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Cont: The Trump Presidency: Part 26

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RolandRat said:
“If you vote for Biden, he will surrender your jobs to China. He will surrender your future to the virus. He’s going to lock down, he’s going to want us to lock down,” Trump said.

“He’ll listen to the scientists,” Trump continued. “If I listened totally to the scientists, we would right now have a country that would be in a massive depression, instead of, we’re like a rocket ship. Take a look at the numbers.”

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/ukne...n-to-the-scientists/ar-BB1aa9rR?ocid=msedgntp

Would that be a soopa doopa rocket ship?
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Holy ****, this Biden guy will listen to scientists? :jaw-dropp

That's enough. I'm going to vote for total crazy idiot Trump.
Damn, these science guys are everywhere.
God, help me...
 
The sad part is "Biden listens to scientists" will be seen as a mark against him by many.

"Anti-intellectualism" is a big base to pander to.

Trump might have overplayed the hand by saying it so directly, this message works better when the text is the subtext, but it's still a popular opinion.
 
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bonzombiekitty said:
I live in Philly, I'm voting in person because I don't really trust the state to handle such a large number of absentee ballots on their first year of issuing them for any reason. At least not without stressing me out. I don't want to keep checking to see if my absentee request was received, ballot sent, and ballot received. I'll take the 5 or 10 minutes to walk around the corner to my polling location and vote there. There's never a line and I work from home, so I can go whenever.
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I'm in a satellite town of Philly and I am also wary of the state's ability to handle this many votes by mail with so little preperation (thanks to the GOP!). They've already gotten courts to reject 100,000 mail-in ballots and other mailings have been delayed.

So since my town is small, the polling place not terribly far away, and being self-employed I can give myself whatever time I need to get to the polling place and vote. Not everyone has this luxury.
 
JoeMorgue said:
The sad part is "Biden listens to scientist" will be see as a mark against him by many.

"Anti-intellectualism" is a big base to pander to.

Trump might have overplayed the hand by saying it so directly, this message works better when the text is the subtext, but it's still a popular opinion.
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In NY01, Lee Zeldin is running against challenger Nancy Goroff. Goroff has been a chemistry professor at Stoney Brook for more than 20 years, and has carried out research on nanomaterials, with more than 100 publications in peer reviewed science journals. Lee Zeldin is a climate change denier.

In a recent interview, Zeldin asserted that he has done more to advance science than his opponent.

The claim that Al Gore invented the internet has more basis in fact.

Real expertise means nothing to them.

****Disclaimer: I know Nancy Goroff very well both professionally, as a scientist, and personally, as a friend.
 
As I said previously, I have Election Day off so I'm going to the polls and voting in person. I want to see if it turns into a **** show of idiots harassing people. But I actually have taken the entire week as a staycation. I have vacation time I need to burn, and it's also a precaution, in case things get crazy in the days after the election I'd like to sit and watch and drink the troubles away! Also in case Trump wins and I lose my marbles.
 
shemp said:
As I said previously, I have Election Day off so I'm going to the polls and voting in person. I want to see if it turns into a **** show of idiots harassing people. But I actually have taken the entire week as a staycation. I have vacation time I need to burn, and it's also a precaution, in case things get crazy in the days after the election I'd like to sit and watch and drink the troubles away! Also in case Trump wins and I lose my marbles.
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vote first, THEN get into a fight with armed MAGA madmen.
 
pgwenthold said:
I did it 2 weeks ago
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"Do that Trump? I'm not a comic book villain. Do you seriously think I'd explain my masterstroke to you if there were even the slightest possibility you could affect the outcome? I did it two weeks ago."
 
Minoosh said:
Do you deliberately adopt the most pessimistic outlook possible to cushion the blow when the nightmare scenario arrives?
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That's probably what I'm doing, indeed.
alfaniner said:
I can't remember if I posted it here but here goes:

1. It says you need a witness signature on one of the envelopes, but that is negated on a separate piece of paper. Some people won't realize that they don't need a Witness signature, and will discard it because they'd think they need to get one and can't.
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Our ballot envelopes DO have a place for a witness signature, but it's only to be used when the voter is unable to sign their name.

Norman Alexander said:
Wait a sec...

What's Donny Two-Weeks (that's all he has left) doing in California if they all hate him? Come to teach people how to rake the forest floors or something?
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Unfortunately, he's got lots more than two-weeks left. January 20 at a minimum. He and his party are capable of doing a great deal of harm in that time.
TragicMonkey said:
Am I the only one planning to just go in person to vote?
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Not an option in my state.
 
kookbreaker said:
I'm in a satellite town of Philly and I am also wary of the state's ability to handle this many votes by mail with so little preperation (thanks to the GOP!). They've already gotten courts to reject 100,000 mail-in ballots and other mailings have been delayed.
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What 100,000 mail in ballots were rejected?

I know of there being like 100,000 absentee ballot REQUESTS being rejected, but they were mostly because people had requested them multiple times. For example, when they requested them for the primary, they didn't realize they asked ticked the box to get them for EVERY election going forward.

And I know of a court case that settled the thing about naked ballots being able to be rejected, but at the time that happened, we hadn't started mail in voting yet.
 
Trebuchet said:
Unfortunately, he's got lots more than two-weeks left. January 20 at a minimum. He and his party are capable of doing a great deal of harm in that time.
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I really hope the Lame Duck period is another thing the gets addressed in the broader push for voting reform.

You don't need people with nothing to lose in power for almost two months. A week or two prep/turnover time is more than enough (and plenty of comparable Western Style Democracies don't have that, just a simple "You had it, I got it"). There's no reason for a defeated Trump to still be President after Christmas.
 
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Maggie Haberman
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"People are tired of covid," the president said. "People are tired of hearing Fauci and all these idiots... Fauci's a nice guy, he's been here for 500 years...wonderful sage telling us..."

"If there's a reporter on, you can have it just the way I said it, I couldn't care less," Trump says.

"My people are doing a great job," says Trump, who also said if asked two weeks ago he might not have said he was going to win (he said two weeks ago he was going to win).

"Don't feel sorry for me, don't say, 'How the hell does he do it?'" Trump says of his schedule.

Trump says every time Fauci goes on TV it's a "bomb," but it's a "bigger bomb if you fire him."
 
bonzombiekitty said:
What 100,000 mail in ballots were rejected?

I know of there being like 100,000 absentee ballot REQUESTS being rejected, but they were mostly because people had requested them multiple times. For example, when they requested them for the primary, they didn't realize they asked ticked the box to get them for EVERY election going forward.

And I know of a court case that settled the thing about naked ballots being able to be rejected, but at the time that happened, we hadn't started mail in voting yet.
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The so called 'naked ballots'.

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/09/22/pennsylvania-officials-warn-2000-florida-redux-420275
 
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