• Welcome to Religious Forums, a friendly forum to discuss all religions in a friendly surrounding.

    Your voice is missing! You will need to register to get access to the following site features:
    • Reply to discussions and create your own threads.
    • Our modern chat room. No add-ons or extensions required, just login and start chatting!
    • Access to private conversations with other members.

    We hope to see you as a part of our community soon!

Sanders successfully predicts Trump's playbook well ahead

exchemist

Veteran Member
Bernie Sanders’ Accurate Prediction Of Donald Trump’s Election Night Playbook Goes Viral

This is really impressive. Guess Sanders has seen it all before or something. If Biden wins, I hope Sanders gets a nice job working in Biden's administration.
This "prediction" is highly unremarkable. It has been what lots of people have been saying for weeks now, if the result were to turn out to be close. One thing about Trump is he is not subtle. He has more or less been telling anyone listening attentively that that is what he would do.

I do not for a moment believe the courts are going to stop the count for him. They may be Republican but they are still judges and they will not want to preside over a descent to a banana republic in civil war. Trump is just deploying the millionaires reflex: when you lose, send in the lawyers, and hope he that has the biggest chequebook wins. He will just have to wait.

The worry would be if he loses when the votes are all in, what he might hint people could do on the street to protest against his fake "fraud". I really have no idea. He's so erratic that I have no feel for whether he is interested in leading a street protest, or whether he would bluster and then go quietly. I suspect the latter. Donald "Heel Spurs" Trump does not strike me as a likely leader of a real insurrection. He seems to me more likely to want to make money as a far right TV talking head - if he stays out of jail.
 
Last edited:

Daemon Sophic

Avatar in flux
This "prediction" is highly unremarkable. It has been what lots of people have been saying for weeks now, if the result were to turn out to be close. One thing about Trump is he is not subtle. He has more or less been telling anyone listening attentively that that is what he would do.

I do not for a moment believe the courts are going to stop the count for him. They may be Republican but they are still judges and they will not want to preside over a descent to a banana republic in civil war. Trump is just deploying the millionaires reflex: when you lose, send in the lawyers, and hope he that has the biggest chequebook wins. He will just have to wait.

The worry would be if he loses when the votes are all in, what he might hint people could do on the street to protest against his fake "fraud". I really have no idea. He's so erratic that I have no feel for whether he is interested in leading a street protest, or whether he would bluster and then go quietly. I suspect the latter. Donald "Heel Spurs" Trump does not strike me as a likely leader of a real insurrection. He seems to me more likely to want to make money as a far right TV talking head - if he stays out of jail.
Agreed.
In fact, a (real) news station that I was listening to on the way in to work suggested that it is good that the SCOTUS is so horrifically biased for the right-wing. Because when they shoot down Chump’s challenge to the election process, the Trumpettes will be less incline to cry “foul”. :shrug:
 

exchemist

Veteran Member
Agreed.
In fact, a (real) news station that I was listening to on the way in to work suggested that it is good that the SCOTUS is so horrifically biased for the right-wing. Because when they shoot down Chump’s challenge to the election process, the Trumpettes will be less incline to cry “foul”. :shrug:
I think that is an excellent point. It wouldn't shut him up (nothing short of a jail sentence would do that), but it would cut the ground from under the crazier Trumpies.

I suppose if he wins there is the possibility of a wholesale narrowing of the voting franchise, to try to lock in even more of an advantage than the Republicans seem to have now. That could be quite nasty.

But what a business! A president that blatantly tries to undermine trust in the electoral system, yet close to half the country is prepared to put up with another four years of this nonsense, apparently.
 

Shadow Wolf

Certified People sTabber
Agreed.
In fact, a (real) news station that I was listening to on the way in to work suggested that it is good that the SCOTUS is so horrifically biased for the right-wing. Because when they shoot down Chump’s challenge to the election process, the Trumpettes will be less incline to cry “foul”. :shrug:
We've seen Trump turn on people as soon as they even appear to be thinking about opposing him in anyway. And lets consider this base - they eat up everything he says, many believe in Qanon, many are obsessed with Hillary's email (still), they widely believe he's fulfilled campaign promises, and as we've seen here time and time again they are also prone to excusing everything he does.
I don't see him beyond calling the SC part of a deep state conspiracy (or whatever), and I do see the Trumpeters eating it up and believing him.
 

exchemist

Veteran Member
We've seen Trump turn on people as soon as they even appear to be thinking about opposing him in anyway. And lets consider this base - they eat up everything he says, many believe in Qanon, many are obsessed with Hillary's email (still), they widely believe he's fulfilled campaign promises, and as we've seen here time and time again they are also prone to excusing everything he does.
I don't see him beyond calling the SC part of a deep state conspiracy (or whatever), and I do see the Trumpeters eating it up and believing him.
That is also true.

Then the Republican Party will have a critical decision to make for its future. Will it repudiate this paranoid nonsense and try to refashion itself to have broad appeal, or will it carry on fanning the flames of conspiracy theories that sabotage the United Sates of America.
 

The Hammer

[REDACTED]
Premium Member
That is also true.

Then the Republican Party will have a critical decision to make for its future. Will it repudiate this paranoid nonsense and try to refashion itself to have broad appeal, or will it carry on fanning the flames of conspiracy theories that sabotage the United Sates of America.

I predict the latter.
 

PureX

Veteran Member
Agreed.
In fact, a (real) news station that I was listening to on the way in to work suggested that it is good that the SCOTUS is so horrifically biased for the right-wing. Because when they shoot down Chump’s challenge to the election process, the Trumpettes will be less incline to cry “foul”. :shrug:
The Supreme Court has already appointed one unpopular president for the republicans. I see no reason to assume they wouldn't do it again.
 

metis

aged ecumenical anthropologist
Like Trump, you mean?
Yep, which would make sense because Trump has constantly praised Putin, saying the he's more correct than our 17 intelligence agencies (Helsinki); won't say anything negative about Putin's putting a bounty on American soldier's heads in Afghanistan; meeting privately with Putin at least twice with no other American in the room; saying anything negative about Russian hacking into our electioneering system; etc. If Obama had even done just a fraction of the above, Pub heads would have exploded, but blind political tribalism has taken over much of what used to be the respectable Republican Party of myself and my parents, the latter of which must be turning over in their graves, especially since my Dad was a veteran of WWII.

What an utter disgrace with so many Pubs who actually believe they are "true patriots", wrapping themselves in the flag while turning a complete blind-eye to how Trump has praised Putin as being a "strong leader" while Putin does his best to undermine America and so many of our allies.

Talk about the "dumbing-down of America".
 
Last edited:

Tambourine

Well-Known Member
What an utter disgrace with so many Pubs who actually believe they are "true patriots", wrapping themselves in the flag while turning a complete blind-eye to how Trump has praised Putin as being a "strong leader" while Putin does his best to undermine America and so many of our allies.

Talk about the "dumbing-down of America".
I did a poll asking the self-identifying "nationalists" and "patriots" of this forum why they loved their country, and the results were inconclusive whether they even liked their own countries at all, with plenty chiming in that they hated their country and society in its current state. That should tell you something about the kind of people who think of themselves as "patriotic".
 

Mock Turtle

Oh my, did I say that!
Premium Member
Didn't this predict how Trump would behave? :oops:

0_SDC_MDG_-Donald-Trump-tweet_11030JPG.jpg


As ******** if! :D
 
Top