Trump on verge of conceding in Rose Garden speech, changes mind mid-sentence

[beschizza]

Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2020/11/13/trump-on-verge-of-conceding-in-rose-garden-speech-changes-mind-mid-sentence.html

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[apalatn]

Man-child pathologically cannot admit to losing. News at 11.

[generic_name]

[Thrull1]

lol, the vaccine BioNTech developed and Pfizer bought.

[Brainspore]

My hat is off to whoever tried to slip that concession into the teleprompter.

[generic_name]

My money is on him eventually conceding, but his long term plan is to grift his followers, pretend he’s running for president in 2024 to solicit donations he can pocket, and between now and Jan 20th he will do plenty to f%$k up the government so he and conservative media can point fingers at how ineffectual Democrats are. “See?! I told you Sleepy Joe was past his prime, he can’t even avoid all the landmines I left for him!”

He’s going to milk “I was robbed” for at least another month indefinitely as a down payment on that strategy.

[Ashen_Victor]

Orange Mussolini is still crying over Hillary’s e-mails four years later.

SOB will be crying “it was voter fraud, I won” for forty years.

[the_borderer]

He will concede on January 19th, just before boarding an Aeroflot flight to Moscow.

[Brainspore]

@Ashen_Victor

SOB will be crying “it was voter fraud, I won” for forty years.

He doesn’t strike me as the kind of person likely to live to 114.

[Doctor_Faustus]

@Ashen_Victor

SOB will be crying “it was voter fraud, I won” for forty years.

The man is a septuagenarian. He definitely won’t live another 40 years. As Melizmatic likes to remind us he might keel over tomorrow.

[anon81034786]

@generic_name

between now and Jan 20th he will do plenty to f%$k up the government so he and conservative media can point fingers at how ineffectual Democrats are.

He’s certainly trying

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-11-13/trump-to-rush-drilling-leases-in-arctic-before-biden-takes-over

[Otherbrother]

@Brainspore

My hat is off to whoever tried to slip that concession into the teleprompter.

If it were me I probably would have tried something a little more blue like the send-off Ron Burgundy read off the teleprompter in Anchorman but I suppose a simple concession would be better for the country.

[NickyG]

@Ashen_Victor

SOB will be crying “it was voter fraud, I won” for forty years.

he’s definitely not going to be alive in 40 years!

[kelvins273]

At least his correction leaves open the possibility of a Biden administration. I guess that’s progress.

[Wally]

@Ashen_Victor

SOB will be crying “it was voter fraud, I won” for forty years.

More like 40 more days. Dude is not long for this world.

[Anselm]

The vaccine was developed by BioNTech, which is a fairly small and specialised German pharmaceutical company. Pfizer comes in because they’re better placed to mass-produce and distribute the vaccine, especially in the USA where BioNTech has no facilities – but it’s not quite accurate to say that the vaccine is “by Pfizer”.

[ejeffrey]

@Anselm

Pfizer comes in because they’re better placed to mass-produce and distribute

Also to run clinical trials.

[entropop]

This is the thing, the big pharma companies don’t spend much of the money they gather from bankrupting families on research. They spend it on advertising toothpaste and boner pills on tv and just buy up companies producing real research when they prove successful.

[AJScease]

Either “speech”, in the Trump context, doesn’t mean what the writer thinks it means, or the traditional definition of “speech” is only loosely being followed.

[rob_dobbs]

In my mind, what really distinguishes him from prior presidents is the nonzero chance he will burn down the White House before January 20 to try to collect insurance money.