Mega-Thread: 2020 United States General Election

[cubby]

You mean be pitched softball questions, but I agree it's like Trump is actively trying to lose. Hell at least him doing so poorly might just help Democrats get a super majority.

Biden will get a range of questions - especially if it's a crowd of undecided voters (how those exist at this point is beyond me). It will be a good chance for Biden to address the nation and provide more insight to his policies and goals.

I don't recall hearing a thing that about how voting for Biden would help an individual struggling. I don't know why they hardly ever mention the Minimum Wage increase Biden is supposedly to push for, how he might address college debt, or any policy on how Biden could help fix criminal justice issues. I think Biden will win in a land slide, but he is going to be missing out on a lot of voters who could turn out for him if he gave them an actual reason to vote for him.

Biden has actually released significant plans in all of the categories you listed above.

[Elegiac]

Biden has actually released significant plans in all of the categories you listed above.

Inb4 "going to his website is hard".

[Edge-]

https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/09/polit...ils/index.html

Cool, so Trump's getting the State Department to support his campaign. Which is like...not legal, but what the fuck ever.

[cubby]

Yeah and they are hardly ever mentioned anything on it. I wonder if he even knows what on his website. Also my comment was about the video not Biden's campaign page,

If you're critiquing Michele Obama's video for not going into detail about Biden's plans, well, ok but also so what? She neither needs to nor has to - and it might be out of bounds to go into detail on her part. Because, if in watching the video someone becomes curious about Biden's plans for any number of topics or issues, his detailed plans are two clicks away from the main site, and cover dozens of different positions.

[Grapemask]

I can't keep up with how stupid this president and this campaign is. TheOnion doesn't have so many updates in a day, and it's nowhere near as ridiculous.

So let me get this straight. This president just held a superspreader event that put multiple people in the hospital, including himself. He hasn't even fully recovered yet. And he's going to host another?

[Edge-]

So let me get this straight. This president just held a superspreader event that put multiple people in the hospital, including himself. He hasn't even fully recovered yet. And he's going to host another?

Yes, this is accurate.

Though I'm betting it will be canceled as he'll be too sick to show up.

[Zaydin]

Yes, this is accurate.

Though I'm betting it will be canceled as he'll be too sick to show up.

Or they will send Pence in his stead and declare that something came up and Trump is too busy to show up in person.

[Edge-]

Trump: "The first time I ever heard of Black Lives Matter, I said, 'that's such a terrible term,' because it's such a racist term. It's a term that sows division between blacks and whites and everybody else."

In case anyone confused Trump for "not a racist".

[cubby]

Yes, this is accurate.

Though I'm betting it will be canceled as he'll be too sick to show up.

If we're tracking the Caine time-line, Trump is still in his euphoric stage, but will be sliding down in a few days. We're assuming Trump had COVID-19 much sooner than the public was made aware - for all intents and purposes it looks like it was more than a week prior to his visit to Walter Reed.

[Edge-]

https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/09/polit...led/index.html

The debate is officially canceled after Trump, who still has the coronavirus, refused to accept the modifications the commission made to ensure the safety of all involved.

Because Trump wants to continue infecting more people with covid, probably.

Biden will have an in-person town hall though. We'll have to see if Trump is vertical come Tuesday night or if he's finally going to bed to recover.

[PACOX]

Trump is not event hiding that he is the head of a death cult anymore. I mean what does he have lose at this point once he has hit rock bottom?

[xmirrors]

Major loss for Trump. Even though the first debate was a disaster, viewership was high, with an audience much higher than he could ever hope to achieve with rallies. When you're down in the polls you need exposure, not to be seen as a petulant child who refused to debate and indeed got said debate cancelled.

I strongly believe he would have used the same strategy of yelling and talking over Biden to try and provoke a stutter/gaffe anyway, which would have probably failed again, but he still desperately needed a swing of some kind. He must be really sick or his campaign is truly incompetent. Or both!

[Doctor Amadeus]

Be careful, if the Trump campaign sees this, they'll argue Biden is pushing for canceling the debate, because you're obviously a leftist representative of his.

Hahaha I am plenty fine with that. The Debates are silly they change nobody's mind and in the case of Trump the only thing it serves to do is stroke his ego and make our country look worse every single time.

[cubby]

Major loss for Trump. Even though the first debate was a disaster, viewership was high, with an audience much higher than he could ever hope to achieve with rallies. When you're down in the polls you need exposure, not to be seen as a petulant child who refused to debate and indeed got said debate cancelled.

I strongly believe he would have used the same strategy of yelling and talking over Biden to try and provoke a stutter/gaffe anyway, which would have probably failed again, but he still desperately needed a swing of some kind. He must be really sick or his campaign is truly incompetent. Or both!

Indeed - and I agree. Yelling and talking over everyone when he wasn't coughing at least.

[Blur4stuff]

He's still sick. Also still taking steroids so however good he does feel isn't even real. He's going to come crashing back down to Earth soon when he has to stop taking them.

Being out in public would be an enormous risk. He's likely to collapse, having coughing fits, be incapable of finishing a speech, etc... On top of getting other people sick obviously, but it's not like he really cares about that part.

There was never any chance of him doing the 2nd debate. One way or another he was going to back out of it.

[TigTone]

What are the chances of him getting the flu this fall/winter right after getting COVID.

[Edge-]

https://www.newsweek.com/least-9-peo...ls-say-1537985

Another Trump rally was a vector for more covid spread, this time his Sept. 18 rally. Was he positive then? We don't know and the White House won't say.

[Zan15]

https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/09/polit...led/index.html

The debate is officially canceled after Trump, who still has the coronavirus, refused to accept the modifications the commission made to ensure the safety of all involved.

Because Trump wants to continue infecting more people with covid, probably.

Biden will have an in-person town hall though. We'll have to see if Trump is vertical come Tuesday night or if he's finally going to bed to recover.

damn cha ching. won my bet and broke even.
wasn't the way i thought he would bail on the 2nd debate but a win is a win

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BTW i hear Hillary is still laughing about Trump getting sick....and coughing.....and coughing....and coughing....

She would have danced on his grave if he died.

[cubby]

He's still sick. Also still taking steroids so however good he does feel isn't even real. He's going to come crashing back down to Earth soon when he has to stop taking them.

Being out in public would be an enormous risk. He's likely to collapse, having coughing fits, be incapable of finishing a speech, etc... On top of getting other people sick obviously, but it's not like he really cares about that part.

There was never any chance of him doing the 2nd debate. One way or another he was going to back out of it.

Are you seeing some hard information about the steroid treatments? Or is that the normal procedure with a course of treatment like that - multiple days?

[Zan15]

He's still sick. Also still taking steroids so however good he does feel isn't even real. He's going to come crashing back down to Earth soon when he has to stop taking them.

Being out in public would be an enormous risk. He's likely to collapse, having coughing fits, be incapable of finishing a speech, etc... On top of getting other people sick obviously, but it's not like he really cares about that part.

There was never any chance of him doing the 2nd debate. One way or another he was going to back out of it.

and MagaHeads will call everyone Evil lubrbal media for reporting trump coughs....imagine that....the irony almost 4 years later....Karma never forgets