US Election 2020

[laklak]

Well sure, it's an American tradition.

Mike Bloomberg tries to bribe Florida convicts to vote for Biden, Florida investigating him under RICO statutes. HA HA HA FUCK YOU YOU PIECE OF NEW YORK SHIT!!!!

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/matt-g ... g-florida?

[Scot Dutchy]

CIA-rapport: grote kans dat Poetin beïnvloeding van de Amerikaanse verkiezingen leidt

CIA Report: There is a big chance that Putin will lead the influencing of the American elections.

Volgens de inlichtingendienst CIA leidt de Russische president Vladimir Poetin mogelijk hoogstpersoonlijk een operatie om de Amerikaanse verkiezingen te beïnvloeden. Doel zou zijn om president Trumps Democratische tegenstander Joe Biden zwart te maken.

According to the CIA the Russian president Vladimir Putin himself will personally lead the operation into into influencing the American elections. The goal will be to paint Trump's Democrat opponent Joe Biden black.

https://www.volkskrant.nl/nieuws-achter ... 928096aeb8

[Brian Peacock]

Somebody beat them to it...

[laklak]

Goddamn that's going to piss off SO many people!

[Tero]

Pelosi will fumigate Trump

[Brian Peacock]

Easy. Just lay a line of chicken wings and cheeseburgers out into the Rose Garden and snag him with a big net.

[Scot Dutchy]

Donald in Blunderland: Trump won't commit to peaceful power transfer at surreal press briefing

David Smith’s sketch: President takes us through the looking glass amid the kneecapping of American democracy

Jared Kushner, the US president’s son-in-law, told journalist Bob Woodward that one of the best ways to understand Donald Trump is to study Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. Kushner paraphrased the Cheshire Cat’s philosophy: “If you don’t know where you’re going, any path will get you there.”

Wednesday was one of those days when to have a seat in the White House briefing room felts like stepping through the looking-glass into Blunderland, where the mad hatter has an authoritarian streak a mile wide.

Trump careered from touting miracle vaccines to building supreme court suspense, from insulting a female member of the British royal family to abruptly departing for a mysterious “emergency” phone call. But first, there was the small matter of kneecapping American democracy.

Perhaps it was not chance that the president, ever eager to generate media outrage, gave the first question to Brian Karem, who describes himself on Twitter as a “Loud Mouth” senior White House reporter at Playboy. “Will you commit to make sure there’s a peaceful transferral of power after the election?” Karem asked.

All of his 43 predecessors would have said yes, presumably. But Trump replied: “We’re going to have to see what happens, you know that. I’ve been complaining very strongly about the ballots, and the ballots are a disaster.”

Karem shot back: “I understand that, but people are rioting. Do you commit to make sure that there’s a peaceful transferral of power?”

Still Trump refused to commit. “Get rid of the ballots and you’ll have a very peaceful — there won’t be a transfer, frankly. There will be a continuation. The ballots are out of control. You know it. And you know who knows it better than anybody else? The Democrats know it better than anybody else.”

This is going to be a riot in more ways than one.

[JimC]

The right wing crazies will be out with their guns if Biden manages to cross the finishing line first...

[Scot Dutchy]

Exactly Jim. The Senate and Supreme Court will support him when he declares marshal law and dictator Trump will be appointed.

[Sean Hayden]

Nobody is bound to protect a dictator here Dutchy.

[Sean Hayden]

If he's talking like that it's because his idiot followers love it, not because he's capable of staying.

[rainbow]

I prefer goat entrails, myself.

How is it possible that the Democrats with 58% of the popular vote in the last Senate elections have a minority in the Senate?

I mean seriously what's the point?

Because the Senate is state by state, not national. Senators are elected in statewide elections, so a Democratic senator from say, Florida, would need maybe 5,000,000 votes to win, while a Republican senator from Wyoming could win win with a couple hundred thousand. The more populous, urbanized states tend to lean Democratic, while rural states tend to vote GOP, hence the national discrepancy.

There is no electoral college analog in any election other than the Presidency, all other offices are filled by popular vote.

Thanks. I see two senators per state, so does this mean that the Republicans will hold the Senate even if Trump loses?

[NineBerry]

Just make every borough in New York city its own state.

[Brian Peacock]

If he's talking like that it's because his idiot followers love it, not because he's capable of staying.

I think that he might say those things because he's a pathological disputer and disrupter. We've seen the pattern so often: he always dodges the context or subtext, assumes difficult questions are all heavily pregnant gotchas, and just says stuff to confound and shut the conversation down. Surely the media can see this by now? He's a parody of a politician when he tries to do the talking-without-saying thing, because he's simply not a politician - he's a spoilt rich kid who thinks respect is everybody hanging on his every word as well believing he's absolutely entitled to fulfil whatever whim or fancy bubbles up and floats across his forebrain.

[Tero]

law-and-order Trump: It's OK to shoot journalists with rubber bullets. They tossed him aside like a bag of peanuts!

NYT
In a Twitter reply to Mr. Trump on Saturday, Mr. Velshi wrote, “So, @realDonaldTrump, you call my getting hit by authorities in Minneapolis on 5/30/20 (by a rubber bullet, btw, not a tear-gas canister) a ‘beautiful thing’ called ‘law and order.’ What law did I break while covering an entirely peaceful (yes, entirely peaceful) march?”

Mr. Velshi declined to comment further.

MSNBC said in a statement on Saturday, “When the president mocks a journalist for the injury he sustained while putting himself in harm’s way to inform the public, he endangers thousands of other journalists and undermines our freedoms.”



At a Tuesday night rally in Moon Township, Pa., Mr. Trump repeated the attack. This time, he did not identify Mr. Velshi by name, referring to him, incorrectly, as “that idiot reporter from CNN” and remarking on his baldness.

“And he went down,” Mr. Trump said, to laughs from the crowd. “‘I’ve been hit! I’ve been hit!’”

The president went on to describe the National Guard’s moving on a crowd of protesters that included reporters. “They grabbed one guy — ‘I’m a reporter! I’m a reporter!’ ‘Get out of here.’ They threw him aside like he was a little bag of popcorn,” Mr. Trump said, to more laughs from the crowd.

“Honestly,” the president added, “when you watch the crap that we’ve all had to take so long, when you see that, it’s actually — you don’t want to do that — but when you see it, it’s actually a beautiful sight.”