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

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Maradontia said:
Yep. This time the trick isn't going to work. Biden will be president.
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If by "trick" you mean "disseminating true information to the populace" then I guess it's just down to a matter of opinion. Sounds like you're not American anyways so I don't know why you're so het up about it.
 
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Trafalgar Group has Republican Senate candidate John James up 1.4% compared to Democratic incumbent Gary Peters. That's a 1.3% increase from last month when James was only up 0.1%. For reference, Trump is only ahead by 0.6%. I could see a scenario where Trump loses the state of Michigan yet James barely gets elected.
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A friend of mine brought this up to me, but he suggested that there will be a very bad scandal revealed about Trump in the coming weeks to the election. The theory is that the purpose of the Mueller's Investigation (a fraud) was not necessarily to stick Trump to the lie of Russian collusion during the 2016 to de-legitimize the election but to actually dig up tangible dirt that at the last moment, they could stick to him in the mind of voters this year.

I personally doubt this because Trump's getting COVID-19 already serves as the Access Hollywood moment in that it tanked him in the polls, approval rating (much to my chagrin, he did not get his sympathy bump), and betting odds. Plus given how resistant Trump is to scandals ruining his reputation - in fact it seems to permeate in him as if it was nothing - I can't see a more efficient tactic to killing Trump's re-election chances than COVID-19 dominating the news cycle until the election. Things like "soldiers are losers and suckers" are either lies or nothingburgers meant to be red herrings.
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I have a theory on this.
Trump doesn't campaign like a normal candidate; in 2016 he was outspent 2 to 1, got his news coverage for free by saying outrageous things, and got his actual message out through the relatively new channel of Twitter. In every media market, Clinton had more ads, more coverage, more channels; but Trump had bigger crowds and bigger "reach" by tricking the media into covering what he said. In essence, Trump ran a very efficient campaign, doing the bare minimum to achieve what he thought he needed, probably because it was his own money being spent.

The stories we see in 2020 aren't about massive, impressive media buys, like we saw for Obama or Clinton. In fact we regularly hear stories about Trump pulling ads in certain states, which looks weird. But we do get constant stories about his rallies, which are now being done relatively cheaply by pulling up Air Force One to a small stage in front of a big crowd, talking for 2 hours, then heading out.

I don't know if his campaign is reimbursing the Air Force for use of the plane while on campaign business, not sure how the campaign finance laws work for that. But he's not even bringing along the expensive Secret Service armored motorcade to these things. It's just the plane on a tarmac, always in a 2nd or 3rd tier airport that's not actually in a major city. All he's depending on is a microphone, a small ground crew to put up bleachers, and a few media outlets (like OANN, RSN, or Fox) who will broadcast the whole thing on their own dime.

Normally, you'd see these "safe" states still being blanketed with media ads right now. Trump has decided to substitute expensive ad buys with relatively cheap in-person rallies. Instead of putting his face in every commercial break in PA for a month, he's visiting roughly once a week. He's also switched from having no ground game in 2016 to massive in-person ground game in 2020; combined with the rallies, that seems like a plan to aggressively convert rally enthusiasm into actual votes.

Baris has said "he's gotta be on the road campaigning", and I think that's the strategy. I haven't seen any analysis that correlates a personal visit with an increase in the state's numbers, too much keeps happening every damn day to muddy the data. But at least that sentiment seems to reflect Trump's thinking.

If he wins a second election with low ad buys and highly efficient campaigning, he's going to permanently break the conventional wisdom for political campaigns and operations.
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I was actually thinking about your comment when you complained last month about Trump being "too economical" instead of just having a blowout when it comes to spending and aiming for historic flips like Minnesota. Aside from it working before, Baris pointed out that Trump refuses to rely on Wall Street to win re-election. Reason being is that he knows that if he takes money from them that he will have to do them favors while in office and he knows none of it involves his populist platforms. Why do you think that Biden is pledging to raise taxes and his few supporters desperately try to claim only the upper class will be affected? Because he is partially funded by Wall Street and they will want more taxes on the proletariat.

People say that Trump is the closest thing to a libertarian that we have seen in power. I'd hardly call Trump a libertarian myself, but I wonder if that has some credibility, especially since he is relying on donations and his own dwindling income to be re-elected. A Trump re-election could be a game changer that could keep people like myself who normally does not like politics invested.

Speaking of rallies, it's nice to see Trump rallying in Arizona twice this month. Hopefully Trump will hit Minnesota sometimes next week, he's going to need to if he wants to flip it.
 
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There's cultural inertia. Even with the Post-Modernists (Marxism as a Religion to subvert Science and Rationalisty) and Cultural Marxists (Marxism retooled for Identities; IDPol) gone -- which I honestly don't ever see happening outside of a massive right wing cultural uprising in the US, or an outright failed attempt at a violent cultural revolution by the left -- you'd still have legions of people trained in education methods and faux-science bullshit that would take 2-3 generations to get out of our systems.

I don't have a solution to this. Barring Cultural Marxism and Post-Modernists from receiving government financial aid would be a good start.
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It's tough because the rot has set in from some many locations- but starters:
  • Barring Critical Race Theory is a good start- to keep the rot from penetrating deeper into bureaucracy
  • Second element must break the stranglehold of public schools and unions- maybe via school choice and guidelines on the use of CRT
  • Third element must address the politicization of the professional licensing organizations- which keeps the expert professional classes in line out of a fear of being revoked (Mussolini did the same thing in Italy during his rise)
  • Fourth element must address the expansionary nature of universities, and the growth of garbage fields and studies
  • Fifth element must address the growth of parasitic social grifting operations (i.e. those promoting racial sensitivity training) and non-accountable NGOs
  • Sixth element has to address social media and their blantant thumbs on the scale
Witholding funding is one tool, but other more nimble tools may need to be used to avoid smashing the good alongside the bad.

And of course, there are many more fronts, especially in the more nebulous cultural/media realm as well. These methods might be too late, but I think that fighting back is far better than laying down and accepting one's fate.

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A friend of mine brought this up to me, but he suggested that there will be a very bad scandal revealed about Trump in the coming weeks to the election. The theory is that the purpose of the Mueller's Investigation (a fraud) was not necessarily to stick Trump to the lie of Russian collusion during the 2016 to de-legitimize the election but to actually dig up tangible dirt that at the last moment, they could stick to him in the mind of voters this year.

I personally doubt this because Trump's getting COVID-19 already serves as the Access Hollywood moment in that it tanked him in the polls, approval rating (much to my chagrin, he did not get his sympathy bump), and betting odds. Plus given how resistant Trump is to scandals ruining his reputation - in fact it seems to permeate in him as if it was nothing - I can't see a more efficient tactic to killing Trump's re-election chances than COVID-19 dominating the news cycle until the election. Things like "soldiers are losers and suckers" are either lies or nothingburgers meant to be red herrings.
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Trump didn't get a sympathy bump because the whole Coronavirus thing (in my eyes) was essentially the equivalent of him stepping on a rake.

How fast he recovered, however, was remarkable, and helped shift the conversation. Still, the media is entirely bent on the second wave, so we'll see how it goes. IMO a 'scandal' in the upcoming weeks would probably be too late, and lack the ability to percolate throughout the public unless it was on 24-7. Plus, I really do wonder what about Trump will truly faze the public beyond an Epstein scenario?
 
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Maradontia said:
or Benghazi theories last time.
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Eat shit and die. 4 people died because the state department decided to do nothing. On top of that, they kept other people from doing anything. Libya is still completely fucked because Hillary's "We came, we saw, he died -cackle-."

ps: It was totally that muhammad video 3 months beforehand.
 
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Evilronald said:
Do you really unironically call him “drumph?” Like legit question: what are you going to do with your life if the orange man wins 4 more years and then finishes his term and someone else takes over? I feel like the left will have no idea wtf you’re doing it the orange man isn’t your obsession anymore. Perhaps you could track crack? View attachment 1669221
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What is his path to victory? Who is voting for him besides the ~40% of his diehard supporters who think he can do no wrong? Do you really think independents care about this shit? People are fleeing him like the (literal) plague. It's over.
 
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Someone Awful said:
A friend of mine brought this up to me, but he suggested that there will be a very bad scandal revealed about Trump in the coming weeks to the election.
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And it's not going to work. The problem with trying to set up an October Surprise on Trump is the fact that the mainstream media has blown their load so much over every Trump "scandal" for the past few years that no one is going to seriously be swayed by any October Surprise that tries to make Trump look bad...
 
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MrJokerRager said:
Bootygig seems like a better choice. Or even Bernie given how much of a controllable cuck he is.

Obama fucked the democratic primaries by stopping power hungry politicians doinv their natural thing in order to prop up Biden. Who Obama knew was a sack of shit.

This section 230 talk reminds me of SOPA and Pipa during the Obama era along with the internet kill switch shit. They were many Republicans on board with that shit except for some libertarians and one democratic senator Ron Wryden who I remember stopped it. There were many internet free speech groups back then.

Now they are either dead or pozzed and woke. Obama was truly a more competent Bush.

It's irony that Trump is basically standing between this shit and a possible repeal as Trump is more madder at Jack and Zuck for censoring him rather than being a evil fuck like Obama who wanted to control the internet.
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I've said this before, but I think the Democrat strategy for 2020 had three major shifts and the chaotic freak show that was the primaries more or less caused a lot of these shifts.

1. The initial plan was to run Kamala as "the one" but the Surf Mom sank that bitch like the Lusitania right out the gate

2. Then the focus shifted towards Biden and doing whatever they could to keep Bernie from the nomination so they could diminish the influence of The Squad and run Biden as a jobber since him losing to Trump in a normal campaign would do the least amount of downballot damage to the Democratic Party and would give Pelosi and Schumer the perfect cover to clean house from within since The Squad has gotten way too uppity and are a monkey's paw for the DNC.

3. COVID-19 threw an additional monkey wrench into all this and gave the Democrats an actual shot at a 2020 win. Now the plan is shifting back to Kamala using Biden as a trojan horse. They're desperate and will go above and beyond to get that win, especially with RBG dead, the BLM coup getting way out of control, and Hunter Biden imperially fucking up.

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It makes more sense now why Biden was forced through as the candidate by the establishment dems. He's as neck deep in shit as Clinton et al., and is therefore the only one with a vested interest in making everything go away.
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Possibly, although I think Biden was initially meant to run as both a jobber and someone to rally the black voter to take out Bernie in the primaries. COVID-19 gave the Democrats a new opportunity to actually win the election and I think shit like the BLM coup was supposed to help that along. It looks like it's backfiring on the Democrats badly but we won't know for sure until after the election is over and done with.

Maradontia said:
Biden will win in a landslide. This whole "but his emails" conspiracy theory will result in no charges, just like the "but her emails" or Benghazi theories last time. Meanwhile, 210,000 of your fellow citizens are DEAD of Coronavirus because Orange Man Drumph lied and did nothing.
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At this point, I can't tell if you're shitposting or just ridin' with Biden.

It's sad that we live in an era where Poe's Law is practically a law of nature now.
 
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Maradontia said:
What is his path to victory? Who is voting for him besides the ~40% of his diehard supporters who think he can do no wrong? Do you really think independents care about this shit? People are fleeing him like the (literal) plague. It's over.
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Saving this one instead, even better gloating material.
 
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Maradontia said:
What is his path to victory? Who is voting for him besides the ~40% of his diehard supporters who think he can do no wrong? Do you really think independents care about this shit? People are fleeing him like the (literal) plague. It's over.
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I think progressive bernie people will have 0 interest in Joe after this. The establishment fucked them a 2nd time to get corrupt dementia Joe. They won’t vote for trump, but not voting is just as good.
 
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Maradontia said:
(While wearing clown suit and tinfoil dunce hat) "Hurr durr! Everyone who disagrees with me must be a shill!"

In a mere 2 weeks this thread will be proven wrong. I can't wait for the crying.
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Whatever shill.
 
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You know it is almost November which means that many in this great nation will have to choose the greatest decision in their lifetime. A chance to vote not just with their wallets, but there hearts as their hearts race to see that it is almost thanksgiving. It is almost time to vote for the big day, the time to vote between two people you do not give a shit about. HOWEVER!! DO YOU KNOW WHAT ELSE IS ON NOVEMBER!!!

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