Election 2020

[luka]

That is cool that we merit special attention. Austria or Luxemburg or Belgium will never get an RT segment. Irrelevant countries.

 

[IdleRich]

Have you seen that fat Lebanese feller?

Jesse Ventura's son has a show, that stuck in my mind.

 

[luka]

Ventura is a democrat governer right? Scandinavian stock. Raw boned and rugged.

 

[IdleRich]

I think, also, that RT is actually different and more aggressively anti-western when its shown in Russia although don't quote me on that.

We need to check that by comparing one time if Liza goes to Russia and I stay in Portugal - one time she was there and I was here and we both put on National Geographic Wild and it's the same thing at the same time. Something weird about that right? That they just broadcast the same thing at the same time all round the world, regardless of what time it is in the place it's being broadcast. Next time I will try and remember to check RT cos in my mind they are showing more virulent propaganda there than here but I'd like to confirm that.

 

[luka]

I'm surprised they even have a Russian version. I thought it was like that radio broadcast America sent out over the eastern bloc during the Cold War

 

[Leo]

Ventura is a democrat governer right? Scandinavian stock. Raw boned and rugged.

Nah, he ran first with Reform and the Independence Party. Former pro wrestler.

 

[IdleRich]

Ventura is a democrat governer right? Scandinavian stock. Raw boned and rugged.

He was a governor I think but I dunno which party... that's why Marina Hyde said the photo of the Predator cast was to US gubernatorial politics what that famous Bullingdon photo was to the UK government.

 

[luka]

Nah, he ran first with Reform and the Independence Party. Former pro wrestler.

I know he's a fucking wrestler! I'm not culturally illiterate!

 

[IdleRich]

I'm surprised they even have a Russian version. I thought it was like that radio broadcast America sent out over the eastern bloc during the Cold War

Maybe it's the same. It's definitely on there. I've watched more in Russia than in UK I'd say.

 

[IdleRich]

One thing I've noticed is that even if it's non-political the attitudes are very different... you know, like if it's the BBC and they're in Afghanistan it will be "Ahmed lost his family in a bomb attack, since then he has tried to work but there are no jobs available and his grief has led to his becoming a heroin addict. He hopes one day to kick the habit, get a job and make a new family but sadly the odds are against him".
Whereas on RT it's like "This guy is a worthless junkie, we drove him to the hospital and made him take some methadone but next day we saw him on the street again trying to get heroin. Why did we bother?"

 

[luka]

They're not known for their sentimental attitudes the Russians are they

 

[IdleRich]

Well... no and yes.

 

[IdleRich]

But back to the election... Aguirre Wrath of Trump

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- A former Houston Police Department Captain was arrested and charged for running a man off the road and pointing a gun at his head in an attempt to prove claims of a massive voter fraud scheme in Harris County, according to a news release from the Harris County's DA's office.
Mark Anthony Aguirre, 63, was arrested by Houston police Tuesday and charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, a second-degree felony punishable by up to 20 years in prison."He crossed the line from dirty politics to commission of a violent crime, and we are lucky no one was killed," Harris County District Attorney Kim Ogg said. "His alleged investigation was backward from the start - first alleging a crime had occurred and then trying to prove it happened."
According to court documents, Aguirre told police that he was part of a group of private citizens called the "Liberty Center," who were conducting a civilian investigation into the alleged ballot scheme.
According to Aguirre, he had been conducting surveillance for four days on a man who was allegedly the mastermind of a giant voter fraud scheme. Aguirre told authorities the man was hiding 750,000 fraudulent ballots in a truck he was driving.
Instead, the victim turned out to be an innocent air conditioner repairman, court documents said.

Who could have ever predicted that this kind of thing would happen?

Aguirre ran his SUV into the back of the truck to get the technician to stop and get out, according to court documents.
When the technician got out of the truck, Aguirre pointed a handgun at the technician, forced him to the ground and put his knee on the man's back until police came, the court document said.
Aguirre allegedly directed police to a parking lot nearby where another suspect, who has not been identified, took the truck.
According to court documents, there were no ballots in the truck. The truck was filled with air conditioning parts and tools.
Aguirre allegedly never told police that he had been paid a total of $266,400 by the Houston-based Liberty Center for God and Country, with $211,400 of that amount being deposited into his account the day after the incident.

 

[IdleRich]

Wait, that was in October... which makes it even more crazy doesn't it?

 

[Mr. Tea]

Why do you love the Democrats so much?

You forgot to suggest that we go live there.

 

[...]

The latest thing among the libertarian and QAnon crowd (and Tulsi) is lobbying Donald Trump to pardon Edward Snowden and Julian Assange, because:



Of course, Trump keeps threatening to "declassify everything" himself.

 

[IdleRich]

We were talking a couple of days ago about how the word on the street was that Trump was about to pardon Assange. I must admit I've never quite got the link - I always think that Assange is someone who is (or at least sees himself as) against the Deep State rather than against Obama - I mean I imagine the main reaction from Obama will be something like "Oh for fuck's sake" rather than "OMG now it's all gonna come out about the corruption and the blood drinking paedo-rings, we're all going to jail". I guess Trump people support Assange cos they think that he might be able to take Obama and Clinton down but as soon as it becomes obvious that it's just boring stuff about bombing brown civilians they'll just lose interest... and Trump knows it.

 

[luka]

Have you seen that fat Lebanese feller?

Gad Saad

 

[Leo]

Not sure I see a real upside for Trump and the GOP for pardoning one or both of them. It would reflect poorly on the GOP (not that Trump cares about the party), and would appeal to only a tiny fringe of voters.

 

[IdleRich]

This latest fundraising mailout seems to be moving from a position of "stop the democrats stealing the election" to "the democrats have stolen the election but I'll be back" - which, while still incredible bullshit does at least seem to show the beginnings of acceptance of his eventual defeat and removal.