Elections 2020, Hey Jack, I Was Right. Trump And The Republicans Lost Big Time
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UPDATED: Wednesday, July 31, 2024 02:11
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Quote:You got that right about stupid and evil. There was a Republican judge who lost his elected position: Harris County District Judge Michael McSpadden told the Chronicle on Thursday that he stands behind his decision to deny personal recognizance (PR) bonds even if it violated the law.
Originally posted by JO753:
Stupid and evil. They got all basez covered.
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DUZ XaT SEM RiT TQ YQ? - Jubal Early
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For the evil part, McSpadden refused to admit he was targeting blacks. Oh, no, he's not a racist, he says. For the stupid part, McSpadden kept people in Harris County jail waiting years for their misdemeanor trials. The jail was over-stuffed with innocent people. The Republicans controlling Harris county would neither expand the jail nor would they lower the population of prisoners by using PR bonds. It was just a ridiculous mess created by the GOP. Either expand the jail or lower the prisoner population seems a simple choice, doesn't it? But not simple enough for a Republican voter to understand.
The funny part is that McSpadden didn't lose his job because he was a racist, an idiot judge, and all-around smug evil bastard. He lost it because of Trump's silly antics and general stupidity in Washington DC forced a slight shift in the votes for positions in Harris County, Texas in 2018.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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How Badly Can Trump Lose the 2020 Election?
(The Worst He Can Do Is Not That Bad)
In April 2011, Whet Moser of Chicago Magazine wrote a piece with an intriguing subtitle: “How Alan Keyes’s substantial – but not 100 percent total–loss to Barack Obama – explains the world, or at least birthers and the sudden political popularity of Donald Trump.” It was a retrospective article that looked at the 2004 Illinois senate race that launched Barack Hussein Obama to national prominence. But it was also forward-looking, as Moser was already noting something stirring within the Republican base toward Donald Trump and his Birther movement.
The contest between Obama and Keyes had already become a kind of measure of what percentage of the electorate is so blinded by either stupidity, insanity or raw partisanship that it will never under any circumstances vote for the Democrats. This was spawned by a hilarious piece screenwriter John Rodgers wrote in 2005 at his blog Kung Fu Monkey. In that post, Rodgers created a pretend conversation with his black friend Tyrone as they mused on how low President Bush’s approval numbers could go. They currently stood at 37%, and Tyrone insisted that they could go no lower than 27%.
John: Hey, Bush is now at 37% approval. I feel much less like Kevin McCarthy screaming in traffic. But I wonder what his base is —
Tyrone: 27%.
John: … you said that immediately, and with some authority.
Tyrone: Obama vs. Alan Keyes. Keyes was from out of state, so you can eliminate any established political base; both candidates were black, so you can factor out racism; and Keyes was plainly, obviously, completely crazy. Batshit crazy. Head-trauma crazy. But 27% of the population of Illinois voted for him. They put party identification, personal prejudice, whatever ahead of rational judgement. Hell, even like 5% of Democrats voted for him. That’s crazy behaviour. I think you have to assume a 27% Crazification Factor in any population.
Once this post went viral, the 27% floor became known as either the “Crazification Factor” or the “Alan Keyes Constant.” Over time, it’s been remarkable to see how many different unpopular opinions bottom out at approximately 27% in surveys. Whenever that happens, people inevitably shrug and make reference to the Alan Keyes Constant.
But I don’t think the number is correct for presidential campaigns. With the stakes so much higher than a mere Senate race, I think raw partisanship has more influence. So, if we ask how low Donald Trump’s approval number can go or how badly he might do in the popular vote in 2020, I think we need to project something closer to 37%.
Right now, people are beginning to lose confidence in Trump’s shepherding of the economy and his poll numbers are slipping as a result. But he’s still stubbornly holding on at around 40%.
More at https://washingtonmonthly.com/2019/08/28/just-how-badly-can-trump-lose
-the-2020-election/
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If only Trump gave a damn.
The Russians are coming.
That’s the message about the 2020 election from FBI Director Chris Wray (who this summer said Moscow is determined to interfere in the next presidential contest) and from former Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats (who warned that Vladimir Putin’s regime and other foreign actors will concoct new methods for messing with American politics in 2020). Yet Donald Trump and his administration have done little to signal that thwarting another Russian attack — or an assault on the election from any other source — is a priority.
In the months before Kirstjen Nielsen was booted from her post as Department of Homeland Security secretary, she was instructed not to raise with Trump the issue of preventing Russian interference in 2020. (Any talk of Russia’s attempted subversion of US elections apparently irks Trump — as it should, for his election victory is indeed tainted by Moscow’s intervention.)
And Trump, who has never fully acknowledged Putin’s attack in 2016, recently noted that he would accept secret help, in the form of dirt on a political rival, from a foreign government for his reelection campaign. That remark, his call to allow Russia to reenter the G8, and his general Russia-didn’t-do-anything stance certainly send a signal to Putin: Feel free to do it again.
Meanwhile, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has blocked votes on a variety of election security bills.
More at www.motherjones.com/politics/2019/09/how-to-stop-russia-from-attacking
-and-influencing-the-2020-election/
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Quote:
Originally posted by SECOND:
If only Trump gave a damn. The Russians are coming.
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Quote:
Originally posted by SECOND:
If only Trump gave a damn.
The Russians are coming.
A friend made this observation, speculation:
2020 is in the bag. Trump will win pretty much as he did and by the relatively same margins as he did in 2016. Trump knows that he has Russia's help and they have assured him that, "no worries, comrade." He's made good on enough pro-Russian moves, chiefly sanctions lifted, Nato threatened, England/EU rattled, Ukraine snubbed, that they're still on board. And since we're doing little to protect our elections it should be pretty easy. I add that the US population still has no idea just how many voting machines and outcomes Russia controlled in 2016. Even our election "experts" have very little knowledge. AND even if they did there's no way any public official would even try and tell us. The Trump WH surely wouldn't, and anyone else who might would face immediate termination from our dictator. Trump exercised firing people as an early statement of control and domination - pretty smart, really.
Plus, consider: Trump knowing that he's got a lock on the next 4 years - 4 years of plundering our Treasury, filling his properties with countries looking for handouts and US gov officials getting room service on our dime, and very importantly staying out of jail - goes a long way to explaining his current behavior. As in total indifference to being even a remotely responsible president. He simply doesn't have to give a sh*t.
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New Generation Of Voters Emerges In 2020. Opps...
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lol
Good luck with that.
You're going to need the millennials to vote in droves, because Gen Z isn't voting Democrat.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Yes. I agree.
You must be exhausted.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Democrats have a chance in a heavily Trump district in North Carolina
https://www.cnn.com/2019/09/09/politics/north-carolina-special-electio
n-analysis/index.html
We'll know in a few hours folks.
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