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Eville 
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 Posted: 06 November 2020 at 9:47am |
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2021 Looking up already!
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impulse418
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Posted: 07 November 2020 at 1:07pm |
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Welp that part is over, now for the most dangerous lame duck in history.
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Posted: 08 November 2020 at 12:13am |
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I did not think Joe Biden was electable and clearly I was wrong.
I remember the public opinion of Joe at the end of the Obama administration seemed to be that as the goofy uncle that nobody took seriously. I remember his televised advice to shoot your double barrel shotgun out of your front door. I also thought his only selling point to the American people was "I'm not Donald Trump" and that may be all he needed. I wish his presidency well, and I simply hope for as little change to my life as possible. |
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tallen702
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Posted: 09 November 2020 at 9:05pm |
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I hate to say it, but if any of the recounts flip, it's going to be a messy, messy 3 months.
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<Removed overly wide sig. Tsk, you know better.>
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Kayback
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Posted: 11 November 2020 at 6:18am |
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Tinfoil had time.
I honestly think the Dems won the election. There isn't going to be any big upset, even if there is voter fraud it isn't anywhere near the levels needed to win key states. Yes there was a jump in order of magnitude of absentee votes but that's to be expected in a pandemic. But I don't see Joe Biden lasting his 4 years. The complete cynic in me says by March he'll withdraw due to health issues and Tah Dash first female POTUS. MAYBE he'll get 3.75 years and in the last few he'll retire to allow Harris into the hot seat to set her up for the 2024 run but she'll be the first female POTUS before the 2024 election. |
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SSOK
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Posted: 13 November 2020 at 11:27pm |
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That isn't very tinfoil-ish. There is a strong emphasis on the Harris name in media. I never heard Clinton/Gore, Bush/Cheney, etc nearly as regularly as Biden/Harris. The VP role always took a distant back seat. I don't think there is a secret plan to bail out, but the man is 78 years old. It could happen. |
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Posted: 15 November 2020 at 10:49am |
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I don't think Biden will resign mid-term unless it's an emergency, but I don't think he'll run again in 2024. He already said as much last year. I imagine the party will run a 2024 primary with Harris as the presumptive nominee but with at least one other candidate likely running more on the left. I could also see a blue dog running more on the right, depending on how far Harris strays from Biden's center-right leanings. I cannot even begin to guess who those candidates will actually be.
I also think Trump is going to begin immediately running for re-election as soon as his lame duck session is over. He'll campaign for four straight years. The big rally events were the only part of being president he liked. He's got his base that will probably never lose their loyalty to him as long as he's around. The GOP will probably run a big crowd again in 2024, and I have no idea what a second Trump primary is like, but I can't imagine it's much different from the first time. It's going to leave a lot of turds who barnacled themselves to Trump and his base in a weird spot, because they likely have already started setting up 2024 runs. Guys like Matt Gaetz, Dan Crenshaw and Tom Cotton. With Trump still in it for 2024, running against him could cost them dearly, and they might delay because of it. That would leave 2024 as Trump vs. the "moderate" Republicans. |
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impulse418
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Posted: 15 November 2020 at 2:03pm |
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https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-election-2020/trump-2024-election-campaign-biden-b1722521.html
Most importantly he'll start his own media empire to milk every cent out of his supporters for the next 4 years. |
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agentwhale007
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Posted: 06 December 2020 at 11:52am |
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God in heaven I've still got a whole extra month of this thanks to the Purdue/Ossoff and Loeffler/Warnock runoffs and Trump's half-assed legal challenges in Georgia.
This election season will never goddamned end.
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SSOK
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Posted: 06 December 2020 at 6:38pm |
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I drank copious amounts of Yuengling in the days following the election, then stopped caring. We also need a Christmas thread, so perhaps we just derail this one? The Draft Top makes an excellent gift for any beer drinkers in your life. |
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impulse418
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Posted: 06 January 2021 at 6:59pm |
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Wow.
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DeTrevni
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Posted: 06 January 2021 at 7:22pm |
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This was kinda predictable.
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Evil Elvis: "Detrevni is definally like a hillbilly hippy from hell"
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impulse418
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Posted: 06 January 2021 at 7:25pm |
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I understand that, but amazing how far this country has fallen.
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SSOK
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Posted: 06 January 2021 at 8:25pm |
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I would say storming the United States Capitol was not predictable. Did anyone enter the House chamber or only the Senate and Rotunda? That being said, I love that people posed for pictures at Nancy's desk. Overall... what scares me the most is the thought of the long term repercussions of today, and really the last six months of Trump. The pendulum will swing back. |
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DeTrevni
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Posted: 06 January 2021 at 10:22pm |
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Considering that I am completely not surprised, nor am I surprised of the reaction, I am either way too jaded, or this was predictable. SHOULD the invasion of the capitol building be surprising? Absolutely. Am I surprised? No.
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agentwhale007
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Posted: 07 January 2021 at 11:33am |
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My entire research agenda involves researching right-wing extremism online. I am currently working on two studies looking at the spinoff /r/TheDonald website, how message framing shifts during the lame duck session (paper 1) and then after inauguration (paper 2, gotta get them pubs for tenure). These folks have been yelling for weeks that they were going to cause a ruckus and storm the capitol building on Jan. 6. Ever since Trump tweeted on Dec. 19 that there would be a big protest and it would "be wild." So on one hand I was super not surprised by anything yesterday. That hoard did exactly what they've been saying they were going to do for weeks. But on the other hand, I am kinda surprised still. You don't usually see online ruckus turn into real-world ruckus that cleanly. At least it's easier to argue the relevancy of my work now maybe who knows.
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Posted: 07 January 2021 at 2:52pm |
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I was following the planned protests for weeks. I don't believe anyone planned to enter the Capitol building.
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Posted: 08 January 2021 at 3:58pm |
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It's been happening in state and local government buildings for quite some time now, and it's all the same people, and they all said they would do this. Fascists are here and now they have a nice big confidence boost.
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impulse418
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Posted: 08 January 2021 at 8:31pm |
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Trump banned from twitter, Google pulled the plug on Parler, and apple is soon to follow.
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Posted: 09 January 2021 at 2:03pm |
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Without his "unlimited getting free out of jail tickets" it will be a nice entertaiment to see how he(and his criminal clan) get into jail !
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I like Tippmann !!!
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