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Author Topic: 2020 Election Commentary  (Read 185231 times)

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Re: 2020 Election Commentary
« Reply #1245 on: November 23, 2020, 03:26:29 AM »
Greetings!

FEC Chairman Trey Trainor discusses how fraud has been confirmed in the 2020 election, and can be seen in video.

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Re: 2020 Election Commentary
« Reply #1246 on: November 23, 2020, 07:49:07 AM »
Greetings!

FEC Chairman Trey Trainor discusses how fraud has been confirmed in the 2020 election, and can be seen in video.

Semper Fidelis,

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So again Trainor gets his position emphasized without mentioning that his role has nothing to do with elections outside of campaign finances. Monitoring the election process and alleged fraud in that process isn't in his bailiwick, so his title is rather meaningless in such context.

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Re: 2020 Election Commentary
« Reply #1247 on: November 23, 2020, 10:34:30 AM »

So again Trainor gets his position emphasized without mentioning that his role has nothing to do with elections outside of campaign finances. Monitoring the election process and alleged fraud in that process isn't in his bailiwick, so his title is rather meaningless in such context.

No matter who says it, the way Republican observers were handled at a few places smells fishy. I still don't think it's enough to turn the vote around though.

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Re: 2020 Election Commentary
« Reply #1248 on: November 23, 2020, 10:52:25 AM »
This is the future the left chose.

The irony is that there's a few decent ideas in this mess (I have nothing but loathing for civil asset forfeiture). But most of it is so laughable, and of course, the spawn of a liberal mind.

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Re: 2020 Election Commentary
« Reply #1249 on: November 23, 2020, 11:53:46 AM »
I'm reading The Big Sort, which discusses how the US has been voluntarily segregating itself into politically monolithic communities since the 1970s, leading to a rise in polarization. The book was published in 2009, but switch the names and dates, and this part could have been written about the 2020 election:

Quote from: The Big Sort by Bill Bishop, p. 249-50
There were some snafus throughout Election Day 2004, but a major problem with the exit polls turned out to be a human reaction: Republicans sometimes refused to answer the queries of pollsters. Bush supporters were particularly unwilling to answer questions posed by young interviewers with graduate degrees.... This factor alone caused an undercount of Bush's votes. Kerry's supporters were inclined to talk with young, educated interviewers, and so Kerry's vote was systematically overstated.

The pollsters also carried paperwork and notebooks bearing the logos of the  major news outlets sponsoring the survey. Republican voters may have so mistrusted the major news media that this association, too, led some to avoid the pollsters.
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Re: 2020 Election Commentary
« Reply #1250 on: November 23, 2020, 11:56:14 AM »
DEWEY DEFEATS TRUMAN

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Re: 2020 Election Commentary
« Reply #1251 on: November 23, 2020, 12:12:39 PM »
It'll be interesting to watch the anti-war contingent (assuming they weren't utterly purged during Obama's presidency) try to square the circle of 'Biden is a good boi' with him sending troops into Syria, etc.

Say what you will about Trump; he didn't start any new wars, smoked a couple high value targets with precision strikes, and has been at least trying to bring the troops home (the revelation that the State Department was subverting his orders on getting soldiers out of Syria pisses me off).

My impression is that plenty of liberals don't believe "Biden is a good boi" -- they just think he's a lesser evil than Trump. They've been holding back criticisms because they didn't want to hurt election chances, but now they're more willing to speak out against Biden.

I agree that Trump has done well to not start new wars - but he also vetoed a bipartisan bill to end U.S. hostilities in Yemen, for example. I would hope that the same forces that pushed Trump to be less hawkish will also push Biden to be less hawkish. If both Republican and Democrat voters sour on the idea of foreign wars, they will influence the legislature and administration.

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Re: 2020 Election Commentary
« Reply #1252 on: November 23, 2020, 04:12:13 PM »
How's that attempt to throw out Democrat black votes in PA going?

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Supreme Court declines to take action on Trump’s Pennsylvania appeal prior to certification of Biden win

Published 2 hours ago

on November 23, 2020

By David Edwards

The Supreme Court of the United States on Monday took no action to overturn a lower court decision that allowed the counting of late-arriving mail-in ballots in Pennsylvania.

President Donald Trump’s campaign had sought to exclude mail-in ballots that arrived after election day.

In 4-4 decision in October, the high court upheld the Pennsylvania Supreme Court’s ruling that said ballots postmarked by election day can arrive up to three days after the election.

The court later handed the Trump campaign a victory with an order saying that late-arriving ballots must be segregated before being counted.

The Trump campaign had hoped that the Supreme Court would hear the case prior to Pennsylvania’s certification of the 2020 election.

But on Monday, the court’s regular order list for its November 20 conference did not include any action on the case.

The court could take action at its December 4 conference, which is after Pennsylvania’s November 23 deadline for counties to certify the election.

So where's the next large pool of minority voters Trump can try to get disqualified? Michigan is out, Pennsylvania is out. They already Ku Kluxed over 200,000 black voters off the rolls before the 2018 elections in Georgia, so that's dead-end, too. My guess is that Trump and Giuliani will demand that all those Apache, Navajo and other aboriginal voters who helped put Biden over in Arizona, Wisconsin and Nevada prove they're native-born.

Jesus Fucking Christ, is this guy honestly that goddamned stupid? He can't understand the plot of a Star Wars film? We're not talking about "Rashomon" here, for fuck's sake. The plot is as linear as they come. If anything, the film tries too hard to fill in all the gaps. This guy must be a flaming retard.  --Mike Wong on Red Letter Moron's review of The Phantom Menace

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Re: 2020 Election Commentary
« Reply #1253 on: November 23, 2020, 05:04:28 PM »
Michigan just certified Biden's win there.

Trumps lawsuits have been dismissed or settled.

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Re: 2020 Election Commentary
« Reply #1254 on: November 23, 2020, 05:11:26 PM »
Michigan just certified Biden's win there.

Trumps lawsuits have been dismissed or settled.
So where does that leave DJT?

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Re: 2020 Election Commentary
« Reply #1255 on: November 23, 2020, 05:16:03 PM »
How's that attempt to throw out Democrat black votes in PA going?

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Supreme Court declines to take action on Trump’s Pennsylvania appeal prior to certification of Biden win

Published 2 hours ago

on November 23, 2020

By David Edwards

The Supreme Court of the United States on Monday took no action to overturn a lower court decision that allowed the counting of late-arriving mail-in ballots in Pennsylvania.

President Donald Trump’s campaign had sought to exclude mail-in ballots that arrived after election day.

In 4-4 decision in October, the high court upheld the Pennsylvania Supreme Court’s ruling that said ballots postmarked by election day can arrive up to three days after the election.

The court later handed the Trump campaign a victory with an order saying that late-arriving ballots must be segregated before being counted.

The Trump campaign had hoped that the Supreme Court would hear the case prior to Pennsylvania’s certification of the 2020 election.

But on Monday, the court’s regular order list for its November 20 conference did not include any action on the case.

The court could take action at its December 4 conference, which is after Pennsylvania’s November 23 deadline for counties to certify the election.

So where's the next large pool of minority voters Trump can try to get disqualified? Michigan is out, Pennsylvania is out. They already Ku Kluxed over 200,000 black voters off the rolls before the 2018 elections in Georgia, so that's dead-end, too. My guess is that Trump and Giuliani will demand that all those Apache, Navajo and other aboriginal voters who helped put Biden over in Arizona, Wisconsin and Nevada prove they're native-born.

Almost perfect, but you forgot to spit on black conservatives and call them house n****s.
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Re: 2020 Election Commentary
« Reply #1257 on: November 23, 2020, 07:14:39 PM »
Almost perfect, but you forgot to spit on black conservatives and call them house n****s.

You're being silly.
Jesus Fucking Christ, is this guy honestly that goddamned stupid? He can't understand the plot of a Star Wars film? We're not talking about "Rashomon" here, for fuck's sake. The plot is as linear as they come. If anything, the film tries too hard to fill in all the gaps. This guy must be a flaming retard.  --Mike Wong on Red Letter Moron's review of The Phantom Menace

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Re: 2020 Election Commentary
« Reply #1258 on: November 23, 2020, 07:22:02 PM »
Trump administration beginning Biden transition protocols.

How dissapointing. The Democrats and the media promised me a spectacle where Trump tried to become Emperor. I want my money back!

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Re: 2020 Election Commentary
« Reply #1259 on: November 23, 2020, 08:01:17 PM »
We'll see if Sidney Powell can deliver on her promises. Based on the affidavit bits she's already released, the media is in for a big surprise.

Also, there's this fun media delusion that only Trump's campaign can sue the states and undue the bullshit certification of their fraud. Nope. Any group of citizens can take action and those are already underway in multiple states. That's actually the most interesting part of Sidney "going rogue" beyond Rudy's team.

Let the media believe the "transition team" means something. The more they gaslight their audience, the more fun Sidney's victory will be.