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Trump vs Biden 2020, Day 64 of the Pennsylvania count (pt 5) Read OP

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,251 Kermit.de.frog
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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 744 drogon.
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    How Trump’s conspiracy theories have inspired some supporters to boycott the Georgia runoffs

    This is going to be fun, would be nice if they let them go with it !

    https://www.vox.com/2020/11/24/21612720/trump-election-fraud-conspiracy-theories-stop-the-steal-georgia-runoffs


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,397 PropJoe10
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    You would genuinely have to wonder what is wrong with that man. It would be far and away better if he just stays on the golf course for the next two months.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 744 drogon.
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    PropJoe10 wrote: »
    You would genuinely have to wonder what is wrong with that man. It would be far and away better if he just stays on the golf course for the next two months.

    Would love to see his reaction if Biden comes out and takes credit for it. Citing winning the election and also the start of the transfer of power.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,083 Leroy42
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    It is clearly really bugging him that this pandemic robbed him of a second term.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 744 drogon.
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    Leroy42 wrote: »
    It is clearly really bugging him that this pandemic robbed him of a second term.

    Or even if the vaccine would have been announced a week before the election.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,949 ChikiChiki
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    Leroy42 wrote: »
    It is clearly really bugging him that this pandemic robbed him of a second term.

    I doubt he was getting a second term anyway.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,088 briany
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    Leroy42 wrote: »
    Biden has now crossed 80m votes. That is the biggest vote for a POTUS in history. I think it was never above 70m in the past.

    Another way to look at it, never before have so many people voted one person out of office as the citizens of the US did with Trump. 80m of them felt that, despite being continually told how truly awful Biden is, that they would vote Trump out of office.

    So at least Trump won that I suppose

    Biden's victory would be more heartening if Trump had not himself won the strongest mandate for a Republican candidate in history with over 70 million votes. In other words, Trump gained around 10 million votes over his 2016 performance. This is not to say that Trump didn't lose, but it was about the best loss he could hope for as his brand of politics remains very viable (sadly).

    Hard to know where Trumpism will go from here, though. Although it is very viable, it's also very volatile. It's potent, but permeated by complete hysteria and insanity. Trump has been able to lead it thus far, but it could eat itself from the inside out as the movement reaches saturation point and different factions turn on each other. FOX news is a good example of this as the channel was quite Trump-favourable but the moment it started to break away from Trump dogma in the face of cold reality, Trump supporters turned on it. Any move away from ideological purity will elicit a similar response, I think, and because Trumpism is so paranoid and reactionary, those moves will happen, whether real or imagined.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,135 everlast75
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    The last time trump caused a 2 minute disappointment it cost him $130,000...

    Elect a clown... Expect a circus



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 325 BobbyMalone
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    ChikiChiki wrote: »
    I doubt he was getting a second term anyway.


    What were his ratings like prior to the pandemic hitting? I always thought if the economy is doing well, chances are you'll get that second term. Maybe not applicable to Trump, though.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,941 ohnonotgmail
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    everlast75 wrote: »
    The last time trump caused a 2 minute disappointment it cost him $130,000...

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 744 drogon.
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    What were his ratings like prior to the pandemic hitting? I always thought if the economy is doing well, chances are you'll get that second term. Maybe not applicable to Trump, though.

    Yeah he always had the economy to ride on, if it wasn't for the pandemic he would have easily won. It is crazy how many people that have no stock or any benefits from the current stock market high, yet they claim this being one of his achievements


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,519 All_in_Flynn
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    Lol that was about as tragic a press conference you can get. He is absolutely reeling that he lost and he is desperate to try and create a legacy. He is in bits.

    Before it all I thought I wanted to see Biden win by a complete washout but this has been epic. Trump has really put the rubber stamp on the complete shambles of his presidency. Embarrassed daily in courts all over the country by even Republican judges. Super serial squad solicitors holding pressers outside sex shops. His knight in shining armor leaking oil.

    Just glorious.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,251 Kermit.de.frog
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    Do you have any idea how much Trump won by?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,206 Yeah_Right
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    Do you have any idea how much Trump won by?

    Yes. A non positive number. A massively non positive number.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 38,244 Guy:Incognito
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    Leroy42 wrote: »
    It is clearly really bugging him that this pandemic robbed him of a second term.

    It robbed him of nothing. If anything it could have won him a 2nd term. He went for the conspiracy angle from the start, despite knowing the grim reality of it and how serious it is.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,088 briany
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    It robbed him of nothing. If anything it could have won him a 2nd term. He went for the conspiracy angle from the start, despite knowing the grim reality of it and how serious it is.

    Yes, it was his cack-handed handling of the pandemic which was the most injurious thing to his chances of re-election. He tried to blame it all on China, but this doesn't really stand up because it's a bit like saying that you wouldn't have been in a car accident if the driver in front hadn't braked so suddenly. You have to accept your own part of the fault of not giving enough room to allow for that, and Trump never fully accepted his own part in not overseeing a cogent response to the pandemic. A man so openly divisive during a time of need like that is not a man fit to lead.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,768 timsey tiger
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    It robbed him of nothing. If anything it could have won him a 2nd term. He went for the conspiracy angle from the start, despite knowing the grim reality of it and how serious it is.

    Yes, if he had followed up sealing the borders with lockdowns like Australia had, he'd be president now.

    Or even sealed the borders and ineffectively faffed about like Coumo did, he'd be president now.

    He really f'd up the pandemic which actually if treated spun like a war would have as you said secured victory.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,135 everlast75
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    Elect a clown... Expect a circus



  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,474 Obvious Desperate Breakfasts
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    A number of them are just attention seekers, like John Lydon.

    Yup, Lydon still straining to be shocking in his dotage, bless him. :)


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    everlast75 wrote: »

    Doesn't pay to call some people losers and blame their families for giving you covid.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,135 everlast75
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    Happy 3 year anniversary to this tweet....

    https://twitter.com/feministabulous/status/933704661021937664?s=19

    Elect a clown... Expect a circus



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,665 eagle eye
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    I finally got paid on Biden. :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,623 Padre_Pio
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    everlast75 wrote: »

    The Guardian headline "Lame Duck pardons turkey"


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,846 Tony EH
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    It robbed him of nothing. If anything it could have won him a 2nd term. He went for the conspiracy angle from the start, despite knowing the grim reality of it and how serious it is.

    He made a balls of it.

    What could have been a Churchill moment for him, turning a crisis into a galvanising and unifying force whereby he could encourage everyone to do their bit in the face of adversity and bring everyone together, turned into a Hitler one instead, with him bunkering down, spouting falsehoods and refusing to face the reality of the situation.

    Covid could have be his "falklands" if he'd played his cards right. But instead he chose to talk bollocks instead.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,759 weisses
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    Lol that was about as tragic a press conference you can get. He is absolutely reeling that he lost and he is desperate to try and create a legacy. He is in bits.

    Before it all I thought I wanted to see Biden win by a complete washout but this has been epic. Trump has really put the rubber stamp on the complete shambles of his presidency. Embarrassed daily in courts all over the country by even Republican judges. Super serial squad solicitors holding pressers outside sex shops. His knight in shining armor leaking oil.

    Just glorious.

    Don't be too harsh for the guy.... specially now he is getting you pardoned


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,397 PropJoe10
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    Anyone seen KidChameleon lately?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,035 duploelabs
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    PropJoe10 wrote: »
    Anyone seen KidChameleon lately?

    Or outlaw pete


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,594 Cody montana
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    duploelabs wrote: »
    Or outlaw pete

    Or Rigilo(sp?)

    How are the mainstream right wingers handling Trump losing?

    Charlie Kirk seems deluded....even more so.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,798 DrumSteve
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    Tony EH wrote: »
    He made a balls of it.

    What could have been a Churchill moment for him, turning a crisis into a galvanising and unifying force whereby he could encourage everyone to do their bit in the face of adversity and bring everyone together, turned into a Hitler one instead, with him bunkering down, spouting falsehoods and refusing to face the reality of the situation.

    Covid could have be his "falklands" if he'd played his cards right. But instead he chose to talk bollocks instead.

    I don't think this point is made enough; despite being an absolutely odious individual who's done a lot of real dodgy **** and who genuinely couldn't organise a piss up in a brewery; in addition to being around some really scummy people; I reckon if he had of just treated this thing seriously he would won this race handily.
    PropJoe10 wrote: »
    Anyone seen KidChameleon lately?

    Isn't that a chameleons whole gimmick?


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