US election 2020 thread

[Chz]

Amazingly it's up for debate but I don't think a President in the USA can pardon himself. Nixon was certainly 'reminded' he couldn't do this.

Granting a pardon would be an admission of guilt. I doubt he can manage that.

 

[killer b]

tbh Jeff, hardly anyone on Urban cares about what you post, perhaps because, whatever the subject, you come out with the sort of infantile nonsense a first year sociology student would be ashamed of.

Loads of us enjoy them tbf.

 

[krtek a houby]

I'd agree, but the lady time an Austrian became the leader they weren't born in....

You can fill in the rest.

Lady time or girly men

 

[brogdale]

Amazingly it's up for debate but I don't think a President in the USA can pardon himself. Nixon was certainly 'reminded' he couldn't do this.

An interesting ploy if he harbours any 2024 ambitions; a pretty certain way of declaring that he had indeed committed offences requiring pardon.

 

[steveo87]

Lady time or girly men

FUCKING PHONE!!!!

(I'll fix it now)

 

[Wilf]

Let's keep a sense of perspective. There are also 75 million spotless heroes who voted for Biden. The glass is half full.

They're even more spotless if they were mail in heroes. Big postal boxes full of heroes. Piled up on a table at the last minute, to wipe out the piles of in person fascist non-mail-in filth people. Defended by pieces of cardboard stuck up at the windows. Great bunch of lads.

 

[Yuwipi Woman]

I see the anger management classes are going well.

I used to think I was an unrepentant misanthrope. I'm not a patch on Jeff Robinson.

 

[Wilf]

Help

Right Editor, you're a professional drummer. What the fuck time signature was she using there?

 

[bimble]

An interesting ploy if he harbours any 2024 ambitions; a pretty certain way of declaring that he had indeed committed offences requiring pardon.

"the deep state and their operatives are trying to bring MAGA down with these hoax accusations and for the good of the movement i have no choice but to declare myself the innocentest man who ever lived', should be fine.

 

[bimble]

At least someone at the Guardian is keeping paranoia levels up. This is pretty much where I am. It may only be a slim threat but relying on 'moderate' republicans and the legal system to sort it out while pretending it isn't happening is dumb.

Republicans aren't conceding – and Democrats are bringing a knife to a gun fight | David Sirota

The Republicans’ bid to overturn the election is a full-scale emergency – and yet the Democratic strategy seems to be to pretend it isn’t happening

www.theguardian.com

thanks for that. I was doing really well on the paranoia front.
I think that just because no democrats are speaking out publicly about this doesn't mean they're unaware or blindly trusting that all will be fine, i am pretty sure they are taking it more seriously than they say they are and that totally ignoring it in public is a strategy to deprive the clown-coup (if thats what it is) of the oxygen it needs.

 

[Jeff Robinson]

tbh Jeff, hardly anyone on Urban cares about what you post, perhaps because, whatever the subject, you come out with the sort of infantile nonsense a first year sociology student would be ashamed of.

Thank you Sensei. I hope when I grow up I'll be as venerated as you, andysays.

 

[Orang Utan]

Thank you Sensei. I hope when I grow up I'll be as venerated as you, andysays.

nah, he's the vicious prick who sticks his winkle picker under whoever we're giving the bumps to that day

 

[killer b]

nah, he's the vicious prick who sticks his winkle picker under whoever we're giving the bumps to that day

the joke is funnier when it's not explained.

 

[Jeff Robinson]

Hey, I love all y'all, andysays included. When it comes to the left, I'm a lover not a hater.

 

[xenon]

tbh Jeff, hardly anyone on Urban cares about what you post, perhaps because, whatever the subject, you come out with the sort of infantile nonsense a first year sociology student would be ashamed of.

Oh I dunno. I tend to agree with Wilf but sometimes it's OK just to blow off some steam and call a cunt a cunt. No one's forming policy here.

 

[xenon]

An interesting ploy if he harbours any 2024 ambitions; a pretty certain way of declaring that he had indeed committed offences requiring pardon.

And has been said a few times now, it only works for federal crimes. All that stuff with the southern New York district is still there. Then there's his debts of course.

 

[JimW]

Oh I dunno. I tend to agree with Wilf but sometimes it's OK just to blow off some steam and call a cunt a cunt. No one's forming policy here.

"He's only saying what we're all thinking"

 

[cupid_stunt]

He's awake & off on one again.



Hang on a minute, on the one hand he's claiming his administration made this the most secure election ever, but on the other hand, there's been a massive fraud.

 

[Pickman's model]

He's awake & off on one again.



Hang on a minute, on the one hand he's claiming his administration made this the most secure election ever, but on the other hand, there's been a massive fraud.

he's after the coveted title of cognitive dissonance of the year

 

[bimble]

This is the thing I think, he absolutely would do it if he could get it done, but he doesn’t understand because he is after all a stupid man, that it won’t work. He does not have a cunning plan if he was only asking about how to line up some faithless electors on Wednesday, same day as me googling them.

 

[elbows]

At least someone at the Guardian is keeping paranoia levels up. This is pretty much where I am. It may only be a slim threat but relying on 'moderate' republicans and the legal system to sort it out while pretending it isn't happening is dumb.

Republicans aren't conceding – and Democrats are bringing a knife to a gun fight | David Sirota

The Republicans’ bid to overturn the election is a full-scale emergency – and yet the Democratic strategy seems to be to pretend it isn’t happening

www.theguardian.com

One of the reasons I have adopted a relaxed, dont believe the hype approach to this stage of proceedings is that I am not going to have my state of mind played with by media seeking to drag out the story to maintain high viewer/readership levels. The threat of Trump is good for ratings, and I'm not going to play that game.

 

[belboid]

The guardian do live to ramp up these non stories, they’re almost as bad as the canary for ‘oh my god look at this’ headlines.

Trump’s just playing a game to keep the base riled up so they’ll turn out in Georgia and save the senate, shorely.

 

[Jeff Robinson]

He's awake & off on one again.



Hang on a minute, on the one hand he's claiming his administration made this the most secure election ever, but on the other hand, there's been a massive fraud.

Pretty impressive to be so contradictory with so few words.

 

[JimW]

Not just any bad loser, the baddest loser, of course.

 

[cupid_stunt]

Pretty impressive to be so contradictory with so few words.

IT'S THIS SORT OF BEHAVIOUR THAT WINS ELECTIONS!!111!!

 

[elbows]

The guardian do live to ramp up these non stories, they’re almost as bad as the canary for ‘oh my god look at this’ headlines.

Trump’s just playing a game to keep the base riled up so they’ll turn out in Georgia and save the senate, shorely.

Another example would be Pompeos shit joke about a 2nd Trump administration being taken seriously by some sections of the media.

 

[planetgeli]

He's awake & off on one again.



Hang on a minute, on the one hand he's claiming his administration made this the most secure election ever, but on the other hand, there's been a massive fraud.

If it wasn't for those pesky Democrats I'd have got away with this.

Fucking Scooby Doo episode innit.

 

[belboid]

If it wasn't for those pesky Democrats I'd have got away with this.

Fucking Scooby Doo episode innit.

One of the shit ones, with The Donald as scrappy doo

 

[Yossarian]

An interesting ploy if he harbours any 2024 ambitions; a pretty certain way of declaring that he had indeed committed offences requiring pardon.

"I am issuing pre-emptive pardons to all administration members INCLUDING myself for protection from FAKE charges the Democrats who stole the election want to bring in! #Muellerhoax #MAGA"

 

[maomao]

Another example would be Pompeos shit joke about a 2nd Trump administration being taken seriously by some sections of the media.

So Pompeo, Trump's secretary of state, was making a joke at Trump's expense for whose amusement?