Quote from: nullius on Today at 04:45:27 PM

Newsflash: As of 20 January 2021, Rasmussen Reports has Trump at 51% approval. Although their index of his approval is still negative, they measure him as having the approval of a majority of Americans, with approval now (barely) exceeding disapproval by a statistically significant amount.

I observe that as the Biden inauguration has approached, Trump’s numbers have slowly increased by a statistically significant amount.

Liberals who believe they have incited universal hatred of Trump are living in a psychotic fantasy.

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In President Trump’s final Presidential Tracking Poll, 51% of Likely U.S. Voters approved of his job performance. Forty-eight percent (48%) disapproved. Those figures include 36% who said they Strongly Approve of the job Trump was doing and 41% who Strongly Disapprove. This gave him a Presidential Approval Index rating of -5.

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The margin of sampling error for the full sample of 1,500 Likely Voters is +/- 2.5 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence.

PrimeNumber7, I suggest that the GOP will shoot itself in the foot if they are seen throwing under the bus a President who has somehow managed to gain the approval of a majority of likely American voters, even when the mass-media lie-machine has been in overdrive against him, and he is banned from social media.

And it is critical to support the Senators and Congressional Representatives who raised objections to various Electoral College votes.

I began to write a long essay in reply to you. I will try to finish it later. Now, the above information must be posted timely—while Trump is technically still President.

Meanwhile, PN7, my condolences on your plight in a banana republic where Biden somehow managed put the Capitol in a de facto state of undeclared martial law, before even taking office (!). Hey, wasn’t Trump supposed to be the one who would rule by brute force?

Quote from: TwitchySeal on Today at 10:15:37 AM

Quote from: nullius on January 19, 2021, 08:56:46 PM

Indeed, it is—except that it could have been more strongly worded, e.g., “This is an attempted coup under the rubric of Soviet-style pathologization of dissent, based on armchair diagnoses that amount to, ‘I don’t like him; therefore, he is deranged and mentally incapacitated.’”

A coup is a sudden, illegal, usually violent overthrow of a government or political party.

The 'Amendment' part of the 25th Amendment refers to an addition to the actual US constitution.

It requires the majority of the Presidents cabinet + the VP (all hand picked by the president) to agree that the President should be removed from office.

Asking the VP to invoke the 25th amendment is not an attempted coup,

Yeah, gee, thanks. I had no idea how the 25th Amendment works. I needed to be informed by the same ignoramous whom I previously had to school on the history of liberals’ attempts to pack the SCOTUS so that they could ram through blatantly unconstitutional legislation. Which the “liberals” are now talking about doing under Biden!

Just because something is done under colour of law, does not make it legal; and just because something is done under the colour of a constitution, does not make it constitutional. The bad-faith abuse of a constitutional provision based on a transparent pretext by people who just want to overthrow the President would indeed be a coup, under a thin façade of constitutional procedure.

Quote from: TwitchySeal on Today at 10:15:37 AM

despite what you may read in right wing media - they're just trying to get you fired up (and it seems to be working).

Ladies and gentleman of the forum, refer hereby to what I said previously about liberals’ attempts to rationalize me away.

In fact, as a perspicacious observer with no political party attachments, I myself independently reached my above-quoted conclusion. I actually have not seen anyone else saying what I said; I am the first and only, to the best of my knowledge. If anyone else said the same thing, I must have missed it. But no—that cannot be!—it is impossible! I must be regurgitating agitprop from some mysterious dark force, vaguely identified as “right-wing media”.

Just remember that I am the same nullius whose cultural and political forum oeuvre more usually consists of neoclassical nude statues of Phryne, Nietzschean condemnations of Christianity, rage against American world-police invasions of countries that are not America, and anti-feminist tirades that squarely blame men for inventing feminism. (Because I know history. Feminism is men’s fault, and men need to take responsibility for that.) Surely, I am one to parrot whatever the “right-wing media” (!) brainwashed me to say. Roll Eyes

Quote from: Mpamaegbu on Today at 07:20:36 AM

You made it sound like Ivanka is the nickname of Donald Trump.

I was obviously sarcastic. And if you thought that I “made it sound like Ivanka is the nickname of Donald Trump”, then either you have a serious problem with reading comprehension, or you are so ill-informed about U.S. politics that you should not be commenting on the matter.

Trump is frequently criticized by his own supporters for the position that he gave his daughter despite her utter lack of qualifications, and her contradictions to the promised Trump platform. “President Ivanka” is not a term that I invented—whoops, there I go, being brainwashed by “right-wing media”!

Quote from: Mpamaegbu on Today at 07:20:36 AM

BTW, is there any politician who doesn't have a strain of corruption in them?

I’m sure that you apply the same argument, whenever a Republican and/or a male politician is accused of anything corrupt. Roll Eyes

Quote from: Mpamaegbu on Today at 07:20:36 AM

man isn't God to determine whose turn is next to die.

As a strict rationalist, I don’t believe in “God”—except for the god of Bitcoin, and the apotheosis of the Catbat Witch. —Whoops, there I go, being brainwashed by “right-wing media”—um—wait a minute...

I corrected your title.