2020 US Election Thread

[adidasss]

Such a Negative Nancy...

[OccultHawk]

Originally Posted by adidasss

Such a Negative Nancy...

We’ll find out soon enough.

[adidasss]

Originally Posted by OccultHawk

We’ll find out soon enough.

15th of December I think.

In other news!

Donald Trump's latest endeavor? Asking his supporters to pay his debts

“President Trump needs YOU to step up to make sure we have the resources to protect the integrity of the election!” the wording on both funds says, which is featured in a huge pop-up on Trump’s re-election webpage. It continues: “Please contribute ANY AMOUNT IMMEDIATELY to the Official Election Defense Fund and to increase your impact by 1,000%!”

It is unclear who matches the donations.

But if you scroll down, past the information about the “Left-wing MOB” trying to “undermine our election”, you’ll see some fine print. On Trump’s personal fund, it dictates that of all donations raised, only 50% will go towards a recount effort, and that “50% of each contribution, up to a maximum of $2,800 ($5,000), [will] be designated toward DJTFP’s 2020 general election account for general election debt retirement until such debt is retired”.

On his joint fund with the RNC, the donations work as follows: “60% of each contribution first to Save America, up to $5,000/$5,000, then to DJTP’s recount account, up to a maximum of $2,800/$5,000. [And] 40% of each contribution to the RNC’s operating account, up to a maximum of $35,500/$15,000.”


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This essentially means that depending on the size of your donation, a large portion of any donation won’t go to the “recount” bid but will instead go to the Super Pac sponsoring the bid, and the Republican party.

The bottom line: Trump spent a little more money than he had for his re-election – to the tune of $1.6bn – and now he wants help paying for it. It’s sort of cute, like when a wealthy college student asks if you can sponsor their year abroad petting monkeys in Borneo.

[The Batlord]

I mean I'm dubious that he'll be taken seriously as well, especially since the situation inherently means that he's lost significant legitimacy, but I'm assuming nothing. Let the history books be the ones to smugly declare how pointless his strategy was since they'll have the benefit of hindsight.

[OccultHawk]

Originally Posted by elphenor

the real power of the country is in corporations and the political parties

neither of these want an undermining of faith in the institutions

Which is part of the reason why when Trump flips electors (which is constitutional btw) and wins his election fraud cases in the Supreme Court it’ll take a thousand times the George Floyd outrage to get him out of office.

When the United States Secretary of State openly tells you there’s not going to be a transition even after losing of the election you got a real problem on your hands.

It’s time to face reality people.

[OccultHawk]

Originally Posted by The Batlord

I mean I'm dubious that he'll be taken seriously as well, especially since the situation inherently means that he's lost significant legitimacy, but I'm assuming nothing. Let the history books be the ones to smugly declare how pointless his strategy was since they'll have the benefit of hindsight.

Today’s history books still use the phrase Jacksonian Democracy without irony.

[jwb]

Originally Posted by elphenor

ridin' with Biden is the new punk rock

Remember when people told you that you would shift to a moderate/conservative with age?

This is actually what they meant lol

[jwb]

Originally Posted by Exo

If you played a game of billiards at a bar for $50 and the loser just straight up refuses to admit he lost even though he f*cking straight up just lost plain as day...that dude gets a cue over the head. Every. Time.

It's just such a prissy bitch move to lose an election and just flat out say "nope" to the process that has taken place since this country was born.

It's pathetic.

Damn you're a boojie ass bitch tbh

It's not "prissy" to try to steal an election.

It's called strategy.

[jwb]

Originally Posted by elphenor

the real power of the country is in corporations and the political parties

neither of these want an undermining of faith in the institutions

er... Wrong.

Both want that when it's convenient for them.

[OccultHawk]

The Trump administration has carried out sweeping changes atop the Defense Department's civilian leadership structure, removing several of its most senior officials and replacing them with perceived loyalists to the President.

The flurry of changes, announced by the Department of Defense in a statement roughly 24 hours after President Donald Trump fired Defense Secretary Mark Esper, have put officials inside the Pentagon on edge and fueled a growing sense of alarm among military and civilian officials, who are concerned about what could come next.

cnn

Just a little reality check on the non-violent transition crowd, if anyone still really believes that at this point: Trump can fill the military and the pentagon with anyone he wants and fire anyone he wants until Biden is sworn in. And guess what? Biden isn’t going to be sworn in.