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2020 Presidential Election

Discussion in 'BBS Hangout: Debate & Discussion' started by Sweet Lou 4 2, Mar 26, 2020.

  1. DreamShook

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    Trump wants a deal and wants to give people another check because his polls are in the tank

    I think Pelosi should work with TRUMP knowing he wants any deal ti help him in the polls to unman Mitch and the other senate Republicans since Mnuchin is not going to give her what she wants. Trump is down in the polls but still popular If he goes in on republicans, because they dont want to deal, that could screw Mitch enough to affect his re-election bid

    I want her to be more savvy.
     
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  2. AleksandarN

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    oh I know what trump is doing. It his followers that eat it up.
    But Nancy is like:

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  3. ItsMyFault

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    "Blame the dems" -- no I'm blaming all parties involved. Pelosi just comes off like a jackass though -- pathetic bum has been in office for too long. She needs to be replaced -- I speak for the people who want younger Democrats in office. She's a has been.
     
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  4. bobrek

    bobrek Politics belong in the D & D

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    The REPUBLICAN senate isn’t even behind the current Trump/Mnuchin proposal. She is trying to work with them. She has voiced the part of the Mnuchin plan that falls short.
     
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  5. Deckard

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    Great point. If McConnell wants to do a deal (and I don't think he does), then like you said, he should put the Democratic compromise bill passed in the House to a vote in the Senate. It will fail, McConnell will make sure of that, but then seriously negotiate. Does anyone think he will? I don't. Mitch the b**** is playing games and I don't think he's paying as much attention to trump as he used to.
     
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    Dude, she is working with the Trump administration. Mnuchin upped the deal to $1.8T versus the $2.2T modified bill the House passed. I'd say that she's done a pretty damn good job negotiating with the administration. Guess what though, Mitch doesn't want to play and is not interested in actually passing a comprehensive bill.
     
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  8. Deckard

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    A little more insight into the depravity of Mitch McConnell:


    Mitch McConnell's disturbing chuckle
    Opinion by Jill Filipovic
    Updated 7:56 PM ET, Tue October 13, 2020

    (CNN) Mitch McConnell appears to think this is some kind of joke.

    At a televised debate Monday night, Amy McGrath, who is running against McConnell for a US Senate seat from Kentucky, noted again and again that a pandemic has plunged the country into an unrelenting crisis and McConnell's Republican-controlled Senate is refusing to do anything to alleviate the pain. In response, McConnell laughed. And laughed. And laughed.

    And then he blamed House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.

    More than 210,000 Americans are dead. At least 26 million people are collecting unemployment benefits, and many more than that are unemployed, underemployed, or in danger of losing their jobs.
    More than 600,000 women left the workforce in September alone (compared with 78,000 men), according to government data.

    And while the Republican controlled Senate, where McConnell is the majority leader, can get it together to hold lightning-speed confirmation hearings aimed at thrusting Amy Coney Barrett onto the Supreme Court before the November 3 election, they have shown no such ability to advance a new relief package for those hundreds of millions of Americans struggling — many with jobs and lives in ruins — as a deadly disease continues its rampage through their communities.

    A relief bill is sitting on Mitch "I know how to make deals" McConnell's desk, and he's pushed it aside.
    And there's really no charitable reading possible for McConnell's chuckling at a debate over the question of Covid relief.

    There's nothing funny about the utter, unconscionable failures over which this Senate Majority Leader has presided. There's nothing funny about more Americans dead from Covid-19 than died in World War I, Vietnam, the Korean War, and the Iraq war combined. Or that while the US contributes just 4% percent of the world's population, it makes up 20% of the world's Covid deaths.

    But the point is not only that McConnell found something to laugh about in Covid deaths, although it was striking that chortling was the response he reached for. His laughter-as-answer to McGrath came off as something else, and a reaction that will be familiar to many women: Condescension and dismissiveness. You foolish girl ... You just don't understand how it works. (It's an illuminating bit of video, if you haven't yet watched.)

    As for the actual metrics of chaos that McGrath laid at his feet — the unemployed Americans, the dead Americans — McConnell couldn't even pretend to care. The effect was one of arrogance — not to mention stunningly cold and even sexist.

    "She mentions she was in the Marines about every other sentence," McConnell said, derisively. "I think her entire campaign is: she's a Marine, she's a mom, and I've been there (in Washington) too long." Translation: She's just a Marine and just a mom; she doesn't know what she's doing, which is why she's questioning what I've done.

    The defense McConnell offered for his do-nothing party is that the other side won't negotiate — even though House Democrats did indeed pass a $2.2 trillion stimulus bill early this month, which McConnell has rejected. And McConnell can manage to rally his troops to, as McGrath put it, "ram through a Supreme Court nominee right now, instead of negotiating, which is what he should have been doing all summer long to make that happen."

    Despite being a member of the party of personal responsibility, McConnell refuses to accept accountability for the Senate's dereliction of duty on additional Covid relief for Americans. Instead, he blames Pelosi, who gets the bulk of his ire, and he heaps condescension on another woman — his political opponent, McGrath — for having the temerity to even ask.

    Kentucky is currently facing a backlog of some 75,000 unresolved unemployment claims — state residents who are out of a job but unable to collect much-needed benefits. Drug deaths, obesity rates and cancer rates are all stunningly high. About 1 in 4 children in Kentucky lives in poverty — and that was before Covid-19 wiped out tens of thousands of Kentucky jobs.

    The state saw a remarkable drop in the percentage of uninsured residents, thanks to the Affordable Care Act (ACA), going from 66% uninsured in 2010 to a mere 5.5% uninsured by 2019.

    But now, with his state, and the country, trapped in the teeth of a pandemic, McConnell has forced confirmation hearings for a conservative Supreme Court nominee who many believe would join in a decision to obliterate the ACA in a case set to come before the court in just a few weeks.

    Now the question is: Will Kentucky voters agree that this is all a laughing matter?

    CNN.com
     
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  9. DreamShook

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    There is no Trump/Mnuchin plan. That's a Mnuchin plan. Pelosi is talking to Mnuchin not Trump. I'm saying she should deal with Trump and cajole him into thinking he can do a better deal than Mnuchin. Tell him he is smarter. Trump operates independent of his administration; he's an idiot. He tweeted out that his guys were stepping away from the table when he wasn't supposed to because they were the last ones in the room to talk to him. Nancy should try to be the last one to talk to Trump that's all im saying.

    Nancy needs to stop thinking traditionally. You can think that's stupid, but 2020 is stupid.
     
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  10. Deckard

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    Mr trump is so spaced on super-steroids that your idea might actually work. Shoot an email to Nancy.
     
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  11. Invisible Fan

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    Ofc he's laughing like a little demon boy who got away with murder. In the different debates, Pence and Trump both bragged how they got in judge appointments that "Obama just sat on"...as if that were lasting accomplishments on a very short list that they can roll off.

    They all taking credit for their rigged game while everyday Americans thinking both sides "play the same"...so whogivesa**** do something.
     
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  12. Carl Herrera

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    Classy


     
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  13. Carl Herrera

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    as Hakeem Olajuwon would say, Trump needs to fockass
     
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  14. TWS1986

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    That tweet makes my eyes burn.
     
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  15. TWS1986

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    A little known fact. McConnell is Satan incarnate.
     
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  16. NewRoxFan

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    As with everything related to trump...

    Twitter suspends fake accounts posing as Black Trump supporters
    https://www.cnbc.com/2020/10/14/twitter-suspends-fake-accounts-posing-as-black-trump-supporters.html
     
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    Apparently the sketchy ny post is trotting out this discredited story out there again...

     
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  19. ROXTXIA

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    Thing about McConnell, he is in a state so deep red, so largely rural, that he can laugh like Mephistopheles and win in a walk.

    Dude's an evil turd and he'll probably die on the Senate floor, aged 92. I can only hope he won't have the gavel after January 2021.
     
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    Voice commands. No punctuation.

    Arthritis.
     
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