Hey @Riverman want to help him interpret this?
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37.4+12.8=50.2
50.2 + 43.1 = 93.4 - 100 = -6.6
50.2 - -6.6 = 56.8
56.8 > 43.1
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What if you add Kurt Angle to the mix?
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Well shit, now DJT has a 166 2/3% of winning the election at Sacrifice
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Biden’s chances of winning drastic go down.
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The Libertarian Party candidate probably couldn’t be a worse choice for Biden. It’s a woman who is campaigning on curbing police violence.
Because Kurt Angle KNOWS he can’t beat Trump. And he’s not even gonna try.
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I’d have no issues with a Trump/Biden boxing match determining the presidency.
Trump gonna go full speed (relatively speaking) at Biden and gas in 30 seconds. From there…
80% chance Trump falls if he tries to throw a punch.
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Aside from the obvious political advantage, Trump is trying to extract, his incitement of violence serves another purpose that goes beyond simple electoral calculation. Trump is trying to make the United States ungovernable in order to rob his political foes of any meaningful victory.
Inciting violence is Trump’s Samson Option. Like the Biblical hero who famously brought the Philistine temple down on his head, Trump would rather everything collapse around him than surrender.
The Samson Option fits naturally with Trump’s personal narcissism and also his political racism. Trump’s motivation for his presidency all along has been to erase the achievement of the first African-American president and to re-assert white dominance of American society. Now facing the prospect of political defeat, Trump is pursuing actions that would render any Democratic restoration tainted and difficult. Voter suppression and chaos at the post office will make the results of the election murky. Conspiracy theories will cause further doubt. The proliferation of violence will make America ungovernable and hobble any successor regime.
Trump has turned an election into a low-intensity civil war, which will ensure that the racial strife he thrives on will dominate American politics for years to come. Trump’s current campaign of incitement isn’t just about the election but the long-term future of Trumpism, which will now be a chronic condition for the body politic.
As Trump tries to tear down the temple of American democracy, his political opponents have to realize that the task they face goes beyond winning the fall election—as urgent as that is. The securing of civil peace will require Biden, the Democrats, and whatever allies they can find among disaffected Republicans to focus their political energies after Trump is defeated on marginalizing Trump’s message of hate-mongering.
Trump himself has to be treated not just as normal ex-president but as uniquely destructive political figure who deserves no respect and no forgiveness. Any calls to “move on” by shutting down investigations into Trump’s crimes or offering him a pardon have to be resisted. Social media networks that irresponsibly spread hatred and lies, notably Facebook, should come under increased congressional scrutiny. Federal law-enforcement will have to be given a clear mandate to investigate right-wing political violence and treat it as a systematic problem.
In sum, Biden has to be prepared to wage a long war on Trumpism, one that goes beyond the election.
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this is pretty good except for we do want to ban them though
Some of us do, but for the most part no one is trying to take anyone’s guns away. Certainly not the politicians writing and passing bills.
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Something like half of Democrats own guns. Trying to ban guns is gonna lose you like 40 states.
I’m fine with just strong regulations which polls at like 80%
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https://twitter.com/kyledcheney/status/1300479602696036357
Where my lawbros at?
It’s game over unless Dems take everything back and remove these unqualified judges who make these ridiculous rulings.
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Paging lawbros.
I’m sure they’ll be here in no time (well really just @simplicitus) to explain that this will next be heard en banc and McGahn will lose there, allowing Congress to enforce the McGahn subpoena in 2021, unless SCOTUS takes the case in which case they might be able to enforce it in 2022 but probably not because that will be a different Congress and that means we should probably start the whole damn thing over again, appeals and all, possibly opening the door for enforcement of the subpoena by 2024, at which time McGahn will probably make a claim of executive privilege or some bullshit that will then be litigated until 2026 and beyond. But rest assured THE LAW IS HOLDING UP GUYS.
All that aside, just a massive LOL at this ruling. Congress obviously has subpoena power, GTFO you absolute hacks. Two W appointees, so remember that the next time you see him painting dogs or whatever the fuck that war criminal is doing now to seem less monstrous, or next time you’re anything less than 100/100 enraged about Florida, voter suppression and the 2000 election.
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Meanwhile the Supreme Court literally said “we find the House has the authority to enforce subpoenas” like three weeks ago. This is, like all these cases, about delay. Which our stupid-ass system provides to bad faith litigants in perpetuity.
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Paging @nunnehi too. He and @simplicitus should have to sit in a quiet room and think about how wrong they’ve been about everything before they ever lecture us again.
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