kurtster wrote:
 

When and where? Again with your fantasy crap. Put up some links to back your claim or shut up. Jesus you are becoming worse than KarmaKarma. 

 kurtster wrote:
 

What a steaming shitload of fantasy. Just one issue proves you wrong. It also proves that YOU DON'T F4*CKING READ even when people try to take you seriously and engage you in serious conversation. 

Here, I'll post these links for you again. READ THEM THIS TIME AND PUT YOUR FANTASY COUP CRAP DOWN. And have your doctor check you out for dementia. 

Before Trump’s inauguration, a warning: ‘The worst influenza pandemic since 1918’

In a tabletop exercise days before an untested new president took power, officials briefed the incoming administration on a scenario remarkably like the one he faces now.

Evidence Shows Obama Team Left A Pandemic ‘Game Plan’ For Trump Administration

Obama team left pandemic playbook for Trump administration, officials confirm

Pandemic Timeline: The Obama Blame Game

Obama’s team briefed Trump’s transition team on a simulation that anticipated the very type of outbreak now blanketing the earth, but Trump ignored its lessons. Trump inherited a White House pandemic response team, but he disbanded it.

How Trump Gutted Obama’s Pandemic-Preparedness Systems

Former officials: Trump’s reshuffling of positions and departments, focus on business solutions, downgrading of science, left the country dangerously unprepared for an unprecedented pandemic.

 kurtster wrote:
 

Curious - do you use the contraction "y'all" in your daily speech,  or is it exclusive to your online persona?

 kurtster wrote:
 
Hardly. His statements are indefensible on their face. 

 steeler wrote: 
Too early to tell.  You do admit that the same people who tried the coup attempt are part and parcel of Biden ?

This is the fiercest election fight in all my years.  I see it as the last Hail Mary to stop all the investigations underway that are actually convicting people involved in this coup attempt.  Biden wins and they all go away.  No holds are barred towards this end.

That is what this election is about to me.

 kurtster wrote:
 

Biden is the candidate.

Do you have a defense for Trump’s repeated statements? You do not see them as irresponsible and dangerous?  

 steeler wrote: 
And Hillary and others are demanding Biden never to concede regardless of the outcome should he lose.

 kurtster wrote:
 
Even if what you are saying were true, that does not mean 2 wrongs make a right.

Trump just stated yesterday that he would not commit to accepting the results of the election if he loses. He regularly says that the election is being “rigged” against him and the only way he would lose is if there is widespread fraud. Peaceful transition anyone? A hallmark of our democracy being eroded by Trump. Even Republicans reluctant to go against Trump, like Mitch McConnell, had to speak out against that irresponsible statement by Trump. This unprecedented and dangerous statement— alone — should cement why this man should not be re-elected.

Regarding the transfer of power issue, the transfer of power from Obama to Trump was a coup attempt that has so far failed.  It was not friendly, trusting or proper at any level.  There was no real cooperation.  The hold overs did everything within their power to obfuscate and obstruct and ultimately impeach Trump from day one in ways that are reprehensible.  He was considered to be illegitimately elected by these people who were very much involved in the transfer of power.  Comey and Yates for openers.  The Intelligence Community and DOJ were involved over their eyeballs.

Trump was spied on and investigated 8 ways to Sunday based upon invented lies and illegal activity in order to get him out of power.

Y'all believed anything you heard about Trump and Russia, but y'all don't believe anything about Biden and Ukraine and China, which is real and worse.

Sigh ...

 Red_Dragon wrote:
 
!  Did that staff writer just compare the threat Trump poses to Al-Qaeda?    !

Pasted:
Nineteen summers ago, when counterterrorism analysts warned of a coming attack by al‑Qaeda, they could only guess at a date. This year, if election analysts are right, we know when the trouble is likely to come. Call it the Interregnum: the interval from Election Day to the next president’s swearing-in. It is a temporal no-man’s-land between the presidency of Donald Trump and an uncertain successor—a second term for Trump or a first for Biden. The transfer of power we usually take for granted has several intermediate steps, and they are fragile.


This article was published on the website before subscribers received their copy due to the 'urgency'.  I  wonder if the 'activism' of The Atlantic reflects Jeffrey Goldberg's personal views.   Goldberg can , incidentally, be an excellent read on Mid-East issues.  

The Election That Could Break America

The Economic Case for Biden
Sep 21, 2020
EDMUND S. PHELPS

 miamizsun wrote: 

i think today is national voter registration day

 miamizsun wrote:
 

Unless someone is a died-in-the-wool supporter of their party, come hell or high water (dammit 2020!), every election is always about picking the lesser evil, more so in a system that (realistically) only offers a binary choice.

Trump came on the scene because Repub voters were sick and tired of the same old same old.  After Trump leaves (and he will!) the Republicans will have rejuvenated themselves with fresh blood and the courage to try new ways.

You got Biden because ... how?  Beholden to privilege and the surging hard left, that's how.

The Democrats are now the party in dire need of fresh blood and credible ideas & leadership.  And many Dem voters who have switched to Trump are saying: they didn't leave the Democrats, the Democrats left them.

 sirdroseph wrote: 

as far as i can tell both parties are doing basically the same stuff that they've always done

more hype on it, which is great for ratings, but looks like same old chicanery

am i missing something new or groundbreaking?

picking the lesser evil?

does it matter?

yes, if we want different results

 miamizsun wrote: 
However the real issue is, does it really even matter?

 KarmaKarma wrote: 

not sure how you could say that with any certainty

 KarmaKarma wrote:
 
For once, you're not wrong. 

Dems are so screwed in this election.  So very screwed.  And they did it all to themselves.

great msg and made me lol for real

mmmm...  baloney

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