ohnonotgmail wrote: » i dont think anybody ever imagined that a president would ever be so blatantly criminal.
Leroy42 wrote: » I wouldn't be too sure about that. There has been plenty of time in the past for DNC to deal with issues like Gerrymandering, corporate donations etc etc but they consistently fail to do anything. A lot will depend on the results of the Senate and House elections and the impact on who is in majority. If the GoP maintain control of the Senate then Biden will be forced into EO to get anything done and that solves nothing really. That the parties couldn't come together to deal with such a threat as COVID does not bode well for any cross party work in the future. Biden can't be seen to change too much, as he will quickly be labelled as ignoring those that didn't vote for him. That that is exactly what Trump did isn't the point.
ohnonotgmail wrote: » Trump should adopt that as a campaign slogan. "I'm not having a breakdown, I'm just a dumb fool"
duploelabs wrote: » It's not just the voting rights, I think a lot of the Biden presidency will be closing all the loopholes that Trump exploited to make sure they are not abused again
Timberrrrrrrr wrote: » No matter the result in November the ramifications of Trumps presidency and his attack on the democratic voting rights for US citizens will be felt for years, maybe even decades.
Leroy42 wrote: » And the most worrying aspect of it is that it seems that a huge amount, the majority I would say, don't even realise what is happening. For all their gun carrying, we stand for freedom and democracy, this is the US, greatest country in the world etc they seemingly are happy enough to stand by and watch their judicial system be systemically politicised, their voting system politicised and their media become more and more polarised. For all the money they spend on their military, they real threats are themselves.
Leroy42 wrote: » It is crazy that the US have got to the point where the opposition party are asking people to vote early to try to avoid the POTUS looking to stop them voting. This is, apparently, the home of democracy, the country that wants to spread democracy to the rest of the world. And essentially the leader of the country is actively looking for ways to stop people voting! I mean, that is incredible that it has got to that point. Whilst I was one of those that was not happy with Trump winning, I could see where it came from but was worried about the effects.But I never really imagined that the US would now be looking at a situation whereby the POTUS is actively looking to discredit the entire democratic system.
Leroy42 wrote: » It is crazy that the US have got to the point where the opposition party are asking people to vote early to try to avoid the POTUS looking to stop them voting. This is, apparently, the home of democracy, the country that wants to spread democracy to the rest of the world. And essentially the leader of the country is actively looking for ways to stop people voting! I mean, that is incredible that it has got to that point. Whilst I was one of those that was not happy with Trump winning, I could see where it came from but was worried about the effects. But I never really imagined that the US would now be looking at a situation whereby the POTUS is actively looking to discredit the entire democratic system.
timsey tiger wrote: » The talking points, must be a bit late today.
Wanderer78 wrote: » He's not having a breakdown, he's just a dumb fool
duploelabs wrote: » Features in Quint's soliloquy in Jaws "Japanese submarine slammed two torpedoes into her side, Chief. We was comin’ back from the island of Tinian to Leyte. We’d just delivered the bomb. The Hiroshima bomb. Eleven hundred men went into the water. Vessel went down in 12 minutes. Didn’t see the first shark for about a half-hour. Tiger. 13-footer. You know how you know that in the water, Chief? You can tell by lookin’ from the dorsal to the tail. What we didn’t know, was that our bomb mission was so secret, no distress signal had been sent. They didn’t even list us overdue for a week. Very first light, Chief, sharks come cruisin’ by, so we formed ourselves into tight groups. It was sorta like you see in the calendars, you know the infantry squares in the old calendars like the Battle of Waterloo and the idea was the shark come to the nearest man, that man he starts poundin’ and hollerin’ and sometimes that shark he go away… but sometimes he wouldn’t go away. Sometimes that shark looks right at ya. Right into your eyes. And the thing about a shark is he’s got lifeless eyes. Black eyes. Like a doll’s eyes. When he comes at ya, he doesn’t even seem to be livin’… ’til he bites ya, and those black eyes roll over white and then… ah then you hear that terrible high-pitched screamin’. The ocean turns red, and despite all your poundin’ and your hollerin’ those sharks come in and… they rip you to pieces. You know by the end of that first dawn, lost a hundred men. I don’t know how many sharks there were, maybe a thousand. I do know how many men, they averaged six an hour. Thursday mornin’, Chief, I bumped into a friend of mine, Herbie Robinson from Cleveland. Baseball player. Boson’s mate. I thought he was asleep. I reached over to wake him up. He bobbed up, down in the water, he was like a kinda top. Upended. Well, he’d been bitten in half below the waist. At noon on the fifth day, a Lockheed Ventura swung in low and he spotted us, a young pilot, lot younger than Mr. Hooper here, anyway he spotted us and a few hours later a big ol’ fat PBY come down and started to pick us up. You know that was the time I was most frightened. Waitin’ for my turn. I’ll never put on a lifejacket again. So, eleven hundred men went into the water. 316 men come out, the sharks took the rest, June the 29th, 1945. Anyway, we delivered the bomb.”
namloc1980 wrote: Oh yes he did just yesterday. These are the rantings of a man suffering from some sort of breakdown.
jamule wrote: » He never mentioned sharks
Quin_Dub wrote: » Compare that to Trump's speech last night, rambling about sending the police to polling stations , the 2nd amendment being taken away, taxes being quadrupled and once again claiming that the Virus is nearly gone and about to "go away".
Quin_Dub wrote: » Didn't watch it, but read the reviews. Went very well by all accounts. Even Fox News said it was excellent, possibly the best speech of his career. Looks like it highlighted the key problem of Trump's continuous attacks on Bidens mental capacity. The result of all that rhetoric is that when he comes out with a fairly solid speech without any "Senior moments" it just utterly destroys Trump's entire campaign angle. Compare that to Trump's speech last night, rambling about sending the police to polling stations , the 2nd amendment being taken away, taxes being quadrupled and once again claiming that the Virus is nearly gone and about to "go away".
Cody montana wrote: » Anyone watch the Biden speech?
alchemist33 wrote: » Re sharks, Stormy Daniels said of a meeting with Trump in 2007 -
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP’S campaign, ordered by a federal court judge in Pennsylvania to back up its claims of fraud in the state’s vote-by-mail system, has documented only a handful of cases of election fraud in recent years — none of which involved mail-in ballots. The revelation, which came in the form of a partially redacted 524-page document produced by the Trump campaign last week, undermines the claim by Trump team operatives that mail-in ballot fraud is a grave risk to Pennsylvania voters.
