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US Election 2020 Thread


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1 hour ago, Section_31 said:

Used to see them quite often in an old job, one always had food down his top, an other I'm fairly certain was narcoleptic, he adjourned sentencing over the weekend once because he said he was  too tired and moody to think. The barrister started kicking off saying he was busy on Monday and the judge basically said if he did it now he'd send his client down purely because he was so goosed and pissed off.

 

Anubis is spot on too about the magistrates thing. Was chatting to a court clerk once and she was saying judges were often far more understanding and lenient on working class people than magistrates were, because even though they were upper class they'd spent time as solicitors/barristers dealing with real people and seeing their everyday problems. 

 

Covered this case years ago in my local rag days, it wasn't long after the coalition got in and they'd properly weaponsied the DWP press office. They were phoning us all the time about this 'great case' of a woman who'd defrauded about 100 grand in benefits. 'you have to be here for this one, she's going down!'. She'd been claiming too much money and spending it on online bingo. 

 

Anyway, judge let her off with a suspended sentence because she had a disabled son and he had a disabled son. Basically said he felt her pain and that it'd do nobody any good for her son to be without her if she got sent down. DWP gestapo were apoplectic, weapons grade titty lips. It was tremendous. 

  

 

 

Fantastic! I remember when a mate at university was up in front of a magistrate for drink driving - he'd left his car at the student union where he worked, had a skinful after he finished and then drunkenly had the inspired idea to drive the car home so that the pissheads wouldn't trash it on their way past. Pulled over and ended up spending a night in the cells. He asked me to come with him to court for a bit of moral support.

 

Anyway he's the most mild-mannered lad you'd ever meet, so he turns up to court and refuses the solicitor as he didn't want to waste anyone's time: just wants to plead guilty, apologise profusely and take his punishment. I thought that seemed fair enough, but the magistrate was a total dick to him about it, was an absolute goblin about the offence even though he'd never had so much as a parking ticket before, and then in a really snide move - given she could see how shellshocked he looked anyway - told him if she saw him in there again he "might as well bring a toothbrush." Pure cuntery - he was obviously mortified and had 100% learned his lesson but she couldn't resist a bit of grandstanding.

 

Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely, magistrate power just makes vindictive little cunts.

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Our landlady for a couple of years was a magistrate. My girlfriend moved in at one point so she was getting double rent for a single room. She then lost her job and had to sign on for housing benefit. The landlady rang and said we needed to move out- obviously she wasn't declaring the rent and having a claimant rather than all students would get her flagged up. We moved a few weeks later, and she kept our deposits as we hadn't given her a month's notice in writing. Utter cunt.

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There you have it. You can love Trump or you can love America, you can't love both.

 

Half of those who want Donald Trump to win a second term believe that he should not accept the result of the presidential election if he loses by a small margin, a new poll has found.

And overall, 29 per cent of US adults think that it’s “perfectly acceptable” for the president to refuse to accept a narrow election outcome,  according to polling data shared exclusively with The Independent.

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16 minutes ago, Section_31 said:

There you have it. You can love Trump or you can love America, you can't love both.

 

Half of those who want Donald Trump to win a second term believe that he should not accept the result of the presidential election if he loses by a small margin, a new poll has found.

And overall, 29 per cent of US adults think that it’s “perfectly acceptable” for the president to refuse to accept a narrow election outcome,  according to polling data shared exclusively with The Independent.

In that case put them all on a rocket, blast them into space and let them live out their racist, fascist, sexist lives amongst the stars.  

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1 hour ago, Section_31 said:

There you have it. You can love Trump or you can love America, you can't love both.

 

Half of those who want Donald Trump to win a second term believe that he should not accept the result of the presidential election if he loses by a small margin, a new poll has found.

And overall, 29 per cent of US adults think that it’s “perfectly acceptable” for the president to refuse to accept a narrow election outcome,  according to polling data shared exclusively with The Independent.

I wonder what they would say if there was a Democrat president in office when asked that question 

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23 hours ago, Pete said:

In that case put them all on a rocket, blast them into space and let them live out their racist, fascist, sexist lives amongst the stars.  

Before this fucking nut job got in power, could you think of the reactions of Americans and in particular republicans had leader of a tin pot central or southern America leader said that coming into an election? It's incredible the things the republicans are willing to get behind in the name of trump. 

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53 minutes ago, Brownie said:

It will take a catastrophic level of polling error for Trump to win.

Well that rather depends how the votes are counted state to state and if it all ends up in court. It's almost like the polls are irrelevant because there's no guarantee everybodies vote count. If it was a fair run off, no college system, no trump trying to undermine the electoral process, no supreme court set up for this very event, you'd be dead right. But I don't think you can discount anything at all. 

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To be fair, the Supreme Court have been pretty fair in the recent rulings regarding postal voting and even though there is a right wing majority, I can't see long-term, untouchable judges being that tied to Trump personally that they are prepared to back ridiculous complaints based on him being a bad loser.

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18 minutes ago, sir roger said:

To be fair, the Supreme Court have been pretty fair in the recent rulings regarding postal voting and even though there is a right wing majority, I can't see long-term, untouchable judges being that tied to Trump personally that they are prepared to back ridiculous complaints based on him being a bad loser.

It looks like Pennsylvania could be the crunch point if things are really tight. Although stopping the counting of votes there would be stupid as apparently the democratic leaning districts will count on the night and the republican ones the following day...

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