The 2020 General Election Thread II

[Alpo]

Well, you continue to draw lines in the sand...but you have just about run out of beach. I hope you can swim.

Case count, wins to date: Trump: 1. Democracy 59.

 

[Ingomike]

Well, you continue to draw lines in the sand...but you have just about run out of beach. I hope you can swim.

Case count, wins to date: Trump: 1. Democracy 59.

What you call Democracy sure looks just like communism.

Glad I live in a republic that the framers planned for there to be contingent actions that can be invoked when an election is stolen...

 

[jamil]

Well, you continue to draw lines in the sand...but you have just about run out of beach. I hope you can swim.

Case count, wins to date: Trump: 1. Democracy 59.

Now, I’m with you on the lack of evidence thing. But really?

 

[Ingomike]

They were submitted electronically Saturday morning and all copies hand-delivered and fees paid. #SupremeCourt clerk refused to give reason and will not return phone calls!!
What is going on??
Unprecedented lack of professionalism @realDonaldTrump @GenFlynn@POTUS @Scavino45 pic.twitter.com/NE5gwpjfzT
— Sidney Powell (@SidneyPowell1) December 17, 2020

 

[DoggyDaddy]

They were submitted electronically Saturday morning and all copies hand-delivered and fees paid. #SupremeCourt clerk refused to give reason and will not return phone calls!!
What is going on??
Unprecedented lack of professionalism @realDonaldTrump @GenFlynn@POTUS @Scavino45 pic.twitter.com/NE5gwpjfzT
— Sidney Powell  (@SidneyPowell1) December 17, 2020

Fixed for legibility... My eyes can't keep adjusting from huge to tiny.

 

[BugI02]

Now, I’m with you on the lack of evidence thing. But really?

Lord Alpo has given us 6 weeks to accept the steal. What more could we possibly want (like perhaps the 216 weeks we are owed?)

 

[BugI02]

Well, you continue to draw lines in the sand...but you have just about run out of beach. I hope you can swim.

Case count, wins to date: Trump: 1. Democracy 59.

Biden could always concede to Trump; you know in order to facilitate that all important healing and bringing the country together

 

[indyartisan]

Biden could always concede to Trump; you know in order to facilitate that all important healing and bringing the country together

That is a great idea.

 

[foszoe]

Does that mean your SCOTUS cases didn't move?

 

[indyjs]

That is a great idea.

I would prefer murder/suicide to bring the country together. I really don't know why they are acting like they want unity

 

[Ziggidy]

Well we have cases moving to SCOTUS.

They have dirt on John Roberts and he hates Trump.

 

[jsx1043]

I would prefer murder/suicide to bring the country together. I really don't know why they are acting like they want unity

They aren’t asking for unity, they’re demanding conformity.

 

[Alpo]

Now, I’m with you on the lack of evidence thing. But really?

Yeah. Really. Filing with SCOTUS

A long-shot legal effort relying on conspiracy theories and inaccurate analyses to argue President Donald Trump actually won Michigan included additional blatantly false information in a new filing with the U.S. Supreme Court this week.

The legal team, including attorney Sidney Powell, told the court the Republican-controlled Michigan Legislature backs its effort to allow a so-called GOP slate of Electoral College delegates cast the state's 16 electoral votes for Trump.

This is wrong. On Monday, Republican leaders of the Michigan House and Senate publicly acknowledged President-elect Joe Biden won the election. The same day, the state's actual 16 Electoral College delegates voted for Biden, who received 154,000 more votes than Trump in Michigan.

 

[churchmouse]

Now, I’m with you on the lack of evidence thing. But really?

I was taught this is a republic not a Democracy. Lets set the bar in the proper notch please.

Edit....Oops wrong post but my statement stands. This is not a ****ing democracy for Gods sake.

 

[Kutnupe14]

I was taught this is a republic not a Democracy. Lets set the bar in the proper notch please.

Edit....Oops wrong post but my statement stands. This is not a ****ing democracy for Gods sake.

Not quite right. We are both. A republic is a type of democracy. We aren't a direct democracy.

 

[IndyDave1776]

I was taught this is a republic not a Democracy. Lets set the bar in the proper notch please.

Edit....Oops wrong post but my statement stands. This is not a ****ing democracy for Gods sake.

Civics FTW!

 

[Alpo]

I was taught this is a republic not a Democracy. Lets set the bar in the proper notch please.

Edit....Oops wrong post but my statement stands. This is not a ****ing democracy for Gods sake.

We have a democratic republic and share both aspects of a democracy and a republic.

 

[IndyDave1776]

Not quite right. We are both. A republic is a type of democracy. We aren't a direct democracy.

No. A democracy does not have A relatively immovable constitution or any limits on government beyond the whim of 51% of the voters or their elected representatives. A republic, in spite of some general similarities in operation, brings us limited government and rights that are not legally subject to the whim of the voters at any given moment. In the end it is limited government contrasted with organized mob rule.

 

[Tombs]

Not quite right. We are both. A republic is a type of democracy. We aren't a direct democracy.

If you're someone very well educated in political philosophy, yes that distinction is fair to make. But when discussing our system with normal people, using the word "democracy" anywhere is a bad approach.

Our form of democracy is electing a representative, who elects higher offices, votes on lawmaking, etc. This would not be considered democracy in most senses.
But as policy makers keep changing our foundational principles, we are descending into democracy, and that is also why polarization is getting so much more severe.
Average idiots who have no idea of how our system works are starting to get excessive representation, making for a power struggle, like a swarm of sharks smelling blood in the water.

 

[T.Lex]

When the internet argues about whether we're a democracy or a republic, a puppy dies.

The founding fathers specifically knew of the dangers of a pure democracy, so blended those with the idea of a republic.

We are either a democratic republic or a representative democracy, with multiple checks and balances on the worst traits of each.

Truly, an experiment in governmental engineering.