US Election

[Black Orchid]

Blinken has criticised Trump for not acting like a war time President. We'll all be at war before we know it.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/29/us/p ... isers.html


Perhaps most influential among them is Antony Blinken, who worked for Mr. Biden on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in the 2000s and served as a deputy national security adviser and deputy secretary of state under Mr. Obama. Known more for his diplomatic touch than any fixed ideas, he is considered a likely candidate for national security adviser or secretary of state.

This topic should be of number 1 interest to us in Australia.
We have a belligerent:
China, Russia, North Korea & Iran.

What will happen under Biden?

Nothing good.

[Bobby]

This topic should be of number 1 interest to us in Australia.
We have a belligerent:
China, Russia, North Korea & Iran.

What will happen under Biden?

Nothing good.

Yes - I feel that China will invade Taiwan and draw us into it.

[Bobby]

Trump?
What are they going to say about him?
What? Are they going to say he was a kind man?
He was a wise man? He had plans?
He had wisdom? Bullshit, man!
Am I going to be the one to set him straight?
Look at me - wrong.
YOU.

[sprintcyclist]

[Nom De Plume]

“What Donald Trump is attempting to do has a name: coup d’état,” said Timothy Snyder, a history professor at Yale University specializing in authoritarianism, on Twitter. “Poorly organized though it might seem, it is not bound to fail. It must be made to fail.

“Coups are defeated quickly or not at all. While they take place we are meant to look away, as many of us are doing. When they are complete we are powerless.”

Simultaneous to the Trump campaign’s move against election results in six key states, Trump was installing loyalists in the defense department and in other key security-related government posts. That was activity that might have prompted a warning from the United States about an authoritarian takeover if it happened in Turkey or the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Trump fired the defense secretary, Mark Esper, by tweet on Monday and appointed as chief of staff Kashyap Patel, a key Republican operative during the Russia investigation. Trump also replaced the heads of intelligence and policy inside the Pentagon with political apparatchiks, while a fourth Republican political operative, Michael Ellis, was installed as general counsel of the national security agency. A further move by Trump to fire the FBI director was also reportedly under consideration.

“That is dangerous,” said Corey Brettschneider, a professor at Brown University specializing in constitutional law and politics, of the 11th-hour personnel changes. “We have other checks, and I don’t believe that the military would go along with a coup, but we need to have people at the top of those departments willing to say what democracy demands.”

Multiple prominent analysts thought the moves inside the Pentagon smacked more of a hasty cover-up of conduct that could make trouble for Trump in the future than of a play to ensure control of the military for potential domestic deployment.

But moves by the administration in other theaters fueled concerns of an extraordinarily damaging plot afoot.

Earlier this week Trump’s attorney general, William Barr, issued a memo authorizing federal prosecutors to investigate election fraud, of which no evidence has yet to emerge. The director of the agency charged with funding presidential transitions has refused to sign off on Biden’s win, blocking millions of dollars and essential information transfer including on national security issues. The budget office has ordered employees to prepare Trump’s 2021 budget proposal for Congress – as if he will still be in office.

Trump’s attacks on the election result have been equally determined. Baseless fraud conspiracies spread by his Twitter account and by his sons are the subject of top-viewed posts Facebook, and polling indicates that the campaign to destroy faith in the election is working, with a majority of Republicans believing there was significant election fraud – on zero evidence.

Republicans are spending aggressively in an effort to find such evidence. A postmaster in Pennsylvania has claimed he was offered $130,000 by Republicans to stand up accusations of mail fraud, and the Republican lieutenant governor of Texas has offered $1m from his campaign coffers to anyone providing evidence of voter fraud.

Most analysts saw the Trump campaign strategies to flip the election result outright as fatally weak. Trump lawyers admitted in court in Pennsylvania on Tuesday that there was no fraud they know about at present.

https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/world/it ... d=msedgdhp

[Texan]

The Democrats have been conducting a coup since election night 2016. That's what the Russia hoax, impeachment, and everything else on the media/Democrat agenda has been about. We have voting laws for a reason. Are you suggesting that we should ignore them for the Democrats because Fox News called the election for Biden? I don't remember the media being involved in the election process in my Constitution. Maybe you can point it out for me.

[Black Orchid]

[BigP]

The Democrats have been conducting a coup since election night 2016. That's what the Russia hoax, impeachment, and everything else on the media/Democrat agenda has been about. We have voting laws for a reason. Are you suggesting that we should ignore them for the Democrats because Fox News called the election for Biden? I don't remember the media being involved in the election process in my Constitution. Maybe you can point it out for me.

What I feel has happened is a lot of young progressives/socialists have been doing in the postal ballot is collecting their extended families postal ballots and filling them out on their behalf,

[Nom De Plume]

The Democrats have been conducting a coup since election night 2016. That's what the Russia hoax, impeachment, and everything else on the media/Democrat agenda has been about. We have voting laws for a reason. Are you suggesting that we should ignore them for the Democrats because Fox News called the election for Biden? I don't remember the media being involved in the election process in my Constitution. Maybe you can point it out for me.

What I feel has happened is a lot of young progressives/socialists have been doing in the postal ballot is collecting their extended families postal ballots and filling them out on their behalf,

Then there will be evidence of that P

[billy the kid]

The Democrats have been conducting a coup since election night 2016. That's what the Russia hoax, impeachment, and everything else on the media/Democrat agenda has been about. We have voting laws for a reason. Are you suggesting that we should ignore them for the Democrats because Fox News called the election for Biden? I don't remember the media being involved in the election process in my Constitution. Maybe you can point it out for me.

Tex...
Correct me if Im wrong....
If Trump does not concede, does the vote then go to the House of Representatives...
(12th Amendment....)
The House has a Republican majority....
My understanding is that all Trump has to do is refuse to concede...
AND the majority in the House ensures he remains President.....