2020 US Election Thread

[ando here]

To this day I don't understand why Democrats are continually flummoxed by the intransigence of this President or his morally bankrupt enablers. It's a perverse pleasure of being shocked on a nearly daily basis by a man who was clearly a psychopath from day one (in my book) for four years. Today a pundit on one of the more progressive opinion networks wearily asked "When is he going to stop pretending not to accept the results of the election and let the transition proceed?!!" News Flash Folks: He's Not Pretending.

[The Batlord]

Yeah I'll never understand why people are surprised by dishonest politicians. It's almost like they think the old stereotypes about politicians were baseless jokes and not deadly serious condemnations about our entire political process until one particularly brazen liar happened to pop up and show us just how fetid our country always has been.

[OccultHawk]

Originally Posted by ando here

To this day I don't understand why Democrats are continually flummoxed by the intransigence of this President or his morally bankrupt enablers. It's a perverse pleasure of being shocked on a nearly daily basis by a man who was clearly a psychopath from day one (in my book) for four years. Today a pundit on one of the more progressive opinion networks wearily asked "When is he going to stop pretending not to accept the results of the election and let the transition proceed?!!" News Flash Folks: He's Not Pretending.

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[Lisnaholic]

Originally Posted by ando here

"When is he going to stop pretending not to accept the results of the election and let the transition proceed?!!" News Flash Folks: He's Not Pretending.

Yep, at least yesterday, when biden was asked about the implications of a delayed transition , he said, nice and simple, "More Americans will die."

Trump has consistently ignored the dangers of covid. His "task force" was a sham,and even before his whirlwind of super-spreader events, it was estimated that his admin could have caused about 100,000 unnecessary deaths.

If I'd been at one of the "Million MAGA March" demonstrations, I would've been selling the latest Trump merchandise: KOKA hats - Keep On Killing Americans.

[OccultHawk]

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[ando here]

Originally Posted by OccultHawk

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Tempting man, but when you see a state like South Dakota with a 60% infection rate and hear the stories of people in emergency rooms gasping for air and still denying Covid-19... there are no words.

[Lucem Ferre]

*gasp gasp* Covid isn't real! *gasp gasp* You are being mislead! *gasp gasp* Don't be a sheep! *gasp gasp*

[Psy-Fi]

Originally Posted by ando here

Tempting man, but when you see a state like South Dakota with a 60% infection rate and hear the stories of people in emergency rooms gasping for air and still denying Covid-19... there are no words.

Originally Posted by Lucem Ferre

*gasp gasp* Covid isn't real! *gasp gasp* You are being mislead! *gasp gasp* Don't be a sheep! *gasp gasp*

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[OccultHawk]

Donald Trump has built his presidency on top of racial dog whistles, xenophobic rhetoric, and anti-immigrant policies. A core belief among liberals was that this strategy would help Trump with whites but almost certainly hurt him with Latinos, and people of color more broadly. Then the opposite happened: In 2020, Trump gained considerable support among voters of color, particularly Latinos, relative to the 2016 election.
What happened?
Ian Haney López is a legal scholar at UC Berkeley and the author of Dog Whistle Politics: How Coded Racial Appeals Have Reinvented Racism and Wrecked the Middle Class. In 2017, he partnered with the leftist think tank Demos and various polling groups to better understand the effectiveness of racial dog whistles and how Democrats could combat them. The results were sobering, even to the experts who commissioned the polls. As Haney López documented in his 2019 book Merge Left: Fusing Race and Class, Winning Elections, and Saving America, 60 percent of Latinos and 54 percent of African Americans have found Trumpian dog-whistle messages convincing, right in step with the 61 percent of whites who did.
This conversation is about the complicated reality of racial politics in America. It’s about the fact that the electorate isn’t divided into racists and non-racists — most voters, including Trump supporters, toggle back and forth between racially reactionary and racially egalitarian views — and a more robust theory of how race operates in American politics that follows. And it’s about the kinds of race- and class-conscious messages that Haney López’s research suggests work best with voters of all backgrounds.

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[Anteater]

You mean repeatedly lambasting 70+ million people as racist for the last four years and then screaming "Defund The Police" didn't achieve the ideal electoral outcome? #Mindblown