Election 2020

[IdleRich]

Didn't do BJ any harm in the polls did it? Seems there are so many variables it's hard to predict how this will go. Seems too random to fake... well you'd have to be desperate.

 

[Leo]

well you'd have to be desperate.

yup

 

[Leo]

Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett in the White House this past weekend in photo ops with Trump, meeting everyone, all sans mask.

what's the chance biden gets it? he was further than 6 feet away at the debate, but it was indoors for 90 minutes of trump shouting at him. THAT would fuck up the election. Pence v. Harris, at that point.

 

[Leo]

hell of an October surprise.

 

[IdleRich]

If Trump and Pence both have it and are incapacitated then doesn't Pelosi have to step in as acting POTUS?

 

[Leo]

yup. if she can get past the Proud Boys at the White House gates.

 

[constant escape]

United States presidential line of succession - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Shes the one blue in a succession of seventeen.

 

[Leo]

isn't it weird that McConnell's position, senate majority leader, isn't on the list? president pro tempore of the senate (Grassley) is the #2 ranking senator, wonder why the list doesn't include the #1 ranked?

 

[constant escape]

Do you think its a way to prevent someone from bottlenecking the three-pronged system? Then again, if the top figure of the house is in line... Really don't know much about this, to be honest.

Would a person who is both temporary president and head of the senate be more powerful than a person who is both temporary president and head of the house?

 

[Mr. Tea]

United States presidential line of succession - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Shes the one blue in a succession of seventeen.

I hope something happens to all of them numbered 1-16, and we end up with Acting President Chad Wolf.

Just imagine. Chad Wolf!

 

[constant escape]

Chad Wolf vs the Beta-men from The Swamp

 

[Leo]

wonder if this COVID news prompts moderate republicans who were going vote biden or not vote at all to now vote for trump, on the outside chance that trump will win and die, making pence the president. those types of voters might take biden over trump, but would certainly prefer pence over biden.

 

[constant escape]

Hadn't thought about that, but it seems like a reasonable possibility. Was Pence infected too?

 

[IdleRich]

isn't it weird that McConnell's position, senate majority leader, isn't on the list? president pro tempore of the senate (Grassley) is the #2 ranking senator, wonder why the list doesn't include the #1 ranked?

I always wonder that myself.

 

[Mr. Tea]

Was Pence infected too?

Only with the WORD of the LORD.

(I hadn't heard that he was, but it'll be great to see him dousing himself in holy water and whatnot if he does catch it.)

 

[constant escape]

Carries around a little spray bottle of it.

 

[Leo]

pence has tested negative so far, and has been traveling separate from trump recently, so he's had reduced exposure.

 

[WashYourHands]

World War Weird continues unabated.

Gut says bs, but who the fuck knows these days.

 

[Leo]

trump's built such a myth of being the invincible strongman warrior king, it goes entirely against his personal brand to fake being sick, which connotes weakness and vulnerability. I think it's real.

 

[luka]

what about if he shakes it off by tomorrow? That would be strong potent dynamic