While I agree with your sentiments, this still a democracy [edit: republic] ... by a thin margin right now ... and the 'outrage' by Republicans and the MAGA boys & girls would be unending and more trouble than it's worth.
I'd watch that.
I think it was more due to the fact that Biden was getting pissed that Trump couldn't shut his mouth and be respectful enough to let Biden finish a thought. I thought he showed a lot of restraint to not simply tell him to shut the f**k up. Granted, it would have been nice to hear Biden tear him a new one to humble him a bit, but it wouldn't have done any good. Not that anything last night did anyone any good.
I find it really weird that you still have add [edit: republic] when those insisting "we're not a democracy but a republic" are unable to comprehend that one can be both! Your northern neighbour Canada is a constitutional monarchy (and I was born in one, and live in another) and a democracy (both of them), and there are many other examples of this. So why does these people make that particular point? They want a fascist state?
Just for the record, he did say "Will you shut up, man!"
It is odd and we call ourselves a democracy quite often but I'm constantly getting upbraided by constitutional scholars around here & among the few republican friends I have left about it. So I thought I'd head them off at the pass.
And those directional mics tend to be fairly long, so they could beat him over the head with it from 6' away, which qualifies it as 'social distancing'. Using the kind with a parabolic reflector wouldn't be as satisfying.
Can't it be crammed in and his orifices taped shut? Maybe he could be dipped in Flex Seal.
What would you want us to tell people after you disappeared?
It seems you've put some thought into this. Eeek!
Who said I would leave? I'd stay to make sure Trump didn't come back.
France is a republic, currently the fifth one, and has a strong executive (sort of) similar to USA, but still a democracy. Finland is also a republic, but the president has weak powers similar (sort of) to the head of state in a constitutional monarchy, [edit: and of course also a democracy]
For the longest time I defended the Electoral College. Like our founding fathers I feared a dictatorship of the masses, like the French revolution of Robespierre and his ilk that followed over the years; National Socialism, Communism, call it what you may.
That will be very telling of what congress is really willing to let him get away with. Knowing he's lost, he'll do whatever he can to make things suck for Biden.
I've had the same thought. A lot of what he can do would be his decision alone, and other than a fast joint impeachment process to remove him, I don't think there's anything Congress could do. For example, he can raise tariffs with just a signature. He can also expel diplomats. I'm sure there is a long list of nefarious actions he could take.
