MAGAThread XIX: Hambergers, Noble Prizes, & Disinfectant

[Kowani]

...The Portland segment was a nightmare.

[Cannot think of a name]

...The Portland segment was a nightmare.

The death thing was nausiating because the answer to Trump's conditional brag was "Look, if the case is that fewer cases of COVID result in death in the US but we're still leading in deaths than our infection rate is atrocious and is directly related to your leadership or lack there of. This statistic that you are present underlines the case that you have not set an example or created a clear message that could literally save lives."

[Kowani]

...The Portland segment was a nightmare.

The death thing was nausiating because the answer to Trump's conditional brag was "Look, if the case is that fewer cases of COVID result in death in the US but we're still leading in deaths than our infection rate is atrocious and is directly related to your leadership or lack there of. This statistic that you are present underlines the case that you have not set an example or created a clear message that could literally save lives."

Yeah, that was...atrocious.

[Gravlen]

Trump campaign sues state of Nevada in attempt to block citizens from voting.

Trump's drive to slow down the USPS in order to deter voting by mail is impacting veterans who get their prescriptions by mail. Reports of two week delays of delivery of critical meds.

Trump says absentee voting is great, and it works, like in Florida. But mail-in ballots are going to be a great embarrassment to the country and cause fraud.

GOP platform is to reduce the number of votes cast this election.

[Vassenor]

Trump campaign sues state of Nevada in attempt to block citizens from voting.

Trump's drive to slow down the USPS in order to deter voting by mail is impacting veterans who get their prescriptions by mail. Reports of two week delays of delivery of critical meds.

Trump says absentee voting is great, and it works, like in Florida. But mail-in ballots are going to be a great embarrassment to the country and cause fraud.

GOP platform is to reduce the number of votes cast this election.

Well yeah. Trump said that more votes cast in general means the GOP can't win.

[Nobel Hobos 2]

President sues state of Nevada in attempt to block citizens from voting.

President's drive to slow down the USPS in order to deterr voting by mail is impacting veterans who get their prescriptions by mail. Reports of two week delays of delivery of critical meds.

President says absentee voting is great, and it works, like in Florida. But mail-in ballots are going to be a great embarrassment to the country and cause fraud.

GOP platform is to reduce the number of votes cast this election.

"Why don't they love me? OK, maybe they don't, I don't know. I don't expect everyone to love me, I'm not like that. But if they don't maybe they shouldn't be so, y'know, so vocal about it? And violent. Some of them are violent. So I have a deal for those people. I will leave them alone, I won't touch a hair on their head, just don't vote for me or anyone, OK? I mean, that's fair isn't it?"

[Myrensis]

President sues state of Nevada in attempt to block citizens from voting.

President's drive to slow down the USPS in order to deterr voting by mail is impacting veterans who get their prescriptions by mail. Reports of two week delays of delivery of critical meds.

President says absentee voting is great, and it works, like in Florida. But mail-in ballots are going to be a great embarrassment to the country and cause fraud.

GOP platform is to reduce the number of votes cast this election.

No, see. Mail in voting is perfect and beautiful and amazing and totally secure in states where Republicans think it will benefit them, but absentee ballots are totally badwrong evil fraudulent corrupt in states where they think it won't.

His singling out Florida is not a coincidence. I'm assuming someone finally sat him down with some crayons and explained, with visual aids, that mail-in voting has always been pretty critical to Republican success in Florida because the retirees down there weren't big on in-person voting even before the outbreak of a pandemic disease that their age renders them the most vulnerable to, but they've been listening to Trumps rants about the evils of mail-in voting and Republicans are now badly trailing Democrats in absentee ballot requests.

[Nobel Hobos 2]

Trump campaign sues state of Nevada in attempt to block citizens from voting.

Trump's drive to slow down the USPS in order to deter voting by mail is impacting veterans who get their prescriptions by mail. Reports of two week delays of delivery of critical meds.

Trump says absentee voting is great, and it works, like in Florida. But mail-in ballots are going to be a great embarrassment to the country and cause fraud.

GOP platform is to reduce the number of votes cast this election.

Well yeah. Trump said that more votes cast in general means the GOP can't win.

That's mistaking cause and effect. When the Democrat is popular, turnout goes up. But idiot that he is, Trump thinks a low turnout means he will win.

The guy has many more enemies than friends. Hate motivates people to vote better than admiration of the other candidate. Attempts to suppress voting across-the-board will deter those who weakly support him more than it suppresses the vote of those who weakly hate him.

I expect he's hearing much the same from seasoned campaigners on his staff and in Congress. Blatant suppression of the vote will only turn more voters against him, and make the weakly opposed into outright haters. They'll queue four hours in the rain with a Mr Whippy truck driving back and forth, before they'll give up their power to vote him the fuck out.

[Nobel Hobos 2]

President sues state of Nevada in attempt to block citizens from voting.

President's drive to slow down the USPS in order to deterr voting by mail is impacting veterans who get their prescriptions by mail. Reports of two week delays of delivery of critical meds.

President says absentee voting is great, and it works, like in Florida. But mail-in ballots are going to be a great embarrassment to the country and cause fraud.

GOP platform is to reduce the number of votes cast this election.

No, see. Mail in voting is perfect and beautiful and amazing and totally secure in states where Republicans think it will benefit them, but absentee ballots are totally badwrong evil fraudulent corrupt in states where they think it won't.

His singling out Florida is not a coincidence. I'm assuming someone finally sat him down with some crayons and explained, with visual aids, that mail-in voting has always been pretty critical to Republican success in Florida because the retirees down there weren't big on in-person voting even before the outbreak of a pandemic disease that their age renders them the most vulnerable to, but they've been listening to Trumps rants about the evils of mail-in voting and Republicans are now badly trailing Democrats in absentee ballot requests.

Retirees aren't even that keen on Trump any more. He hasn't exactly lost that part of the Republican base, but he has pretty much neutralized it. If he keeps hammering away about their postal voting being corrupt and wrong, he will actually lose them.

That's nationally btw. Perhaps Floridian retirees are dumber than the national average, and still support Trump.

Any Republican who gave Trump sage advice about postal or absentee voting, was probably more concerned about the down-ticket than saving his sorry ass. I expect to see backflips with browneyes from Republicans in the lame-duck months. Testing the limits of what powers can be stripped from a lame-duck President.

Hopefully including the power to make public statements of any kind

[Cannot think of a name]

Trump campaign sues state of Nevada in attempt to block citizens from voting.

Trump's drive to slow down the USPS in order to deter voting by mail is impacting veterans who get their prescriptions by mail. Reports of two week delays of delivery of critical meds.

Trump says absentee voting is great, and it works, like in Florida. But mail-in ballots are going to be a great embarrassment to the country and cause fraud.

GOP platform is to reduce the number of votes cast this election.

Well yeah. Trump said that more votes cast in general means the GOP can't win.

Remember when his jam was bringing in first time voters? I guess he figured he lost those guys.

[The Alma Mater]

Trump campaign sues state of Nevada in attempt to block citizens from voting.

Trump's drive to slow down the USPS in order to deter voting by mail is impacting veterans who get their prescriptions by mail. Reports of two week delays of delivery of critical meds.

Trump says absentee voting is great, and it works, like in Florida. But mail-in ballots are going to be a great embarrassment to the country and cause fraud.

GOP platform is to reduce the number of votes cast this election.

Well yeah. Trump said that more votes cast in general means the GOP can't win.

Trump actually admits that the Republicans only have power because many Americans do not vote ?
Wow. He is right ofc, but I am amazed at his honesty.

[Borderlands of Rojava]

Well yeah. Trump said that more votes cast in general means the GOP can't win.

Trump actually admits that the Republicans only have power because many Americans do not vote ?
Wow. He is right ofc, but I am amazed at his honesty.

Trump always slips up and reveals how messed up America is. Remember the Iran drone photo?

[Gravlen]

Well yeah. Trump said that more votes cast in general means the GOP can't win.

That's mistaking cause and effect. When the Democrat is popular, turnout goes up. But idiot that he is, Trump thinks a low turnout means he will win.

The guy has many more enemies than friends. Hate motivates people to vote better than admiration of the other candidate. Attempts to suppress voting across-the-board will deter those who weakly support him more than it suppresses the vote of those who weakly hate him.

I expect he's hearing much the same from seasoned campaigners on his staff and in Congress. Blatant suppression of the vote will only turn more voters against him, and make the weakly opposed into outright haters. They'll queue four hours in the rain with a Mr Whippy truck driving back and forth, before they'll give up their power to vote him the fuck out.

The GOP is actively pushing policies of disenfranchisement, and they do it for good (albeit cynical) reasons from the standpoint of winning elections.

And yeah, here's Trump saying the quiet part out loud again:

Donald Trump has admitted that proposed measures to make it easier for Americans to vote - including mail-voting - would make it harder for the Republican party to win an election.
The comments came as the president discussed the coronavirus stimulus bill passed by the House of Representatives, and signed on Friday, providing a $2tn (£1.7tn) stimulus to Americans.

Democrats had attempted to include $4bn worth of measures to safeguard November’s presidential election, with specific provisions for mail and absentee ballots as well as online and same-day voter registration, and expanding early voting by 15 days.

“The things they had in there were crazy. They had things, levels of voting that if you’d ever agreed to it, you’d never have a Republican elected in this country again,” said Mr Trump during an interview on Fox & Friends.

“They had things in there about election days and what you do and all sorts of clawbacks. They had things that were just totally crazy and had nothing to do with workers that lost their jobs and companies that we have to save.”

Trump says Republicans would never win election again if it was easier to vote

[The Alma Mater]

Trump actually admits that the Republicans only have power because many Americans do not vote ?
Wow. He is right ofc, but I am amazed at his honesty.

Trump always slips up and reveals how messed up America is. Remember the Iran drone photo?

Now one wonders what the next step will be. Stepping down and dissolving the party would be the honorable thing to do, but he won't do thst ofc.

[Cannot think of a name]

Trump campaign sues state of Nevada in attempt to block citizens from voting.

Trump's drive to slow down the USPS in order to deter voting by mail is impacting veterans who get their prescriptions by mail. Reports of two week delays of delivery of critical meds.

Trump says absentee voting is great, and it works, like in Florida. But mail-in ballots are going to be a great embarrassment to the country and cause fraud.

GOP platform is to reduce the number of votes cast this election.

Well yeah. Trump said that more votes cast in general means the GOP can't win.

Remember when his jam was bringing in first time voters? I guess he figured he lost those guys.

[Ifreann]

13 seconds. 13 seconds is all it took him.

I love how Trump doesn't know one way or the other if John Lewis was impressive or not. How do you not know whether someone was impressive in your own opinion?

Because he doesn't know who John Lewis was and at no point between the man's very high profile passing and being asked about him did it occur to Trump to remedy that ignorance.

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Wait until you get to Ghislaine Maxwell. Trump is remarkably unperturbed when it comes to child sex trafficking.

"Her boyfriend died..."

Her sex trafficking boyfriend died and she's under arrest for feeding that traffic you unbelievable boob.

I feel like that Lincoln Project video writes itself.

Internet delivers.

[Valrifell]

I'm watching the interview rn

I mean my expectations were low but holy fuck. And I'm not even 10 minutes in.

[Centai Mal]

I'm watching the interview rn

I mean my expectations were low but holy fuck. And I'm not even 10 minutes in.

Mine expectations were so low they were six feet underground and Jesus that was train wreck

[The Rich Port]

I'm watching the ICE documentary on Netflix, Immigration Nation.

Nauseating. I don't know how the fuck people can delude themselves. And I thought dentistry was a depressing job.

[Vassenor]

Trump wants personal credit for everything NASA has accomplished in the last four years, even if it was a project started before he came in, and thinks that if he leaves office the agency will die.

[The Alma Mater]

Trump wants personal credit for everything NASA has accomplished in the last four years, even if it was a project started before he came in, and thinks that if he leaves office the agency will die.

Well, yes - that is Trump. Everything good that happens during his presidency is due to him,everything bad due to others - preferably Obama.

[Valrifell]

Trump wants personal credit for everything NASA has accomplished in the last four years, even if it was a project started before he came in, and thinks that if he leaves office the agency will die.

Didn't he cut NASA's budget and issue a gag order for their climate science?

[Geneviev]

Trump wants personal credit for everything NASA has accomplished in the last four years, even if it was a project started before he came in, and thinks that if he leaves office the agency will die.

Maybe now he'll support science. Who knows?

[Kexholm and Karelia]

Trump wants personal credit for everything NASA has accomplished in the last four years, even if it was a project started before he came in, and thinks that if he leaves office the agency will die.

Spacex is better than NASA

[Ifreann]

Trump wants personal credit for everything NASA has accomplished in the last four years, even if it was a project started before he came in, and thinks that if he leaves office the agency will die.

Spacex is better than NASA

Lol.