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Re: US Election

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Re: US Election

Post by Bird on a Fire » Wed Dec 02, 2020 12:09 am

sh.t. I've been experimenting with extreme news deprivation - no websites, only messaging on apps, etc. - and I swear I forgot for literally some of today that this was all going on. Like entire hours where I didn't think about Trump being a cock.

It was nice. I think I've found a new strategy for surviving 2021.
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Re: US Election

Post by tenchboy » Wed Dec 02, 2020 9:38 am

So if trump is selling presidential pardons to raise some much needed cash; and if he is also asking about presidential pardons for his children: how much will he charge his children?
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Re: US Election

Post by lpm » Wed Dec 02, 2020 9:42 am

Ivanka will be asked to pay in kind.
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Re: US Election

Post by Little waster » Wed Dec 02, 2020 9:44 am

lpm wrote:
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Ivanka will be asked to pay in kind.
The (first?) Trump Presidency 2016-2020(?) in a nutshell.
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Re: US Election

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tenchboy wrote:
Wed Dec 02, 2020 9:38 am
So if trump is selling presidential pardons to raise some much needed cash; and if he is also asking about presidential pardons for his children: how much will he charge his children?
The maximum possible - the children will just claim if back on expenses.

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Re: US Election

Post by dyqik » Wed Dec 02, 2020 11:10 am

Brightonian wrote:
Wed Dec 02, 2020 10:18 am
tenchboy wrote:
Wed Dec 02, 2020 9:38 am
So if trump is selling presidential pardons to raise some much needed cash; and if he is also asking about presidential pardons for his children: how much will he charge his children?
The maximum possible - the children will just claim if back on expenses.
Once from each of their employers.

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Re: US Election

Post by tenchboy » Wed Dec 02, 2020 11:13 am

dyqik wrote:
Wed Dec 02, 2020 11:10 am
Brightonian wrote:
Wed Dec 02, 2020 10:18 am
tenchboy wrote:
Wed Dec 02, 2020 9:38 am
So if trump is selling presidential pardons to raise some much needed cash; and if he is also asking about presidential pardons for his children: how much will he charge his children?
The maximum possible - the children will just claim if back on expenses.
Once from each of their employers.
I would imagine that there is quite a fight going on at the equivalent of the Inland Revenue office over who gets to check the Trumpettes' tax returns next year.
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Re: US Election

Post by EACLucifer » Wed Dec 02, 2020 2:44 pm

Vertigowooyay wrote:
Tue Dec 01, 2020 10:03 pm
Righteous f.cking anger:

https://twitter.com/abcpolitics/status/ ... 02722?s=21
From a Republican, too. I may have a lot of disagreement with Sterling and Raffensperger politically, but I can respect them for standing up for democracy and rule of law in the face of the pressure they are under. It isn't something that should take courage, but at the moment, it does.

On a more cynical note, I can't imagine this helping Loeffler or Purdue - the latter of them forced to resort to an ad right now that just says "Totally Exonerated No Wrongdoing", suggesting the corruption allegations are sticking, which they should, because it doesn't look like Purdue did anything in the senate without buying and selling stocks to benefit from his insider knowledge and decisions, whether it was of the coronavirus, or of submarine maintenance contracts, etc.

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Re: US Election

Post by jimbob » Wed Dec 02, 2020 11:13 pm

COURT NEWS: Former Trump attorney Sidney Powell has filed a federal lawsuit seeking to have
@realDonaldTrump
declared winner of Wisconsin's electoral votes.

Among other things, suit seeks 48 hours of security footage from the TCF Center from Nov. 3-4.

TCF Center is in Detroit.
7:13 PM · Dec 1, 2020·Twitter Web App
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Post by dyqik » Wed Dec 02, 2020 11:50 pm

jimbob wrote:
Wed Dec 02, 2020 11:13 pm
COURT NEWS: Former Trump attorney Sidney Powell has filed a federal lawsuit seeking to have
@realDonaldTrump
declared winner of Wisconsin's electoral votes.

Among other things, suit seeks 48 hours of security footage from the TCF Center from Nov. 3-4.

TCF Center is in Detroit.
7:13 PM · Dec 1, 2020·Twitter Web App
The latest update to one of the suits has a filing consisting of a blank PDF form.

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Re: US Election

Post by Bird on a Fire » Thu Dec 03, 2020 12:16 am

I forget the Sidney Powell character's alignment on the various dimensions of dysfunction we can use to categorise these peri-Trump inadequates.

Is she one of the coke heads? One of the piss heads? A sufferer of dementia? Brain damaged in some other way? A secret agent? A YouTuber playing a prank? Is she a p.rn star and this is all an especially long intro scene with especially unrealistic dialogue? Facts are preferred, but wild speculation is also fine because it doesn't really matter.
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Re: US Election

Post by jimbob » Thu Dec 03, 2020 12:18 am

Bird on a Fire wrote:
Thu Dec 03, 2020 12:16 am
I forget the Sidney Powell character's alignment on the various dimensions of dysfunction we can use to categorise these peri-Trump inadequates.

Is she one of the coke heads? One of the piss heads? A sufferer of dementia? Brain damaged in some other way? A secret agent? A YouTuber playing a prank? Is she a p.rn star and this is all an especially long intro scene with especially unrealistic dialogue? Facts are preferred, but wild speculation is also fine because it doesn't really matter.
Trying to tie up the "too deranged for Trump" niche?
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Re: US Election

Post by dyqik » Thu Dec 03, 2020 12:49 am

Number 3/4 who thinks they are number 5 is the current consensus, I think.

Scarily, she's a former prosecutor, and so there's a fair number of criminal cases that probably need to be reëxamined.

Oh, and I think your list missed out "shameless grifter".

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Post by bolo » Thu Dec 03, 2020 4:05 am

Another fine moment in the Sidney Powell subplot today: a rally in Georgia at which she urged Georgia Republicans to boycott the Senate runoff election in January. Politico described this rally as "even more bonkers than Rudy Giuliani’s news conference", which is high praise.

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/ ... ate-442415

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Re: US Election

Post by FlammableFlower » Thu Dec 03, 2020 7:31 am

To steal lpm's metaphor.... the writers are pulling out more, just when you think you know where it's heading.

Trump is now rumoured to be considering firing Barr - who's going to want that lame duck AG role apart from a complete Trump-nutter?

Just after McEnany does a presser where she asks people to dial it back, but also says there's threats of violence from both sides, Trump releases a 46 minute rant of epic lunacy. Apparently it was statistically impossible for Biden to win.... well there you are...

The Powell rally was all dressed up in fervent patriotism.

This is not going to end well. Part of me wonders if the GOP are going to 25th amendment him away the last minute and scoop up that $170 million of his election result fighting fund.

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Re: US Election

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Re: US Election

Post by Vertigowooyay » Thu Dec 03, 2020 9:46 am

Trump apparently mulling over plan to hold his own rally on 20/01 to announce his 2024 campaign.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2020-e ... y-n1249595

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Post by El Pollo Diablo » Thu Dec 03, 2020 9:50 am

FlammableFlower wrote:
Thu Dec 03, 2020 7:31 am
To steal lpm's metaphor.... the writers are pulling out more, just when you think you know where it's heading.
To be honest, I think even Sunset Beach writers would laugh this one off as fantasy thinking gone too far
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Re: US Election

Post by jimbob » Thu Dec 03, 2020 10:03 am

EACLucifer wrote:
Thu Dec 03, 2020 7:54 am
FOUND SOME ATTEMPTED VOTING FRAUD!!!

Uhm...it's the Republicans again.

Florida Republican lawyer encourages people to falsely register to vote in Georgia and appears to have done so himself.
But it was only tongue in cheek... An interesting claim when onr performs the said criminal act that one allegedly recommended as a joke.
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Re: US Election

Post by FlammableFlower » Thu Dec 03, 2020 10:16 am

jimbob wrote:
Thu Dec 03, 2020 10:03 am
EACLucifer wrote:
Thu Dec 03, 2020 7:54 am
FOUND SOME ATTEMPTED VOTING FRAUD!!!

Uhm...it's the Republicans again.

Florida Republican lawyer encourages people to falsely register to vote in Georgia and appears to have done so himself.
But it was only tongue in cheek... An interesting claim when onr performs the said criminal act that one allegedly recommended as a joke.
Only tongue in cheek, eh? Including him going through with it, to the point that currently they're awaiting a driving licence check?

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Re: US Election

Post by jimbob » Thu Dec 03, 2020 11:14 am

FlammableFlower wrote:
Thu Dec 03, 2020 10:16 am
jimbob wrote:
Thu Dec 03, 2020 10:03 am
EACLucifer wrote:
Thu Dec 03, 2020 7:54 am
FOUND SOME ATTEMPTED VOTING FRAUD!!!

Uhm...it's the Republicans again.

Florida Republican lawyer encourages people to falsely register to vote in Georgia and appears to have done so himself.
But it was only tongue in cheek... An interesting claim when onr performs the said criminal act that one allegedly recommended as a joke.
Only tongue in cheek, eh? Including him going through with it, to the point that currently they're awaiting a driving licence check?
I was just quoting their defence (defense?) of their actions in the facebook video that's now been deleted.

Mind you, I suppose there's not really any good defence of "I wanted to try to steal an election"
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Re: US Election

Post by AMS » Thu Dec 03, 2020 1:18 pm

Admitting to an attempt at electoral fraud sounds a bit career-limiting for a lawyer, or so you'd hope.

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Re: US Election

Post by Vertigowooyay » Thu Dec 03, 2020 1:29 pm

Seems like a legit argument. Watertight.

https://twitter.com/IsaacDovere/status/ ... 17888?s=20
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Re: US Election

Post by FlammableFlower » Thu Dec 03, 2020 1:47 pm

Vertigowooyay wrote:
Thu Dec 03, 2020 1:29 pm
Seems like a legit argument. Watertight.

https://twitter.com/IsaacDovere/status/ ... 17888?s=20
“I think Chinese all look alike. How can you tell? If some Chow shows up, you can be anybody and you can vote.”
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Wondering what Mitch’s wife (Elaine Chow) feels about this quote....

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