The American (USA) 2016 presidential elections thread?

[Viking01]

Don't worry unduly. China has recently been receiving attention; currently it is Iran's turn, and it should be Venezuela's turn in about a fortnight.

At least they were punctual:

https://www.telesurenglish.net/news/...0503-0002.html

https://sputniknews.com/latam/202005...boat-invasion/

[Naki Rat]

A very well written piece on the position that Trump has put himself in: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/ar...y-over/607969/

[Viking01]

https://www.theonion.com/trump-blame...ing-1843243502

[Bonez]

Shift is sitting bricks prior to thr release of the fully unredacted transcipts of the Intel Committees meetings during the period of the Muller investigation They will be released whether he does it or not.

[Viking01]

Shift is sitting bricks prior to thr release of the fully unredacted transcipts of the Intel Committees meetings during the period of the Muller investigation They will be released whether he does it or not.

https://thehill.com/policy/national-...m-russia-probe

Transcripts listed in the following:

https://intelligence.house.gov/russiainvestigation/

[Viking01]

https://www.rt.com/usa/488318-trump-us-states-bailout/

while Democrat states in the West ask for more funding:

https://thehill.com/policy/finance/4...navirus-relief

[mashman]

Obamagate Is Not a Conspiracy Theory... yet.

[jasonu]

Obamagate Is Not a Conspiracy Theory... yet.

Hardly surprising.
No matter what party they are with they are all a bunch of crooks.

[pritch]

https://thehill.com/policy/national-...m-russia-probe

The Hill is not a good source, they mostly do pro Trump propaganda. They are stating there that the Mueller probe didn't find collusion. They obviously either didn't read it - or are lying.

There was definitely collusion, there were something approaching 150 contacts between the Trump campaign and Russian officials or oligarchs. Most of which people like Trump Jr and the then Attorney General initially denied.

Collusion though is not a legal term. The legal term is conspiracy. Mueller said he could not establish conspiracy between the Trump campaign and the Russian government. By which he meant he could not prove it in court. He also said that the reason he couldn't do so was because witnesses had lied and evidence had been destroyed.

[mashman]

Hardly surprising.
No matter what party they are with they are all a bunch of crooks.

The price of doing business with business it would seem.

[Viking01]

The Hill is not a good source, they mostly do pro Trump propaganda. They are stating there that the Mueller probe didn't find collusion. They obviously either didn't read it - or are lying.

There was definitely collusion, there were something approaching 150 contacts between the Trump campaign and Russian officials or oligarchs. Most of which people like Trump Jr and the then Attorney General initially denied.

Collusion though is not a legal term. The legal term is conspiracy. Mueller said he could not establish conspiracy between the Trump campaign and the Russian government. By which he meant he could not prove it in court. He also said that the reason he couldn't do so was because witnesses had lied and evidence had been destroyed.

Ok. I'll balance it out by reading a few POLITICO articles.... 8-)

[pritch]

Ok. I'll balance it out by reading a few POLITICO articles.... 8-)

Yeah that should do it.

[sugilite:Me]

https://www.stuff.co.nz/world/americ...s-dig-at-fauci
Someone needs to explain to the orange turd, though the kids are at low risk-ish, they will become invisible carriers and take it home whereupon some of the parents and grandparents will absolutely die.
Actually, scratch that, he knows full well. He is just prepared to kill lots of people with his cynical "advice" in an effort to make sure everything appears to be "back to normal" so he can be re-elected.
So from here on in, it will simply be "The death toll is a hoax" blah, blah bloody blah. He very likely already qualifies for the term genocide.

[Grumph]

https://www.stuff.co.nz/world/americ...s-dig-at-fauci
Someone needs to explain to the orange turd, though the kids are at low risk-ish, they will become invisible carriers and take it home whereupon some of the parents and grandparents will absolutely die.
Actually, scratch that, he knows full well. He is just prepared to kill lots of people with his cynical "advice" in an effort to make sure everything appears to be "back to normal" so he can be re-elected.
So from here on in, it will simply be "The death toll is a hoax" blah, blah bloody blah. He very likely already qualifies for the term genocide.

Yep, killing his own people fits the description.

I see that where the initial sites in coastal states are getting on top of their rate of infections, the rural states are starting to become worse if anything than the coasts were.
The worst hot spots now are are all cities in rural states. And there's not much there in healthcare either. Rural hospitals have been closing all over the US - no profit in small populations.

So now he's killing off his rural base. And some of thiose states were pretty close - 1 or 2 % would make a big difference in the vote.

[pete376403]

https://www.stuff.co.nz/world/americ...s-dig-at-fauci
Someone needs to explain to the orange turd, though the kids are at low risk-ish, they will become invisible carriers and take it home whereupon some of the parents and grandparents will absolutely die.
Actually, scratch that, he knows full well. He is just prepared to kill lots of people with his cynical "advice" in an effort to make sure everything appears to be "back to normal" so he can be re-elected.
So from here on in, it will simply be "The death toll is a hoax" blah, blah bloody blah. He very likely already qualifies for the term genocide.

He knows how it works: