Posts Made By: Rod Kaufman

Originally Posted by James Brown

Hi Russ: 

I don't buy that.  Not at all.  I think that the revelers in NYC, DC and elsewhere think they are immortal, same as the revelers at a Trump rally or in Sturgis.  The street partiers are more than happy to shake fingers during the Trump rallies, but there was never any sincerity in their actions, just political opportunism and virtue signaling, the scourge of our times.   

Folks who actually take the pandemic seriously were not taking to the streets in my estimation.  I know two young folks in AOC's district who hate Trump with a passion.  They did not take to the streets, because they are genuinely concerned about the pandemic.

Jim

In general, I agree in that the crowds should not have been there in the midst of a worsening pandemic. From what I observed, most in contrast to Trump rallies, did wear masks and the participants, especially the vocal ones, were younger and less likely to be ill-affected although they could spread the virus to others who would be at greater risk. I also note similar events also occurred in Paris and England:https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/524962-fireworks-in-london-edinburgh-as-biden-win-celebrated-abroad Sill, not a good idea in a pandemic at at all...

Originally Posted by Mel Maki

I knew the press was one-sided. It was a bit of a shock when they decided to quit pretending they were balanced. They decided Biden needed their help. It made a difference.

Substitute Fox and Trump for "press" and "Biden" and your post would be accurate except it didn't make a difference...

Originally Posted by Mel Maki

The pro Biden press was much larger than FoxNews. If nobody saw the pro Biden press then it would not have made a difference.

They didn't need to, they saw Trump instead...

"Within Trump’s own family, there appear to be divisions. Trump’s wife, Melania, and son-in-law, Jared Kushner, have been urging the president to think seriously about an exit strategy, according to two people briefed on their discussions. But Trump’s sons Donald Jr. and Eric have continued pugnaciously tweeting away."
"At Trump’s campaign, many aides are coming to grips with the reality of a loss. But at campaign headquarters on Sunday, staffers were met with walls covered in print-outs of Trump tweets and a doctored newspaper front page encouraging them to fight on — an idea that came from the highest ranks of the Trump campaign, according to a person familiar with the episode.
"Others, like Vice President Mike Pence, have simply gone dark, raising eyebrows among Trump allies." :“Where the hell is Mike Pence?” a senior Trump campaign official wrote in a text message Sunday afternoon, noting the vice president has been missing-in-action save for a single tweet on Nov. 5 calling for “every legal vote” to be counted."
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/11/08/trump-family-allies-spar-over-concession-435219

Originally Posted by Richard Davis

Substitute CNN, MSNBC, ABC, CBS, NBC, PBS, BBC, NY Times, Wash Post, LA Times, Chicago Sun Times, Boston Globe, Facebook, Twitter, Google, Miami Herald, Bloomberg News, CNBC, Vox, Politico, Media Matters, The Guardian, Wall St. Journal (except opinion pages), Seattle Times, Baltimore Sun, Atlanta Journal-Constitution

all of those for FoxNews.  

Nope, no liberal bias there. The numbers are just as balanced as can be.  

It's a conspiracy!

The majority of white voters, 57%, voted for Trump. If you're white and you voted for Biden, you're in the minority. I'm glad I'm in the minority and I'm depressed the majority voted for Trump, an authoritarian ruler, a promoter of baseless conspiracy theories and a champion of derision in the country and a denier of science. I take some comfort in knowing Trump is the only president to have lost the popular vote, twice...

Originally Posted by James Brown

I think the fact that the GOP picked up 15 seats or so in the House, all while Biden was winning the presidency by a comfortable margin, suggests that many Republican voters rejected Trump as being unfit for the office while embracing Republican policies, including most of Trump's policies.  

Jim

Take a moment if you will, and listen to Jake Tapper's video:

https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2020/11/08/jake-tapper-trump-support-republicans-postelex-sotu-vpx.cnn

Originally Posted by Russ Carroll

I would have fully agreed with this if you had said "while rejecting Democratic policies" instead. Following Tump's "policies" are like trying to derive the strategy of a day trader. Trump is incoherent, impulsive, and self-serving to an extreme, and he has dragged the GOP and the nation along with him.

This GOP rep doesn't understand it either...
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/525116-retiring-gop-rep-i-dont-understand-the-hold-that-president-trump-has-over

Originally Posted by Russ Carroll

I'll let you know after the Giuliani Presser is over. Starts any second now:

"The first person Rudy Giuliani, the attorney for President Donald Trump, called up as a witness to baseless allegations of vote counting shenanigans in Philadelphia during a press conference last week is a sex offender who for years has been a perennial candidate in New Jersey.

“It’s such a shame. This is a democracy,” Daryl Brooks, who said he was a GOP poll watcher, said at the press conference, held at Four Seasons Total Landscaping in Northeast Philadelphia. “They did not allow us to see anything. Was it corrupt or not? But give us an opportunity as poll watchers to view all the documents — all of the ballots.”
Trenton political insiders watched with bemusement as Brooks took the podium."
https://www.politico.com/states/new-jersey/story/2020/11/09/man-featured-at-giuliani-press-conference-is-a-sex-offender-1335241

https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/08/tech/michigan-dead-voter-fact-debunking/index.html