Trump Indicted!

[Arakhor]

You're only 35, Sommer? I thought you were older.

 

[Takhisis]

Idk, after thinking Bernie could win in 2020 and then seeing the primary voters pick Biden my faith has turned to ash.

Isn't the system of superdelegates approaching a status like that of the UK's rotten boroughs in the 18th century?

 

[Farm Boy]

Still reminds me of Trump for people who like the butt people show.

 

[Lexicus]

Isn't the system of superdelegates approaching a status like that of the UK's rotten boroughs in the 18th century?

Not really, the superdelegates were never actually why Bernie lost, even if they were a symbolic of a party afraid of its own voter base. No, the real problem was that there was less difference between the Democrats and the Republicans than commonly supposed: both wanted to return to an idealized past that never really existed, but the Democrats basically wanted the Jed Bartlett administration from the West Wing while the Republicans want to return to the 19th century.

 

[Takhisis]

Oh, I know that the Democrats have been drifting into Republican-lite mode for decades (already Michael Moore was calling Clinton the best Republican president over 20 years ago) but I was specifically asking about how much influence the superdelegates have. They might just scare off potential newcomers.

 

[Lexicus]

Oh, I know that the Democrats have been drifting into Republican-lite mode for decades (already Michael Moore was calling Clinton the best Republican president over 20 years ago) but I was specifically asking about how much influence the superdelegates have. They might just scare off potential newcomers.

Superdelegate - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

decent summary.

 

[Takhisis]

(goes on a wiki-walk)

 

[Sommerswerd]

You're only 35, Sommer? I thought you were older.

My fault for the confusion... its birthday, not birthdate. AOC is way younger than me.

 

[choxorn]

This particular relative is the kind of person that only votes sporadically... when he feels particularly motivated to do so. He snap-declared that he would vote for AOC, solely based on seeing her picture and without knowing anything else about her...

Well I guess I shouldn't be surprised that sporadic and swing voters are basing whether they vote or not and who they vote for off nothing more than "candidate looks presidential"

 

[Arakhor]

At least it's a vaguely positive quality, other than, say, "X says racist things and I like that in a person".

 

[Voidwalkin]

Not really, the superdelegates were never actually why Bernie lost, even if they were a symbolic of a party afraid of its own voter base. No, the real problem was that there was less difference between the Democrats and the Republicans than commonly supposed: both wanted to return to an idealized past that never really existed, but the Democrats basically wanted the Jed Bartlett administration from the West Wing while the Republicans want to return to the 19th century.

This confuses a belief that the myth will inevitably be made manifest with geniune demand.

The public is trained to believe that a Sanders type cannot win. Biden had association with the last guy to actually deploy that city-on-a-hill rhetoric effectively, and that was enough to convince enough that he had the best, if not only, chance to win. It was strategic.

 

[Canadian Bluebeer]

Of course they existed. Throwing around fake news and wishful thinking as facts says much more about you than the reality of US elections. The election tinfoil hat brigade is made up of idiots.

you really are reaching aren't you. tsk tsk.

OF COURSE THE TINFOIL HAT BRIGADE IS MADE UP OF IDIOTS!!

jeebuz! go look up what/why a tinfoil hat is what it does etc.
oh, also try looking up sarcasm, as well as 'tongue-in-cheek'.

Yes, but those same folks were likely also to be on other voter rolls in in other places. In any case, almost all people on voter rolls do exist, even if no longer at the original address. And yes, people do die.

Right, but being counted in two places means that one of those yous doesn't "exist" as a voter in the state you've left.

That is correct.

 

[innonimatu]

Biden crime family's consiglieri are discussing pardons for everone.

What skeletons in the closet dpo the current gang in power have that they require blanket pardons?
Funny all that projection they did, with lawfare against the other side.

 

[Arakhor]

I'm sure they discuss lots of things. The article even notes that Trump's team did much the same before he left office too. Tell me: did you condemn it then?

 

[Samson]

Legal Eagle, a fairly popular youtube lawyer is suing the FBI & DoJ for access to the data from their Trump investigations.

Spoiler Youtube :

 

[Gori the Grey]

Good luck with that.

 

[danjuno]

Lmao if he actually wins.

 

[Sommerswerd]

@Birdjaguar - it's official. No need for special sauces, sadly, but as expected/predicted...

Judge sets Trump’s sentencing in hush money case for Jan. 10, but signals no jail time​

NEW YORK (AP) — In an extraordinary turn, a judge Friday set President-elect Donald Trump’s sentencing in his hush money case for Jan. 10 — little over a week before he’s due to return to the White House — but indicated he wouldn’t be jailed.

The development nevertheless leaves Trump on course to be the first president to take office convicted of felony crimes.

Judge Juan M. Merchan, who presided over Trump’s trial, signaled in a written decision that he’d sentence the former and future president to what’s known as a conditional discharge, in which a case is closed without jail time, a fine or probation.

Merchan rejected Trump’s push to dismiss the verdict and throw out the case on presidential immunity grounds and because of his impending return to the White House. The judge said he found “no legal impediment to sentencing” Trump and that it was “incumbent” on him to sentence Trump prior to his swearing in on Jan. 20.

https://apnews.com/article/trump-hush-money-trial-a7e02ac952e3cd35a8d5d2c3ec6219e7

 

[Gori the Grey]

He'll be so old when he ends his term that he'll be entitled to the mercy release that they give to elderly inmates, is probably the thinking.

 

[Birdjaguar]

He will probably get a fine, no probation, and no community service.