorthWestPawsage · 01/12/2020 13:39

Here it is.
Thanks @BruceandNosh for the title.

And still we persist.

Previous thread:
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BruceAndNosh · 18/12/2020 09:44

[quote DuncinToffee]Anyone want to push the button?
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-55357512[/quote]
Will Trump be inside?

DGRossetti · 18/12/2020 10:40

[quote lionheart]This story about the hacking seems to have taken off:

edition.cnn.com/2020/12/17/politics/trump-silence-cyber-hack/index.html?utm_source=twCNN&utm_term=link&utm_content=2020-12-18T01%3A17%3A52&utm_medium=social[/quote]
How will the new Administration prevent this sort.of thing?

Well as long as they don't hold the inauguration in a landscaping company car park, they're already light years ahead of these numbnuts.

If the "Proud boys" (and I really can't see that moniker lasting too long again on Twitter) could organise themselves, they'd be a proper party.

I suspect the powers that be craven cowering to such gobshites is deliberately intended (we have parallels in the UK with everyone scared of something "kicking off" if Farage didn't get what he wanted) to try to keep the whole population afraid. It's not a great homage to our ancestors who actually travelled to actual foreign lands to fight actual soldiers. Not a bunch of weekend warriors who are more likely to hurt each other than anyone else, if the craze for "photos of loaded guns pointed at my nuts" is anything to go by.

DuncinToffee · 18/12/2020 11:06

It's nice of those 'proud boys' to explain their plans on youtube.

lionheart · 18/12/2020 11:16

I think the Proud Boys are planning to put on a show during inauguration.

I hope it does not involve literal arses.

Roussette · 18/12/2020 11:19

Phew internet is back, it's been 5 days of purgatory Grin

I just wonder how security would weed out the Proud Boys, but perhaps they will wear their fetching yellow and black skirts again...

DGRossetti · 18/12/2020 11:19

You see, quite aside from any more niche connotations, I suspect there are many like me that hear "Proud boys" and picture a flashmob ...

(internet - do your thing !!!!)

Mittens030869 · 18/12/2020 11:50

I suspect that if Trump takes up Flynn's recommendation to implement martial law, the army is likely to defy him, knowing that he won't be President for much longer. He doesn't have much support among the military thanks to him referring to them as 'losers'.

DGRossetti · 18/12/2020 11:58

[quote lionheart]And Flynn doing his Flynn thing.

www.thedailybeast.com/michael-flynn-says-trump-can-use-military-to-rerun-election-says-its-not-unprecedented?source=twitter&via=mobile[/quote]
He should have read the script closer. That's supposed to happen before the election.

lionheart · 18/12/2020 12:23

thehill.com/homenews/news/530657-hillary-clinton-slams-trump-supporters-offended-by-biden-staffer-using-curse

Mary L Trump
@MaryLTrump
·
17 Dec
'#fuckers'

DGRossetti · 18/12/2020 14:15
Funnily enough DW and I watched an old QI with Jan Ravens on it, and she did a note-perfect Hillary ... the secret being:

Point & wave; point & wave

(She also did a note-perfect Theresa May, noting that her "tell" was she walked as if pushing an invisible drip ....)

Smile

Seems so long ago now.

lionheart · 18/12/2020 14:17

Flashbacks:

thebulwark.com/the-top-10-worst-trump-enabling-takes-of-2020/

AcrossthePond55 · 18/12/2020 15:32

www.reuters.com/article/usa-trump/irritated-by-loss-trump-hunkers-down-at-the-white-house-and-avoids-talk-of-future-idUSKBN28S0JE

Either what the article says or they've wrestled him into a closet to keep him out of the public eye.

DGRossetti · 18/12/2020 15:35

@AcrossthePond55

www.reuters.com/article/usa-trump/irritated-by-loss-trump-hunkers-down-at-the-white-house-and-avoids-talk-of-future-idUSKBN28S0JE

Either what the article says or they've wrestled him into a closet to keep him out of the public eye.

I did wonder where his tweets had disappeared to ... turns out that he is tweeting but no one is really caring ?????
DuncinToffee · 18/12/2020 15:43

I saw 'where is Trump' trending on twitter

Meanwhile Pence got the vaccine live on TV

DGRossetti · 18/12/2020 15:47

@DuncinToffee

I saw 'where is Trump' trending on twitter

Meanwhile Pence got the vaccine live on TV

I bet the Qanon crowd are already claiming:
  1. It wasn't the vaccine
  2. It wasn't Mike Pence
  3. It wasn't the vaccine or Mike Pence
Cacacoisfarraige · 18/12/2020 16:44

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Anniegetyourgun · 18/12/2020 16:46

They can just cement him in there. Maybe leave a hole to pass the burgers in; Joe doesn't believe in capital punishment.

AcrossthePond55 · 18/12/2020 17:54

I did wonder where his tweets had disappeared to ... turns out that he is tweeting but no one is really caring ?????

I think there may be more than a kernel of truth in that @DGRossetti

DH and I have both noticed that he seems to be less of an almost continual 'presence' on the news. They may report "Scrotus did/said XXX" but it's a 15-30 second 'blurb' with a still photo or a screen shot rather than an excruciating 3-5 minute blow by blow with sound-bites and/or video of his every utterance/tweet/antic.

DGRossetti · 18/12/2020 18:07

@AcrossthePond55

I did wonder where his tweets had disappeared to ... turns out that he is tweeting but no one is really caring ?????

I think there may be more than a kernel of truth in that @DGRossetti

DH and I have both noticed that he seems to be less of an almost continual 'presence' on the news. They may report "Scrotus did/said XXX" but it's a 15-30 second 'blurb' with a still photo or a screen shot rather than an excruciating 3-5 minute blow by blow with sound-bites and/or video of his every utterance/tweet/antic.

There are suggestions that Twitter and Facebook have dialled him down ...

americanconsequences.com/podcast/

Roussette · 18/12/2020 18:12

I love it that he is slowly but surely becoming a complete irrelevance.

There is an element of 'oh hell, what's he going to do next' but people have had 4 years of shite, so it's hardly surprising they are amused at his ongoing shenanigans. These people deserve seeing him coping with failure.

chomalungma · 18/12/2020 18:13

I notice that Trump is not tweeting about Pence getting the vaccine but is tweeting about masks being ineffective.

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