Trump suggests election delay to counter voter fraud
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@jon-nyc said in Trump suggests election delay to counter voter fraud:
I think we'll have to wait for 2024 to see that. Hopefully by then the GOP will have regained sanity.
I guess that would also be what I'd hope for. Hope that Biden doesn't do too much damage (he will almost certainly do some damage) and that the GOP will press the reset button until 2024.
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It's the inside straight. Trump loses so big the GOP reels and fixes itself before the Democratic Party is completely taken over by the regressive left.
I don't think it's likely, but sometimes hope is all we have.
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@Larry said in Trump suggests election delay to counter voter fraud:
Nor do I believe the polls that say he's ahead.
Trumps internal polling is almost certainly abysmal, hence this tweet.
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@Klaus said in Trump suggests election delay to counter voter fraud:
@jon-nyc said in Trump suggests election delay to counter voter fraud:
I think we'll have to wait for 2024 to see that. Hopefully by then the GOP will have regained sanity.
I guess that would also be what I'd hope for. Hope that Biden doesn't do too much damage (he will almost certainly do some damage) and that the GOP will press the reset button until 2024.
"Pressing the reset button" is another way of saying "go back to being democrat lite". We pressed the reset button 4 years ago.
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I think the Senate could go either way even with a Trump loss. But I haven't been paying too much attention.
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Seems unlikely.
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@Mik said in Trump suggests election delay to counter voter fraud:
What we need is for both sides to quit playing power politics and start serving the people of this country.
That sounds good in theory, but what if the people have very diverging conceptions of how they want to be governed?
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@jon-nyc said in Trump suggests election delay to counter voter fraud:
@Larry said in Trump suggests election delay to counter voter fraud:
Nor do I believe the polls that say he's ahead.
Trumps internal polling is almost certainly abysmal, hence this tweet.
Nah, I think it's a pre-emptive strike.
There are problems with mail-in ballots and we all know it. They are extremely easy to manipulate and ballot harvest. They also lend themselves to an October Surprise, if it's done well, especially with a Biden-friendly media.
As for poll numbers...I think Trump is down about five, but it's not even Labor Day. And the more Biden has to campaign, the more his senility is expressed.
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@Klaus said in Trump suggests election delay to counter voter fraud:
@Mik said in Trump suggests election delay to counter voter fraud:
What we need is for both sides to quit playing power politics and start serving the people of this country.
That sounds good in theory, but what if the people have very diverging conceptions of how they want to be governed?
I have zero doubt that the left are fully convinced that they serve the people of the country.
One of the more insidious aspects of our learned righteousness is that compassion is for the least advantaged materially, and the bulk of the bell curve can go F itself. Entire societies can apparently be led by attaching the leash to the tail of the bell curve and shaming everybody for not devoting all their attention to it, hang the expense.
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@jon-nyc said in Trump suggests election delay to counter voter fraud:
@Klaus - yeah of course if any person had sufficient backing from the military they could take over.
I don't see that as a risk in 2020. The bigger risk is Trump-friendly state governments attempting to invalidate whole classes of votes, putting up a competing slate of electors, or just never sending any, in order to throw the election into the house.
It's weird how you fail to mention that some Democrat electors tried this in 2016 as a last ditch righteous attempt to keep Trump out of office.
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@Horace said in Trump suggests election delay to counter voter fraud:
@Klaus said in Trump suggests election delay to counter voter fraud:
@Mik said in Trump suggests election delay to counter voter fraud:
What we need is for both sides to quit playing power politics and start serving the people of this country.
That sounds good in theory, but what if the people have very diverging conceptions of how they want to be governed?
I have zero doubt that the left are fully convinced that they serve the people of the country.
One of the more insidious aspects of our learned righteousness is that compassion is for the least advantaged materially, and the bulk of the bell curve can go F itself. Entire societies can apparently be led by attaching the leash to the tail of the bell curve and shaming everybody for not devoting all their attention to it, hang the expense.
Preach on, brother...
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@Klaus said in Trump suggests election delay to counter voter fraud:
That sounds good in theory, but what if the people have very diverging conceptions of how they want to be governed?
"Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard." -- H. L. Mencken