Thread: 2020 US Presidential Race

What we're seeing here, is the reason why HR or security escort an employee off the premises as soon as they lose their job.

Originally Posted by Norton

7 of 538 were in 2016.

Which candidates did the seven "faith

Ya and a few of them were here in Washington. It had zero effect on the election.

Originally Posted by Cujo

Well for fucks sake, you're an American, explain how it's diffeerent this time to us non mercins.

I already have. You do not pay attention.

^^^Especially if they're an unhinged lunatic with pathological narcissistic tendencies. Who's also in charge of the entire US forces and nuclear arsenal

Originally Posted by Cujo

All we know is last time, apparently Hillary won the popular vote by 3 million, she lost the electoral vote.
Go ahead and explain in a nutshell how it couldn't happen this time.

Jesus Cujo, this has been hashed out half a dozen times in this thread alone. It is not that difficult a concept.

Originally Posted by Headworx

Who's also in charge of the entire US forces and nuclear arsenal

He won't be for long. One thing you can count on is the institution of the US military. Nixon was put on Air Force One before he was impeached. The plane landed afterwards in Iowa or some place.

^Yeah but Nixon was sane.

Originally Posted by bsnub

The plane landed afterwards in Iowa or some place.

...here's to hoping...

And it's worth mentioning that there are likely to be two run-offs in January in Georgia that will determine who controls the Senate.

That is going to be as expensive as the presidential election.

Originally Posted by bsnub

He won't be for long. One thing you can count on is the institution of the US military. Nixon was put on Air Force One before he was impeached. The plane landed afterwards in Iowa or some place.

I think you mean "before he could be impeached", as he never was.

Nixon left on Executive One (it's not called Marine One when you're no longer president), as did Obama and probably every other president in recent history.

It connected with the former Air Force One that took him back to California.

He wasn't "put on it" you silly sod. It was his ride home.

The military helicopter that normally has the call sign "Marine One" is assigned the "Executive One" call sign when it transports the outgoing president on their final flight from the Capitol, after the inauguration of their successor, as was done on January 20, 2009 for George W. Bush and on January 20, 2017 for Barack Obama.

Originally Posted by bsnub

I already have. You do not pay attention.

i've lost track of how many times the electoral college has been explained to that idiot.

1995. They've never changed.

The government shut down again on December 16 after Clinton vetoed a Republican budget proposal that would have extended tax cuts to the wealthy, cut spending on social programs, and shifted control of Medicaid to the states. After a 21-day government shutdown, Republicans, in danger of being seen as extremists by many in the public, accepted Clinton's budget.

• Patterson, James (2005). Restless Giant: The United States from Watergate to Bush v. Gore. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0195122169.

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

He wasn't "put on it" you silly sod. It was his ride home.

That was afterwards you silly twat

This is what bothers me. 18 states where the electors can vote for whoever they like. I don't know which ones they are.

The Constitution doesn’t require electors to vote according to the results of the popular vote in their states, and there is no federal law that requires this. But a number of states have passed laws that threaten to punish so-called “faithless electors,” who do not vote according to the state’s popular vote.
Faithless electors have never decided an election, and more than 99 percent of electors in U.S. history have voted as they pledged to do. But as recently as 2016, seven electors broke with their state on the presidential ballot, and six did so on the vice presidential ballot. Some of these faithless electors were replaced or fined for their rogue votes, but their votes did not affect the election’s outcome.
In 2020, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the Constitution does not require that people elected to serve in the Electoral College be free to vote as they choose. Instead, the Court held, states have the constitutional power to force electors to vote according to their state’s popular vote.
At the time of the Court’s decision, 32 states had passed laws that bind electors, while 18 states had laws on the books giving electors the freedom to vote independently—ensuring that in more ways than one, the Electoral College could continue to provide drama for the foreseeable future.

How Are Electoral College Electors Chosen? - HISTORY

Originally Posted by bsnub

That was afterwards you silly twat

"Afterwards" of what?

It's nice that we can sit and discuss this irrelevant stuff while we wait for Biden to be declared the winner, don't you think?

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

It's nice that we can sit and discuss this irrelevant stuff while we wait for Biden to be declared the winner, don't you think?

You can be a shit coont after the orange moron is out of office.

Be glad to buy the first round.

Originally Posted by bsnub

You can be a shit coont after the orange moron is out of office.

Be glad to buy the first round.

I'm still waiting for an explanation of this "afterwards".

More useless trivia:

However, when the Boeing 707 that had served as Air Force One flew Richard Nixon home to California after he announced that he was going to resign, it changed its call sign to SAM (Special Air Mission) 2700 mid-flight when Gerald Ford was sworn into office.

When was the “Air Force One” designation first used and why?

The call sign was established in 1953, during the Eisenhower administration and following an incident in which an Eastern Airlines commercial airliner accidentally entered the same air space as the president’s Lockhead Constellation. The airliner was flight 8610, and the president’s plane was flying under the call sign Air Force 8610.

Who designed the Air Force One livery?

It was designed by the French-born American industrial designer Raymond Loewy, in 1962, after the Kennedy administration took delivery of a Boeing 707 with a red-and-metallic-gold livery. On the advice of First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy, the president enlisted Loewy to redesign the exterior as well as the interior. Loewy, whose work ranges from streamline locomotives to the Coca-Cola bottle to NASA’s Skylab, came up with the color scheme that is still used today: cyan, slate-blue, white, and polished aluminum. Adorning the sides of the plane with the presidential seal and “United States of America” in all-capital lettering was also Loewy’s idea.

If I hear the fukwits on CNN say one more time, "we have breaking news" "any minute now", I am going to smash the fuckin TV!

i think the concern over faithless electors is overblown....but it would be very 'on brand' for 2020.

Oh do fuck off it is almost 6am here so have your wank. I am happy that Mick Schumacher is coming up to F1.

Originally Posted by Norton

If I hear the fukwits on CNN say one more time, "we have breaking news" "any minute now", I am going to smash the fuckin TV!

they haven't called some of the remaining states for two reasons:

1. some of these states are tipping points and they're petrified of getting it wrong and have a dewey defeats truman chyron.
2. it's very good for business to keep this going as long as possible.

but once an org like the AP calls it, they'll probably follow.

Originally Posted by bsnub

Oh do fuck off it is almost 6am here so have your wank. I am happy that Mick Schumacher is coming up to F1.

wait.....what?

Originally Posted by raycarey

wait.....what?

Will Race for the haas F1 team next year.

Originally Posted by bsnub

Oh do fuck off it is almost 6am here so have your wank. I am happy that Mick Schumacher is coming up to F1.

Yes, I thought you'd got it wrong.

Never mind, you're allowed if it's late and you're still throwing your hand on the bed and raping it.