Current Affairs The 2020 United States Presidential Election

[Jebus_lives]

Anderson Cooper: "The Capitol, the longest standing democracy on earth...."

Erm... no?

Not even close

 

[tsubaki]

Pence's speech was very good.

Never thought I'd ever say that, unless he'd just pled guilty to burying an icepick in the back of Trump's head.

 

[Yank]

I respectfully disagree. If Trump had shown any leadership and had told his people to do simple things such as let's wear the damn mask. I think we would be in a better position when it comes to Covid. Not to even mention how much more he could have done better to prevent all these deaths. No all of them could have been preventable but a lot less people could have died.

I agree on those points, but I didn't think that was what you were talking about. I thought you were talking about today specifically, my bad. I misunderstood you, in that case I agree.

 

[Hogwild]

From Mitt Romney who has been one of the few consistent adults in the room:

“We gather today due to a selfish man’s injured pride and the outrage of his supporters whom he has deliberately misinformed for the past two months and stirred to action this very morning," he said in a press release.

"What happened here today was an insurrection, incited by the President of the United States," Romney continued. "Those who choose to continue to support his dangerous gambit by objecting to the results of a legitimate, democratic election will forever be seen as being complicit in an unprecedented attack against our democracy. They will be remembered for their role in this shameful episode in American history. That will be their legacy."

 

[Sassy Colombian]

Honesty is the best policy!

Besides the way this going you might still need to drink tomorrow

I agree. After 26 years together my husband would already know I have had a drink once he gets home, hard to hide my silly faces. He would know the truth.

I'm not drinking tomorrow lol

 

[Shevin Keedy]

I find all this fascinating, its times like this I wish I knew who some of these American politicians were.

 

[tsubaki]

even McConnell has just called this a failed insurrection

 

[carolinablue232]

From Mitt Romney who has been one of the few consistent adults in the room:

“We gather today due to a selfish man’s injured pride and the outrage of his supporters whom he has deliberately misinformed for the past two months and stirred to action this very morning," he said in a press release.

"What happened here today was an insurrection, incited by the President of the United States," Romney continued. "Those who choose to continue to support his dangerous gambit by objecting to the results of a legitimate, democratic election will forever be seen as being complicit in an unprecedented attack against our democracy. They will be remembered for their role in this shameful episode in American history. That will be their legacy."

Always thought if Romney would’ve decided to run in 2016 he might’ve beat Trump. How different the world might be.

 

[Shevin Keedy]

Mitch McConnell, no idea who he is, but he speaks well.

 

[Tubey]

That's not comparable at all to twitter flagging comments for like a 2 good 2 years as potentially misleading but allowing all else to continue as normal.

Then Trump tweets essentially this is what happened when blah blah blah.

And what happened was a Capitol building stormed, a girl shot dead.

I think they covered their bases. Like you are so wrong on this, but continue if you want.

Like you can't yell fire in a movie theater. That's been essentially ruled it doesn't fall under freedom of speech because someone could get trampled in the panic.

Someone was essentially trampled, and afterwards Trump was like that what's happens. He's been yelling fire with no fire. Twitter is well covered here.

You're getting hyperbolic.

So if Twitter was ran by a MAGA supporter and decided tomorrow to ban Bernie Sanders, that'd be fine right because it's a private company?

The impact on societal discourse doesn't matter, right?

Because that's the problem. What you describe in the movie theater are laws. Twitter didn't delete Trumps tweets because of laws; they did so because of a ToS that they arbitrarily enforce based on public interest. They aren't the same thing, and that is indeed my whole point - that Twitter is regulated like any other private company when the impact of the platform is akin to things usually covered by other points of law.

 

[Tubey]

Mitch McConnell, no idea who he is, but he speaks well.

Oooh no. No he does not.

 

[Shevin Keedy]

Senate Majority Leader, wtf?

 

[Wat Tyler]

Anyone think calling Trump a fascist is still 'ridiculous'?

Nope...

Definition: often capitalized : a political philosophy, movement, or regime (such as that of the Fascisti) that exalts nation and often race above the individual and that stands for a centralized autocratic government headed by a dictatorial leader, severe economic and social regimentation, and forcible suppression of opposition.

 

[tsubaki]

Always thought if Romney would’ve decided to run in 2016 he might’ve beat Trump. How different the world might be.

he'd never have - like McCain, he was a man for the wrong time politically

 

[carolinablue232]

Mitch McConnell, no idea who he is, but he speaks well.

Senate majority leader for the republicans. Widely hated by democrats but good to see him do the right thing here.