POTUS/General Election Thread 2020 + Aftermath

[ReluctantSamurai]

Hispanics vote for the Republican party, not for Trump, something which is not necessarily bad.

Hispanics are indeed, usually conservative. Voting GOP being not necessarily bad might have been true 15-20 years ago. But the advent of the Tea Party movement in 2010 changed much of that. The state of the GOP today can be partly summed up in Mitch McConnell...he'd rather ram through an unpopular SCOTUS appointment than vote on a relief bill, and has flipped the bird to the American people by stating it openly.

American politics are still immaturely fixated on specific individuals, instead of party platforms.

Which is why our government has to clean house in terms of today's GOP, because the Republican Party has been hijacked by CoviDon. And just as bad, Republicans have no particular platform or plan for the US other than to pander to the idiot in White House. That they have no particular platform was made clear at the RNC where they laughably cut-and-pasted the same platform document they drafted in 2016, including rhetoric about the incompetent current president:

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/25/u...-platform.html

Every four years since 1856, the Republican Party has produced a platform articulating its priorities for the next president.

But like so much else disrupted by President Trump, the Republican National Committee has dispensed with producing a 2020 platform, instead passing a resolution renewing what delegates enacted in 2016, bashing the news media and offering wholehearted support for Mr. Trump.

The only thing new was a "list" put out by CoviDon:

The list functions as a greatest hits of Mr. Trump’s recent proclamations, including, under his plans for confronting the coronavirus crisis, pledges such as “Return to Normal in 2021” and “Develop a Vaccine by The End Of 2020,” which, of course, take place entirely in Mr. Trump’s current term in office.

The priorities document, which for reasons unexplained capitalizes nearly every word in it, also pledges to “Hold China Fully Accountable for Allowing the Virus to Spread around the World.” There is also a pledge to send a manned mission to Mars and “Get Allies to Pay their Fair Share.”

There is no mention of abortion or the Second Amendment, which have long been animating features of the social conservative wing of Republican politics. The only foreign country mentioned by name is China, under a section titled “end our reliance on China.” A section on innovation offers a goal to “Partner with Other Nations to Clean Up our Planet’s Oceans.”

That's the sad part, here's the laughable part:

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/11/u...-platform.html

“The survival of the internet as we know it is at risk,” the platform reads. “Its gravest peril originates in the White House, the current occupant of which has launched a campaign, both at home and internationally, to subjugate it to agents of government.”

The platform censures the “current” president — who in 2016 was, of course, Barack Obama — and his administration for, among other things, imposing “a social and cultural revolution,” causing a “huge increase in the national debt” and damaging relationships with international partners.

“The Middle East is more dangerous now than at any time since the Second World War,” the platform reads. “Whatever their disagreements, presidents of both parties had always prioritized America’s national interests, the trust of friendly governments, and the security of Israel. That sound consensus was replaced with impotent grandstanding on the part of the current President and his Secretaries of State. The results have been ruinous for all parties except Islamic terrorists and their Iranian and other sponsors.”

Oh the irony of those statements

Trying to justify their laziness:

Melody Potter, an R.N.C. member from West Virginia who sat on the party’s platform committee in 2016 and planned to run for a seat on it this August, said she was pleased the platform was being rolled over for 2020.

“The 2016 platform is the best one we’ve had in 40 years, so I’m fine with renewing it and extending it to 2024,” she said. “As a matter of fact, and you can quote me on this, I think it is a ray of sunshine in this whole messy storm.”

Campaign operatives, for their part, defended the old document. “President Trump won in 2016 with this platform and he’ll win again in 2020 with this platform,” said Justin Clark, senior counsel to the campaign.

You are fixating on racism as THE reason CoviDon and the rest of the GOP are likely to lose big in two weeks. That certainly hasn't helped their cause with black voters, but it won't be the singular reason they get voted out of office, if that happens. The opportunity to secure the next decade for the GOP was lost in their abysmal response to the pandemic and the resulting economic debacle. Those two factors are ranked #1 & #2 with voters.

All this talk about Harris being a bad choice for Biden's VP is moot. The choice was made, and the election is two weeks away. Move on.

If she had won, the historical mark of the first female presidency would have been tainted that she won, because of dynastic connections and nepotism, like Bush Jr.

The real question is whether the US would be better off today with Hillary leading the pandemic response, than CoviDon

Last edited by Crandar; Today at 04:56. Reason: Correcting Montmorency's unprecedented bias against the beacon of civilisation.

On a lighter note:

https://www.facebook.com/JimmyKimmel...7311987554598/