2020 US Elections

[The perfect fumble]

Even the NY Post is struggling to help him

Yeah, where's the blind computer repair man when you need him?

 

[Vic]

Yeah, where's the blind computer repair man when you need him?

Alive and well and has taken over Tucker Carlson.

 

[laserblue]

You can only be pardoned for crimes you’ve actually been found guilty of.

He can admit what he and his family have done and then issue presidential pardons. This would give them immunity from prosecution against federal crimes. This is something Trump himself has already claimed he could do but there's no precedent for this.

Here's what 12 experts say about whether President Trump can pardon himself

It is an open question whether the president can pardon himself, because it has never been tested.

www.cnbc.com

He can't do this for state crimes and the Southern District of New York in particular will most likely be feeling his collar after he's dragged kicking and screaming from the White House.

SDNY Judge Rejects Trump's Objections to Manhattan Grand Jury Subpoena Seeking Financial Records | Law.com

"High respect for the president does not imply diminished respect for the ancient functions of the grand jury or the long-established standards governing challenges to its subpoenas," U.S. District Judge Victor Marrero wrote.

www.law.com

 

[inbetween]

This kind of thing would be an international scandal of epic criminality so clearly the evidence doesn't exist or someone is sitting on the most valuable political story in history.

The US military, CIA etc are oath bound to be partisan and so by directing this at the military and not specific individuals abusing their power then this is a direct attack on the entirety of the military.

 

[The perfect fumble]

Even the NY Post is struggling to help him

Sea change from Murdoch, he's a mega right wing arsehole, but he's not stupid.

 

[mancity2012_eamo]

PA: +1,703 votes to Biden (0.43% up on Trump)

Not enough to go beyond the 0.50% recount threshold and possibly prompt some outlets to call the race.

We wait.

Give it time.

 

[Trevor Morley's Tache]

Roughly translated to;

"Hold the count. We are desperately trying to concoct up some bullsh*t evidence to try and make people think the election is rigged in favour of Biden. We just have to sober up Rudy first as he has the password to the laptop".

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

Just threw out the birthday card my Nana mailed me because it arrived the day after my birthday. Too late Nana! Very corrupt woman. Probably dead.

 

[kaz7]

Well the two points that he didn’t know who his rival was or what position he was running for is kind of a clue haha

The interviewer was called george


Anyway

CNN savaged FOX news anchors for pushing the fraud line for trump , not the reporters on the ground, they keep saying it is not true

 

[SebastianBlue]

Give it time.

Ha, don’t think I need reminding, mate. ;-)

I was just giving an update right after the last PA vote drop of the day here.

 

[mancity2012_eamo]

At this rate Biden will be up for the re election, I can’t believe it takes this long to count the small amount of votes left

The one that really baffles me is Maine. One congressional District left. How many votes could there be.

 

[mancity2012_eamo]

He’s a twat

He’s now a twat with a cough.

 

[Mazzarelli's Swiss Cheese]

The one that really baffles me is Maine. One congressional District left. How many votes could there be.

All sorts of fucked up local rules peculiar to each state apparently. There is one where if your paper is spoiled they phone you up to come and redo / re-sign it or something, so there are actually some places today where there are long queues to vote!

 

[SebastianBlue]

The one that really baffles me is Maine. One congressional District left. How many votes could there be.

Quite a few and it’s the better part of the state, with not the most efficient organisation or systems. It’s very different to the south of the state where I live (relatively urban area by comparison).

 

[west didsblue]

If you look at Biden's leads in all these pivotal states, you could easily accommodate the lot in Wembley stadium

And?

 

[mat]

Cheers.

Sounds as though exceeding the PA recount threshold may indeed be enough for a few major outlets to call the race for Biden, which will more than likely start an avalanche of officials calls.

Joe Scarborough has just said network executives are scared of upsetting Trump by being the first to call Biden as President elect.

 

[SebastianBlue]

All sorts of fucked up local rules peculiar to each state apparently. There is one where if your paper is spoiled they phone you up to come and redo / re-sign it or something, so there are actually some places today where there are long queues to vote!

It’s funny enough called vote “curing”. ;-)

 

[The perfect fumble]

And?

You're kidding right?

When the dust settles on this election, the peculiarities of representative democracy throw up how fine margins have monumental significance.

The four million vote lead Biden has nationwide, or the three million Clinton had in 2016 mean nothing, it all comes down, in contests like this, to relatively small numbers in key locations.

And of course....

"The good news is that Donald Trump appears to be on the cusp of being voted out of the White House. The bad news is that Trump was not a unique, aberrant threat to American democracy; it was already broken so deeply and in so many ways that no single election can possibly repair the damage.

Even with a Biden administration, the worsening structural inequities embedded in the nation for centuries – and cynically exploited by Republicans to govern with narrow minority support – will still be with us. They are embodied in institutions such as the electoral college, which elected Trump in 2016 despite his losing the popular vote by almost 3 million votes.

In fact, including Biden, the Democratic candidate for president has won the popular vote in seven of the last eight elections. But in part because of the electoral college’s rural bias (a vote cast for president in Wyoming counts nearly four times as much as a vote cast in California), and in part because the college heightens the importance of a handful of largely white, midwestern battleground states, Republicans have won the White House with fewer votes twice since 2000.

Representational fairness is even more dire in the US Senate, which gives disproportionate power to older, whiter, more rural and more conservative interests. Right now, states representing just 17% of the nation’s population could elect a majority of senators. By 2040, the 15 most populous states will be home to 67% of Americans yet represented by just 30% of the Senate. Add up the actual votes received in the winning election of every sitting US senator, and Republicans haven’t won a senate majority since the mid-1990s. Yet they’ve controlled the Senate for 10 of the last 20 years, and used that advantage to shape the ideological balance on the federal courts."

David Daley, the author of Unrigged: How Americans Are Battling Back to Save Democracy

 

[blue for life]

Joe Scarborough has just said network executives are scared of upsetting Trump by being the first to call Biden as President elect.

Hints of fascism

 

[mat]