Current Affairs The 2020 United States Presidential Election

[BirkenheadBlue]

Trump will be fine and will get a huge sympathy vote from millions of dumb Americans that will win him the election.

This is a realistic concern

 

[BlueTX]

This is a realistic concern

I have sympathy for the man's condition.

Difficult to know how this will play out politically but I cannot forget his callous disregard for protection/caution and mocking of those who took the situation seriously.

 

[BirkenheadBlue]

I have sympathy for the man's condition.

Difficult to know how this will play out politically but I cannot forget his callous disregard for protection/caution and mocking of those who took the situation seriously.

Yeah but you’re a little more level headed than some mate.

saw it over here too, Boris Johnson’s poll numbers spiked significantly when he had covid.

 

[Prevenger17]

I have sympathy for the man's condition

The well of sympathy I have for him is completely tapped out. Don't fight it Don, walk towards the light

 

[BlueTX]

Yeah but you’re a little more level headed than some mate.

saw it over here too, Boris Johnson’s poll numbers spiked significantly when he had covid.

Which is understandable given he contracted the virus while you all were in early stages.

Difficult to claim the same for our leader, many months later.

 

[LinekersLegs]

Bet those donors are just thrilled

 

[trueblue84]

Trump will be fine and will get a huge sympathy vote from millions of dumb Americans that will win him the election.

But they don't think coronavirus is real. Their little pea brains must be really maxed out at the moment, trying to figure out what's happening.

I wonder whether it is a ploy to avoid the next debate because it was such a disaster for him.

 

[BirkenheadBlue]

Which is understandable given he contracted the virus while you all were in early stages.

Difficult to claim the same for our leader, many months later.

I hope you're right.

 

[BirkenheadBlue]

QAnon twitter is a JOURNEY at the moment

 

[BlueTX]

QAnon twitter is a JOURNEY at the moment

You are a braver soul than I.

 

[BirkenheadBlue]

You are a braver soul than I.

Ha. Thankfully it was only highlights posted by a writer.

 

[flibbyflob]

Well if Trump has it then there must be a chance Biden has it too as they were together having that slanging match the other day, neither are young men and hopefully nothing comes of it but you have to wonder.

 

[Pittsburgh Footy]

Once again:


Thank you for your generous contributions to the ^fund^. Given the @ Bruce-Wayneification of the world economy it is probably growing faster these days than my pension!

I have no doubt that the voters featured in the article have a dimmer understanding of the intricacies of NAFTA than @BlueTX's hasty Wikipedia search - but it doesn't matter. They still vote. They might even be willing to vote Democrat in 2020 - but the Party is once again doing a terrible job of addressing their concerns.

And I am not 'turning on my fellow progressives' lol! You boys are hilarious - straight out of Mean Girls. I literally just posted, without commentary, an article which offers interesting insight into the voters that Democrats are ostensibly courting, and how they can do much better - and the usual suspects had an immediate meltdown and threw their toys out of the pram yet again because they sensed it breeched the echo chamber they've worked so hard to maintain in here.



There, there, you have all made it very clear, literally tens of thousands of times since 2016, how self-evident you think your virtues are. But it really isn't me you need to persuade; I would sigh heavily and vote for General Secretary Chernenko just like the rest of you.

I sincerely hope those merry few staffing Joe Biden's non-existent ground game have come up with something more concrete and much less self-righteous than this to offer.

Instead of sticking both fingers in my ears and shrieking 'BUT DONALD TRUMP IS EVIL' for the one-hundred millionth time, I would be trying to understand why it is that the Democrats are arguably only competitive against unambiguously the worst President since Harding - a boorish, lazy, corrupt, incoherent and catastrophically incompetent lout - because of Covid 19, and even now remain well within the margin of blowing it again. It's as though the the struggling working-class voters in the article I posted, whose interests Democrats take as an article of faith that they better represent, are largely indifferent to a campaign promising that 'nothing fundamentally will change' but if you don't vote for us, you're a racist.

Otherwise, it is a steep and slippery slope from when Treasury and Commerce Secretaries Jamie Dimon and Larry Summers announce in January that 'Surprise! The Pantry's Bare', to President Tucker Carlson sweeping to an unprecedented victory in 2024 by combining a left-wing economic agenda that Democrat donors would never allow with much more successful appeals to the Pennsylvania voters' justified concerns, few remaining sources of pride, and well-earned contempt for the professional middle class which despises them.

And then the lights go out forever.

You can tell how frivolous and indifferent urban liberals are to winning power and transforming the country, when their response to the very struggling shít-town working-class voters whose interests they insist they represent is denigrating them and running to Wikipedia to refute them, rather than listening and attempting to persuade them.

I used to think like this, as I’m from small town America, with parents and family and friends from small town America. And I used to think very much about the Democratic Party how you’re describing it here. As someone who was even a registered Republican until 2016.

But the more I see, the more I live, the more I talk to my family and friends, the more I interact with those who you describe in this rant, the more I’ve had to come to terms to the fact that the issue largely isn’t an economic one. And never really was. Perhaps it was at first. But 30 years of propaganda has put us well beyond any magic “economic plan” that will sway many of these voters

So sometimes it may come off as contempt. Which isn’t intended. It’s just been so frustrating watching what’s happened to many people I know over these last 30 years.

its like the old adage, Fox News has done to our parents what they thought video games would

 

[peteblue]

Trump will be fine and will get a huge sympathy vote from millions of dumb Americans that will win him the election.

I think that some Democrats and luvvies will make the mistake of saying that they hope he dies or whatever. This will drive a reaction and give him the vote. Assuming he gets over it of course.....

 

[BirkenheadBlue]

I think that some Democrats and luvvies will make the mistake of saying that they hope he dies or whatever. This will drive a reaction and give him the vote. Assuming he gets over it of course.....

What do you mean by “Democrats and luvvies”, pete?

because if you mean “a handful of idiots on social media”, the OBVIOUSLY some people will do that (though I don’t see why left leaning idiots seem to be given so much less leeway for their behaviour than right leaning ones before we assume a political backlash).

If you mean a significant number of members of the Democratic establishment, then no, that won’t happen.