US Elections 2020 (geopolitics, informed debate, no ad hominems)

Biden

14 (66.7%)

Trump

7 (33.3%)

Total Members Voted: 21

Voting closed: November 02, 2020, 06:25:59 pm

[faberryman]

Since there's a market,  someone will build it.

Just not anywhere in your township if you can help it.

[James Clark]

Since there's a market,  someone will build it. Not everyone can afford a Mercedes.   Cheap cars are built too.  So it is with homes and apartments.

Cars aren't apartments.  Your car doesn't determine your school district, your tax base, your ability to build wealth, or your access to infrastructure.

[faberryman]

So not only is Trump lying with every breath but his campaign is using photoshopped images of Biden.

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/510774-trump-campaign-uses-altered-photo-of-biden-in-new-ad

[Frans Waterlander]

So not only is Trump lying with every breath but his campaign is using photoshopped images of Biden.

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/510774-trump-campaign-uses-altered-photo-of-biden-in-new-ad

OMG! Those evil Trump #@%^&*(!

[kers]

OMG! Those evil Trump #@%^&*(!

In his case i only would use desaturate

[Robert Roaldi]

Trump claims Biden will "hurt the bible" and is against god, https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/510900-trump-claims-biden-is-against-god.

[Robert Roaldi]

Trump says a vaccine may be ready around election day, https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/510853-trump-covid-19-vaccine-may-be-ready-right-around-election-day. That's spectacular timing. Maybe they can cure cancer by Inauguration Day.

[faberryman]

Trump says a vaccine may be ready around election day, https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/510853-trump-covid-19-vaccine-may-be-ready-right-around-election-day. That's spectacular timing. Maybe they can cure cancer by Inauguration Day.

You have obviously learned never to believe anything Trump says. If you want to give him the benefit of the doubt, call it an exaggeration or an aspirational statement. Given his track record, I no longer give him the benefit of the doubt. It is just one lie after another.

In hospitality news, room rates at Trump's hotel in Washington D.C. have jumped 60% for the week of the Republican convention. But Trump's sycophants don't mind getting hosed.  They consider it a privilege.  Seriously, is anybody really going to get on a plane and fly to Washington D.C. anytime soon? Save your life and some money; stay home and watch it on TV...or not.

[Robert Roaldi]

You have learned by now never to believe anything Trump says. If you want to give him the benefit of the doubt, call it an exaggeration or an aspirational statement. Given his track record, I no longer give him the benefit of the doubt. It is just one lie after another.

In hospitality news, room rates at Trump's hotel in Washington D.C. have jumped 60% for the week of the Republican convention. Is anybody really going to get on a plane and fly to Washington D.C. anytime soon? Save your life and some money; stay home and watch it on TV...or not.

Be interesting to see if other area hotels jacked their fees as well. That might be a normal thing for all I know.

Remember Father Guido Sarducci's 5 minute university, "Supply and-a demand." 

[Chris Kern]

In hospitality news, room rates at Trump's hotel in Washington D.C. have jumped 60% for the week of the Republican convention. But Trump's sycophants don't mind getting hosed.  They consider it a privilege.  Seriously, is anybody really going to get on a plane and fly to Washington D.C. anytime soon?

Probably not the foreign supplicants who reportedly have been responsible for many of the bookings at the Trump hotel in Washington.  I suspect most foreign governments and corporations are already assuming he will be defeated in the November election.  Some of his more enthusiastic supporters may still want to come here, however; I would be surprised if the Trump campaign didn't arrange a number of events for supporters or at least major donors to coincide with his nomination—notwithstanding the pandemic.

[James Clark]

Trump claims Biden will "hurt the bible" and is against god, https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/510900-trump-claims-biden-is-against-god.

I have to wonder... Is Biden "against God" in the "he cheated on his (third) wife with a porn star and paid her to shut up about it" way, or more in the "I kinda think two scoops of ice cream when everyone else gets only one is gluttony" sort of way, or just sort of in the "Thou shalt not lie" basic kind of way?

[hogloff]

I have to wonder... Is Biden "against God" in the "he cheated on his (third) wife with a porn star and paid her to shut up about it" way, or more in the "I kinda think two scoops of ice cream when everyone else gets only one is gluttony" sort of way, or just sort of in the "Thou shalt not lie" basic kind of way?

How can anyone vote for such a liar? He's making the USA a laughing stock. Putin, Xi, Jong-un must be rolling in laughter...watching this pitiful person lie his way through life.

[Alan Goldhammer]

Trump says a vaccine may be ready around election day, https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/510853-trump-covid-19-vaccine-may-be-ready-right-around-election-day. That's spectacular timing. Maybe they can cure cancer by Inauguration Day.

Highly doubtful unless it is the Russian vaccine that will be approved momentarily (seriously).  All the current trials require 30,000 subjects and have to be evaluated for both safety and efficacy.  Several of the vaccines have not yet entered this phase at all.  The ones I have seen require two shots, 28 days apart and that already gets us into September assuming all 30,000 are injected today.  It will take 6-8 weeks to determine whether the vaccines are protective against SARS-CoV-2 (I think it will be more like 8-10).  That bumps right up against election day without even having done the full data analysis and regulatory submission and evaluation.

[James Clark]

Highly doubtful unless it is the Russian vaccine that will be approved momentarily (seriously). 

Ah.  That sort of explains it.

[Pavel]

I can't wait until Biden wins, and his ghouls on the left like AOC finally expose the white, fat, old, Leica toting dumb as*ses here on this privileged forum for the entitled class that they are, and confiscate all your photo gear to give to the poor black drug users who can't afford them because of systemic white jerks injustice. 
You don't even soul search why poor black families don't have expensive photo gear, when there should be equality.
Time to leave this forum.  Forums are dead anyway.  In all those trips to the Antarctic, I did not see ONE single person of color, much less one from a housing project.  What a bunch of privileged racists.

Oh it feels so good to be woke.  Now where did I put those Molotov's?

[James Clark]

I can't wait until Biden wins, and his ghouls on the left like AOC finally expose the white, fat, old, Leica toting dumb as*ses here on this privileged forum for the entitled class that they are, and confiscate all your photo gear to give to the poor black drug users who can't afford them because of systemic white jerks injustice. 
You don't even soul search why poor black families don't have expensive photo gear, when there should be equality.
Time to leave this forum.  Forums are dead anyway.  In all those trips to the Antarctic, I did not see ONE single person of color, much less one from a housing project.  What a bunch of privileged racists.

Oh it feels so good to be woke.  Now where did I put those Molotov's?

Bad night, homie? 

[LesPalenik]

Oh it feels so good to be woke.  Now where did I put those Molotov's?

Next to the Lysol and hydroxychloroquine bottles?

[PeterAit]

I can't wait until Biden wins, and his ghouls on the left like AOC finally expose the white, fat, old, Leica toting dumb as*ses here on this privileged forum for the entitled class that they are, and confiscate all your photo gear to give to the poor black drug users who can't afford them because of systemic white jerks injustice. 
You don't even soul search why poor black families don't have expensive photo gear, when there should be equality.
Time to leave this forum.  Forums are dead anyway.  In all those trips to the Antarctic, I did not see ONE single person of color, much less one from a housing project.  What a bunch of privileged racists.

Oh it feels so good to be woke.  Now where did I put those Molotov's?

Please tell me this post is a joke. But wait, you have left the forum so you won't see my post.

[PeterAit]

Cars aren't apartments.  Your car doesn't determine your school district, your tax base, your ability to build wealth, or your access to infrastructure.

And, may I add, your access to your work. It's an issue here in Chapel Hill...so many service workers at the university and other places cannot afford to live in town, so they have long commutes. And while public transit is better here than most places, it still does not serve areas out-of-town where rents and home prices are lower.

[faberryman]

Word is Trump is having some sort of "press conference" later this evening televised from his golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey. He obviously got an early start for a weekend of golf. The members of the golf club will be his audience and will provide the applause. The initiation fee to be a member of the club is estimated to be $350,000. That doesn't include monthly dues and assessments. One reporter suggested that the optics are bad.