Thread: 2020 US Presidential Race

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

The markets are always volatile when there is change. They like predictability.

good to see that you're capable of learning.
newbie dave? not so much.

A vaccine won't help him now

Originally Posted by docmartin

Voters think ‘Pres. Turd is strong and vital so I like him, and Biden is a weak pussy’.

That so many voters are that shallow is amazing.

Originally Posted by happynz

That so many voters are that shallow is amazing.

Ya well those that think that way are already voting for the orange moron anyway.

Originally Posted by bsnub

Ya well those that think that way are already voting for the orange moron anyway.

...and his down-ballot enablers as well...a blue wave is needed to flush the system...

Originally Posted by tomcat

...a blue wave is needed to flush the system...

Indeed.

Originally Posted by bsnub

Ya well those that think that way are already voting for the orange moron anyway.

Maybe not. There’s plenty splashing about in the shallow end of the gene pool that are impressed by displays of bluster and ‘strength’.
Because they’re intellectual pigmies and characterless slobs.
And they may not be dedicated Turdpanzees.

Originally Posted by docmartin

Because they’re intellectual pigmies and characterless slobs.

Sounds like a few posters on here.

Originally Posted by Klondyke

Another example of a bad taste...

Yes - colour me one of those as well. I am simply elated that he (finally) has it. The baldy orange cunto has put many people into the ground as a consequence of his wilful, malign ignorant approach. I will hope that he gets it as bad as it can me. No sympathy. Fuck him.

Originally Posted by nidhogg

No sympathy. Fuck him.

And the party he rode in on.

Here ya go Prez Bonespurs.

Hmmm...
True Bad Kharma is a bitch, ain't it.

Monday night football in the good old days. Music was better then as well. People were not nearly as stupid either.

GOP donors ‘freaking out’ after coming close to Trump at fundraiser hours before his positive Covid-19 test

Key Points

• GOP donors have been reaching out to Trump campaign and GOP officials for any guidance following a fundraiser with the president hours before his announcement that he has Covid, according to a person briefed on the matter.
• About 30 to 50 donors came close to the president Thursday night, this person added.
• The RNC has said everyone who attended the Bedminster, New Jersey, event was tested for Covid-19, passed a temperature test and was 6 feet or more from the president at all times.

Trump Covid update: GOP donors panic after coming close to Trump at fundraiser before his positive test

Originally Posted by David48atTD

GOP donors ‘freaking out’ after coming close to Trump at fundraiser hours before his positive Covid-19 test

Key Points

• GOP donors have been reaching out to Trump campaign and GOP officials for any guidance following a fundraiser with the president hours before his announcement that he has Covid, according to a person briefed on the matter.
• About 30 to 50 donors came close to the president Thursday night, this person added.
• The RNC has said everyone who attended the Bedminster, New Jersey, event was tested for Covid-19, passed a temperature test and was 6 feet or more from the president at all times.

Trump Covid update: GOP donors panic after coming close to Trump at fundraiser before his positive test

Fucking excellent, I hope they all get it.

More Republican Vote Rigging.

(CNN)Texas Gov. Greg Abbott issued a proclamation Thursday limiting the amount of drop-off locations for mail-in ballots to one site per county.

The move significantly affects the Democratic stronghold of Harris County, which is the state's largest county by population -- one of the most populous in the country -- and covers a massive area. It must now reduce its 12 drop-off locations down to one starting on Friday, according to Elizabeth Lewis, spokeswoman for the Harris County Clerk's Office. Travis County, which includes the reliably Democratic city of Austin, must limit its four drop-off locations to one.

Other large counties -- like Tarrant, Dallas and El Paso County -- only had one drop-off location already in place.
The Republican governor said in a statement the order was made to enhance ballot security. It also allows poll watchers to observe the in-person delivery of mail-in ballots by voters, but critics say it could severely limit access for many voters.

Texas governor limits election drop boxes to one per county in sprawling state - CNNPolitics

The WH, who can't be trusted with anything, is trying to downplay this by stating that the sleazeball has "mild symptoms". I suspect they are severe.

Originally Posted by David48atTD

GOP donors have been reaching out to Trump campaign and GOP officials for any guidance

Prepare that burial site

Originally Posted by elche

The WH, who can't be trusted with anything, is trying to downplay this by stating that the sleazeball has "mild symptoms". I suspect they are severe.

Originally Posted by elche

I still have my doubts about the veracity of the claim that he has c-19. It smells too much of political expediency, the orange afterbirth certainly isn't above lying

Donald Trump has COVID-19. How might this affect his chances of re-election?

With just a month left until the November 3 US presidential election, contracting the virus could have politically positive or negative consequences for President Donald Trump.

These will, of course, be contingent on how severe the President's illness becomes. But we should not count him out and Biden in just yet.

Here are the ways the diagnosis could swing the election either way for Trump.


Negative

• 1.Trump's days in isolation will halt his intense campaign schedule. Trump was much better at energising crowds in airport hangers than Joe Biden has been. This advantage is now gone

• 2.Trump is a sick man. Campaigning in any form requires robust health. Any physical advantage born of being the younger and fitter of the two candidates has now gone

• 3.Because he has often disparaged the virulence of the disease, the President faces the public humiliation of being its victim. Trump does not deal well with humiliation — the excoriating account of his childhood, as told by his estranged niece, Mary Trump, is replete with examples of the young Donald dishing out but being unable to take humiliation

• 4.Trump has traded on his strongman image for decades. If he gets a bad dose, he will look every bit and more of his 74 years. If his experience is like that of Boris Johnson, Trump could well be out of action for weeks with the attendant psychological challenge of recovery weighing on him. The British PM, several intimates have observed, is still in recovery, still cognitively and emotionally impaired by his personal fight with COVID-19.

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^ Following on ...

Positive

There are also potential political advantages in Trump's COVID-19 diagnosis.

• 1.Because of the virus, Joe Biden was already cautious about face-to-face campaigning. His younger opponent falling ill may well keep Biden more basement-bound and less willing to crisscross the battleground states

• 2.Trump is not the first leader to catch the virus. While Boris Johnson became very sick, Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro had a relatively mild dose. He was able to claim from personal experience how few people who catch the virus are actually killed by it. This has been Trump's basic refrain over the course of the pandemic. Catching and recovering from the virus will prove he was right all along. Lockdowns, he will insist, were one big overreaction to a contagious but not virulent disease.

• 3.History tells us sick presidential candidates often win the ensuing election — Ronald Reagan nearly died from an assassin's bullet in 1981 but won big in 1984 — or that their party will. When Warren G Harding died in office (in 1923), his Republican party stayed in the White House for another 10

• 4.Indeed, assassinated presidents tend to guarantee their party retains the White House at the next election: Lincoln's murder in 1865 was a cause of his great general, Ulysses S. Grant, winning in 1868. William McKinley's murder in 1903 put his vice president, Theodore Roosevelt, into office for eight years. John Kennedy's assassination in 1963 led to Lyndon Johnson winning in a landslide the next year. Dying is, of course, not Trump's plan, but sickness and death need not mean the GOP lose the White House

• 5.The greatest president in US history, measured by victories (1932, 1936, 1940 and 1944), Franklin Roosevelt, was also the most challenged by his health. A victim of polio, he spent his entire presidency in a wheelchair. The point is not that COVID-19 could turn Trump into FDR. It is to observe how far illness can empower a president

• 6.Trump's illness could have a positive effect on the tone of political discourse. Biden will not want to be seen to demonise a sick opponent. The presidential debates will almost certainly be cancelled — which will likely mean a more civil national debate.

Trump neither has polio nor any other illness not self-inflicted - also, he wasn't assassinated, successful or not.

Hi catching c-9 is down to him and his idiocy

News says now Trump is fatigued and being transferred to Walter Reed Hospital.

The villain only has himself to blame. No one but his scum bag followers have any sympathy for the scumbag in chief.