**OFFICIAL Donald J. Trump vs. Joseph (Joe) R. Biden Thread - 2020 Presidential Election**

[Sanlmar]

First off, MAGA types don't hate the rich or the successful. They admire them.

Huh? Where do you get this stuff? I think you need to speak to your own belief system not the Trumplicans. You conflate the two, I believe.


Let’s got to the original architect of the Trump MAGA belief system, Steve Bannon. Like - the former White House Chief strategist.

So as not to be misquoted let’s go to Breitbart - the MAGA gospel.

elites on Wall Street and in Silicon Valley, Hollywood, and Washington, DC, have committed an “economic hate crime” against working-class Americans by eviscerating the country’s industrial base.

[Rick Sanchez]

My thoughts are that it's all stupid, but there's a zero point zero chance of it having any success.

100+ congressmen and more than 70% of Republican voters are buying in to this nonsense. Think more than one step ahead please. It is now normalized to lose an election and try to overturn it anyway. This won't be the last time it happens, and it may even succeed at local/state levels. Maybe even Democrats will add it to their playbook. How will you feel about it then?

[rum dick]

Okay?

You realize that was a stupid thing posted by one person with access to that Twitter account, right?

Similarly, we've seem dumb shit posted by people assigned to write content for major corporate Twitter accounts, and then that person is fired and it all blows over.

I know you have a fantasy that the modern GOP has been taken over by violent kooks who are a hair away from staging a coup. However, the reality is that there is indeed a party which has had thousands of members commit senseless acts of political violence this year, and it's not the Republicans.

Lol ok

https://www.thedailybeast.com/arizon...irder?ref=home

[rum dick]

Literally gonna screw up the great thing that is the USA for a reality television crybaby spazz. Idiocracy here we come!

It’s kind of a random library pick but it’s a good recap of how we got here.

The Blow it All Up Billionaires
https://highline.huffingtonpost.com/...es/en/mercers/


You could argue why we have Trump and not Cruz was a relatively innocuous billing issue. It’s fun to consider.

Her name was Bekah

Druff is stingy with reps so I'm just going to say thanks via a post

[Jayjami]

team retard is literally trying to overturn the election and druff is focused on aoc

There is zero point zero chance anything will be overturned.

The Court will dismiss this matter on procedural grounds: The Plaintiffs lack standing, which means they are not proper parties to bring the alleged claims.

[Walter Sobchak]

team retard is literally trying to overturn the election and druff is focused on aoc

There is zero point zero chance anything will be overturned.

I am focused on things that matter going forward, which unfortunately includes AOC.

Eroding the foundation of the republic and the commitment of people to upholding it matters just a little bit more than AOC. In 100 years nobody will remember AOC, but historians are still writing about the "corrupt bargain" that decided the 1876 election just 2 days before inauguration day, when both candidates were planning to hold an inauguration and claim to be the rightful president.

[Walter Sobchak]

im out of rep so please accept trumps grades in lieu

He failed statistics, no wonder he thinks he won by millions of votes.

[Dan Druff]

Okay?

You realize that was a stupid thing posted by one person with access to that Twitter account, right?

Similarly, we've seem dumb shit posted by people assigned to write content for major corporate Twitter accounts, and then that person is fired and it all blows over.

I know you have a fantasy that the modern GOP has been taken over by violent kooks who are a hair away from staging a coup. However,the reality is that there is indeed a party which has had thousands of members commit senseless acts of political violence this year, and it's not the Republicans.

Gimmick did an excellent job addressing this issue

Looting since the beginning of time has been associated with any chaotic event that caused enough disturbance. Opportunity. You're just so self centered and ignorant to even try understanding it. Americans didn't invent looting. It's been around for a while.

You think looting in London during WWII air raids was political in nature? Or hundred other examples that you don't seem to be aware of.

A random glimpse to history times...

https://www.warhistoryonline.com/ins...ome-front.html

"One of the most common crimes was looting. When a building was damaged or destroyed during bombing raids, looters would steal what they could. Both homes and shops were targets. People would come home to find that not only had their home been destroyed, but also that their possessions had been stolen. The loot may have been sold or kept by the individuals."

...Anteeeeeeeeeeefa obv.

We aren't just talking about looting, and you know it. We're talking about violence, arson, vandalism, and murder.

Do you think that these crimes were mostly committed by the apolitical, and that all of the actual leftists there were peacefully protesting? Do you think that Antifa is just the imagination of the paranoid right?

If so, you're a lot more gullible than I thought. But perhaps you are if you think the above response from gimmick was a good one.

[Dan Druff]

My thoughts are that it's all stupid, but there's a zero point zero chance of it having any success.

100+ congressmen and more than 70% of Republican voters are buying in to this nonsense. Think more than one step ahead please. It is now normalized to lose an election and try to overturn it anyway. This won't be the last time it happens, and it may even succeed at local/state levels. Maybe even Democrats will add it to their playbook. How will you feel about it then?

Democrats spent 4 years trying to assert that the Russians handed the election to Trump and he was involved in a conspiracy to make it happen. Now all of a sudden they're crying foul about Republicans undermining election results.

Also, many Democrats still believe Stacey Abrams is the rightfully elected governor of Georgia, even though she lost by 50,000 votes.

Besides, when Trump fails miserably in his attempt to change the results of this election, it's unlikely to spawn a lot of imitators. The imitation will start occurring when someone succeeds, or at least gets close. The system is designed to prevent that.

[Dan Druff]

Okay?

You realize that was a stupid thing posted by one person with access to that Twitter account, right?

Similarly, we've seem dumb shit posted by people assigned to write content for major corporate Twitter accounts, and then that person is fired and it all blows over.

I know you have a fantasy that the modern GOP has been taken over by violent kooks who are a hair away from staging a coup. However, the reality is that there is indeed a party which has had thousands of members commit senseless acts of political violence this year, and it's not the Republicans.

Lol ok

https://www.thedailybeast.com/arizon...irder?ref=home

Anyone want to place bets with me how much political violence from the right will occur by May 1, 2021?

I love these Daily Beast articles going on and on about what COULD happen.

"OMG OMG OMG OMG THERE MIGHT BE ANOTHER TIMOTHY MCVEIGH!!!!!111"

In the meantime, we had ACTUAL violence throughout the year, committed during the BLM protests, which the left and mainstream media cheered on and minimized. Remember the idiots on the left saying, "DON'T WORRY THEY GOTZ INSURANCE, ITZ COOL" when we'd see images of small businesses being smashed, looted, and burned, and the owners beaten badly?

Democrats saying in 2020 "OMG THERE MIGHT BE RIGHT WING VIOLENCE" would be like the current Houston Astros complaining that other teams might have the potential to cheat in 2021.

[Dan Druff]

First off, MAGA types don't hate the rich or the successful. They admire them.

Huh? Where do you get this stuff? I think you need to speak to your own belief system not the Trumplicans. You conflate the two, I believe.


Let’s got to the original architect of the Trump MAGA belief system, Steve Bannon. Like - the former White House Chief strategist.

So as not to be misquoted let’s go to Breitbart - the MAGA gospel.

elites on Wall Street and in Silicon Valley, Hollywood, and Washington, DC, have committed an “economic hate crime” against working-class Americans by eviscerating the country’s industrial base.

You're not seeing this correctly.

What percentage of small town MAGA types do you think support taxing the rich at a higher level? You realize that most would speak and vote against that, right? How many MAGA fanatics are screaming that the rich should be taxed more?

You don't see it, because class warfare isn't part of the MAGA playbook. Instead, they were sold a different message -- that the Democrats both have disdain for them AND sell out to special interests which allow their jobs to be outsourced. The latter of the two was used to defeat fellow Republicans in the 2016 primary, as well.

Hating greedy business practices and hating the successful are two entirely different things.

I'm glad we could have this talk. Come again soon.

[blake]

100+ congressmen and more than 70% of Republican voters are buying in to this nonsense. Think more than one step ahead please. It is now normalized to lose an election and try to overturn it anyway. This won't be the last time it happens, and it may even succeed at local/state levels. Maybe even Democrats will add it to their playbook. How will you feel about it then?

Democrats spent 4 years trying to assert that the Russians handed the election to Trump and he was involved in a conspiracy to make it happen. Now all of a sudden they're crying foul about Republicans undermining election results.

Also, many Democrats still believe Stacy Abrams is the rightfully elected governor of Georgia, even though she lost by 50,000 votes.

Besides, when Trump fails miserably in his attempt to change the results of this election, it's unlikely to spawn a lot of imitators. The imitation will start occurring when someone succeeds, or at least gets close.

claiming the russians influenced the election is nowhere close to trying to overturn the results in the way the republicans are doing it.

and this will absolutely spawn democratic immitators in the future. for example, if michigan flips red next time, expect the democrats to ask the michigan legislators to simply ignore the vote and select democrat electors.

i can't wait for your crying when that happens.

from this point forward, you no longer get to act outraged when the democrats make shady political moves that are technically legal. no court packing complaints, no complaining when PR is made a state, etc.

the republicans brought this on. that the dems will be successful when they do it should not matter.

[Dan Druff]

Democrats spent 4 years trying to assert that the Russians handed the election to Trump and he was involved in a conspiracy to make it happen. Now all of a sudden they're crying foul about Republicans undermining election results.

Also, many Democrats still believe Stacy Abrams is the rightfully elected governor of Georgia, even though she lost by 50,000 votes.

Besides, when Trump fails miserably in his attempt to change the results of this election, it's unlikely to spawn a lot of imitators. The imitation will start occurring when someone succeeds, or at least gets close.

claiming the russians influenced the election is nowhere close to trying to overturn the results in the way the republicans are doing it.

and this will absolutely spawn democratic immitators in the future. for example, if michigan flips red next time, expect the democrats to ask the michigan legislators to simply ignore the vote and select democrat electors.

i can't wait for your crying when that happens.

from this point forward, you no longer get to act outraged when the democrats make shady political moves that are technically legal. no court packing complaints, no complaining when PR is made a state, etc.

the republicans brought this on

Not even close to the same thing.

For one, the system is designed to prevent overturning of results, hence the lack of cooperation with Trump on this, even from Republicans. (Note that this is what's causing the issues in Georgia, where some Republican voters might unfortunately stay home for the runoff.)

Second, there's a huge difference between a Hail Mary attempt to overturn election results through legal challenges, and fundamentally changing longstanding political/judicial institutions.

Adding one or more states to the country in order to secure extra Senators falls under that fundamental change category. Packing the court to force a majority you don't otherwise have is another one, as this will completely destroy the Supreme Court.

When there is actual destructive outcome from Trump's actions, then you can come talk to me.

Until then, LOL at saying Democrats now should have a license to fuck up longstanding institutions because "Trump made legal challenges to the election".

[blake]

claiming the russians influenced the election is nowhere close to trying to overturn the results in the way the republicans are doing it.

and this will absolutely spawn democratic immitators in the future. for example, if michigan flips red next time, expect the democrats to ask the michigan legislators to simply ignore the vote and select democrat electors.

i can't wait for your crying when that happens.

from this point forward, you no longer get to act outraged when the democrats make shady political moves that are technically legal. no court packing complaints, no complaining when PR is made a state, etc.

the republicans brought this on

Not even close to the same thing.

For one, the system is designed to prevent overturning of results, hence the lack of cooperation with Trump on this, even from Republicans. (Note that this is what's causing the issues in Georgia, where some Republican voters might unfortunately stay home for the runoff.)

Second, there's a huge difference between a Hail Mary attempt to overturn election results through legal challenges, and fundamentally changing longstanding political/judicial institutions.

Adding one or more states to the country in order to secure extra Senators falls under that fundamental change category. Packing the court to force a majority you don't otherwise have is another one, as this will completely destroy the Supreme Court.

When there is actual destructive outcome from Trump's actions, then you can come talk to me.

Until then, LOL at saying Democrats now should have a license to fuck up longstanding institutions because "Trump made legal challenges to the election".

wtf are you talking about? packing the court, adding states is all legal too.

what happens when the democrats simply ask a state’s legislators to ignore the vote?

are you really going to get mad when the democrats are successful at doing what the republicans are attempting? lol why did i expect anything else

note the direct request to legislators to overturn the vote is a separate thing trump is doing aside from the lawsuits.

[nightmarefish]

[Sanlmar]

Huh? Where do you get this stuff? I think you need to speak to your own belief system not the Trumplicans. You conflate the two, I believe.


Let’s got to the original architect of the Trump MAGA belief system, Steve Bannon. Like - the former White House Chief strategist.

So as not to be misquoted let’s go to Breitbart - the MAGA gospel.

elites on Wall Street and in Silicon Valley, Hollywood, and Washington, DC, have committed an “economic hate crime” against working-class Americans by eviscerating the country’s industrial base.

You're not seeing this correctly.

What percentage of small town MAGA types do you think support taxing the rich at a higher level? You realize that most would speak and vote against that, right? How many MAGA fanatics are screaming that the rich should be taxed more?

You don't see it, because class warfare isn't part of the MAGA playbook. Instead, they were sold a different message -- that the Democrats both have disdain for them AND sell out to special interests which allow their jobs to be outsourced. The latter of the two was used to defeat fellow Republicans in the 2016 primary, as well.

Hating greedy business practices and hating the successful are two entirely different things.

I'm glad we could have this talk. Come again soon.

Warfare against the elite IS the playbook. You made the assertion that MAGA doesn’t hate the rich and successful. Who was talking about taxing them?

You are making distinctions that Bannon does not.

I see Hillary above. She is the epitome of the Washington entitled elite. Bannon gets some things right.

Good talk

[Sanlmar]

Incidentally Druff, it is noteworthy from whom Bannon took his funding. He was selective about which Billionaires he got down with.

You are aligned with the wrong Republican faction.

[duped_samaritan]

Democrats spent 4 years trying to assert that the Russians handed the election to Trump and he was involved in a conspiracy to make it happen. Now all of a sudden they're crying foul about Republicans undermining election results.

Reminder:

-Russia interfered
-Trump welcomed it
-Trump obstructed the investigation into it
-Paul Manafort

[Sanlmar]

I want to take this opportunity to reheat Druff’s take that Trump will quietly fade away once Biden takes office.

[Dan Druff]

Huh? Where do you get this stuff? I think you need to speak to your own belief system not the Trumplicans. You conflate the two, I believe.


Let’s got to the original architect of the Trump MAGA belief system, Steve Bannon. Like - the former White House Chief strategist.

So as not to be misquoted let’s go to Breitbart - the MAGA gospel.

You're not seeing this correctly.

What percentage of small town MAGA types do you think support taxing the rich at a higher level? You realize that most would speak and vote against that, right? How many MAGA fanatics are screaming that the rich should be taxed more?

You don't see it, because class warfare isn't part of the MAGA playbook. Instead, they were sold a different message -- that the Democrats both have disdain for them AND sell out to special interests which allow their jobs to be outsourced. The latter of the two was used to defeat fellow Republicans in the 2016 primary, as well.

Hating greedy business practices and hating the successful are two entirely different things.

I'm glad we could have this talk. Come again soon.

Warfare against the elite IS the playbook. You made the assertion that MAGA doesn’t hate the rich and successful. Who was talking about taxing them?

You are making distinctions that Bannon does not.

I see Hillary above. She is the epitome of the Washington entitled elite. Bannon gets some things right.

Good talk

You're still missing it.

If the gripe was with the rich and successful, the MAGA people would have supported taxing them more. They didn't, because the message wasn't one of class warfare.

The message was, "Hate the entrenched people in government and their corporate corrupters who are shipping your jobs overseas, killing your industries, and taking advantage of you."

The message was NOT, "Hate the rich and successful. They don't deserve what they have, and you should get a piece of what they've got."

Two very, very different messages. The first was likely to go over well with working class whites, and indeed they took to it very well. The second would not have gone over well.