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We're on the home run, let's stand together for a blue wave 🤗🌊 (Trump thread #107

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Roussette · 31/10/2020 13:52

Here we go!

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Snowdrop30 · 02/11/2020 07:07

Place marking - not American but what happens in America shapes the rest of the world

Phoenix21 · 02/11/2020 07:19

I’m an avid reader of this thread. This is scary, Fire Fauci was the chant at yesterday’s rally. It’s like watching a horror movie of dead eyed cultists.

This is probably the first world wide election as we all have a huge stake in this.

Flowers to the Americans here. I cannot imagine (esp as a black person) how terrifying it must be to walk through Trump signs after everything that has happened 😢

Phoenix21 · 02/11/2020 07:20

I swing between hope and despair.

He is a totally loose cannon now, as are his supporters. Another 4 years is unthinkable 😢

TheNorthWestPawsage · 02/11/2020 07:52

So the swivel-eyed Trump thugees have decided this is the tactic to employ now. I expect there will be more now feverishly organising themselves to block/curtail access to their local voting sites tomorrow.
But even if they congregate in Dem districts this will affect the Repug vote too... duh!

(One of the instigators of the Texas Biden bus hijack is now being investigated by the FBI)

From the LA Times:
A massive caravan of supporters of President Trump paraded for 60 miles through Riverside County on Sunday afternoon before converging on a large Temecula sports park, blocking access to the site, which included a vote center, snarling traffic and upsetting some voters, officials there said.

“Law enforcement was contacted to ensure that access to the parking lot and voter assistance center were clear,” Brooke Federico, a spokeswoman for Riverside County, said in an email. “The Sheriff’s Department responded and cleared access to the parking lot and voter assistance center.”
The winding caravan of pickup trucks and other vehicles adorned with pro-Trump signs and U.S. flags began at a Riverside restaurant and drove west along the 91 Freeway and then south on the 15 Freeway. They had been organized under a Twitter hashtag associated with similar events in other states.

TheNorthWestPawsage · 02/11/2020 07:58

Some people never learn. 3rd time the Trump campaign has done this. No money?Hmm

Hours after the President departed for Florida, this was the scene in Georgia as people were left for hours waiting for buses to take them to their cars:
twitter.com/julienbcnews/status/1323140942623313920?s=21

TheNorthWestPawsage · 02/11/2020 08:21

nearly Everyone on or reading these threads over the last 4 years is living in fear that Trump will win again. There are signs that Biden is doing well but with the complexities of States' electoral votes we are all completely aware that Trump can win this legally.

Nate Silver's latest (not as disaster porn sounding as it may seem):
fivethirtyeight.com/features/im-here-to-remind-you-that-trump-can-still-win/

BruceAndNosh · 02/11/2020 08:36

Lindsay Graham (SC) sounds like a trailer for The Handmaid's Tale
“I want every young woman to know there's a place for you in America if you are pro-life, if you embrace your religion, and you follow traditional family structure. That you can go anywhere, young lady,”

www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-election-2020/lindsey-graham-women-abortion-religion-traditional-family-amy-coney-barrett-b1516508.html

lionheart · 02/11/2020 09:06

Nobody here thinks that, Escape.

Hello Merchant.

'Go figure' indeed. Smile

FatimaMunchy · 02/11/2020 09:24

I am English, living in England.
Having watched The Trump Show on BBC2 and seen just how much Trump has got away with I think he will get a second term. I couldn't believe all the evangelical Christians calling him God's choice for these times. I am genuinely fearful for America and the world.

BruceAndNosh · 02/11/2020 09:38

I'm just hoping that doing 5 rallies in a day will be too much for Trump physically and he'll implode before Tuesday...

JamieLeeCurtains · 02/11/2020 09:47

I want Trump to lose. I'm worried he won't.

JamieLeeCurtains · 02/11/2020 09:49

@BruceAndNosh

I'm just hoping that doing 5 rallies in a day will be too much for Trump physically and he'll implode before Tuesday...
I'm assuming some sort of, erm, 'medications' are involved.

I'm also assuming a man of his age can't tolerate that kind of strain on his heart and other organs indefinitely.

The whole thing does seem unbelievable.

lionheart · 02/11/2020 09:50

Shannon Pettypiece (NBC)
@spettypi
· 4h
“Fire Fauci” chant breaks out at Miami rally.
“Let me wait until a little bit after the election” Trump says.

lionheart · 02/11/2020 09:52

On the Biden bus harrassment:

Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
'In my opinion, these patriots did nothing wrong. Instead, the FBI & Justice should be investigating the terrorists, anarchists, and agitators of ANTIFA, who run around burning down our Democrat run cities and hurting our people!'

CaveMum · 02/11/2020 10:10

In 24 hours the polls will have opened in Vermont (Yes I googled to see which state is due to open up first on Election Day!)

Jason118 · 02/11/2020 10:16

Gilead gestation period. The world will miss the USA when it's goneHmm

BertieBloopsMum · 02/11/2020 10:21

So the swivel-eyed Trump thugees

Really surprised to see such a racist term used on a thread that is anti-Trump.

lionheart · 02/11/2020 10:48

... and hello to Snowdrop and Pheonix.

TheNorthWestPawsage · 02/11/2020 10:57

Last time I looked this was a Thugee:
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thuggee

But if I’m mistaken then I’m happy to be re-educated. Apols if offence caused.

Roussette · 02/11/2020 10:59

This is of no help whatsoever, but an interesting read.

www.politico.eu/article/not-a-single-uk-constituency-would-vote-for-donald-trump-poll/

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lionheart · 02/11/2020 11:06

I don't think the Hindi origin of the term 'thuggee' is too well known BBM and it has been somewhat divorced from its root in any case.

If that's what you mean.

And very much open to debate, not least because of its re-appropriation.

www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2015/04/thug/391682/

lionheart · 02/11/2020 11:07

But I can't believe that damn Farage has popped up again.

lionheart · 02/11/2020 11:16

Ths Politico piece is odd. Smile

I'm not sure how much comfort it offers.

Boris, Brexit and UKIP notwithstanding, we haven't really had a proper Trump test, have we?

BertieBloopsMum · 02/11/2020 11:19

I mean, "thug" is racist enough, but as you say not many people know that. But "thugee" is even more so! Was surprised to see it used.

BruceAndNosh · 02/11/2020 11:27

I wouldn't use the term Thugee as that refers to the orgin of the term.
The modern use of thug (no capital letter) i wouldn't consider racist.
language evolves