2020 US Election Thread

[Lisnaholic]

Originally Posted by OccultHawk

Goddamn did Trump look and act like a spoiled child.

Yep, not remotely Presidential and barely adult.
His constant badgering interuptions broke the rules of the debate and were often worthless imo. Here was one that the press has not picked up on sufficiently:-

(not verbatim)
Biden: Wearing a mask saves thousands of lives. 100, 000 lives, some studies say.
Trump (interrupting): And some people say the opposite.
Biden: No serious person says the opposite.

Eight months into the pandemic, with an audience of millions the President once more undercuts the idea that masks can save lives. He is therefore risking lives, and for what? In hopes of throwing Biden off his game for one prime-time second?
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There are so many stories and techniques of voter suppression, that it's almost worth its own thread ("This is the way democracy ends, not with a bang but a wimper.")

A story out of Texas:-
https://www.bbc.com/news/election-us-2020-54380684 Texas Governor Cuts Back on Voting Locations Weeks Before the Election

Texas' governor has ordered that voters can drop off their mail-in ballots at only one location per county in the lead-up to the presidential election. Critics have accused Mr Abbott of voter suppression, pointing out that in some cases this means thousands of voters must go to one clerk's office.

Coming weeks before the election, the order requires counties to close any satellite ballot drop-off locations. Some of the state's largest counties had already set up multiple drop-off sites. Harris County, home to the city of Houston and some four million residents, must now close 11 drop-off locations, the Houston Chronicle reported.

In addition to raising questions about how potentially millions of urban Texans will need to visit a single drop-off site, the move may also be problematic for rural residents, who are spread out across the state - which is also America's second largest by area.

Texas Democratic chairman Gilberto Hinojosa responded by saying that courts across the US have said it is too late to make changes to election rules, "but our failed Republican leadership will try anyway".

The proclamation by Mr Abbott will cause "widespread confusion and voter suppression", said Harris County clerk Chris Hollins in a statement. Harris County, which encompasses Houston, is the most populous county in the state. "Multiple drop-off locations have been advertised for weeks," he said. "To force hundreds of thousands of seniors and voters with disabilities to use a single drop-off location...is prejudicial and dangerous."

My bold for classic Republican voter-suppression manouvre: publicise information, then change it.

[Psy-Fi]

Trump Pride: Gay Republicans on why they're backing the president

[OccultHawk]

Originally Posted by Psy-Fi

Trump Pride: Gay Republicans on why they're backing the president

A lot of queers are rich. If you’re an adult and you’re not being clobbered with workplace oppression you still need compassion if you’re gay or not. Where I live if you’re openly queer you’re likely to be ostracized at work and kept poor. The insanity is that poor people support Trump. Rich Mexicans aren’t being put in concentration camps. Rich black families aren’t having their fathers kidnapped and put in prisons. And rich queers can shield themselves from gay bashing. And by bashing I mean violence, not words. These people know where their bread is buttered.

[Lisnaholic]

Yes, it's surprising how people can be so disloyal to their own demographic group. Every time I see a woman waving a "Women for Trump" sign, I wonder about their sense of solidarity, their sisterhood. This propaganda ad leaves out the p***y-grabing tape and much else, but Trump's treatment of women still comes across as pretty vile:-

[jwb]

It's not that surprising that poor people fall for his transparent used car salesman tactics. A lot of poor people are dumb as ****. Dude is literally using the same tactics to get their votes that salesman use to push product. And it works all too well.

[Anteater]

Originally Posted by Lisnaholic

Yes, it's surprising how people can be so disloyal to their own demographic group. Every time I see a woman waving a "Women for Trump" sign, I wonder about their sense of solidarity, their sisterhood. This propaganda ad leaves out the p***y-grabing tape and much else, but Trump's treatment of women still comes across as pretty vile:-

That ad would be a lot better with Joe Biden smelling Kamala's hair. "C'mon man...breathe it innnn."

[jwb]

Originally Posted by Anteater

I would just like to state for the record that both sides grab pussies

Ok

[OccultHawk]

Originally Posted by Lisnaholic

Yes, it's surprising how people can be so disloyal to their own demographic group. Every time I see a woman waving a "Women for Trump" sign, I wonder about their sense of solidarity, their sisterhood. This propaganda ad leaves out the p***y-grabing tape and much else, but Trump's treatment of women still comes across as pretty vile:-

That ad is very powerful when it comes to tearing down Trump but falls pretty short with the “vote for her” line. Biden hardly personifies female empowerment.

As far as being disloyal to their demographic... a middle class woman might conclude, right or wrong, that Trump is better for her financially. Ain’t nothing more empowering than money. Her IQ could be 70 she’s still going to know that everything, her security, her freedom, her health, her diet, her movement, her access to everything all boils down to wealth. It’s actually stupid, naive, and wrong for her to believe anything else.

[OccultHawk]

Originally Posted by jwb

It's not that surprising that poor people fall for his transparent used car salesman tactics. A lot of poor people are dumb as ****. Dude is literally using the same tactics to get their votes that salesman use to push product. And it works all too well.

Depressing af but totally true. Makes you wanna eat buckshot.

[Anteater]

Originally Posted by jwb

Ok

That's actually true in the case of this particular election cycle.