US Election 2020 - Pt 2

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Apropos of nothing, here's a link to a Fox News article.

www.foxnews.com

Nazis and anti-Semites slip through GOP primaries, causing headaches for party

Several Nazis, Holocaust deniers or white supremacists have elbowed their way onto the GOP ballot for November’s midterm elections, causing headaches for the party.
www.foxnews.com www.foxnews.com

SPOILER ALERT: The story contains Arthur Jones, John Fitzgerald and Paul Nehlen.

For Corey Stewart and Russell Walker you'll need Vox. For Steve West, Seth Grossman and Patrick Little you'll need Mother Jones.
 
Kieppie said:
I will say taking the knee is worse. They don't actually care about the movement. It is just pandering plain and simple.

People got sucked in by the cause, which is mostly based on false beliefs, because they are emphatic. In other words they superficially supported it without actually knowing what the organization is about. it is telling that #BLM has since removed their manifesto from their website due to all the backlash

It's crazy that you then had people in the UK protesting/rioting where these statistics are even less relevant. People love their bandwagons to virtue signal.

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Absolutely insane.

Off the reservation.

Taking a knee is worse than genocide and a world war that killed millions.

Unbelievable.
 
cerebus said:
You want to group leftists by their most extreme adherents but you cry foul when it's done back. The reality is extremists aren't outliers in the Republican party - they win elections.

www.businessinsider.com

A Republican who posed in a QAnon shirt and tweeted the conspiracy theory's hashtag just won a Senate primary in Delaware

Witzke has posed in a QAnon-branded t-shirt and repeatedly tweeted out the QAnon motto, WWG1WGA. She's since distanced herself from the delusion.
www.businessinsider.com www.businessinsider.com

edition.cnn.com

Right-wing activist Laura Loomer wins GOP primary in Florida congressional race | CNN Politics

Far-right activist Laura Loomer, who has been banned from multiple social media platforms for incendiary comments, won the Republican primary for the US House district in Florida that's the home of President Donald Trump and his Mar-a-Lago resort.
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edition.cnn.com

Congressional candidate's apparent ascent to Congress could be a 'bellwether' for QAnon

The apparent inevitable ascent to Congress of a Georgia Republican who has promoted the outlandish conspiracy theories of QAnon could be a bellwether for American politics, in which extreme views creep increasingly into the mainstream, experts say.
edition.cnn.com edition.cnn.com

www.theguardian.com

Stephen Miller is no outlier. White supremacy rules the Republican party | Cas Mudde

Republican voters made Trump the white-supremacist-in-chief. That’s why a resignation from Miller wouldn’t change much
www.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com
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Lol what a load of trashy articles. I especially love it when they end with "Experts say"

Laura Loomer might have some strange ideas, but she's hardly far-right and being banned from social media can be seen as a badge of honour for many people given the biases involved there.

And trump being a white-supremacist-in-chief? Stop being delusional expert says.
 
buka001 said:
Absolutely insane.

Off the reservation.

Taking a knee is worse than genocide and a world war that killed millions.

Unbelievable.
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nypost.com

Black Lives Matter co-founder describes herself as ‘trained Marxist’

Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Cullors said in a newly surfaced video from 2015 that she and her fellow organizers are “trained Marxists” – making clear their movement’s ideological f…
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Mass killings under communist regimes - Wikipedia

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buka001 said:
Absolutely insane.

Off the reservation.

Taking a knee is worse than genocide and a world war that killed millions.

Unbelievable.
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Wow talk about a leap. I never compared those.
I compared having someone that identifies as a nazi compared to a party as a whole following an ideology.
 
www.theatlantic.com

The Election That Could Break America

If the vote is close, Donald Trump could easily throw the election into chaos and subvert the result. Who will stop him?
www.theatlantic.com www.theatlantic.com

Also I have not seen this commented on anywhere else, but this is interesting:

His audience of lawyers knew what he meant. The 2020 presidential election will be the first in 40 years to take place without a federal judge requiring the Republican National Committee to seek approval in advance for any “ballot security” operations at the polls. In 2018, a federal judge allowed the consent decree to expire, ruling that the plaintiffs had no proof of recent violations by Republicans. The consent decree, by this logic, was not needed, because it worked.

The order had its origins in the New Jersey gubernatorial election of 1981. According to the district court’s opinion in Democratic National Committee v. Republican National Committee, the RNC allegedly tried to intimidate voters by hiring off-duty law-enforcement officers as members of a “National Ballot Security Task Force,” some of them armed and carrying two-way radios. According to the plaintiffs, they stopped and questioned voters in minority neighborhoods, blocked voters from entering the polls, forcibly restrained poll workers, challenged people’s eligibility to vote, warned of criminal charges for casting an illegal ballot, and generally did their best to frighten voters away from the polls. The power of these methods relied on well-founded fears among people of color about contact with police.

This year, with a judge no longer watching, the Republicans are recruiting 50,000 volunteers in 15 contested states to monitor polling places and challenge voters they deem suspicious-looking. Trump called in to Fox News on August 20 to tell Sean Hannity, “We’re going to have sheriffs and we’re going to have law enforcement and we’re going to have, hopefully, U.S. attorneys” to keep close watch on the polls. For the first time in decades, according to Clark, Republicans are free to combat voter fraud in “places that are run by Democrats.”
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During the primaries this spring, Republican lawyers did dry runs for the November vote at county election offices around the country. An internal memo prepared by an attorney named J. Matthew Wolfe for the Pennsylvania Republican Party in June reported on one such exercise. Wolfe, along with another Republican lawyer and a member of the Trump campaign, watched closely but did not intervene as election commissioners in Philadelphia canvassed mail-in and provisional votes. Wolfe cataloged imperfections, taking note of objections that his party could have raised.

There were missing signatures and partial signatures and signatures placed in the wrong spot. There were names on the inner security envelopes, which are supposed to be unmarked, and ballots without security envelopes at all. Some envelopes arrived “without a postmark or with an illegible postmark,” Wolfe wrote. (Watch for postmarks to become the hanging chads of 2020.) Some voters wrote their birthdate where a signature date belonged, and others put down “an impossible date, like a date after the primary election.”


Some of the commissioners’ decisions “were clear violations of the direction in and language of the election code,” Wolfe wrote. He recommended that “someone connected with the party review each application and each mail ballot envelope” in November. That is exactly the plan.

Legal teams on both sides are planning for simultaneous litigation, on the scale of Florida during the 2000 election, in multiple battleground states. “My money would be on Texas, Georgia, and Florida” to be trouble spots, Myrna Pérez, the director of voting rights and elections at the Brennan Center, told me.
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Easy prediction: The 2020 election will not be resolved on election night. Republican lawyers are far more well-versed on the intricacies of mail-in voting than your average Dem voter who is voting by mail for the first time.
 
Kieppie said:
Lol what a load of trashy articles. I especially love it when they end with "Experts say"

Laura Loomer might have some strange ideas, but she's hardly far-right and being banned from social media can be seen as a badge of honour for many people given the biases involved there.

And trump being a white-supremacist-in-chief? Stop being delusional expert says.
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Laura Loomer who celebrated the deaths of 3000 migrants and called for more?

Does that make her a centrist like you?
 
Chris_the_Brit said:
www.theatlantic.com

The Election That Could Break America

If the vote is close, Donald Trump could easily throw the election into chaos and subvert the result. Who will stop him?
www.theatlantic.com www.theatlantic.com



Easy prediction: The 2020 election will not be resolved on election night. Republican lawyers are far more well-versed on the intricacies of mail-in voting than your average Dem voter who is voting by mail for the first time.
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Yes that was part of the plan. Jam up the election results as long as possible. All this is avoidable if more than 60% vote in person., as the health experts said can be done. That will allow the postal service to easily cope with the demand.
 
greg0205 said:
Apropos of nothing, here's a link to a Fox News article.

www.foxnews.com

Nazis and anti-Semites slip through GOP primaries, causing headaches for party

Several Nazis, Holocaust deniers or white supremacists have elbowed their way onto the GOP ballot for November’s midterm elections, causing headaches for the party.
www.foxnews.com www.foxnews.com

SPOILER ALERT: The story contains Arthur Jones, John Fitzgerald and Paul Nehlen.

For Corey Stewart and Russell Walker you'll need Vox. For Steve West, Seth Grossman and Patrick Little you'll need Mother Jones.
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Arthur Jones is a nutcase and the Republican Party in no uncertain terms distanced themselves from him.

“This is horrific. An avowed Nazi running for Congress,” Cruz tweeted. “To the good people of Illinois, you have two reasonable choices: write in another candidate, or vote for the Democrat. This bigoted fool should receive ZERO votes.”
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“All anyone wants to do is ask me about the Holocaust or Nazis,” Jones told Fox News. “And the Republican Party is setting me up because they’re a bunch of war criminals like the ones who sent us to Vietnam.”
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John Fitzgerald is also a party hopping nutjob. Oh and by the way:

Fitzgerald, who has previously run in congressional races in 2010 and 2012 as a Democrat,
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The California Republican Party at first had supported Fitzgerald's bid for Congress, before learning about his open anti-Semitism. Matt Fleming, the communications director for the state’s GOP, said this was not an endorsement, but rather an automatic process -- the result of Fitzgerald being the only Republican in the race. That process has since been strengthened, he said.
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Paul Nehlen is running for a chance to fill the seat of House Speaker Paul Ryan in Wisconsin’s 1st Congressional District.

“Paul Nehlen is not a member of the Republican Party of Wisconsin,” Wisconsin Republican Party spokesman Alec Zimmerman told Fox 6, adding that Nehlen’s membership dues this year were returned and that he isn’t a current member of any county Republican Party.

Zimmerman added: “Nehlen and his ideas have no place in the Republican Party.”
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