All purpose news and politics thread part VI: This Is Not The Time For Posing

[The Chou Lives]

Just bull **** to distract people that Trump has no plans to fix a damned thing.

Also he denied Qanon.

That was pizza gate, under his watch. Where he and his buddy Alex Jones said enough crazy stuff where a believer went and stormed a pizza place with a assault rifle.

No children being abused there. Said “ we need better intelligence.”

We happens when you believe a lie that firmly man. : Gathering up notes. Will sleep on it and post tomorrow, less typos. About the only thing remembered for anyway.:

[InformationGeek]

Looks like Trump is going for an October Surprise- now featuring (allegedly) Hunter Biden's emails.

Damn, that might hurt Hunter's chances of getting elected!

[Tami]

N.J. mayor ignores calls to resign over profane social media post about Trump, his supporters

The mayor of a small town in New Jersey is facing calls to resign over a recent post on her personal Facebook page about President Donald Trump and his supporters.

In the post, Flemington Mayor Betsy Driver, a Democrat, wrote: "This is day one of the new SCOTUS term — the religious zealots want to enact the Christian version of Sharia law. If you voted for the orange monster with COVID, go f--- yourself. If you plan on voting for him again, unfriend me and go f--- yourself again."

A screenshot of part of Driver's remarks was posted on the Hunterdon County Republican Committee website, where the remarks were condemned by the group’s chairman, Gabe Plumer. He described the post as a "shameful and insulting public statement."

He is among those calling for Driver to step down, saying the statement "is antithetical to the principles of representative democracy."

"It is further proof that you do not represent the people of Flemington, the character of Hunterdon County, and the values of at least a part of the Democrat party," Plumer said in a statement.

Flemington is a borough in Hunterdon County with a population of roughly 4,600.

Driver, 46, and her wife, Loretta, have two teenage sons. Driver and the Hunterdon County Democratic Committee did not immediately return phone and email requests for comment.

She told TAPInto, a local news website, that the Hunterdon County Republican Party had used a "cropped image" of a post on her private Facebook page that she wrote in response to an NPR article published Oct. 5 regarding Supreme Court Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito being against same-sex marriage after the court declined to hear a case brought by former Kentucky county clerk Kim Davis, who refused to issue a marriage license for same-sex couples. It is unclear what she was referring to that was excluded from her original post.

[The Chou Lives]

Well yeah. The right wants super white Christian law now. On the money.

: Retreats to the Chou cave. Break down tomorrow.:

[SuperiorIronman]

At this point does anybody really care about how potentially bad Biden might be? We already have an idiot, sexual predator, traitor, tax evader, and potential dictator all not in any potential order or even anybody specific in the higher ups of this administration. You can dump the labels blindly on this administration and you're likely to be at least 80% correct. It's a cesspool of crime and incompetence who've routinely made themselves look like failures. Your average citizen just went through 4 years of bullshit. Beyond owning the lib who gives a **** about Trump anymore?

Hilariously had he handled the (STILL ACTIVE) pandemic well he'd have saved his campaign. Can't even do that. Sure he's a piece of **** but had he stopped being **** long enough to mitigate damage he'd have ensured a victory. Less than a month before the election he failed.

[Tami]

Fact check: Competing town halls highlight Trump's dishonesty

(CNN)The stark differences between President Donald Trump and Democratic nominee Joe Biden were on display during their competing town halls on Thursday night, and in no space was that clearer than the magnitude and frequency of their falsehoods.

The fact that the second debate was cancelled after Trump backed out of the proposed virtual format deprived Americans of a chance to see the two candidates sparring on the same stage. But where Biden scattered in a small number of exaggerations or misstatements over about an hour and a half, Trump unleashed a barrage of dishonest claims over about an hour.

Trump falsely claimed that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that 85% of people who wear masks get the coronavirus, again argued inaccurately that there is widespread fraud with mail-in voting, defended as mere "opinion" a baseless conspiracy theory he retweeted about Osama bin Laden and the US military, and repeated familiar false or misleading remarks about the state of the pandemic, Biden's tax plan, job creation, and his own positions on DACA and pre-existing conditions.

[worstblogever]

Damn, that might hurt Hunter's chances of getting elected!

If anything, it might HELP his chances of being elected one day, if he wanted to run for office. From the article:

Bates added, “We have reviewed Joe Biden's official schedules from the time and no meeting, as alleged by the New York Post, ever took place."

Questions have swirled around the Post’s account of how it obtained the emails and other materials. The newspaper said they were found on a laptop left in a Delaware repair shop in April 2019 and never claimed. The repair shop owner then took it upon himself to access the private material, the Post said.

The Post said the shop owner, who has been identified as Mac Isaac, called the FBI, and also called a Giuliani associate. The shop owner said he believed the laptop was among equipment left by Hunter Biden, Joe Biden’s son, because a sticker on the laptop bore the name of the Beau Biden Foundation, a charity named after his late brother.

I've seen elsewhere that the shop owner is legally blind, and can't describe who left the laptop with him. Also, whomever left the laptop left no name, no phone, and no e-mail. So the shop owner waits months, opens the laptop and finally starts trying to figure out where it came from and goes, "WHOA, HUNTER BIDEN E-MAILS!?!?!"

Then he calls the FBI, because he's supposedly afraid Joe Biden is gonna whack him for having his kid's computer. So he calls the FBI. Who also call Rudy Giuliani. Then the FBI decide, for whatever reason, "Hey, shop owner... we don't know how to open a locked computer with all our badasses at Quantico. Can you do it for us?"

So the shop owner does, and they find "other things". Then the FBI keep Rudy Giuliani in the loop, and give him "evidence" so he can run to the New York Post with it.

At the New York Post, an editor who has worked there for only a few weeks decides to publish the story. The New York Post editor? Well, his last job that he just left was as a guest booker for Sean Hannity's Fox News show.

Is this reeking of bulls*** enough for everyone yet?

[Revolutionary_Jack]

If anything, it might HELP his chances of being elected one day, if he wanted to run for office. From the article:



I've seen elsewhere that the shop owner is legally blind, and can't describe who left the laptop with him. Also, whomever left the laptop left no name, no phone, and no e-mail. So the shop owner waits months, opens the laptop and finally starts trying to figure out where it came from and goes, "WHOA, HUNTER BIDEN E-MAILS!?!?!"

Then he calls the FBI, because he's supposedly afraid Joe Biden is gonna whack him for having his kid's computer. So he calls the FBI. Who also call Rudy Giuliani. Then the FBI decide, for whatever reason, "Hey, shop owner... we don't know how to open a locked computer with all our badasses at Quantico. Can you do it for us?"

So the shop owner does, and they find "other things". Then the FBI keep Rudy Giuliani in the loop, and give him "evidence" so he can run to the New York Post with it.

At the New York Post, an editor who has worked there for only a few weeks decides to publish the story. The New York Post editor? Well, his last job that he just left was as a guest booker for Sean Hannity's Fox News show.

Is this reeking of bulls*** enough for everyone yet?

First time was tragedy (hilary's emails), second time is farce.

I mean this is the worst attempt at an October surprise in election history. I am not even sure if it's an attempt, it's like every single thing about this is half-a--ed.

Say what you want about 2016, but Bannon/WikiLeaks/Russian hackers got their story broken by major liberal media and not the New York Post.

[worstblogever]

First time was tragedy (hilary's emails), second time is farce.

I mean this is the worst attempt at an October surprise in election history. I am not even sure if it's an attempt, it's like every single thing about this is half-a--ed.

Say what you want about 2016, but Bannon/WikiLeaks/Russian hackers got their story broken by major liberal media and not the New York Post.

[worstblogever]

I worked up the will to watch the low lights of the Trump town hall.

Thoughts:

1. He refused to denounce Qanon. He started to endorse them because they're "against pedophiles", and further their insane claims about child trafficking.
2. He was asked about a conspiracy theory he once retweeted that Osama bin Laden was never killed Barack Obama and is living in Phoenix and said, "People can decide for themselves." Moderator Savannah Guthrie replied, "I don't get that. You're the president, not somebody's crazy uncle." When the moderator has to say that out loud... you're blowing it.
3. He again blamed Gold Star families for getting him sick.
4. He made the f***ing insane and ludicrous claim that 85% of the people who wear masks get Covid-19 (a statistic that is almost the opposite for preventing catching the virus, and... holy f***, that's crazy).
5. He admitted he isn't tested for Covid-19 everyday, but Mr. Perfect Memory couldn't remember if he was tested or not prior to the first debate.
6. He admitted he's $400 million in debt, but won't say to whom, and still won't reveal his tax returns. That much debt, obviously, makes him a national security risk.

These are the HUGE WTF moments. Credit to Savannah Guthrie, who is a lawyer, for not letting him off easy like in all the tongue baths he's called in to Fox News and Limbaugh for the past week. Visibly, though, even through those moments when you watched the debate, it went so poorly that Trump was literally starting to curl up into himself in his chair. His swagger was gone, he was defensive and knew he was getting embarrassed. He hasn't looked this defeated since after his Tulsa rally fizzled. It was like over that hour, he came down off his steroid high and wanted to go curl up for a cry.

[numberthirty]

Good on Khanna.

[Steel Inquisitor]

Damn, that might hurt Hunter's chances of getting elected!

I'd vote for Hunter over Trump.

[WestPhillyPunisher]

2. He was asked about a conspiracy theory he once retweeted that Osama bin Laden was never killed Barack Obama and is living in Phoenix and said, "People can decide for themselves." Moderator Savannah Guthrie replied, "I don't get that. You're the president, not somebody's crazy uncle." When the moderator has to say that out loud... you're blowing it.

To be honest, Mary L. Trump would disagree with that assessment. If anyone would know, it's her.

3. He again blamed Gold Star families for getting him sick.

See ya to any votes from veterans and servicemembers.

6. He admitted he's $400 million in debt, but won't say to whom, and still won't reveal his tax returns. That much debt, obviously, makes him a national security risk.

It's beyond astonishing he's gotten away with that for as long as he has.

These are the HUGE WTF moments. Credit to Savannah Guthrie, who is a lawyer, for not letting him off easy like in all the tongue baths he's called in to Fox News and Limbaugh for the past week. Visibly, though, even through those moments when you watched the debate, it went so poorly that Trump was literally starting to curl up into himself in his chair. His swagger was gone, he was defensive and knew he was getting embarrassed. He hasn't looked this defeated since after his Tulsa rally fizzled. It was like over that hour, he came down off his steroid high and wanted to go curl up for a cry.

Boy, I wouldn't want to be the WH staffers later this morning because you know Trump will go off on them for making him do that primetime bushwhacking.

[WestPhillyPunisher]

A stirring and powerful video from the Lincoln Project with vocals by Demi Lovato. No snark, no insults, just a hit to the gut with a sledgehammer illustrating the nightmare that's been Donald Trump's presidency. If anyone can watch that and NOT say to yourself, "We have GOT to vote that ************ out of office before he does even more damage to the country", then you have a serious problem:

[babyblob]

We all know Trump cares. His administration denied California's disaster assistance for wildfires.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/15/polit...nce/index.html