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56 minutes ago, Gertrude said:

Here in Iowa the race isn't Biden v Trump, it's Greenfield v Ernst. So. Many. Ads!

And the ads from Ernst aren't what she stands for (very low percentage of those), it's Greenfield will be a puppet of the Liberal Left! They will eat your babies and take away your cows, etc. Nov 3rd can't get here soon enough.

Oh man, I mentioned in a previous thread seeing some of those Ernst ads when I was over staying on the border a couple weeks ago...those were some of the worst politcal ads ever made.  Even for ones meant to scare people...

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51 minutes ago, Fragile Bird said:

In other news no one probably cares about, the opinion Canadians have of Americans has hit a new low. The survey’s been done for 40 years. 73 % had a positive view of the US in 2010, 47% in 2017, 40% in 2019 and now it’s dropped to 29%.

And back in 2013, only 1% of Canadians considered the US an enemy - that’s popped up to 11%. One in ten Canadians consider you the enemy, guys! 

Probably more than one in ten Americans think Americans are the enemy, to be fair

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3 minutes ago, Fury Resurrected said:

Probably more than one in ten Americans think Americans are the enemy, to be fair

The vast majority of Americans think other Americans are the enemy.

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1 hour ago, Fragile Bird said:

In other news no one probably cares about, the opinion Canadians have of Americans has hit a new low. The survey’s been done for 40 years. 73 % had a positive view of the US in 2010, 47% in 2017, 40% in 2019 and now it’s dropped to 29%.

And back in 2013, only 1% of Canadians considered the US an enemy - that’s popped up to 11%. One in ten Canadians consider you the enemy, guys! 

Hard to argue.

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1 hour ago, Maithanet said:

1% of the entire population of North Dakota has tested positive for COVID in the past two weeks.  Now, that was probably because of the Sturgis rally more than anything, but that is an astonishing number of cases. 

If it was South Dakota where 1% of people had tested positive it could be reasonable to blame it on Sturgis, but I don't see how that's a logical conclusion for North Dakota. Are there that many motorcyclists in North Dakota who would have brought it back with them? And the way the highways run out there, very few people who live in other places would have gone through North Dakota on the way to or from Sturgis. 

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Cases exploded in both states right after sturgis.  I would assume there's a fair amount of traffic between the two states, even if that is echoes of sturgis rather than the immediate infections from the rally itself.

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Most Presidents Who Lose Deal With Shame. Trump Could Have To Deal With Prison.
Winning a second term could put him beyond the reach of many of the possible charges, thanks to statutes of limitations that would run out.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-loss-prison-statutes-of-limitations_n_5f8f5353c5b62333b23ff0a0

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Daniel Goldman, a former federal prosecutor who a year ago served as the lead lawyer in the House’s impeachment of Trump, said an ex-President Trump in 2021 could also face charges of bribery for his commutation of aide Roger Stone’s prison sentence as well as extortion charges for his attempts to coerce Ukraine into smearing his political rival, former Vice President Joe Biden. Trump was impeached for that but was permitted by Republicans in the Senate to remain in office.

“There’s so much criminality here,” said Nick Ackerman, a former federal prosecutor and, prior to that, a prosecutor in the task force created to investigate President Richard Nixon for the 1972 Watergate break-in and subsequent cover-up.

Any federal tax or bank fraud Trump may have committed in the first three years of his first term would likely be beyond the reach of prosecutors if they have to wait until the end of a second term in January 2025. A similar fate could befall Trump’s work to throttle special counsel Robert Mueller’s 2017-2019 investigation into Russia’s work to help Trump win the last presidential campaign.

“Again, it would lapse in a second term,” Ackerman said.

 

 

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36 minutes ago, Maithanet said:

Cases exploded in both states right after sturgis.  I would assume there's a fair amount of traffic between the two states, even if that is echoes of sturgis rather than the immediate infections from the rally itself.

I was just about to joke with @Myshkin, in the COVID thread, but now there's a new wrinkle. Everyone in America gets a free taco from Taco Bell because Betts stole a base in the World Series. The giveaway date is 10/28. 

Taco Bell is going to give the whole country the virus just days before the election. God damn your cheap Red Sox team, @DanteGabriel and @Week!

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