Trump Proposes Delaying Election

[farscott]

I have much respect for Trump. He’s fighting the greatest threat we face as a nation, the left. At times, I just wish he would stop thinking out loud. The election date should not be changed. Hell, we shouldn’t even have early voting.

Besides, the left is more likely to panic* about the virus, which means less of them may show up to vote.


*panic not worry. Taking personal precautions is not panic. Not showing up to vote is. Just wanted to clarify due to other posts I’ve made.


If you can’t make it to the polls, you shouldn’t vote. I’m sorry, but there has to be standards.

I disagree with abolishing early voting. When I lived in metro Atlanta, the wait in line for early voting for a Presidential election was more than two hours and the wait on election day was more then eight hours. The issue was that the full capacity was only needed once every four years, so polling precincts were sized for much lower turnout. We can debate the reasons for that issue, but the problem happened like clockwork every four years. When we left metro Atlanta in 2007, we voted in a Publix grocery store. Voters caused the parking lot to overflow. Most people missed most or all of a day of work. Early voting knocked that down to a few hours after work.

The only way I would agree with abolishing early voting is if election day is a national holiday.

[Maple Syrup Actual]

On a policy level I can't say I particularly like this administration but just reading his tweets I can't help but like the guy...so easy to picture his fiendish glee tapping out another message to spin up his detractors.

Trump has mastered the art of trolling for political effect unlike any politician I have ever seen. I would have more faith in his instinct on what will work for his base (which I don't think has much of a foothold at PF-C) than any analyst or pollster. He's like a perfect id-mirror of a certain, and large, part of America.

I find it hard to imagine him not getting re-elected at this point.

[blues]

Either Trump wants the media to start talking about mail in voting, or he's doing something else behind the curtain while the media screeches about his tweet.
I guarantee there is absolutely zero thoughts in his head about actually delaying the election.
Trump is a master of using Twitter to manipulate the blue checks into talking about what he wants talked about and/or as a distraction.
I just can't believe how many people still fall for it.

I have to disagree with you, Jody. Some things are just not done. It's got nothing to do with believing his hyperbole or not.

I realize I'm from a different space and time, but certain things were off limits. Mothers; wives; certain things at weddings and funerals etc.

The fact that this even needs being said is bad enough. Whatever, I've said my piece about it.

[P30]

It plays right into the fascist dictator role the far left has created for President Trump. “Look, now he’s postponing the election just like we said he would. He wants to be president for life.”

It's very good for your country that one person can be your head of state for no longer than 8 years. I know because Merkel is chancellor since 2005!

But don't get me wrong: I assume, President Trump is much better for the majority of the people than Biden would be.

[Glenn E. Meyer]

He thinks he is going to lose. He is like a little kid asking Mom to stay up a little longer before he has to get into bed and the Socialist Monsters will come out of the closet and do 'things' to him.

Of course, some of you think this is an example of his extremely stable genius approach of playing 4 Dimensional chess in the PR dimension.

Maybe, he thinks by then the demon slaying doctor will exorcise the tools of Satan with more hydrocholorquack doses.

Hey, Vlad - did you pay to kill our soldiers.

Of course, not Donald - not I - we didn't learn that stuff in the KGB. Also, you killed our guys in Afghanistan way back when.

Well, then, Vlad - that's quite all right. Carry on!

[JodyH]

American history is filled with asshole Presidents that talked all kinds of crazy shit.
Trump is just the first one to take advantage of modern social media.
I find Trumps utter lack of civility in the face of the relentless leftists attacks on him to be fucking glorious.
Andrew Jackson would approve.

[RJ]

I can't recall an election in which the winning strategy on either side is to simply STFU.

Honestly, somebody needs to pry his Twitter phone out of Trump's hands.

[the Schwartz]

I really don't understand how, almost 5 years into his political career, otherwise smart people don't understand what he's doing and play into it.

The Veep pick will be announced this weekend. He's getting himself and his name in the news cycle/Twitter feed/public discussion ahead of that to blunt any publicity momentum that might bring. This is how he got elected President against the determined opposition of both parties kingmakers.

I don't get how people continue to have serious discussion about DJT Twitter blurbs. I can see falling for it for a year or two. At this point if you're still going 'OMG Twitter!' you're just addicted to outrage dopamine rushes.

Yep, a usual, Trump has his laser pointer out and the media is happily chasing the little red dot all over the place. Idiots.

[Glenn E. Meyer]

Political Genius or Egotistic Idiot - only our Alien Overlords know for sure. Or maybe it is our demon overlords.

Interesting that conservatives think it is genius. If a Democratic president suggested this, you would be crapping in your pants to get your modern sporting rifle to the barricades.

Cognitive dissonance strikes again.

[Borderland]

Dems heads are exploding. I think even some GOP heads may be exploding. At least the ones who want to keep control of the senate.

I'll bet the very next thing he says regarding the election is he won't leave office because it was a fraudulent (fake) election. Actually he's already building up to that by saying vote-by-mail is a conspiracy by democrats to steal the election.

He's a master, no doubt about it. How else could anyone make a billion dollars by duping investors and bankers? People are so gullible it almost makes me cry.