What does the future hold for Donald Trump? - threadbans in OP

He was also democratically defeated. His behaviour since losing the election has been nothing short of a total disgrace and a disgusting attack on democracy. That's the reality.

His behaviour before losing the election was disgusting as well. What sitting president has ever gone to the podium at a rally and said these words at 18 seconds in?

So, here you have a sitting president directly attempting to undermine the idea of a free and fair election. No spin. No out of context. No opportunistic editing by CNN or MSNBC. Trump's friend, pastor Darrell Scott has said that Trump said to him that he can stand to lose, but not to be cheated. However, every time Trump loses, he claims it's cause he was cheated. So, this theory that he can stand to lose has never actually been tested. Crazy one, here, I know, but something tells me he actually cannot tolerate losing whether fairly or unfairly, so he just cries foul whenever it happens. He's probably used to getting away with doing that in business where it's all just a game at the end of the day, but when you're the president of the USA, it comes off as tin pot dictator rhetoric, and highly volatile as it inflames the passions of your supporters. Trump has continued to claim that he was cheated even after no credible evidence has surfaced to back up his claims, which takes him out beyond the attempts to equivocate by citing accusations of Russian interference in the 2016 election.

I think to say his support being dopey might be a bit of an oversimplification. Yeah, you might have some stereotypical rednecks wearing MAGA hats, but the interesting thing about Trump's support is the amount of middle-class people with some degree of education spouting the same fanatical devotion, even some who had been apolitical before or swing voters. I think it's that Trump has tapped into something very well, i.e. the dark side of American culture with the entitlement, the exceptionalism, the selfishness and the paranoia and put together a message which appeals to that in a very blunt and direct way, and people have willingly discarded the sense they may have had and jumped on board with both feet.

Hard to disagree with any of that! Whatever you say about him, he's an absolute master of manipulation and of social media. He's found a way to grasp onto people's fears and prejudices like nobody else has in the past 40-50 years.

Felt threatened? He was being beaten to a pulp by Martin.

Listen to the recording and the tone of voice of the dispatcher. She is clearly telling Zimmerman not to chase after Martin. Yes, the words she uses are "Sir, we don't need you to do that" but at the very least, he is being strongly advised not to do what he did. And a kid got killed as a result.

This reference to a now decade-old case was sparked by your indignant reaction to my claim that American law, in many states, effectively allows a gun holder to shoot somebody dead if they feel threatened. This case is as clear an example of that claim as I know and is a widely documented case that anybody can research from first principles.

What is utterly appalling to me is the number of Americans who seek to justify the killing of this unarmed young man (who would have been too young to carry a gun legally himself) by a paranoid self-important buffoon who was empowered with life-threatening equipment way beyond his competence to handle. The cavalier dismissal of any responsibility on Zimmerman's part to behave in a manner befitting someone who is carrying a lethal weapon is a disgrace to American society.

It is no wonder that an organization as militant and determined, and widely supported, as Black Lives Matter has emerged in the meantime.

So where is this Forensic Audit revelations we were meant to get about 10 days ago. Funny feeling this is turning into the Trump healthcare plan.

If they had chicken and mushroom Pot Noodles in the states, all hell would break loose if one of those Cyber Ninjas accidentally, or not so accidentally, squirted a bit of soy sauce on one of the ballots during a lunch break.

The whole thing about bamboo in the ballots is nakedly racist. If they thought the Dutch were behind the alleged fraud, they'd be looking for traces of a tulip-based dye or hemp strands. It's really a case of, "What do our supporters know about this country and how can we work that in?" It's also another case of Trump's support being impervious to satire because they're already more ridiculous than any satire could ever be. Christopher Guest could have done a great comedy on the whole thing, but the press conference outside Four Seasons Total Landscaping and checking for bamboo fibres makes any such film unnecessary.

More desperation- i wonder what is in those records??

Another Trump proxy getting their comeuppance...

The apple doesn't fall far from the tree. Oul Donny Jnr showing us that big brain.....

Conservatives accidentally championing cancel culture again.

Here's how this works,

Vote is done. Recounts are done. Ballots are checked. Vote is certified by election officials. Challenges in court can produce no tangible case.

Trumpists: I smell a rat. The vote was obviously rigged.

Raving derelict who lives in a rusty shack on the edge of town who claims to have incredible psychic powers says he touched one of the ballots and had a flashback to a former life as a farmer in the Ming Dynasty.

Trumpists: Food for thought.

Their starting point is that the vote was rigged. They will accept any level of evidence from any source which tallies with this assumption. It doesn't matter the bias of the source or the methods of the source. They will be sceptical of anything which says Biden won, but will accept without question anything which says he did not. Starting out with a theory and only accepting evidence which supports it is a fundamentally unsound method of investigation. Confirmation bias, they call it. It's all grand fun and games when it's opining on some political matter, but it's not an investigative method you'd want to find yourself subjected to if you were a defendant in court. You'd get done every time. I'm sure those who are in the dock for their participation in 6/1 will want every piece of evidence looked at and not just that which makes them look bad, though I still think they'd get done because the evidence that makes them look bad is overwhelming. But the point is they'll go from jabbering conspiracy theorists to champions of rationalism when it comes to getting due process for themselves and saving their own skin.

Is that the lad with no chin(well it looks like that anyway) and he had a child with another member of the campaign ? If it is who I’m thinking about then not that surprised. And in Brazil no less where you’d expect him to be on friendly given their president is the trump of South America.