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US General Domestic Politics #9 Begin 10/01/20


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8 hours ago, golfer06 said:
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On Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court issued what may be its most significant decision involving the 2020 election, and the Democratic Party should be pleased. But there are still reasons for...

 

Mail-in voting in the U.S. is as weird as the election system as a whole. In all politically developed countries, the deadline for the mail-in votes is about one week before the election day and the result of those votes will be published punctually at the time when the polling places get closed on the election day. Immediately after that, the counting of that day´s votes will begin around the country, and the progression of the counting will be shown in a live TV-sending. And all mail-in votes have been given at official voting places (set up in post offices, shopping centers...) and sealed and collected by voting officials.

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7 hours ago, Ridgerunner said:

Misogyny? What the hell do you think you fucking liberal progressive Democrat assholes are doing to Amy Coney Barrett? You fucking hypocritical phonies.

You seem to know the extreme conservative political language!

 

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AG Bill Barr, who would very much like another four years to work on his project of turning the U.S. president into a dictator, used all of his powers to try to save his boss. His probe into "unmasking," which Fox News billed as the scandal of the century, was such a dud that Barr didn't even bother to issue a report. The AG's probe of Robert Mueller and the Russia investigation won't be complete before the election (and isn't likely to come up with much, anyhow). In short, Barr appears to have run out of potential tricks he might pull from his sleeve.
 

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With Barr coming up short, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo made clear he would try his hand, and announced that he would be releasing a bunch of e-mails from Hillary Clinton's time at the State Department. Thus far, the Secretary has released nothing, and time is running short. If and when he does release some e-mails, he's going to have some tough questions to answer, including: (1) Wait, wasn't the whole problem here that these messages would be a security risk if they became public?; (2) Why is this being done right now, just weeks before the election?; and (3) Which 2020 ballot is Hillary Clinton on, again? Based on the foot-dragging, it certainly appears that Pompeo doesn't actually have the goods, and that he's figured out that releasing the e-mails will do more harm than good, either to Trump 2020 or to Pompeo 2024.

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With Barr and Pompeo unable to concoct a scandal, it fell to Rudy Giuliani to take his best shot. Showing zero imagination whatsoever, Giuliani tried mightily to recreate the October Surprise of 2016, with Hillary Clinton's e-mails being replaced by Hunter Biden's e-mails. Fox News ran with it; their basic message was: "Forget the unmasking stuff, this is the real scandal of the century." The problem is that Giuliani and his associates may be good at...well...they must be good at something, right? In any case, what they are not good at is faking incriminating e-mails. There were so many holes in the story that most mainstream outlets ignored it entirely, while Facebook and Twitter promptly took steps to limit its spread. The "news" quickly disappeared, except from "Saturday Night Live" punchlines.

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8 hours ago, Ridgerunner said:

Should be a very boring debate. Just like they all use to be before Trump decided to run for president. And if Trump tries to ask Biden about Joe's plan to pack the Supreme Court, Joe's plan to lock down the country again to fight covid, or Joe's financial scandals the moderator will step in and say that those subjects are not to be part of the debate. Trump will be forced debate both Biden and the moderator, just like he was forced to do in the NBC town hall  moderated by Savannah Guthrie.

Maybe they may not even have the debate at all.  After all debates are not really actually required.  

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