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Meanwhile, Biden's team are hiding him away until Thursday's debate. He's not loving it.

 

[padraig (u.s.)]

it's like Hilary emails the sequel

100%. it's the boy who cried email wolf.

Trump's people saw which the way wind was blowing after the debate, someone decided to throw this shit at the wall to see if it would stick

it almost definitely won't, as everyone as said minds are made up at this point

I guess there's a small, bitter joy in knowing it will fail specifically because of the intense partisan divide Trump et al did so much to help create

that they brought in the long and acrimoniously ousted Bannon to do the hit speaks volumes tho. all hands on deck.

 

[IdleRich]

I love it. A deliciously spicy October surprise unfolding in real-time. The response has mostly been lalala, I can't hear you, rather than denial.

Probably cos with the level of debate we have now that's more effective.

 

[padraig (u.s.)]

the democrats and their pet street warriors go trying to undermine a legitimate victory

I know you're just parroting a right-wing talking point whenever you bring up this nonsense

but not for the first time, please, show any kind of evidence

also, genuine question - how do you square being 100% libertarian blockchain smaller govt is better etc with being an ardent supporter of an authoritarian kleptocrat who's done nothing to make govt smaller and everything to promote business as usual in re cronyism etc

unless the answer is an accelerationist type "everything must get worse to get better" deal, it is truly bizarre

 

[IdleRich]

It's also the opposite, how far will the democrats and their pet street warriors go trying to undermine a legitimate victory?
At this stage last time, Clinton was 93% certain to win.

I get the feeling that it will be Trump trying to reverse results. Obviously Biden is more popular (as was Clinton) but with enough suppression, intimidation and recounts it could be made closer.

 

[hmg]

Yeah. It's not emails though is it? It's 3 hard drives full of filth, corruption and depravity. Plus an incarcerated business associate's Gmail login.

 

[hmg]

I know you're just parroting a right-wing talking point whenever you bring up this nonsense

but not for the first time, please, show any kind of evidence

also, genuine question - how do you square being 100% libertarian blockchain smaller govt is better etc with being an ardent supporter of an authoritarian kleptocrat who's done nothing to make govt smaller and everything to promote business as usual in re cronyism etc

unless the answer is an accelerationist type "everything must get worse to get better" deal, it is truly bizarre

Wrong, wrong, and thrice wrong
I'm leaning more towards no government, bitcoin, wild buffalo gigaherd restoration and homestead maximalist, with an eye on expansion into space.

 

[IdleRich]

Yeah. It's not emails though is it? It's 3 hard drives full of filth, corruption and depravity. Plus an incarcerated business associate's Gmail login.

I agree it's not emails part 2, that was when they released the emails again last week.
But am I missing something, this (completely unsubstantiated) stuff is related to the candidate's son not the candidate himself isn't it?

 

[hmg]

It's about "big guy" and his off the books meetings with senior Chinese figures, and Ukraine shenanigans, arranged by hunter, for cash and equity.

 

[IdleRich]

Do you reckon it's real?
Genuine question cos I haven't looked into it properly. I mean I assumed it was bollocks due to the provenance and similarity to previously debunked theories, but do you really think it's from HB's computer and describes his father's dodgy actions?

 

[padraig (u.s.)]

Wrong, wrong, and thrice wrong

cool answer

and yes I was aware of yr goals

how exactly, again, does your Trump boosterism get you to any of those things

unless again, it's an acceleration deal (or, you think you can somehow get in on that cronyism)

if you said a pox on both their houses, then sure. but you just prefer an even shittier version of normal big govt.

not that I'm gonna pursue it after cos who really cares but it's an interesting incoherency

 

[padraig (u.s.)]

Do you reckon it's real?

boss, keep in mind this is a guy who regularly says things like the Democratic Party actively controls BLM street warriors

 

[padraig (u.s.)]

defending the Democratic Party because the alternative is somehow worse is one of the most wearying of all the many wearying things about election cycles

 

[Leo]

New York Post Insiders Slag ‘Very Flimsy’ Hunter Biden Stories

 

[IdleRich]

This seems like good news right? https://uk.news.yahoo.com/supreme-court-pennsylvania-mail-in-voting-232929493.html

 

[IdleRich]

No-one interested in this? The main analysis seems to be that a) it's good that mail-in votes posted in time will be counted (unless there is some kind of appeal type thing) in this case... but b) it's terrifying that four judges voted to restrict voting rights, especially as there will be another one of their ilk appointed very soon.

 

[Leo]

yeah, it's good news in an important swing state. potential for dark days ahead with the new appointee.

 

[IdleRich]

Yeah you've got to take the rough with the smooth here or whatever.

 

[Leo]

conservative justices on the court will proclaim it's not that they personally are for or against XYZ, it's that the constitution or the way a law is written does not allow or forbid something. in other words, it's not that they are against extending time to count mail-in ballots, it's that states don't have the authority to make that decision.

liberal judges do the same thing, tbf.

 

[IdleRich]

But I thought that there was supposed to be a supposition in favour of states rights in this situation? Especially from the GOP.