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18 votes
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Former US President Donald Trump demands Republican rivals pledge to pardon him … or else
44 votes -
Mike Pence reads the Donald Trump indictment - He ‘can’t defend’ the conduct but thinks the case is also political
21 votes -
‘I want blood’: Heavily-armed Donald Trump supporters say they’ll protest Trump’s indictment
90 votes -
The Donald Trump stooge Attorney General of Texas is on the verge of being expelled and his cuckqueaned wife could cast a deciding vote
11 votes -
Former President Trump suggested to his aides that the United States could trade Puerto Rico to Denmark for Greenland while he was president, according to a new book
9 votes -
America’s self-obsession is killing its democracy
11 votes -
Former federal judge warns of danger to American democracy
11 votes -
By 2025, American democracy could collapse, causing extreme domestic political instability, including widespread civil violence. By 2030, the country could be governed by a right-wing dictatorship.
26 votes -
QAnon now as popular in US as some major religions, poll suggests
14 votes -
“Hacker X”—the American who built a pro-Trump fake news empire—unmasks himself
21 votes -
For the United States, our constitutional crisis is already here
19 votes -
The race to dismantle forrmer US President Donald Trump’s immigration policies
8 votes -
Visual investigations: How a Presidential rally turned into a Capitol rampage // Insurrection at the Capitol: A timeline of how it happened
12 votes -
In Jair Bolsonaro’s Brazil, Donald Trump’s Capitol riot felt like a warning from the future
6 votes -
US trade group asks VP Mike Pence to ‘seriously consider' invoking 25th Amendment to remove Donald Trump
37 votes -
Trump took a wrecking ball to media credibility—can Biden repair it?
7 votes -
The political depravity of unjust pardons
6 votes -
Inside Donald Trump and Bill Barr's last-minute killing spree: The outgoing administration is using its final days to execute the most federal prisoners since World War II
12 votes -
Donald Trump heads for Georgia but claims of fraud may damage Senate Republicans
10 votes -
Who was Ross Perot, and what if he won in 1992?
11 votes -
How do we avoid future authoritarians? Winning back the working class is key.
16 votes -
Why Republican voters say there’s ‘no way in hell’ US President Donald Trump lost
23 votes -
US President Donald Trump tries to drum out GOP election officials who won’t play his games
9 votes -
Not every Trump voter is racist or misled. There’s a rational Trump voter too
23 votes -
Is this a coup?
29 votes -
Being with Trump the day he lost
15 votes -
Trump is attempting a coup in plain sight
18 votes -
2020 US Presidential Election Results - Discussion Thread
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These threads are intended as more conversational spaces to process the day and results. Consider this an open forum for your own thoughts and feelings.
There is also a thread here in ~news that's more focused on articles and events.
30 votes -
2020 US Presidential Election Day - Discussion Thread
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50 votes -
Dear Dad, please don’t vote for Donald Trump this time
24 votes -
How US President Donald Trump ruined political comedy
10 votes -
Trump/Biden 2020 Presidential Debate #2 Discussion Thread
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Info from The Washington Post:
Location: Belmont University in Nashville
Moderator: Kristen Welker, NBC News White House correspondent and co-anchor of “Weekend Today”
Details: The debate will be 90 minutes long and have no commercial breaks. It will be divided into six 15-minute segments that the moderator has chosen. They are: fighting covid-19, American families, race in America, climate change, national security and leadership.
Trump’s campaign has criticized the topics, saying they thought this was supposed to be a foreign policy debate. The head of the Commission on Presidential Debates said that’s not true.
Trump has criticized the moderator, Welker, as being biased, as he has other moderators. The commission and even a Fox News host have defended Welker’s integrity.
The commission also announced days before the debate that in light of Trump’s frequent interruptions during the first one, it will silence the microphone of the candidate who is not speaking during the two-minute opening segment for each candidate. After each candidate has two minutes, there will be an open discussion where both microphones will be on, but the commission urged civility in a statement: “It is the hope of the Commission that the candidates will be respectful of each other’s time.” The Trump campaign said it still will participate, despite the president criticizing a potential virtual debate as a forum where it would be too easy to silence his microphone.
21 votes -
Trump & Biden 2020 US Presidential Town Halls Discussion Thread
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Watch Trump's Town Hall on YouTube
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Watch Biden's Town Hall on YouTube
Begins approximately ~2 hours from the time of this posting. Runs for an hour and a half
More information from CNN.
In case you're wondering why there are two separate town halls happening instead of Debate #2 tonight, @3d12 has the recap here.
25 votes -
The story of how Rinaldo Nazzaro built The Base, a neo-Nazi terror organization—and how it all came apart
4 votes -
Trump/Biden 2020 Presidential Debate #1 Discussion Thread
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Info from The Washington Post:
Location: Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland. (This was originally scheduled to be held at the University of Notre Dame. Notre Dame withdrew, saying the fact that it would have to limit student attendance and volunteer opportunities because of the pandemic erased the reason to host a debate at the university.)
Moderator: Chris Wallace, anchor of “Fox News Sunday”
Details: The debate will be 90 minutes long and have no commercial breaks. There will be no opening statements. Wallace will dive right in with the first question to Trump. It will be divided into six 15-minute segments that Wallace has chosen. They are:
- the Trump and Biden records
- the Supreme Court
- the coronavirus pandemic
- the economy
- race and violence in cities
- the integrity of the election
56 votes -
Trump eliminates federal anti-racism training, calling it “a sickness”
30 votes -
The path to autocracy; A second Trump term will leave America’s political system and culture looking even more like Orbán’s Hungary
31 votes -
Stop panicking about the post office; but do fund them ASAP
13 votes -
Ultimate immunity
3 votes -
Donald Trump is putting on a show in Portland; the president is deploying the kind of performative authoritarianism that Vladimir Putin pioneered
13 votes -
Why it could actually be Trump that has an enthusiasm problem, not Biden
14 votes -
The Trump 2020 campaign has made a T-shirt that has drawn some condemnation for looking surprisingly similar to the NSDAP logo
6 votes -
The Republican choice: How the GOP chose to spend five decades making itself the white voter's party
21 votes -
Trump’s latest firing seems to have violated four democratic values
17 votes -
Finns aghast that Donald Trump could think their country is part of Russia – allegations in former US adviser John Bolton's White House memoir mocked on Finnish social media
10 votes -
How Donald Trump corrupts everyone around him; For most of Trump’s aides, the only good move is not to play
6 votes -
The guardrails are off the US Military: It’s no longer guaranteed that the Pentagon will resist unlawful orders from the President. And the rot is deeper than you think
20 votes -
Why Republican senators do not challenge Trump
8 votes -
Donald Trump says he's the 'law and order' President, but his response to George Floyd protests could cost him
3 votes