stjohn_piano 2020-11-05 no Friend: I don't think trump will win StJohn Piano: I do. Or, more accurately, I think his chances of remaining in office are very good. Friend: the numbers are the numbers surely StJohn Piano: Nope Friend: Though I do seriously believe there's been a lot of fraud On both sides StJohn Piano: I know from experience how much leeway there can be in numbers. And you know from history how much "willpower" counts. Friend: True Oh very very much. I'm doing some reading on the Spanish civil war as another perspective to Memoirs of a British Agent Memoirs of a British Agent, by R H Bruce Lockhart, published 1932. An account of the author's experience as a British diplomat in Moscow before, during, and after the Russian Revolution in 1917. Highly recommended, and quite relevant in these troubled times. Cracking book by the way StJohn Piano: numbers may be numbers, but if you are quite sure that your opponents will come after you to kill / destroy you if they win, there is zero incentive to play by the rules. You think his opponents would allow Trump to leave office peacefully, without coming after him to send him to jail, where he gets Epsteined? Really? Friend: Very true, I guarantee he's probably assessed that he will be going to jail if he loses StJohn Piano: yes new rules, now. Trump is physically in the White House. Even if he were to leave it briefly, his supporters, staff, infrastructure etc is all still in place there. Any successful opponent would have to physically go in to remove him. Friend: you think his supporters have the guts for that kind of fight ? StJohn Piano: looks like it. he has what are effectively his own troops in DC. The ones who cleared Lafayette Park for him, and defended the White House in the summer. a lot of them have come to understand this year that there is no going back. Their opponents will come after them. Partially because the opponents are themselves terrified of being removed by their own ambitious lieutenants, so they have to keep moving forward, finding targets for their supporters. Friend: It'd be the terror all over again. StJohn Piano: yes Friend: It's really best to stay away from the terrors StJohn Piano: oh yes. super no bueno. Friend: Super Mal in fact