2020 U.S. Presidential Election - Took place November 3, 2020. Former U.S. Vice President Joe Biden assumed office January 20, 2021.

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Hollywood Hulk Hogan said:
Correct but Trump just made things worse.


My friends that dealt with it didn't break the laws. They're all law abiding citizens. One works for an investment company. One is a professor. One owns a few car dealerships. Another is a teacher. They didn't break the law and yet still got hassled and threatened by cops.
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You forgot the doctor and lawyer and everyone clapping
 
verissimus said:
No, they won't do it because they don't have to do it. Do you honestly believe the Left is going to care if the Supreme Court strikes down some provision of a law passed by Congress? No they're not. If PA, can openly defy the Court, so can Congress.
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Technically, PA didn't explicitly defy the court: they disregarded a fairly explicit "unofficial recommendation." I know that that is essentially the same thing as an order, but I still have hopes that the Democratic Party is not so suicidal that they would actually tear down the entire Constitutional structure while they're still sitting on it. My optimism has been crushed fairly frequently this year, so I guess anything's possible.
 
Hollywood Hulk Hogan said:
It's not about George Floyd, it's about all the black people who have had shit like that happen with the cops. All because they're black. It's fucked up.
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If you care so much about "muh black people" why are you cosplaying as a "racist" according to leftist. shouldn't you cosplay as the rock or something? I agree there should be some police reform but cops aren't just going open season on people because they're black come on now.
 
Puerto Pollo said:
The lesson one can learn from internet activism turning into a political party is that enthusiasm does not, and cannot replace experience.
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I still think it had the potential to turn into something meaningful if it had a more cohesive message and wasn't run by a bunch of spineless faggots, or if Beppe still ran it. He seemed like he actually had a concrete set of goals that wasn't based solely on anti-establishment angst.
 
soy_king said:
Technically, PA didn't explicitly defy the court: they disregarded a fairly explicit "unofficial recommendation." I know that that is essentially the same thing as an order, but I still have hopes that the Democratic Party is not so suicidal that they would actually tear down the entire Constitutional structure while they're still sitting on it. My optimism has been crushed fairly frequently this year, so I guess anything's possible.
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2020 has being such a wild fucking ride that at this point i wouldnt be surprised if i saw nukes fly right before new years.
 
Meat Target said:
Have they tried not breaking the law yet? It's not hard to abstain from distributing fentanyl, assaulting your baby mama, pulling a gun or a knife on a cop, or pinning a dude and trying to bash his head into the sidewalk.
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Statistically, blacks receive some of the lowest rates of brutality or death at the hands of police by demographic in the nation. Black on black crime however is a huge deal. But since the media paraded high profile "white" on black cases. Such as Floyd, Brown, and Zimmerman. Most of the low info public think there are Police units tasked with lynching black people on the street.

Don't blame them, they only watch CNN.
 
The Wicked Mitch said:
Entirely too much time spent working and additionally staring at candles on the stock market, given current year it may not have been the best way to spend a decade.

The simulation is tempting me today, I see. The return of 32x odds? I see what's up
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I was wondering if you roped off losing 80k and instead you're ready to double down :story:
 
Apparently Giuliani has been making statements about how "these lawsuits are not over yet!" tonight.

I'm sure that Trump is going to try to do everything he can not to concede ... But I just don't see how his legal team holds any sort of relevance in Trump's remaining options at this point.
 
MsStevieMarie said:
You can definitely see that the right is starting to lose their cool. I'd ask does the legal system in the US want things to get ugly but I think the answer is obvious at this point. This has all been an effort to destabilise the US.
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I'm not expecting any violence unless the Dems move quickly on some rather unsavory bills, but I honestly see a longer-term breakdown in trust in the government and a withdrawal from participation if the Dems refuse any conciliation and attempt to enact their more partisan agendas. For instance, I could see standoffs between counties and states if a gun law is passed, or a refusal to enforce said law.

I mentioned this earlier on, but I think there'll be more sovereign citizens, and attempts to withdraw into the more rural areas and also into compounds and monasteries (don't underestimate their appeal to the unmarried demographics). If the situation looks negative, I think emigration may also pick up as well.

You might even see an attempt at some Galt's Gulch micro-nation, maybe on a private island somewhere- while this is an idea that's popped up in the past before (but which fizzles away because things never got that bad), I think that this maybe the situation that gives it a push towards reality.

In other countries with governmental trust issues, people also start to cheat on taxes (i.e. Greece, Latam), but I'm not sure if they can get that by the IRS.
 
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soy_king said:
Technically, PA didn't explicitly defy the court: they disregarded a fairly explicit "unofficial recommendation." I know that that is essentially the same thing as an order, but I still have hopes that the Democratic Party is not so suicidal that they would actually tear down the entire Constitutional structure while they're still sitting on it. My optimism has been crushed fairly frequently this year, so I guess anything's possible.
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The US Constitution is only as good as the people. If people believe that you can defy the Constitution in the name of safety, then it is pretty much useless. If you look at all the governors and mayors that have become full authoritarians, so much at to disregard voting procedures and amendments in the Constitution, we have more problems on our hands than merely elections. If enough people don’t actually believe in the tenets of the Constitution, it is meaningless, as not enough people would be willing to enforce it.
 
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