All righty then let's put this to rest:

People are freaking out that Trump will not accept a peaceful transition of power because he doesn't believe mail in votes are valid. He has plans to take it to the New and Improved Supreme Court that he has swung in his favor and the country will erupt in Civil War.

BullPukey! I have been saying all along that the person who wins the election will be sworn in the minute the clock says he is supposed to and Trump's powers are gone. He will no longer be president. Oh he might still be trying to do things through the courts, but maybe that is his right. Don't know, don't care. Biden wins then he will be president. Period.

Top Republicans Promise ‘Peaceful Transfer Of Power’ After Trump Wouldn’t

McConnell states it best:

Top Republicans on Thursday vowed to ensure a peaceful transfer of power should President Donald Trump lose the November election, a day after Trump refused to commit to doing so.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), who almost never publicly pushes back against Trump, said whoever wins the election will be inaugurated on Jan. 20.

The winner of the November 3rd election will be inaugurated on January 20th. There will be an orderly transition just as there has been every four years since 1792.

— Leader McConnell (@senatemajldr) September 24, 2020

Other republicans chime in and say the same thing. When you have a Cheney turning away from a power grab then I think that dawg can be said not to hunt:

Earlier Thursday, Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wy.), the third-ranking Republican in the House, promised that “America’s leaders” would carry out their duties to the Constitution by guaranteeing a peaceful transition.

The peaceful transfer of power is enshrined in our Constitution and fundamental to the survival of our Republic. America’s leaders swear an oath to the Constitution. We will uphold that oath.

— Liz Cheney (@Liz_Cheney) September 24, 2020

This tweet was in response to McConnell's tweet:

Well, that might not necessarily be true. Biden could win the election only to have Harris be the one inaugurated.*

*Yes, I'm aware she'd be part of the winning ticket, but that would still be a bait-and-switch by the DNC.

Democrats have been making noise about this and I have said that I am keeping an eye open on this story:

Democrats are laying the groundwork for revolution right in front of our eyes...

All this enthused Joe Biden, who threw subtlety to the winds.

The former United States Senator (for 26 years) and Vice President (for eight) has not once, not twice, but thrice confidently asserted that the military will “escort [Trump] from the White House with great dispatch” should the president refuse to leave. Another former Vice President, Al Gore, publicly agreed.

One might dismiss such comments as the ravings of a dementia patient and a has-been who never got over his own electoral loss. But before you do, consider also this. Over the summer a story was deliberately leaked to the press of a meeting at which 100 Democratic grandees, anti-Trump former Republicans, and other ruling class apparatchiks got together (on George Soros’s dime) to “game out” various outcomes of the 2020 election. One such outcome was a clear Trump win. In that eventuality, former Bill Clinton White House Chief of Staff John Podesta, playing Biden, refused to concede, pressured states that Trump won to send Democrats to the formal Electoral College vote, and trusted that the military would take care of the rest.

The leaked report from the exercise darkly concluded that “technocratic solutions, courts, and reliance on elites observing norms are not the answer here,” promising that what would follow the November election would be “a street fight, not a legal battle.”

Hillary opened her trap and told Biden not to concede the election. So who has been fear mongering more?*** Trump or the democrats or are they just playing one more game to stoke fears of the electorate? I say yes that is exactly what they are doing. I recall one member here posting this nonsense well over a year ago that Trump will not go quietly into the night if he loses and I hit back against it from day one. Now we have the republican's words that if Trump loses they will not back whatever play he has in mind.

*** link to today's DK fear mongering diary. It follows how Rachel Moscow does her shows on Russia Russia ..... there is no other side to the story even though the opposite views are all over the net. Fear mongering.

Aprop of nothing except to see how far Biden has declined since he debated Paul Ryan. It should que to the spot the debate starts.

Yeah there's that. But on Krystal's point of Biden doing well in his debate with Bernie, I think Bernie threw it. He did not go after Biden the same way he went after Hillary. And I still think that it was filmed earlier and his bad spots were edited out and Bernie had agreed to it. Yep. I will go to my grave thinking that.