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« Reply #165 on: Wednesday, August 12, 2020, 13:10:06 »

They usually pick someone to shore up the other side of the party vote - like a Sarah Palin, which worked wonders.  In this case, I think Harris seals a large wedge of the voters who can be a bit, meh, when it comes to turnout - Suburban women and minorities.  Both are majority on Biden's side in polling, but both are less than reliable in actually voting, which will be critical given a Pandemic will over shadow the vote.
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« Reply #166 on: Wednesday, August 12, 2020, 19:18:37 »

It's quite refreshing to see a country that loves it's politicians.  Smiley
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« Reply #167 on: Thursday, August 13, 2020, 07:10:50 »

 Cheesy

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-53761744
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« Reply #168 on: Thursday, August 13, 2020, 08:23:53 »


Insane.

https://twitter.com/sarahcpr/status/1271650828785455104
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« Reply #169 on: Thursday, August 13, 2020, 14:37:04 »

Trump now openly admitting he is attempting to deliberately suppress the postal vote by abusing his power to defund the US Postal Service - i.e. blatant election rigging. When people ask "How did this happen?" it happens in plain sight because people think "It couldn't happen here" and let it slide

https://twitter.com/HKrassenstein/status/1293896714915643392
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« Reply #170 on: Thursday, August 13, 2020, 14:47:52 »

I'm not sure he knows what he meant with that
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« Reply #171 on: Thursday, August 13, 2020, 14:51:43 »

I'm not sure he knows what he meant with that
I think he's extremely clear: the US Postal service needs c $3bn to enable postal voting to take place; he knows postal voting will allow more disadvantaged voters to vote safely, esp during a pandemic; so he's going to withhold the funds in order to suppress the vote. It's simple outright blatant election rigging
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« Reply #172 on: Thursday, August 13, 2020, 15:13:36 »

He's also ramping up the 'voting fraud' rhetoric ahead of when he (likely) loses; trying to deligitamise the vote in the eyes of his supporters. It's going to get messy if/when he loses. He's not going to go easy and he has a lot of gun-toting rednecks behind him.
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« Reply #173 on: Thursday, August 13, 2020, 16:10:26 »

I vaguely recall Trump making excuses in the build-up to the last election.

It's going to be an interesting election. He'll get plenty of votes.
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« Reply #174 on: Thursday, August 13, 2020, 16:24:05 »

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-53742684

Sorry, I know there are real people impacted by this, but it is kind of ironic and funny.
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« Reply #175 on: Thursday, August 20, 2020, 14:32:26 »

Trump's white nationalist (that's Nazi in old-speak) campaign manager and friend of Farage and Cummings, Steve Bannon, has been arrested on suspicion of massive fraud. Is there anyone connected to Trump who isn't either a criminal or a Russian asset (or both)?
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« Reply #176 on: Thursday, August 20, 2020, 14:51:25 »

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/steve-bannon-among-4-arrested-indicted-in-online-fundraising-scheme-doj-announces

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« Reply #177 on: Thursday, August 20, 2020, 14:54:27 »

Trump's white nationalist (that's Nazi in old-speak) campaign manager and friend of Farage and Cummings, Steve Bannon, has been arrested on suspicion of massive fraud. Is there anyone connected to Trump who isn't either a criminal or a Russian asset (or both)?

I asked the same question elsewhere and apparently there is one campaign manager who to date has not been indicted for anything, although I cannot vouch for Russian ties.


Indeed, sadly many of them who paid cash would probably respond again if a fund was launched to fund his legal fees.

TBF its little different to Farage and Brexit Party Ltd.
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« Reply #178 on: Thursday, August 20, 2020, 15:06:51 »

I asked the same question elsewhere and apparently there is one campaign manager who to date has not been indicted for anything, although I cannot vouch for Russian ties.

Indeed, sadly many of them who paid cash would probably respond again if a fund was launched to fund his legal fees.
Of course, as Yaxley-Lennon ("Tommy Robinson") has demonstrated with his continued milking of his followers, funding his £1m mansion in Beds, his villa in Spain and his ongoing subsidy of various Columbian export enterprises.

TBF its little different to Farage and Brexit Party Ltd.
Well, there's a reason for that. They're all part of the same network.
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« Reply #179 on: Thursday, August 20, 2020, 15:16:06 »

https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/20/politics/bannon-indictment/index.html

It doesn't look good for them - In summary, they funneled around $1.5m out of the "Charity" and moved it around before sending it back to themselves and sent text messages to each other providing an evidence trail!
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