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#11301 Cause

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Posted 07 October 2020 - 10:32 PM

I saw pictures of the plastic dividers. Might as well not be there. Though it signals that team trump lost. Not that we need a reminder there is a pandemic but now there is a reminder on the set

#11302 Cause

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Posted 08 October 2020 - 01:43 AM

So far Pence is winning. Superior debating strategy. He ducked mishandling covid very well and rephrased the attacks of Kamala distrusting his administration as her distrusting the strength of the American people. He is winning the exchanges. The fact checkers might have a field day afterwards but for now he comes across as winning

Okay Harris is warming up and I think Pence just torpedoed himself on abortion. An issue the majority of Americans are pro choice.

And pence keeps digging.whose votes is he trying to win over

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#11303 Azath Vitr (D'ivers

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Posted 08 October 2020 - 02:50 AM

Briar King, on 08 October 2020 - 02:38 AM, said:

Let's see how popular that fly becomes.

It shows he's blessed.

(By Dracula?...)

'Trump Says It's a "Blessing" He Got COVID Cause He Found a "Cure"

According to Trump, it was his own suggestion, not that of his doctors, that he take the Regeneron treatment. He told viewers he planned to authorize the drug for treatment, a designation the Food and Drug Administration would make rather than the president. "You're gonna get [the Regeneron antibody treatment] free," he said. "It's a cure. I walked in, I didn't feel good, but a short 24 hours later I was feeling great. I walked out of the hospital. That's what I want for everybody. I want everybody to be given the same treatment as your president because I feel great. I feel perfect. I think it was a blessing from God that I caught it. This was a blessing in disguise." He said the military would handle the distribution of the drug.'

https://www.thedaily...om-god?ref=home

Video (Trump is audibly gasping for air at at least one point):

https://twitter.com/...essing-from-god

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#11304 Slow Ben

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Posted 08 October 2020 - 02:53 AM

Briar King, on 08 October 2020 - 02:38 AM, said:

Let’s see how popular that fly becomes.

He’s already got a Twitter feed. 😆😆

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#11305 Macros

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Posted 08 October 2020 - 04:58 AM

The fact checkers need to be on there live 'ah excuse me Mr president, here is a picture of your with the two russian mobsters you said you have never met'

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Posted 08 October 2020 - 12:28 PM

I know he's said some dumb stuff previously but Pete Buttgieg is bang on here:
https://youtu.be/I3Aelt0Q9aU

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#11307 Aptorian

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Posted 08 October 2020 - 12:48 PM

Macros, on 08 October 2020 - 04:58 AM, said:

The fact checkers need to be on there live 'ah excuse me Mr president, here is a picture of your with the two russian mobsters you said you have never met'

I wonder if you couldn't start to do this with modern AI already.

CNN, NBC, Reuters or what ever have databases of ready to use clips for their news segments. It surely wouldn't be that hard for a robot to identify statements that it deems to be true or false, based on prior reporting and analysis and then query a database in a split second for the right sound bite or video clip.

#11308 Cause

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Posted 08 October 2020 - 03:10 PM

I know it’s trump and it’s been almost 4 years but the president calling for his political opponents to be locked up and prosecuted on Twitter. Should that not be getting more coverage?

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Posted 08 October 2020 - 04:44 PM

Why thats what he did the last time as well. I'm surprised he hasn't tweeted that someone should rid him of these turbulent politicians.

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Posted 08 October 2020 - 04:51 PM

Aptorian, on 08 October 2020 - 04:44 PM, said:

Why thats what he did the last time as well. I'm surprised he hasn't tweeted that someone should rid him of these turbulent politicians.

Yeah. In 2016 my next door neighbor (apartment building) was shouting 'lock her up!' loud enough for me to hear it through the walls on election night. Thing is, even with AG Barr, Trump doesn't seem to have made any substantial moves towards prosecuting or jailing his political opponents, aside from pseudo-investigations. Inside sources report that the justice department has kept telling Trump he can't do that. But if it looks like Trump will transition from rhetoric to actual prosecution or imprisonment, people will lose their shit....

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Posted 08 October 2020 - 05:09 PM

I genuinely hope the CIA has a solid plan in place to assassinate Trump and his collaborators if he attempts to jail Biden or unilaterally nullify the election with military or militia forces.

Though we are at risk of being like the proverbial slow-boiling frog, as Trump keeps nudging the Overton window towards defenestration....

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Posted 08 October 2020 - 05:29 PM

Azath Vitr (D, on 08 October 2020 - 05:09 PM, said:

I genuinely hope the CIA has a solid plan in place to assassinate Trump and his collaborators if he attempts to jail Biden or unilaterally nullify the election with military or militia forces.

Whut?

Ok, moving past the "gank the sitting President" thing, what makes you think the CIA is the entity that wants peaceful transition of USA administrations, has the leadership that wants this, or even should be doing this at all to anyone?

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#11313 Azath Vitr (D'ivers

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Posted 08 October 2020 - 07:55 PM

amphibian, on 08 October 2020 - 05:29 PM, said:

Azath Vitr (D, on 08 October 2020 - 05:09 PM, said:

I genuinely hope the CIA has a solid plan in place to assassinate Trump and his collaborators if he attempts to jail Biden or unilaterally nullify the election with military or militia forces.

If Trump were less volatile, more willing to follow the advice of the intelligence community, and not deeply in debt to interests most likely controlled by Putin, perhaps the CIA would be fine with Republican autocracy. But Trump, if he can manage to overcome technocratic refusals to do his unlawful and dangerous bidding, is a potential major threat to US national security.

Granted, the CIA apparently hasn't been nearly as involved in assassination attempts on world leaders since the 1970's.

But an assassination or set of targeted strikes might be cleaner than having the military try to move in on Trump and take him alive. If the military removes him from office but he remains alive, his armed followers could rally for an attempt at civil war.

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Posted 09 October 2020 - 02:27 PM

Newman!

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#11315 Aptorian

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Posted 09 October 2020 - 02:46 PM

That was funny. That postal dude should become a comedian or some kind of actor in a sitcom.

#11316 HoosierDaddy

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Posted 09 October 2020 - 02:53 PM

Shockingly long vote early line in conservative Hoosier land. A month before election.

Motivation on both aisles but lots of white suburban women here. That's generally a good sign. Won't matter for president but may in confessional and definitively in state elections.

About 1.5 hour wait.

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Trouble arrives when the opponents to such a system institute its extreme opposite, where individualism becomes godlike and sacrosanct, and no greater service to any other ideal (including community) is possible. In such a system rapacious greed thrives behind the guise of freedom, and the worst aspects of human nature come to the fore....

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Posted 09 October 2020 - 02:55 PM

HoosierDaddy, on 09 October 2020 - 02:53 PM, said:

Hopefully everyone is wearing a mask

How many fucking people do I have to hammer in order to get that across.
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