No. of Recommendations: 15
Dope1: So when presented with the Golden Excuse to cancel the elections and tell Americans to stay home while he ran the country for longer...he didn't do it?
1.) Orange Jesus spent months telling Americans the virus was no big deal. And his cult quickly became anti-lockdown, ant-social distancing, and anti-vaccine. Kinda' tough to make the case that there was some big old national emergency when you've spent the year telling Americans the pandemic was no big deal and they believe the virus is a cold.
2.) He thought he was going to win.
3.) He still had some reasonably sane lifelong government people working in his administration who threatened to resign when he started going too far off the rails.
4.) After losing the election, he still tried to retain the White House through the courts. After losing in the courts, he tried to get the states to give him the presidency by twisting arms and conspiring with fake electors.
5.) At the same time, he tried to strongarm Pence into turning the election over to the House (and him).
6.) When Pence resisted, he then assembled a mob in the Capitol and sent them to disrupt the counting of the electoral votes.
7.) On January 6th, 7th, and all the way through the 20th, there were mass resignations in the White House, his Cabinet, and by other high-ranking officials: Mick Mulvaney, Stephanie Grisham, Sarah Matthews, Rickie Niceta, Elaine Chao, Elinore F. McCance-Katz, Tyler Goodspeed, John Costello, Betsy DeVos, Eric Dreiband, Chad Wolf, Jason Schmid, Alex, Azar, Chris Liddell, Matthew Pottinger, Ryan Tully, Robert C. O'Brien, Arjun Garg, Brianna Manzelli, Kirk Shaffer, Bailey Edwards, and Andrew Giacini.
Those remaining made it clear they'd resign in protest, too, if he continued ignoring his Constitutional responsibilities.
So how many times and in how many ways does Orange Jesus have to try to subvert democracy and ignore the Constitution before you, ya' know, get it?
Fast forward and now the Supreme Court has told him to just fill his administration with stooges and anything goes... and that's all Orange Jesus will have in his administration and throughout government: loyalist stooges who don't give a rat's ass about the law or the Constitution.
Game o-, err, democracy over.
