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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
Deadline accidentally put out a draft article about Pence having COVID, it remains unclear if the draft exists because he has it and they can’t say yet, or because they’re simply pre-drafting the article for when he inevitably has it.
“And the Bunny nails it!” ~ Gabrael “If the UN can get through a day without everyone strangling everyone else so can we.” ~ CyranThe one weird thing is that Deadline haven't said that that’s why it exists, you’d think they’d just say that the article was pre-drafted for if he gets COVID, instead they’ve just said that it shouldn’t have gone out.
“And the Bunny nails it!” ~ Gabrael “If the UN can get through a day without everyone strangling everyone else so can we.” ~ CyranEdited by tclittle on Oct 8th 2020 at 6:55:23 AM
"We're all paper, we're all scissors, we're all fightin' with our mirrors, scared we'll never find somebody to love."They note that this will very likely not apply to Trump, but is intended for future presidents. Not that this detail is stopping right-wingers on social media from labeling Pelosi as planning a "coup", but then again...
Expergiscēre cras, medior quam hodie. (Awaken tomorrow, better than today.)New lock for the barn door after the horses have bolted? (with obligatory apology to the horses)
Edited by Reflextion on Oct 8th 2020 at 8:25:17 AM
Someone did tell me life was going to be this way.![]()
To make the whole coup issue even more silly, the way the text of the 25th Amendment is written, any body established by congress to evaluate the President's fitness to serve would still only be able to invoke the 25th Amendment with the concurrence of the Vice President.
Which means even if the bill was somehow passed (which it won't be during this session), it could only remove Trump if Mike Pence concurred.
For those who are at awe / really don’t know on the militia movement in America, Southern Poverty Law Center has capped more than 200. Had to learn that while doing my remote internship on handling counterterrorism issues.
And once you know that Tim McVeigh had visited the Michigan Militia prior to Oklahoma, then finding out that a militia wanted to grab the governor is not new. There are militias that are known to be anti-government and pro-sovereign.
Strange thing on the latter is that it got picked up in Australia and Singapore due to COVID.
Five Thirty Eight's article on who won the VP debate
The short answer is Harris.
The slightly longer answer is that it didn't move the needle much overall, but on the metrics where the needle did move at all it moved in Harris's favor. Most notably Harris went from a net favorability of +5 to a net favorability of +10, while Pence stayed at -14.
As for my personal take I would say that any positive developments on the Biden Harris ticket is extremely good news because Trump has very little time to make the race competitive. Harris didn't really need to win the debate at all, she just needed to not lose.
So I'm noticing a trend with the Pence and Trump debates. Their entire platforms seem to be enflaming this primal fear that conservatize voters have that if Biden and Harris win, any change enacted by them will lead to their immediate demise. And that's not even counting the unspoken bullshit about either party being a communist.
Just Having Fun

Oh, it's one of those premature obituary things.
The damned queen and the relentless knight.