[GT] US election - It's 2020, what could possibly go wrong?

[octothorp]

Originally Posted by Blaster86

Levan Polka is just great.

I only discovered the whole meme around this song literally last week and it's in my head constantly now.

[Blaster86]

Originally Posted by Bagor

https://twitter.com/user/status/1324831063613591553

Originally Posted by octothorp

I only discovered the whole meme around this song literally last week and it's in my head constantly now.

There's a meme?!!?

[afc wimbledon]

Originally Posted by BoLevi

I can't speak for your standards I can only speak for mine.

you cant have standards without a sample, what you have is a set of prejudices, you have decided Biden is terrible the way my kid decides asparagus tastes bad even though he's never tried any in his life.

[FlamesAddiction]

Originally Posted by combustiblefuel

I'd say 2000 Bush vs Gore. I know you said either but Bush had no business being a govenor or president. He was just a dude who liked cocaine and use to own a baseball team that was thrusted into politics to finish off his daddys dream in Iraq and Afganistan.

I don't know if Gore would have been a good president or not, but man, I don't know if there was a candidate that was so wrongfully ridiculed and taken out of context more than him. I get that he was ridged and awkward, but some of the talking points around him were unfair in my opinion.

They criticized him for being in a non-combat role in Vietnam.

• The truth is that he volunteered when he became draft eligible and never requested a non-combat role. He told friends at the time, that despite being anti-war, if he avoided it, someone else would have to go instead.
• He was still in great danger just being there.
• He never claimed to have been a war hero and fully acknowledged that his status likely kept him safer than some others. He was a nerd and they used him to his strengths.

He claimed to invent the internet.

• He didn't claim that. He was part of the team that developed the technology and was a pioneer in computer communications, what eventually became the internet.

Aside from that, he became a successful business man that amassed a $300 million fortune. Surely he knows a thing or two about financial management.

His biggest problem is that he was a dork, something people don't want in a president, which is too bad actually.

[afc wimbledon]

Originally Posted by FlamesAddiction

I don't know if Gore would have been a good president or not, but man, I don't know if there was a candidate that was so wrongfully ridiculed and taken out of context more than him. I get that he was ridged and awkward, but some of the talking points around him were unfair in my opinion.

They criticized him for being in a non-combat role in Vietnam.

• The truth is that he volunteered when he became draft eligible and never requested a non-combat role. He told friends at the time, that despite being anti-war, if he avoided it, someone else would have to go instead.
• He was still in great danger just being there.
• He never claimed to have been a war hero and fully acknowledged that his status likely kept him safer than some others.

He claimed to invent the internet.

• He didn't claim that. He was part of the team that developed the technology and was a pioneer in computer communications, what eventually became the internet.

Aside from that, he became a successful business man that amassed a $300 million fortune. Surely he knows a thing or two about financial management.

His biggest problem is that he was a dork, something people don't want in a president, which is too bad actually.

His wife was a huge problem as well, Tipper Gore was the face of parental complaints about 'you kids listening to your foul mouthed hippity hop'

[FlamesAddiction]

Originally Posted by afc wimbledon

His wife was a huge problem as well, Tipper Gore was the face of parental complaints about 'you kids listening to your foul mouthed hippity hop'

Yeah, the whole censorship thing between the two of them was ridiculous. I agree. Seeing Dee Snider take him to town was hilarious.

I can live with a politician being a prude as opposed to a crook though.

[Barnet Flame]

Originally Posted by sureLoss

https://twitter.com/user/status/1324852450109624322

Until it’s time for a round of golf.

[stang]

Originally Posted by combustiblefuel

I know you said either but Bush had no business being a govenor or president. He was just a dude who liked cocaine and use to own a baseball team...

That’s crazy... who would want to own a baseball team?

[combustiblefuel]

Originally Posted by stang

That’s crazy... who would want to own a baseball team?

A drunk coked up Texan.

[DeluxeMoustache]

Originally Posted by Barnet Flame

Until it’s time for a round of golf.

Yeah, the solution is pretty simple.

Off to golf, change the locks

He may well just bail early, though

[Dion]

https://twitter.com/user/status/1324561121567789056

[DeluxeMoustache]

It will be interesting to see if these losers get a lesson that there are certain things you can’t #### with.

Fingers crossed

[KootenayFlamesFan]

Biden has a pretty decent lead in Georgia now, up to 7,248. Going to be real tough to overturn that in a recount.

[devo22]

how realistic are the Dems chances in the Georgia senate runoffs to take one of those seats? Seems to me that they have been able to get a lot of people to vote there thanks to the efforts of Stacey Abrams and others, but I honestly have no idea if there's a real chance to win those runoffs.

[Ragnar]

nm

[Lanny_McDonald]

Originally Posted by GGG

That was my sarcastic reply to NewEra argument that Arizona was being rigged.

I'm not the only one who saw the trend and considered it sketchy. Chris Hayes also raised the issue and NBC had the Arizona Secretary of State on to explain what was going on. She explained that they were down to absentee ballots and adding those tranches in on the fly instead of doing them after the fact and after the counts had got down to zero. This was different than some states because Arizona is not currently facing any lawsuits from either campaign, so this is consider SOP for Arizona elections. Ms. Hobbs was very open and patient in explaining the perceived irregularities and put concerns to rest. Those of us that live and work in the system down here aren't working off the assumption that everything is on the up-and-up because the state has a history of sketchy politics and willing to do some pretty ugly stuff to "win."

[Snuffleupagus]

Originally Posted by devo22

how realistic are the Dems chances in the Georgia senate runoffs to take one of those seats? Seems to me that they have been able to get a lot of people to vote there thanks to the efforts of Stacey Abrams and others, but I honestly have no idea if there's a real chance to win those runoffs.

I suspect the chances would be very low as the voting would be low, it's one thing to get the dems to knock out Trump but I doubt the numbers will be there in a very conservative state.

[devo22]

new PA batches coming in soon. Given that Biden sits at +28k there and NBC said they'd call it at 35k, this might finally come to an end today ...

[The Fisher Account]

Apparently Trump only gets $1M worth of Secret Service support between now and inauguration. I don't even think that would cover more than a round.

[rubecube]

No idea if this was posted already. Don't care. These are my people.

https://twitter.com/user/status/1324375525402517511