US Presidential Election 2020

[FJAG]

I wonder if it wasn't an election year if they would try to invoke section 4 of the 25th amendment. This really sets the stage for it.

Should have been done years ago.

Still struggling through Bolton's book. Still tedious. In the immortal words of Commander Peter Quincy Taggart: "Never give up! Never Surrender!"

:cheers:

 

[dapaterson]

In the immortal words of Commander Peter Quincy Taggart: "Never give up! Never Surrender!"

More of a Gwen DeMarco fan: Well, forget it! I'm not doing it! This episode was badly written!

 

[dapaterson]

There's a new Trump 2020 logo.

https://shop.donaldjtrump.com/products/america-first-tee


Wonder where they got their inspiration?

 

[Kat Stevens]

There's a new Trump 2020 logo.

https://shop.donaldjtrump.com/products/america-first-tee


Wonder where they got their inspiration?

I hope you warmed up before reaching for that one, that's quite a stretch.

 

[observor 69]

Quote from: Thucydides on April 20, 2017, 17:34:47
If the Dems are this dysfunctional in 2018 and 2020, then a long Trump Presidency is assured.

"Is Trump Toast?
There’s a persuasive argument that the 2020 election is already over.
Only two of the past six presidents before Donald Trump lost their bids for re-election. That’s good news for him.

But their stories are bad news for him, too.

In their final years in office, both of those presidents, Jimmy Carter and George H.W. Bush, experienced a noticeable slide in popularity right around the time — early May through late June — that Trump hit his current ugly patch.

According to Gallup’s ongoing tracking of the percentage of Americans who approve of a president’s job performance, Carter’s and Bush’s numbers sank below 40 percent during this period and pretty much stayed there through Election Day. It’s as if they both met their fates on the cusp of summer.

And the cusp of summer has been a mean season for Trump, who has never flailed more pathetically or lashed out more desperately and who just experienced the Carter-Bush dip. According to Gallup, his approval rating fell to 39 percent in early June from 49 a month earlier. So if Carter and Bush are harbingers, Trump is toast.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/01/opinion/trump-lose-2020-election.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage

 

[PuckChaser]

Folks, we missed a US Election 2020 thread in our merge into the new Politics area. Please take a look at the post date before jumping on someone's opinion as in some cases over 3 years and a lot of things have happened between that post and now.

- Milnet.ca Staff

 

[OceanBonfire]

Justices rule states can bind presidential electors’ votes

In a decision flavored with references to “Hamilton” and “Veep,” the Supreme Court ruled unanimously Monday that states can require presidential electors to back their states’ popular vote winner in the Electoral College.

The ruling, in cases in Washington state and Colorado just under four months before the 2020 election, leaves in place laws in 32 states and the District of Columbia that bind electors to vote for the popular-vote winner, as electors almost always do anyway.

So-called faithless electors have not been critical to the outcome of a presidential election, but that could change in a race decided by just a few electoral votes. It takes 270 electoral votes to win the presidency.

...


https://apnews.com/a398c3e7c8d2c4a1b9ad498ed5f86ed7

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/supreme-court-rules-states-stop-faithless-electors-rogue/story?id=71628464

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/supreme-court-faithless-electors-states-punish/

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-court-electoral/u-s-supreme-court-restricts-faithless-electors-in-presidential-contests-idUSKBN2471TI

 

[Xylric]

I noticed something while watching Joe Biden give a speech. About 3/4s of the times he talks about jobs, he explicitly refers to those in unions. Colour me entirely unsurprised that the Democrat candidate thinks more of unions than entrepreneurs...

 

[mariomike]

Colour me entirely unsurprised that the Democrat candidate thinks more of unions than entrepreneurs...

Joe Biden has the support of the labour unions...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Joe_Biden_2020_presidential_campaign_endorsements#Labor_unions

 

[Xylric]

Joe Biden has the support of the labour unions...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Joe_Biden_2020_presidential_campaign_endorsements#Labor_unions

I know. As had nearly every other Democratic Presidential candidate for probably longer than I can remember. Useful, but dangerous.

 

[Cloud Cover]

Police unions ditch Biden for Trump: https://www.foxnews.com/politics/national-association-police-organizations-endorses-trump-reelection-after-backing-biden

 

[mariomike]

Saw this in Canadian Politics,

You won’t get any arguments from me with regards to the Trump Administration.  The sooner he is turned out to pasture and what passes as the Republican Party is razed to the ground and the earth salted, the better.  It has been a long time since it was the party of Reagan.

The Reagan Foundation wants nothing to do with Trump.
https://www.google.com/search?sxsrf=ALeKk0396J03MSW3_Krniy4_QfsCkyW1jw%3A1595792702910&ei=Pt0dX4GLN-np_Qb8g6igAQ&q=%22reagan+foundation%22+trump&oq=%22reagan+foundation%22+trump&gs_lcp=CgZwc3ktYWIQAzIFCAAQxAI6BAgjECc6BggAEAcQHjoCCAA6CAgAEAgQBxAeOggIABAIEA0QHlDoPli2emDpfmgAcAB4AIAB4wGIAbcOkgEGMS4xMi4xmAEAoAEBqgEHZ3dzLXdpesABAQ&sclient=psy-ab&ved=0ahUKEwiBosSJ1-vqAhXpdN8KHfwBChQQ4dUDCAs&uact=5#spf=1595792720328

 

[FJAG]

Saw this in Canadian Politics,

The Reagan Foundation wants nothing to do with Trump.
https://www.google.com/search?sxsrf=ALeKk0396J03MSW3_Krniy4_QfsCkyW1jw%3A1595792702910&ei=Pt0dX4GLN-np_Qb8g6igAQ&q=%22reagan+foundation%22+trump&oq=%22reagan+foundation%22+trump&gs_lcp=CgZwc3ktYWIQAzIFCAAQxAI6BAgjECc6BggAEAcQHjoCCAA6CAgAEAgQBxAeOggIABAIEA0QHlDoPli2emDpfmgAcAB4AIAB4wGIAbcOkgEGMS4xMi4xmAEAoAEBqgEHZ3dzLXdpesABAQ&sclient=psy-ab&ved=0ahUKEwiBosSJ1-vqAhXpdN8KHfwBChQQ4dUDCAs&uact=5#spf=1595792720328

While I'd like to think it's an ideological difference I bet it has more to do with the fact that Trump (like is his wont) isn't paying for licensing the intellectual rights to Reagan's likeness.

op:

 

[OldSolduer]

I know. As had nearly every other Democratic Presidential candidate for probably longer than I can remember. Useful, but dangerous.

Unions can be nasty - like trying to keep a “tamed” lion on a leash

 

[Xylric]

Unions can be nasty - like trying to keep a “tamed” lion on a leash

My grandfather used to be the local head of his union back when my father was a kid (late 50s, early 60s, possibly into the early 70s). They had more than a few bricks thrown through their windows (and in one or two memorable occasions, a bullet).

I was told that he had once had members of organized crime try to lean on him, but they ran into a slight problem with doing so. Papa resigned from heading the union.

To the confusion of absolutely *everyone.*

 

[OldSolduer]

My grandfather used to be the local head of his union back when my father was a kid (late 50s, early 60s, possibly into the early 70s). They had more than a few bricks thrown through their windows (and in one or two memorable occasions, a bullet).

I was told that he had once had members of organized crime try to lean on him, but they ran into a slight problem with doing so. Papa resigned from heading the union.

To the confusion of absolutely *everyone.*

I take it your familiar with the Jimmy Hoffa - who hasn't been seen for decades and has been rumored to be part of the foundation of a football stadium 

 

[Xylric]

I take it your familiar with the Jimmy Hoffa - who hasn't been seen for decades and has been rumored to be part of the foundation of a football stadium 

Papa *claimed* to have met Hoffa, but we did not believe him - he survived resigning from the union leadership, after all.

 

[OceanBonfire]

Trump suggests delaying November election, something he doesn't have the power to do

In a remarkable move by a sitting president, President Donald Trump for the first time Thursday morning suggested delaying the presidential election over his persistent false attacks that mail-in voting would lead to the "most INACCURATE & FRAUDULENT Election in history."

...

Not only have election experts debunked theories of widespread fraud with the use of mail ballots, it is also not within the power of the president to change the date of the election.

...


https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-suggests-delaying-november-election/story?id=72074375

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-suggests-delaying-election-over-unsubstantiated-claims-about-vote-by-mail/

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-stocks/wall-st-falls-after-grim-data-trump-suggests-election-delay-idUSKCN24V1Y7

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-trump/trump-floats-idea-of-delaying-election-congressional-republicans-reject-idea-idUSKCN24V2DL

https://apnews.com/d203eaa406dc5e7362dfa9e33522195e

 

[shawn5o]

There's a new Trump 2020 logo.

https://shop.donaldjtrump.com/products/america-first-tee


Wonder where they got their inspiration?

That picof the guy wearing a T-shirt with an American eagle

 

[Brad Sallows]

It takes a special gift to try and link the American eagle to Nazism.

Go here for a picture of Eddie the Eagle (NRA symbol).