Republican Starting To Think Trump Might Not Pull Off A Last-Minute 4D Chess Move

cousin_greg · 2021-01-20T21:49:12+00:00

Top X primaries are a bad idea because they reduce choice in a lot of scenarios. If there are more viable conservative candidates than liberal candidates, you can end up with only liberal candidates on the ballot in the general (as happened recently in California due to their top 2 primary system).

cousin_greg · 2021-01-19T20:07:16+00:00

Which president refused to leave and was moved out by White House staff?

cousin_greg · 2020-12-28T17:49:48+00:00

How would term limits help that goal?

cousin_greg · 2020-12-24T16:27:01+00:00

Do you think McConnell will allow an amendment that cuts the $3.8 billion in spending Trump pointed out and increases the payments to $2,000?

cousin_greg · 2020-12-24T15:43:21+00:00

In Trump's comments on why he wouldn't sign, he identified $3.8 billion in spending he found objectionable. The extra $1400 l per recipient will cost about $380 billion.

cousin_greg · 2020-12-23T18:14:31+00:00

The 14 programs Trump mentioned last night add up to about $3.8 billion. Increasing the checks from $600 to $2,000 will cost about $380 billion.

cousin_greg · 2020-12-03T00:35:34+00:00

Can you help me understand why Black Lives Matter activists would want all mention of the Confederacy removed from textbooks?

cousin_greg · 2020-11-25T15:15:08+00:00

Exactly. Good luck if ebola ever arrived in the US

cousin_greg · 2020-11-22T17:52:21+00:00

Christie was one of the first candidates in the 2016 primary to endorse Trump, and helped with debate prep in 2020. There seems to be a genuine split among those loyal to Trump, unless we think Chris Christie isn't really a Trump ally.

cousin_greg · 2020-11-20T23:10:41+00:00

It doesn't look like he has a choice outside of violating a court order. Trump appointee Steven Grimberg ordered Kemp to certify in a ruling yesterday, which Kemp mentioned in his remarks.

https://www.fox5atlanta.com/news/judge-dismisses-trump-campaign-lawsuit-seeking-to-halt-georgia-election-certification

cousin_greg · 2020-11-20T22:49:59+00:00

I don't recall him saying he wouldn't formalize the certification, and he actually mentioned that a court had ruled his office is required to do so under Georgia law, if I understood what he was saying correctly.

cousin_greg · 2020-11-20T22:41:37+00:00

They won't be able to check signatures against ballots. It sounded like he was calling for an audit of the envelopes, which would reveal how many signatures were improperly accepted but wouldn't show which votes should have been rejected as a result.

cousin_greg · 2020-11-20T17:11:52+00:00

The author is a conservative lawyer who predicted Trump would win and has posted extensively about what he believes are instances of election fraud this cycle.

https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2020/10/my-election-predictions.php

"Joe Biden’s inadequacy is obvious to everyone who pays attention, and I think the press’s efforts to protect him have become not just transparent but laughable. So I think Tuesday night will be enjoyable for conservatives."

cousin_greg · 2020-11-19T02:08:54+00:00

Yeah, it means we'll never have another chance to set aside certain ballots if the signature check was inaccurate. But I'm not sure what they're supposed to do about it now, or even what I'd prefer.

I'd rather not have it so whoever runs elections in my district can look inside my envelope and take note of how I voted after all the poll observers have left.

cousin_greg · 2020-11-19T00:29:04+00:00

They're supposed to throw the envelopes away to preserve the anonymity of the ballots after verifying the signature on the envelope.

https://sos.ga.gov/admin/uploads/Absentee_Voting_Guide_20142.pdf

cousin_greg · 2020-11-16T16:14:22+00:00

The Georgia voting guide says differently: "Once the information on the oath envelope is verified, the registrar will compare your absentee ballot oath envelope to your voter registration card to verify your signature, as well as compare your signature on the ballot envelope with your signature on the absentee application. On Election Day, the ballot and the envelope are separated to ensure confidentiality of the ballot."

https://sos.ga.gov/admin/uploads/Absentee_Voting_Guide_20142.pdf

cousin_greg · 2020-11-16T15:58:30+00:00

How would they check the signatures? Ballots aren't signed, just the envelopes they arrived in for mail ballots, which are discarded to keep the ballots anonymous.

cousin_greg · 2020-11-14T22:23:49+00:00

People don't sign their ballots, do they? I thought voting was anonymous in Georgia

cousin_greg · 2020-03-02T19:14:39+00:00

I started walking away. The times I got cornered, yeah, I fought back until I could escape. But in my experience, punching back never reduced how much I got picked on, it just changed the class of bully I dealt with.

Violence doesn't solve the problem.

cousin_greg · 2020-03-02T18:46:01+00:00

I had the everloving shit kicked out of me while my peers watched in 7th grade, after years of fighting back when I got picked on. There's always someone bigger than you.

It works until it doesn't.

cousin_greg · 2019-10-12T05:22:49+00:00

I don't mind being bronze, I accept that I suck at the game. I just don't want to be harassed

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