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Roland99

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October 15, 2020

Lamest, biggest self-own. Ever.

https://twitter.com/JakeSherman/status/1316781581785337857
I tweeted a link to the NYP story right after it dropped yesterday morning. I immediately reached out to the Biden campaign to see if they had any answer. I wish i had given the story a closer read before tweeting it. @twitter suspended me


October 15, 2020

There is one HUGE difference in the polling for Biden in 2020 vs Clinton in 2016

Biden has been at or above 50% for some time.

SO, even if all "undecideds" broke for trump (and ignored the third parties), trump would still not be able to catch up!

Biden is polling well above where Clinton was and has been for much of the year.


Nationwide:
https://twitter.com/Scr0dman/status/1316810913471754240

October 15, 2020

So *this* is where all the trump/gop campaign money is going to! Fighting voter rights!

https://twitter.com/marceelias/status/1316749272973479941
Trump, RNC, NRSC, NRCC and the NC GOP have all filed for an emergency stay of last night's federal court decision in North Carolina pending appeal.

Pro tip--When one side needs an emergency stay pending their appeal, they didn't win.



this is where all the campaign money is being sunk into

Well, that and Parscale's garage
October 15, 2020

To Repeat - Prof Alan Lichtman's prediction of a Biden win (7 of 13 indicators point to Biden)

He Predicted Trump’s Win in 2016. Now He’s Ready to Call 2020.
Most historians just study the past. But Allan Lichtman has successfully predicted the future.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/05/opinion/2020-election-prediction-allan-lichtman.html

He calls it “The Keys to the White House.” And like some other politics these days, there’s a Russian involved. “In 1981, I met Vladimir Keilis-Borok. Vladimir turned to me and said, we are going to collaborate.” By the way, Vladimir wasn’t a historian or a politician. He was a leading expert in predicting earthquakes. “This point, I thought the guy was either nuts or KGB.” He wasn’t. “We recast American presidential elections as stability, the party holding the White House keeps the White House. And earthquake, the White House party is turned out of power.” So they got to work. “We looked at every presidential election from 1860 to 1980.” What they found were 13 keys. Only two of which have anything to do with the traits of the candidates. Allan has used the keys to accurately predict every election.

...

What do Allan’s 13 keys predict for 2020? “And remember, an answer of ‘true’ always favors the re-election of the White House party. If six or more of the keys are false, you get a political earthquake.”
OK, No. 1: The White House party gained House seats between midterm elections. “Republicans lost the U.S. House midterms in 2018. So false.”
No. 2: There is no primary contest for the White House party. “No Republicans challenged Trump for his renomination. So true.”
No. 3: The incumbent seeking. The sitting president is running for re-election. “Doesn’t look like he’s stepping down, so true.”
Four: There is no third-party challenger. “Despite claims by Kanye West to be running, this is a two-party race.” This is looking pretty good for Trump so far.
No. 5: The short-term economy is strong. “The pandemic has pushed the economy into recession. False.”
Six: Long-term economic growth during this presidential term has been as good as the past two terms. “The pandemic has caused such negative G.D.P. growth in 2020 that the key has turned false.”
No. 7: The White House has made major changes to national policy. “Through his big tax cut, but mostly through his executive orders, Trump has fundamentally changed the policies of the Obama era. So true.”
No. 8: There is no social unrest during the term. “There has been considerable social unrest on the streets, with enough violence to threaten the social order. So false.”
No. 9: The White House is untainted by scandal. “My favorite key. As I predicted, Trump was impeached. Plus he has plenty of other scandals. So false.”
No. 10: The White House has no major foreign or military failures abroad. “We’ve had some very difficult moments with Donald Trump. But so far, true.”
11: The White House has a major success abroad. “While Trump hasn’t had any big splashy failures, he hasn’t had any major successes either. So false.”
12: The incumbent-party candidate is charismatic. “Donald Trump is a great showman. But he only appeals to a narrow slice of the American people. And as a result, false.”
13: The challenger is uncharismatic. “Biden is a decent empathetic person, but he’s not inspirational or charismatic. So true.”

That means — “The keys predict that Trump will lose the White House.” That’s Allan Lichtman’s prediction. And Allan Lichtman is always right. “Don’t just take my word for it. There are forces at play outside the keys — voter suppression, Russian meddling. It’s up to you the voters to decide the future of our democracy. So get out and vote. Vote in person. Vote by mail. As Abraham Lincoln said, the best way to predict the future is to choose it.”


Video at the link, too
October 15, 2020

Can you smell the stench of their desperation??

https://twitter.com/Scr0dman/status/1316745768888401920
Can you smell it? The smell of desperation is heavy in the air. SO many GOP members/trump sycophants trying to tweet faked emails allegedly found on a laptop allegedly belonging to Hunter Biden only to have tweets blocked

Why are they SO desperate to spread russian propaganda?


that's a lot of BLUE!
October 15, 2020

DOJ admits Trump lied about Russian documents

https://www.rawstory.com/2020/10/doj-admits-trump-lied-about-russian-documents/
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) was forced to assert that President Donald Trump actually lied when he tweeted that he had declassified documents relative to the federal investigation into the alleged “Russian Hoax.”

The DOJ released a statement in response to an emergency motion filed by BuzzFeed News journalist Jason Leopold seeking unredacted sections of the Mueller report and 302s— Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) witness interview materials. BuzzFeed also requested that Senior U.S. District Judge Reggie Walton order the government agency to reprocess its Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests and lift redactions the Trump administration may have left in place.

The publication also argued that with the president’s claim that the documents had been declassified, there was no longer a justifiable reason for the DOJ to legally continue withholding the documents.

...

The DOJ added, “The Court cannot infer that any such sweeping order exists based on the President’s Twitter statements because they merely suggest that the President ‘authorized’ the ‘declassification’ of unspecified information. The Twitter statements do not refer to any specific document and do not indicate that the President was exercising his Constitutional authority to declassify specific information. They were not an order to declassify particular material.”


ya don't say?!
October 15, 2020

Rudy goes full racist. Mocking a Chinese accent in accidental video

This is trump’s cyber guy. And he can’t figure out a laptop webcam on or off and is caught mocking a Chinese accent and a bow and a racist stereotype phrase

Video here

https://www.thedailybeast.com/rudy-giuliani-posts-footage-of-himself-mocking-asians-to-youtube

Trump’s personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani was caught mocking Asians and even pantomiming a bow in video footage his team accidentally posted to his YouTube page on Wednesday.

The remarks came well after Giuliani had finished interviewing former White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer for his podcast, Common Sense. The taping appeared to take place on Tuesday. But a version of it was also posted as a video online on Wednesday. And in that video, the editors not only kept rolling but posted that excess footage along with the Spicer interview.
October 14, 2020

SeeSay2020 converts citizen reported instances of voter suppression into REAL TIME maps and alerts.

SeeSay2020 converts citizen reported instances of voter suppression into REAL TIME maps and alerts.
Today, http://seesay2020.com has received MANY reports of voter suppression.
Find the real time crowdsourced map here: https://bit.ly/3iVp3Rn
#SeeSay2020 #VOTE


https://twitter.com/SeeSay2020/status/1316493238426103808

Looks like something to keep in hand over the next couple weeks

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