2020 US Election - Page 288

On November 11 2020 00:03 JimmiC wrote:

They will care as soon as the shoe is on the other foot. Smart leaderships realizes that these issues effect both and all. Sadly we don't see a lot of smart leadership these days. Just short term BS. And the worst part is the short term BS wins elections.

On November 11 2020 00:27 JimmiC wrote:

I'm not so sure the Dems are immune to the same type of "firebrand populist" stirring up emotions of the masses. It would be different messaging but similar results. There is a reason that Authoritarians vote as a block and not with their political leaning. Because dictators are not left or right, that is the the messaging of their scapegoating, they are all about them and their power. See Venezuela, Iran, China, Russia, NK, SA, Turkey, Syria so on.

PreTrump I'm sure republicans would have told you they were immune also.

On November 11 2020 01:15 TheTenthDoc wrote:
I think at least part of what has the GOP cornered is that the (comparatively) easier way to argue about the fairness of the election-the problem of voter suppression-is 1) a well-worn Democratic talking point they have spent years completely ignoring and 2) actually almost certainly helps them. Plus, they don't want to imply it should be easier to vote, since a pillar of what's left of their platform is...well...keeping it hard to vote.

The only thing left is to finally put their money where their mouth is on decades of insinuating shadowy cabals are directly deducting votes from their candidates and adding votes to their opponents. Of course, if that's where the fraud is occurring, it's awfully strange to still be pushing voter ID and limited early voting hours, but that cognitive dissonance won't hit them ever.

The former Trump campaign adviser attributed the need to shed staff to the fact the operation is “dry on cash.” In the final months of the election, heavy spending by Trump’s team eroded a financial advantage he was expected to have over Biden. During the past few days, the campaign has aggressively raised funds in support of its election challenges. According to Murtaugh, Trump’s team would have what it needed to keep challenging the election.“We are raising significant amounts of money to fuel the president’s challenges and will retain appropriate staff to see the post-election process through to the president’s victory,” he said.
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The Republican source, who described post-election layoffs as a normal part of political campaigns, had questions about the scope of the campaign’s challenge efforts even before layoffs. The source noted that Utah Sen. Mitt Romney, who was the Republican nominee in 2012, had a robust operation for a potential challenge that year with a team of election lawyers and planes on standby to take them to key states.

In contrast, the source accused the Trump’s campaign of having “zero planning” with “no legit poll watching or recount plans” and staffers appearing on TV to make wild and baseless allegations rather than a serious team of lawyers and experts.

“Waving around the political equivalent of a bloody rag is no substitute for legitimate planning,” the Republican source said.

“We are going to find that people did illegally vote,” Sterling said at a press conference with reporters on Monday. “That is going to happen. There are going to be double voters. There are going to be people who did not have the qualifications, for a registered voter, to vote in this state. That will be found.”
“Is it 10,353? Unlikely.”

On November 11 2020 01:28 Mohdoo wrote:


I think this is what Barr is doing. The DOJ has full authority to investigate aspects of election fraud that may have changed the outcome, but nothing less than that. The only thing that is unclear to me is how long this supposed investigation will go. Do they just investigate forever? When does Barr say "Ok, now assemble your evidence and lets look over it"? Does this just go on until the actual delegate vote?

On November 11 2020 03:56 Zambrah wrote:
Queue "we're not a democracy we're a republic" talk.

God, can you even fucking imagine this shit show if a real actual human being with brain meat in their head had a cabal of actually competent and capable sycophants to pull this shit with?

On November 11 2020 03:52 ChristianS wrote:
Pompeo promising a “smooth transition to a second Trump administration” certainly raises the stock of the “democracy uninstalls” scenario a bit.

On November 11 2020 04:16 Sent. wrote:
Even assuming Trump will actively resist his replacement, do you seriously believe republicans and republican leaning officials would continue to stand by his side after he loses the last court case?

On November 11 2020 04:16 Sent. wrote:
Even assuming Trump will actively resist his replacement, do you seriously believe republicans and republican leaning officials would continue to stand by his side after he loses the last court case?

On November 11 2020 03:56 Zambrah wrote:
Queue "we're not a democracy we're a republic" talk.

God, can you even fucking imagine this shit show if a real actual human being with brain meat in their head had a cabal of actually competent and capable sycophants to pull this shit with?