2020 US Elections

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SebastianBlue said:
Trump is a simpleton fascist that wants to end democracy and be installed as dictator so he can continue to embezzle, blackmail, and bribe (and be blackmailed and bribed) on a global scale, whilst avoiding the consequences of his decades of (sometimes truly horrific) criminality. He doesn’t want election and inauguration, he wants continual coronation and deification. He doesn’t care about anything or anyone beyond what it or they can do to serve his interests and whims (emphasis on the latter). Any role is a means to power and domination over his enemies, which is nearly everyone in the world in his addled little mind (including his family at times). All he knows is the mafia life; and once more he is laughably bad at it. He’s an incompetent man child that has been saved time-and-time-again by luck and the interventions of various actors that saw him as a useful idiot (at least for a time). He is Castro with a come over (and even less intelligence).

Biden, while by no means perfect, has surrounded himself with a diverse team of people that by-and-large want to reform government to make it more democratic, representative, and equitable. They want to make substantive improvements to help lift up the disadvantaged and disenfranchised (both black and white, whether they support the Biden-Harris admin or not). They want to effectively respond to and fully mitigate the pandemic, saving lives and stabilising the economy. They want to enact aggressive climate change response policy to save millions more. They want to strengthen environmental protections (which the outgoing regime have mostly destroyed). They want to combat worsening wealth inequality and labour exploitation. They want to improve education at every level and make it accessible to anyone seeking it. They want to keep the US out of wars (and reduce the justifiable hatred many other countries feel toward the US due to past atrocities). Will they be successful in doing all of this? Probably not. But they *want* to do it.

Anyone that does not “understand” the inherent differences between Trump and Biden — that one wants the world to burn if he can’t have it and the other wants to put out the fires already burning if he can — is either woefully incompetent, wilfully ignorant, or wildly dishonest (with themselves and/or others).

Again, Biden is not perfect. But, as one of our great (but also flawed) leaders once said: “perfection is the enemy of progress”.

He gives the US a chance at progressing to a better state. The opposite is true of Trump. And waiting for the “perfect” candidate to come along — especially given you could ask a million people “who would be the perfect candidate” and you would get a million different answers — is a recipe for catastrophe at this juncture in history.

This was the best that could be done right now. And his admin will hopefully lay a foundation for more substantive, positive change in 4 years.

Onward and upward (as opposed to crash and burn).

/fin
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Find it hard to believe that Trump is openly seeking to stage a Coup and so many Republican's are right behind him....
 
Schumer just welcomed both Dem candidates to the senate, yet CNN/MSNBC are still saying there are votes to count first.
 
Gaudion M said:
Bit late me thinks.

Today is both Peak Trump (in terms of bat shit crazy rabble rousing) and also the start of a very long and difficult period for the GOP. Trump has destroyed their credibility. He has transformed them into a cult - but going forward if Trump is not on the ticket the crazies won't care about the party. So what becomes of the party post Trump? Do they try to rebuild credibility (can they) or do they just become the cult of Trump?
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Makes sense to me.

Up until now, McConnell still had huge power.
Lose the senate control, and he doesn't - that means looking forward to 2 and 4 years time.
 
nmc said:
Find it hard to believe that Trump is openly seeking to stage a Coup and so many Republican's are right behind him....
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Why do you find it hard to believe? He has building up to it for a year in everything he has tweeted, his silly rallies and the warm up for it when he brandished that bible in front of a church
 
Gaudion M said:
Bit late me thinks.

Today is both Peak Trump (in terms of bat shit crazy rabble rousing) and also the start of a very long and difficult period for the GOP. Trump has destroyed their credibility. He has transformed them into a cult - but going forward if Trump is not on the ticket the crazies won't care about the party. So what becomes of the party post Trump? Do they try to rebuild credibility (can they) or do they just become the cult of Trump?
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This what Eric and Junior have been banging on about. Jr called it a hostile takeover of the party. They know that they have radicalised the core support, and its all about keep the Trumps at the centre of the party or have the party crumble. Unfortunately today is not peak Trump
 
kaz7 said:
Bless

Donald Trump's son Eric addresses crowds

He tells his father's supporters: "My father has started a movement and this movement will never, ever die.

"This is a movement that will transcend him. It's a movement that will transcend all of us."

He asks them: "Is there any person here that actually thinks that Joe Biden won this election?"

Boos are heard, then Mr Trump replies: "I don't either guys, I don't either
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If he means a bowel movement, I agree.
 
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