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<p>While I'm on a roll (see [un]official disambiguation thread): <br>
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<p>I gurgitated:<br>
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<p>Phellow Phriamers -</p>
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<p>Here are my anti-Trump ideations grounded in the SCrOTUS
decision of the day:</p>
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<div align="center"><font color="#9f0000">Warning, vivid imagery
which </font><br>
<font color="#9f0000">may induce <b><i>limbic chaos</i></b>!</font><br>
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<hr width="100%" size="2">President Joe Biden writes the following
(official act) executive orders and proclamations:</blockquote>
<p><more Gurge, less Limbic Chaos></p>
<p>Regarding the debate and election:</p>
<p>Watching the debate (most of my friends chose to "know better"
and waited for select aftergame reports) I was deeply disheartened
by both performances.</p>
<p>That said, I realized (soon after?) that they were in fact
"performances", as virtually all politicking is (and virtually all
that DJT ever does?)... <br>
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<p>While I have ideated exhaustively (exhausted myself and anyone
who would listen) on alternative scenarios where Biden
(gracefully) steps aside, including nominating a consensus
candidate (implied team) of his choice (e.g. Newsom/Harris,
Booker/Whitmer, Jeffries/Warren, ??? ad nauseum) with
full-throated endorsements by everyone of significance in the left
(e.g. Pelosi, Obamas, Late Night Comicsa few senior Newshosts,
???). And the Never Trumpers from the Right (Cheney-Kinsinger,
Chris Christie?, Judge Ludig, the Lincoln Project, et alii), I had
another simple thought.</p>
<p>What if this event really reduces the race to what it really is:
Never Trumping, Bald Authoritarianism vs flawed Democracy in the
Democratic Party's style?</p>
<p>Someone made the point that nobody who was going to vote for
Biden will now vote for Trump, maybe a few will cynically risk
letting Trump default in, but most of the "own the libs"
Trumpsters just got the satisfaction they crave (humiliating libs)
and might forget to vote (incels in their parent's basement
watching porn). There were only order 9M registered voters who
failed to vote in 2020, a smallish (out of 168M? registered
voters) percentage, but enough to swing the election wide. Some
of those will always fail. I believe the number of *eligible*
voters in 2020 was 1.5x the number registered, or about 80M
unregistered voters. <br>
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<p>The focus could/should be "get out the vote", trusting that
Trump's frenzied grievance politics has already wrung his
turnip-truck-load of turnips near-dry? <br>
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<p>I also wonder at why nobody has said (enough?) much to
"mainstream" or "oldSkool" conservatives/Republicans about their
role as a "Loyal Opposition"? Don't they miss that role
themselves and miss having one in traditional Dems? The gloves
have been off (on one side) for some time, do they (all) really
want to be left standing after a brutal beatdown consisting of
sand-in-the-face, brass knuckle rabbit and kidney punches? I'm
sure many are eager for that, despite the "careful what you ask
for" rule, but surely enough (like the afore-mentioned
never-trumpers). <br>
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<p>Don't at least some want to get back to the "good old days" of a
gentle(wo)man's tug-of-war across a mud-pit (sans vipers)?</p>
<p>The new(ly re-realized) reality might bring some focus to those
who already (or nearly) recognize the dire threat of
Authoritarianism (this time in a Red Hat) in general?<br>
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