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This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1483108
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Biden is going to win! I know that people shouldn’t become complacent or overly confident, but I really think that President Biden will pull off a tight victory in this year’s election. The reason is simple and based on the disastrous 2016 election. HRC was supposed to win: all the pundits and the polls agreed that she would, but it never felt like she was winning.
Beyond the fact that the MSM was captivated by Mr. Trump and clearly loathed HRC, there was a consistent thinness to her support and lack of any real momentum. Her rallies were largely joyless affairs that people seemed to be attending out of a sense of obligation, and there was virtually no anecdotal evidence that she was gaining support. I kept looking for signs that HRC was catching fire but never found them, and couldn’t shake a lingering dread throughout the campaign. When Mr. Trump pulled off his unexpected victory, I was shocked but not really surprised.
The above is why the polls showing Mr. Trump ahead nationally and in the key swing states don’t worry me. He is the one who looks ‘thin’ now, and I haven’t seen any evidence that he is growing his base of support. In fact, after his surprisingly effective (to the MSM, not me…) State of the Union speech, right now President Biden seems to have the momentum. Of course, anything can happen between now and the election, but I really don’t feel that Mr. Trump will win.
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And there is this
Trump’s vaccine rhetoric sends chills through public health circles | The Hill
Public health advocates are watching in growing alarm as former President Trump increasingly embraces the anti-vaccine movement.
“I will not give one penny to any school that has a vaccine mandate or a mask mandate,” Trump said in a recent campaign rally in Richmond, Va.
It’s a line Trump has repeated, and his campaign said he is only referring to school COVID-19 vaccine mandates — but that hasn’t eased fears that the GOP leader could accelerate already worrying trends of declining child vaccination.
Trump “is an important voice. He has a big platform. And he uses that platform, in this case, to do harm. Because he’s implying by saying that we shouldn’t mandate vaccines, vaccines are in some ways ineffective or unsafe,” said Paul Offit, a pediatrician and vaccine expert at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia.
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A 10-day extension is nothing. Did the prosecutors even oppose it?
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Clown show coming up
Robert Hur will testify as private citizen with help from Trumpworld figures | The Independent
EXCLUSIVE: Ex-Special Counsel arranged to leave Justice Department the day before his appearance with the House Judiciary Committee
Instead of appearing as a DOJ employee who is bound by the ethical guidelines which govern the behaviour of federal prosecutors, he will appear as a private citizen with no constraints on his testimony.
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“On the same day Trump won a deadline extension in the Mar-a-Lago case on the basis that he needed to prep for the New York hush money trial, he sought to delay that trial, too. It’s a contradiction that Special Counsel Jack Smith pointed out to Judge Cannon, to no avail.”
Eventually the law is going to catch up with Trump and he’s going to start suffering some onerous penalties, maybe even jail time.
OMG, I crack myself up!
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Will the name tag on his jumpsuit say Ron Vara?
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“Cannon to release prematurely the names of the witnesses in the case, as she keeps threatening to do.”
This is, in fact, Cannon engaging in and assisting the effort to intimidate the witnesses…her threats to out them and open the floodgates of harassment, death threats and violence are witness intimidation in and of themselves and designed to give them a warning that if they do not act fast, they face grave consequences. She holds the Sword of Damocles over their heads and the goal is to instigate retractions and recantations of what they’ve already told Smith’s team. She’d much rather some low level douchebags end up falsely hanging themselves for perjury in service to her douchebag God-King’s exoneration than her douchebag God-King face conviction for messing around with classified documents.
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By itself, agreed. But he’ll string 22 of these together and not end up going to trial until 2026. If ever.
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From Hur’s prepared remarks:
Although we did not find clear evidence that Secretary Clinton President Biden or her his colleagues intended to violate laws governing the handling of classified information, there is evidence that they were extremely careless in their handling of very sensitive, highly classified information.
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trump has rarely asked for briefing extensions.
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Not soon enough.
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And he’s WAAAAAY fatter than that.
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Were they even given the opportunity? Was it filed as an emergency motion, dutifully granted before they could even file a response?
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Add an extra 60lbs and I think you’ve nailed it!
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Meanwhile, across the pond:
While the Independent publishes a long read on the mistress, and still no definite proof of life for Kate.
Lady Rose Hanbury: Who is the Marchioness of Cholmondeley? | The Independent
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Ivanka doesn’t age well…
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