It's the ones willing to finish the fight for him who worry me

Adapted from the Twitter feed, Sunday, July 19, 2020. Posted Tuesday morning, July 21.

"That's for me to say and you to find out": Trump looking cagey as he listens to reporter's question on the White House lawn on July 15, 2020, a few days before his familiarly disturbing and characteristically unmoored sit-down with Chris Wallace. Patrick Selansky/AP.

President Donald Trump is refusing to publicly commit to accepting the results of the upcoming White House election, recalling a similar threat he made weeks before the 2016 vote, as he scoffs at polls showing him lagging behind Democrat Joe Biden. Trump says it’s too early to make such an ironclad guarantee.

“I have to see. Look ... I have to see,” Trump told moderator Chris Wallace during a wide-ranging interview on ”Fox News Sunday.” “No, I’m not going to just say yes. I’m not going to say no, and I didn’t last time either.” --- AP. July 19, 2020.

I don't think it will matter if Trump refuses to "accept" the election results if he loses. Who knows what goes on under that weave but I just don't see him putting up a real fight.

By it won't matter if he refuses to accept the election results, I simply mean it won't keep him in office. What Joe Biden say: Trump doesn’t get to decide. The American People do, and under their orders “the United States government is perfectly capable of escorting trespassers out of the White House.” It will matter because whatever amount of fight he manages to put up, it will cause the American people pain, suffering, turmoil, chaos, confusion, and across the board damage to the body politic it will take years to repair.

He'll throw a tantrum of course, type RIGGED on his cell until the screen cracks, gibber and blather on Fox about the FAKE NEWS and the DEEP STATE, shriek and shout things to any audience he can gather meant to incite riots, call for Second Amendment solutions, send for his lawyers and fixers, but before the marshals come knocking he'll fall into despair and fold.

That's his history.

He likes to call himself a fighter. He loves it when his sycophants and apologists call him one too. He's a counter puncher, they boast on his behalf.

But what he is is a sucker puncher. He hits when you're not looking or before you're ready or after you've got him already beat and are heading back to your corner…

Then he runs for the nearest open door...

Leaving it to others to finish the fight for him if they're inclined.

Discretion has always been the better part of valor with him

It's the ones willing to finish the fight for him who worry me.

His mobs of hideous men eager for an excuse to use the guns they take pride in scaring little kids with the sight of.

And the true and committed fascists in his administration like Barr and Pompeo, Mark Meadows and Chad Wolf and Betsy DeVos, and the probably many others we don't know about.

And the smart, ambitious, vicious, and truly bold and therefore truly dangerous ones in the House and the Senate, like Dan Crenshaw and Tom Cotton.

And the ones in the military and the others in the police forces. And the corrupt and incompetent but reliably partisan judges packing the courts.

And the right wing loons at their microphones egging them all on...

I think they'll lose in the end but it will be violent if not horrifically bloody…

And then Trump will poke his head out from wherever he's been hiding to tweet, "Don't blame me. I had nothing to do with it. They were a pack of incompetent losers. Want to buy a membership in one of my clubs?"

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He is going to spend a lot of time building the PR lifeboat to explain his defeat.

Talking about rigged voting is just a way for him to claim victory in defeat.

That was the plan in 2016 - it was going to be great, he was going to spend the rest of his life on TV shitting on Hillary and everyone else like Rush and Hannity - it was perfect for him. But he fucked that up by actually winning the election.

[Robert Sommers]

You are correct. Trump or not, the trump genie is out of the bottle and will infect his minions for years to come. These people are not going away and things will stay ugly. As Brownie and Sonny once sang, "The battle is over but the war goes on..."

[Wesley Sandel]

I don't know if you've noticed but, the right-wing only and exclusively attacks the defenseless.