2020 Election Commentary

[myleftnut]

Newsmax has followed Fox News in retracting its claims about Smartmatic voting machines. I'm starting to sense a pattern here.

Sebastian Gorka on Newsmax cut off the MyPillow guy when he started in on Dominion voting machines. Definite fear of lawsuits.

That's how much of a sitcom this whole thing is.  Who gives a fuck what the mypillow guy thinks?   Why is he being interviewed?   Seriously can't Trump land come up with a better mouthpiece?

[EOTB]

Oh look, U.S. Trade Deficit the worst since 2008 recession. And it was diving already before Covid.

For those playing at home, one of Trumps major issues when he ran was our bad trade deficit. Which he promised to drastically improve.

Who could have predicted Trump's trade policies would backfire and be even worse than before? Oh right, me. And everyone who has experience in trade and could see his policies would not increase our manufacturing but would instead decrease U.S. sales of goods overseas.

If you have a company you can't be this dumb, and/or made it past Econ 101

[rawma]

WaPo opinion piece on how Republicans are rats.

Washington. Post.

I feel quite fine calling Democrats vermin who need to be exterminated now. Race you all to the bottom!

Ratman_tf doesn't like being associated with rats? Huh.

The editorial cartoon is depicting elected officials who joined the Texas lawsuit to overturn other states' elections as rats, in the sense of traitors; it is subtitled "All of the state attorneys general and U.S. Congress members who collaborated with President Trump in his attempt to subvert the Constitution and stay in office." as can be seen in the posted image. Definitely unfair to rats. It is good to learn what the outrage of the day is, though, without having to attend the Two-Minutes Hate.

[rawma]

Newsmax has followed Fox News in retracting its claims about Smartmatic voting machines. I'm starting to sense a pattern here.

Sebastian Gorka on Newsmax cut off the MyPillow guy when he started in on Dominion voting machines. Definite fear of lawsuits.

That's how much of a sitcom this whole thing is.  Who gives a fuck what the mypillow guy thinks?   Why is he being interviewed?   Seriously can't Trump land come up with a better mouthpiece?

If they had just put a laugh track on the coronavirus briefings, they wouldn't have had so much trouble over the bleach thing.

But the Trump campaign has had a lot of difficulties with its branding. Depicting Trump as Thanos from the Avengers movies; the campaign as the Death Star; boat parades as the Spanish Armada; and lawsuits as "Release the Kraken!" You would think that someone would have noticed that all of these are bad news and came to a bad end.... Was it stupidity or sabotage?

[Trond]

Telling the truth goes a long way, they could have just quoted him without trying to read everything in the worst possible way.

I realize Republicans like it best when reporters are simply stenographers. But to a large extent they were just reporting on the horrified reactions of doctors and companies that made disinfectants.

Your naive belief that the mass media never misrepresent anything is just super adorable.

That would be bad if I had ever said anything of the sort; you have mistaken me for the strawman in your head. But pointing out your ignorance of PhDs really, really embarrassed you, huh?

See what I did there? 

Yes, embarrassed yourself some more. LOL.

I even gave you a hint

Yeah, of course you wouldn't get it. I paraphrased your posts, throwing your bullshit straw man arguments back at you, nitwit

[Catulle]

Newsmax has followed Fox News in retracting its claims about Smartmatic voting machines. I'm starting to sense a pattern here.

Sebastian Gorka on Newsmax cut off the MyPillow guy when he started in on Dominion voting machines. Definite fear of lawsuits.

That's how much of a sitcom this whole thing is.  Who gives a fuck what the mypillow guy thinks?   Why is he being interviewed?   Seriously can't Trump land come up with a better mouthpiece?

If they had just put a laugh track on the coronavirus briefings, they wouldn't have had so much trouble over the bleach thing.

But the Trump campaign has had a lot of difficulties with its branding. Depicting Trump as Thanos from the Avengers movies; the campaign as the Death Star; boat parades as the Spanish Armada; and lawsuits as "Release the Kraken!" You would think that someone would have noticed that all of these are bad news and came to a bad end.... Was it stupidity or sabotage?

Careful, man. They're going to overturn democracy Any Day Now,  and then you'll be sorry. Just, you know, not in a Nazi way. Just an anti-communist way. *eyes the centre-right Democrats*

[Shasarak]

Voting machines were a big nothing burger.

Too late! The other side is already spinning up its own theories.

Your link is not working, so what did Biden say about the spinning theories?

[Shasarak]

Careful, man. They're going to overturn democracy Any Day Now,  and then you'll be sorry. Just, you know, not in a Nazi way. Just an anti-communist way. *eyes the centre-right Democrats*

How can they be Nazis when their name is literally Anti-Nazi?

QED

[jhkim]

Voting machines were a big nothing burger.

Too late! The other side is already spinning up its own theories.

Your link is not working, so what did Biden say about the spinning theories?

The link was misformatted. Here's the corrected one, concerning suspicion that Mitch McConnell's re-election involved ballot fraud.

https://www.dcreport.org/2020/12/19/mitch-mcconnells-re-election-the-numbers-dont-add-up/

[Spinachcat]

Today is Pence's big day. We'll see where he stands.

It's entertaining how you clowns think a stolen election will be allowed to stand.

[jhkim]

As an aside, you remember Michael Bloomberg? The jackass that ran for President recently and who's campaign failed miserably after about a month? This moron spent--wait for it--500 MILLION DOLLARS on a bullshit campaign that went NOWHERE and accomplished NOTHING. You know how many people are living in the United States of America? Say, 350 million. Michael Bloomberg could have donated ONE MILLION DOLLARS to every man, woman, and child in America--and still saved money from his stupid political campaign. Every man, woman, and child in America could have been given likely more money in one stroke of a pen than they would ever have in a fucking lifetime.

SHARK, you might want to look at the math on this claim again. You're pretty hugely off on this. $500 million split among 350 million people would be one dollar and 42 cents per person, not a million per person. I say this because in a number of other subjects, you do have an attention to detail -- like with respect to history. I wouldn't expect most of your opinions to change, but if your claim here is off by a million times, I hope you might look back and allow that some other claims might have some flaws.

I say that as yet another example of the presence of wealth and resources. The country--and certainly the planet--have plenty of wealth and resources to ensure everyone is taken care of, and has essential opportunities. The idea that we don't have the resources, so therefore we must bow down to a one-world government and entrust an elite few to rule over us with tyrannical power is a tyrant's feverish dream, and totally evil. The fucking globalists are evil and must be resisted. Globalists, Technocrats, Marxists, whatever you want to call them--they are all evil, wicked people, yearning for tyranny. They are all members of the same club.

A lot of the liberal left share a distaste for elite billionaires. I think a significant part of Bloomberg's failure wasn't his position, but rather that his billionaire status didn't go over well with the progressive wing among Democrats. I realize that you feel they are misguided and that what they are voting for is tyranny, but it seems to me that is an overlap in position where populist conservatives and leftist progressives have some common ground.

[Pat]

As an aside, you remember Michael Bloomberg? The jackass that ran for President recently and who's campaign failed miserably after about a month? This moron spent--wait for it--500 MILLION DOLLARS on a bullshit campaign that went NOWHERE and accomplished NOTHING. You know how many people are living in the United States of America? Say, 350 million. Michael Bloomberg could have donated ONE MILLION DOLLARS to every man, woman, and child in America--and still saved money from his stupid political campaign. Every man, woman, and child in America could have been given likely more money in one stroke of a pen than they would ever have in a fucking lifetime.

SHARK, you might want to look at the math on this claim again. You're pretty hugely off on this. $500 million split among 350 million people would be one dollar and 42 cents per person, not a million per person. I say this because in a number of other subjects, you do have an attention to detail -- like with respect to history. I wouldn't expect most of your opinions to change, but if your claim here is off by a million times, I hope you might look back and allow that some other claims might have some flaws.

I assume that was a parody of this particular piece of stupidity:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/03/06/no-michael-bloomberg-couldnt-give-every-american-1-million/

[Tubesock Army]

Dominion has sent notices to Giuliani and Cipollone telling them to preserve documents ahead of "imminent legal action".

[jeff37923]

Dominion has sent notices to Giuliani and Cipollone telling them to preserve documents ahead of "imminent legal action".

No there is a fear reaction if I ever saw one.....

[Mistwell]

Dominion has sent notices to Giuliani and Cipollone telling them to preserve documents ahead of "imminent legal action".

No there is a fear reaction if I ever saw one.....

The fear reaction is those who have been defaming Dominion for weeks with no evidence being called to pay deep fines for said behavior. Truth is a defense to defamation and they will not be able to use that defense.