Interregnum and Coup Attempt

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Submitted by Bird Dog on Thu, 11/19/2020 - 11:28pm

Trump has had only one post-election victory in court (I think he's 1-32 so far), and Giuliani's presence in the courtroom has not helped. The problem is obvious: Trump trotted out the Big Lie that there was widespread fraud and that the election was "rigged", but he can't prove it in court because he has no evidence, and not for lack of trying. His supplicants and sycophants are furiously trying to backfill his bullsh*t, but to no avail because they've got nothing to work with.

President-Elect Biden

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Submitted by Bird Dog on Fri, 11/06/2020 - 12:14pm

This is good news for the NeverTrumpers (and libertarians). Just to recap...

One Day To Go Open Thread

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Submitted by Bird Dog on Tue, 11/03/2020 - 11:01am

It's ridiculous that this election is as close as it is, and I hope the American people make the right decision. I didn't vote for Biden but I hope he wins a constitutional majority. It will mean that Trump's lies and malevolence and corruption and incompetence and stupidity and unfitness finally caught up to him.

Many books have already been written about Trump, but his loss will mean that more books and more revelations will come out. Hopefully, most Americans will truly see him for who he is, sooner than later, but there will always be a few holdouts and delusionals, like this guy.

One Week to Go Open Thread

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Submitted by Bird Dog on Tue, 10/27/2020 - 10:59pm

Here's what I've been doing lately. I look closely at the RCP averages, and then go over to the tight state races by checking out the battlegrounds or by typing a state in the box. After that, I look at 270towin to play the scenarios. If we go strictly by the RCP averages, then Biden has 328 electoral votes for an easy win. He's at an advantage, but then, so did Hillary.

Ideas for norm-compliant vengeance (OT)

Submitted by eeyn524 on Thu, 10/22/2020 - 9:28am

The polls are predicting a full Democratic takeover, full control of the House, Senate, and White House.  Naturally you Democrats are thirsting for vengeance. You also want to build in some long-term structural advantages (or as you might prefer to describe it, compensate for unfair Republican structural advantages).  OK, but you should at least try to not be wantonly destructive.

 

Tactics that would be constitutional fair game and also ethically justified on non-partisan grounds:

 

1. Admit Puerto Rico as a state and rack up two D senators and five D representatives.  However, it should be approved by the voters there, rather than by some packed focus group, as AOC has advocated.

 

(edit 2) Brand New Deja Entendu and I Am Heaven Sent I Am Still the King

Submitted by Brutus et tu on Wed, 10/14/2020 - 12:45am

forvm and my browsers still aren't fully getting along.

ACB thinks the 14th Amendment might be a fraud.

https://scholarship.law.nd.edu/law_faculty_scholarship/1297/

 

Debate Open Thread

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Submitted by Bird Dog on Tue, 09/29/2020 - 9:40am

Trump is going to be asked to whom he owes $421 million, and he'll be asked why he (a billionaire) paid zero taxes in eleven of the last eighteen years, and he'll be asked about his financial conflicts of interest with Turkey, India, Philippines and other countries, and he'll be asked about Ivanka's likely illegal $700,000-plus "consulting fees". My guess is that Trump will dodge the questions by using his "I'm under audit" excuse and then go after Hunter Biden. I don't believe it'll play well.

Trump will also be challenged about his handling of CV19, where he'll pat himself on the back at well he's done. It'll be up to Biden to punch holes in Trump's gross mismanagement.

Happy Autumn OT.

Submitted by Darth Cuddly on Mon, 09/21/2020 - 2:32am

Or for you specifists, Happy Autumnal Equinox.  Technically, we're still a day away.

 

Ok, it's my favorite time of the year.  Nights are chilly and a little outdoor fire with the family with a big moon is just the best way to spend an evening.  Also, apples are everywhere, and a little apple juice, yeast, cinnamon and time will lead to a cheery T-day and X-mas.  

 

Enjoy this time.  I will.

The No Mulan Thread

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Submitted by Bird Dog on Wed, 09/09/2020 - 11:12am

▪ It's a scandal that Disney is selling Mulan to subscribers for $30 a pop, but there's a bigger scandal, and it's Disney’s collusion with China's propaganda apparatus. To me, this is important because Corporate America and our American government need to make a fundamental shift in dealing with Xi and his Chinese Communist Party.

Ahistoric Thread

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Submitted by Bird Dog on Tue, 08/25/2020 - 4:56pm

● Either Jon Voight is a True Believer or the RNC roofied him into narrating that piece of alt-history revisionist garbage. But he wasn't the only one delivering fiction. The biggest questions I had came away with last night was why Ms. Guilgoyle was channeling Eva Peron and whether or not Donald Jr. was coked up. Only his dealer knows for sure.

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