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Without evidence. He's just trying to stop the mail in ballots from being counting because they lean Dem. I think he might win anyways and doesn't need to go all 12th sub level of Republican conspiracy theory on us. He's vastly outperforming the polls and should have just focused on that.

But damn if this isn't an indictment on the Democratic establishment. They might lose to a reality TV star for a second time. And the mainstream media shoved propaganda down our throats about Biden being electable :lol:
 
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Without evidence. He's just trying to stop the mail in ballots from being counting because they lean Dem. I think he might win anyways and doesn't need to go all 12th sub level of Republican conspiracy theory on us. He's vastly outperforming the polls and should have just focused on that.

But damn if this isn't an indictment on the Democratic establishment. They might lose to a reality TV star for a second time. And the mainstream media shoved propaganda down our throats about Biden being electable :lol:

Such a trash party
 
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Looking more and more like we're gonna have a Biden presidency plus a Republican majority senate. Possibly the worst possible formula. Absolutely nothing is happening over the next two years. Republicans will go back to pretending like they care about the budget and block all spending except the military budget.
 
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Oh please, no ones gonna stop you from snob reviewing weird 70s pornos.

tbh I’ll just be glad when there’s something else to talk about
 
Looking more and more like we're gonna have a Biden presidency plus a Republican majority senate. Possibly the worst possible formula. Absolutely nothing is happening over the next two years. Republicans will go back to pretending like they care about the budget and block all spending except the military budget.

Would that be a similar situation to Obama's presidency?
 
Looking more and more like we're gonna have a Biden presidency plus a Republican majority senate. Possibly the worst possible formula. Absolutely nothing is happening over the next two years. Republicans will go back to pretending like they care about the budget and block all spending except the military budget.

Agreed, except that this is the best possible formula. We'll enjoy a conservative Obama-esque presidency rather than a radical-leftist Trump presidency where rioters run wild, gun regulations are issued as executive orders, and blacks are promised 500 billion in "loans" because equity.

fwiw Michigan's senate seat ended up blue, so it's looking more like 50-50, with Kamala the tiebreaker. Which really is the worst possible formula because every time someone tries to rename a federal building or declare a new ethnicity day/week/month there will be HD footage of Kamala Harris mm-hmm'ing and wagging her finger before voting in favor of the Dems, and within a year when she breaks the record for most ties broken in US history, every magazine found in the aisle of your local grocery will proclaim her the most powerful and ambitious vice president in our history and an inspiration to womyn everywhere, just before they pull the plug on Biden and give Kamala the big chair.
 
fwiw Michigan's senate seat ended up blue, so it's looking more like 50-50, with Kamala the tiebreaker. Which really is the worst possible formula because every time someone tries to rename a federal building or declare a new ethnicity day/week/month there will be HD footage of Kamala Harris mm-hmm'ing and wagging her finger before voting in favor of the Dems, and within a year when she breaks the record for most ties broken in US history, every magazine found in the aisle of your local grocery will proclaim her the most powerful and ambitious vice president in our history and an inspiration to womyn everywhere, just before they pull the plug on Biden and give Kamala the big chair.

Repubs will keep the Senate. North Carolina, Alaska and one of Georgia's seats will go red if the numbers hold. This would give them 51.
 
Georgia has Perdue at only 50.1%, and in Georgia a candidate has to get 50% to win outright. If it goes to a runoff there's a decent chance he still loses since it means eliminating the Libertarian Party guy (who is sitting at 2.7%), in a year where the LP is likely taking more Dem votes than Rep votes (nationally, Jo is averaging 1% compared to Johnson's 4%). Also, the few percent of still-uncounted ballots in Georgia are from mostly-Dem urban areas. Not saying it will absolutely go 50-50, just that it's a very real possibility.
 
Agreed, except that this is the best possible formula. We'll enjoy a conservative Obama-esque presidency rather than a radical-leftist Trump presidency where rioters run wild, gun regulations are issued as executive orders, and blacks are promised 500 billion in "loans" because equity.

What policy do think Biden wants to pass to allow more riots? That makes no sense. He'll crack protester's skulls, just like Obama did.

Gun regulations... sure, if you're opposed to those it's a good thing. You're obviously to the right of me, so I get it. That said, I don't think it's good for our legislative branch to continue down this path of doing nothing. It would be better if they actually did their job, and if people were unsatisfied with the result, they voted to replace them. Instead what we have is a bunch of game playing piled upon decades of inaction from congress. It's toxic to our democracy.
 
Agreed, except that this is the best possible formula. We'll enjoy a conservative Obama-esque presidency rather than a radical-leftist Trump presidency where rioters run wild, gun regulations are issued as executive orders, and blacks are promised 500 billion in "loans" because equity.
I realize being an adult child leaves you rather blind to how many people have lost their jobs/businesses from the pandemic, but for at least the next two years most sane people would prioritize un-gridlocking pandemic relief in Congress over keeping in check "radical excesses" that are relatively minuscule in scale/severity. Which, by the way, would actually cut down on rioting since there'd be fewer unemployed people.
 
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I realized it might be worse. I could see Biden doing a grand bargain with Mitch McConnell and cutting Social Security in exchange for something stupid. He's obsessed with negotiating with Republicans.

I heard rumours that Bernie is gunning for Labour secretary. Do you think it would hurt Biden to fill his cabinet with progressives?
 
I heard rumours that Bernie is gunning for Labour secretary. Do you think it would hurt Biden to fill his cabinet with progressives?

Biden's cabinet will have more Republicans than progressives. I don't think he will pick Bernie and if he did I think the Republicans would block him if they had the numbers. Same goes for any other progressives. And I think that will hurt Biden, because the Venn Diagram of people Biden and the Republican Senators both approve of is the epitome of the swamp.

Now, if I end up being wrong and he puts progressives in is cabinet it will probably help him, so long as they're focusing on economic related issues. It's the wokester identity politics that turns people off. Most of Sanders' economic ideas ($15 minimum wage, green jobs, Medicare for All, wealth tax) have majority public support.
 
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Biden has snubbed the progs so many times that I can't imagine he'll put many of them in his cabinet. The progs are just as fake and confused as the right-wing pops anyways. They'll make some noise about M4A and whatever but the second a black man ODs in police custody they get flashbacks to their junior high civil rights history lessons and go into selfless white savior mode. Also explains why polls tend to show Trump's support a

That's the ostensible reason Kamala Harris was picked for VP, after all (though the real reason is almost certainly her deep connections with the Silicon Valley cabal).

What policy do think Biden wants to pass to allow more riots? That makes no sense. He'll crack protester's skulls, just like Obama did.

Gun regulations... sure, if you're opposed to those it's a good thing. You're obviously to the right of me, so I get it. That said, I don't think it's good for our legislative branch to continue down this path of doing nothing. It would be better if they actually did their job, and if people were unsatisfied with the result, they voted to replace them. Instead what we have is a bunch of game playing piled upon decades of inaction from congress. It's toxic to our democracy.

You misread me. I'm saying that Trump is tolerating riots to a degree Obama never did. Obama tried to pass gun regulations but the Republican Senate and NRA cockblocked him every step; no one stopped Trump's bumpstock ban, nor has Trump pushed back on the ATF unilaterally declaring pistol grips on semi-auto rifles illegal. With Biden in the WH the Senate Reps will almost certainly go back on the offense and reel in that big blue-presidency gun-money again.

I agree on a fundamental level, Congress is absolutely busted by design. The powers Congress currently has over states far exceeds anything intended under the Constitution as written which means that today the sub-10% approval rating is perfectly understandable when ones' elected leaders only possess a tiny fraction of the power needed to exact beneficial changes. Only a true Realignment(tm) can change things, an 1816/1861/1933/1964 moment that destroys one side and allows something new, totally not this pussy-ass 2016 "Republican populism" hoax of flipping a few blue states red by 100k votes.

I realize being an adult child leaves you rather blind to how many people have lost their jobs/businesses from the pandemic, but for at least the next two years most sane people would prioritize un-gridlocking pandemic relief in Congress over keeping in check "radical excesses" that are relatively minuscule in scale/severity. Which, by the way, would actually cut down on rioting since there'd be fewer unemployed people.

Maybe you haven't realized the trillions already spent by a bi-partisan consensus this year over a meme virus. If there's one thing Congress can get together on, it's spending shittons of money, particularly on things that inflate the kinds of assets that the rich and powerful hold. Trump might go native through his seeming-lameduck remainder, but once he's out of the way and perhaps stocks are allowed to crash for one more big consolidation buy-up, it will be QE as usual, just as it was through Obama's entire presidency (in which Republicans held the Senate 6 out of 8 years).

Rioting is almost entirely committed by subversives and felons though as a branch of the Democratic anarcho-tyranny enforcement branch, bailing out Boeing and the airlines for the third(?) time this year and saving a few janitorial jobs won't do anything to calm them. Unemployment is still falling pretty quickly in most non-retarded states afaik.
 
You misread me. I'm saying that Trump is tolerating riots to a degree Obama never did.

Oh and apparently the governor of Oregon is only just now calling the National Guard. lmao, anyone that thought the riots would be more tolerated under Biden is a retard. Anarcho-tyranny is by definition state-supported and with no more need to keep the TRUMP IS A FASCIST narrative going, it's time to clamp down and ensure Biden/Harris have a silky smooth day 1. Expect BLM to drop off the face of the earth again as well until mid 2023.

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The woman who won as a result of this is also a former CIA officer and a former USPS inspections officer. Apparently backing up ballots on USB is official practice in Virginia and it seems reasonable that a Dem would win reelection in an increasingly-blue district, but still, lmao. Our system is such a shitshow.
 
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