RE:2021Agree 100%
In six months, when Trump is broke and jailed, America will see a shift in the way politics should be and they will realize just how close their democracy came to crumbling.
I have been watching this unfold through the eyes of first hand experience. I am Russian.
I came to Canada in 1986. My family received refugee status because our lives were in danger.
My father was stationed in Ukraine and worked as an engineer at a nuclear plant.
He was "silenced" by high ranking officials for trying to warn people of a flaw in the reactor's sefety shutdown system. Anybody heard of Chernobyl?
I knew how things got "done" back home and the last 4 years under Trump (especially the last year) had the smack and smell of the USSR / modern day Russia.
Thankfully, a stacked conservative court system was not swayed by the demands of a budding tyrant. The State judges and Federal Justices all sided in favor of democracy. In every single case.
That is what has Trump's shorts in a knot. He put them there, they owe him. Putin rules without opposition (you've seen what happens to his opponents) and Gorbachev was just as bad. Trump wants this type of dictatorshipso badly he is willing to throw sand in the gears of the constitution and hold desperate funds to get his way.
He is now destroying any chance of a favorable run off in Georgia. It will be because of Trump and Trump alone that Biden will gain control of the senate.
People are starving in food lines and getting evicted in Georgia just as much as in any other state.
On another note, I don't think he will pardon his children.
SCOTUS would require an admission of guilt from them and a description of the crimes to be pardoned. This would nullify any future chance of his children entering the political ring.
Nailbiter1 wrote: A new world is born
Just like the Black Death in the 14th century and the Spanish Flu in 1918, the 2020 pandemic will transform the world in ways that we can only now imagine. It will start a global debate about how each of us lives. Beyond its horrific death and destruction, the pandemic has triggered many profound changes in the home, workplace and in social relationships that will be lasting.
Aftershocks from a failed American coup
A broken U.S. democracy has survived — but just barely — having a madman in office. Congratulations, America. But when sanity returns to the White House with Joe Biden’s inauguration, many Americans will begin to realize the enormity of what almost happened. A sitting U.S. president — with the support of the Republican leadership — tried to deny the will of the American people and steal the election. The repercussions from this will be explosive.
Biden’s moment
When the history is written about Biden’s first year in office, it may have little to do with what legislative accomplishments he and the Democrats achieve. After all, that will largely depend on which political party ultimately controls the Senate. Instead — after four years of surviving a lying and corrupt U.S. president — it will be the decency, honesty and integrity that Biden himself brings to the office that will be most remembered.
Trump’s slow fade
There will come a time, probably soon, when Trump’s personal wishes will be of little interest to most Americans. Once he leaves the White House in January, there will be talk of him running again but it will just be talk. Trump’s only real goals in the years ahead will be making enough money to pay off his $400 million (U.S.) of debt and — most importantly — to stay out of jail. I have good news on both fronts: At the end of the day, Trump will achieve neither.