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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
They can legally do that (and many do), but a lot are hesitant to do so for risk of litigation in case someone gets food poisoning.
The actual logistics of donating food is also pretty complicated. It's surprisingly hard to give shit away.
The same is true of money btw. Trying to give away your assets can be a full-time job if your assets are large enough.
Edited by M84 on Oct 26th 2020 at 11:43:36 PM
Disgusted, but not surprisedThe Atlantic has published an article on what could happen if Trump and his campaign attempt to obfuscate the election outcome: The Election That Could Break America
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"A lot of people, including Joe Biden, the Democratic Party nominee, have misconceived the nature of the threat. They frame it as a concern, unthinkable for presidents past, that Trump might refuse to vacate the Oval Office if he loses. They generally conclude, as Biden has, that in that event the proper authorities “will escort him from the White House with great dispatch.”
The worst case, however, is not that Trump rejects the election outcome. The worst case is that he uses his power to prevent a decisive outcome against him. If Trump sheds all restraint, and if his Republican allies play the parts he assigns them, he could obstruct the emergence of a legally unambiguous victory for Biden in the Electoral College and then in Congress. He could prevent the formation of consensus about whether there is any outcome at all. He could seize on that uncertainty to hold on to power."
I'm not sure that the article makes it's case. There are a lot of things that, legally, the Trump campaign could do. They include challenging every mail-in ballot that has anything seemingly wrong with it (like a signature in the wrong place, or a postmark that isn't clear), states that are controlled by Republican legislature could throw out the popular count, on some thin accusation of fraud, and select a slate of electors that support Trump, or the Republicans can hire "poll volunteers" to harass voters of color (there used to be a consent decree that prevented this in many states, but that expired).
Most of this only matters if the election is close. The worst case scenario is that Trump pulls a lead on election night, only to lose it when the mail-in ballots are counted. Maybe that will happen, maybe it wont. Then it comes down to how many lawyers each party hires and how hard the Democrats fight in courts between election night and swearing-in day. I can say this: Biden won't down gracefully like Al Gore.
If the election isn't close, even on election night, it's goodbye Trump, though not goodbye Conservatives. With two of the three branches of government potentially under Democrat control, it could be a bad four years for them.
I'm done trying to sound smart. "Clear" is the new smart.The Republicans think everybody who receives EBT is like this
Certified: 48.0% West Asian, 6.5% South Asian, 15.8% North/West European, 15.7% English, 7.4% Balkan, 6.6% ScandinavianYou have to love these pieces that constantly murmur "But what if Trump does something."
Okay, we're eight days away of election day and Trump's dastardly schemes to date: Make the mail late, call Biden's win fake, maybe something with courts? I dunno, nobody's really been able to point to a case that says "The Supreme Court can declare President." Or convince state legislators to just, you know, don't let Biden win, or something...
It's a cottage industry of fearmongering that presupposes the Bush v. Gore election can be replicated in these conditions. Like Trump's latest plan was...have Rudy Giuliani announce Hunter Biden was....something or other.
The idea that just maybe Trump loses and having isolated every potential ally is dragged out of office regardless of how willing he is to go or not doesn't seem to occur to a lot of them because, well...they get paid to not consider it.
Be more worried if his death cult tries something more than Trump doing it himself.
After all, one of his cultists got caught in the middle of his preparations to assassinate Joe Biden (with a bomb on the list of things they found and confiscated once they arrested the guy) not that long ago...
Never underestimate the actions of a single deranged individual at any time or place.
They are the real imminent threat here, not Trump.
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However, this election might be the most important one in the History of the United States so far...
Edited by TitanJump on Oct 26th 2020 at 5:26:37 PM
The moral of the story: if you're feeling anxiety and you can vote, vote.
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"White House to host swearing-in event for Barrett on Monday night
White House chief of staff Mark Meadows told reporters on Monday that if Barrett is confirmed by the Senate later in the day, "then we expect for a swearing-in to happen later this evening if all goes well."
"We’re doing ... the best we can to encourage as much social distancing as possible. It’ll be outdoors if it goes off as planned right now," Meadows said. "And still continue to do testing in and around those that are critical to the mission to try to get there."
Meadows brushed aside criticism that the ceremony would be a repeat of the late September Rose Garden event for Barrett by arguing that other factors may have contributed to the White House outbreak.
"The very first event, while there’s a whole lot of connects that have been made with who was at the event and who came down with it, we’ve been able to look at that and track as many as three different areas where the virus actually infected different people within the White House," Meadows said. "So it didn’t all come from that particular event."
Edited by sgamer82 on Oct 26th 2020 at 9:29:14 AM
Basically: the sun belt states (florida, north carolina, arizona) count their votes fairly quickly. If Biden wins in Florida decisively enough, he has a 99% chance of winning the election.
However if he doesn't win it the election becomes much closer to a toss-up and Biden would have to win multiple of the important rust belt states (pensylvania, michigan, wisconsin), and since they accept mail-in ballots as long as they're marked by election day, it could take a long while for all votes to be counted.
Biden is basically statistically tied with trump in the recent texas polls, with him having a small margin of error lead between 1 to 3 points. I don't think it's likely to flip but also 538 presently gives it a 38% chance for biden victory, which is roughly equal to what trump had to win in 2016. So it's not implausible at all.
Edited by Draghinazzo on Oct 26th 2020 at 1:29:46 PM
Nate's problems are when he steps away from data to be a pundit. I don't think anyone says Trump can't win but Biden is polling astoundingly well in the "greatest against an incumbent since American polling began" levels. He has massive leads in the previously fallen Blue Wall states, and Trump jus put "fuck Pennsylvania" in his closing pitch!
We're at the point where Biden's lead is well past Hillary's, where he has already realistically won the states to kick Trump out and we're almost taking it for granted Arizona, North Carolina Georgia, Iowa, Florida and Texas are at the very least super competitive if not some being firmly eased into Biden's column.
It's possible Trump can win and I get a lot of us have PTSD from 2016, damn right I won't sleep truly sound until I see it called for Biden but the most likely result is Biden wins in a complete and utter route
The words "swing state of Texas" should send chills down Republicans' spines.
Edited by Lightysnake on Oct 26th 2020 at 9:49:30 AM
I will be quite curious to see what the results of texas are, not just who wins but by what margins. It's possible that if Biden wins that's mostly just because of a historically unpopular candidate (i.e some of the voters who voted for him this time wouldn't do that again for another democrat unless they were up against someone very similar to trump) but that will also have a knock-on effect on downballot races and really increase the democrats' confidence in being able to win the state in the future.
x4 That is not probable. With how the Republicans have shackled themselves to Trump, people are not only for getting rid of Trump, but for getting rid of EVERY Republican currently in the Senate. Getting rid of Trump will most likely lead to getting rid of the Republican majority in the Senate.
Edited by ScubaWolf on Oct 26th 2020 at 1:30:54 PM
"In a move surprising absolutely no one"Frankly, we haven’t really seen much to indicate a massive wave of domestic terrorism is imminent. A single guy with a few pounds of tannerite getting wrapped up by the FBI isn’t exactly the most credible evidence of a threat.
They should have sent a poet.The republican establishment of old really isn't much of an improvement over the current Trump party. They'd still suppress voters and strike down voting rights, hurt LGBT people, push evangelical Christianity onto the country, destroy abortion rights, give the rich tax breaks, dehumanize immigrants and serve the military industrial complex. They'd just be more subtle about it.
The Lincoln Project doesn't hate Trump for his policies but because he's an impulsive idiot and disastrous for the long term health of the party.

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