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US election 2020 thread
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Gerry1time
Did a wee in Dirac's toilet
Which, if you think about it, makes the next letter of the alphabet R. Wake up sheeple!!!!!1!11!1!!!!eleven!!!!
tim
EXPLODED TIM! (Help me!!!)
The recording and tapescript of Trump browbeating and begging the Secretary of State of Georgia to change the election results in his favour. Amusing to see Republican politicians telling Trump he's wrong.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...68e0cc-4ddd-11eb-83e3-322644d82356_story.html
https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...68e0cc-4ddd-11eb-83e3-322644d82356_story.html
cupid_stunt
Chief seagull hater & farmerbarleymow's nemesis.
Currently listening to the full hour-long trump phone call to Raffensperger.
It is jaw-dropping and not in a good way.
Trump must be so pissed off that it got leaked.
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
The master criminal always makes one fatal error, and trump's is recording himself committing what seems to be a crime a president can't pardon
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
I'm just surprised trump's own appointees made it 10/10 not 8/10
cupid_stunt
Chief seagull hater & farmerbarleymow's nemesis.
According to CNN it was Brad Raffensperger's team that recorded it, with instructions not to release it unless Trump attacked him, which, of course, he did on twitter, and soon after the recoding was released.
beesonthewhatnow
going deaf for a living
That recording really is quite amazing.
I mean, we all kinda knew that’s what he’s like, but to actually hear it first hand? Blimey.
I mean, we all kinda knew that’s what he’s like, but to actually hear it first hand? Blimey.
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
yeh. if it wasn't being recorded in the white house too don't you think djt would be hollering 'deep fake'? it is the wh recording that is djt's error
rubbershoes
not the only raver in the village
Trump's starting legal action about it being recorded without consent.
existentialist
Tired and unemotional
How does that work? I believe recordings made without consent aren't admissible as evidence, but is it actually illegal in the US to record a conversation without consent and publish it?
In any case, there might arguably be a "national interest" justification, if a sitting President is actively trying to sabotage an election...?
2hats
Dust.
littlebabyjesus
one of Maxwell's demons
It doesn't work. Trump is claiming it was a confidential, protected conversation, but he then went and blabbed about it on Twitter. It was only released after that. Second, Georgia is a 'one party consent' state, meaning that if Raffensperger consented to the recording, it was legal.
existentialist
Tired and unemotional
Perfect. So he's going to tilt at another windmill. Couldn't happen to a nicer, etc.
rubbershoes
not the only raver in the village
Trump doesn't care how it works. It's just his MO. If you can't get what you want by straightforward means, bully, bluster, threaten, litigate until you do get it.
I've never been convinced his post election behaviour is grift. It's that he can't accept he lost. Only losers lose!
littlebabyjesus
one of Maxwell's demons
The recording is revealing in lots of ways. The thing that most struck me was the way that he states plainly that he (Trump) won the Georgia governor's election, when Kemp squeaked past Stacey Abrams. All good things that happen are cos of his actions. All bad things that happen are cos of others cheating or betraying him. There really is no limit to his self-regard.
gosub
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Lol I've replaced my Marty1 feed with lotuseateers...Anyway this Raffensberg tape, ..which Karl Bernstein reckons is worse than Watergate, fella on Lotuseaters acknowledges that he's not an expert and then tries to give his slant on what he thinks happened in both and how Bernstein is wrong. the conceit.
Fingers crossed, heres hoping US can get through next two weeks with only mild embarrassment
Fingers crossed, heres hoping US can get through next two weeks with only mild embarrassment
petee
no gods, no malarkey
this is the important point.
remember, there are 50 different sets of laws in this country, not one set.
agricola
a genuine importer of owls
Currently listening to the full hour-long trump phone call to Raffensperger.
It is jaw-dropping and not in a good way.
Having had some time to think about the recordings and listen to them again a few times (and apologies if this is obvious), the way in which Trump casually suggests votes could be "found" is yet another reason to think that he might well have committed electoral fraud himself. The request isn't presented as if its unusual, or something that could not normally be done.
flypanam
Sausage to fortune
Republicans calling for congress to accept the result, stands to reason, as the strength of the republicans lies not in undermining the constitution but defending it to the max.
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