Donald Trump, US President #47, US President #45, convicted felon, twice impeached, four times indicted, liable of rape, convicted for financial fraud, guilty of hiding hush money payments to porn actress in attempt to influence 2016 elections

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#2598759 6-Nov-2020 10:10

Quick question related to voting in America: I often see people described as being "a registered Democrat" or "a registered Republican". Does this just mean that they're a paid-up member of that political party or is it something else?

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#2598761 6-Nov-2020 10:16

someone's getting the sack in fox

https://edition.cnn.com/videos/business/2020/11/05/fox-news-arizona-biden-call-orig.cnn-business

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#2598762 6-Nov-2020 10:18

MurrayM:

Quick question related to voting in America: I often see people described as being "a registered Democrat" or "a registered Republican". Does this just mean that they're a paid-up member of that political party or is it something else?

I think it just means they have declared a preference. It isn't related to party membership. I could be wrong.

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#2598763 6-Nov-2020 10:18

tdgeek:

https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/world/2020/11/live-updates-joe-biden-edges-closer-to-victory-as-us-election-count-enters-third-day.html

It appears that the lawsuits for Michigan and Georgia have been dismissed by Judges

step 1 of working its way up to Supreme Court?

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#2598768 6-Nov-2020 10:23

Batman:

from my decades of observation - All politicians do that, when it's needed to be done. Otherwise you wouldn't be in politics.

There is also office politics etc - same stuff eh

Sure, but this is off the chart. Or maybe it just seems that way because they're doing it so visibly and blatantly?

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#2598769 6-Nov-2020 10:23

Batman:

tdgeek:

https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/world/2020/11/live-updates-joe-biden-edges-closer-to-victory-as-us-election-count-enters-third-day.html

It appears that the lawsuits for Michigan and Georgia have been dismissed by Judges

step 1 of working its way up to Supreme Court?

Perhaps, but the comments from the Judges say a lot, they are saying its "exasperating" etc. In other words a joke. Anti Trump GOP is not rare, same probably applies to SC Judges, probbaly more so. These judges that have commented are making a statement

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#2598771 6-Nov-2020 10:29

MurrayM:
Quick question related to voting in America: I often see people described as being "a registered Democrat" or "a registered Republican". Does this just mean that they're a paid-up member of that political party or is it something else?

You're not alone in finding American voting terms confusing.

Each state or even county defines their own voting rules.

Using the justification of "spoiling the vote", some states (not all) force you to register your party affiliation, meaning when you enroll you register as a Republican or register as a democrat.

The local voting board then sacrifices a chicken, and read its entrails, to decide how your party registration affects your ability to vote.

The registration rule doesn't often come into affect, but in some peculiar races it will.

Florida and Texas (was???) notorious for their abuse of the party registration to limit voting.

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#2598774 6-Nov-2020 10:34

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/nov/05/why-are-the-media-reporting-different-us-election-results

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#2598782 6-Nov-2020 10:49

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Batman:

from my decades of observation - All politicians do that, when it's needed to be done. Otherwise you wouldn't be in politics.

There is also office politics etc - same stuff eh

Sure, but this is off the chart. Or maybe it just seems that way because they're doing it so visibly and blatantly?

if you're meaning trump's tweets in the last few days, i don't think anyone can stop what he wants to do. if you mean his misinformation over the last 4 years, i think it's like when you play rugby and you know your scrum is breaking the rules but if you keep breaking the rules and your scrum is always superior, then why change your scrum.

they did speak out against him a lot at the start of his term, and they still do. a republican big shot said trump's victory claim is false (can't remember who). but over time more probably have given up speaking out against him, because if you do that you'd have to do it every day for the last 4 years and you better spend your energy elsewhere as a republican. over time it normalized.

if you mean covid stuff ... that's between him and the doctors. the politicians are not scientists/doctors, it's not in their area of expertise.

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#2598784 6-Nov-2020 10:55

Batman:

if you're meaning trump's tweets in the last few days, i don't think anyone can stop what he wants to do.

Twitter could.

They probably will too. Once he's "citizen Trump" with no constitutional power, there's no longer any reason to allow him to not fully abide with Twitter T&C.