[ExI] I wish this was fake news

Dylan Distasio interzone at gmail.com
Sun Mar 11 02:35:06 UTC 2018


Apologies around the terrible grammar regarding the Norks, I should have
read that back one more time before posting...

On Sat, Mar 10, 2018 at 9:34 PM, Dylan Distasio <interzone at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm willing to take the other side of whatever you would like to bet that
> either way Trump is not more than a two term POTUS, and that if he loses in
> 2020, the results will ultimately be honored.  You should have stuck with
> your "ridiculous paranoia" instinct; it sounds like you've been watching
> too much of the fake news network.    I figured you'd be happy to see it
> doesn't look like the Norks aren't planning on nuking us currently.
>
> If the US can't survive one to two terms of Trump, we have much bigger
> problems with the structure of our Republic.  Anyways, I'm serious about
> the bet; we can check back in 2020.
>
> On Sat, Mar 10, 2018 at 8:53 PM, John Clark <johnkclark at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Trump recently said it might be a good idea if the USA had a president
>> for life just as China does now. Perhaps he was just making a bad joke but
>> I’m not sure, perhaps it was a trial balloon. I have always thought the
>> very first question reporters should have asked President-elect Trump is if
>> he lost in 2020 would he respect the outcome of the election, because he
>> famously refused to say he’d do so before the 2016 election. He didn’t lose
>> of course so the matter never came up but instead he showed himself to be
>> something very rare, a sore winner. He bizarrely said the 2016 election was
>> invalid and unfair even though he won. If Trump looses in 2020 can anybody
>> really doubt he will call that election unfair and invalid too? And unlike
>> the case in 2016 he would now be in a position to do more than just
>> verbally complain about the outcome because he is now Commander In Chief
>> and has the power to take action. Just two or three years ago I would have
>> said such a suggestion was ridiculous paranoia but Mr.rump has already
>> shown he is perfectly willing to engage in activities far outside normal
>> presidential behavior, so I think we should take this danger seriously.
>>
>>  John K Clark
>>
>>
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