2020 General Presidential Election Thread

[PaloAltoCougar]

There’s a good chance Trump can win and in no small part because he is willing to cheat. Certain GOP states aren’t shy about voter suppression. He will welcome foreign interference from Russia, Israel etc.

...and China, as Bolton can testify.

[Uncle Ted]

Sleepy Joe speaks to a record crowd of 10 people... Tries to wake himself up:

https://www.inquirer.com/news/corona...-20200617.html

Very low energy.

[Uncle Ted]

...and China, as Bolton can testify.

Bolton had a chance to testify... he turned congress down. Apparently he only wants to sell books.

[myboynoah]

Bolton had a chance to testify... he turned congress down. Apparently he only wants to sell books.

For sure.

[PaloAltoCougar]

Bolton had a chance to testify... he turned congress down. Apparently he only wants to sell books.

All true, although if memory serves he said he would appear if subpoenaed. He never was, probably to avoid an inevitable court fight. In retrospect, I assume the committee wishes it had done so.

[Commando]

Trump's ass is worn down. His golf game is going to be INsane between now and January, when he quickly realizes that this election is a non-starter for him. This is going to be a lame duck to end all lame ducks...

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[myboynoah]

Uh oh

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[PaloAltoCougar]

Trump's ass is worn down. His golf game is going to be INsane between now and January, when he quickly realizes that this election is a non-starter for him. This is going to be a lame duck to end all lame ducks...

When he's not hitting the links he'll remain busy signing pardons, which I expect with fetch him more than future Trump condo sales.

[myboynoah]

Could be a race to see who is still with us by November.

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[Uncle Ted]

The editor of Rolling Stone mag says the "American Left Has Lost Its Mind"... and he is right:

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It feels liberating to say after years of tiptoeing around the fact, but the American left has lost its mind. It’s become a cowardly mob of upper-class social media addicts, Twitter Robespierres who move from discipline to discipline torching reputations and jobs with breathtaking casualness.

The leaders of this new movement are replacing traditional liberal beliefs about tolerance, free inquiry, and even racial harmony with ideas so toxic and unattractive that they eschew debate, moving straight to shaming, threats, and intimidation. They are counting on the guilt-ridden, self-flagellating nature of traditional American progressives, who will not stand up for themselves, and will walk to the Razor voluntarily.

They’ve conned organization after organization into empowering panels to search out thoughtcrime, and it’s established now that anything can be an offense, from a UCLA professor placed under investigation for reading Martin Luther King’s “Letter from a Birmingham Jail” out loud to a data scientist fired* from a research firm for — get this — retweeting an academic study suggesting nonviolent protests may be more politically effective than violent ones!
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By my count, at least eight news organizations dealt with internal uprisings (it was likely more). Most involved groups of reporters and staffers demanding the firing or reprimand of colleagues who’d made politically “problematic” editorial or social media decisions.

The New York Times, the Intercept, Vox, the Philadelphia Inquirier, Variety, and others saw challenges to management.
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https://taibbi.substack.com/p/the-ne...itself?r=1ejgy

He goes on to give some examples.

Watching the left implode is entertaining. They are so full of TDS they can't even see straight and largely ignoring what is going on behind the scenes and when it is reported it is sugar coated by the left:

Looting in some communities has been so bad that people have been left without banks to cash checks, or pharmacies to fill prescriptions; business owners have been wiped out (“My life is gone,” commented one Philly store owner); a car dealership in San Leandro, California saw 74 cars stolen in a single night. It isn’t the whole story, but it’s demonstrably true that violence, arson, and rioting are occurring.

However, because it is politically untenable to discuss this in ways that do not suggest support, reporters have been twisting themselves into knots. We are seeing headlines previously imaginable only in The Onion, e.g., “27 police officers injured during largely peaceful anti-racism protests in London.”

Left leadership is falling all over themselves trying to show their support for these "peaceful protests". Even to the point they are making total fools of themselves:

Kente Cloth Worn By Democrats Was ‘Historically Worn’ By African Empire Involved In Slave Trade, Fact Checker Says

A top mainstream fact-checker wrote on Tuesday that the Kente cloths that Democrats wore earlier this month after the death of George Floyd were “historically worn” by an “empire involved in [the] West African slave trade.”

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer, and other top Democrats wore the cloth to an event on June 8 in response to Floyd’s death, which was widely criticized online.
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https://www.dailywire.com/news/kente...t-checker-says

The lefty press is obsess in showing images of some liberal agitator being shoved by the police but they completely ignore images like this:

All of this seems to be giving Drumpf an easy path to a second term:

‘We’re thinking landslide’: Beyond D.C., GOP officials see Trump on glide path to reelection
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Interviews with more than 50 state, district and county Republican Party chairs depict a version of the electoral landscape that is no worse for Trump than six months ago — and possibly even slightly better. According to this view, the coronavirus is on its way out and the economy is coming back. Polls are unreliable, Joe Biden is too frail to last, and the media still doesn’t get it.

“The more bad things happen in the country, it just solidifies support for Trump,” said Phillip Stephens, GOP chairman in Robeson County, N.C., one of several rural counties in that swing state that shifted from supporting Barack Obama in 2012 to Trump in 2016. “We’re calling him ‘Teflon Trump.’ Nothing’s going to stick, because if anything, it’s getting more exciting than it was in 2016.”

This year, Stephens said, “We’re thinking landslide.”
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“The other side is overplaying its hand, going down roads like defunding the police and nonsense like that."
Michael Burke, chairman of the Republican Party in Pinal County, Arizona
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State and local officials point to Trump’s financial and organizational advantages and see Biden as a weak opponent. They’re eager for Trump to eviscerate him in debates. “While the Democrats have been spending their time playing Paper Rock Scissors on who their nominee is going to be, we’ve been building an army,” said Terry Lathan, chair of the Alabama Republican Party.

James Dickey, chairman of the Texas Republican Party, said it took Biden “days to figure out how to even successfully operate, or communicate out of a bunker” and that he “has clearly not been able to deal with any real challenging interview.”
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https://www.politico.com/news/2020/0...ficials-316457

It is reminding me of the 1984 election where Reagan walked over Mondale (525 to 13).

[Walter Sobchak]

Ha. Those Pat Buchanan fans are bonkers.

[Uncle Ted]

The majority of likely voters thinks Biden is losing his mind...



I can't wait for the debates!

[myboynoah]

Facebook removes Trump ads with symbol once used by Nazis to designate political prisoners

Dang, it was even too offensive for facebook.

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Let me take the opportunity to apologize again for loling at JL for coomparing djt to Hitler.

[Commando]

Ruh roh!

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[Walter Sobchak]

Ruh roh!

Not sure the silent majority will swing for Biden after having voted for Trump in 2016. And do you think the debates will help or hurt Biden?