George Will, of all people, nails it.

[ehrnst]

Ransacking his mental thesaurus in search of exactly the wrong words, and finding them, President Trump, in his early-Wednesday-morning coda to his kamikaze campaign, distilled into six words a suitable cri de cœur for the leader of a party that has now lost the popular vote in seven of the past eight elections:

'We want all voting to stop.'

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/america-is-battered-but-a-somewhat-happy-ending-is-in-sight/2020/11/04/6c59db62-1ec8-11eb-b532-05c751cd5dc2_story.html

[Roland99]

1. Well said, indeed

[Beringia]

2. These times bring out the wit in people

It is so dark, you can only laugh.

[Kitchari]

3. True

Too true

[Hortensis]

4. :) Will has a great talent for finding the right words.

Thanks for the smile, Ehrnst.

[Hortensis]

5. :) Will has a great talent for finding the right words.

Thanks for the smile, Ehrnst.

[jaxexpat]

6. We must all be truly stunned into silence if George Will is our spokesman.

[JHB]

15. Nah, it's the usual "only Nixon could go to China" stuff...

We have plenty of people with sharp wits and acid-tongues, but they're usually consigned to obscurity for being "too strident" and don't get nationally-visible columns, op-eds, and political talk show invites.

[COL Mustard]

22. I Don't Always Agree With His Positions

But he has a way with words. He’s also a huge baseball fan.

[bucolic_frolic]

7. The party loses the popular vote in aggregate for the Senate too

Yet there they are, in power, singing along with Mitch

[July]

8. Hey, Donnie Dimwit!

All voting HAS stopped.

But the counting has begun.

[SammyWinstonJack]

21. Exactly. His spreadneck Deplorables are too stupid to grasp that.

[PWPippinesq]

9. We want all testing to stop to "We want all voting to stop"

Sad!

[Laura PourMeADrink]

10. Nice! Isn't it funny how trump was "hands-off, let them sink"

on controlling the virus. But now, he wants to get involved and tell the states what to do with voting?

[ecstatic]

11. Exactly! Nt

[llmart]

13. Excellent point.

Republicans - Always the party of hypocrites.

[ananda]

12. When George Will is against you. tRump, you're toast!

Good

[Botany]

14. The GOP "has now lost the popular vote in seven of the past eight elections."

Don't tell me that the libs/dems are out of sync with America.

[NoRoadUntravelled]

16. George Will's quote should be used in the history books. nt

[cojoel]

17. There is this point to make

There is this quote:

His rhetoric was calculated, with feral cunning, to preemptively delegitimize the election. So, the list of this century’s failures of governance now includes a sixth episode crammed into just 20 years: the intelligence failures preceding 9/11; the Iraq debacle; the 2008 financial crisis; unpreparedness for, and feckless national leadership during, a pandemic; and the inability to nimbly adapt to the pandemic by conducting elections that bolster public confidence.

What George Will doesn't say that all six of these "failures of governance happened during Republican administrations: three for GWB and three for Trump.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

35. Rather 'nice' of him to list them without attributing them to Republicans, eh?

[gordianot]

18. All along for Trump ballots are deadlier than bullets.

Well dressed prosecuting attorneys are his greatest threat.

[robbob]

19. I have to disagree

He chose his words very deliberately; when he said “all voting must stop” he was implying that votes were still being cast well past the closing of polls, and THIS was how his “victory” would be stolen. tRump and his handlers are word weasels; they manipulate their gullible followers by implanting false ideas in their minds. For example, for weeks now they have been creating the notion that there is something inherently corrupt about mail in ballots.

It won’t work this time. The correct response is simply ALL the legitimate votes must be counted.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

24. Yes, word weasels. They will say "there is a chance a shiny object might have been there" and their

They will say "there is a chance a shiny object might have been there" and supporters will go "Ooo! Shiny object! Those commie demoncrats stole it!"

[Soxfan58]

20. Some Republicans

Are not as batshit crazy as the rest. Thanks for listening to my Ted Talk.

[COL Mustard]

23. 😎👍

Well said!!!

[Bernardo de La Paz]

25. There are Republicons which means tRumpists & tRumpissers & tRumpanzees. There are also conservative

The conservatives will have to form a new party because there is no room for reasonable conservatives in the tRump-Republicon party. It is so far gone into fantasy and selfishness that it is truly the Greed Over People party.

We should encourage conservatives to form a new party that we can deal with. In the short run it will badly split the vote on the right and in the long run it will help heal America.

[Soxfan58]

29. Yes!!!!!

Government works best when all sides engage in a healthy debate. McConnell has forgot that.

[BobTheSubgenius]

26. You are exactly right, ehrnst.

Will absolutely smashed it, and Agent Orange.

[aggiesal]

27. Pendejo45's strategy appears to be ...

I'm winning, stop counting.
I'm losing, keep counting.

El Pendejo Grande.

[sdfernando]

28. Ohh....I LOVE this.

Too bad the tangeranus won't understand a word of it. Most of these words are not in his vocabulary and he is way too lazy to even look up "cri de cœur" even though anyone with a modicum of intelligence could figure it our without cracking a book, or a smartphone!

[UpInArms]

30. What Will utterly FAILS TO MENTION

So, the list of this century’s failures of governance now includes a sixth episode crammed into just 20 years: the intelligence failures preceding 9/11; the Iraq debacle; the 2008 financial crisis; unpreparedness for, and feckless national leadership during, a pandemic; and the inability to nimbly adapt to the pandemic by conducting elections that bolster public confidence.

9/11 - GWB ... REPUBLICAN

the Iraq debacle - GWB ... REPUBLICAN

the 2008 financial crisis - GWB ... REPUBLICAN

unpreparedness for, and feckless national leadership during a pandemic - DJT ... REPUBLICAN

the ability to nimbly adapt to the pandemic by conducting elections that bolster public confidence - DJT ... REPUBLICAN

........

Gee ... I wonder what those things have in common?

[Hekate]

31. George Will has all the best words

[McCamy Taylor]

32. Will is always at his best when he is a critic

rather than a cheer leader.

[warmfeet]

33. I hope everyone keeps this in mind;

"the republican party has lost the popular vote in seven of the past eight elections." They have won the white house far more often than this in the past eight elections.

This must change. Democracies do not function this way. You lose the popular vote, you lose, period.

I am not a fan of oligarchic or autocratic forms of government. Despots and kings are right out.

My favorite scene from Monty Python and the Holy Grail.

[Skittles]

34. yes, that does nail it

indeed

[c-rational]

36. Nice sentence George, but you were part of that party for the last four decades. Did you not

realize what an abomination of a party you helped build.

[bigtree]

37. my old letter to the editor nemesis

...wrote my little essays freehand with pencil and yellow legal pad.

Got a few to Will published in newsprint.

I'd wait a week or so for a telephone call on my land line after his article had appeared, and I'd have rushed my letter into the snail mailbox. The voice at the other end of the line would be asking me if I'd agree for them to publish (no guarantees they'd say, but it was almost certain). I'd hang up and be over the moon at the prospect of reading my name and opinion on the WP editorial page. Next couple of mornings I'd drag myself out of bed and check the paper. When I'd found the piece... man. Nothing sweeter in my young life. 12 different times, one on the Clinton impeachment, one in their now-defunct magazine.

My man, Will. He's still trash.

[Kashkakat v.2.0]

38. good, Im glad someone else saw that and commented - it

was a slip, ok, but you know dang well thats what he really wants - overt facism.

[struggle4progress]

39. "I see that it is once again time for my occasional feint towards the center"

[disalitervisum]

40. everyone in the room clapped and cheered when he said it

nt

[Warpy]

41. Ouch! That article is going to leave a mark.

Will has always had a good command of the English language, he's just been wrongheaded. It's nice to know he had a few standards, after all, low ones but he had 'em.

He'll be back to excoriating us five minutes after the next Democrat gets sworn in.

Current counts in the slow to report five states all have Dumdum ahead. I hope it doesn't last through tomorrow until news dump time.