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The gravity of the moment is clear: Today marks the beginning of the end of an era.  An era defined by scandal after scandal, conspiracy theory after conspiracy theory, and lie after lie.  An era in which name-calling and bullying were normalized.  An era in which norms were repeatedly and brazenly violated.  An era in which the President fanned the flames of division and cheered on calls for his political opponents to be imprisoned.  An era which will end with hundreds of thousands dead as a result of a horribly managed pandemic. 

Beginning very early on in his bid for reelection, Mr. Trump and his surrogates sought to undermine the democratic process, falsely asserting that the increase in mail-in ballots, largely driven by the pandemic, would lead to widespread fraud.  That stance primed the president's supporters for his eventual false claim that Democrats were trying to steal the election. 

As Joe Biden takes the stage in Delaware Saturday night to deliver a victory speech, the Trump campaign is grappling with the reality of a loss.  Some staffers said they had come to grips with losing in recent days, others said it did not feel real until Fox News made the final call on Saturday.

In public, Mr. Trump and his campaign have vowed to pursue legal challenges aggressively.  "We will pursue this process through every aspect of the law to guarantee that the American people have confidence in our government", Trump said in a statement Friday.  "I will never give up fighting for you and our nation."

Though the Trump team has filed lawsuits in several states (many of which have been dismissed and others are pending), sources familiar with the actions stress to ABC News that there has been internal bickering over the suits with some members of the president's legal team feeling they are both pointless and lacking in merit.

The campaign recognizes that Mr. Trump's legal options are limited, given his large deficits in Georgia and Pennsylvania.  There are only so many legal options that he has, and even those legal options do not make sense because he still does not get to the 270 electoral votes necessary for him to be declared president.

Mr. Trump has lost his bid for re-election.  That makes him a loser.  He hates being called a loser, but that is exactly what the election results have made him.

Donald J. Trump: LOSER.

Well let’s hope that Biden can do economic magic for the country , am fearing the. New administration will be mired in mediocrity. Am praying that this new administration will bring some good changes .

[quote="VegetableMan"]Biden, like Obama will do nothing to address climate change. Obama presided over a record increase in oil production, heavily promoted fracking, and opened up the Arctic to drilling twice. He also sat back and watched the indigenous people during the DAPL protests, who were defending their water from the pipeline forced through their land, get blasted with water cannons in subfreezing weather. Biden will do do jack s**t for the environment. He won't even support the Green New Deal.

Biden voted for the Iraq War, and supported all the five wars Obama got us into. He's a tool for the MIC.

Yes, he's definitely a war criminal. All U.S. presidents, as Noam Chomsky accurately stated, would be indictable for war crimes if held to the standards of the Nuremberg military tribunals.[/quote
Under Obama US carbon dioxide emissions per capita fell from 18.5 metric tonnes (2008) to 16.4 metric tonnes (2016). There was also huge investment in clean energy research that will pay off in the future, and international co-operation which led to the Paris Agreement, the most widely signed climate agreement in history.

The Green New Deal is a great example of political corruption. There’s a good core there of the policies of the Obama administration and those Biden has indicated he will support. However, a bunch of special interest groups have latched onto the idea and corrupted it with various stupid riders and unhelpful demands, like opposition to a carbon tax, carbon capture, and nuclear power, as well as a rider demanding a federal jobs guarantee. Biden’s climate plan contains all the good elements of the GND without the idealism. It’s an ambitious but practical plan to get to net zero by 2050.

Biden’s foreign policy record is better characterised as weird than hawkish or dovish. He was opposed to the Gulf War, which was a great conflict that George HW Bush was absolutely correct to fight. He supported the intervention in Kosovo, which again was absolutely the right thing to do. The Iraq War was extremely popular at its outset and supporting it is not a war crime.

Can you point to any actual war crimes committed by Joe Biden? A war crime is not a catch-all term for things one doesn’t like, but has a specific meaning under international law. Presumably you are able to point to the laws Biden has broken and provide evidence that he has broken them?