On Thu, Nov 24, 2022 at 12:56 AM spudboy100 via Everything List < [email protected]> wrote:
*>We need to ask how come the US has issues with our voting practices when > the EU doesn't.* The short answer is the European Union never had the misfortune of running into somebody as evil as Donald Trump, and even the US never had an issue with voting practices until Donald Trump came along not even during the Civil War, the south disliked the results of the 1860 election so much that 13 states seceded from the union, but they never claimed the election was fraudulent. By contrast it wasn't just in 2020, Trump has NEVER lost an election without claiming it was fraudulent; in 2016 EVERY state Republican primary election that he lost he claimed was fraudulent, and in 2012 when his brainless TV game show didn't win an Emmy he claimed that was fraudulent too. And Trump isn't just a sore loser he's also a sore winner, he won the 2016 election but nevertheless claimed even that was fraudulent, he should've won by more. The jackass is always whining about how the world has treated this poor little billionaire's son so unfairly. But all of this does have a bright side, it places the Republican party between a rock and a hard place, if Trump wins the nomination I think he would perform very poorly in the general election because in 2016 he was an unknown quantity and many people just wanted to vote for something new and different, but in 2024 he'd be old and very well known, and tens of millions of people would hate his guts. But if he doesn't get the nomination Republicans would be in even worse shape, there is no way Trump would gracefully concede and throw his political weight behind the man who beat him (and it will almost certainly be a man and a white one), instead he will do what he is always done when he loses an election, he will claim it was fraudulent. At that point I think Trump would *MUCH *rather see a Democrat win than see the man that beat him sitting in the White House, and the best way to do that would be to become a third-party candidate. Trump may not be the sharpest tool in the shed but I think even he is smart enough to know he could never win by becoming a third-party candidate, but he could split the lunatic fringe, and there are not enough sane Republicans and independents around anymore for Republicans to win a presidential general election without them. So Trump could get his revenge against Ron DeSantis or whoever it was that beat him in the primaries, and for a 78 year old Trump who knows this would be his last chance to become president revenge would be far far more important than Republican policy statements. John K Clark See what's on my new list at Extropolis <https://groups.google.com/g/extropolis> ygm > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/CAJPayv1%2Bw3VL_mUfxZ_h6espGRaYoNm330jQ6NPwe5vh3kzRzA%40mail.gmail.com.
