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  • Re: The Donald Trump thread

    Originally posted by Taunton Blue Genie View Post
    Why should people have a reason for preferring a postal vote? We used to post letters and now we email. We used to send cheques but now we have electronic methods of transferring money. Life moves on and voting by post is no less respectable than voting in person.
    It would help if you found out what the problem is and then commented on that. Postal votes that are personally requested with proof of identity are still being allowed.

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    • Re: The Donald Trump thread

      Originally posted by Wales-Bales View Post
      It would help if you found out what the problem is and then commented on that. Postal votes that are personally requested with proof of identity are still being allowed.
      Your comment is totally irrelevant to the statement I responded to. Best go back in your basket.

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      • Re: The Donald Trump thread

        Originally posted by Taunton Blue Genie View Post
        Your comment is totally irrelevant to the statement I responded to. Best go back in your basket.
        Interesting article on Trump's phony electoral fraud commission. Suppression of mail in ballots is a solution looking for a problem and the problem for Trump is not that they are more prone to electoral fraud.

        As Trump makes new claims about voter fraud, it’s worth looking back on the colossal train wreck of his administration’s first efforts

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        • Re: The Donald Trump thread

          Originally posted by Taunton Blue Genie View Post
          Your comment is totally irrelevant to the statement I responded to. Best go back in your basket.
          You said voting by post is no less respectable than voting in person, so I just pointed out that there are two types of postal voting, verified and unverified, so all things are not equally respectable!

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          • Re: The Donald Trump thread

            Originally posted by Wales-Bales View Post
            You said voting by post is no less respectable than voting in person, so I just pointed out that there are two types of postal voting, verified and unverified, so all things are not equally respectable!
            You seem to be an expert on the difference between a verified and unverified postal ballot. I, and I am sure TBG after your belittling, would welcome an explanation of the difference.

            I have seen commentary that there are two types of absentee mail in procedures, one where the state or jurisdiction allows it by exception after an individual request and the other where the state or jurisdiction sends out the option to all voters (the so-called no-excuse absentee ballot). In both instances though the verification procedure is the same.

            I am sure you can clear this up but if you need help here are a couple of links.

            In the US, the classic image of election day is of people standing in line to cast a ballot inside a voting booth. But this image is changing, particularly with the increase in the use of absentee and mail-in ballots. With this change, there is a lot of confusion—and misinformation—around these methods, which vary widely […]


            Darrell West explains the different vote-by-mail systems and addresses fears over the political consequences of mail voting and potential for fraud.

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            • Re: The Donald Trump thread

              Originally posted by Wales-Bales View Post
              Nobody on the planet would be expected to have proof that somebody else was running the investigating, and if somebody has the evidence it would be an extraordinary feat of sleuthing, but it has been mentioned by a few people as a possibility. It's not actually a new idea because Mueller wasn't running his investigation either! You are a very negative and predictable person Cyril and you need to pull yourself together. The only thing you have contributed to this thread is propaganda and misdirection, and it's not good.
              Oh, I don't know, I think

              1) It's a Chinese Plot against its own people;
              2 Its a hoax inflamed by the media;
              3) It's a bit like Y2K;
              4) It's a bit like the common cold or seasonal flu;
              5) Let's call it Wuhan Flu;
              6) Textbook response by health authorities and the British and US Governments;
              7) Only 0.1% (350k Americans) will die so that is no reason to shut down the economy so dramatically;
              8) Hydroxychloroquine is a miracle cure that if you were offered the choice of it or a ventilator which one would you go for;
              9) It was all the World Health Organisation's fault we should never have listened to their tweets;
              10) Most of those poor souls were dying anyway so it's nowhere near as bad as it seems;
              11) Any vaccine is one of Bill Gates trojan horse vaccines advocated by a deep state health official, who was once photographed with George Soros, which will probably kill us anyway;
              12) Well it's just an extended month's holiday for workers whilst the economy burns;
              13) Hydroxochloroquine is the miracle cure because Trump met a Democrat who recovered using it;
              14) The WHO were running the show along with the CDC;
              15) Those who do not believe Trump's narrative generally or on the WHO specifically are siding with China;
              16) It would be very unfortunate if the WHO or China were shown to have been complicit in the spread of the virus that killed tens of thousands of people around the world, including many of the deaths that TOBW was apparently trying to pin directly on Trump;
              16) I believed that the WHO were doing a textbook job initially but now I am not so sure. This shows how I flexibly adjust my views which is a talent not all possess;
              17) I know what a Plandemic is and the current US investigation into the WHO is already examining the possibility that the virus was leaked from the Wuhan biolab, and that it may have been present in Wuhan earlier than thought;
              18) I am sitting on some information that if true will shock a lot of people much worse than anything mentioned on here so far, but I'm not posting it until I can verify it with other sources.
              19) I am getting tired of seeing people trying to use this event as a political football, in an attempt to gain moral superiority.
              20) All diseases that lead to death are terrible, but I'm just not seeing a once in a hundred years catastrophic event here.
              21) If the global economy crashes people will die in the hundreds of millions. Until you can square that circle we are heading towards an unprecedented catastrophe of epic proportions
              22) I didn't support them going on forever like some people are calling for, and some countries that did nothing haven't had a once in a hundred years catastrophic situation.
              23) Bill Gates reckons it's Pandemic 1, in a series of 1001 pandemics!
              24) An intuitive person's position would naturally evolve over time, unless their thoughts were being manipulated by a subset of the media
              25) I dunno, but the goings on in Wuhan seem a bit fishy to me, and the way things are heading I wouldn't be surprised to see China being asked to foot the bill, which would run into many trillions of dollars.
              26) Supervisor Jim Desmond says San Diego has only had ‘six pure’ coronavirus deaths
              27) It's a huge scandal what happened in many care homes around the world and somehow they all managed to follow the same course of action, which begs the question where did the directive come from, or was it coincidental that the same thing occurred in many different countries?
              28) China were so successful in controlling the Coronavirus narrative via the WHO and world media, that there were people on here repeating the Chinese Communist Party line.
              1) It's a Chinese Plot against its own people;
              2 Its a hoax inflamed by the media;
              3) It's a bit like Y2K;
              4) It's a bit like the common cold or seasonal flu;
              5) Let's call it Wuhan Flu;
              6) Textbook response by health authorities and the British and US Governments;
              7) Only 0.1% (350k Americans) will die so that is no reason to shut down the economy so dramatically;
              8) Hydroxychloroquine is a miracle cure that if you were offered the choice of it or a ventilator which one would you go for;
              9) It was all the World Health Organisation's fault we should never have listened to their tweets;
              10) Most of those poor souls were dying anyway so it's nowhere near as bad as it seems;
              11) Any vaccine is one of Bill Gates trojan horse vaccines advocated by a deep state health official, who was once photographed with George Soros, which will probably kill us anyway;
              12) Well it's just an extended month's holiday for workers whilst the economy burns;
              13) Hydroxochloroquine is the miracle cure because Trump met a Democrat who recovered using it;
              14) The WHO were running the show along with the CDC;
              15) Those who do not believe Trump's narrative generally or on the WHO specifically are siding with China;
              16) It would be very unfortunate if the WHO or China were shown to have been complicit in the spread of the virus that killed tens of thousands of people around the world, including many of the deaths that TOBW was apparently trying to pin directly on Trump;
              16) I believed that the WHO were doing a textbook job initially but now I am not so sure. This shows how I flexibly adjust my views which is a talent not all possess;
              17) I know what a Plandemic is and the current US investigation into the WHO is already examining the possibility that the virus was leaked from the Wuhan biolab, and that it may have been present in Wuhan earlier than thought;
              18) I am sitting on some information that if true will shock a lot of people much worse than anything mentioned on here so far, but I'm not posting it until I can verify it with other sources.
              19) I am getting tired of seeing people trying to use this event as a political football, in an attempt to gain moral superiority.
              20) All diseases that lead to death are terrible, but I'm just not seeing a once in a hundred years catastrophic event here.
              21) If the global economy crashes people will die in the hundreds of millions. Until you can square that circle we are heading towards an unprecedented catastrophe of epic proportions
              22) I didn't support them going on forever like some people are calling for, and some countries that did nothing haven't had a once in a hundred years catastrophic situation.
              23) Bill Gates reckons it's Pandemic 1, in a series of 1001 pandemics!
              24) An intuitive person's position would naturally evolve over time, unless their thoughts were being manipulated by a subset of the media
              25) I dunno, but the goings on in Wuhan seem a bit fishy to me, and the way things are heading I wouldn't be surprised to see China being asked to foot the bill, which would run into many trillions of dollars.
              26) Supervisor Jim Desmond says San Diego has only had ‘six pure’ coronavirus deaths
              27) It's a huge scandal what happened in many care homes around the world and somehow they all managed to follow the same course of action, which begs the question where did the directive come from, or was it coincidental that the same thing occurred in many different countries?
              28) China were so successful in controlling the Coronavirus narrative via the WHO and world media, that there were people on here repeating the Chinese Communist Party line.
              29) There is a the BBC article minimizing the role that China played in the transmission of the the virus to the UK, by saying their contribution to the pandemic was almost zero percent;
              30) The EU acted as incubation zone that allowed the virus to freely multiply, before it's onward transmission into the UK;
              31) The Virus is a trojan horse for Tony Blair to introduce a national identity card scheme;
              32) The trouble is there will be no normality to return to as the global economy will have been wiped out
              33) For some, the politics is more important than the people.

              is worth the price of admission alone.

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              • Re: The Donald Trump thread

                Originally posted by cyril evans awaydays View Post
                You seem to be an expert on the difference between a verified and unverified postal ballot. I, and I am sure TBG after your belittling, would welcome an explanation of the difference.

                I have seen commentary that there are two types of absentee mail in procedures, one where the state or jurisdiction allows it by exception after an individual request and the other where the state or jurisdiction sends out the option to all voters (the so-called no-excuse absentee ballot). In both instances though the verification procedure is the same.

                I am sure you can clear this up but if you need help here are a couple of links.

                In the US, the classic image of election day is of people standing in line to cast a ballot inside a voting booth. But this image is changing, particularly with the increase in the use of absentee and mail-in ballots. With this change, there is a lot of confusion—and misinformation—around these methods, which vary widely […]


                https://www.brookings.edu/policy2020...lection-fraud/
                I wasn't belittled at all as my comment was about the 'laziness' comment.

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                • Re: The Donald Trump thread

                  Originally posted by Taunton Blue Genie View Post
                  I wasn't belittled at all as my comment was about the 'laziness' comment.

                  Apologies, when I said belittle it was because you never has a MIT professor tell you your thinking was PhD level and you obviously didn't understand the intricacies of the US postal ballot system.... which no doubt WB will clarify later.

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                  • Re: The Donald Trump thread

                    Originally posted by Wales-Bales View Post
                    AG Barr made an unscheduled appearance on television last night, and he said an announcement would be made today regarding the Durham investigation. I wonder if it will be before 5pm?


                    Shit the internet might explode after this!

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                    • Re: The Donald Trump thread

                      Originally posted by cyril evans awaydays View Post
                      Apologies, when I said belittle it was because you never has a MIT professor tell you your thinking was PhD level and you obviously didn't understand the intricacies of the US postal ballot system.... which no doubt WB will clarify later.
                      I wasn't even referring to the US system but let's not dwell too much on the individual to whom you refer. It's a waste of the internet as he is incapable of rational and mature debate.

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                      • Re: The Donald Trump thread

                        Originally posted by cyril evans awaydays View Post
                        https://www.courtlistener.com/recap/...221058.1.0.pdf

                        Shit the internet might explode after this!
                        Will he take the rap for the higher ups? This is just the tip of the iceberg.

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                        • Re: The Donald Trump thread

                          Originally posted by Gofer Blue View Post
                          Having watched some of the video clips in that link I come to the conclusion that whereas old Boris has the knack of saying nothing much with great bluster and enthusiasm whilst sounding believable, whereas Trump has the unfortunate knack of saying nothing much with a monotonous drone which comes over as quite unbelievable. He could do with some coaching lessons from Boris.
                          God what a thought , now I'd watch that coaching moment 😳

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                          • Re: The Donald Trump thread

                            Originally posted by Gofer Blue View Post
                            I rarely have much sympathy for Trump but on the business of postal voting I do, not so much about fraudulent voting (he may have a point there but I have no idea to what extent that might be) but just asking the question why is it necessary? I understand it is an essential service for folk who find it physically impossible to get to a polling station for health reasons but we have neighbours who are perfectly capable of getting to the polling station yet still opt for a postal vote. Apart from sheer laziness what other reasons might there be?

                            Knowing Trump there must be some evidence that a greater proportion of Democrat voters rely on postal voting than Republicans otherwise he would be shooting himself in the foot surely?
                            Ummmm! maybe they don't want to stand in a crowded poll station risking their lives ( 1000+ are dying daily in the USA)
                            I would prefer to vote by mail or internet, but Thrump doesn't want that as it goes against his campaign.

                            oh sorry .he doesn't have a campaign. He just calls people names and whines like a kid in a playground

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                            • Re: The Donald Trump thread

                              Originally posted by cyril evans awaydays View Post
                              https://www.courtlistener.com/recap/...221058.1.0.pdf

                              Shit the internet might explode after this!
                              A Former FBI attorney will plead guilty to making false statements in documents used to obtain a surveillance warrant against former Trump aide Carter Page, his lawyer told the Associated Press Friday.

                              The guilty plea from Kevin Clinesmith is the first legal action taken in an investigation led by John Durham, a U.S. attorney looking into the origins of the Trump-Russia probe and other intelligence-gathering activities related to the Trump campaign.

                              Clinesmith’s lawyer, Justin Shur, told the Associated Press that his client will plead guilty to a single false statements charge as part of a cooperation agreement with the government.

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