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Less than 100 days and counting... (Trump thread #103)

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Roussette · 01/08/2020 07:49

Here we go...

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Roussette · 01/08/2020 20:59

BTW there's a wag on Twitter who responds to LAW AND ORDER! with HAIR AND MAKEUP

Last time Trumpy tweeted LAW AND ORDER!
I responded with EGGS AND BACON!

Blush

Yes, I know it's pathetic but I've gone beyond reasonable tweets at times!

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PerkingFaintly · 01/08/2020 21:30

Thanks for new thread, Rousette.

Important Twitter thread about postal voting:

twitter.com/tonydokoupil/status/1286721103768039425
Tony Dokoupil
@tonydokoupil
24 Jul
The Postal Service is also telling Americans to give every ballot 14 days round trip. That means if you want to vote by mail, and you want to feel good about your vote being counted, Election Day is not November 3.

Election Day is Tuesday October 20th.

Spread the word.

BruceAndNosh · 01/08/2020 21:43

Why would a postal vote need 14 days? The postal service copes with people sending dozens of Christmas cards each, why is one vote too much to cope with?

PerkingFaintly · 01/08/2020 21:54

That thread explains but, in short, the US Postal Service can be slow.

The discussion includes this:

Vytas Baskauskas
@vytasyoga
28 Jul
Replying to
@tonydokoupil
14 days round trip means 7 days each way, correct? So October 27th then, not the 20th.

Tony Dokoupil
@tonydokoupil
28 Jul
Yes, 7 days for it to be mailed to you and 7 to mail it back. But I calculate the 20th because you have to request by then. In theory. Every state is different. This is the national USPS guidance.

TakemedowntoPotatoCity · 01/08/2020 21:57

I never come into these threads but know that there are people on here who are highly knowledgeable and insightful about every little thing. So I would like to.ask,

Do you think Biden will win?

Because everything points to it but one bitten twice shy. Trump will do everything in his power to rig the result avoid that happening, I know that much.

My birthday is three days after and I would dearly like to be celebrating...

Roussette · 01/08/2020 22:00

I hope in every which way you get to have a humdinger of a birthday celebration TakemeDown

Don't really trust polls... look at 2016!

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macaroniandpizza · 01/08/2020 22:21

Im from scotland and while i follow the politics of here and the rest of the uk i cant help but follow the usa more, its like a long running cringe inducing horror show that i cant get enough of. Im hoping and praying that biden wins in november for everyones sake. Trump surely cant wreak much more hurt and havoc can he? 🙈

AcrossthePond55 · 02/08/2020 00:47

Thanks for the new thread, Roussette!

Yes, Susan Collins makes my teeth itch. The way she plays all coy with how she's going to vote, then turns around and does what Scrotus tells her. She comes off like a flirting teenager trying to pit two boys against each other over who gets to dance with her. Not attractive at all, politically speaking.

There's a lot of the GOP I'd like to see gone. McConnell, Graham, Collins & Cotton in the Senate. Kevin McCarthy, Devin Nunes, Jordan & Tom McClintock in the House.

PerkingFaintly · 02/08/2020 01:12

TakemedowntoPotatoCity, I'm pretty cautious about the polls, too.

One thing I can say with great certainty is that there will be massive attempts at voter suppression by the Trump camp.

I don't just mean the obvious things of closing polling stations in likely non-Trump areas, but the extremely successful tactic of persuading the opponent's voters not to turn out: "Obviously I don't like Trump, but Hillary Corbyn Biden, I just couldn't."

In a nutshell the strategy goes:

– Talk as little as possible about your own candidate. Better to have him hide in a fridge or for an empty chair be shown on national TV, than have him turn up and be seen to be incompetent. (Hard to achieve with Trump because of his Twitter obsession.)

– Segment your audience and bombard them with microtargeted ads.

– Choose something about your opponent that is kryptonite for each particular audience, and bombard that audience with it unrelentingly. Doesn't matter if it's true as long as it's headline. Basically, offer your opponent's likely supporters a hill to die on – and many of them will.

If you do this well, it is irrelevant that your own candidate is worse on all the issues you're campaigning on: he'll get in by default because voters will stay home rather than sully themselves voting for the opponent.

lionheart · 02/08/2020 02:18

I hope you get an amazing celebration too Takemedown.

lionheart · 02/08/2020 08:16

Trump again at Walter Reed for another unscheduled 'nothing to see here' visit.

TheNorthWestPawsage · 02/08/2020 08:22

The worry now is that Barr (sanctioned by Trump) will drop something in October that will impact Biden and his campaign - in the same way that Comey's ill-fated letter to Congress about Hillary's emails did. Trump and crew haven't done all that much yet to attack Biden personally so they may be keeping a 'silver bullet' for nearer the time.

Roussette · 02/08/2020 08:29

Yes. Looks like he had an IV infusion, big bruise on the top of his hand too.

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TheNorthWestPawsage · 02/08/2020 09:03

Just seen a lot of Twitter argument about the bruise - some saying from a venopuncture procedure for IV infusion or bloodwork, others saying wrong site for it and/or he's right handed so wouldn't use that side etc etc.
or...
He's an old man, bruises more easily at that age, something hit his hand.

Never fear, McNinny will tell us the truth. Hmm

Roussette · 02/08/2020 09:09

Yes, and maybe just an unfortunate coincidence that he got that bruise in that place.

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Lweji · 02/08/2020 09:15

He's an old man, bruises more easily at that age, something hit his hand.

Could have been Melania. Wink

The polls look a lot better this year than in 2016. No overlaps or crosses in the lines, and even North Carolina has been leaning Biden for several weeks. But I agree that voter supression, or low turnout could lead to a Trump victory.

PerkingFaintly · 02/08/2020 09:20

Yes, a last minute drop of hacked emails was how the French presidential election in 2017 was attacked too – by probable Russian entities helped by definite US far right entities like Jack Posobiec.

Unfortunately for the hackers, they'd been spotted well in advance and directed to honeypots.

Hackers Came, but the French Were Prepared
www.nytimes.com/2017/05/09/world/europe/hackers-came-but-the-french-were-prepared.html

“We went on a counteroffensive,” Mr. Mahjoubi said. “We couldn’t guarantee 100 percent protection” from the attacks, “so we asked: what can we do?” Mr. Mahjoubi opted for a classic “cyber-blurring” strategy, well known to banks and corporations, creating false email accounts and filled them with phony documents the way a bank teller keeps fake bills in the cash drawer in case of a robbery.

“We created false accounts, with false content, as traps. We did this massively, to create the obligation for them to verify, to determine whether it was a real account,” Mr. Mahjoubi said. “I don’t think we prevented them. We just slowed them down,” he said. “Even if it made them lose one minute, we’re happy,” he said.

Mr. Mahjoubi refused to reveal the nature of the false documents that were created, or to say whether, in the Friday document dump that was the result of the hacking campaign, there were false documents created by the Macron campaign.

But he did note that in the mishmash that constituted the Friday dump, there were some authentic documents, some phony documents of the hackers’ own manufacture, some stolen documents from various companies, and some false emails created by the campaign.

The drop included some real emails from the Macron campaign, but may well have included fakes from the hackers containing fake scandals.

Mrsmorton · 02/08/2020 09:39

I wonder if he caught Covid 19, whether it would ever be released publicly.

Roussette · 02/08/2020 10:07

Mrsmorton never in a million years, but somehow given his obesity and his other health problems, I would imagine (don't know... this is just speculation) he could conceivably get quite ill with it which might be hard to cover up.
But the whole thing about covid is... it doesn't follow rules and can hit young fit people harshly (this has happened to a member of my family) and vice versa.

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TheSparklyPussycat · 02/08/2020 10:46

I'm wondering whether Trump had an infusion of Covid19 antibodies.

AskingQuestionsAllTheTime · 02/08/2020 10:57

Statistically Covid-19 has worse effects on the old, the fat, and those with pre-existing conditions of the heart and lungs or with cancer, who are more likely to die of it. There will always be some exclusions: young, fit people getting it badly, fat old heart-patients not even noticing it.

www.acsh.org/news/2020/06/23/coronavirus-covid-deaths-us-age-race-14863

cozietoesie · 02/08/2020 16:10

Rachel 2:

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AcrossthePond55 · 02/08/2020 16:16

I have a feeling that right about now no-one is allowed into within 15 ft of his 'hallowed presence' unless they're wearing a full hazmat suit with a respirator mask. I'm not joking, he's a well-known germaphobe and I expect Covid has him off the rails when it comes to exposure.

I see Birx has stated "It's really bad, much worse than a couple months ago, no one knew it would get this bad" or some other shit. A perfect set up for Scrotus to make a speech on "No one knew, I knew, and now I need everyone to take precautions". He's really getting desperate about the election. I hope it drives him off the rails.

The GOP not allowing reporters into the RNC is absolutely unprecedented! I don't believe for a moment that it's because of Covid restrictions. Vystar has private boxes above the stands and they could easily put the press in a couple of boxes and mark off areas for them to SD from each other. They'd be able to broadcast and report from the boxes, just not have reporters on the floor. They're probably afraid of what Scrotus' acceptance speech will contain!

www.cnn.com/2020/08/01/politics/rnc-charlotte-press/index.html

cozietoesie · 02/08/2020 17:06

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