{"id":3942,"date":"2024-09-28T00:15:14","date_gmt":"2024-09-28T04:15:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/?p=3942"},"modified":"2024-09-28T00:16:28","modified_gmt":"2024-09-28T04:16:28","slug":"what-if-he-loses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/?p=3942","title":{"rendered":"What If He Loses?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sinkers.org\/posters\/whatifheloses\/whatifheloses150dpi.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" style=\"margin: 0px; border: 0px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sinkers.org\/posters\/whatifheloses\/whatifheloses650w.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"952\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>For the past month or so, MSNBC has been clutching every available pearl<\/strong> over how <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsws.org\/en\/articles\/2024\/09\/20\/nypv-s20.html\" target=\"_blank\">Donald Trump and his deformed minions<\/a> will handle the possibility of losing the &#8220;election&#8221;. Will they pitch a fit, scream &#8220;fraud&#8221; and try to lay siege to Capitol Hill to disrupt the electoral vote count and<a href=\"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/?p=3369\" target=\"_blank\"> stage a putsch <\/a>as they did in &#8217;21?<\/p>\n<p>Personally, I can&#8217;t help asking the same question about the <em>Donkeycrats<\/em> \u2014 how will <em>they<\/em> handle losing to a dude who resembles a villain from an old <em>Columbo<\/em> episode and whose followers are some of the most intensely stupid beings walking upright on Earth; how will <em>they<\/em> roll with a well-deserved ass-paddling at the polls after spitting in the faces of every Muslim-American and every American who actually cares about piddling shit like <em><strong>genocide?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Will the Democrats, on facing defeat, do some institutional soul-searching, self-examination and self-evaluation, accept responsibility and get to work on solutions or \u2014 as they&#8217;ve always done \u2014<a href=\"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/?p=2107\" target=\"_blank\"> pitch a fit, scream &#8220;fraud&#8221;, blame the Left, blame Russia, <\/a>create a climate of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsws.org\/en\/articles\/2024\/09\/27\/zwlq-s27.html\" target=\"_blank\">good old-fashioned McCarthyist bullying<\/a>, fear, suspicion and suppression and try to litigate and investigate their way into power, as they did in &#8217;17?<\/p>\n<p><em>Bwah ha ha ha ha ha hah,<\/em> d&#8217;ahh, fuck it, man; who are we kidding?<\/p>\n<p><strong>11 x 16 inch medium-res <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sinkers.org\/posters\/whatifheloses\/whatifheloses150dpi.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">color .jpg image,<\/a> 968kb<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the past month or so, MSNBC has been clutching every available pearl over how Donald Trump and his deformed minions will handle the possibility of losing the &#8220;election&#8221;. Will they pitch a fit, scream &#8220;fraud&#8221; and try to lay siege to Capitol Hill to disrupt the electoral vote count and stage a putsch as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1336,1136,7,10,82,132,799,9],"tags":[1132,1191],"class_list":["post-3942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2024-election","category-bidenism","category-elections","category-media","category-middle-east","category-party-animals","category-russiagate","category-war-and-peace","tag-capitol-putsch","tag-january-6"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3942"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3942\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3948,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3942\/revisions\/3948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}