US election 2020 thread

[UrbaneFox]

He's more popular now than when he got the nomination in 2016. What makes you think he can't get the nomination in 2024?

He will be in jail.

 

[Numbers]

He simply got caught up in it on his way to a special US edition of the Antiques Roadshow.

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The smile and wave are things of beauty.

 

[gosub]

Mathew Goodwin now putting Trump in the fascist rather than US populist category . The contrarians seem to be split amongst those thinking Twitter banning Trumps account as the real attack on democracy to those equating the attempts to thwart Brexit as the same as yesterday’s scenes and others blaming liberals for Trump . Bad times at El Royal .

As much as I can see parallels, I'm glad the remainers never eroded faith in the actual ballot process.

 

[UrbaneFox]

Loads of talk about it but I’m not clear on what the point would be, what could he do really in the 13 days that are left.
Woman on radio 4 early morning news saying he might start a war with Iran just to fuck things for Biden. Apart from that haven’t heard anything concrete as to what they are imagining they’d prevent by 25thing him now.

He's working hard on his grand finale /scorched earth project.

 

[Dark Knight]

 

[maomao]

He will be in jail.

People have run for federal office from prison before.

 

[maomao]

What's your point? Spit it out.

 

[hitmouse]

I think you might have forgotten to include some words in that post, do you want to try again?
edit: oh snap lol

 

[Yossarian]

Weird how those five of six cops standing in front of the buildings managed to hold off the "angry mob."

165 of them still got arrested, which is about 10 times as many arrests as happened inside the Capitol yesterday.

 

[hitmouse]

Nah, I'm convinced, now I know some other people banged on a door once it's changed my perspective on everything. I reckon they should probably make Trump God-Emperor for Life now in light of this new evidence.

 

[killer b]

I would actually have been delighted to see the Capitol overrun by far-left rioters any time tbf.

 

[Treacle Toes]

I have been following all this and looked at the litigation filed in Georgia by Powell. I have also been reading some of the more balanced/thoughtful commentary on it, both from Republicans and Democrats. In the interests of full disclosure/transparency, I am British, but of the two presidential candidates, I would personally lean more towards Trump - if I had to vote for one or the other.

I don't agree with the apparent general view here that the Trump claims are entirely a 'joke'. If the Powell filings are taken at face value, there is evidence to back up some of the more moderate claims being made by the Trump camp and also emanating independently from Powell, however it looks like they don't - so far - have before the court any evidence of actual specific acts of fraud. Rather, the allegations concern electoral irregularities and procedural lapses, and these seem to be an exceptional trend on a county-to-county basis in Georgia and not found across-the-board.

In Pennsylvania, the Republican-controlled state legislature (both House and Senate) has put a spanner in the works, but it appears the federal judiciary has knocked Trump back. The crucial issue there is whether state certification is solely for the state executive (under Democratic control) or for the legislature to override if the elections are 'contested elections', having issued Section 13, Article VII resolutions (as required under the Pennsylvania state constitution). One would need to look at Pennsylvania statutes and maybe common law on the question, as the constitution is silent on this specific point.

So far (my view may change with further developments), it does seem, at least to me, rather unlikely that Trump can upturn the whole election, due to the lack of specific evidence of fraud; but, one point that bears repeating is that Trump does not technically have to upturn the popular ballot. All he needs to do is cast doubt on the result in maybe two or three states that have sufficient Electoral College votes to drag Biden below the 270 threshold, as this would then (probably) force a contingent election in Congress.

Probably this rather extreme eventuality will not happen, but I am not dismissing the possibility altogether. It could happen. In any event, I think the whole thing will culminate in a showdown in the Supreme Court over the electoral methodologies of a handful of critical states, and that judgment will in effect decide whether the United States has to resort to contingent ballots in the legislature.

Guess who's back, yes he's back...

The Dark Knight!

mist descends

 

[killer b]

The reason I'm not keen on fascist riots is because of the fascism, not the rioting.

 

[maomao]

I have no objection to angry mobs storming government buildings in principle. I'd rather they weren't neo nazis and racist imbeciles though tbh.

 

[platinumsage]

He simply got caught up in it on his way to a special US edition of the Antiques Roadshow.

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Twitter has his name:

 

[bimble]

They really could have worn masks just for the occasion, the twats.

 

[Orang Utan]

He simply got caught up in it on his way to a special US edition of the Antiques Roadshow.

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Loads of idiots on Twitter identified this guy as Via Getty

 

[danny la rouge]

Twitter has his name:

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Mass todger attack?

 

[Cid]

Alongside his cousins Shutter Stock and I. Stock-Photos.

 

[brogdale]

Twitter has his name:

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Not the first thief in that family.

 

[danny la rouge]

Loads of idiots on Twitter identified this guy as Via Getty

I think a lot of them had the first name “Via”, coincidentally. There was a picture of Via Reuters and someone called Via AP doing the rounds.

 

[belboid]

Short for Vladimir, isn’t it? I knew they were all commies

 

[Orang Utan]

Alongside his cousins Shutter Stock and I. Stock-Photos.

They’ve just put an APB out searching for this guy:

 

[Serge Forward]

Getty Street.

 

[mhendo]

People have run for federal office from prison before.

Yep. Socialist Eugene Debs got almost 1 million votes in the 1920 presidential election, and he was in federal prison at the time.

 

[StoneRoad]

unmasked twerps + cctv & social media + some serious detective work* = id'ing the vandals and seditionists

* that should keep the FBI busy for a while !
and maybe, just maybe make things look a bit better from the outside of the usa ...

e2a - and maybe a good few of them will need treatment for covid.

 

[Roadkill]

They really could have worn masks just for the occasion, the twats.

I can't help wondering how many infections were seeded in DC yesterday. Frankly, given the crossover between MAGA twats and Covid deniers, if a few of them end up on ventilators that'd be no bad thing.

 

[JuanTwoThree]

https://t.co/4z5CPjATwQ

Joe Scarborough is not happy. He has a point.

 

[agricola]

They really could have worn masks just for the occasion, the twats.

but then how would we know they were antifa?

 

[belboid]

https://t.co/4z5CPjATwQ

Joe Scarborough is not happy. He has a point.

Not this Joe Scarborough I presume