2020 Presidential Race

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Franklin Pierce said:
MSNBC producer quits with scathing letter calling the news network a 'cancer' that 'stokes division', 'blocks diversity of thought' and 'amplifies fringe voices' for the sake of ratings

An MSNBC producer has shared a scathing open letter after quitting the network, claiming it is a 'cancer' because it 'blocks diversity of thought' and 'amplifies fringe voices'.

Ariana Pekary posted the letter online yesterday after quitting the network where she spent seven years working as a producer on shows including Up Late with Alec Baldwin and The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell.

She said she could no longer stand to work at the network which 'stokes national division, even in the middle of a civil rights crisis' and 'blocks diversity of thought and content because the networks have incentive to amplify fringe voices and events'.

Pekary both complained that the network devoted too much time to President Trump in its election coverage - drowning out other potential candidates even though the coverage was mostly negative - and that it focused too much on the politics of the pandemic and the federal response to it rather than science.

'Any discussion about the election usually focuses on Donald Trump, not Joe Biden, a repeat offense from 2016 (Trump smothers out all other coverage).

Of the pandemic, she said: 'The primary focus quickly became what Donald Trump was doing (poorly) to address the crisis, rather than the science itself.

MSNBC reporter quits, says network a money-making 'cancer' | Daily Mail Online
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Just wait until you hear about all the raping going on at Fox News.
 
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BowlBrother85 said:
CDC COVID Data Tracker (www.cdc.gov): Updated August 3, 2020 5:45 PM

TOTAL CASES BY STATE/TERRITORY

Florida ................ 481,668
Texas ................... 430,485
New York .......... 417,730
New Jersey ...... 182,350
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Do deaths per 100,000. Not a good look for certain politicians from a certain party who put sick people in nursing homes. But of course many here claim they handled it better.
 
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Tucker Carlson: In Biden's hunt for a VP Susan Rice takes the lead – and she's a threat

To our political class, Susan Rice is the opposite of an outsider. She's the home team

Any day now, Joe Biden will announce his pick for the actual Democratic nominee. That's the person who will run the government if Biden wins in November.

We've been telling you about this process for weeks now. We've taken a closer look at three potential candidates, all of them are said to be on Joe Biden's shortlist for the job. They are Stacey Abrams, Karen Bass and Kamala Harris.

Now in a normal year, no mainstream candidate would consider any of these people -- all of them would be disqualified without debate.

Karen Bass is a lunatic Fidel Castro acolyte, who praise Scientology and once belonged to an armed revolutionary group. She's out.

Stacey Abrams is so delusional she thinks she's the Governor of Georgia, and by the way, she's essentially unemployed. In one of her last regular jobs, she wrote bad porn novels -- for real.

Kamala Harris, meanwhile, is so transparently transactional that even Democratic primary voters who have a strong stomach found her repulsive. Pretty much no one who knows Kamala Harris likes her.

So overall, it's not a Blue Ribbon group.

But according to Joe Biden, this isn't a normal year and the normal standards don't apply. For what could very well be the most important job on Earth, Biden has decided to hire exclusively on the basis of qualities that are both immutable and completely irrelevant -- race, and gender. And that's it.

But wait a second, you ask, isn't that insulting? Isn't it wrong? Isn't it probably illegal? Yes, it is all three of those things. But no one is pushing back against it, so Biden is doing it.

The problem is that all three of the people we just told you about might wind up in the end hurting the Biden campaign. They're just too unimpressive to run.

Biden's handlers seem to have figured this out. Above all, the Democratic Party wants to win this year. They're not in it for sentimental reasons or for love of Joe Biden. They're in it for the power and they want it -- badly.

So on Monday, the odds seemed to shift dramatically in another direction, away from Karen Bass and Kamala Harris and Stacey Abrams, and towards someone you have seen before. That would be former National Security Adviser, Susan Rice.

As of right now, Susan Rice appears to be in the lead for the VP slot. That's an interesting development.

Tucker Carlson: In Biden's hunt for a VP Susan Rice takes the lead – and she's a threat
 
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Condoleezza Rice takes jab at liberals for assuming how Black people should think: 'Problem with the left'

The former secretary of state also says cancel culture has gone too far

Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Tuesday the "problem with the left" is liberals assume how Black people should think.

The prominent African American Republican told the Aspen Security Forum that she doesn't think the United States will ever be a truly colorblind society, but she hopes that one day people will stop making assumptions based on race.

"I don't really care if we're colorblind, but I would like to get to the place that when you see somebody who is Black, you don't have preconceived notions of what they're capable of, who they are -- by the way, what they think, which is I think a problem of the left," Rice said in a video interview with The New York Times' Peter Baker at the forum. "You look at somebody who's Black and you think you know what they think, or you at least think you know what they ought to think."

Rice's comments came after Joe Biden argued African Americans who can't decide whether to vote for him or President Trump “ain’t black.” Biden's remarks to Charlamagne Tha God drew swift backlash from African Americans who said Biden, a 77-year-old White Democrat, was condescending and arrogant for trying to dictate how African Americans should vote.

Condoleezza Rice takes jab at liberals for assuming how Black people should think: 'Problem with the left'
 
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Rifleman said:
Any shut down would have been measured in weeks if there had been any leadership and pandemic response plan from the top and the economic damage would have been minimal. Trump has insane leverage right now over the states who need federal funds.

It's 8 months in now and Trump's only plan? Telling his people to "cut way back on the testing".

The wealthy people financing Trump via their tax breaks are crushing it in the stock market right now, though, so as Trump says about a few 100k dead, "it is what it is."
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hog88 said:
What should he have done, better yet. What could any POTUS have legally done?

Maybe you'll have the balls to answer, none of your compadres have.
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Gelding?
 
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BowlBrother85 said:
If by "really stupid sh*t" you mean completely factual and easily verified? Then yes ... it is.
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Yep. How many in the US were infected with H1N1 vs COVID? Verify that for me. Maybe we end up with more spread of COVID than H1N1 when all is said and done but right now it isn’t remotely close. Of course I’m sure you’ll still give Obama credit for doing absolutely nothing and being lucky that H1N1 happened to not be as deadly as COVID. That’s par for the course with you Dems.
 
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Yep. How many in the US were infected with H1N1 vs COVID? Verify that for me. Maybe we end up with more spread of COVID than H1N1 when all is said and done but right now it isn’t remotely close. Of course I’m sure you’ll still give Obama credit for doing absolutely nothing and being lucky that H1N1 happened to not be as deadly as COVID. That’s par for the course with you Dems.
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I don’t remember any containment effort on the part of the Obama administration.
 
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BowlBrother85 said:
Yeah, I saw that. Rasmussen Reports is back to doing their old thing. Of course, this number is 6 points higher than the next highest approval rating that Donald Trump currently has on Real Clear Politics (RCP.com), which is Emerson, who has Trump's approval rating at 45%. Trump's Real Clear Politics Average Approval Rating is currently only 43.7%, and that is even factoring in the Rasmussen outlier.

Once again, it's funny to see Donald Trump and his supporters tweeting Rasmussen's polling data and puffing their chests out over the one favorable poll they can find, while pretending that they either don't care what polls say the rest of the time... or calling polls "biased" or "fake news".... 2016, remember? LOL.

Yeah... keep on pretending you don't care what the polls say.
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What’s funny is how much stock you put in them. What are you going to do when Trump is re-elected? You obviously think it isn’t going to happen but it easily could. Biden doesn’t have this massive lead like the MSM is touting.
 
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MG1968 said:
I don’t remember any containment effort on the part of the Obama administration.
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Because there wasn’t any. If it had been COVID then who knows how bad it would be. Then again I have to believe they would have acted with something more deadly. Surely.
 
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BowlBrother85 said:
There will be debates. No one representing the Biden campaign has speculated otherwise and there is no reason for Biden to be apprehensive about a debate with Trump. Trump is just as inarticulate and prone to gaffes, such as mispronunciations and getting basic facts wrong. Trump is a one trick pony. He can call his opponent a pejorative name and lodge unsubstantiated attacks from the conspiracy theory mill... but he can't discuss the substance of issues with specific detail.
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Biden can’t recite the pledge of allegiance with any detail. The debates will be can’t miss TV for sure.
 
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titansvolsfaninga said:
donald trump is actually running on a platform that only he can stop the terrible things that have been happening during his presidency. That is a bold strategy. That is definitely thinking outside of the box, "I am so inept at being president, but vote for me, and I can fix the stuff that I messed up.....what do you have to lose?"
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Interesting. So you blame Trump for Portland, NYC, Chicago, Minneapolis, etc.?
 
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MG1968 said:
I don’t remember any containment effort on the part of the Obama administration.
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My white butt was never made to quarantine for two weeks. Even though I did spend 1 week in bed unable to do much of anything.

Never made me wear a mask. It was recommended but only if I was going to classes and spending an hour right next to someone. Of course I was too sick for that.
 
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