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Re: Post US Election Transition Culture
« Reply #90 on: November 22, 2020, 12:21:21 pm »


Again, it needs to be said Trump is more effect than cause.

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« Reply #91 on: November 22, 2020, 12:30:28 pm »
It's both.  And the Republicans can't possibly wish it on themselves that an exiled maniac in Florida will be remotely directing policy. 
It's hard to believe that when its being reported some 70 - 80% of them believe everything Trump has alleged.  Even Fucker Carlson has faced questions about his fealty/loyalty for seeking proof of the Republican's nonsense.  Republicans are all in, they have been ever since Rush Limbaugh started making fake news respectable.

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« Reply #92 on: November 22, 2020, 12:40:57 pm »
It's hard to believe that when its being reported some 70 - 80% of them believe everything Trump has alleged.  Even Fucker Carlson has faced questions about his fealty/loyalty for seeking proof of the Republican's nonsense.  Republicans are all in, they have been ever since Rush Limbaugh started making fake news respectable.

It's hard to believe because it's not true. You're not getting it so let's try once again.

They don't believe, they only want to keep up the smokescreen so that Biden isn't legitimized, and thereby win the political support the ballot boxes took away from them. THINK!

Trump will continue on to lead the anti-Biden charge/movement!

Are you beginning to see fascist tactics at work yet, to steal the election for Trump? Is it possible to imagine an anti-Biden movement growing because of Biden only representing more establishment, American way, rot?

You will! We will!
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Re: Post US Election Transition Culture
« Reply #93 on: November 22, 2020, 12:41:44 pm »
The Trump legal team has no strategy to win.   
 

I don't think you should say this with any confidence.  The system has lots of breaking points.

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« Reply #94 on: November 22, 2020, 12:57:29 pm »
Are you beginning to see fascist tactics at work yet, to steal the election for Trump?
What I see are Republicans manoeuvring to be in a position to harness the stupidity of the stupidest people on the planet, Trump's voters.  Whatever else the Republican party is it's acting like a sorcerer who has chosen to let the apprentice continue using their magic wand.  In this case a wand and tactic that Rush Limbaugh, Newt Gingrich and others have been using for years and years.

The danger is the stupidity not Republican tactics which are actually pretty clever given their success.

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« Reply #95 on: November 22, 2020, 01:49:02 pm »
Waldo I sincerely appreciate the updates.

What I and others I am reading can't figure out is whether there's an actual strategy to win behind this:

Are they just mashing the buttons and muddying the water hoping to discredit the presidency of BIden and maybe break the system if they're lucky?

My anxiety is creeping back up, make me feel better.

perhaps an either/or;

either: politics "disguised" as a legal strategy. That is to say, the 30+ legal filings at the various relevant states level, is the fuel behind the mega-funding blitz on right now; as I understand, 100's of emails soliciting funds have been sent and continue to be regularly sent out to "names on lists" (presumably Trump supporters)... with the emails so pointed as to ask that, for example, "patriots help Trump defend the integrity of the election". Of course, the fine print within these solicitations started by stating:
=> 60% of the funds go first to Trump's Leadership PAC, 'Save America' -- up to the $5,000 legal donation limit -- and then to the Trump campaign's recount account. The remaining 40% will go to the Republican National Committee's operating account. This changed recently to:
=> 75% of the funds go first to Trump's Leadership PAC, 'Save America' -- up to the $5,000 legal donation limit -- and then to the Trump campaign's recount account... with the RNC receiving the remaining 25% donated.

or: something strikes the 'fancy' of at least 4 of the Supreme Court justices required to realize a hearing before the SCOTUS; and again, Trump et al believe the (now) 6-3 Conservative lean of the court favours their side - hence the rush to confirm RBG's replacement before the election (Barrett). Some speculation has vote-counting deadlines, particularly those that relate to mail-in ballots, as something the SCOTUS might accept to hear.

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Re: Post US Election Transition Culture
« Reply #97 on: November 23, 2020, 01:13:18 pm »
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/11/23/trump-jr-urges-georgians-to-back-loeffler-perdue-in-senate-runoffs/

The Trump team and family goes for broke on playing down the Corona virus at what is possibly the best time to ignore precautions.

If it wasn't for Breitbart news, who would have known?
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Re: Post US Election Transition Culture
« Reply #98 on: November 23, 2020, 07:58:08 pm »
Trump conceded kind of...

"The secretary lady is being threatened with violence so I let her do transition to Biden for now"

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« Reply #99 on: November 23, 2020, 08:33:48 pm »
Trump conceded kind of...

"The secretary lady is being threatened with violence so I let her do transition to Biden for now"

Trump's explanation is bullshit, obviously. There's no indication she has been threatened with violence, and Trump wouldn't give a **** even if she was. The only threat she has received was having to explain herself, under oath, to a congressional committee.

The Republicans got a talking-to from business interests. They were told that if they didn't start the transition, they weren't going to get campaign contributions for the Georgia senate runoffs.

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Re: Post US Election Transition Culture
« Reply #100 on: November 23, 2020, 08:50:37 pm »
Trump's explanation is bullshit, obviously. There's no indication she has been threatened with violence, and Trump wouldn't give a **** even if she was. The only threat she has received was having to explain herself, under oath, to a congressional committee.

The Republicans got a talking-to from business interests. They were told that if they didn't start the transition, they weren't going to get campaign contributions for the Georgia senate runoffs.

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« Reply #101 on: November 23, 2020, 09:10:55 pm »
Even with the transition funding in place, the person who oversees the process didn’t call Biden “President Elect”.  I guess as an appeasement to Trump?
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« Reply #102 on: November 23, 2020, 11:23:23 pm »
Well finally the GSA and the bias **** who heads it has finally conceded that Joe Biden won  the election and now the transition process can begin to take place. Emily Murphy has certainly done her part to help to reduce the US to a "banana republic" status throughout much of the rest of the civilized world, but then she seems to have forgotten that she works for the people, and not the bald headed **** with the phony hairpiece who somehow got elected (the stupid EC process) and now has been voted out by both measures. I certainly don't envy Biden stepping into the current mess. I think he has made some good picks for his cabinet. I'd be happy to go fly Air Force One for him. I have a few thousand hours in the cockpit. But I'm not American so Oh well.

I bet Trump heads to Mara Lago for Xmas and disappears into the woodwork. I doubt he shows up at Joe's inauguration.

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« Reply #103 on: November 24, 2020, 11:59:34 am »
Not only is Biden a jump from the frying pan into the fire for that shithole country, he's pure establshment American way too. It won't take long for him to show that but at least Kamala will start making a noise. The two hate each other's politics but Kamala was necessary if he wanted to be elected.

Black leaders in that country are very aware of that! They won't tolerate her selling out even if she ever wanted to. If the Dem party want a reputation to be supported from now on, they'll be forced to make some moves away from their establsihment selling out routine!

Rather than that happening, it's pretty safe to predict that black and other non-whites will stay home for their next election. That country isn't ready to move forward yet.
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Re: Post US Election Transition Culture
« Reply #104 on: November 24, 2020, 01:01:57 pm »
Watched NEWSMAX.

Now I miss FOX.