The Never-President Trump

[Jools 584]

As we speak, Washington DC is getting boarded up ahead of the presidential result --- Worried about potential Antifa/Anti-Trump violence?

Iowa ~ Trumpski has 49% of the vote from mail ins --- Texas ~ 53% mail ins --- Wisconsin ~ 43%... 👍

[NFN FC 1,123]

23 minutes ago, Jools said:

When the heck was the last one of them and what does the EDL have to do with Trumpski and the States?

First example of right wing violence that popped into my head. It's not always the left that get violent. 

[king canary 7,580]

3 hours ago, Rock The Boat said:

Also Telegraph:

Florida: The nation's most populous swing state is once more on a knife edge, and Hispanic voters will play a decisive role in the result.

Democrats have been rattled by President Trump's gains among this demographic, despite his implementation of policies that have negatively targeted Latinos.

Our US Correspondent Rozina Sabur has the story from Miami.

The Hispanic population in Florid is different and generally more republican than most due to large amounts of Cubans.

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2 minutes ago, king canary said:

The Hispanic population in Florid is different and generally more republican than most due to large amounts of Cubans.

Republicans do like their cigars! 

[TheGunnShow 5,933]

3 hours ago, Herman said:

To be fair we have 60 million and we came up with Johnson versus Corbyn.🥴

The etymology of "politics" may explain this.

Poly = many
Ticks = Blood-sucking parasites. 😉

Only the "best" blood-sucking parasites make it up the greasy political pole to lead their partly hysterical broadcasts.

[Rock The Boat 1,326]

1 hour ago, king canary said:

The Hispanic population in Florid is different and generally more republican than most due to large amounts of Cubans.

True. It's what happens when people actually experience socialism.

[Rock The Boat 1,326]

1 hour ago, NFN FC said:

Republicans do like their cigars! 

Funnily enough, both Obama and Bill Clinton are cigar smokers. Just ask Monica about the latter...

[The Raptor 1,199]

Please America. It's the only sensible choice.

[Jools 584]

13 hours ago, king canary said:

I know I shouldn't be surprised but I'm amazed people can still support the very clear and blatantly anti democratic attempts by the Republican Party to deny people their votes. It just seems like everybody's sense of morality has gone totally out of the window.

You need to know what's going on where voting is concerned, KC:

 

Pennsylvania Officials Warn of Election Result Delays Due to Thousands of Mail-In Ballots

Pennsylvania officials are warning that the processing of thousands of mail-in ballots, in addition to votes at the polls and absentee ballots, could take several days.

Seven counties in Pennsylvania, a battleground state, say they will not begin counting ballots until the day after Election Day, NBC News reported.

Officials in Beaver, Cumberland, Franklin, Greene, Juniata, Mercer, and Montour counties – all of which voted Republican in the last three elections – will begin counting ballots on Wednesday, according to the report.

On Wednesday, a press release from the Commissioners of Cumberland County stated the counting of ballots will begin the day after Election Day to ensure both votes cast at the polls and mail-in and absentee ballots are “properly counted.”

“This action fully complies with state law,” the release noted. “Due to available resources and the COVID-19 pandemic, this will allow the county to give equal weight to in-person and mail-in and absentee ballots.”

“The Board of Elections, comprised of the Cumberland County Commissioners, is committed to counting every vote and not certifying the results in Cumberland County until every eligible vote, whether completed at the polling place or via mail-in or absentee ballot, is properly counted,” Commissioner Gary Eichelberger said in a statement:

The county commissioners stated all election results from polls will be posted, beginning at 8:00 p.m., on the Bureau of Elections website, while mail-in and absentee ballots will be posted on the site each day after the count.

Pennsylvania Secretary of State Kathy Boockvar said she is urging these counties to start counting mail-in ballots on Tuesday, NBC News reported.

“Even if you could only do part [of the process], to get started as early as humanly possible on Election Day matters for every single county of any size,” she said.

However, Beaver County Commissioner Jack Manning told NBC News the security of all ballots, with thousands of mail-in votes added to polling place votes, is the issue: “We do not have the capacity to work and securely oversee 129 polling venues, secure those election day votes and also simultaneously open up 35,000 mail-in votes and then start manually scanning after the polls close Tuesday.”

Meanwhile, the New York Post reported Monday that Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney stated it will take “several days” to tally results, according to an open letter to city residents reported by WCAU.

“After the polls close, and in the ensuing days, we will continue to need your patience,” Kenney and Lisa Deeley, the chairwoman of the Philadelphia City Commissioners, wrote in the letter, adding:

Never in the history of this city have so many people voted by mail. By law, staffers are not allowed to start opening and counting these ballots until Election Day itself. That means getting a tally of mail-in ballots will easily take several days. This may determine the outcome in Philadelphia, and in the Commonwealth as a whole. So, again, please be patient.

Philadelphia officials said they have received more than 400,000 absentee and mail-in ballots.

Breitbart News reported Thursday that Butler County Commissioner Leslie Osche estimated thousands of mail-in ballots requested by voters could be lost.

The Butler Eagle reported the U.S. Postal Service lost an unknown number of mail-in ballots sent to voters.

In October, the U.S. Supreme Court rejected a Republican application to stay the state Supreme Court’s decision to grant the Democrat Party’s request to make changes to the mail-in voting system.

The U.S. Supreme Court’s vote was split 4-4 on the Democrat request, which left the decision of the lower court in place. Chief Justice John Roberts sided with the Court’s liberal minority.

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled that ballots received three days after Election Day will be counted, even if not postmarked on time.

On Sunday, President Donald Trump said his campaign will bring legal challenges on election night to battleground states that were granted extensions on mail-in ballots, Breitbart News reported.

“As soon as the election is over, we’re going in with our lawyers,” Trump said in North Carolina, where the Supreme Court also decided in favor of mail-in ballot extensions.

The president added he would be watching Democrat-led states very closely for any signs of cheating.

“We don’t want to have Pennsylvania, where you have a political governor — a very partisan guy — and we don’t want to have other states — like Nevada, where you have the head of the Democratic clubhouse as your governor,” he said.

 

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2 hours ago, Rock The Boat said:

Funnily enough, both Obama and Bill Clinton are cigar smokers. Just ask Monica about the latter...

To be fair, he hasn't quite got the hang of it.

[Rock The Boat 1,326]

2 hours ago, Rock The Boat said:

Funnily enough, both Obama and Bill Clinton are cigar smokers. Just ask Monica about the latter...

She knows how to smoke though

[Herman 9,717]

4 more years of this toxic twosome. What joy. 

[dj11 377]

2 hours ago, Herman said:

4 more years of this toxic twosome. What joy. 

Are you talking about Trump and Pence, or maybe some Pinkun posters?

[Herman 9,717]

1 hour ago, dj11 said:

Are you talking about Trump and Pence, or maybe some Pinkun posters?

A bit of A and a lot of B. 🤣

[SHRIMPER 328]

Its my birthday today and nephew sent me this as a prezzie from the states.

 

[Barbe bleu 816]

Genuine question.  I think,  with one exception, no contributor here lives in America but there is a lot of emotion expressed. 

Can I ask why I should care who wins?   

[Yellow Fever 3,749]

19 minutes ago, Barbe bleu said:

Genuine question.  I think,  with one exception, no contributor here lives in America but there is a lot of emotion expressed. 

Can I ask why I should care who wins?   

There was a very interesting discussion about a week or so ago on R4 was it 1pm with some ex US to UK ambassadors if I recall (GOP & democrat). Both were in agreement it was 6 of 1 and 1/2 a dozen of the other for the UK with Biden or Trump - pros and cons - but the really sad thing was that both agreed the the UK after Brexit would be far less important, a bit player,  to the USA ! It is worth finding the recording if you can.

Edited November 3, 2020 by Yellow Fever

[horsefly 4,287]

1 hour ago, Barbe bleu said:

Genuine question.  I think,  with one exception, no contributor here lives in America but there is a lot of emotion expressed. 

Can I ask why I should care who wins?   

Like it or not it's simply true that the USA is the leader of the free world democracies. When America fought for its independence in the 1770s  it fought on the grounds of the same Enlightenment values of freedom and reason that have underpinned european democratic culture throughout subsequent centuries. It has been a shock to many that the world's most powerful force seems to have abandoned any desire to promote those values and resorted to convenient appeasement of dictators like Putin. For example, I can't imagine any previous president, Republican or Democrat, allowing Putin to annex the Crimea with such impunity. And as Putin bolsters the position of dictators in europe (Belarus), we find Trump persistently undermining Europe's democratic nations. Trump's isolationism is seen as a green light by the world's dictators, and that leaves the world in a precarious state. I suspect that many people are not so much emotionally attached to the USA as such, but rather the democratic values that the USA has come to symbolise. It is unquestionably true that the USA has often been horribly guilty of double-standards in pursuing their aims. But I don't remember a time when it so blatantly turned its back on the ideals that are foundational to its constitution. With Putin about to legislate to make himself president for life, and pushing at the borders of democratic Europe with seeming impunity, I think we have good reason to pray we get our ally functioning again. 

Edited November 3, 2020 by horsefly
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[Herman 9,717]

59 minutes ago, Barbe bleu said:

Genuine question.  I think,  with one exception, no contributor here lives in America but there is a lot of emotion expressed. 

Can I ask why I should care who wins?   

Just to add to the previous two great answers, some of us are keen on history and can clearly see it being repeated. A president with a fondness for dictators backed by an immoral and complicit party plus another 4 years and heaven knows where the US and the world will end up. 

Look at Erdoğan, Orban and Putin. Do you really want the biggest superpower heading in their direction?

[The Real Buh 3,423]

1 hour ago, Barbe bleu said:

Genuine question.  I think,  with one exception, no contributor here lives in America but there is a lot of emotion expressed. 

Can I ask why I should care who wins?   

The only correct thing on this thread

[Herman 9,717]

Maybe read the answers from Yellow Fever and Horsefly and you may understand a bit better. 

[PurpleCanary 5,554]

41 minutes ago, Herman said:

Maybe read the answers from Yellow Fever and Horsefly and you may understand a bit better. 

Plus climate change. Above all, climate change.

[The Real Buh 3,423]

All I see is people trying to justify why they’ve wasted so much time worrying and hating on a president of a country they don’t live in.

the fact you’ve spent so much time bellyaching about him for 4 years is your own fault. Just imagine what you could have achieved in the time you wasted. Wow.

[A Load of Squit 5,135]

https://www.mediaite.com/tv/trump-blasts-fox-news-after-fox-friends-hosts-tee-him-up-to-attack-obama/

The president added, un-ironically, “I’m not complaining, I’m just telling people.”

😀

[Van wink 2,994]

2 hours ago, PurpleCanary said:

Plus climate change. Above all, climate change.

Yep agreed.......I've not been following the election closely but it appears that some press outlets are suggesting things may be a lot closer in the election than the conventional wisdom, is that just press talk trying build up a bit of extra enthusiasm for their broadcasts tonight or is there a narrowing in the polls?

[Herman 9,717]

31 minutes ago, Van wink said:

Yep agreed.......I've not been following the election closely but it appears that some press outlets are suggesting things may be a lot closer in the election than the conventional wisdom, is that just press talk trying build up a bit of extra enthusiasm for their broadcasts tonight or is there a narrowing in the polls?

There was a slight narrowing in the polls last I heard, especially in the swing states. There's also been a mass accumulation of lawyers ready to paw through the results if it is close. Trump isn't out of this yet, although it really should be.

 

*Is it paw or pour?😀

Edited November 3, 2020 by Herman

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[Van wink 2,994]

2 hours ago, Herman said:

There was a slight narrowing in the polls last I heard, especially in the swing states. There's also been a mass accumulation of lawyers ready to paw through the results if it is close. Trump isn't out of this yet, although it really should be.

 

*Is it paw or pour?😀

Pour over, pour through, paw paw

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[Van wink 2,994]

Looking pretty close atm