President Trump: The NEW one and only politics thread

In 13 days Trump will continue to tell lies and rage at the world about how tough he's had it and how unfair, corrupt and rigged the election was. But he will be doing so as the outgoing President.

Two more weeks before the circus leaves town and the end of alternative facts, fake news, fake crowd numbers, Lamestream Media, gaslighting, Obamagate, the failing New York Times and on and on. Just two weeks before the show (and that's exactly what his presidency has been) closes for good.

Sure, he'll continue to tweet but it will be into a vacuum. He will be deserted by so-called loyalists like rats on a ship and then say how terrible they all were.

Will he fire everyone, even those at Mar-a-Lago? Who fucking cares.

 

As long as the slogan does not refer to a particular candidate or ballot measure, it’s not electioneering. BLM is not on the ballot

 

He drives you over to his shit Facebook page to view the media - no thanks. I'll just watch the show.

 

I guess that tells you how little it matters to me.

Plus, it's probably been 25 or 30 years since I've been to an actual polling/voting location...

 

Luckily we live in the midst of COVID restrictions or a group of graduate students might try to figure out just where the line is drawn for poll apparel.

Could I wear a plain shirt that just says, “Would you just shut up, man?”

What about one that just says, “Bigley!”?

A shirt with the Confederate battle flag?

Poll workers probably make the calls and rule enforcement, beyond blatant campaign apparel, might vary widely.

 

All of those examples are fine

 

I assume my "literally anyone else 2020" shirt would be kosher as well?

 

The percentage difference in VAP between 1960 (109.6 million) and 2020 (UF's figure of 257.6 million) is 234 percent. Roughly 68.8 million voted in 1960, so the math shows 161 million votes need to be cast to equal 1960's percentage.

The difference between the two denominators is quite large: You're eliminating 1 of every 13 US residents in 2020 (almost 18 million people) because of ineligibility, according to the UF study. Just glancing at the UF study, that's almost 4.5 million in California alone.

If you use the same calculation for 1960 (which seems awfully high for that era), that would have eliminated 7.6 million voters down to 102 million, which brings the turnout percentage of "eligibles" to 67.4.

Kennedy-Nixon was pretty impressive. Doable in 2020? We'll have to see. It's going to be a big number in two weeks, no matter what.

 

I know a lot of people want to eliminate the ACA on ideological or legal grounds. He just wants to get rid of it because it was passed by Obama. He can’t even describe what it wrong with it or what he will change, other than it’s horrible and his non-existent plan is better. He can’t even deal with the first question pushing back.

And he just gave a simple 10 second clip for the Biden camp and every down ballot candidate to use.

 

What about someone who’s not actually a candidate?