US Presidential Election 2020 Thread II - Judgement Day(s)

Big Pussy Bonpensiero · 06-11-2020 11:52AM

alchemist33 wrote: »

I've said it before, but I'm convinced he'll claim he has dementia within a year. It'll be easy enough for him to find a doctor who will say he's unfit to stand trial. But he'll still have control of his assets and his twitter account, if he's allowed have one

I'm not sure his ego would allow him to publicly declare a mental deficiency.

And I also believe from watching The Sopranos that he would need to be certified as such from an independent doctor, which of course, I have no doubt, is 100% factual:pac:

paul71 · 06-11-2020 11:54AM

MJohnston wrote: »

Just catching up on the thread and maybe this has been answered since, but the deal with the remaining overseas/military votes is that the ballots were issued but have not yet been received. There is a deadline of something like 5pm today for them to arrive, and presumably they’d also have to be postmarked before Nov 3rd.

In other words: there’s nothing there to count yet, and those 8000 may never even have been returned.

Thank you MJ, that is exactly the information I was seeking.

seamus · 06-11-2020 11:54AM

alchemist33 wrote: »

I've said it before, but I'm convinced he'll claim he has dementia within a year. It'll be easy enough for him to find a doctor who will say he's unfit to stand trial. But he'll still have control of his assets and his twitter account, if he's allowed have one

Yeah, perhaps. One thing that can be said for the US though is once the justice system has its eyes set on conviction, it's rare that it will just leave someone alone. Trump himself being unfit to stand trial won't stop states seizing his assets and charging his family & associates.
Where countries in Europe might put a former president on house arrest for their safety, I could genuinely see them sticking Trump in jail if they managed to bring it that far.

If he doesn't claim he's unfit to stand trial, it will be an extensive plea deal where he throws everyone else under the bus in exchange for being able to live in an expensive house and make public appearances.

alchemist33 · 06-11-2020 11:54AM

Big Pussy Bonpensiero wrote: »

I'm not sure his ego would allow him to publicly declare a mental deficiency.

And I also believe from watching The Sopranos that he would need to be certified as such from an independent doctor, which of course, I have no doubt, is 100% factual:pac:

Easy enough to fake poor scores, but your right in that his ego might not allow him to

Headshot · 06-11-2020 11:55AM

Love it Andrew Yang on CNN

Somewhere Vince is ****ting himself

The Raging Bile Duct · 06-11-2020 11:56AM

murpho999 wrote: »

A "Paddywagon"?
Serously?

I know... that's completely outdated. Everyone needs to call it by its proper name. A Patrick Carriage.

breezy1985 · 06-11-2020 11:58AM

The Raging Bile Duct wrote: »

I know... that's completely outdated. Everyone needs to call it by its proper name. A Patrick Carriage.

Surely the yanks call it a "Patty cab" or something

Francie Barrett · 06-11-2020 12:01PM

droidus wrote: »

Its done. Trump is a dead man walking.

Biden will win with PA and GA at minimum. NV and AZ very likely. The margin will be too big for legal challenge or faithless electors.

It's been done since yesterday. Pa and GA are just the icing on the cake for Biden.

peteeeed · 06-11-2020 12:03PM

i think my dream is that anderson cooper gets to say ' breaking news joe biden is the next president of the united states '

Water John · 06-11-2020 12:03PM

jasonb wrote: »

Just to check, as it's the middle of the night over there, are GA and PA still counting or getting some sleep? Just weird that there hasn't even been a few hundred votes added to either of those two states since GA flipped blue.

Both are counting. The Pittsburgh area stopped for the night and will start again at 9am. Think they have 36K votes to be counted.

UpBack1234 · 06-11-2020 12:04PM

seamus wrote: »

I could genuinely see them sticking Trump in jail if they managed to bring it that far..

Trump has spent is whole adult life mired in lawsuits and no one has made a single criminal charge stick yet. I somehow doubt he'll see the inside of any jail cells.

Lewis_Benson · 06-11-2020 12:05PM

UpBack1234 wrote: »

Trump has spent is whole adult life mired in lawsuits and no one has made a single criminal charge stick yet. I somehow doubt he'll see the inside of any jail cells.

With his money, no he wont, but he should be jailed several times over for the way he behaves.

josip · 06-11-2020 12:06PM

UpBack1234 wrote: »

Trump has spent is whole adult life mired in lawsuits and no one has made a single criminal charge stick yet. I somehow doubt he'll see the inside of any jail cells.

Being banned from Twitter would probably be one of the worse punishments for him to endure.

Itssoeasy · 06-11-2020 12:07PM

So Georgia has turned light blue with more to come. Well it’s moving towards an end. The quote used before the death of king George V of England years ago about “his life is moving peacefully towards its close,” can be modified to describe this election. It is moving towards its close but given what trump and his allies are saying it won’t be peaceful.

UpBack1234 · 06-11-2020 12:07PM

Lewis_Benson wrote: »

With his money, no he wont, but he should be jailed several times over for the way he behaves.

I don't doubt the SDNY will give it their very best shake.

peteeeed · 06-11-2020 12:07PM

josip wrote: »

Being banned from Twitter would probably be one of the worse punishments for him to endure.

which for him is probably worse then prison

Faugheen · 06-11-2020 12:08PM

The fact that Wolf, John King, Dana Bash, Jake Tapper etc are being rolled out again already suggests they’ll call it for Biden in the next few hours.

Infini · 06-11-2020 12:08PM

Lewis_Benson wrote: »

With his money, no he wont, but he should be jailed several times over for the way he behaves.

Could be yet though, I don't think this loss is going to be the end of it if anything this is going to be the start of a long comeuppance long overdue, he might have caused and gotten away with alot of carryon but he's antagonised alot of people as well, for all the people he got out to support him he got even more out to oppose him and I get the feeling there's gonna be plenty of skeletons in the closet that could come back to haunt him in the next few years.

As the old saying goes Karma is a Bítch.

ancapailldorcha · 06-11-2020 12:12PM

Memedump deleted.

Brussels Sprout · 06-11-2020 12:14PM

EltonJohn69 wrote: »

How are people shocked/surprised by what Trump said last night ??? He was saying the exact same thing about the 2016 results, he said Clinton didn’t win the popular vote, that they were all fake votes

I can only assume the people who are genuinely shocked by what he said are the kind of people who don't pay much attention to politics outside of landmark events such as the presidential debates and this week.

That rambling, repetitive speech full of blatant falsehoods, inflammatory claims and personal grievances is typical when he talks just to the Press.

It was always going to go down like this if he lost.

peteeeed · 06-11-2020 12:16PM

intersting in respect to trumps twitter rants , steve bannon has had his twitter account suspended

Penn · 06-11-2020 12:16PM

Faugheen wrote: »

The fact that Wolf, John King, Dana Bash, Jake Tapper etc are being rolled out again already suggests they’ll call it for Biden in the next few hours.

I don't think so. Seems like a normal shift change, especially given what time it is over there.

ancapailldorcha · 06-11-2020 12:16PM

Mod: Please do not question mod warnings on thread.

UpBack1234 · 06-11-2020 12:17PM

peteeeed wrote: »

intersting in respect to trumps twitter rants , steve bannon has had his twitter account suspended

Yeah turns out calling for beheadings is frowned upon by Twitter.

paul71 · 06-11-2020 12:18PM

peteeeed wrote: »

intersting in respect to trumps twitter rants , steve bannon has had his twitter account suspended

Well Bannon did name 2 people and call for them to be beheaded.

Call me Al · 06-11-2020 12:18PM

Brussels Sprout wrote: »

I can only assume the people who are genuinely shocked by what he said are the kind of people who don't pay much attention to politics outside of landmark events such as the presidential debates and this week.

That rambling, repetitive speech full of blatant falsehoods, inflammatory claims and personal grievances is typical when he talks just to the Press.

It was always going to go down like this if he lost.

I wasn't surprised, but I was very disappointed that he felt emboldened to go on tv to the whole world and say what he said.
That this was ok, the GOP didnt distance themselves from the ráiméis and terrible accusations he made about honest people going about their jobs, and that he was allowed walk away from that podium without having to justify or defend a single word of it.

Carfacemandog · 06-11-2020 12:22PM

I have to say I am taking quite a bit of joy in the moaning about "fraud" (or as the rest of us call it, mail in voting) from the very same people who ignored and mocked those pointing out the dangers of the GOP removing so much funding from ele toral protections over the last four years.

everlast75 · 06-11-2020 12:25PM

Carfacemandog wrote: »

I have to say I am taking quite a bit of joy in the moaning about "fraud" (or as the rest of us call it, mail in voting) rom the very same people who ignored and mocked those pointing out the dangers of the GOP removing so much funding from ele toral protections over the last four years.

Particular credit needs to go to this lady too

https://twitter.com/TheWomensOrg/status/1324653254450569218?s=20

Inspirational stuff

Retr0gamer · 06-11-2020 12:28PM

Only 18k behind in Pennsylvania after the latest numbers dump.

Hurrache · 06-11-2020 12:29PM

peteeeed wrote: »

intersting in respect to trumps twitter rants , steve bannon has had his twitter account suspended

For advocating the decapitation of 2 federal employees. Not comparative to Trump.

US Presidential Election 2020 Thread II - Judgement Day(s)

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