And most of the country refuses to understand how seriously they are going to try this and how likely it is to work.
This is probably his best chance. Dr. Fauci seems pretty confident we will have several different vaccines being mass produced by the end of the year. I fully expect Trump to claim that if Biden is elected that he will block the vaccine to keep people from being free or some stupid shit like that. The only way to stop COVID will be to give him a second term. This pivot will come in October.
They are already in phase 3 for oxford vaccine and it is being produced here. Trump will order it be made available to everyone before the election. Then when the media balks he will claim that want you to die and he wants to save you.
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Thanks for the mention, I feel it’s one of the very few things I’ve been loudly consistent about
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2016 was rigged?
Does Noreen have a Final Solution to this persistent problem? I bet she does.
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GOAT Tarantino movie. One of my favorite movies.
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RE: Noreen - I know discussions of doxxing are verboten. So let’s not even go there. But in theory if it were even possible to have her address, has anyone ever used a service like this?
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I think the possibility is high enough that we should devote some time to considering what the response should be if they are successful and not waiting until it actually happens.
I’m sure microbet will come along to cluck his tongue at how I’m using this to edgelord about the possibility of violence, but really, it’s just the poker player in me wanting to plan at least one street ahead and know what I will do on all possible rivers.
Eh… there are a bunch of FBI/CIA/Military/etc career people (mostly the kind of WASP’s who have run this country since before the founding) who are all waiting for a really good spot to intervene in a way that preserves their beloved norms (because as long as the norms are maintained they get to keep running the country lol).
Trump has to thread the needle on this thing. He needs to go far enough to win, but not so far that it’s explicit enough that a coup could have real legitimacy. Because seriously right now I think about 33% of futures involve Trump getting evicted in some fashion by a bunch of career government people who have literally only been half halfheartedly following this guys orders to keep hope alive that they’ll get their norms back and put the system back on the road sort of intact.
True Romance is a great movie.
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Election Day 2020 is gonna be a fucking shitshow.
What’s crazy is that he won’t even have to order the rigging. Local poll workers have crazy amounts of discretion to turn away voters and make voting for others as difficult as possible.
But that’s what happens in a decentralized system where every state does things differently. Every single step in the political process has to be perfect for it to be considered legitimate. Bad faith actors ruin it for all.
How the hell did he get that number?
Even if Trump keeps everything he won and flips NH, MN, NV, CO, ME, NM and VA, that’s still only 356.
I’ve always remembered you said that and it gave me the confidence to say it out loud too, I’m just returning the favour. 
I believe the people around Cambridge Analytics will be involved alough the’ve since changed companies its still the same consultancy work the’ve been at.
Wonder what the company name is now. 
As mentioned above, vaccine prior to election is a great re-election line for Trump. Volcanic take: vaccine will be straight up saline. No one said it actually has to work!
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I don’t see how abandoning his base would be a better play.
What you’ll see is biden going into the polls up 8+ points like hillary was, and then an inexplicable waffle crush in all the key states, underperforming his polls by like double digits.
This is pretty much what we saw in 2016 and we just blamed it on the pollsters and media and the comey revelation. I’m sure there will be some other scapegoat to explain how Biden can lose a massive poll lead. Or we’ll just blame young voters or something something.
The worst part about this, is this is really gonna be the only way to tell if there’s rampant cheating. And there have been enough “legit” pollers that have popped up that always go heavy on trump to mask the results a little bit. I’d also expect a lot more D/D- rating pollsters making a hard run close to the election.
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