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Everyone in congress will have to pretend that they didn't know about Gaetz. That will be exhausting to watch. But you could blast video of him banging underage girls and boys on national TV and he would still win the Florida 1st.

Dude, you can TRY to pretend that, but it just makes it clear that you're uninformed. The Trump coup attempt is well documented. He and his cronies have been indicted federally and in 4 states for the scheme. You can read the plan and most of the evidence for yourself, you know, if you wanted to understand what actually happened. Certainly a traitor. He's betrayed 2 out of 3: friends and country. And it would surely be 3 of 3 if he ever had any principles to betray.

Sure. Well, that and getting more votes.🙄 She is leading in most polls.

Nah, his legacy is a great recovery from the absolute disaster he inherited and some major long-term infrastructure and investment legislation. He's not Lincoln, but history will view him as a welcome and successful return to normal after the Trump debacle. And to the second point, returning to office a man who once already tried to illegally seize power and overthrow a democratic election is just giving him another chance to try again--with no reason to expect that he won't.

Again, you are a liar. They literally tried to deliver the alternate electors to Pence on the floor of the senate. On the floor of the farking US Senate! They tried. And Pence did not cave, despite immense pressure and a mob calling for his execution. https://www.politico.com/news/2022/06/21/jan-6-panel-trump-overturn-2020-election-00040816 A top aide to Sen. Ron Johnson attempted to arrange a handoff of false, pro-Trump electors from the senator to Mike Pence just minutes before the then-vice president began to count electoral votes on Jan. 6, 2021. The aide, Sean Riley, told Pence’s legislative director Chris Hodgson that Johnson wanted to hand Pence lists of the fake electors from Michigan and Wisconsin for Pence to introduce during the counting of electoral votes that certified Joe Biden’s win. The attempt was revealed in text messages obtained by the Jan. 6 select committee during its fourth public hearing on Tuesday. “Do not give that to him,” Hodgson replied. The attempted handoff shows just how much former President Donald Trump and his allies tried to lean on Pence to introduce false slates of electors that could have thrown the 2020 election from Biden to Donald Trump. The committee laid out an intense pressure campaign, led primarily by Trump and his attorney Rudy Giuliani, to push state legislatures to appoint pro-Trump electors and override the will of voters in their states. In video and live testimony, state legislative leaders in Pennsylvania, Arizona and Michigan — all Republicans — described repeated, sometimes daily pressure from Trump and his allies in the aftermath of the 2020 election. Michigan State Senate leader Mike Shirkey recalled in video testimony how, after Trump tweeted out his phone number, he received thousands of messages from Trump supporters asking him to appoint Michigan’s electors through the legislature. Arizona State House speaker Rusty Bowers rejected similar pressure from Trump. “You are asking me to do something that is counter to my oath,” he recalled saying.

Suuuuure you have. Biden is looking to his legacy. He was old and tired and not performing well. He doesn't want to be remembered as the man who held on too long and sold democracy down the river with a 2nd Trump term.

This lizard people want what they want, and that leads to an eventual war with the extraterrestrials on their moon base. Of course they needed Biden to drop out of the race!🤪

Oh, goody, another wild conspiracy theory that "they were gonna" based on your deep inside knowledge--for which there is no evidence, nor even a reasonable foundation. 👍 And I don't know if you own or know how to read a calendar, but no, there was no time for another primary campaign.

Yes, he absolutely did ask him to throw out the votes. And your lies won't change that. Quoting here step 3 of the Eastman coup plan which you can read for yourself. "At the end, he announces that because of the ongoing disputes in the 7 States, there are no electors that can be deemed validly appointed in those States. That means the total number of "electors appointed" – the language of the 12th Amendment – is 454. This reading of the 12th Amendment has also been advanced by Harvard Law Professor Laurence Tribe. A "majority of the electors appointed" would therefore be 228. There are at this point 232 votes for Trump, 222 votes for Biden. Pence then gavels President Trump as re-elected." There is no legal mechanism to "suspend the certification." That's just a load of crap. The "investigations" were completed and every state has certified their electoral votes.

Lol. Trump supporters are in no position to throw stones about lack of plans or policy proposals. I wonder what Harris said after the edit? The correct answer is that Presidents have very little control over short-term cost of living, but they can make long-term structural changes that begin to relieve that pressure.

Ah yes, the conspiracy theory kooks are out in force. The secret info conspiracy! Classic. And no, sorry, but Trump absolutely attempted a coup. No US president in history has ever attempted to have his VP throw out certified votes and unilaterally--and illegally--declare him the president elect after losing an election. Never.

You conspiracy looks think everyone who doesn't believe the crazy conspiracy is naive. Meanwhile, back in reality, Biden is the President of the United States of America, absolutely at the end of his political career. He didn't need anything from anyone. Nobody had any leverage over him. He had nothing to lose but an election. He could have stubbornly held on for his own ego. Instead he make the selfless choice for the good of the country.

Don't be stupid. Nobody had any power to "force" Biden out. There was no trickery or legal wrangling. The most they could do was to try to convince him that it was the right thing to do. And reports are that Harris didn't even participate in making that argument--which is appropriate. Biden dropped out due to his own calculus--yes, influenced by others, but it was his decision, and the right decision. And when he did, anyone in the party could have campaigned to capture the delegate votes. Instead support coalesced around Harris and at the convention most of the delegates voted for her. Not to mention that even if your nonsense was remotely tied to reality it would be a "coup" in the colloquial sense, not an illegal seizure of governmental power. Trump attempted an actual coup.

6. She never attempted a coup to overthrow democracy. That's a major differentiator.

That's just nonsense. Literally anyone could have thrown their hat in the ring for nomination at the convention. 4,000 delegates at the convention voted--99% of them for Harris.

🤪Yeah, sure they were. You clearly have no clue what was in the agreement or what ensued. Just what you saw on Fox after Biden's inauguration. Read and learn. "Cracks in the deal emerge almost immediately A few months after the agreement was signed, there was plenty of evidence that the Taliban wasn’t as sincere as it appeared about peace. The United Nations said it had evidence that the Taliban and al-Qaeda still had ties. U.S. intelligence warned that al-Qaeda was “integrated” into the Taliban. The Taliban launched dozens of attacks in Afghanistan, ramping up its violence. “The Taliban views the negotiations as a necessary step to ensure the removal of U.S. and other foreign troops under the U.S.-Taliban agreement, but the Taliban likely does not perceive that it has any obligation to make substantive concessions or compromises,” a U.S. inspector general report read. It was all enough that when Biden came into office, U.S. officials questioned whether the Taliban was breaking its side of the deal. But Trump chose to continue taking U.S. troops home"

Complete and total bullshit, and you know it. Trump left just 2500 troops in the country by the time that Biden took over. Trump is the one that cut the Afghan government out of negotiations, abandoned them and surrendered the country back to the Taliban. Just as Trump abandoned the Kurds. So not only did Biden not do what you claim, the abandonment of allies also wasn't unprecedented. Trump had done it just just a year before.

Fair question. Maybe Trump shouldn't have abandoned the Afghan government and given the country back to the Taliban? They didn't live up to any of what they promised. Seems like "the art of the deal" guy got suckered pretty hard.

0. A city requesting aid to manage an influx of immigrants does not mean that an unsubstantiated comment from one officer regarding immigrant crime is factual. Though your deflection is noted. 1. And if oil fell like rain prices would be lower! The FACT is that under Biden, oil production has increased dramatically from when he took office. It's been at record levels. From an environmental perspective, that's not great, but from a basic math perspective you people sound very, very stupid when you pretend that he's suppressed supply and driven up prices. Neither is true. It's pure anti-factual nonsense. -- And I get pretty tired of explaining it, but up or down, domestic production does very little to move the price needle in a global market. If we magically pumped 20% more oil out of the ground tomorrow the price you pay for gas isn't changing much. That oil just gets shipped around the world or displaces oil that would have been shipped. In terms of prices, it's a drop in the bucket. It's a global market, people. 2. You understand immigration reform as well as you understand the oil market. There were sweeping changes from the closure trigger point to increased enforcement, increased detention, higher standards for asylum claims and faster processing and rejection/deportation. It would have addressed MANY of the key concerns with current law. And it certainly was bipartisan--it was Republican-led, in fact, and was a better deal than they are likely to get under any other circumstance. You know full well that Trump killed it so that he could campaign on the issue. That's the only reason it didn't pass. Boot-licking cowards who put Trump's political interests ahead of national interests. 3. Putin's trolling has absolutely nothing to do with Harris's position on Russia, you loon. The facts again are very straightforward. Harris supports Ukraine and their fight against Russia. Trump will end support for Ukraine and give Russia exactly what they want--the same way he gave Afghanistan back to the Taliban.

Probably pink eye from tossing Trump's salad with such enthusiastic gusto. 🤷‍♂️

Like Trump, you're getting crazier and less coherent by the day. He definitely represents you.

Same reasons that elected officials don't just reflect the public opinion of their constituents. The point of representation is that the responsibility is delegated to a person who is (hopefully) smarter and definitely better informed and more focused on the issues. It's their job to know the politics, know the players and the secondary and tertiary ramifications of statements, actions and policies--to know better how to protect the interests of the union members. Teamsters are majority white men and not well educated--right in the Trump core demo. They don't know that Trump and his allies are anti-labor, anti union and would be terrible for their livelihoods. The leadership does understand that, so they can't endorse Trump. --and frankly I think they are making a mistake by not maintaining their close relationship with the Democrats. Biden was good for labor. The teamsters are trying to hedge and play both sides, but only the Democrats actually want a relationship. Not a good hedge.

I have no idea what's happening in Ohio, but if those things are actual concerns, perhaps you should send word to the Trump campaign and implore them to talk about real issues instead of having the candidate make a clown of himself on national TV? Either take your pills or put down the bottle. In either case the Internet is too dangerous a place for someone in your poor condition.

They don't know what parts are under there or how they might smush together with their own parts, but hot damn are they obsessively curious to find out.

I think we can all agree that poaching is bad. What we can't all agree on is that a random, uncorroborated claim about poaching should not lead to a candidate for POTUS spending national TV time fanning anti-immigrant hysteria with made up stories about immigrants eating people's pets as if it's a new epidemic. How do you people do anything jumping from rumor to "fact" to conspiracy theory all the time? The world isn't going to hell in a handbasket, but I can see how it might feel that way to people who don't have critical thinking skills.