Staggering early vote turnout boosts hopes for Biden in Texas

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A convoy of Trump supporters in Texas tried to run a bus heading to a Biden event off the road. Trump reaction to this as posted in a Tweet? "I LOVE TEXAS!"

[Chomper Higgot]

I’m sure many who hold opposing political views to me with will agree, violence and intimidation should be no place in elections.

 

 

[stevenl]

8 minutes ago, placeholder said:

A convoy of Trump supporters in Texas tried to run a bus heading to a Biden event off the road. Trump reaction to this as posted in a Tweet? "I LOVE TEXAS!"

Sad it has come to that, and Trump's reaction is even worse, a lot worse. No surprise though, he has been provoking things like this.

[Surelynot]

11 minutes ago, placeholder said:

A convoy of Trump supporters in Texas tried to run a bus heading to a Biden event off the road. Trump reaction to this as posted in a Tweet? "I LOVE TEXAS!"

Having been encouraged to do so by Trump Jnr......The Trump machine is totally out of control

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5 minutes ago, stevenl said:

Sad it has come to that, and Trump's reaction is even worse, a lot worse. No surprise though, he has been provoking things like this.

Antifa violence bad, Trump supporter violence not so much.

[Surelynot]

1 minute ago, placeholder said:

Antifa violence bad, Trump supporter violence not so much.

Trump supporter violence orchestrated by a 'leader' purely for personal political gain

 

Antifa violence an expression of society's frustration at the total mismanagement of the country by said leader

 

See the difference???

[Hanaguma]

14 hours ago, Salerno said:

 

Martin Luther K.ng was right wing?

By todays standards, absolutely.  He would be driven out of any left leaning organization for his radical right wing views. He wanted African Americans to take charge of their own problems, be fiscally thrifty, and support family bonds. He would have been aghast at racial politics and the stain of intersectionality.

[Hanaguma]

1 hour ago, Surelynot said:

Trump supporter violence orchestrated by a 'leader' purely for personal political gain

 

Antifa violence an expression of society's frustration at the total mismanagement of the country by said leader

 

See the difference???

Trump violence doesn't lead to hundreds if not thousands of businesses being burned and looted. Nor does it lead to hundreds of millions of dollars in damage. 

 

Antifa expresses their own personal frustration and childishness, nothing more.

[Hanaguma]

1 hour ago, Jeffr2 said:

Nuff said.  Trump supporters are violent.

 

https://www.thedailybeast.com/biden-camp-cancels-austin-texas-event-after-pro-trump-ambush-on-campaign-bus

 

Biden Team Cancels Texas Event After Highway ‘Ambush’ by MAGA Cavalry

 

“These Trump supporters, many of whom were armed, surrounded the bus on the interstate and attempted to drive it off the road,” he alleged. “They outnumbered police 50-1, and they ended up hitting a staffer’s car.”

Simple physics (science?) would dictate that passenger cars and pickup trucks couldn't drive a huge bus off the road even if they tried.  

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

16 minutes ago, Hanaguma said:

Simple physics (science?) would dictate that passenger cars and pickup trucks couldn't drive a huge bus off the road even if they tried.  

 

Appears to have not stopped them from trying:

 

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Vehicles flying Trump flags try to force a Biden-Harris campaign bus off a highway in Texas.

AUSTIN, Texas — Multiple vehicles bearing Trump flags and signs surrounded a Biden-Harris campaign bus heading from San Antonio to Austin on Friday, forcing campaign officials to scrap two campaign events, according to reports by Democratic officials on Saturday.

The vehicles surrounded the bus on busy Interstate 35 and appeared to be attempting to slow it down and force it to the side of the road, according to social media posts from witnesses and accounts by party activists. In one instance, the vehicles pulled in front of the bus and tried to stop in the middle of the highway.

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/31/us/elections/vehicles-flying-trump-flags-try-to-force-a-biden-harris-campaign-bus-off-a-highway-in-texas.html

 

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During his final rally of the day on Saturday, in Montoursville, Pa., President Trump cackled about his supporters “taunting” Mr. Biden at his outdoor events by driving by and honking horns, and then cheered on his supporters who surrounded the bus in Texas.

 

Edited November 1, 2020 by TallGuyJohninBKK

[Chomper Higgot]

54 minutes ago, Hanaguma said:

Simple physics (science?) would dictate that passenger cars and pickup trucks couldn't drive a huge bus off the road even if they tried.  

So while lecturing on physics you just told the world you don’t understand vectors.

[Chomper Higgot]

39 minutes ago, TallGuyJohninBKK said:

 

Appears to have not stopped them from trying:

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/31/us/elections/vehicles-flying-trump-flags-try-to-force-a-biden-harris-campaign-bus-off-a-highway-in-texas.html

 

 

He has two problems:

 

1. He doesn’t understand physics.

 

2. He can’t bring himself to denounce dangerous driving by Trump supporters trying to force a Biden campaign bus off the road - He just can’t do it.

[Jeffr2]

2 hours ago, Hanaguma said:

Trump violence doesn't lead to hundreds if not thousands of businesses being burned and looted. Nor does it lead to hundreds of millions of dollars in damage. 

 

Antifa expresses their own personal frustration and childishness, nothing more.

 

Yeah, Trump's actions only lead to the deaths of potentially 200,000 Americans, due to his lies about the virus.  He should be put in jail.

 

Sad you don't understand the plight of minorities in America.

 

1 hour ago, Hanaguma said:

Simple physics (science?) would dictate that passenger cars and pickup trucks couldn't drive a huge bus off the road even if they tried.  

 

So you're a physicist?  Right....read the news.  It happened.  And not that hard if you have a 3.5 ton dual wheel monster truck with 450 horses.  They are incredibly powerful.

[xylophone]

11 hours ago, candide said:

Around 60% of Republicans are also creationists.

That is a sad and totally illogical belief.....but then again, they are republicans!

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2 hours ago, Hanaguma said:

Simple physics (science?) would dictate that passenger cars and pickup trucks couldn't drive a huge bus off the road even if they tried.  

The laws of physics might apply to inanimate objects pursuing a course under no outside agency's direction. But not really applicable to a game of chicken involvig vehicles and drivers. Your refutation is transparently ridiculous.

[xylophone]

1 hour ago, Chomper Higgot said:

He has two problems:

 

1. He doesn’t understand physics.

 

2. He can’t bring himself to denounce dangerous driving by Trump supporters trying to force a Biden campaign bus off the road - He just can’t do it.

Two problems??

 

Only two? The fact that he cannot stop lying, and nor can his son, must surely ring alarm bells in intelligent folk, and just look at the latest long list of lies from him and his offspring......

 

Rallies are the core of trump's campaign, and a font of lies and misinformation.

"A recent rally in Wisconsin was typical. In 90 minutes, trump made 131 false or inaccurate statements………….Over the course of the next 87 minutes, the President made another 130 false or inaccurate statements. Many were entirely made up. Others were casual misstatements of simple facts, some clearly intended to mislead. He lied about his own record and that of his opponent. He made wild exaggerations that violate even the pliable limits of standard political hyperbole".

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/rallies-are-the-core-of-trumps-campaign-and-a-font-of-lies-and-misinformation/VHLPDRGMOR25ZE4BVVA5HBH6TY/ 

AND….US President donald trump has pushed the baseless conspiracy theory that American healthcare workers are overstating the number of coronavirus deaths the country is suffering to get more money.
That claim was just one example among a litany of falsehoods and bizarre moments during trump's recent election campaign rally in Waterford, Michigan.

AND….US President donald trump has claimed coronavirus deaths in the United States are "way down", while his son donald Jr says deaths are now at "almost nothing".

 

Ignoramus.
 

 

[xofswen]

46 minutes ago, xylophone said:

Two problems??

 

Only two? The fact that he cannot stop lying, and nor can his son, must surely ring alarm bells in intelligent folk, and just look at the latest long list of lies from him and his offspring......

 

Rallies are the core of trump's campaign, and a font of lies and misinformation.

"A recent rally in Wisconsin was typical. In 90 minutes, trump made 131 false or inaccurate statements………….Over the course of the next 87 minutes, the President made another 130 false or inaccurate statements. Many were entirely made up. Others were casual misstatements of simple facts, some clearly intended to mislead. He lied about his own record and that of his opponent. He made wild exaggerations that violate even the pliable limits of standard political hyperbole".

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/rallies-are-the-core-of-trumps-campaign-and-a-font-of-lies-and-misinformation/VHLPDRGMOR25ZE4BVVA5HBH6TY/ 

AND….US President donald trump has pushed the baseless conspiracy theory that American healthcare workers are overstating the number of coronavirus deaths the country is suffering to get more money.
That claim was just one example among a litany of falsehoods and bizarre moments during trump's recent election campaign rally in Waterford, Michigan.

AND….US President donald trump has claimed coronavirus deaths in the United States are "way down", while his son donald Jr says deaths are now at "almost nothing".

 

Ignoramus.
 

 

Thing here is because of Biden's fracking lies and flip flops on energy programs, he may have handed PA. to Trump and all but guaranteeing certain failure AND further humiliation, (worse than plagiarizing scandal) in his 4th pres. bid.

Now, go listen to his recent winning statements at his latest rally, his comments, all about what he won't do (because I already lied about it) : "I wont end fracking, I won't raise your taxes, I wont ruin the economy, I wont do this, I won't do that, and with a warning to the Americas for a "dark winter"!! Pathetic. He's trying desperately to back himself out of the corner he created for himself by all his lies and deceit. Meanwhile Trump talks about more of the same, promises kept for all Americans. Americans have wised up to Biden long ago and his dirty game of corruption and lies. Trumps crushing the ground game, (Biden's desperation is telling using BO)

And further, if you asked me I would much rather my children be like Trumps, and not turn out anything close to a crack addicted failure like Biden's prized Hunter, and speaking of which, <deleted> is Hunter, why he is nowhere to be found, and out supporting his father, telling voters the proof of their families corruption allegations is untrue? The Biden dynasty IS SO DONE,  you can all wave good bye to your dem hero on Tue/Wed next week. We can talk then folks, until then go read your RCP polls, (check Texas), if it makes you feel better.

[Jeffr2]

4 minutes ago, xofswen said:

Thing here is because of Biden's fracking lies and flip flops on energy programs, he may have handed PA. to Trump and all but guaranteeing certain failure AND further humiliation, (worse than plagiarizing scandal) in his 4th pres. bid.

Now, go listen to his recent winning statements at his latest rally, his comments, all about what he won't do (because I already lied about it) : "I wont end fracking, I won't raise your taxes, I wont ruin the economy, I wont do this, I won't do that, and with a warning to the Americas for a "dark winter"!! Pathetic. He's trying desperately to back himself out of the corner he created for himself by all his lies and deceit. Meanwhile Trump talks about more of the same, promises kept for all Americans. Americans have wised up to Biden long ago and his dirty game of corruption and lies. Trumps crushing the ground game, (Biden's desperation is telling using BO)

And further, if you asked me I would much rather my children be like Trumps, and not turn out anything close to a crack addicted failure like Biden's prized Hunter, and speaking of which, <deleted> is Hunter, why he is nowhere to be found, and out supporting his father, telling voters the proof of their families corruption allegations is untrue? The Biden dynasty IS SO DONE,  you can all wave good bye to your dem hero on Tue/Wed next week. We can talk then folks, until then go read your RCP polls, (check Texas), if it makes you feel better.

What's Hunter got to do with this?  If you are looking at the candidates children, plenty of BS going on with Trump's.  Plenty!

 

If you want to talk about flip flops, where's the wall?  How come Hillary isn't in jail?  Where's a replacement for ACA?  I could go on and on.

 

Time for our liar in chief to go.  Perhaps to jail for his tax evasions.

[Sujo]

5 minutes ago, xofswen said:

Thing here is because of Biden's fracking lies and flip flops on energy programs, he may have handed PA. to Trump and all but guaranteeing certain failure AND further humiliation, (worse than plagiarizing scandal) in his 4th pres. bid.

Now, go listen to his recent winning statements at his latest rally, his comments, all about what he won't do (because I already lied about it) : "I wont end fracking, I won't raise your taxes, I wont ruin the economy, I wont do this, I won't do that, and with a warning to the Americas for a "dark winter"!! Pathetic. He's trying desperately to back himself out of the corner he created for himself by all his lies and deceit. Meanwhile Trump talks about more of the same, promises kept for all Americans. Americans have wised up to Biden long ago and his dirty game of corruption and lies. Trumps crushing the ground game, (Biden's desperation is telling using BO)

And further, if you asked me I would much rather my children be like Trumps, and not turn out anything close to a crack addicted failure like Biden's prized Hunter, and speaking of which, <deleted> is Hunter, why he is nowhere to be found, and out supporting his father, telling voters the proof of their families corruption allegations is untrue? The Biden dynasty IS SO DONE,  you can all wave good bye to your dem hero on Tue/Wed next week. We can talk then folks, until then go read your RCP polls, (check Texas), if it makes you feel better.

Thats hilarious. Wrong but hilarious to think anyone would believe it, then vote for trump because, well he never lies.

[xofswen]

1 minute ago, Jeffr2 said:

What's Hunter got to do with this?  If you are looking at the candidates children, plenty of BS going on with Trump's.  Plenty!

 

If you want to talk about flip flops, where's the wall?  How come Hillary isn't in jail?  Where's a replacement for ACA?  I could go on and on.

 

Time for our liar in chief to go.  Perhaps to jail for his tax evasions.

Yeah, well, whatever cranks yah dude. Enjoy!

[Hanaguma]

12 minutes ago, Sujo said:

Thats hilarious. Wrong but hilarious to think anyone would believe it, then vote for trump because, well he never lies.

Of course he lies. He's becoming a politician.  Before that, he was a classic New York City BS artist. Goes with the territory. Now Joe Biden on the other hand has 47 years of sterling service to the nation. Must be easy to point to several keystone achievements that he has accomplished, such as:

 

a/ achieving energy independence

b/ enabling peace in the Middle East

c/ reducing unemployment to historic lows for minorities

d/ reducing tensions with North Korea

e/ realigning American policy towards Asia

 

...oops, wrong candidate. Sorry.

[Hanaguma]

17 minutes ago, Jeffr2 said:

What's Hunter got to do with this?  If you are looking at the candidates children, plenty of BS going on with Trump's.  Plenty!

 

 

AFAIK, none of Trump's kids became crack addicted, none of them impregnated a stripper, none of them dated their dead brother's widow, and none of them left a computer full of damning emails in a shop and forgot about it.

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4 minutes ago, Hanaguma said:

AFAIK, none of Trump's kids became crack addicted, none of them impregnated a stripper, none of them dated their dead brother's widow, and none of them left a computer full of damning emails in a shop and forgot about it.

But like you, they do indulge in treating unproven allegations as fact. Can you share with us how you know that Hunter Biden actually left that computer in the shop?

[Hanaguma]

1. His signature on the receipt might be a bit of a giveaway.

2. The lack of denial from anyone in the Biden camp about the authenticity of either the computer or the contents of the emails found in it.

[Hanaguma]

5 minutes ago, placeholder said:

But like you, they do indulge in treating unproven allegations as fact. Can you share with us how you know that Hunter Biden actually left that computer in the shop?

1. His signature on the receipt might be a bit of a giveaway.

2. The lack of denial from anyone in the Biden camp about the authenticity of either the computer or the contents of the emails found in it.

[placeholder]

2 minutes ago, Hanaguma said:

1. His signature on the receipt might be a bit of a giveaway.

2. The lack of denial from anyone in the Biden camp about the authenticity of either the computer or the contents of the emails found in it.

Someday, somewhere, someone is going to come up with the idea that it's possible to duplicate signatures. I suggest that they call that practice forgery.

Just maybe the lack of denial is due to the fact that they don't want to give give it the rumor mill's equivalent of oxygen: controversy.

[Hanaguma]

4 minutes ago, placeholder said:

Someday, somewhere, someone is going to come up with the idea that it's possible to duplicate signatures. I suggest that they call that practice forgery.

Just maybe the lack of denial is due to the fact that they don't want to give give it the rumor mill's equivalent of oxygen: controversy.

You're right, it is possible. Once the signature is presented though, the burden shifts.  Again, nobody  connected with Biden suggests that it is forged.  Instead, they cry "smear" and run for cover. The deflection tactics being used by the Biden campaign are a dead giveaway that there is something to the story.  

 

They don't have to worry too much about giving the story oxygen though. The media is already smothering it nicely for them. Joe himself takes no questions at any of his events as far as I have heard, the media is kept far from him on those few occasions when he ventures out of his home.   The President of the US needs to be vigorous and energetic.  I have yet to see that Biden is physically up to the job. 

[placeholder]

8 minutes ago, Hanaguma said:

You're right, it is possible. Once the signature is presented though, the burden shifts.  Again, nobody  connected with Biden suggests that it is forged.  Instead, they cry "smear" and run for cover. The deflection tactics being used by the Biden campaign are a dead giveaway that there is something to the story.  

 

They don't have to worry too much about giving the story oxygen though. The media is already smothering it nicely for them. Joe himself takes no questions at any of his events as far as I have heard, the media is kept far from him on those few occasions when he ventures out of his home.   The President of the US needs to be vigorous and energetic.  I have yet to see that Biden is physically up to the job. 

As I pointed out already, it could be that nobody connected with the Biden campaign is going to suggest anything in order not to give those allegations oxygen. But if they did start engaging with those allegations, then the press would cover it.

Well if you have yet to see that Biden is physically up to the job who do these gerontologists think they are to disagree with you?

Biden is slightly healthier, study says, but both presidential candidates may be ‘super-agers’

The presidential candidates and their supporters will likely keep belittling the other guy as a doddering old fool, but a group of geriatric experts say in a new paper that both President Trump and challenger Joe Biden appear to have the physical and cognitive tools to make it through four years in the White House.

In fact, the two candidates’ relative good health and other advantages — parental longevity, access to top-notch healthcare and abstinence from smoking and drinking — suggest both men are likely to become long-living “super-agers,” who thrive well into their 80s, or beyond, according to a draft report written by three medical doctors and four researchers with expertise in public health, survival analysis and statistics.

Three of the authors of the paper — Stuart Jay Olshansky, a public health professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago; Dr. Bradley Willcox, director of research in the Department of Geriatric Medicine at the University of Hawaii’s medical school; and UCLA Professor Hiram Beltran-Sanchez, an authority on the demographics of aging — wrote previously about how presidents tend to outlive average Americans.

https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2020-09-25/biden-trump-super-agers-longevity-study

Edited November 1, 2020 by placeholder

[Eric Loh]

Betting odds are seldom wrong. 

[Hanaguma]

19 minutes ago, placeholder said:

As I pointed out already, it could be that nobody connected with the Biden campaign is going to suggest anything in order not to give those allegations oxygen. But if they did start engaging with those allegations, then the press would cover it.

Well if you have yet to see that Biden is physically up to the job who do these gerontologists think they are to disagree with you?

Biden is slightly healthier, study says, but both presidential candidates may be ‘super-agers’

The presidential candidates and their supporters will likely keep belittling the other guy as a doddering old fool, but a group of geriatric experts say in a new paper that both President Trump and challenger Joe Biden appear to have the physical and cognitive tools to make it through four years in the White House.

In fact, the two candidates’ relative good health and other advantages — parental longevity, access to top-notch healthcare and abstinence from smoking and drinking — suggest both men are likely to become long-living “super-agers,” who thrive well into their 80s, or beyond, according to a draft report written by three medical doctors and four researchers with expertise in public health, survival analysis and statistics.

Three of the authors of the paper — Stuart Jay Olshansky, a public health professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago; Dr. Bradley Willcox, director of research in the Department of Geriatric Medicine at the University of Hawaii’s medical school; and UCLA Professor Hiram Beltran-Sanchez, an authority on the demographics of aging — wrote previously about how presidents tend to outlive average Americans.

https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2020-09-25/biden-trump-super-agers-longevity-study

I note that the article talks a lot about physical health, not so much about cognitive ability.  I would agree that physically, he is in pretty decent shape for a man of 77. 

 

 However, it is obvious that Biden is significantly "challenged", especially if you compare 2020 Joe Biden to even 2012 Joe Biden. He was notably sharper, more humorous, and able to engage without memory loss even a few years ago.  These aren't the funny gaffes that Joe was famous for. There are constant and significant lapses in memory and ability to concentrate that are frankly frightening.