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Normal transition of power. He meets with Biden, stays until 1/20, comes to inauguration, etc. | 5 | 5.56% | |
He doesn't fight the result, but resigns prior to the inauguration. | 2 | 2.22% | |
He fights the result but gives up shortly before the inauguration (let's define "shortly" as "some time after the EC meets on 12/14") | 30 | 33.33% | |
He fights the result all the way to January 20th. Has to be physically removed. | 12 | 13.33% | |
He fights the result for a short time, but gives up and resigns before the inauguration | 6 | 6.67% | |
He fights the result for a short time, but gives up an then we have a normal transition as per option 1. | 30 | 33.33% | |
Other. (You know you gotta specify this one.) | 5 | 5.56% | |
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04-24-2023, 02:15 PM | #7801 |
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Dola, regarding Desantis.
He seems pretty similar to Scott Walker in 2016. And someone else mentioned Jindal, although I'd argue that his lack of charisma during his state of the union rebuttal sunk him. Some of this stuff excites the base, but just doesn't play nationally. |
04-24-2023, 02:34 PM | #7802 | |
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04-24-2023, 02:39 PM | #7803 | |
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These dopes think that ticket would guarantee the White House. Not sure anyone could bring out even more of an anti trump vote but if there is it’s tucker Carlson. Not to mention all dems would have to do is run some of the shit he has said in shows on a loop. |
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04-24-2023, 03:00 PM | #7804 | |
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04-24-2023, 03:07 PM | #7805 | |
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And it's a point that I do not believe his backers really understand ... and it's going to end up being costly. I'm absolutely certain he has no chance in hell of winning in November, which cools my support considerably. It won't end it though, I'd rather lose with him than win with some even more useless lightweight.
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04-24-2023, 03:19 PM | #7806 |
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I'm seeing some reporting now that also factoring into Tucker's firing is the lawsuit by the ex-Fox producer which she said Tucker had some pretty horrible stuff about women. And that the firing came straight from Murdoch
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04-24-2023, 03:21 PM | #7807 | |
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Sounds like it just hit the point where there was too much baggage and with all the lawsuits he was a liability. |
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04-24-2023, 04:05 PM | #7808 |
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And on Good News Monday, Fani Willis Georgia DA revealed to local law enforcement that the indictments will be served sometime from mid july to early September. Can someone say "Hot Lanta!"
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04-24-2023, 04:09 PM | #7809 | |
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Here's what I don't get though about that line of thinking. Why is it just him leaving the network? Why isn't Hannity or Jeanine Pirro also getting the boot?
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04-24-2023, 04:13 PM | #7810 | |
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Why so long? That is too late. IT will be tied up in courts until he is the nominee then we will be told they can't charge him and it will be dropped. I stand by my statement that nothing will ever be done to hold him truly accountable. |
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04-24-2023, 04:14 PM | #7811 |
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04-24-2023, 04:19 PM | #7812 | |
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It's state not Federal. I would be more worried with the Georgia GOP trying to stop her before she announces,
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04-24-2023, 04:34 PM | #7813 |
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04-24-2023, 06:39 PM | #7814 |
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You think CNN which is supposed to go more conservative will throw money at Tucker?
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04-24-2023, 06:53 PM | #7815 |
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CNN is risk-averse. I don't see it.
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04-24-2023, 06:57 PM | #7816 |
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Oh come one, how fun would it be to see Lemon and Fox and Carlson at CNN both confessing they have been playing for the wrong team all these years and hawking the agenda they both despised all these years.
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04-24-2023, 07:03 PM | #7817 | |
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Here you go Lathum, this guy knows what he's talking about, and doesn't like "doomsayers" https://twitter.com/PalmerReport/sta...36011230334976
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04-24-2023, 07:24 PM | #7818 | |
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That guy is a clown and is wrong way more often then right. He has been saying "we got him this time!!" for years. |
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04-24-2023, 08:07 PM | #7819 |
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04-24-2023, 09:00 PM | #7820 | |
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From what I can tell, Fox News higher up were shook by things that were found in discovery for the Dominion trial and the alleged audio recordings that the producer who is suing them has. They do not expect things that were redacted to stay redacted so they decided to get out in front of it. I wonder does Tucker have an NDA?
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04-24-2023, 09:17 PM | #7821 |
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It sounds like there is a lawsuit by a former worker and there is some really bad stuff that will come out about Tucker and his producer from it. Guessing that's why he got the axe.
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04-24-2023, 09:27 PM | #7822 | |
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Is that it? I honestly don't understand why his presidential candidacy would die now because he is the same guy he has always been. Maybe it was the expectation that Trump would not run for office again and he would be Trump's hand picked successor. It is also possible that all the people who would vote for DeSantis nationwide have all moved to Florida.
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04-24-2023, 09:30 PM | #7823 |
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Droves of people have moved to Florida. Everyone except Jon.
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04-24-2023, 09:32 PM | #7824 |
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04-24-2023, 09:36 PM | #7825 | |
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Nothing in that story sounds like it would make Tucker Carlson watches walk away from Tucker Carlson. SI
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04-24-2023, 09:55 PM | #7826 |
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Who had both Tucker and Lemon fired in the pool?
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04-24-2023, 10:02 PM | #7827 | |
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That seemed like a fair bet for a very short while, but then Trump's ego got stoked. Either could win the nomination with the support of the other, I'm not entirely sure either can win it without.
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04-24-2023, 10:07 PM | #7828 |
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Introducing a new buddy cop show from two guys that are fed up and taking no prisoners....
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04-25-2023, 03:33 AM | #7829 |
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Incidently Tucker and Lemon just hired the same high powered entertainment lawyer to get themselves to nice payouts. That's more money from Murdoch
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04-25-2023, 11:44 AM | #7830 |
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Add Gorsuch to the crooked as hell list of Justices. How much time do we have as a nation? 15, maybe 20 years?
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04-25-2023, 12:15 PM | #7831 |
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04-25-2023, 12:18 PM | #7832 | |
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What's to say we're not already passed the point of no return and all that's left is the inevitable? I'm not saying that's etched in stone. I'm just saying we don't know. SI
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04-25-2023, 12:29 PM | #7833 |
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Oh I think we are passed. MTG is bat shit crazy. But maybe is on to something with her national divorce.
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04-25-2023, 12:48 PM | #7834 |
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The damage done by something like that would positively dwarf the current problems we have.
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04-25-2023, 12:56 PM | #7835 | |
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FWIW, that basic premise was suggested to me somewhere around 1994 or so I feel like I ought to be ... discreet let's say ... in the specifics but it was relayed to me by a respected (R) figure who I happened to know personally (through a non-political connection), but attributed to a prominent (D) of the time. It was a point that the two decidedly different figures agreed upon, and was the basis of one of the most genuinely thought provoking conversations I've had in my life before or since. (I would have been just shy of 27 years old)
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04-25-2023, 01:29 PM | #7836 |
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This board is at it's peak old-manishness when there's a discussion of how the country won't survive whatever is happening.
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04-25-2023, 01:37 PM | #7837 |
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I mean, here, let me drop in something a little less glib
For American "prosperity", things were never going to be as good as they were in the 50s and 60s. Coming off WW2, we basically had the only functioning first-world economy as all the rest had been bombed to hell. The crumbling of the Soviets now shows us in hindsight that their power was a lot of a mirage so militarily and influence-wise'. If you were white and male and straight and Christian and American, it was probably the best time in history to be alive. That said, if you were not one of those, maybe you're not as enthusiastic about times when there were colored and white drinking fountains, abortions were done with coat hangers, and any sex other than straight missionary-style better not be found out about lest you're lynched, murdered, sent to jail, or have to bleed to death. That tends to put a bit of a damper on conversations about prosperity, upward mobility, and supposed freedom. There's no one caning anyone in the Senate or doing a duel, as has happened in hour history. I think we can reasonably look at the level of discord going on in politics, both in Congress and on the street and go "hey, this is probably as bad as it's been in our lifetimes". May be true or may not be true - to my naked eye, it seems pretty true, but I'm far from an expert and don't have measurements to back that up. That said, I don't think McConnell or Schumer are going to be trying to kill each other any time soon - they both know how the game is played and how these rules are and they're not all that different than when Newt went and reset a lot of the rules and norms back in the 90s. I'm sure McConnell doesn't care for MTG, for instance. He wants professionals, people that can be relied upon, people that play the team game. But if he can't have that, he can make do with useful idiots, too.I've long maintained that there are carnival barkers and true believers and so long as the former has the upper hand, the latter are merely a nuisance. I think a lot about the first line of A Tale of Two Cities. Not the "best of times, worst of times" part, but the "in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only". Every time thinks they're living through the end of times or best times or whatever. However, I think it's unfair to dismiss concerns about the modern time as just being historical noise. Dickens point kindof gets undercut by the fact that A Tale of Two Cities was written about the French Revolution and I think most would argue that was a hugely important historical time. Maybe we are approaching another Civil War or a cold Civil War. People writing about that in 1855 were probably considered alarmist at the time. But people writing about it in 1968, would have been wrong. SI
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Twice in short order you remind me of some related observation. This time it's my recent caution -- to all sides -- that "NO candidate gets elected without votes from a certain number of idiots". (i.e. it's no longer mathematically possible to get to 50% without including some idiots)
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04-25-2023, 01:43 PM | #7839 | |
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04-25-2023, 01:54 PM | #7840 |
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I think so, maybe? Regardless, it's a point that seems pretty lost today (I can't speak to whether it was realized in previous eras)
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04-25-2023, 01:59 PM | #7841 | |
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Nope. I think it's largely just more obvious now, like many problems. Also there's the intensifying effect where people become more aware of the problems, leading them to search for solutions more desperately, often turning to the wrong ones.
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04-25-2023, 02:31 PM | #7842 |
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And smarter than your average bear.
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04-25-2023, 02:55 PM | #7843 |
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So it seems Russia Today is playing foot-sy with Tucker Carlson. How did we not guess that? I bet they will pay him whatever he wants to get more eyeballs on Russian propaganda. He was already by far their favorite host.
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Isn't that George Carlin quote mathematically wrong though? Shouldn't he be saying that half of people are smarter than the MEDIAN person and not the AVERAGE?
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04-25-2023, 03:22 PM | #7845 | |
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04-25-2023, 03:59 PM | #7847 | |
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I legit can't tell the difference between hyperbole and seriousness with quite a bit of what is said on this board. For example, what you said here is quite a bit more reasonable from my perspective than many things which are treated with complete seriousness. Last edited by Brian Swartz : 04-25-2023 at 03:59 PM. |
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04-25-2023, 04:10 PM | #7848 |
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Here is a hint. If I, or most anyone else, endorses an idea by MTG it is not meant to be serious.
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04-25-2023, 05:57 PM | #7849 |
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Iowa reps upset their farm welfare might be cut in the new GOP budget.
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