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

[InformationGeek]

Rick Scott, possibly a reptile person with human sin, is proposing to have your vote thrown out if its not counted within 24 hours after the polls are closed. You know, just normal evil stuff.

[WestPhillyPunisher]

Rick Scott, possibly a reptile person with human sin, is proposing to have your vote thrown out if its not counted within 24 hours after the polls are closed. You know, just normal evil stuff.

Would that include votes cast by Republicans....or is that a silly question?

[Tami]

Would that include votes cast by Republicans....or is that a silly question?

The theory is, Republican Voters vote in person, Democrats vote by mail-in-ballot.

So get rid of the mail-in-ballots and don't count them and whalla! Trump is re-elected.

At least that is the theory.

[KNIGHT OF THE LAKE]

Yeah. There’s basically a theory that we could have a huge crisis where Trump appears to win on election night because in person is counted. Then over the next few days Biden overtakes him in mail in. But for like a couple days Trump is screaming that he’s the winner and now he’s doing every thing he can to stop and sue to get as many mail ins off the book and creating a fervor that he is getting screwed in broad daylight.

It’s a real possibility

[Malvolio]

Rick Scott, possibly a reptile person with human sin, is proposing to have your vote thrown out if its not counted within 24 hours after the polls are closed. You know, just normal evil stuff.

So if Trump is ahead in Florida at the end of Election Day, they'll take their time counting the mail-in votes, but if Trump is behind, they'll frantically count the mail-in votes as fast as they can, desperate to put Trump ahead before that 24 hour deadline.

[Tendrin]

LOL.

The Republican report aimed at raising questions about the dealings of Democratic nominee Joe Biden and his son Hunter Biden in Ukraine appears to have accidentally implicated former Energy Secretary Rick Perry in an energy scheme in the foreign nation, according to the top Democrat on the Senate Finance Committee.

The failing Republican effort to smear Joe accidentally revealing additional Republican illegality is perfect for how incompetent this administration actually is.

[zinderel]

So if Trump is ahead in Florida at the end of Election Day, they'll take their time counting the mail-in votes, but if Trump is behind, they'll frantically count the mail-in votes as fast as they can, desperate to put Trump ahead before that 24 hour deadline.

I like how the republicans are saying there will be a ‘peaceful transition of power’, as if anyone believes that...

No matter who wins, there WILL be violence...that’s where we’ve gotten to.

[Robotman]

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It’s really terrifying how Schmitt’s political theories are being used in modern day to destroy democracy around the world.

[BeastieRunner]

I like how the republicans are saying there will be a ‘peaceful transition of power’, as if anyone believes that...

No matter who wins, there WILL be violence...that’s where we’ve gotten to.

Trumpers and Republicans are pussy cats.

They'll whine a week and run off when the militant gays start coming out.

Just make sure all your friends are registered, vote blue, and make it a flood so big it is indisputable that Biden won.

[Username taken]

It's weird to me that in the 1980s and 1990s, there were Fundamentalist groups in "Satanic Panic" mode claiming that RPGs like Dungeons & Dragons were leading people to join cults and literally go hunting for monsters.

Fast forward two decades, and the current state of the Republican Party is to imagine looming threats like "Antifa" or "BLM" are enemies of the state, and while not demonizing an actual ideology, inventing Satanic child molesting cults of Democrats to get 3% militia people to cosplay as the army and go hunting for. Except they're not there to panic about the lunatics they're creating.

Exactly what I said earlier. The "satanic panic" has been brought back but now its directed towards Democrats, Antifa and BLM.

It's not just that they don't agree with these guys, it's "they're child killing babies who meet in secret and bathe themselves in their blood for youth and power".

Basically an invention to cover-up the fact that the modern day conservatives have pretty much run out of meaningful arguments or policy positions. It's 2020 and conservatives are still crying about Cardi B's WAP, abortion and how liberals are coming to get them, lock them up or kill them. I mean, they're still crying about how the mob (meaning mostly POC) are coming for them and they need to arm themselves and fight back.

[Username taken]

So if Trump is ahead in Florida at the end of Election Day, they'll take their time counting the mail-in votes, but if Trump is behind, they'll frantically count the mail-in votes as fast as they can, desperate to put Trump ahead before that 24 hour deadline.

I've been reading some very scary stuff about the election.

Basically the state legislatures can appoint electors if the elections aren't viewed as free and fair by state officials. The US doesn't really have an electoral commission that acts as an umpire and most of the swing states are Republican dominated states. This could mean that in a state like Florida, the state could appoint electors to vote for Trump unless there's a clear and wide margin between himself and Biden. There's a very strong possibility this election could be decided by the Supreme Court and we already know its dominated by conservative judges and will repeat what happened in 2000.

The point is, people really, really, really need to get out their vote in anyway they can. Whether it's physical or by mail because given the state of the GOP and Trump himself, it's going to get very, very ugly in November. The only way Trump leaves is if he's beaten by a wide margin...and that's a big if.

[WestPhillyPunisher]

I've been reading some very scary stuff about the election.

Basically the state legislatures can appoint electors if the elections aren't viewed as free and fair by state officials. The US doesn't really have an electoral commission that acts as an umpire and most of the swing states are Republican dominated states. This could mean that in a state like Florida, the state could appoint electors to vote for Trump unless there's a clear and wide margin between himself and Biden. There's a very strong possibility this election could be decided by the Supreme Court and we already know its dominated by conservative judges and will repeat what happened in 2000.

The point is, people really, really, really need to get out their vote in anyway they can. Whether it's physical or by mail because given the state of the GOP and Trump himself, it's going to get very, very ugly in November. The only way Trump leaves is if he's beaten by a wide margin...and that's a big if.

If Trump gets his doors blown off like a Mini-Cooper racing a Lamborghini, he'll scream bloody murder about voting fraud and run crying to SCOTUS anyway. Regardless of if Trump loses close or in a rout, he won't leave, unless it's by force.

[Username taken]

If Trump gets his doors blown off like a Mini-Cooper racing a Lamborghini, he'll scream bloody murder about voting fraud and run crying to SCOTUS anyway. Regardless of if Trump loses close or in a rout, he won't leave, unless it's by force.

Very true.

As an aside, I find it hilarious that some guys in Florida (particularly some that were originally from Cuba) are saying they don't like Biden because he's a "socialist". It's funny because they'd rather support a man that's openly considering breaking American democracy and is tilting towards autocracy than consider voting for a democrat.

[WestPhillyPunisher]

I don't watch the national news all that much since that way lies madness these days, but I wonder if reporters have asked this particular question to Trump, McConnell or Senate Republicans:

How does rushing to fill a vacated seat on SCOTUS immediately help Americans who are jobless thanks to the virus, or are struggling to make ends meet in a badly weakened economy?

If that question hasn't been asked, then it should, even though I'm not so naïve and already know what the likely answer would be, provided one is given at all. Still, an inquiry of this importance should be made, if but for no other reason than to get the GOP on the record as to why they put the court ahead of the people.

[numberthirty]

I don't watch the national news all that much since that way lies madness these days, but I wonder if reporters have asked this particular question to Trump, McConnell or Senate Republicans:

How does rushing to fill a vacated seat on SCOTUS immediately help Americans who are jobless thanks to the virus, or are struggling to make ends meet in a badly weakened economy?

If that question hasn't been asked, then it should, even though I'm not so naïve and already know what the likely answer would be, provided one is given at all. Still, an inquiry of this importance should be made, if but for no other reason than to get the GOP on the record as to why they put the court ahead of the people.

That would have to be built on any of the media who would be in a position to ask actually caring enough about the folks you mentioned to ask the question.

Which is not the safest assumption.

Running a clip of folks yelling "Vote Him Out!!..." apparently warrants being run every hour on some channels.

A piece of folks who are between a rock and a hard place in a tough economy?

Haven't really seen that in the hourly rotation.