Well, even though I have a good idea the response I’m going to get putting this on here, think about this: We have a highly divisive election with 2 very opposite camps already seeding the idea that 1)The election will be tampered with 2) the opposing party will not accept the results adn then 3) the world will end if either one of them are elected. With that to build off of, you are also dealing with a confusing narrative of pandemics supposedly preventing in-person voting, so of course with less than 90 days to go we need to rush implement a mass-mailing voting system and hope the same people that lose letters going to the same city can actually collect them appropriately. Sidebar: That is what most of us are against..not absentee voting or on-demand voting for disabled people, mass unsolicited mailing of ballots using voting rolls that are notoriously incorrect.
Taking all this in: Do you seriously think people will just calm down and carry on once December rolls around?
Memorable line of the morning: “Bret Stephens: the most important thing is for the G.O.P. to take such a shellacking in November that they will remember it as the political equivalent of an unsedated colonoscopy.”
A pandemic is spiraling out of control and Donald Trump’s reaction is to roll his eyes and say, “It is what it is.”
Unsurprisingly, polling data shows that his Democratic opponent, former Vice President Joe Biden, is pulling ahead, not just in national polls, but in a number of battleground states like Pennsylvania, Michigan and Florida, none of which Trump can afford to lose.
After all, the incumbent has nothing real to run on.
The economy is the worst it’s been since the Great Depression of the 1930s, Americans are losing health insurance by the millions, and Republicans are responding by trying to shortchange unemployment benefits for the millions of people who’ve lost their jobs.
With nothing real to hang on to, it’s no surprise that conservatives — already prone to spreading misinformation — are increasingly addicted to conspiracy theories, wallowing in paranoid fantasies to justify the ludicrous notion that there’s any reason to keep on supporting Trump and the Republican Party.
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As those of us who actually live in American cities can attest, they don’t look like war zones, but pretty much like the same places they were before the pandemic and the protests (with a lot less traffic).
Even when it comes to the protests themselves, despite some looting and vandalism back in early June, the vast majority of protests have been entirely nonviolent, at least as long as law enforcement isn’t attacking protesters without cause.
In spreading this bald-faced propaganda, Fox News — which tries to position itself as the voice of the Trump-era mainstream right — is working in tandem with cuckoo-for-Cocoa Puffs conspiracy theorists like QAnon and Alex Jones. Fox News viewers see all these misleading images and hear all this talk about “antifa” and the “radical left,” ✁ (out of space)
I remember being told after the last election that I should “give him a chance.” The election was over, the results were final, so I should just “give him a chance.” If the next election goes the other way, I wonder if those same people will be lining up to “give him a chance?” For some reason, I rather doubt it. Cynical of me, I know, but there it is.
As soon as Election Day, 2020, is over everyone will then be running for 2024. A good reason to change the Constitution and make the term for president a single eight year term.
Look at the bright side. You could both perish painfully from a virus that could easily have been brought under control months ago. Or you could be ‘lucky’ and merely suffer the rest of your life from its aftereffects!
mi_sbs over 4 years ago
They’re already writing articles about the 2024 election.
Darsan54 Premium Member over 4 years ago
I blame Newt.
cdcoventry over 4 years ago
Well, even though I have a good idea the response I’m going to get putting this on here, think about this: We have a highly divisive election with 2 very opposite camps already seeding the idea that 1)The election will be tampered with 2) the opposing party will not accept the results adn then 3) the world will end if either one of them are elected. With that to build off of, you are also dealing with a confusing narrative of pandemics supposedly preventing in-person voting, so of course with less than 90 days to go we need to rush implement a mass-mailing voting system and hope the same people that lose letters going to the same city can actually collect them appropriately. Sidebar: That is what most of us are against..not absentee voting or on-demand voting for disabled people, mass unsolicited mailing of ballots using voting rolls that are notoriously incorrect.
Taking all this in: Do you seriously think people will just calm down and carry on once December rolls around?
jmworacle over 4 years ago
They’ll be gearing up for 2022
RobinHood over 4 years ago
Welcome back, my friends
To the show that never ends.
We’re so glad you could attend!
Come inside! Come inside!
Emerson, Lake, and Palmer
William Robbins Premium Member over 4 years ago
Memorable line of the morning: “Bret Stephens: the most important thing is for the G.O.P. to take such a shellacking in November that they will remember it as the political equivalent of an unsedated colonoscopy.”
Silly Season over 4 years ago
A pandemic is spiraling out of control and Donald Trump’s reaction is to roll his eyes and say, “It is what it is.”
Unsurprisingly, polling data shows that his Democratic opponent, former Vice President Joe Biden, is pulling ahead, not just in national polls, but in a number of battleground states like Pennsylvania, Michigan and Florida, none of which Trump can afford to lose.
After all, the incumbent has nothing real to run on.
The economy is the worst it’s been since the Great Depression of the 1930s, Americans are losing health insurance by the millions, and Republicans are responding by trying to shortchange unemployment benefits for the millions of people who’ve lost their jobs.
With nothing real to hang on to, it’s no surprise that conservatives — already prone to spreading misinformation — are increasingly addicted to conspiracy theories, wallowing in paranoid fantasies to justify the ludicrous notion that there’s any reason to keep on supporting Trump and the Republican Party.
✁
As those of us who actually live in American cities can attest, they don’t look like war zones, but pretty much like the same places they were before the pandemic and the protests (with a lot less traffic).
Even when it comes to the protests themselves, despite some looting and vandalism back in early June, the vast majority of protests have been entirely nonviolent, at least as long as law enforcement isn’t attacking protesters without cause.
In spreading this bald-faced propaganda, Fox News — which tries to position itself as the voice of the Trump-era mainstream right — is working in tandem with cuckoo-for-Cocoa Puffs conspiracy theorists like QAnon and Alex Jones. Fox News viewers see all these misleading images and hear all this talk about “antifa” and the “radical left,” ✁ (out of space)
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https://www.salon.com/2020/08/05/right-wing-conspiracy-theorists-get-even-more-unhinged-as-trumps-chances-fade/
Bookworm over 4 years ago
I remember being told after the last election that I should “give him a chance.” The election was over, the results were final, so I should just “give him a chance.” If the next election goes the other way, I wonder if those same people will be lining up to “give him a chance?” For some reason, I rather doubt it. Cynical of me, I know, but there it is.
MichaelSFC90 over 4 years ago
As soon as Election Day, 2020, is over everyone will then be running for 2024. A good reason to change the Constitution and make the term for president a single eight year term.
Kip W over 4 years ago
Look at the bright side. You could both perish painfully from a virus that could easily have been brought under control months ago. Or you could be ‘lucky’ and merely suffer the rest of your life from its aftereffects!