*2020 US Presidential Elections* - Candidates, Statistics, Campaign Timelines, Debates

[gmase]

Days left for Pence to spread the plague around the country.

Mark Meadows: "We're not going to control the pandemic. We are going to control the fact that we get vaccines, therapeutics and other mitigation,"
Jake Tapper: "Why aren't we going to get control of the pandemic?" Tapper pushed back.
MM: "Because it is a contagious virus, just like the flu,"
JT: "Why not make efforts to contain it?"
MM: "We are making efforts to contain it,"
JT: "By running all over the country, not wearing a mask? ... That's what the vice president is doing."

Trump and Friends are back to calling it the flu and not trying to get control of it. Meadows says they are 'trying to contain it', but evidence appears to show otherwise. At least Harris took some time off when her staff had a couple positives.

 

[tvstrip]

ERB just released Trump vs Biden, and it was worth the wait!

 

[Theopolis Q. Hossenffer]

View attachment 828170 days until we find out how much extra time the refs decide to tack on.

The final debate was more civil, but certainly less entertaining. Nothing much came out of it, besides Biden seeming more concerned about all Americans instead of a narrow swatch. Trump seems to be more concerned about how much people get paid rather than their environment. Getting paid and having a clean environment is necessary. Are they really mutually exclusive?

Over the past three decades, revisiting my hometown is quite depressing. There is no pollution from the razed steel mill across the river, but plenty of unemployed folks just hanging around. There was once a time of full employment, but a nasty sulphur-smelling (like rotten eggs) orange cloud frequently lingered in the air. Trump promised to help those people, but it doesn't seem to have worked out that way - even before COVID. To be fair, no one else has helped them much since then either.

Coal towns are in a similar bind. Is it worth getting black lung in exchange for a paycheck?

Two of my Uncles died of Black Lung from coal mining. It was either that or starve where they lived. One became a safety inspector like his Father was in the Mines. Said they got rid of Black Lung by using a water mist to keep the dust down. Now everyone has rheumatism. Working man cannot win but might settle for breaking even.

 

[Theopolis Q. Hossenffer]

Along the lines of election promises:

https://www.yahoo.com/huffpost/rnc-tweet-donald-trump-priorities-100701213.html

In reality laudable goals, but the timing sucks.

 

[gmase]

What will the magic 8 ball tell us next Tuesday?

NY Post Endorses Trump - ignores his rule in creating "annus horribilis"
https://thehill.com/homenews/media/522742-new-york-post-endorses-trump-for-president
"We can return to the explosive job creation, rising wages and general prosperity we had before the pandemic. We can have economic freedom and opportunity, and resist cancel culture and censorship. We can put annus horribilis, 2020, behind us and make America great again, again. We can do all this — if we make the right choice on Nov. 3."

 

[gmase]

Lucky days until we have real election data to discuss.

The Trump train spreading the COVID around:
https://www.americanprogress.org/is...ften-followed-increases-local-covid-19-cases/

 

[Little Red Wagon Repairman]

Didn't vote for him last time but I did this time.

 

[gmase]

Didn't vote for him last time but I did this time.

Thank you for voting.

 

[Little Red Wagon Repairman]

Thank you for voting.

Thanks. You as well, gmase.

 

[Theopolis Q. Hossenffer]

Didn't vote for him last time but I did this time.

Hope it works out for you.

 

[Little Red Wagon Repairman]

Hope it works out for you.

Whatever the result I hope things work out for all of us. Even in disagreement I've found most all of you fellas to be polite, you and gmase included for sure. Thanks for that.

 

[Supafly]

Fie nights of sleep, I hope all of us find good sleep, and the general trend of which candidate has more votes... I hope it will be a clear result, this way or the other.

 

[gmase]

more days and then the die is rolled and we can start counting the votes.

Trump is a fan of forgiving debt: https://thehill.com/homenews/admini...iness-practices-after-report-he-failed-to-pay

 

[xfire]

Has Meester made his election prediction this year? That guy was so spot on in 2016, I'm sure he's got it nailed down again this year.

 

[gmase]

Has Meester made his election prediction this year? That guy was so spot on in 2016, I'm sure he's got it nailed down again this year.

He has not clued us in on their pick yet. Word on the street is that the result was predetermined months, if not years ago, by the cabal. The results will be unveiled to us at a time of their choosing.

 

[Theopolis Q. Hossenffer]

https://www.yahoo.com/huffpost/lindsey-graham-fox-news-cut-off-075359533.html

I love whiney folks

 

[gmase]

https://www.yahoo.com/huffpost/lindsey-graham-fox-news-cut-off-075359533.html

I love whiney folks

Poor Lindsey has to go onto Fox to raise funds. He should get Trump to call some of his friends and raise those billions for him.

Trump: “I call the head of Exxon. I don’t know, you know, ‘How are you doing? How’s energy coming? When are you doing the exploration? Oh, you need a couple of permits?'" Trump told supporters. “I say, ‘You know, I’d love [for] you to send me $25 million for the campaign.’ ‘Absolutely sir, why didn’t you ask? Would you like some more?’”

 

[Theopolis Q. Hossenffer]

I don't know about you folks but I cannot understand how South Carolina of all places(You know, real men, strong women etc) can stand to have this candy ass in the Senate:

https://secure.lindseygraham.com/li...sJpYRKQ_hfU-MlXB7Zeaq9n65UtrCRXIaAmDUEALw_wcB

Even Piss ass Illinois has better than that.

 

[gmase]

Only 5 more days until the real party (the counting and re-counting) begins. Will Trump eventually be invoking 'The 5th" at some point in his future?

@bubb - even Nancy is noting some delicacy:
"The easiest thing for [Trump] to do is to stand up like a man and accept the results of an election of the American people."

Unlike 2016 when Trump had momentum during the week leading up to election day, it is beginning to look fairly bleak for him this time around. Nothing is guaranteed.

Trump's American vision:
https://apnews.com/article/election...lice-economy-3082b995c1fd89129671b245797bc902

“He’ll [Biden] bury you in regulations, dismantle your police departments, dissolve our borders, confiscate your guns, terminate religious liberty, destroy your suburbs"

Remember the dire days before Trump when police departments were shrinking, guns were being taken away, churches closed, and suburbs destroyed? Me neither.

 

[gmase]

Oops. Looks like Trump will need to make some of those calls to 'big' donors:
https://apnews.com/article/election...in-elections-641a8174e51077703888e2fa89070e12