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Post by Deleted on Nov 16, 2022 10:06:35 GMT
Does it always just end up Democrat vs republican at the end or is there a realistic scenario where it's a republican vs democrat vs independent Trump at the end? Because that would be pretty swell.
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Post by dogbot on Nov 16, 2022 10:12:41 GMT
No, I believe that there have often been 3rd candidates (eg, Jill Stein ran in 2016).
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Post by malek86 on Nov 16, 2022 10:20:23 GMT
I wonder if Trum ran as independent, would Republicans would vote for him or the GOP?
Chances are they'd follow their party, if only because I don't think even they are stupid enough to not understand that a fractured voter base would be a death sentence for them. But then, who can tell?
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Post by cubby on Nov 16, 2022 10:41:40 GMT
It would split the vote, almost certainly. Nowhere near 50/50, but easily enough like the effect UKIP was having on the tories back in the good old days.
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Post by JuniorFE on Nov 16, 2022 10:44:37 GMT
Speaking of death sentences, can Trump just... Go already? He's never going to stop his bullshit until then, and way healthier and younger people have died naturally sooner than him. Must be those "best genes" he's got...
Edit: then again, with the kind of cult he's got going, the grift would probably continue posthumously...
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Post by Tuffty on Nov 16, 2022 12:10:54 GMT
Knowing Trump supporters, he could die in his bed peacefully of natural causes and they'll still say it was an assassination.
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Post by Reviewer on Nov 16, 2022 12:33:03 GMT
No, I believe that there have often been 3rd candidates (eg, Jill Stein ran in 2016). There have, none get many votes. Ross Perot is the last one that got a sizeable vote and even that was only about 20m votes. Jill Stein got about 1% of the vote. |
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Post by Reviewer on Nov 16, 2022 12:35:40 GMT
The biggest problem of him running is less about whether he wins but that his agenda and rhetoric will be given so much airtime, feeding the right wing lunatics.
And the main opposition is currently an 82 year old.
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Post by Bill in the rain on Nov 16, 2022 12:54:42 GMT
The biggest problem of him running is less about whether he wins but that his agenda and rhetoric will be given so much airtime, feeding the right wing lunatics. The UKIP effect.
And I guess that might push the republicans even more to the right to counter it, like the Cons.
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Post by 😎 on Nov 16, 2022 20:01:40 GMT
Hershel Walker trying to get that all important goth vote
Vampires are cool or something
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Post by 😎 on Nov 17, 2022 17:57:58 GMT
Pelosi is stepping down, along with the rest of the house dem leadership. Their replacements knock a combined 100 years off the total age off.
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Post by cubby on Nov 17, 2022 18:12:56 GMT
So there's just one replacement, then.
#pelosiold
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Post by Leolian'sBro on Nov 17, 2022 18:22:29 GMT
I wonder what that means for Biden going for a second term. It’s nice to have someone in the White House who witnessed the Big Bang, but it might be time for a President who isn’t actively dying right in front of our eyes.
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Post by Dougs on Nov 17, 2022 18:47:12 GMT
Who are the rising stars that might have a chance (so presumably ruling out Harris and AOC)
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Post by Deleted on Nov 17, 2022 19:52:08 GMT
They should put Sesame Street in charge. Decent, compassionate furry people. And they can probably count better than Trump or Biden.
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Post by Lizard on Nov 17, 2022 23:22:48 GMT
Who are the rising stars that might have a chance (so presumably ruling out Harris and AOC) Everytime I see 'AOC' I think 'Attack of the Clones'. |
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Post by deebs on Nov 17, 2022 23:27:45 GMT
And the main opposition is currently an 82 year old. Kind of irrelevant, the majority would vote for a brick on a string if it wasn't trump. |
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Post by Blue_Mike on Nov 23, 2022 12:33:10 GMT
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Post by dogbot on Nov 23, 2022 13:40:55 GMT
Doesn't matter, surely? This is all just delaying tactics.
They'll appeal and question and try to keep the actual evidence from being presented ad infinitum.
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Post by Bill in the rain on Nov 23, 2022 13:52:54 GMT
Not been following it, but don't they only need to delay until the Republican majority can ignore it?
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Post by dogbot on Nov 23, 2022 17:18:41 GMT
Not been following it, but don't they only need to delay until the Republican majority can ignore it? Probably - is there another month of the democrats having the house? But I suspect that the longer view is either for him to win the presidency again and then rain firey vengeance on anyone who's "wronged" him, or alternatively to that not happening, tie anything he doesn't like up in court until after he eventually keels over. At which point, he won't care anyway. |
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Post by 😎 on Nov 23, 2022 17:30:13 GMT
The special master/mar a largo search is appointed by the Justice department, the house can’t do dick about it.
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Post by dogbot on Nov 23, 2022 17:37:39 GMT
Fair.
Wasn't yesterday's one (about the SC allowing the House committee to get his tax returns) time limited by this session, for example, though?
He has a LOT of legal battles ongoing right now, eh. Shame.
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Post by aubergine on Nov 23, 2022 18:40:34 GMT
What if DeSantis wins the presidency and pardons Trump?
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Post by malek86 on Nov 23, 2022 19:24:44 GMT
What if DeSantis wins the presidency and pardons Trump? There doesn't seem to be that great a blood running between them. And as long as there isn't, no Republican is likely to win the presidency. |
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Post by deebs on Nov 23, 2022 19:26:24 GMT
I think GenZ would buy guns.
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Post by Whizzo on Nov 27, 2022 1:45:53 GMT
They should buy hammers as they're the real killer weapons. Oh.
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Post by aubergine on Nov 27, 2022 7:54:02 GMT
That guy nailed it.
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Post by cubby on Nov 27, 2022 8:40:48 GMT
Is that prison escapee piping his own farts into his nostrils?
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Post by GigaChad Sigma. on Nov 27, 2022 9:07:55 GMT
What that reporter doesn't know is he is speaking to the infamous murderer Hammer Joe.
As his life seeped away in a nearby darkened alleyway the last words he heard were a gentle whisper in his ear "394"
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