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Seeing as we are approaching the presidential debates, and with the actual election being only 42 days away, maybe we could keep this as a US election megathread for those on here who are interested? One location for all the discussion would prevent multiple threads clogging up the board for those who don't care to get involved?
Personally, the reality of having to experience this election in the near future is stressful AF so if anyone else wants to get stressed together... Jump on board.
Now, insert all the usual caveats about polling here but...it's looking positive that we will be rid of Trump come 2021, much to the disappointment of a couple of posters on here. 538 are well respected in the field of poll analysis so what they announce should be taken seriously.
Of course their analysis doesn't take account of any election fraud, Russian interference, voter suppression etc. But it's positive news none the less. Once Trump is gone, we can work on Johnson. Decent people of the world... Unite!
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"Imagine being a heterosexual white male in Britain at this moment. How bad is that. Everything you say is racist, everything you say is homophobic. The Woke community have really f****d this country."
US election megathread on 14:29 - Nov 6 by giant_stow
Whats the situation with *actual* power when a sitting president has been voted out and a new one’s waiting? Who holds it?
Well traditionally, the lame duck president would keep things going over without any kind of significant policy activity. The election results get certified on December 1st and then the sitting president has until the 20th Jan to write a supportive letter for the next President.
All of these traditions are going to be followed by Trump too, obviously.
US election megathread on 14:29 - Nov 6 by giant_stow
Whats the situation with *actual* power when a sitting president has been voted out and a new one’s waiting? Who holds it?
The power is no different to a month back. Trump is still president. The only difference will be to see how much people want to assist him, especially McConnell's senate, with his madness.
I suspect other than giving up entirely on covid response and the economy that they won't get too involved now that they've got their judges. I actually think they're currently on recess until January.
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"Imagine being a heterosexual white male in Britain at this moment. How bad is that. Everything you say is racist, everything you say is homophobic. The Woke community have really f****d this country."
Well traditionally, the lame duck president would keep things going over without any kind of significant policy activity. The election results get certified on December 1st and then the sitting president has until the 20th Jan to write a supportive letter for the next President.
All of these traditions are going to be followed by Trump too, obviously.
thanks chaps (that's scarey)
Has anyone ever looked at their own postings for last day or so? Oh my... so sorry. Was Ullaa
US election megathread on 14:33 - Nov 6 by SpruceMoose
The power is no different to a month back. Trump is still president. The only difference will be to see how much people want to assist him, especially McConnell's senate, with his madness.
I suspect other than giving up entirely on covid response and the economy that they won't get too involved now that they've got their judges. I actually think they're currently on recess until January.
Definately time to swap in the dummy nuclear breifcase, if someone hasn;t already.
Has anyone ever looked at their own postings for last day or so? Oh my... so sorry. Was Ullaa
US election megathread on 14:33 - Nov 6 by SpruceMoose
The power is no different to a month back. Trump is still president. The only difference will be to see how much people want to assist him, especially McConnell's senate, with his madness.
I suspect other than giving up entirely on covid response and the economy that they won't get too involved now that they've got their judges. I actually think they're currently on recess until January.
And of course they don't accept any of these results.
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US election megathread on 14:38 - Nov 6 with 870 views
US election megathread on 14:35 - Nov 6 by ElderGrizzly
And of course they don't accept any of these results.
They don't have an argument.
They don't have any evidence.
Trump's team consists of the incompetent dregs who dodged being fired over the last four years.
This is a mess of their own making.
Undone by their own ineptitude. Trump's election campaign has been the political equivalent of Wile E. Coyote going after Roadrunner.
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"Imagine being a heterosexual white male in Britain at this moment. How bad is that. Everything you say is racist, everything you say is homophobic. The Woke community have really f****d this country."
US election megathread on 14:33 - Nov 6 by SpruceMoose
The power is no different to a month back. Trump is still president. The only difference will be to see how much people want to assist him, especially McConnell's senate, with his madness.
I suspect other than giving up entirely on covid response and the economy that they won't get too involved now that they've got their judges. I actually think they're currently on recess until January.
There is the 25th amendment which allows for the temporary removal of presidential powers due to physical or mental impairment.
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US election megathread on 14:42 - Nov 6 with 844 views
US election megathread on 14:38 - Nov 6 by ElderGrizzly
The interview with his niece that I watched last night was full of lolls.
She reckons this loss could end him, and that he simply will not be able to compute it. For the first time in his life there's nobody bigger to come in and bail him out at the last minute, nobody to save him. The grift has finally come to an end.
You love to see it.
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"Imagine being a heterosexual white male in Britain at this moment. How bad is that. Everything you say is racist, everything you say is homophobic. The Woke community have really f****d this country."
Does Trump have a possible viable legal challenge in PA re postal votes that arrived late? Seen it mentioned somewhere as possibly having grounds
Nobody has seen any evidence of this. If it exists, I don't know why they're sitting on it.
Imma file it next to Hunter's laptop in the things I'll lose sleep over.
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"Imagine being a heterosexual white male in Britain at this moment. How bad is that. Everything you say is racist, everything you say is homophobic. The Woke community have really f****d this country."
It's looking likely that he's going to lose..... on 14:46 - Nov 6 by Bloots
....by the exact same margin that he won in 2016.
A win that he described as "a landslide".
His idiotic rhetoric is going to come back and haunt him (not that he'll care)
I've been watching CNN for the last couple of days, they are loving it.
The Hamilton style musical that comes out in 2234 covering this period of time will be wild.
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"Imagine being a heterosexual white male in Britain at this moment. How bad is that. Everything you say is racist, everything you say is homophobic. The Woke community have really f****d this country."
US election megathread on 14:33 - Nov 6 by SpruceMoose
The power is no different to a month back. Trump is still president. The only difference will be to see how much people want to assist him, especially McConnell's senate, with his madness.
I suspect other than giving up entirely on covid response and the economy that they won't get too involved now that they've got their judges. I actually think they're currently on recess until January.
Can he not just issue 'presidential orders' - unless I've misunderstood these, they bypass the Senate to get things done?
On a side note, would anyone actually care if (in a few years time) it turned out that there were tens of thousands of illegal votes? I know I wouldn't.
US election megathread on 15:14 - Nov 6 by Bent_double
Can he not just issue 'presidential orders' - unless I've misunderstood these, they bypass the Senate to get things done?
On a side note, would anyone actually care if (in a few years time) it turned out that there were tens of thousands of illegal votes? I know I wouldn't.
He'll have the fun job of pardoning anyone who might end up in court with him in February.
All presidents, red and blue do it.
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US election megathread on 15:17 - Nov 6 with 714 views
US election megathread on 15:14 - Nov 6 by Bent_double
Can he not just issue 'presidential orders' - unless I've misunderstood these, they bypass the Senate to get things done?
On a side note, would anyone actually care if (in a few years time) it turned out that there were tens of thousands of illegal votes? I know I wouldn't.
I would imagine that the work rate of workers in many of the government agencies such as the EPA, Parks Service, Department of State, Education department over the next couple of months will be like wading through treacle. Let him decree what he likes. He needs people to implement it for him.
And I would care actually, if there's fraud involved there shouldn't be. I wouldn't want it used against us.
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"Imagine being a heterosexual white male in Britain at this moment. How bad is that. Everything you say is racist, everything you say is homophobic. The Woke community have really f****d this country."
US election megathread on 15:17 - Nov 6 by giant_stow
(not literally)
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Fox News viewers when Fox News announces President Biden...
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"Imagine being a heterosexual white male in Britain at this moment. How bad is that. Everything you say is racist, everything you say is homophobic. The Woke community have really f****d this country."
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