The narrower the margin, the more determinative causes for an outcome. For instance, Gore might have won Florida if he would have skipped lunch on Nov 2. The margin in 2016 was also paper thin.

I have higher standards for people who should know better. Conversely, I don't expect a lot from dim-witted cultists and/or fundamentalist nutjobs.

It was obvious that Trump was an existential threat to democracy. Too many people who should have known better ... did not.

I don't quarrel much with your blame assignment. I would add Clinton's considerable baggage, some of which was earned and some not.

It's possible that 2020 will also be a narrow margin.

Are you dead yet? When people die, they "return to God" at last check. ;)

Separately, after all the atrocities that the Trump Administration and the Republicans have been pushing - with the approval of a bit too much of the nation, returning to a healthier state of being wouldn't be a bad thing.

I do wonder if Warren would be the candidate now if she had been Bert instead of Beth. Of course there's no way to know.

Trump Tweeted

Obamacare will be replaced with a MUCH better, and FAR cheaper, alternative if it is terminated in the Supreme Court. Would be a big WIN for the USA!

Hanoi Dick, who lied for years by saying he was a war hero in Vietnam, and was never even there (Impeach him!), should not be entitled to a vote on anything of importance!

YES, for many years, and hundreds of times a year. He is a Senatorial JOKE!
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@ScottJoughNJ
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Didn't Blumenthal lie about serving in Vietnam?

It only says that they purchased liability insurance, which they may well have done. It doesn't say what liabilities that insurance would cover. So technically the assertion may well be true. Certainly the implication and intended inference is that it was to cover their professional conduct, which may be false.

As already noted such professionals are generally indemnified from personal liability, but even just taking the potentially intended misrepresentation at face value I'm not sure how the heck just quoting that, let alone underwriting it, would work.


Analyst 1: "Good morning, I'm looking to get a quote on some liability insurance."

Insurance Agent: "No problem, I can certainly help you with that today. What type of liability would you like this policy to cover?"

Analyst 1: "Well, we're looking to maliciously prosecute someone and... "

*****CLICK*****

Analyst 1: "...Hello... Hello... "

Analyst 2: "Well that's Progressive and Geico down. Ya wanna try Liberty Mutual next?"

Analyst 1: "What?!? A freak'n Dweeb and an Emu?!? We ain't that desperate yet!"

Analyst 2: "OK, OK, so what about Farmers? They know a thing or two because they've seen a thing or two."

Analyst 1: "Yeah, yeah, so making it a thing or three would be right up their alley. Good call, what's the number?"

There is if you want to rent the use of my parsnip-powered time machine. However, because its operation constitutes a violation of the laws of physics and irreparably changes the universe, I must charge you an infinite amount of money for its use, to compensate me for the possibility that I may end up never having been born or, even worse, turned into a newt. And you must return it in pristine condition, not covered with the brains and blood of Hitler like the last rental! Also, the name "Elisabert" is a silly name for a boy, and has not been used since King Elisabert VII of South North East Wessex died in 857 A.D. of choking on someone else's vomit.

No that's standard Right Wing logic.

Take a fair system where everyone has to play by the same rules, gain power in it, rewrite the rules so they don't apply to you, and then act shocked and appalled and clutch your pearls when someone suggests your are playing unfairly by going "But that's what the rules of the game say!"

"Don't hate the player, hate the game" is a dumb rule on the best of days. On days when the players are the one's writing the rules of the game it's inane.

A plan that we're going to start thinking about starting to create any day now. Honest.

If the EC can't pick a winner by January, the Speaker of the House would take over until they do.
Which begs the question: can Trump mess with the House Election?

If there were a better, cheaper and covers more alternative to ObamaCare, the correct approach would be to have introduced it 3 years ago in Congress, because, if it really exists, only a moron would object.

And if there were a better, cheaper and covers more alternative to ObamaCare, only a real slimeball would hide it away for years and keep it from being implemented except as a political tool.

If Trump squeaks out a "win", I wonder if in the end it would be a good thing? After decades of comparative global peace (no follow-up WWIII), a couple or three generations of comfortable living have induced a general complacency, a lack of vigilance against threats to democracy. Especially domestic.

The shock of the realization that the Republic is in real danger might inspire a genuine fight to preserve it. "We have a Republic, if we can keep it." The test of that might just be about to be implemented. Fail, and then it could well be that democracy is too advanced a proposition for deplorable Man at this time.

I think so, too. It's the silver lining of four years with Trump - he's made all the trolls come out of their caves, and made everyone realise how much trouble the US is really in.

Also when that Muslim Atheist Commie Socialist Kenyan America-Hating N-word stole the election.

People keep attributing to Trump what properly goes to the Republican Party. Yes, the Republican Party CAN mess with the House Election and has been doing so successfully for years, through gerrymandering, selective voter purging, closing of polling stations, and so on.

Should media dedicate equal time to all 317 others who are nominated for the Nobel peace prize this year?

So many lies as usual. The man's narcissism and jealousy and envy of Obama knows no bounds:

https://www.factcheck.org/2020/09/tr...obel-nonsense/

Trump tweeted

Proclamation on Gold Star Mother’s and Family’s Day, 2020 | The White House
The brave men and women of our Armed Forces represent the very best of our great Nation, matched only by the families who walk beside them in their service

https://www.whitehouse.gov/president...ilys-day-2020/

Stalin, Hitler, and Mussolini were also nominated for Nobel Peace Prizes. Like Trump, they also didn't win. Losers.

No! All media should concentrate on Trump, and Trump alone. And only say/print positive things about him. Any news that does not do this is fake news. Have you learned nothing in the past four years?

And Putin is nominated for this year, so Trump is in company that he likes.

Let's note again that tens of thousands of people around the world can nominate anybody for the Nobel Peace Prize, among them legislators, senior government officials, and university professors and former professors in multiple fields. And all they have to do is write a letter. You, I and most people on this forum probably know people who could submit a nomination, and some could do it ourselves. Maybe what would get Trump's goat would be to run lists of all the nominees, in alphabetical order.
https://www.nobelprize.org/nomination/peace/

One problem with your suggestion is that the longer the republicans are in charge the harder it will be to dislodge them... Enacting further voter suppression that keeps them in power, more right wing judges willing to play politics to help them get re-elected, etc.

If one trump term wasn't enough to get people willing to work towards shoring up democracy, nothing will.

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In two weeks.....

We went through this before (trying to remember who claimed to be nominated). Anyway, nominees are never disclosed by the Nobel Committee until 50 years after the fact.

So someone tells Trump they nominated him, and he starts believing he will win and of course when he doesn't, he'll claim it was rigged, people out to get him as usual.


I don't think there are tens of thousands of qualified nominators. Thousands maybe: Who was it nominated Trump again?

Ah, I found it MSN:

From my source above regarding Trump's Nobel claim:

Sure. I was just guessing. But if you add up all the members of all the world's national assemblies and senior government officials, and all the world's current and former professors and assistant professors of history, social sciences, law, philosophy, theology, and religion, that has to be a big number. The U.S. alone has more than 4000 colleges and universities. If they each have or have had at least two history professors and two sociology/psychology/economics etc. professors, that's 16,000 right there. And just one big state u. could have hundreds.
https://www.usnews.com/education/bes...er-is-changing

My point is just that a Nobel "nominator" is not hard to find.

Yeah, 200 countries with - total guess - average of 200 legislators each is 40000 right there. Of course there are lots of small countries with only a handful, but the UK has 1400, the US more than 500, so that will balance it out a bit.

ETA - the Interparliamentary Union said 46,552 in 2012

Also in 2012 the NPP went to the EU, which the European Commission said went to all its citizens at the time. I intend to test whether I can become a nominator under the previous winners rule!

Congressman Eric Swalwell tweeted:

There's people who don't know that the Dems are partisan??!! Well, I'll be darned; what a world we live in. :rolleyes:

Don't wonder. Another Trump presidency and global warming would probably be irreversible. So, sure, we'd eventually have a democracy .... in the United States of Burnt Toast.

I certainly hope Patrick Yoes isn’t a police detective. I imagine it would be quite embarrassing for him to have then somehow missed Donald “Law and Order” Trump is a lifelong criminal.

And in another case of "what the heck just happened?"

Brad Pascale (Trump's former campaign manager, who has been accused of misusing campaign funds) has been hospitalized after a suicide attempt.

Now before people start making crass comments, and others say it's not appropriate... Someone on the trump campaign has already tried to blame it on the democrats and RINOs.

Stay classy, republicans.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/27/polit...zed/index.html
https://www.businessinsider.com/trum...-police-2020-9

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Just saw a TYT video about Parscale in hospital after SWAT got him talked down from committing suicide...

Nothing to do with commiting large-scale fraud I'm sure.

Oooh, Trump's brain has to be bubbling like those pingpong balls before a lottery draw. He is going to be so ****** for the debate this week.

Of course he's going to skip it.

I'll just say that I'm glad that he didn't resort to using any of the many guns he had in the house, and allowed himself to be taken into care in custody. I hope he gets proper treatment. There have been FAR too many USAians topping themselves with guns as a first resort in recent years.

What is going to be more fun/alarming/predictable is what comes from the Trump campaign in its filth-generating Calliope of Crap. Anyone want to make any predictions?

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David J Harris Jr
@DavidJHarrisJr
Maybe the Clintons won't get away it after all.
John Durham’s Investigation Takes Over Parts of US Attorney John Huber’s Clinton Foundation Probe
djhjmedia.com

Project Veritas Exposes Ilhan Omar’s Connections to Ballot Harvesting
https://djhjmedia.com/kari/video-pro...ot-harvesting/
Sara A. Carter
@SaraCarterDC

ELECTION FRAUD: Project Veritas @JamesOKeefeIII uncovers alleged ballot harvesting in Rep. Ilahn Omar’s district
Looks like @realDonaldTrump's warnings were right #ElectionFraud

Trump Tweets

This is totally illegal. Hope that the U.S. Attorney in Minnesota has this, and other of her many misdeeds, under serious review??? If not, why not??? We will win Minnesota because of her, and law enforcement. Saved Minneapolis & Iron O Range!
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Breitbart News
@BreitbartNews
Project Veritas has released the results of an investigation into alleged ballot harvesting by supporters of Democrat Rep. Ilhan Omar in Minnesota, a key swing state in the 2020 presidential election. https://trib.al/cN1GmtK

Project Veritas? Well, that's game over then. They're an unimpeachable paragon of journalistic integrity. Nobody could possibly question their findings.

President Trump will be pushing it, so it hardly matters whether it's actually true.

Looks like the Biden campaign already has a simple comparison ad out.