Clinton 48.2%
Trump 46.1%
That’s not even close, and it sure as shit isn’t democratic.
What happened to his plan to call it the opening our country council?
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Nope. It’s a sign that this pandemic has already lasted longer than his attention span and this is how he’s responding to those few experts left in government service who are telling him what a responsible leader would do. But all he hears is “I will hold a [del]campaign rally on the government’s dime[/del] press conference and say something and I will be adored. Oooooh. Adoration!”
It got us Bush in 2004, which coincidentally is when I gave up trying to understand people.
dupe
Are you referring to Trump or Bush voters?
Could it be mass lead poisoning? Or contaminated Twinkies? (Still trying to make sense of the OrangeAnus and his followers three and half years later)
Maybe. I’m still not 100% convinced Bush really won that election.
But even if we agree won in 2004, he did it as an incumbent. If Bush had lost in 2000, he wouldn’t have been running in 2004.
This is what the last thirty years would have looked like if we had democracy:
1988: George H.W. Bush
1992: Bill Clinton
1996: Bill Clinton
2000: Al Gore
2004: Al Gore
2008: Barack Obama
2012: Barack Obama
2016: Hillary Clinton
I’m pretty sure we’d be living in a better country and a better world.
[QUOTE=… (Still trying to make sense of the OrangeAnus and his followers three and half years later)[/QUOTE]
That’s a fool’s errand, if there ever was one.
News from Wisconsin, better suited for the politics forum but perhaps will shine a beacon of hope in our dreary world:
You may recall that the Democratic governor wanted to postpone their primary election last week, but were thwarted by the Republican legislature and conservative-dominated state supreme court.
You may also recall that there was a conservative supreme court incumbent on the ballot, endorsed by Trump. And that Trump bragged and crowed that the liberals were freaked out by his endorsement, and that’s why they wanted a postponement.
And so the election proceeded with long lines of people braving virus exposure to vote at the few polling places that were open.
Well…
The Trumpian incumbent LOST.
Fuckin’ awesome.
This bodes well for a battleground state in November.
Great… the Louseketeers…
On the Wisconsin Supreme Court win by the Democrat: The implications are even more enormous.
There is one conservative justice on that now 4-3 court who sides with the liberals on the Republican voter suppression effort to throw 200,000 Wisconsin voters off the rolls. It seems likely now that the Republican effort will fail. Since Trump won the state by a mere 23,000 votes and Barr-ing unforeseen events, looks like Wisconsin is again a safe Democratic stronghold for 2020.
In short, the Democratic win in this instance is huge.
If this be true — and I have no immediate reason to doubt it — it wouldn’t surprise me at all if the Republicans attempted to invalidate the election on the grounds that it should have been postponed until after the country had been reopened by [DEL]Dear Leader’s fiat[/DEL] Presidential order.
(Which, of course, was always their position. But they were overruled by the Demonrat in the Governor’s mansion.)
Meanwhile in Canada, the Federal Government and the Provinces are in talks to discuss a strategy for re-opening the economy in stages. Scientific and medical advice will be followed, and there is recognition that the virus is at different stages in different areas of the country, and some areas are harder hit than others.
It is so good to see the various political parties working quite well together. It makes the citizens feel like things are being handled as well as can be expected, and the leaders actually want to make things better for everyone.
Representatives Tom Malinowski (D-N.J.), Dean Phillips (D-Minn.) and Justin Amash (I-Mich.) introduced a one-sentence resolution on Tuesday which reads, “The House of Representatives affirms that when someone is the president of the United States, their authority is not total.”
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/492700-lawmakers-introduce-resolution-rebuking-trumps-comments-he-has-total-authority?
Should be a fascinating vote, where all the Republicans come down firmly on the side of authoritarianism.
Back when I was working, I used to joke that we would all take a vote and then I would decide what I wanted to do. (In case it’s not obvious, I was the boss.)
Democracy is more than just being able to vote. Democracy requires that the outcome be decided by the votes. If a hundred million people vote and then we throw those votes out and let some small group decide the outcome, it isn’t a democracy.
Make 'em OWN it!
“So you’ve got Marie Antoinette Barbie and Fully Useless Ken on board, but who else makes up this brain trust that is literally holding people’s lives in its hands? Any doctors? Health experts? Economists? Fuck no!”
From here. Great read.
How about ‘Anatomically Deficient Ken’? 
Trump is referring to state governors who refuse to concede his total authority as “mutineers”. He wants them to know that “Mutiny on the Bounty is one of my all-timefavorite movies.”
Apparently he doesn’t remember that Capt. Bligh ended up being set adrift in a small boat while the mutineers took the ship to their desired destination. Now, in real life, the captain made it back to England because, for all his other faults, he was a competent sailor. So to be fair, I’m willing to set Trump adrift in a small boat in the middle of the ocean and see if he makes it back to land.