Mega-Thread: 2020 United States General Election

[Doctor Amadeus]

Oh totally, that was me talking in Trump vernacular... we are on the same page.

Personally I am happy, but right now I am fucking exhausted, I am going to sleep after this like I haven't in a few years.

[PACOX]

Can he be pardoned without charge? Like if they don't file charges until he's out of office can he preemptively pardon himself?

Also can't pardon state charges.

[Forogil]

Ahaha!!! Trump jr’s girlfriend and Trump campaign’s finance manager... was offering the top Trump donor lap dance at an event:

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/1...undoing-434716

Cuck a doodle doo!!!

Well, Traditional family values FTW!

But as for that, and she being in Dallas cheerleader outfit: these are just rumours - we need pictures to be sure!

[formerShandalay]

Something I've been wondering for some time now...

How are the people that count the votes chosen?
What I'm not getting is, if Trump's voters were concerned about fraud, why didn't they participate and volunteer and thus make sure the count was done right? I mean, the 'rigged' meme isn't actually a surprise, it was even a thing in 2016 (until Trump won) and it came up again before the election. So if you want to make sure it doesn't happen, you... need to participate and be in the right place to prevent that, don't you?

[Adam Jensen]

Can he be pardoned without charge? Like if they don't file charges until he's out of office can he preemptively pardon himself?

In any other circumstance I'd say no.

But if the last four years have proved anything . . . who knows.

[Belize]

I refreshed like 4 times, just to make sure I wan't imagining anything. There was nothing there but other suggest accounts to follow lol

As soon as I posted, I refreshed and everything was back. Sod's law.

I had the same thing happen too, I thought Twitter has wiped him out the second he lost.

[beanman12345]

Something I've been wondering for some time now...

How are the people that count the votes chosen?
What I'm not getting is, if Trump's voters were concerned about fraud, why didn't they participate and volunteer and thus make sure the count was done right? I mean, the 'rigged' meme isn't actually a surprise, it was even a thing in 2016 (until Trump won) and it came up again before the election. So if you want to make sure it doesn't happen, you... need to participate and be in the right place to prevent that, don't you?

a mix of state and county and city employee's, and volunteers. your argument is valid. Red hats and brown shirts certainly could have volunteered, but something tells me counting isn't a strong suit for them.

[Antiganon]

Can he be pardoned without charge? Like if they don't file charges until he's out of office can he preemptively pardon himself?

Nixon was never formally charged.

Trump probably can't pardon himself, but he could resign tomorrow and Pence could do it with zero recourse whatsoever. They would have to name what he is being pardoned for (which would be a LONG list). It also wouldn't protect him from state level prosecution so SDNY would just nail him to the wall.

His only hope of avoiding prosecution at this point is to get a Pence pardon and flee to a non-extradition country before SDNY can pick him up, but I highly doubt the Secret Service and DoD would let him go, he's a massive national security risk given what he knows and his massive amount of debt.

Had somebody attempted to nominate him as Secretary of Treasury or Commerce for some insane reason, he wouldn't have been able to get a security clearance. The only reason he gets one as President is because Presidents are exempt from the normal rules, due to being elected.

[Thepersona]

I called GA about 3 days ago. It won't be certified for a while, but Biden won it. just a matter of time, just like NV and PA was the last few days. just like AZ right now.

AZ is called right now, for reals? I thought it was too early to call.

[Felya]

Haha Paris accord, in the Nederlands we now see that we cant do it without mass nuclear power builds and that it costs far to mutch money to do so GL with that in the US we cant even do it with our small wealthy country.

US was already ahead of the goals in the Accord. If Trump wouldn’t have pulled out, we would have been done by that years end. I don’t know what fuckery you are rambling on, but rejoining the Paris accord is a bar a elephant can clear... at least for US... since we were that far ahead, before Don Trumplione...

Reverse everything Trump did, Ok fine if that benefits you guys.

Uhm... We are hitting 1000 deaths per day to covid... yeah, we want the pandemic response team.

remove billionaires and oil CEOs from positions, Nice we can use good CEOs in the EU.

Cool, we will take your scientist. You take Trump’s CEOs and we will take the scientist he replaced... enjoy...

And rich people are that for a reason if you push them to hard they will settle in the EU and we will all be happy to see them come over toward the EU because those will open conpanies and create jobs.

I didn’t say anything about rich people... If you want rich people that will send their money to China and German bank accounts, without hardly paying taxes in your country, you can keep them.

[passingthrew]

Might of already been mentioned, but Nevada was called for Biden as well about 40 minutes ago.

There was strange shit going on in Nevada.

[Antiganon]

Nah, the VP has a lot of sway over the Senate. I'm sure Harris will exercise it.

The VP has very little sway over the Senate unless they are deadlocked 50-50 and the VP breaks the tie. They can't vote unless there's a tie. They can't put anything forward for debate or a vote. They can't convene committees or issue subpoenas.

[Hobb]

Well that didn't take too long. GOP in the senate is now saying there will be no new stimulus package.

Hopefully that can be used against them to help win the 2 seats up for grabs in GA.

https://money.yahoo.com/coronavirus-...190315249.html

[beanman12345]

AZ is called right now, for reals? I thought it was too early to call.

No it hasn't officially just saying it's inevitable. alaska hasn't been officially called either but it's gonna go to Trump.

[Antiganon]

Something I've been wondering for some time now...

How are the people that count the votes chosen?
What I'm not getting is, if Trump's voters were concerned about fraud, why didn't they participate and volunteer and thus make sure the count was done right? I mean, the 'rigged' meme isn't actually a surprise, it was even a thing in 2016 (until Trump won) and it came up again before the election. So if you want to make sure it doesn't happen, you... need to participate and be in the right place to prevent that, don't you?

You have to be willing to volunteer for public service and have some minimum qualifications, or you have to be elected/hired into a state level job that oversees elections.

[Puzzony]

There was strange shit going on in Nevada.

They were simply waiting. Didnt want to be the ones saying Cheetos Man lost.

[Felya]

Personally I am happy, but right now I am fucking exhausted, I am going to sleep after this like I haven't in a few years.

I am happy... in part because it’s time for my worst character flaw... by far...

[Edge-]

So wait I've been out of it.

Biden appears to have won.
Esper resigned because he disagreed with Trump.
DeVos just got fired.
Meadows and multiple other WH staffers have covid and were spreading it through the west wing for days, keeping their infection secret.

People are losing their minds over Biden winning, either in a good or bad way.

Am I missing anything?

[beanman12345]

Why would Trump Pardon himself or step down to have pence pardon him when he truely does think he's commited any crimes. This man doesn't live in reality.

[passingthrew]

They were simply waiting. Didnt want to be the ones saying Cheetos Man lost.

Which is not right and kind of strange.