Mega-Thread: 2020 United States General Election

[Deja Thoris]

Very likely. But 90+% will survive.

I like how you try to make some big thing about Biden saying something a bit whacky but you're literally fine with 10% of people dying.

Thats beyond pathetic.

[wunksta]

@Ghostpanther promises made, promises kept?

[PhaelixWW]

Stay classy, Mr. Trump.

CNN: Trump trashes Fauci and makes baseless coronavirus claims in campaign call (and CNN says: "Challenge accepted!")

President Donald Trump claimed on a campaign call that people are tired of hearing about coronavirus, which has killed more than 215,000 Americans and trashed Dr. Anthony Fauci as a "disaster" who has been around for "500 years."

Trump also baselessly claimed if Fauci was in charge more than half a million people would be dead in the US.

"People are tired of Covid. I have these huge rallies," Trump said. "People are saying whatever. Just leave us alone. They're tired of it. People are tired of hearing Fauci and all these idiots ... Fauci is a nice guy. He's been here for 500 years."

The President is trailing in polling to Democratic rival Joe Biden in part due to his mishandling of the coronavirus pandemic. He recently returned to the campaign trail after being diagnosed with the virus himself and has shunned public health protocols for his political rallies.

Trump added: "Fauci is a disaster. If I listened to him, we'd have 500,000 deaths," before later saying it would be 700,000 or 800,000. "If there's a reporter on, you can have it just the way I said it, I couldn't care less." (CNN was given access to the call by a source.)

Trump again mocked Biden's social distancing measures and denied reports that there are issues with his campaign staff.

"By the way my relationship with Bill Stepien and Ronna (McDaniel) and Jason (Miller) is phenomenal." Trump said.

He disputed that there is any tension in his relationship with his White House chief of staff Mark Meadows and denied that he's considering firing him after the election.

"I love Mark Meadows. It took me two years to get him out of Congress. Mark Meadows is doing a good job. I'm not dismissing him."

[Felya]

He is actively defunding it...

[TEHPALLYTANK]

Of course. But I do not think anything will come of it. Biden is being protected.

Protected from what, specifically?

[Edge-]

Protected from what, specifically?

Mean people asking critical questions about how he let hundreds of thousands of Americans die under his watch.

[DocSavageFan]

In fairness, basically every right wing poster left on here is a complete jerkoff, there are no reasonable ones. If they removed them all, this place would be a total echo chamber. I used to lurk on here to read actual debate on whatever the news of the week was, but with mega threads and the complete lack of character from the right, this place has been a shit show for awhile now.

*edit* Just look at the comment above this, holy shit.

Although I'm just a "complete jerkoff"...you can thank your moderators for the echo chamber they've created here. They are no longer interested in an environment that facilitates diverse political discussion...they like their echo chamber and apparently want to keep it that way. If I had broadly insulted others by calling the left wing posters here "complete jerkoffs", I would have been infracted in a heartbeat. That's just how it works here.

If we truly want conservative opinions represented in this forum, a substantial paradigm shift in the way the forum is moderated will be required. I'm glad that you share my concern for the future of this forum...I hope others like you will step forward to express their concern as well.

[Elegiac]

Although I'm just a "complete jerkoff"...you can thank your moderators for the echo chamber they've created here. They are no longer interested in an environment that facilitates diverse political discussion...they like their echo chamber and apparently want to keep it that way. If I had broadly insulted others by calling the left wing posters here "complete jerkoffs", I would have been infracted in a heartbeat. That's just how it works here.

If we truly want conservative opinions represented in this forum, a substantial paradigm shift in the way the forum is moderated will be required. I'm glad that you share my concern for the future of this forum...I hope others like you will step forward to express their concern as well.

We don't want opinions which are hateful against disenfranchised groups or are blatantly counterfactual being represented.

That so many of them happen to align with "conservative opinions" is certainly indicative of something, but isn't "censorship".

[Zan15]

Although I'm just a "complete jerkoff"...you can thank your moderators for the echo chamber they've created here. They are no longer interested in an environment that facilitates diverse political discussion...they like their echo chamber and apparently want to keep it that way. If I had broadly insulted others by calling the left wing posters here "complete jerkoffs", I would have been infracted in a heartbeat. That's just how it works here.

If we truly want conservative opinions represented in this forum, a substantial paradigm shift in the way the forum is moderated will be required. I'm glad that you share my concern for the future of this forum...I hope others like you will step forward to express their concern as well.

i.e you want to spout your nonsense and not be moderated... got it.


Ya i mean just one "jerkoff" example is you still have a conservative poster who post 4 month old polls as recent, never responds to questions about his post, puts 97% of the forum on ignore, Post simple gaffs as proof of dementia, etc etc etc.

He's learned how to post without being moderated in the least, why can't you?

[shimerra]

Although I'm just a "complete jerkoff"...you can thank your moderators for the echo chamber they've created here. They are no longer interested in an environment that facilitates diverse political discussion...they like their echo chamber and apparently want to keep it that way. If I had broadly insulted others by calling the left wing posters here "complete jerkoffs", I would have been infracted in a heartbeat. That's just how it works here.

If we truly want conservative opinions represented in this forum, a substantial paradigm shift in the way the forum is moderated will be required. I'm glad that you share my concern for the future of this forum...I hope others like you will step forward to express their concern as well.

If you'd like to be moderated less you could try lieing less. I thought conservatives were all about personal responsibility. Strange considering you seem to take exactly none of your own. I've been banned multiple times, often within the hour, for calling self-righteous cry babies like yourself out on their non-sense. But perpetual victims like yourself can't see that and only choose to accept the reality the is convenient for you.

In fact my last ban I just came off of was calling out another of your fellow habitual liars in the Brexit thread. And I was essentially banned for the exact thing you claim never happens.

I always try to encouraged fact-based discussions. And I don't post opinions which are hateful against disenfranchised groups nor opinions that are blatantly counterfactual. But by all means, engage in caricatures and stereotypes that reinforce such bigotry. I'm used to it.

Then why do you regularly post sources that are known for their inaccuracies but happen to align perfectly with conservative dogma?

You clearly either don't know what a fact is. Or you're a liar.

[DocSavageFan]

We don't want opinions which are hateful against disenfranchised groups or are blatantly counterfactual being represented.

That so many of them happen to align with "conservative opinions" is certainly indicative of something, but isn't "censorship".

I always try to encouraged fact-based discussions. And I don't post opinions which are hateful against disenfranchised groups nor opinions that are blatantly counterfactual. But by all means, engage in caricatures and stereotypes that reinforce such bigotry. I'm used to it.

[Elegiac]

I always try to encouraged fact-based discussions. And I don't post opinions which are hateful against disenfranchised groups nor opinions that are blatantly counterfactual. But by all means, engage in caricatures and stereotypes that reinforce such bigotry. I'm used to it.

It's not really a stereotype when there's statistical evidence supporting it.

[Zan15]

I didn't know being put on the board (along with presumably a dozen or more other people) means becoming the head of the company. I mean, if the worst they have on Biden is that his son got a cushy job for a few years that he wasn't qualified for, that's meaningless. There is no proof in doing so the US government did anything to benefit this gas company to the detriment of the US's interests as a quid pro quo for the job. It's just embarrassing that this is what they're going with.

fucking OJ simpson was on the board of directors of several companies like Infinity Broadcasting Corp.

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Board of directors positions, especially in the past decade were mostly fluff and show.

Shaquille O'Neal was on several.


besides the fact that Biden did have more business experience then many who fucking cares.


Anyone crying about Ivanka? Was she qualified to be on the board of a bank??

https://www.businessinsider.com/sign...rce=reddit.com

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I always try to encouraged fact-based discussions. And I don't post opinions which are hateful against disenfranchised groups nor opinions that are blatantly counterfactual. But by all means, engage in caricatures and stereotypes that reinforce such bigotry. I'm used to it.

fact based discussion:

This is exactly what Pelosi wants. Fuck helping people...she wants to screw them all and hold them hostage until there's a huge 1T bail out for all the Blue states that mismanaged their pension programs for decades....refusing to compromise to a more reasonable number for covid-19 related budget shortfalls.

“You never want a serious crisis to go to waste. I mean, it's an opportunity to do things that you think you could not do before.” - Rahm Emanuel

All those facts hurt the eyes.

and that was just page one......

nothing like ignoring the fact the "bailout" as you call it is actually funding for lost revenue for EVERY state at a per capita level that would see more money per resident going to smaller/poorer states that are clearly not "blue".

but hey keep encouraging fact-based discussions!

[Edge-]

Lol as if even emails are needed..his son became head of ukraine's largest gas company

He was not. It helps to know what you're talking about, but he was on the board of directors. He was not the "head" of Burisma, nor was he an executive. BoD's are largely just big names that collect paychecks. Reggie of Nintendo is on the Board for GameStop right now. Why? Because he's a big name and it looks good having him on the board. The children of wealthy and/or influential people are routinely added to BoD's so their name can lend credibility to the company, especially shady companies looking for those names to provide a smokescreen. That's not wrongdoing on the part of the Board members though.

when joe was vice president n involved with overthrow of democratically elected president, government & parliament in ukraine through Obama sponsored Maidan coup.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euromaidan

Not seeing Obama anywhere. You got links?

You need to be a special kind of person not to think they aren't involved.

No, you're just showing that you have no understanding of what a BoD actually does, nothing more.

That would be like Jeb Bush becoming head of Iraq's largest oil company during president George Bush's desert storm 2 iraq war n then deny there's any connection n conflict of interest.

In your analogy, Jeb would have to not be a public servant (IIRC he was at the time) and he's need to be on the BoD, not the head of the company. I'll agree that like with Hunter, it's a bad look that just opens up a lot of questions. But that's about as far as it goes.

Also, we're not at war with Ukraine so your analogy is even worse.

[DocSavageFan]

If you'd like to be moderated less you could try lieing less.

This is the exact kind of horseshit the mods need to address imo.

If this poster disagrees with something I said, he has all the opportunity in the world to do so. This would give me an opportunity to respond directly to his point. But instead, the mods allow him to insult me without him providing one ounce of substantiation. I don't mind someone calling me a liar, but I do mind these baseless attacks on my character.

Why the mods think these kinds of shit posts are acceptable is beyond me...they are in no way constructive to discussion and create a toxic environment within this forum.

If moderation here is not capable of recognizing the issues which poison this forum...they are certainly not capable of providing solutions in a constructive manner.

[Zan15]

Trump Vs Biden. 2020. covid. Stimulus checks. Corruption. What a doozy! Can’t wait for the second debate. If it happens.

Not a fan of town halls. I guess they are needed.

We need universal income. But Biden said we’ll never be socialistically socialism Anyway. Is stimulus socialistic?

we already have universal income, you just need to be a famer to get it. or disabled on SSDI. etc etc

[DingDongKing]

I love it when supporters of the racist and fascist occupying the WH come calling. 'Mods, it's unfair they're criticising my horrendous views!'

[Belize]

I always try to encouraged fact-based discussions.

Don't quit your dayjob to become a comedian.

[DocSavageFan]

It's not really a stereotype when there's statistical evidence supporting it.

I find the rationalization for your bigotry amusing. I lift my head in wonder.

[draynay]

This thread is not about Doc's eternal victimization, if he sees a post against the rules he should just report it instead of complaining about moderators (again).