Mega-Thread: 2020 United States General Election

[D Luniz]

Hi there! I am a political junkie but I am amazed at how much time some people can spend posting on these forums.

mining in eve online doesn't require much beyond "make sure hold isn't full and gankers arent flooding into local"
same as waiting for ques to pop in WoW and FF14

online games have a lot of empty time

[Katchii]

That's an interesting point - I guess they wouldn't really let him leave, would they? He has the right to round-the-clock Secret Service protection (those poor people - talk about heroes) and they are sworn federal officers. If NYState AG issued an arrest warrant, and got the DoJ to assist, I think his protection detail could arrest him.

I mean, he still has rights until he gets arrested, but he's a MASSIVE security risk. It's already been stated that if he was anyone other than the president, by virtue of how the President gets elected and not appointed/ hired/ etc..., he wouldn't have been let anywhere near the top secret stuff based on his debt alone.

I can't see the feds just letting him get on a plane and leave to who knows where (it's Russia....) and selling them all of our secrets.

With that said, he has a very large circle of friends, and a large business empire that can't really go anywhere. One way or another, as soon as he's not president anymore, he is so screwed, either directly or indirectly.

[D Luniz]

The Daily Mail in the UK are trying very very hard to push the Biden corruption conspiracy. They’re now quoting Steve Bannon. Yup, the same Bannon who’s likely to be jailed for fraud next year. Full disclosure, the Daily Mail is a pure propaganda machine. It’s not a newspaper. It’s their full time job to smear politicians, athletes and celebrities.

doesn't the UK have harsher laws on libel/slander than the US?

[DingDongKing]

doesn't the UK have harsher laws on libel/slander than the US?

Not at all. Daily Mail, The Sun, Daily Express and Daily Star have been at this for years. They even got caught up in an illegal wiretapping scandal a few years ago. Were doing stories based on information sourced from surveillance. This is par for the course. I’m just surprised they’re going so ham on taking down Biden, which leads me to believe power players in the U.K. are on side with the Trump campaign big time. No surprise at all.

[Gelannerai]

That's an interesting point - I guess they wouldn't really let him leave, would they? He has the right to round-the-clock Secret Service protection (those poor people - talk about heroes) and they are sworn federal officers. If NYState AG issued an arrest warrant, and got the DoJ to assist, I think his protection detail could arrest him.

Oh absolutely not. The combination of his debt, cozying up to foreign powers that have historically been and presently are hostile to us and our allies (which is also linked to my first descriptor), his unchecked inflammatory rhetoric that attempts to incite violence against US citizens that disagree with him, etc. make him the definition of a threat to national security. The CIA would never allow ANYONE with the kind of security clearance that Trump and his family have enjoyed to just skip the country and become an asset to a foreign power, let alone someone like Trump.

[Zan15]

Not at all. Daily Mail, The Sun, Daily Express and Daily Star have been at this for years. They even got caught up in an illegal wiretapping scandal a few years ago. Were doing stories based on information sourced from surveillance. This is par for the course. I’m just surprised they’re going so ham on taking down Biden, which leads me to believe power players in the U.K. are on side with the Trump campaign big time. No surprise at all.

meh, they are full conspiracy and paparazzi site, this is how they make money...off the gullible and stupid.

Trump sells well on their site, if it didn't they would not even acknowledge the story

[DingDongKing]

meh, they are full conspiracy and paparazzi site, this is how they make money...off the gullible and stupid.

Trump sells well on their site, if it didn't they would not even acknowledge the story

Pretty much. It’s a scumbag rag and the only newspaper besides the Post running the story. Tells you everything you need to know.

[Attackrabbit]

Pretty much. It’s a scumbag rag and the only newspaper besides the Post running the story. Tells you everything you need to know.

Im fairly confident that the Express will be on it before too long as well

[DingDongKing]

Im fairly confident that the Express will be on it before too long as well

They keep predicting a Trump landslide...by quoting their own polls.

[Hinastorm]

The Daily Mail in the UK are trying very very hard to push the Biden corruption conspiracy. They’re now quoting Steve Bannon. Yup, the same Bannon who’s likely to be jailed for fraud next year. Full disclosure, the Daily Mail is a pure propaganda machine. It’s not a newspaper. It’s their full time job to smear politicians, athletes and celebrities.

I love how this is all they have, and they have no choice but to keep tripling down on it cause Trump is so behind.

It's so fucking delicious.

[Breccia]

A Trump advisor went on FOX News and said that Trump would give Biden a little more room to explain himself.

Translation: Trump knows he can't win the next debate by just shouting, because the Committee made it clear they were going to enforce the rules. So he's going to pretend this was all his idea.

[Edge-]

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/18/t...e=articleShare

Very good article on how Republican operatives are selling propaganda as "news" and creating literal "FAKE NEWS" masquerading as local reporting.

Again, everything the Republican party says is wrong seems to be them projecting their own behavior.

[Rasulis]

The United Steelworkers beamed a "Biden Harris" sign onto the Trump Tower in Chicago, Illinois early Saturday. A collection of USW Batlight project can be seen here - https://www.flickr.com/photos/united...7715926632811/.

[Benggaul]

HAHAHHAHAHAHA.

The hit job on Biden was so sloppy even the New York Post is backtracking.

New York Post Insiders Slag ‘Very Flimsy’ Hunter Biden Stories

The New York Post’s own journalists say they are skeptical of the paper’s stories about Hunter Biden, including the man who wrote most of the “smoking gun” story and would not put his name on it, four newsroom sources told Intelligencer.

On Wednesday morning, the Post dropped what it clearly hoped would be a bombshell — an exclusive report based on copies of emails and photos that had supposedly belonged to Hunter, the son of Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden. The Post said the files were recovered from a computer that belonged to Hunter and was dropped off at a computer-repair shop near the Biden family’s home in Wilmington, Delaware, last spring. The shop’s owner, a Trump supporter, gave the files to the president’s consigliere, Rudy Giuliani, who finally delivered them to the Post. The Post has not said publicly whether it authenticated the files.

“I think it was very flimsy,” one Post reporter told Intelligencer.

Another journalist at the paper was even more blunt.

“It’s not something that meets my journalistic standards,” they said, adding that the piece “should not have been published.”

[Milchshake]

I've never heard the Stooges, Pixies, Beastie Boys, and the Breeders in a political ad.

Biden going hard for the GenX vote. I'm into it. Also like every band I was in, we always did a cover of "Down the Street".

[Rasulis]

Another good sign for Biden. African American voters make up a larger share of early voters than in 2016. More than six times as many African American voters have voted early this year than had at the same point in the last presidential election, according to TargetSmart.

[Shadowferal]

Hmf...
I suspect Trump is going to lose AZ.

[Zaydin]

Hmf...
I suspect Trump is going to lose AZ.

I mean, he's been trailing there in the polls for months and not by small margins. Think every poll Bidens lead has been outside the margin of error.

McSally is getting destroyed, too.

[Thepersona]

I mean, he's been trailing there in the polls for months and not by small margins. Think every poll Bidens lead has been outside the margin of error.

McSally is getting destroyed, too.

And Biden was endorsed by the McCain's family.

[Benggaul]

Another good sign for Biden. African American voters make up a larger share of early voters than in 2016. More than six times as many African American voters have voted early this year than had at the same point in the last presidential election, according to TargetSmart.

If I may be extremely blunt, this is probably better news for Biden than you realize. Who do you think will be targeted the most by those "Trump poll watchers" on election day? If they're getting their votes in before those particular intimidation/suppression tactics are in place that's fantastic.