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To: Maple MAGA who wrote (1263365)

9/22/2020 12:45:13 PM

From: Wharf Rat

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"Too many crazy people with guns out there..."
Number of times the word "sane" is mentioned in the 2nd Amendment..... zero.

To: Maple MAGA who wrote (1263365)	9/22/2020 4:37:26 PM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1579680

Gee, that must have disappointed you, he almost shot another unarmed black girl.

To: Maple MAGA who wrote (1263365)	9/22/2020 4:52:10 PM
From: Brumar89	Respond to of 1579680

After the election, Prump can be Putin's caddy . Putin has already said Prump is great at washing his balls.

To: Maple MAGA who wrote (1263365)

9/22/2020 4:53:24 PM

From: Brumar89

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Weakness: Here are the two data points that explain why Republicans are going to push a SCOTUS nomination through before November 3:

62 percent of Americans say the winner of the election should pick the next nominee.

Joe Biden leads the national polling average by +7 points.

That’s it. That’s your explanation.

The polling on who should be making this SCOTUS pick is pretty definitive. Only 23 percent of respondents said that Trump should be the one making the nomination.

So why would Republicans rush into a high-profile fight where they’re on the wrong side of public opinion by nearly 3-to-1? And in the process weaken their presidential nominee and make a bunch of vulnerable senators even more vulnerable?

Because they believe Trump is going to lose.

If Republicans were confident that Trump was going to win, they’d hold off on the SCOTUS vote. They wouldn’t expose senators such as McSally or Gardner.

If Republicans thought that Trump had a realistic chance to win, they’d also hold off on the vote. Because they’d be scrapping for any issue that might tilt 50-50 odds in their favor.

(And besides, they could tell themselves that if this gamble didn’t pay off, then they could always vote on the nomination in the lame duck session.)

But the decision to vote now tells us that Mitch McConnell and the Republican caucus have decided that Trump is highly likely to lose—and that they are likely to lose their majority, too.

Which is why they have to push the vote through before the election—because doing it in a lame-duck after a large-scale loss would invite apocalyptic levels of public backlash.

In other words: This is a decision based not on strength, but on weakness and fear.

thebulwark

To: Maple MAGA who wrote (1263365)	9/22/2020 4:55:06 PM
From: Brumar89	1 Recommendation Recommended By pocotrader Respond to of 1579680

Peter Baker Trump just said he signed a law to sentence anyone who tears down a statue to 10 years in prison. He did not. That law has actually been on the books since 1994. Heh, Bill Clinton signed it.

To: Maple MAGA who wrote (1263365)	9/22/2020 4:56:52 PM
From: Brumar89	1 Recommendation Recommended By pocotrader Respond to of 1579680

Why doesn’t Trump’s total submission to another man bother more men? Average Joe Iowan Those men not bothered by it are also submissive to another man. That's today's conservative in a nutshell. When people talk against Trump, he just calls them names, but when people talk against Putin he has them poisoned.

To: Maple MAGA who wrote (1263365)	9/22/2020 5:05:49 PM
From: Brumar89	1 Recommendation Recommended By pocotrader Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1579680

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