***Official Political Discussion Thread***

[gry60]

The entire X-Men franchise is an allegory for civil rights and while she was starring in it she was voting to take away people's rights. That's crazy.

You can bring a donkey to the river, but you can't force it to drink.

 

[dwalk31]

You didn't ask me, but I haven't given anything to Republicans and I get Ernst and Trump texts.

Hmm I get them too, and the campaign email blasts. But I just figured the majority of people that got them have showed some sort of support for the Republicans/Trump campaign.

 

[isu 42]

Hmm I get them too, and the campaign email blasts. But I just figured the majority of people that got them have showed some sort of support for the Republicans/Trump campaign.

I don't get e-mails. My work number gets the text messages.

 

[blastercombo]

Y'all don't think he is saving funds for an eventual contest of the results before the courts? My money's on that.

More like pocketing it all. Numerous people in his circle were already caught pocketing donations

 

[uncalled4boy]

And despite the collateral consequences of the crime bill, I’m sure the Biden supporters in here don’t support that either.

Not The Crime Bill Rebuttal. Never Seen This Before.

 

[Upptempo]

Good to know. The Republican running for the House seat in my district keeps texting me and I almost responded with "**** off".

before I found out this trick, I responded to a "republican" text asking if they had my commitment to vote and I replied "I can't vote. I went to jail for murder so I don't get a vote"

 

[dwalk31]

I don't get e-mails. My work number gets the text messages.

Oh okay, that makes more sense.

 

[gry60]

 

[Upptempo]

Not The Crime Bill Rebuttal. Never Seen This Before.

 

[reformeDWS]

reformeDWS .....yes he doesn’t vote, or at least he publicly admitted to not wanting to vote leading up to the election in 2016. Not sure if his stance has changed since then. Either way my job is to drag him to the polls come hell or high water.

good on you.

I’m certainly not advocating voting rights being restricted, but I'll continue to vote for the party that actively does.

yeah yeah i know, you're going to come back with a rebuttal of something like "just because you vote for a party, doesn't mean you agree with everything they do" then in bad faith ask me if I support the crime bill because I'm voting for someone who authored it.

no one agrees with every policy of the party they are voting for but everyone draws some lines in the sand. the fact that you continue to support the GOP despite their efforts to suppress black voters tells everyone else that voter suppression isn't something that crosses your line in the sand. Sure, you don't advocate for voting rights being restricted, but you won't vote against the party doing it because, presumably, they offer something else to you that you objectively want/care more for.

we know you're voting red because it puts more money in your pocket. that's fine. you're absolutely entitled to do that. but don't sit here and tell us how much you care about voter suppression because we know however much that is, it's not as much as you care about that extra dollar in your pocket.

 

[RustyShackleford]

Funny thing is that Delk got more money from scamming the Federal Government for that small business loan than he did from Trump's tax cut.

 

[dwalk31]

good on you.



yeah yeah i know, you're going to come back with a rebuttal of something like "just because you vote for a party, doesn't mean you agree with everything they do" then in bad faith ask me if I support the crime bill because I'm voting for someone who authored it.

no one agrees with every policy of the party they are voting for but everyone draws some lines in the sand. the fact that you continue to support the GOP despite their efforts to suppress black voters tells everyone else that voter suppression isn't something that crosses your line in the sand. Sure, you don't advocate for voting rights being restricted, but you won't vote against the party doing it because, presumably, they offer something else to you that you objectively want/care more for.

we know you're voting red because it puts more money in your pocket. that's fine. you're absolutely entitled to do that. but don't sit here and tell us how much you care about voter suppression because we know however much that is, it's not as much as you care about that extra dollar in your pocket.

As always, if you are going to alter my quoted post please do something to offset the changed portion, like a bold, * or something.

Thanks

 

[Upptempo]

The broke boys in the building tonight

 

[gry60]

Trump is doing worse than it seems — but reporters are afraid to say so

By historical standards, Trump’s coverage is actually favorable, in one critical respect.

www.politico.com

 

[wavycrocket]

And student loan forgiveness is a no-no, to these people

 

[elpablo21]

 

[gry60]

Obama says Trump is ‘jealous of Covid’s media coverage’

‘Tweeting at the TV doesn’t fix things,' says former president

www.independent.co.uk

BARS!!

Speaking at a Biden-Harris campaign rally in Florida, Barack Obama ridiculed Donald Trump for being jealous of the media coverage that the coronavirus pandemic receives
.
“What’s his closing argument? That people are too focused on Covid. He said this at one of his rallies. ‘Covid. Covid Covid,' he’s complaining. He’s jealous of Covid’s media coverage," the former president said.
He took the administration and Mr Trump personally to task over the response to the pandemic that has now cost the lives of 225,000 Americans.

“You can’t think of anything you might be doing differently?” Mr Obama asked. “Like, maybe you shouldn’t have gone on TV and suggested we might inject bleach to cure Covid?”

He also called out Mr Trump’s apparent inability to handle the coronavirus at the scale of the executive mansion: “I lived in the White House ... You know, it's a controlled environment. You can take some preventive measures in the White House to avoid getting sick. Except this guy can't seem to do it. He's turned the White House into a hot zone."
With just one week to go before election day, Mr Obama is acting as a surrogate for the campaign in a state that the Democratic Party feels is within its grasp in 2020.


“We can’t be complacent. We were complacent last time… Look what happened … Not this time, not in this election,” he said.
At the drive-in rally in Orlando for former vice president Joe Biden and Senator Kamala Harris, Mr Obama urged Florida voters to make a plan to cast their ballots early.



“Don’t put it off, drop it in the drop box today, just get it done.”
The former president did not hold back in his criticism of Mr Trump or his administration: "Even Florida Man wouldn’t do some of this stuff. Why would we accept it from the President of the United States?”
Touching on foreign policy and referencing Mr Trump’s disastrous 60 Minutes interview, Mr Obama said his successor could not stand up to dictators when he thinks that Lesley Stahl is a bully.

“Just yesterday, he said that Putin of Russia, Xi of China, and Kim Jong-un of North Korea, want him to win … we know!” said Mr Obama. “Because you’ve been giving them everything that they want for the past four years, of course they want you to win! That’s not a good thing!”

He continued: ’You shouldn’t brag that some of our greatest adversaries think that they’d be better off with you in office! Of course they do! What does that say about you?!’
Mr Obama’s speech was covered live by all of the major news networks.
A reference to Mr Trump’s “secret Chinese bank account” and the fact he had paid more in taxes in China than the $750 he reportedly paid in the US, elicited a response from the president himself.

“Now Fox News is playing Obama’s no crowd, fake speech for Biden, a man he could barely endorse because he couldn’t believe he won. Also, I PREPAID many Millions of Dollars in Taxes," Mr Trump tweeted.
Earlier, regarding the coronavirus response, Mr Obama had mocked the president with the line: “Tweeting at the TV doesn’t fix things.”

 

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[stuntman mike]

sadly, i've contributed to a republican organization this year. no trump texts for me though. no campaign texts at all, in fact. lots of email though.
maybe since the organization was the lincoln project, that makes a difference.

 

[IATT]

What type of world war 2 era shhh is this

 

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[aepps20]

What type of world war 2 era shhh is this

Dude sounds like Don Draper.

 

[junglejim]

Dude sounds like Don Da Raper

couldnt agree more

 

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dwalk31