2020 U.S. Presidential Election - Took place November 3, 2020. Former U.S. Vice President Joe Biden assumed office January 20, 2021.

[Leominster]

Here's a question I've been having for a while.

Can a candidate who dropped out reenter the race? Because this would be a great time for one of the prior candidates to do so.

Yes, theoretically they can. That's one of the reasons why they don't "drop out" but "suspend" their campaign. The other reason they "suspend" supposedly has to do with some FEC bullshit. It's rarely ever happened. I think it would be more likely that if the DNC thought it was that damaging, then they'd replace him at the convention.

And somehow we're supposed to believe Biden leads Trump in 4 swing states. Twitter is basically his base and even they don't like him and will only vote for him cause he's not Trump.

If the Democratic Primary proved anything it's that Twitter is not Biden's base and it didn't matter because it's a mostly meaningless echo chamber.

 

[reptile baht spaniard rid]

That's one of the reasons why they don't "drop out" but "suspend" their campaign. The other reason they "suspend" supposedly has to do with some FEC bullshit.

Suspended campaigns can still accept donations and stuff like that. Actually cancelled ones cannot and have to wrap up everything.

also lol - 9 cents lower than trump (I assume the rest is the "old man may die" factor):

 

[Leominster]

Suspended campaigns can still accept donations and stuff like that. Actually cancelled ones cannot and have to wrap up everything.

The NBC article I read said that suspending a campaign is a signal to donors that a campaign is winding down and they'll use money to pay off debts. The FEC doesn't consider a campaign officially over until its debts are paid.

Your comment makes the NBC article make more sense because if a campaign chooses to "cancel" then they can't raise donations to pay off debts.

Why Do Candidates 'Suspend' Campaigns When They Drop Out?

Like so many other things in presidential politics, it has to do with money.

www.nbcnews.com

I don't think the numbers are posted yet, but that's probably why Sanders endorsed Biden and didn't drag it on to the convention. It was clear Sander's was gonna lose after Super Tuesday. Biden's donors probably agreed to paying off all Sander's campaign debts if he dropped out by a certain date. It's a common occurrence. Obama's donors paid off Hillary Clinton's 2008 campaign debts. She owed like $20 million.

 

[2021Murder]

Here's a question I've been having for a while.

Can a candidate who dropped out reenter the race? Because this would be a great time for one of the prior candidates to do so.

yes but Biden has a massive delegate lead, also Bernie can't because he accepted an Unconditional Surrender agreement. he isn't even on the ballot in upcoming primaries

 

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It's laughable how they'd try to hide this. It was on Tucker Carlson 2 days ago.

Yes, but that's ALTRIGHT NATZIPHOBEISTAN media. 2 days later... it starts percolating into the fringes of the bubble... and it's gone from anything not the "alt-right" media outlets.

Memory holed, at least for a while, giving Biden and the DNC time to do damage control, get a counter-narrative out there (expect a Trump accuser to show up out of the woodwork soon), etc.

 

[heyitsmike]

Memory holed, at least for a while, giving Biden and the DNC time to do damage control, get a counter-narrative out there (expect a Trump accuser to show up out of the woodwork soon), etc.

The fact that they still believe memory holing shit in the primaries will serve them well in the general is one of the great mysteries of life.

I'm sure Trump and Company will consider it off limits though. /sneed

 

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So that Biden meme that Twitter is now using their anti-child porn system to auto-ban anyone who posts it? That the media intentionally blamed Trump / Trump supporters for?

https://www.instagram.com/tv/B_ayWw1BMmH/?igshid=19esq47yr6wxn

It was created by a Bernie Bro Accelerationist. Specifically, he took the subtext of the Biden media narrative ("yeah, he keeps screwing up, but he means well") and spelled it out, which is why it was so effective.

The fact that they still believe memory holing shit in the primaries will serve them well in the general is one of the great mysteries of life.

I'm sure Trump and Company will consider it off limits though. /sneed

Oh don't you remember?

1. Twitter et all are now supposedly not allowing political ads (which will give them justification to ban GOP ads while "accidentally" allowing the astroturf ads the DNC prefers)
2. The mainstream media has announced intent to media blacklist Trump, instead posting summaries of what he "really meant" a short while later.
3. The DNC / Biden Campaign now, as mentioned above, has veto-power over what people post on social media.

Trump et all might consider it off limits. They might not.

But I would wager money that Youtube/Twitter/Facebook/CNN simply won't LET them talk about it.

Expect Trump's Twitter account to be nuked sometime in the late Summer. He's got too big of a platform, there's no way they're gonna let him keep it.

IT WAS HUR TURN.

IT'S JOE TIME.

ORaNGEE MANNn BAAAADD!!!!

 

[Iwasamwillbe]

Expect Trump's Twitter account to be nuked sometime in the late Summer. He's got too big of a platform, there's no way they're gonna let him keep it.

If Twitter bans Trump, then Twitter ends its existence as a viable platform, at least in America. I'm sure @It's HK-47 would concur with me.

 

[Wallace]

Expect Trump's Twitter account to be nuked sometime in the late Summer. He's got too big of a platform, there's no way they're gonna let him keep it.

Not a chance. He brings in too much traffic to Twitter. If they were to kick him out, the company would fold within a year. Likewise on that media blacklist, he brings in too much ratings for everyone to just stop doing it. The time for these sorts of interventions was five years ago. It's far too late now.

 

[King Ghidorah]

If Twitter bans Trump, then Twitter ends its existence as a viable platform, at least in America. I'm sure @It's HK-47 would concur with me.

Not a chance. He brings in too much traffic to Twitter. If they were to kick him out, the company would fold within a year. Likewise on that media blacklist, he brings in too much ratings for everyone to just stop doing it. The time for these sorts of interventions was five years ago. It's far too late now.

Correct me if I'm wrong but wasn't trump's Twitter legally declared unbannable?

 

[BlueSpark]

So that Biden meme that Twitter is now using their anti-child porn system to auto-ban anyone who posts it? That the media intentionally blamed Trump / Trump supporters for?

https://www.instagram.com/tv/B_ayWw1BMmH/?igshid=19esq47yr6wxn

It was created by a Bernie Bro Accelerationist. Specifically, he took the subtext of the Biden media narrative ("yeah, he keeps screwing up, but he means well") and spelled it out, which is why it was so effective.





Oh don't you remember?

1. Twitter et all are now supposedly not allowing political ads (which will give them justification to ban GOP ads while "accidentally" allowing the astroturf ads the DNC prefers)
2. The mainstream media has announced intent to media blacklist Trump, instead posting summaries of what he "really meant" a short while later.
3. The DNC / Biden Campaign now, as mentioned above, has veto-power over what people post on social media.

Trump et all might consider it off limits. They might not.

But I would wager money that Youtube/Twitter/Facebook/CNN simply won't LET them talk about it.

Expect Trump's Twitter account to be nuked sometime in the late Summer. He's got too big of a platform, there's no way they're gonna let him keep it.

IT WAS HUR TURN.

IT'S JOE TIME.

ORaNGEE MANNn BAAAADD!!!!

They'll test the waters by temporarily suspending him, citing some recent tweets that they deem to be dangerous.

 

[Iwasamwillbe]

Correct me if I'm wrong but wasn't trump's Twitter legally declared unbannable?

It was judicially declared that he couldn't block people from it since it was a public forum, although that does open up a ton of legal cans of worms such as that.

 

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They'll test the waters by temporarily suspending him, citing some recent tweets that they deem to be dangerous.

That's what I'm expecting. They'll block him from posting on it for 24 hours, then 7 days, then 30 days. His account will still be up, though. Expect it to occur right when the DNC springs their October surprise, limiting how he can respond to it, making him reliant on the media, who will distort anything he says for maximum damage.

It was judicially declared that he couldn't block people from it since it was a public forum, although that does open up a ton of legal cans of worms such as that.

Fun fact: This means they cannot legally ban you from Twitter, because as an American citizen you have the legal right to use Twitter to reply to Trump's tweets.

Spoiler Alert: That's not how it works in reality, this is just them doing their whole "we have power, enjoy our boot" thing, but still.

 

[Syaoran Li]

So that Biden meme that Twitter is now using their anti-child porn system to auto-ban anyone who posts it? That the media intentionally blamed Trump / Trump supporters for?

https://www.instagram.com/tv/B_ayWw1BMmH/?igshid=19esq47yr6wxn

It was created by a Bernie Bro Accelerationist. Specifically, he took the subtext of the Biden media narrative ("yeah, he keeps screwing up, but he means well") and spelled it out, which is why it was so effective.





Oh don't you remember?

1. Twitter et all are now supposedly not allowing political ads (which will give them justification to ban GOP ads while "accidentally" allowing the astroturf ads the DNC prefers)
2. The mainstream media has announced intent to media blacklist Trump, instead posting summaries of what he "really meant" a short while later.
3. The DNC / Biden Campaign now, as mentioned above, has veto-power over what people post on social media.

Trump et all might consider it off limits. They might not.

But I would wager money that Youtube/Twitter/Facebook/CNN simply won't LET them talk about it.

Expect Trump's Twitter account to be nuked sometime in the late Summer. He's got too big of a platform, there's no way they're gonna let him keep it.

IT WAS HUR TURN.

IT'S JOE TIME.

ORaNGEE MANNn BAAAADD!!!!

I think the only reason why they haven't banned Trump already is because at this point, everyone knows how biased things are on Twitter, and this goes for all sides of the political spectrum. Twitter will definitely ban Trump once he leaves office, but anything before that is a potentially huge risk.

Even radical leftists have occasionally complained about it despite the fact they are only very rarely targeted when they become too much of a liability for the DNC, unlike centrists, conservatives, or right-wingers who are all suspended at best or machine-banned at worst the very second they step out of line.

Banning Trump before he leaves office would get everyone on high-alert and it would be blatantly transparent, especially if the liberal MSM and the lefty clickbait mills brag about it, which you know they will.

They'll test the waters by temporarily suspending him, citing some recent tweets that they deem to be dangerous.

I wouldn't put it past Twitter to try that, but if they even temporarily suspend him this late in the game, it will still be just as bad for optics as outright banning him. At most, they could temporarily suspend him for 24 hours to test the waters of how much of a shitshow it will be, and if they extend the suspension, it will become more blatantly obvious to the point that even the normies and fence-sitters who don't give a rat's ass about Twitter will start asking a lot of uncomfortable questions a lot more often and in greater numbers.

 

[King Ghidorah]

It is possible that there are court decisions that could if used as precedent make social media not allowed to silence incorrect opinions but given the state of activist judges it's sadly unlikely to happen

 

[Kornheiser]

So what will be the October Surprise they are going to use against Trump?

 

[XYZpdq]

So what will be the October Surprise they are going to use against Trump?

They're gonna accuse him of rap- wait they tried that
They're gonna impeach hi- shit.
They're gonna tank the econom- well fuck
They're gonna accuse him of telling people to drink poiso-
How about a war?

 

[Calandrino]

So what will be the October Surprise they are going to use against Trump?

We'll need somebody to take one for the team and inject some disinfectant, so CNN can run their weeping surviving family 24/7.

 

[Syaoran Li]

They're gonna accuse him of rap- wait they tried that
They're gonna impeach hi- shit.
They're gonna tank the econom- well fuck
They're gonna accuse him of telling people to drink poiso-
How about a war?

My best guess is that they're going to prolong the economic downturn and COVID-19 lockdowns as long as they possibly can in the swing states that have Democratic governors and Democrat-majority legislatures. If we see the lockdowns go on in places like Michigan and Pennsylvania well after the deep blue states have begun relaxing most of their restrictions, then you'll know something is up.

Trump's not going to go into a new war in an election year, especially with the ongoing pandemic. We had a close call with Iran back in January, but I knew that Trump would do everything he could to avoid war with them (even if only to help his reelection chances)

If Trump were to declare war on a country or otherwise call for new military deployments in 2020, it would have to be for some sort of national emergency on the level of Pearl Harbor or 9/11.

 

[heyitsmike]

My best guess is that they're going to prolong the economic downturn and COVID-19 lockdowns as long as they possibly can in the swing states that have Democratic governors and Democrat-majority legislatures. If we see the lockdowns go on in places like Michigan and Pennsylvania well after the deep blue states have begun relaxing most of their restrictions, then you'll know something is up.

That would go down like a cold cup of sick. If half of the country is up and running they won't be able to keep the other half down. State Democrats are much smarter than national Democrats. They know they don't have the political capital to do it and if they try it won't be the GOP that gets punished. I can't see the Dem governors of Michigan and Pennsylvania keeping their states shut down while their constituents are looking at Republican Ohio open for business.