All Things Trump: Is it over yet?

[Joe]

It's awesome how different suspicion is this year, compared to the 2016 election. You all have gained such strong trust in the corporations and other authorities who are in charge. They MUST have earned it with their aggressive censorship and marketing of cheap products.

Conspiracy theory. Where's your proof that Trump won?

I'm not suggesting Trump won, only that people suspicious of election results in 2016 are VERY ready to dismiss any suggestion of irregularity or fraud this go-round.

Probably because Trump is a venal autocratic compulsive liar. What's more likely - there was fraud, or Trump is a sore loser?

Well, he did do Trump a solid with that obstruction of justice stuff in the Mueller report.

[Cunt]

Sure. But what's the likelihood? Take Trump's sour grapes out of the equation and you've not got much left.

Let's get back to watching this unroll, shall we? If this is really Trump's 'lame duck' period (it sure looks like it is) then he should be getting extra-entertaining.

For example, I saw on Parler that Trump announced an inauguration event at Mar a Lago in 2021. I haven't checked if it is true yet, but as a viewer from another country, this reality show they are putting on...

Fuck.

[pErvinalia]

And to think that you admire him. You as a Canadian, no less.

[Tero]

Maybe he can get one of them firing squad executions to entertain his guests at Mar a Lago.

[Cunt]

And to think that you admire him. You as a Canadian, no less.

I like some of the things he does. Dislike some of the things he does.

Same as you, now that I think of it. (though the proportions may differ)

Why do you think I have to be 'all trump' or 'never trump'?

Have you considered some folks might not follow brands as closely as that?

[pErvinalia]

I've considered that some people are so gullible as to believe anything that clown says.

[Cunt]

I remember how the media responded when he said he hoped he would have a vaccine by the end of the year. Look it up if you want some lolz

[pErvinalia]

That was after he said at least 3 other times that it would be earlier (with each time a later date than the previous time). A broken clock is eventually right at some point.

[Cunt]

I'm sure you would find a way to paint the peace deals as awful, too.

Heck, you would probably even hair-shame him.

I can't wait for the episode where he lets his hair go white, like Gandalf in the hobbit movie

[pErvinalia]

I can't wait till he's no longer in the news. I guess he'll flail around a bit just after the inauguration. Hopefully he'll disappear after that.

[Brian Peacock]

I can't wait till he's no longer in the news. I guess he'll flail around a bit just after the inauguration. Hopefully he'll disappear after that.

Nah. I reckon he's going to make at least the same amount of noise as he did as Birther-in-Chief - and this time he's got far more to crow about than just objecting to a Black guy in the White House.

[rainbow]

I'm sure you would find a way to paint the peace deals as awful, too.

Heck, you would probably even hair-shame him.

I can't wait for the episode where he lets his hair go white, like Gandalf in the hobbit movie

Peace deals?

Which countries were at war?

[JimC]

Yeah. Simply getting a couple of minor league Arab countries to recognise Israel isn't the peace deal of the century...

[Scot Dutchy]

Exactly! Those deals are not worth the paper they are written on and we all know that. Just more brown envelopes.

[Scot Dutchy]

For some it is.

Donald Trump has executed more Americans than all states combined, report finds

The execution spree was a first in US history and stands contrary to the declining trend in death penalty practices

Donald Trump has added a morbid new distinction to his presidency – for the first time in US history, the federal government has in one year executed more American civilians than all the states combined.

In the course of 2020, in an unprecedented glut of judicial killing, the Trump administration rushed to put 10 prisoners to death. The execution spree ran roughshod over historical norms and stood entirely contrary to the decline in the practice of the death penalty that has been the trend in the US for several years.

The outlier nature of the Trump administration’s thirst for blood is set out in the year-end report of the Death Penalty Information Center (DPIC). In recent years, the annual review has highlighted the steady withering away of executions, all of which were carried out by individual states.

That pattern continued at state level in 2020, heightened by the coronavirus pandemic which suppressed an already low number of scheduled executions. Only five states – Alabama, Georgia, Missouri, Tennessee and Texas – carried out judicial killings. And only Texas performed more than one, producing the lowest number of executions by the states since 1983.

States carried out seven executions to the federal government’s 10. Despite the rash of federal killings, that still amounted to the fewest executions in the US since 1991.

Against that downward path, the actions of the Trump administration stand out as a grotesque aberration.