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2020 Election Commentary

Started by deadDMwalking, July 17, 2020, 04:22:33 PM

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moonsweeper

Quote from: rawma on December 13, 2020, 12:54:46 PM
Trump allies are attacking other Republicans over the election nonsense, but it's the Democratic party that is fractured? Believe harder, people, Tinkerbell is still dead.

Trump allies =/= Republicans...why do you think he won in 2016?
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Trond

Quote from: rawma on December 13, 2020, 12:54:46 PM
Quote from: Trond on December 13, 2020, 10:17:53 AM
Quote from: rawma on December 12, 2020, 06:53:41 PM
Quote from: Trond on December 12, 2020, 02:42:30 PM

To be fair, fracturing has been going on in the Democratic party for some time too. Some might say even more than the Republicans.

81 million people said otherwise not that long ago.

Even European news have caught on to have fractured the Democratic Party is, and you're denying it?

Trump allies are attacking other Republicans over the election nonsense, but it's the Democratic party that is fractured? Believe harder, people, Tinkerbell is still dead.

So Republicans are divided, therefore Democrats can't be. Got it.

Bren

Quote from: moonsweeper on December 13, 2020, 01:05:52 PMTrump allies =/= Republicans...why do you think he won in 2016?
Voter suppression, Russian propaganda, and a large minority in this country who are really pissed off at their perceived lack of success in life.
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Trond

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/05/us/house-democrats-election-losses.html


QuoteBut by Thursday, one of the incumbents Democrats had spent heavily to defend, Representative Debbie Mucarsel-Powell, who was defeated Tuesday night as President Trump won a resounding victory in her Miami-area district, broke into tears as she spoke out to her soon-to-be former colleagues about internal divides in the party.

Shasarak

Quote from: rawma on December 13, 2020, 09:52:14 AM
Quote from: Shasarak on December 12, 2020, 09:34:41 PM
Did the Supreme Court say there's nothing there?  Do you have a quote from them saying that?

Burden of proof is on those who say there is something there; they've failed. You're approaching Ron "show me the evidence that there's no evidence" Johnson level of cluelessness.

So you have the quote that Happydaze is talking about where the Supreme Court says there's nothing there?
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HappyDaze

Quote from: VisionStorm on December 13, 2020, 01:03:06 PM

In the real world none of that addresses or refutes what I said.

I don't have to care that you are unwilling to understand.

HappyDaze

Quote from: Shasarak on December 13, 2020, 02:45:35 PM
Quote from: rawma on December 13, 2020, 09:52:14 AM
Quote from: Shasarak on December 12, 2020, 09:34:41 PM
Did the Supreme Court say there's nothing there?  Do you have a quote from them saying that?

Burden of proof is on those who say there is something there; they've failed. You're approaching Ron "show me the evidence that there's no evidence" Johnson level of cluelessness.

So you have the quote that Happydaze is talking about where the Supreme Court says there's nothing there?
If I had a quote, I would have put it in quotes, you stupid motherfucker. Instead, I summarized the effective statement of the court and put that in italics for emphasis. You do know how that works, right?

If others want to keep looking at the Emperor's New Claims and saying there is something of substance there, they need to accept that most of the world is going to mock them for their foolishness.

rawma

Quote from: Trond on December 13, 2020, 02:26:57 PM
So Republicans are divided, therefore Democrats can't be. Got it.

Rather, the disagreement within the Democratic party does not rise to the level of "fracturing", much as you want to misrepresent what I said and move the goalposts. Any healthy party will have differences of opinion among its members, and that they came together to elect Joe Biden indicates that they worked out a compromise. The Republican party has deep fractures between those who want to move on from Trump and those who don't; some, like Justin Amash, will be purged from the ranks.

Quote from: Trond on December 13, 2020, 02:34:25 PM
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/05/us/house-democrats-election-losses.html


QuoteBut by Thursday, one of the incumbents Democrats had spent heavily to defend, Representative Debbie Mucarsel-Powell, who was defeated Tuesday night as President Trump won a resounding victory in her Miami-area district, broke into tears as she spoke out to her soon-to-be former colleagues about internal divides in the party.

I was unable to find the part where some Democrat fears that her house will be bombed if she doesn't go along with other Democrats. Because you're stupid and dishonest, I will again provide the link about that happening to a Republican:
QuoteWhen The New York Times asked Kim Ward, the Republican leader in the Pennsylvania Senate, whether she would have signed a letter declaring there was fraud in the state's election, she replied, "If I would say to you, 'I don't want to do it,'" referring to signing the letter, "I'd get my house bombed tonight."
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/12/republican-party-abandoning-democracy/617359/

rawma

Quote from: Bren on December 13, 2020, 02:29:50 PM
Quote from: moonsweeper on December 13, 2020, 01:05:52 PMTrump allies =/= Republicans...why do you think he won in 2016?
Voter suppression, Russian propaganda, and a large minority in this country who are really pissed off at their perceived lack of success in life.

I would add the Comey announcement, which was judged sufficient to swing the election. it was so corrupt that Barr, willing to stoop to almost anything in service to Donald Trump, wouldn't do that with the Hunter Biden investigation (probably more out of keen awareness that nobody in the Trump administration had any credibility with anyone not already voting for Trump).

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"Meh."

Shasarak

Quote from: HappyDaze on December 13, 2020, 02:51:31 PM
If I had a quote, I would have put it in quotes, you stupid motherfucker. Instead, I summarized the effective statement of the court and put that in italics for emphasis. You do know how that works, right?

If others want to keep looking at the Emperor's New Claims and saying there is something of substance there, they need to accept that most of the world is going to mock them for their foolishness.

The problem is that your summary was full of shit.

Stupid motherfucker indeed.

Here is the quote for you so you wont have to make up a brilliant brain fart next time:

QuoteThe State of Texas's motion for leave to file a bill of complaint is denied for lack of standing under Article III of the Constitution. Texas has not demonstrated a judicially cognizable interest in the manner in which another State conducts its elections. All other pending motions are dismissed as moot.
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HappyDaze

Quote from: Shasarak on December 13, 2020, 03:30:13 PM
Quote from: HappyDaze on December 13, 2020, 02:51:31 PM
If I had a quote, I would have put it in quotes, you stupid motherfucker. Instead, I summarized the effective statement of the court and put that in italics for emphasis. You do know how that works, right?

If others want to keep looking at the Emperor's New Claims and saying there is something of substance there, they need to accept that most of the world is going to mock them for their foolishness.

The problem is that your summary was full of shit.

Stupid motherfucker indeed.

Here is the quote for you so you wont have to make up a brilliant brain fart next time:

QuoteThe State of Texas's motion for leave to file a bill of complaint is denied for lack of standing under Article III of the Constitution. Texas has not demonstrated a judicially cognizable interest in the manner in which another State conducts its elections. All other pending motions are dismissed as moot.
Shasarak, you fool, no standing, everything else is moot is effectively the same as nothing to see here for just about every layman's needs. But go on praising the Emperor's New Claims as having substance when it has been ruled to be nothing at all.

Shasarak

Jesus, just one sentence and you still can not understand.

You dont have to play act being a moron all of the time.
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There will be poor always,
pathetically struggling,
look at the good things you've got! -  Jesus

HappyDaze

Quote from: Shasarak on December 13, 2020, 03:47:36 PM
Jesus, just one sentence and you still can not understand.

You dont have to play act being a moron all of the time.
You obviously fail to understand my understanding.

Or, as jeffy would say, dance monkey, dance.