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The final countdown to Election Day 2020 is on (Trump thread #106)

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GetTheDoorFrank · 08/10/2020 22:45

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/4037771-Presidential-Debate-season-lets-stand-strong-together-Trump-thread-105
Link to previous thread...
Here is to the next 10 pages of unexpected and more so unexplainable shenanigans of SCROTUS and co...

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lionheart · 28/10/2020 19:45

Remember 'Anonymous'?

Jake Tapper
@jaketapper
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16m
Former DHS chief of staff
@MilesTaylorUSA is the author of the NYT oped and book by “Anonymous” — more on CNN coming up

lionheart · 28/10/2020 19:46

I wonder if the other 'Anonymous' was involved with this:

www.nbcnews.com/politics/2020-election/trump-campaign-website-hacked-n1245038?cid=sm_npd_ms_tw_ma

Roussette · 28/10/2020 20:15

George Conway (Kellyanne's husband) is not confirming anything, and he talked with Anonymous today... interesting tweet thread. To be confirmed ...

twitter.com/gtconway3d/status/1321481912049979392

AcrossthePond55 · 28/10/2020 20:24

@lifesabitchandthenyoudie

Just watched Biden's speech in Delaware, talking about Trump's hearing about the ACA at the supreme court after the election. (I think that's right? I may have got mixed up). Can he really still go ahead with this if he loses? I'm assuming then that the ACA will be ended. What happens then???
Yes he can, the POTUS' 'powers' don't end until Inauguration Day in January. The period between election and inauguration day is called the 'lame duck period'. Traditionally the outgoing Administration & Congress table a lot of things pending the new Administration & Congress members. But it has also been known as a period where the outgoing POTUS signs EOs for his own agenda and Congress rushes through their 'pet' legislation whilst they still have the numbers. McConnell is planning a few of those having to do with things opposed by or favored by the Democrats. IIRC the filibuster and court packing are in there somewhere. And you can expect to see Scrotus do blanket pardons for his 'loyal' cronies as well as his children & son in law. It's said he may even blanket pardon himself.

As far as what happens to ACA, the new Congress and POTUS are able to draft their own 'new' version of the ACA (called something else). They just have to be sure to avoid the thing(s) the SCOTUS ruled were unconstitutional and used to throw the current ACA out.

lionheart · 28/10/2020 20:39

And pardons. Bet there will be a lot of those.

lionheart · 28/10/2020 22:48

edition.cnn.com/2020/10/27/politics/trump-tax-records-chicago-loan/index.html?utm_source=twCNNp&utm_medium=social&utm_term=image&utm_content=2020-10-28T02%3A04%3A03

'Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump has had more than $270 million in debt forgiven since 2010 after he failed to repay his lenders for a Chicago skyscraper development, The New York Times reported Tuesday.

An analysis of his tax records by the Times shows that after the Trump International Hotel & Tower in Chicago encountered financial problems, big banks and hedge funds cut Trump considerable slack, granting him years of additional time to repay his debts, much of which was ultimately forgiven.
And while the previously unreported forgiven debts would usually fuel a large tax bill, Trump appears to have managed to pay almost no federal income tax on them, the Times reported, partially because of the significant financial losses his other businesses were enduring.
Trump Organization chief legal officer Alan Garten told the Times that the organization and Trump had paid all necessary taxes on the forgiven debts.'

TheNorthWestPawsage · 28/10/2020 23:30

Nigel (effing) Farage spoke at Trump's Arizona rally.

lionheart · 29/10/2020 00:02

Weasel.

AcrossthePond55 · 29/10/2020 00:14

Farage and Trump; two pees in a pod

(that's NOT a typo)

lionheart · 29/10/2020 06:53

That about covers it. Smile

lifesabitchandthenyoudie · 29/10/2020 07:55

Thank you for your responses and explanations. I'm just astonished at how broken the system seems to be - I thought the UK was bad! I really hope that a real change happens, all across 'The West'. It's just too depressing to contemplate the alternative.

Roussette · 29/10/2020 08:21

Farage was making a last ditch attempt to be relevant. Such an arse licking speech, it was embarrassing.

I can't believe Trump mocked mask wearing. Appalling

TheNorthWestPawsage · 29/10/2020 09:35

6 days.

The final countdown to Election Day 2020 is on (Trump thread #106)
AcrossthePond55 · 29/10/2020 13:39

I see that SCOTUS has 'tabled' a couple of the ballot count cases (NC and PA) until after the election thus 'allowing' those states to count ballots postmarked before but received after election day.

But from what I understand the 'tabling' means they can/will make a decision 'at some point' after the election. I'm assuming that means they're waiting to see if Scrotus wins in those states. If he does they'll let the lower court ruling stand (because it might benefit the GOP in future elections). If he doesn't, then they just might invalidate the mail in votes received after the election, if it would change the outcome. Talk about rigging an election!!

Coney Barrett did not take part in these decisions as 'she had not had time to study the cases'. But she has not formally recused herself from election lawsuits as has been requested by Democrats.

Yohoheaveho · 29/10/2020 13:44

@AcrossthePond55

Farage and Trump; two pees in a pod

(that's NOT a typo)

🤔 They both wear to toupees or they both pee their pants🤭
AcrossthePond55 · 29/10/2020 17:38

They both wear to toupees or AND they both pee their pants

FTFY @Yohoheaveho 😉

Roussette · 29/10/2020 22:11

Goodness.... on BBC Question time tonight (which I don't watch much now)... The Mooch is one of the panel !

lionheart · 29/10/2020 22:17

Not sure I can bear to watch.

Just watched some fluff coverage by the BBC of Trump's use of YMCA and an interview with one of the original band.

CoffeeandCroissant · 29/10/2020 22:26

"A 64-page document that was later disseminated by close associates of President Donald Trump appears to be the work of a fake "intelligence firm."
www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/ncna1245387?

AcrossthePond55 · 29/10/2020 22:37

[quote CoffeeandCroissant]"A 64-page document that was later disseminated by close associates of President Donald Trump appears to be the work of a fake "intelligence firm."
www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/ncna1245387?[/quote]
Is this fake dossier from the same 'source' as the 'lost in the mail damning evidence' of Fucker Carlson's?

www.businessinsider.com/ups-said-found-lost-tucker-carlson-documents-sending-back-2020-10

Ok, Fucker, now that your have your 'damning evidence' back, let us all see it.

Roussette · 29/10/2020 22:47

Trump at his rally...