US Election & Presidency

(20-09-2020 14:34 )terence Wrote:  

(20-09-2020 12:20 )goatman222 Wrote:  

(20-09-2020 11:49 )SOCATOA Wrote:  Trump downplayed how infectious and lethal Covid-19 really is, and is actively encouraging his supporters not to wear masks. What about his indoor rallies, no social distancing, and very little masks. Is this the way a responsible president should behave. It is a fact that black, native, and latinos are at a much greater risk of death, just look at the breakdowns of the statistics.

Why are they are at greater risk ? What is the reason for this ?

So when swine flu was around and killed 12.000 americans was that obama's fault ?

This is such a far left forum its ridiculous
Good luck to you all

the black, native and latino population are more likely to make up the essential worker who are exposing themselves to the virus, because they generally come from poorer communities who have to work to feed their families.

this is not fuckin rocket science, dude! enough with the intentionally disingenuous arguments.

okay

Congrats on the upgrade aswell terence

Ethnic minorities are dying more from covid because they tend to live in large families in cramped neighbourhoods. It's the same story here in the UK. Also poor diet is a factor. Now who wants to denounce me as 'rashist'

(19-09-2020 08:07 )Slabhead Wrote:  Trump supporters wanted jobs brought back and they're getting that (until covid hit)

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019...trade-wars

https://markets.businessinsider.com/news...028791979#

https://www.startribune.com/what-happene...fresh=true

(19-09-2020 08:07 )Slabhead Wrote:  They can follow Andy Ngo.

Best not mention The Proud Boys though... oops...

There are cunts on both sides.

Truth is that Trump delivered the only two things that the Republican elite wanted: tax cuts and judges.

That has been the Republican gambit since Nixon's 'southern strategy'. A fractious coalition of evangelical Christians, gun nuts, racists and suburban 'family value' voters, allied with uber-wealthy landowners and corporate fat cats.

The latter pretend to care about the former to build a voting block that is big enough to ensure they get the only two things they ever want and have ever wanted: tax cuts and judges.

And they have managed to do that off the back of an electoral system that is about as bad as our own. Trump has been able to nominate three justices as President despite losing the popular vote by a considerate margin of 3m voters & they have been (or possibly will be) confirmed by a Republican majority senate whose representatives received viewer combined votes that their Democratic counter parts.

Despite nationwide there being roughly the same amount of people living in large urban areas as there are rural ones, rural areas have 2 and a half times the representation of urban areas in the senate.

At the Presidential level the electoral college operates on a winner takes all basis, so if a candidate wins by even the slightest of margins (Trump won Michigan by 0.23%) they accrue all of that states votes. Now I am sure this will seem like left wing sour grapes but this winner takes all strategy affects everyone across the country: California is a Democratic stronghold which Clinton won in 2016 with 61.73% & is also the most populous state so Trump's losing share garnered him a healthy 4.5m votes. Those 4.5m Republican voters ended up with no representation, because of winner takes all, yet states like Rhode Island, Vermont & Delaware which have a combined population (not voters) of about 2.7m were also won by Clinton & so the votes of those citizens meant more than the considerably larger Republican votes in California.

The Republican Party has only garnered a majority of the popular vote once in the last 7 elections yet have won 3 of those elections & that has allowed them to appoint 4 out of 9 Supreme Court justices, RBG replacement nominee will be 5 of 9. That's before you even get to the 100s of Justices appointed to the lower courts. Granted Bush 43's two nominees came in his 2nd term when he actually did win the popular vote but of course he wouldn't of been there to run for that term having lost to Gore, if elections went proportionally, in 2000. You may argue that Gore might not have won re-election in 04 which is true but excluding Ford who served out the remainder of Nixon's term & JFK who was assassinated there have only been two one term Presidents since Hoover lost to FDR in 1932.

Had elections been carried out fairly by proportional representation both in the electoral college & the Senate there would of been fewer Republican Presidents, no Iraq War, fewer mass shootings, no Trump & a Supreme Court that had an 8/1 Liberal majority. Of course not all of that would necessarily be good, despite being a left wing, that supreme court margin is too much for me & would definitely not be proportionate, which is why I believe that Justices should not be political appointees made by Presidents off the backs of their own ideological basis & that The US Supreme Court probably has too much power when you compare it to that of other countries.

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the...eme-court/

Old Trumpy has given himself an "A+" for his handling of Covid-19. Delusional is the only way to describe this arse of a president, his gang of gutless enablers should be held responsible for their part in this tragic mess. A Trump election win has the potential to break up the united states, it is certainly slipping into a very bad place, with no sign of any common ground to unite the country again.

Johnson & Trump & all involved in their respective cabinets should be arrested, charged & on trial in the Hague for their handling of Covid

Mitt Romney has said that Trump's supreme court pick should get a vote on the floor. Now of course this does not guarantee that Romney will vote in favor, though probably will, but Romney was the the only Senator to break ranks & vote to impeach Trump on one of two counts, abuse of power. This is what he told Fox News:



Yet he can appoint people to the highest court in the land? They really have no shame

They will forgive anything, provided it suits their agenda, it's about power and pandering to those who finance them, just like here.

^ In the case of appointing a new Supreme Court Justice it will herald attempts to repeal Roe v Wade and therefore ban abortions, bring down the last vestiges of the Affordable Care Act and repeal equality laws. Republicans have no desire to govern for the whole nation - just their own bigoted self interests.