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The Trump Presidency: Part 21

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Babbylonian said:
Hopefully this indicates Wisconsin voters are fed up with the GOP and will vote Dem in Nov.
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I'd place it in the 50/50 range. I suspect that the Republicans' insistence on holding the election on time pissed people off, which affected their votes. Whether that anger holds to November will probably depend on how long the overall economy remains closed.
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Correct me if I'm wrong... but the presidential primaries run at the same time as the state Supreme court elections?

If so that might have been a factor in the Democratic victory... after all, since Trump was basically running unopposed, his supporters didn't have to go to the polls to ensure he won the primaries, whereas the democratic primaries still had 2 possible candidates to vote for. That meant more democratic turnout to vote in the primary (and thus more left-leaning voters able to cast their votes for the supreme court nominees, who would be more likely to pick the left-wing candidate.)
 
Babbylonian said:
I'd place it in the 50/50 range. I suspect that the Republicans' insistence on holding the election on time pissed people off, which affected their votes. Whether that anger holds to November will probably depend on how long the overall economy remains closed.
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Trump won Wisconsin with a razor thin margin of 0.77%. Wisconsin is traditionally a blue state and this could return them to voting Dem.
 
Segnosaur said:
Correct me if I'm wrong... but the presidential primaries run at the same time as the state Supreme court elections?

If so that might have been a factor in the Democratic victory... after all, since Trump was basically running unopposed, his supporters didn't have to go to the polls to ensure he won the primaries, whereas the democratic primaries still had 2 possible candidates to vote for. That meant more democratic turnout to vote in the primary (and thus more left-leaning voters able to cast their votes for the supreme court nominees, who would be more likely to pick the left-wing candidate.)
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That's definitely a factor. Still, every non-Republican (non-crazy person) in this country should be enraged by states pushing ahead with in-person elections right now. It's ******* insane and will almost certainly kill people who would otherwise have stayed alive.
 
So, the “re-open” committee is going to have such metric-savvy people as Ivanka.

A committee full of people who are going to give their proxy vote to President Trump.

Quelle surprise
 
Ladewig said:
So, the “re-open” committee is going to have such metric-savvy people as Ivanka.

A committee full of people who are going to give their proxy vote to President Trump.

Quelle surprise
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I was gonna say that at least she's smarter than her father, but there's no evidence of that.
 
Resume said:
I was gonna say that at least she's smarter than her father, but there's no evidence of that.
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She might, at times, appear smarter than her father but that is just a matter of her not having an all-consuming mental disorder.

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She smart enough to know her life will be hell if she publicly disagrees with her father about a re-open date.
 
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Ladewig said:
So, the “re-open” committee is going to have such metric-savvy people as Ivanka.
A committee full of people who are going to give their proxy vote to President Trump.

Quelle surprise
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Not according to what Trump told reporters.

The President's senior advisers Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump will not participate, Trump told reporters on Monday. The disclosure caught some of his aides by surprise because the President's son-in-law and daughter were expected by some to be involved.
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Stacyhs said:
Not according to what Trump told reporters.

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From the link.

Inside the West Wing, the new panel is viewed as a counterbalance to the health-focused task force, particularly as Trump weighs whether to lift mitigation recommendations by May 1 -- a move that he hopes will lead to a "reopening" of the country. Officials have been trying to tamp down the formality of the second task force, hinting that it won't meet regularly like the one focused on public health does.
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A ******* health crisis doesn't need a counterbalance. It needs fact-based decision making, not gut instinct or or whatever nonsense is floating around in that rock-filled space Trump was tapping the other day. It certainly doesn't need a bunch of $$$ pimps pushing against medical science.
 
On Bill Blasio:

Three days later, facing (to use a favorite de Blasio-ism) “a very different reality,” including a growing outcry from parents and from his own public-health officials, some of whom threatened to quit if he didn’t shutter schools and start taking the outbreak more seriously, New York City public schools were officially closed, probably for the rest of the school year.

Shortly thereafter, he declined to cancel St. Patrick’s Day parade and then did. He resisted calls to cancel regular street sweeping and then did. He had a photo op at a 311 call center, where he told a caller who had just returned from Italy that she did not need to self-quarantine, advice that forced 311 to actually call the woman back and tell her to stay inside for 14 days. The mayor touted the city’s new, wide-scale testing capacity, only to have his Health Department announce that only hospitalized patients should be tested. He tweeted at Elon Musk to supply the city with ventilators. When a New York Times reporter wrote of his own gut-wrenching story about contracting COVID-19 and being unable to get help, a top mayoral aide chastised him online for seeking help at all rather than just getting better at home. And the mayor himself told a radio host that people who don’t display symptoms can’t transmit the disease, an assertion that contradicts information from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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Wow, this reads... just like Trump's MO.
 
Captain_Swoop said:
Tell the Democrat Governors that “Mutiny On The Bounty” was one of my all time favorite movies.
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Wrong mutiny. The present one looks like finishing up as this:


Ahh, but the strawberries that's... that's where I had them. They laughed at me and made jokes but I proved beyond the shadow of a doubt and with... geometric logic... that a duplicate key to the wardroom icebox DID exist, and I'd have produced that key if they hadn't of pulled the Caine out of action. I, I, I know now they were only trying to protect some fellow officers...

Norm
 
There’s been a pattern over the last twenty years or so of left-leaning people acknowledging that “oh, this left-leaning person did something that is equivalent to the right-Leaning person. They were wrong and should face consequences. So how do you feel about the abuse you just described being done by a right-leaning person?”

“Ha! You admitted it! That means my guy is perfectly correct!”
 
Trump said Monday he expects recommendations from the committee "soon."
"They already know what I want," he said, "I don't have to give them instructions. They are sophisticated people, the best people in their fields."
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"Will no one rid me of this turbulent virus?"
 
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