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Originally Posted by OccultHawk
Goddamn did Trump look and act like a spoiled child.
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Yep, not remotely Presidential and barely adult.
His constant badgering interuptions broke the rules of the debate and were often worthless imo. Here was one that the press has not picked up on sufficiently:-
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Biden: Wearing a mask saves thousands of lives. 100, 000 lives, some studies say.
Trump (interrupting): And some people say the opposite.
Biden: No serious person says the opposite.
Eight months into the pandemic, with an audience of millions the President once more undercuts the idea that masks can save lives. He is therefore risking lives, and for what? In hopes of throwing Biden off his game for one prime-time second?
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There are so many stories and techniques of voter suppression, that it's almost worth its own thread ("This is the way democracy ends, not with a bang but a wimper.")
A story out of Texas:-
https://www.bbc.com/news/election-us-2020-54380684 Texas Governor Cuts Back on Voting Locations Weeks Before the Election
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Texas' governor has ordered that voters can drop off their mail-in ballots at only one location per county in the lead-up to the presidential election. Critics have accused Mr Abbott of voter suppression, pointing out that in some cases this means thousands of voters must go to one clerk's office.
Coming weeks before the election, the order requires counties to close any satellite ballot drop-off locations. Some of the state's largest counties had already set up multiple drop-off sites. Harris County, home to the city of Houston and some four million residents, must now close 11 drop-off locations, the Houston Chronicle reported.
In addition to raising questions about how potentially millions of urban Texans will need to visit a single drop-off site, the move may also be problematic for rural residents, who are spread out across the state - which is also America's second largest by area.
Texas Democratic chairman Gilberto Hinojosa responded by saying that courts across the US have said it is too late to make changes to election rules, "but our failed Republican leadership will try anyway".
The proclamation by Mr Abbott will cause "widespread confusion and voter suppression", said Harris County clerk Chris Hollins in a statement. Harris County, which encompasses Houston, is the most populous county in the state. "Multiple drop-off locations have been advertised for weeks," he said. "To force hundreds of thousands of seniors and voters with disabilities to use a single drop-off location...is prejudicial and dangerous."
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My bold for classic Republican voter-suppression manouvre: publicise information, then change it.