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Will it change anything? Possibly yes, but probably no. The conviction, and even imprisonment, which is highly unlikely to ever happen, will not bar Trump from continuing his pursuit of the White House.

From the AP:

“Though the legal and historical implications of the verdict are readily apparent, the political consequences are less so given its potential to reinforce rather than reshape already-hardened opinions about Trump.”

Trump once boasted that he could shoot someone in the streets of New York and people would still elect him.

Again from the AP:

“For another candidate in another time, a criminal conviction might doom a presidential run, but Trump’s political career has endured through two impeachments, allegations of sexual abuse, investigations into everything from potential ties to Russia [anyone remember the pre-pee tape kompromat story?] to plotting to overturn an election, and personally salacious storylines including the emergence of a recording in which he boasted about grabbing women [by the pussy].”

Trump still has 3 other active felony cases, on election tampering and national security secret document mishandling, but none of those will eb decided before the fall elections. I’m hoping common sense will prevail, but this is ameri Al. Politics we’re talking about, so who the hell knows.

So first there was this:

Then the orange shitgibbon started foaming at the mouth on twitter

Then the inevitable happened.

And now we have magidiots in halls of power, teargas, gunshots, and national guard has been called in. Exciting!

Update:

So apparently it takes actual sedition and coup attempts to get a response from social media. ‘S good to be the king…

And its ugly-beautiful to see people compare and contrast the response for these American terrorists (erm, sorry, they have the right skin tone, so that makes them patriots. Ivanka said so…) with that of the BLM protests last year.

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Update 2:
It’s done, it’s over, the fat lady has sung!

Yet, still the orange shitgibbon rages against the coming of the night (albeit via a mouthpiece who is not currently banned from Twitter)

As a side note, I love the little footnote the Guardian felt obliged to put :)

It’s been a hell of a ride!

First there was the whole #stopthecount thing. But only in some states (where he is winning) but not others (where he’s trailing). Except that advisors told Drumpf that this would cost him the election there and then, so the counting continued.

Then there was Greta Thunberg’s revenge tweet that was a year in the making.

Then there was the whole “if they only count the legal votes, I win” delusion – where in Drumpfland the only legal votes are for him, and anything else is illegal and shouldn’t count. Except that this is not how democracy works, and some of the saner republicans start pointing this out.

Then the some media channels actually cut him off mid-rant because they couldn’t deal with the lies anymore and CNN’s Anderson Cooper said, on live TV, a quote that I hope will forever be associated with the Drumpf presidency.

Then even Fox News declared Biden president-elect, and the #maga mob lost it – turning on Foz news like a pack of hunting dogs and declaring it anathema, and mainstream media-ish. Drumpf supposedly contacted Rupert Murdoch directly to complain about the coverage. So sad.

And now Drumpf, showing his standard colours, refuses to concede and is threatening to unleash the dogs of War, er litigation, come Monday and sue everyone and everything in sight. But so far, no substantive evidence has been presented, some lawsuits have already been dismissed and the experts seem to say that this will not be a repeat of 2000/Florida because the results of several states would need to be reversed – the legal standing of such challenges being shaky and dubious. Still, who the fuck knows what will happen.

The electoral college is supposed to vote on Dec 14th. Let’s see if we can survive this coming week without bloodshed… And this is only in the last 3 days!

Critics denounced the timing of Trump’s election comments as a distraction that came amid the disastrous economic report and hours ahead of the funeral of the revered civil rights and voting rights leader Congressman John Lewis. It also coincided with the preparations for a retreat by federal law enforcement agents from Portland, Oregon.

1st headline:

Quickly followed by:

but no. Drumpf actually retweeted this…

Nero, according to ancient tradition, climbed to the top of his city walls and fiddled as Rome burned. While the historical accuracy can be questioned, the moral of the story is typically used to criticize someone for doing something trivial and nonsensical in the midst of a crisis.

So Drumpf’s retweet of his social-media manager’s tweet showing him playing a fiddle couldn’t be more timely, considering the continued spread of the coronavirus (which will all be sorted in a week, because the US has the best, most beautiful, testing kits) and the fact that the Dow Jones plunged more than 2,000 points early in start of week trading and triggered the stop-breakers.

You can’t make this shit up. Up is down, left is right, the world is going mad…