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I thought I couldn’t despise the dickhead any more than I already do and then.....
REPEAL SECTION 230!!!
Use of more than one exclamation mark puts you in a special section of ****ing idiot. No Donald, not special in the birthday sense.
Superficial
Free MemberAt this point I certainly wouldn’t admit to a journalist/ pollster that I was going to vote Trump.
Mmm. Shy Tory Syndrome- that odd thing that skews polls, and means that parties win elections via the votes of people who can't admit they voted for them even to complete strangers or anonymously. There's a sign you're proud of a decision eh.
Is anyone else perversely excited about what batshit crazy thing he’s going to do next?
It’s the dexamethasone talking.
Shy Tory Syndrome- that odd thing that skews polls, and means that parties win elections via the votes of people who can’t admit they voted for them even to complete strangers or anonymously. There’s a sign you’re proud of a decision eh.
Yep.
Very good
Is anyone else perversely excited about what batshit crazy thing he’s going to do next?
Definitely me. It has the cadence of a box set but is the next season set in the White House or the Big House?
Go Kathryn!
wonderful, raised a smile or three
Ooooft
https://twitter.com/CNBCnow/status/1313556766022610944?s=19
Someone get the phone away from him
Is anyone else perversely excited about what batshit crazy thing he’s going to do next?
He's scrapped a relief package for people who have lost their livelihoods due to Covid. Would have thought the Dexa would've worn off by now.
At least his empathy level is within normal parameters.
It's almost like he's accepted defeat now, and is straight onto the narcissistic injury lashing out phase. Who will get nuked?
He's a total **** isn't he?
I can't find one good facet in his personality or behaviour. Are we actually looking at the face of what evil is and can be?
No, just an underlying severe personality disorder exaggerated by dementia, long-term drug use and a steroid hit. If your elderly relative was behaving like this, they'd be in the ward with the lock on the door.
He’s scrapped a relief package for people who have lost their livelihoods due to Covid. Would have thought the Dexa would’ve worn off by now.
It's being reported that Pelosi has queried his decision and asking if his treatment is impacting his decision making.
If your elderly relative was behaving like this, they’d be in the ward with the lock on the door.
Makes you wonder,how bad he will have to get before they can invoke the Twenty-fifth Amendment.
If Pelosi has queried his decision, I see that as her taking a step towards referring to the 25th.
Ha! That Tony Robinson tweet is fantastic - childish but really made me laugh.
fasthaggis
Free MemberMakes you wonder,how bad he will have to get before they can invoke the Twenty-fifth Amendment.
Posted this earlier but the absolute latest it should have been invoked was when he was taken into hospital. More reasonable would have probably been about when he had the positive diagnosis and was first feeling significantly unwell.
The point of the 25th isn't like when Denzel Washington takes over the submarine because Gene Hackman's mental- it's exactly for when the President is temporarily incapacitiated. It's not a defeat or a sign of weakness or any of that, or a particularly drastic step- it's just the method by which you make sure the country has a president and commander in chief. Like giving the keys to the assistant manager because you're not confident you'll make it in tomorrow.
Having a president who's hypoxic (which we know he was) or is taking drugs that can cause a changed mental state (which we know he was) is not a terribly good idea, all round. And that's the least bad possible situation.
I feel kinda* sorry for the aid who leaked the Melania tapes..... not quite getting the traction that she had hoped.
*weeellllll, not really
He’s scrapped a relief package for people who have lost their livelihoods due to Covid.
I can't see that playing out well either.
I can’t see that playing out well either.
It's all in the messaging. He's saying he's blocking the bill until he gets elected: "elect me, get money"
He's also claiming that the reason he's blocking the bill is because the Democrats are using it to prop-up failing lawless democrat cities.
It's a continuation of his strategy - doubling down on the craziness/lies to amp-up his base, but potentially losing people on the edge of that base (dumb enough to potentially vote for trump, but just smart enough to recognize that this is a bad thing for them).
Fancy a bit of Trump inspired anime, just released yesterday? All 70 minutes of it?
Me neither.
https://m.imdb.com/title/tt12969958/
Plot:Directed by BC Fourteen. With Timothy Banfield, Wes Bruff, Marco Guzmán. A clone of Donald Trump survives the Earth's destruction by stowing-away aboard the last space-bound shuttle. At the same time, across space, the human race continues to fight a costly battle against Illuminati forces.
I’m reading (for the umpteenth time) Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail - Hunter S Thomson Which i used to consider a wild and fanciful account of a political descent into madness. We need another Hunter to chronicle what’s going on at the moment, with the figurehead of the USA pumped up on steroids and a cocktail of drugs that are clearly affecting his judgement and mental ability to lead a troubled nation through this crisis.
I imagine the following going through trumps mind as he flew to the whitehouse last night,
“We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold. I remember saying something like "I feel a bit lightheaded; maybe you should drive...." And suddenly there was a terrible roar all around us and the sky was full of what looked like huge bats, all swooping and screeching and diving around the car, which was going about a hundred miles an hour with the top down to Las Vegas.”
― Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
He is always going for the biggest and greatest.
Trump Turning Down Pelosi’s Stimulus Deal Is the Worst Political Blunder in History
Why did he allow himself to be led by the nose into self-defeating positions? Obviously, Trump knows very little about public policy. He does have some grasp of self-interest though, and has frequently expressed his correct view that it lies in casting aside anti-government dogma and borrowing as much money as he could.
One explanation might be that Trump’s hatred and distrust of Democrats drove him to instinctive opposition. Trump thinks entirely in zero-sum terms, and habitually accuses anybody not working on his behalf of being motivated by a desire to defeat him. Once House Democrats passed an economic relief bill, just months after impeaching him, Trump probably assumed the bill could only hurt him. Or, at least, the fact Democrats passed it so willingly made it easier for right-wing ideologues to convince him that the bill would hurt him.
Trump’s zero-sum mindset is one reason he is awful at making deals. If he has indeed walked away from the House’s offer, he has turned down what may have been his last, best chance to win reelection. Presidents have made worse policy choices before. But it is hard to think of a president who has ever made a purely political decision so predictably disastrous.
Utterly inevitable.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-54441986/blockquote >
https://twitter.com/DannyZuker/status/1313621593793257475
^^Good stuff.😁
All eyes on the VP's test today before the debate.
He’s also claiming that the reason he’s blocking the bill is because the Democrats are using it to prop-up failing lawless democrat cities.
I assume this isn't the case - the bill actually provides much needed relief funding to all states? It's Trump who's claiming the red states are fine, blue states need the money?
And as Cuomo has pointed out several times, the dem states are contributors to federal funds, it's the rural republican states that take money from federal funds normally.
He truly is a bag of malignant cells in an ill-fitting suit.
Saying no deal to the Dems support package is another example of him pissing on the little people.
He has proved himself to be completely incapable of doing anything for the greater good of the american people; truly odious and loathsome.
As for the VP debate, I'm looking forward to that.
Pence is much more likely to treat it as a debate than a shoutfest but will be acutely aware that trump will be scrutinising every word and nuance from both Pence and Harris - and probably tweeting in real time with his 'considered opinions'.
Harris's comments about Biden in the Dem's candidate debates will give some lead-ins for Pence but I'm certain she will have prepared thoroughly for that.
I would expect Pence to go on law & order; Harris to go after him on CV19 as he, notionally, leads the WH coronavirus task force and tie him closely to everything trump has done.
Very tempted to stay up for it.
the Melania tapes
Please god don’t let this be a Pamela Anderson type of tape! I’ve not Read every page of this horror show so there could be a better explanation. I better go and do some work for a bit to get that eye worm out of my head🤮
Please god don’t let this be a Pamela Anderson type of tape!
It's worse. She DECLARED WAR ON CHRISTMAS!!!!
I'm finding it difficult to disagree with the FLOTUS! Stormy Daniels is a porn hooker and reading between the lines there is probably a lot of truth in what she says about the migrant children. I think she probably did try to intervene but was swatted away, she probably does really believe that the children are better taken care of by the US authorites than left with traffickers in Mexico. I'm not sure she shares the disgusting and racist views her repugnant husband does and who knows if she had been married to a different president she might have turned out alright, plus who doesn't hate xmas decorations?
I’m not sure she shares the disgusting and racist views her repugnant husband does
plus who doesn’t hate xmas decorations?
Americans.
Houses decorated like that are no longer the sole preserve of the USA. More and more like that (or heading that way) each year. My missus even got me to put some lights up last year.
The host's reaction to this nuttery is priceless.
https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1313553163354624006
Onto the election and Donald is in big trouble. The link below has the latest national averages, as well as the state by state ones. They usually use the average from the last 4 or 5 polls.
https://www.270towin.com/2020-polls-biden-trump/
what it shows is that Trump is down on all the battleground states, mostly beyond the margin of error (usually +/- 4%). Based on polls, the states are split into the following categories:
Toss up - neither candidate is averaging a lead above 5%
Leans - One candidate has a lead of between 5% & 10%
Likely - the lead is between 10 % 15%
Safe - Lead is greater than 15%
Based on the polls, an electoral map of the abive has Biden with 279 college votes. Trump has 125. So if that holds true, without even needing to win any of the toss up states (most of which he's ahead in by 2 - 4%), Biden wins.
Trump on the other hand needs to win his 125, win every single toss up state (most of which Biden is ahead in) and win somewhere like Pennsylvania (Biden currently 7% ahead). This is extremely unlikely. 270towin run an intelligent election simulator that does models 25,000 scenarios everyday. Biden is currently winning 80% of them.
The idea that Trump will pull a rabbit out of the hat like in 2016 is unlikely for a number of reasons:
He was an insurgent candidate last time. He's not this time (however hard he tries to be)
He traded on the successful businessman shtick. That's been blown wide open, enough who fell for it last time won't this time
He was up against a terrible candidate (not her fault per se, she's just not very likeable and was seen as part of the Democratic establishment). + server-gate, Benghazi etc. Biden is a different kettle of fish
A lot of people didn't vote in 2016. Suppression worked + people didn't take Trump seriously. That's not happening this time. Traditionally the majority of early voters tend to he Republican. Apparently this time there are far more Democrats.
Covid-19. Mismanagement of.
He's a weapons grade bell-end. Becoming more and more obvious by the minute. As said above, his core base doesn't matter. It's the middle ground that counts and enough of them see him for what he is. But apparently he's also haemorrhaging support amongst the over 65s, who were an important factor in 2016
Unless something totally unexpected happens, the only way i can see him staying in power is if he tries to steal it. But even that I suspect won't be possible as results on the night will be pretty definitive.
Map based on polls
https://www.270towin.com/maps/biden-trump-polling-map
Simulator link
https://www.270towin.com/2020-simulation/
Loads of good stuff on that website!
Very promising. Let’s hope those postal votes are flooding in now. It could be a tense few weeks after Election Day… unless…
results on the night will be pretty definitive
Hope.
So basically, Trump has to win all the bronze coloured states (i.e. toss-ups), plus at least one or two blue states. If Biden wins Arizona (likely) or Florida (quite possible), Trump is finished.
I'm not sure the problem is Biden not winning, more Trump refusing to lose.
Well lets hope those polls are right.
To be frank, if the USA re-elect that complete ****, then they will prove themselves the worst nation on Earth.
To paraphrase - "In a democracy, the people end up with the government and leaders they deserve"
I’m not sure the problem is Biden not winning, more Trump refusing to lose.
That would only be a problem if the popular vote win was within about 3% - that would mean that the results in toss-up states could end up in court for weeks. As it stands, the gap is enormous and Biden would have a solid victory pretty much immediately. The latest round of polls are pointing to a lead of 10% or more, so Trump needs to convince 5% of voters to dump Biden and switch to him. The polls this week are pointing to the opposite of that.
https://twitter.com/washingtonpost/status/1313766455721242624?s=21
@hols2 Not the most surprising development given his track record of knowing better than anyone else and taking advice as a challenge?