Mega-Thread: 2020 United States General Election

[PhaelixWW]

It does if they manage to throw out enough votes to put the senate race at over 50%.

That's even less likely. They'd have to throw out almost 30k non-Perdue votes in order to lift him to that 50% threshold.

[DingDongKing]

If M4A and GND are so universally popular.... Why did the guy that Bernie backed for Vermont Governor get killed at the polls?



This is why Bernie cant be Secretary of Labor. If he steps down for a nomination, his replacement will be voting against his appointment.

Why was M4A such a loser in Bernie's front porch?

Also, why dont all these cosplay socialists move to a small state and stage a socialist takeover?

Phil Scott is literally a RINO as per current standards of the GOP. He's pro-choice, pro-LGBTQ, is a moderate fiscally and voted for Biden. So yeah.

He's also a very popular Governor, likely in the top 5-10 Governors by approval in the US.

[Edge-]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/natio...crats-newyork/

Two days after Election Day, federal prosecutors said, Brian Maiorana warned on social media that “the carnage needs to come in the form of extermination of anyone that claims to be democrat … as well as their family members.”

Then on Sunday, the day after Democrat Joe Biden won enough electoral votes to defeat President Trump, the 54-year-old allegedly posted an even more explicit anti-Semitic threat apparently aimed at Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) and the FBI.

“The Turner Diaries must come to life,” he allegedly wrote, referencing an extremist right-wing text that influenced the Oklahoma City bombers. “We blow up the FBI building for real.”

On Tuesday, federal agents arrested Maiorana at his home in Staten Island on charges of making threatening interstate communications. Although he is a convicted sex offender and banned from owning guns, federal agents say they found evidence Maiorana had bought gun parts and a crossbow.

Another Trump domestic terrorist. And we were supposed to be worried about "violent leftists"?

[Milchshake]

Phil Scott is literally a RINO as per current standards of the GOP. He's pro-choice, pro-LGBTQ, is a moderate fiscally and voted for Biden. So yeah.

He's also a very popular Governor, likely in the top 5-10 Governors by approval in the US.

But M4A is a magic bullet that progressives will use to defeat moderates ...

But ya, I'd say people that push these kinds of purity politics are out of touch.

[LomBotom]

Sorry PresidentElectMilchschake, I should specify who I am writing about. (btw. I don't care about Ireland .. just like everyone else anyway). I was talking about the boy Mihalik !

[Flower Milk]

But M4A is a magic bullet that progressives will use to defeat moderates ...

But ya, I'd say people that push these kinds of purity politics are out of touch.

Ah so clearly moderates should keep attacking their progressive base by telling them that progressive voters a million miles away who voted for people like Cori Bush are actually the reason why those moderate Democrats lost their elections. Who is the one that's out of touch again?

[Milchshake]

Sorry PresidentElectMilchschake, I should specify who I am writing about. (btw. I don't care about Ireland .. just like everyone else anyway). I was talking about the little comie boi Mihalik !

I see. They like reminding me that my avatar is on their enemies list. I'm assuming it's because they're pro-malarkey.

Personally I find Irish idioms to be very lyrical and amusing.

[passingthrew]

https://parler.com/profile/StormIsUponUs/posts

This is the lunacy being passed around on facebook and they will do nothing to stop it. Also today is 11/11 and some big Q bombshell is supposed to drop. Im sure we all cant wait.

[some guy]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/natio...crats-newyork/



Another Trump domestic terrorist. And we were supposed to be worried about "violent leftists"?

Oh, there's more than one: https://www.inforum.com/news/crime-a...ub-charges-say

[Breccia]

Trump files suit in Michigan to stop votes from being counted.

"You already posted that."

He filed a second one.

"On what legal grounds?"

He didn't win.

The lawsuit marks the second legal challenge the campaign has filed in Michigan as part of a broader effort to call into question the results in battleground states where President Trump is trailing President-elect Joe Biden. The campaign had previously filed a similar lawsuit in Michigan claims court, where a judge rejected its request.

The lawsuit has little chance of swaying the outcome in a state where Biden beat Trump by roughly 145,000 votes. Still, the Trump campaign has insisted it is worth pursuing as the president himself refuses to concede the election, despite Biden being projected as the winner.

Trump is judge fishing, hoping someone will finally love him.

[Felya]

The breakdown for Medicare for All specifically is 80% of Democrats, 60% of Independents, and 40% of Republicans, so which state it comes from doesn't really matter.

What do you mean it doesn’t mater? If you keep winning NY and California, it’s not going to help your cause at all... somehow I think you know the answer... which should make you question your own motives

[postman1782]

Race car driver Danica Patrick offers a bounty on election fraud ca...hold on.

(checks news)

Texas Lt Gov Dan Patrick offers a bounty on election fraud cases. Specifically, $25,000 for evidence that leads to a conviction, up to $1,000,000 total, and the case can be anywhere in the country.

"He has a million dollars of his own money to spend on this?"

Well, to a certain extent, that doesn't matter. Election fraud cases are rare, and everything we've seen so far was either a lie, a computer error that was caught by the time it was turned into a conspiracy theory, or affected a very small number of cases. As we've recently seen, hearsay within hearsay has as much effect on a court case as my dick -- people just kind of assume it's there, but I'll get in trouble if I present it before the judge. So he probably won't pay a single bounty.

But, it's his campaign's money.

"He can do that?"

He sure sounds confident that he can spend his re-election funds from a Texas run on, say, a court case in Philadelphia.

"What kind of evidence of fraud would someone have that would hold up in court?"

I have no idea.

"Why would someone have evidence of voter fraud in an election this close, and hold back on presenting it for over a week now, then see this headline and say well shit, I want me that 2020 Honda Accord level of money?"

I don't think an honest person would have evidence of a felony, and wait a week hoping for a bounty, then turn that evidence in. That sounds pretty shady to me. I'd also suspect the evidence was created purely for the payoff.

"Legally, what if someone brings up evidence of a Republican committing voter fraud? Can he withhold the bounty?"

Yeah, probably. This isn't the Wild West anymore, even in Texas. This looks and sounds far more like political posturing than an actual legal act, which being the Texas Lt. Gov, he doesn't have law enforcement ability anyhow.

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Sigh.

"Possibly illegal" means literally nothing. If it was illegal, find the criminal charge, and enforce it. Like, right now. Just get off the golf course, and do it.

Project Veritas did the same thing, that is why they got that so called USPS "whistleblower" on their fake website. Claiming he supposedly overheard it, which is hearsay at best.

[Flower Milk]

What do you mean it doesn’t mater? If you keep winning NY and California, it’s not going to help your cause at all... somehow I think you know the answer... which should make you question your own motives

Progressives in progressive areas are running on the policies people elect them to run on, and moderate Democrats are out there yelling about how progressives doing that is losing them their own elections. How is that helping the moderate Democrat cause? Why are they incapable of blaming themselves when they lose?

[Felya]

Progressives in progressive areas are running on the policies people elect them to run on, and moderate Democrats are out there yelling about how progressives doing that is losing them their own elections. How is that helping the moderate Democrat cause? Why are they incapable of blaming themselves when they lose?

So... you did know the answer... The issue is not NY and California or very blue areas running on progressive issues, it’s the rest of the country. The choice is something or nothing and it seems like you are demanding nothing...

[Breccia]

Project Veritas did the same thing, that is why they got that so called USPS "whistleblower" on their fake website. Claiming he supposedly overheard it, which is hearsay at best.

"hearsay within hearsay" which of course is followed by "OH GOD INCEPTION".

On topic, it's time again for Guess the Speaker!

A sitting president making accusations of election fraud and insisting he will 'never give up.' Am I the only one seeing this and thinking, what kind of dictatorship is this? Where has our role model for democracy gone?

That's a Japanese government official, who quickly deleted his tweet. The internet never forgets, though.

[postman1782]

The biggest red pill is that both Trump and Biden are good dudes who want to do good for the country but both of their supporter bases are completely vile

Not even fucking close.

[kaelleria]

So... you did know the answer... The issue is not NY and California or very blue areas running on progressive issues, it’s the rest of the country. The choice is something or nothing and it seems like you are demanding nothing...

This is the argument we've been having for like 20 pages. You're not going to get through to them.

[GreenGoldSharpie]

Ah so clearly moderates should keep attacking their progressive base by telling them that progressive voters a million miles away who voted for people like Cori Bush are actually the reason why those moderate Democrats lost their elections. Who is the one that's out of touch again?

Both sides are. The picture emerging is that people aren't voting based on ideas, but rather by party affiliation and their own perceptions. Democrats are, in many parts of the country, defined more by Republican media than they are by their own statements. Bernie Sanders raised a fuckton of money, but did absolutely nothing but campaign with it. The DNC tossed a massive truckload at this election and lost any ability to future proof possible gains by losing state legislatures in a census year.

Both sides are a pack of fucking idiots who think campaigning is more important than building internal party infrastructure and media, and so here we are.

[Flower Milk]

So... you did know the answer... The issue is not NY and California or very blue areas running on progressive issues, it’s the rest of the country. The choice is something or nothing and it seems like you are demanding nothing...

Which progressive candidates not in NY or California are responsible for moderates losing their own elections? Is it at all possible to you that the moderates who lost their elections are responsible for losing their own elections? Is that even a thing you could ever consider, blaming moderates for their own failures?

I mean for fuck's sake Pelosi put fucking Robbie Mook in charge of the House Super PAC, the guy who is quite literally responsible for Trump winning in 2016 and the fuck up in Iowa in 2020. Moderates always fail upwards because they are incapable of taking responsibility for their failures and trying something DIFFERENT.

[Milchshake]

What do you mean it doesn’t mater? If you keep winning NY and California, it’s not going to help your cause at all... somehow I think you know the answer... which should make you question your own motives

I'm just spit ballin here.
But what if your motive is lashing out at your parents. Because they pulled your allowance, and now you cant pay for mime school in Portland. And you had to move back to the family mcmansion in suburban California.

/cartman voice "Mom, i'm going to join Antifa unless you upgrade the internet!"

I'm just talking in broad cliches here. Purely for comedy.