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2020 Presidential Election part 2

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Captain_Swoop said:
Trump Tweets

Joe Biden should not wrongfully claim the office of the President. I could make that claim also. Legal proceedings are just now beginning!
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Yeah, but people are caring less and less about Trump's claims. I think it's time he makes like the orange in the sunset and fades away.

Also Biden hasn't claimed victory yet as far as I know. This is what happens to your brain when you watch Fox News.
 
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Captain_Swoop said:
Trump Tweets

Joe Biden should not wrongfully claim the office of the President. I could make that claim also. Legal proceedings are just now beginning!
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Has Biden claimed it?

Is there a "rightful" way to claim the Presidency?

Can the Presidency even be "claimed?"

So many things wrong in such a short statement...
 
Marjorie Taylor Green ,newly elected GOP Qanon whackjob from Tennesee is off to a great start;picking a fight with a Prominent GOP house Member:

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/11/06/crenshaw-marjorie-taylor-greene-twitter-spat-434751

Guaranteed;however much the House Dems might not like her her fellow Republican House Members will hate her even more;clear she is will considers almost every other Republican house member as part of the Deep State.

SHe has not even taken the oath, and already she is meeting my expectations as a source of entertainment.
 
Meadmaker said:
dirtywick said:
I agree that Trump had an easy win if he had simply put any effort into tackling the pandemic. He didn’t even have to be successful, just the appearance of effort.
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This is an interesting comment, because he thinks he did that. Heck, he thinks he made superhuman effort.


If I were in such a position, and I wanted to make things appear like that, I would be seen every day talking with my advisors, like Fauci, and Birx, and Redfield. I would be sure to be seen listening them and convening with them and asking, "What can I do?", and then signing executive orders to make that happen.
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If Trump had done all that then he would have been putting a serious effort into tackling the pandemic. Not just "any" effort. Not just the "appearance" of an effort.

And tens of thousands of lives would have certainly been saved. And the economy would not have been dragged down so badly.
 
Aridas said:
There's good reason why Stacy Abrams was one of the popular potential choices for VP, despite being fairly lacking in direct qualifications compared to the other likely candidates.
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Anyone with her talent, skills, energy, and dedication needs to be right where she has been ... right on the front lines. A VP slot would have wasted her.
 
Delphic Oracle said:
Has Biden claimed it?

Is there a "rightful" way to claim the Presidency?

Can the Presidency even be "claimed?"

So many things wrong in such a short statement...
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He's making a prime time speech tonight. I agree with Meadmaker that it will be sort of, kind of, but, yeah ... you know...Wink... Wink, type of speech.


Diplomatic, IOW.

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Tonight. 8 pm. (According to a headline I saw at Drudge. Other stories I saw said "in prime time", without giving a time.)

He might not use those words. In fact, I doubt he will. Only the state officials can declare victors, after all. I suspect he might say something very much like that, just to contrast his approach with that other guy who was on the ballot.

However, I strongly suspect that he won't leave any doubt as to who he thinks the next President will be.
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I am hopeful that the GOP and SCOTUS will not go along with Trump's wishes to overthrow the electorate.

It's sad that there is a real possibility that they would.
 
eerok said:
Yeah, but people are caring less and less about Trump's claims. I think it's time he makes like the orange in the sunset and fades away.

Also Biden hasn't claimed victory yet as far as I know. This is what happens to your brain when you watch Fox News.
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Ah, Trump. The man for whom "cognitive dissonance" doesn't really exist.

Today, he is saying it's wrong to claim victory while lawsuits are ongoing. Yesterday, he "hereby" claimed victory.

I make fun of "hereby" because when most people use it, they don't understand what it means. It's just one of those words that morons use to make their language sound more high-fallutin'.


ETA: And as I noted before, I doubt Biden will "claim victory" tonight, either. I think he will just start acting like a President-elect. To some extent, he already did that. Yesterday, instead of talking about the election, he and Kamala went and got briefed on Covid. I thought it was a wonderfully presidential bit of political theater. Seriously. It was, indeed, political theater, but that's a huge part of the President's job. He was already grabbing and using the bully pulpit.
 
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thaiboxerken said:
I am hopeful that the GOP and SCOTUS will not go along with Trump's wishes to overthrow the electorate.

It's sad that there is a real possibility that they would.
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I wouldn't expect that this will even almost happen. It's unthinkable IMO.
 
I hope the Biden administration looks into all the voter suppression efforts. DeJoy should go to De Jail for his illegal actions. Most, if not all, of the Trump regime should serve time for their crimes.
 
Bernie Sanders
@BernieSanders
In 2016, when Trump won PA, MI, and WI by a handful of votes, the election system worked just great. Now that he's losing, it's a "fraud" and they're "stealing the election." This is how demagogues destroy faith in democracy and move us toward authoritarianism. Count every vote!
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More elitist drivel.
 
Trump calls for ballot counting scenario where votes legally cast by military would be thrown out


Washington (CNN)As President Donald Trump baselessly claimed that all votes received after Election Day are illegal, he attacked the absentee ballots of military members and their spouses that, by law, must be counted.

In doing so, the President has endorsed a scenario where thousands of members of the military -- actively defending their country -- would be disenfranchised by having their legal votes thrown out.

"If you count the illegal votes, they can try to steal the election from us," Trump said Thursday night from the podium in the Brady Briefing Room at the White House. "If you count the votes that came in late — we're looking at them very strongly. But a lot of votes came in late."

In every election, a lot of votes come in late -- legally -- from Americans who are overseas or located outside their state of residence, including significant numbers of absentee voters who are service members and their families.

The military has been voting absentee for two centuries -- since The War of 1812 -- and the practice was expanded during the Civil War. Military votes have been included in certified vote tallies in local, state and presidential elections. There is nothing nefarious about them.
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Biggest. Douche. In. The. Universe.
 
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