Mega-Thread: 2020 United States General Election

[Xeones]

This is an OP ED piece but the OP is more EDucated than me.



NEVER!



Precedents cited for three paragraphs.



If SCOTUS was looking for a reason to act on actions like this one, they already had an excuse. They didn't move on it like a bitch.

This is the kind of article I had been looking for. Largely what I had found talking about the lawsuit was low on law and big on bias. This was more law than bias, with solid citation and reasoning thanks for linking. While I had dismissed the lawsuit as nonsense it's good to see it isn't likely to see any shenanigans attempted.

[Belize]

One Republican had an interesting thing to say about this.

They've spent decades brain-washing and radicalizing their base and now they're surprised they've created radicalized terrorists and are scared that it's getting out of hand?

Boohoo. They created this monster, they can deal with it.

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I sincerely feel for this woman, and I'm glad she was able to put out some kind of call for help. I wonder who will answer.

I don't.

Had they had an inch of brainmatter, they would have easily seen where this was going.

[Edge-]

They wouldn't give in to foreign terrorists so they shouldn't to domestic ones either.

Yeah, but these domestic terrorists are her supporters and vote for her (ostensibly). You gotta listen to the "will of the voters", even if that will is, "Do what we want or we'll burn your fucking house down."

[Belize]

Nobody wants to get their house bombed but leaders have a duty to fulfill. They wouldn't give in to foreign terrorists so they shouldn't to domestic ones either.

They created these particular terrorists, sooooooo... fuck em' honestly.

It'd be like Bin Laden complaining about al-Qaeda being too militant and extreme.

[beanman12345]

I mean it'll mean as much as all the benghazi bullshit, except it'll be even worse, because im now expecting people in congress will now obsess over someone who isn't even in government instead of doing their actual job.

fucking called it.

Cotton calls for special counsel to investigate Hunter Biden

[Edge-]

fucking called it.

Cotton calls for special counsel to investigate Hunter Biden

Man, I'd forgotten they knew who Hunter Biden was given that they've been silent on him for the past month. I guess he was their fallback plan for when their months-long legal Titanic finally went underwater.

[cubby]

If they suffer no blowback for their actions, what is to keep them from doing this again, to keep this from becoming the norm?

I'm trying to walk that delicate line of wanting these idiots to be punished for their outrageous enabling behavior, and feeling just a little sympathetic that [at least this woman] is now so trapped in her web of lies and willful ignorance that she can't get out, even if she wants to.

Because we want them to get out if they want to get out - that's the end goal.

[Zaktar]

They created these particular terrorists, sooooooo... fuck em' honestly.

It'd be like Bin Laden complaining about al-Qaeda being too militant and extreme.

The admittedly deserved schadenfreude doesn't change the fact that these people are dangerous to all of us and need to be dealt with. It's sad but it seems really clear that people are going to die over this mess and absolutely the GOP deserves its share of the blame beside Individual-1. Once the dust settles, Trump's death grip on his base slackens, and the party stumbles drunkenly to their car, I hope they keep their hands off the narcissistic lying populists jar for at least a generation or two. High hopes =/

[beanman12345]

Man, I'd forgotten they knew who Hunter Biden was given that they've been silent on him for the past month. I guess he was their fallback plan for when their months-long legal Titanic finally went underwater.

they had forgotten him. Then Hunter said the Trump DoJ was investigating him over his... taxes.

[Edge-]

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/1...impasse-444320

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s staff told other congressional leaders on Wednesday that the bipartisan coronavirus negotiators will be unlikely to satisfy Senate Republicans, according to a senior Democrat familiar with the conversations.

McConnell’s staff informed House and Senate leadership staffers that the group’s attempts to marry $160 billion in state and local aid and a temporary liability shield probably won't fly with most of the GOP, the Democrat said. Those two issues have become the primary focus for a bipartisan group of lawmakers that is trying to hammer out a $908 billion compromise.

I'm over this trying to compromise with Republicans only to have them stonewall and blame Democrats for not simply giving Republicans everything they want.

If anyone is wondering which "bogeyman" to go after for the failure of Congress to pass additional stimulus money and protections, Mitch McConnell is it.

[beanman12345]

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/1...impasse-444320



I'm over this trying to compromise with Republicans only to have them stonewall and blame Democrats for not simply giving Republicans everything they want.

If anyone is wondering which "bogeyman" to go after for the failure of Congress to pass additional stimulus money and protections, Mitch McConnell is it.

I'm curious how what accomplishments any senator in the GoP will try to run on for future presendential runs. "my argument for why you should vote for me, is uh, well, I've accomplished nothing the last 2 decades, except be McConnell's bitch, so yeah vote for me!"

[Belize]

I'm curious how what accomplishments any senator in the GoP will try to run on for future presendential runs. "my argument for why you should vote for me, is uh, well, I've accomplished nothing the last 2 decades, except be McConnell's bitch, so yeah vote for me!"

Trump's accomplishment were "I bankrupted a casino" and "I bankrupted 7 other failed businesses", and Republicans clapped and cheered eagerly

[beanman12345]

Trump's accomplishment were "I bankrupted a casino" and "I bankrupted 7 other failed businesses", and Republicans clapped and cheered eagerly

yeah but at least trump's accomplishments are his own. Nobody in the GoP outside McConnell has done anything in the senate, except be a vote for whatever McConnell wants.

[Zaktar]

yeah but at least trump's accomplishments are his own. Nobody in the GoP outside McConnell has done anything in the senate, except be a vote for whatever McConnell wants.

Well his and his dad's.

[beanman12345]

If Lindsay Graham can get re elected after the sheer embarrassment that is his existence then any of them can really... People will vote for anything as long as it has an (R) to the name and hates democrats.

Maybe. We'll see in the GA special.

[Belize]

Maybe. We'll see in the GA special.

The GOP won't let 2 Senate seats go.

Expect the maximum amount of fuckery possible in GA to make sure votes are properly suppressed this time.

[Zaktar]

The GOP won't let 2 Senate seats go.

Expect the maximum amount of fuckery possible in GA to make sure votes are properly suppressed this time.

Not sure how well the old games will work, like reducing the number of places people can vote, for instance - isn't that mostly hurting their own base right now? I have to think democrats are still going to be mailing in for this one too, since the COVID situation has gotten much, much worse than it was o n election day.

[beanman12345]

Man the country as a whole would be soooo much in a better place if dems won GA and took control of the senate. I have strong doubts, but I'm hoping as hard as I can!

With the cries for boycotts over the last month not simmering down, something that seemed impossible, might be possible, if trump fucks up the GoP's need for their followers to fall in line.

[cubby]

The GOP won't let 2 Senate seats go.

Expect the maximum amount of fuckery possible in GA to make sure votes are properly suppressed this time.

Exactly. The GOP cannot relinquish control of the Senate, it's their only stopgap from Yuge changes in social policy. The laundry list would be brought in and Harris would spend half her time as VP back in the Senate breaking ties.

And the GA GOP just had a dry run on a major state election, so they can see where any flaws are and exploit them. Stacy [God Damn American Hero] Abrams will be on the flip side with an army of lawyers from the DNC trying to keep that from happening. But in voting, it's always better to be on offense than defense.

[Zaktar]

Wasnt it Georgia where they redid a bunch of crap that causes thousands of black voters to be unable to vote back in 2018 elections? Do we know if that ever got straightened out or is that going to be a factor here again?

Some of what they did was vile and effective enough that it's definitely still in play, like the voter purges.