The Atlas Asylum of absurd/ignorant posts IX

[Coastal Elitist]

Your support for Donald Trump — a Nazi-praising, POW-mocking authoritarian who ignored bounties on American troops and attempted to extort a foreign power to intervene on his behalf using taxpayer funds — is the most treacherous, treasonous thing I have ever witnessed. So don't try the flag-waving routine with me, hombre. If anyone hates America, it's Trump, his political party, and his supporters. Your attempt to pretend otherwise, at this point, just come off as clownish. Honk, honk, LOL!

And yeah, I don't support absolutely unadulterated free speech on this forum. What value is served by propagating racist content, or unhinged conspiracy theories? Obviously, these restrictions are a much more pressing concern for the contemporary right than the contemporary left. But that isn't my problem — pull your collective heads out of the gutter, and stop gravitating towards figures like Donald Trump.
 

This poster really needs to seek mental help and it's hilarious how he complains about unhinged conspiracy theories on here when he actually spreads several about Trump. Also he should step out of his parent's basement and enter the real world where he would probably be stunned to find out that neighbors or classmates of his support Republicans.

[Coastal Elitist]

By this I mean stuff like Trump having his federal agents go to major cities on November 3 and arresting “suspicious” people waiting in line, or in the weeks before having them go to polling stations and confiscate boxes and boxes of mail-in ballots because of “credible reports of voter fraud” or something about a bomb being in the boxes. It’s not like some unarmed 70-year-old poll worker is going to put up a fight.

How likely is this scenario and what would recourse would Democrats have?

This forum is turning more and more into reddit everyday

[Coastal Elitist]

I don’t think it will be a Trump that steals the election directly, but Republican officials across the country. The postmaster general will continue to slow the mail down to where it will take 3 1/2 weeks for an absentee ballot to get to your home from the clerk’s office. Due to “printing issues,” the ballots will be mailed out two days before the election, ensuring barely anyone gets them. 

Trump will then send troops to the polling places to scare voters and arrest Biden voters to stop them from voting. By November, the Coronavirus will have spiraled out of control and most people will be too scared to go to the polls even without federal goons there to intimidate them. Trump wins a “landslide” with 14% turnout and Republicans now have huge majorities in both houses of Congress.

[Coastal Elitist]

I don’t think it will be a Trump that steals the election directly, but Republican officials across the country. The postmaster general will continue to slow the mail down to where it will take 3 1/2 weeks for an absentee ballot to get to your home from the clerk’s office. Due to “printing issues,” the ballots will be mailed out two days before the election, ensuring barely anyone gets them.  

Trump will then send troops to the polling places to scare voters and arrest Biden voters to stop them from voting. By November, the Coronavirus will have spiraled out of control and most people will be too scared to go to the polls even without federal goons there to intimidate them. Trump wins a “landslide” with 14% turnout and Republicans now have huge majorities in both houses of Congress.

There isn't much absurd or ignorant about this, the concerns about Republican voter suppression as well deploying federal troops are well justified. In just the past 2 years, we've seen voter suppression in the Georgia gubernatorial election in 2018 and now we have DHS officers being sent as federal police to Democratic-run cities across the nation to control peaceful protestors. While I don't think Trump will actually rig the election, these concerns aren't unfounded, especially since we are talking about a man who has sought the help of multiple foreign nations in interfering in our elections.

Thank you for posting directly into this thread. You can't actually be this stupid burning down federal buildings and attacking the police are not peaceful protests. There's been bricks thrown at them lasers shined in their faces, etc.. These people are violent not peaceful. Also countries have been interfering in other country's elections for awhile now. Would it surprise you to learn that Churchill interfered in our elections during WWII to ensure that FDR was reelected. The Atlanta Journal found nothing wrong with the Georgia Gubernatorial election and found no evidence of voter suppression.

This doesn't look like equipment for a peaceful protest: https://twitter.com/PortlandPolice/status/1287638418978230272/photo/1

[Coastal Elitist]

I don’t think it will be a Trump that steals the election directly, but Republican officials across the country. The postmaster general will continue to slow the mail down to where it will take 3 1/2 weeks for an absentee ballot to get to your home from the clerk’s office. Due to “printing issues,” the ballots will be mailed out two days before the election, ensuring barely anyone gets them.  

Trump will then send troops to the polling places to scare voters and arrest Biden voters to stop them from voting. By November, the Coronavirus will have spiraled out of control and most people will be too scared to go to the polls even without federal goons there to intimidate them. Trump wins a “landslide” with 14% turnout and Republicans now have huge majorities in both houses of Congress.

There isn't much absurd or ignorant about this, the concerns about Republican voter suppression as well deploying federal troops are well justified. In just the past 2 years, we've seen voter suppression in the Georgia gubernatorial election in 2018 and now we have DHS officers being sent as federal police to Democratic-run cities across the nation to control peaceful protestors. While I don't think Trump will actually rig the election, these concerns aren't unfounded, especially since we are talking about a man who has sought the help of multiple foreign nations in interfering in our elections.

Thank you for posting directly into this thread. You can't actually be this stupid burning down federal buildings and attacking the police are not peaceful protests. There's been bricks thrown at them lasers shined in their faces, etc.. These people are violent not peaceful. Also countries have been interfering in other country's elections for awhile now. Would it surprise you to learn that Churchill interfered in our elections during WWII to ensure that FDR was reelected. The Atlanta Journal found nothing wrong with the Georgia Gubernatorial election and found no evidence of voter suppression.

This doesn't look like equipment for a peaceful protest: https://twitter.com/PortlandPolice/status/1287638418978230272/photo/1

So, I take it that you think secret police in our streets, not identifying themselves as police and then detaining protestors is normal, or that it’s normal that our President said he’d send them to “Democratic-controlled cities.”

There's no secret police lol. If they were secret you wouldn't know about them. There uniforms clearly identify them with patches on the shoulder and would you rather the cities just burn to the ground. Again this isn't at all peaceful: https://twitter.com/MikeBalsamo1/status/1287606656608555009

People committing acts like that aren't protestors they're rioters who should be locked up.

[Coastal Elitist]

It's certainly likely, but only if Biden wins.

Democrats aren't violent in large numbers the way it seems Republicans are.

Hard to believe anyone would post something this stupid considering the amount of looting and rioting the left has done in the last few months.

[Coastal Elitist]

It's certainly likely, but only if Biden wins.

Democrats aren't violent in large numbers the way it seems Republicans are.

Hard to believe anyone would post something this stupid considering the amount of looting and rioting the left has done in the last few months.

I only count mass shooting committed by a Democrat in the last decade. I've lost count of how many have been committed by Republicans in the last decade.

Uh I have no knowledge of the party registration of any mass shooter and I don't know what that has to do with rioting or starting a civil war. Those seem like different things to me. Violent leftists have been all over the news rioting and burning stuff down that's what I've seen.

[Coastal Elitist]

It's certainly likely, but only if Biden wins.

Democrats aren't violent in large numbers the way it seems Republicans are.

Hard to believe anyone would post something this stupid considering the amount of looting and rioting the left has done in the last few months.

Tell me one violent rioter/looter who is voting for Biden.

Actually I know of one, one of my instagram friends went and took part in the rioting in LA and will definitely vote for Biden. Who do you think the BLM rioters will vote for, Trump.

[Coastal Elitist]

It's certainly likely, but only if Biden wins.

Democrats aren't violent in large numbers the way it seems Republicans are.

Hard to believe anyone would post something this stupid considering the amount of looting and rioting the left has done in the last few months.

Tell me one violent rioter/looter who is voting for Biden.

Actually I know of one, one of my instagram friends went and took part in the rioting in LA and will definitely vote for Biden. Who do you think the BLM rioters will vote for, Trump.

I'm going to need more than "oh uh, yeah, I have a friend who is a violent rioter and he's for Biden..." Like a news article that proves it or something. Also -- you're friends with a violent rioter? Why???

There have been documented cases of Trump-supporting white supremacists committing violence either as provocateurs or just because they enjoy chaos, but the vast majority of them will either not vote or will vote 3rd party/write in. The violent people on the far left all despise Biden.

Someone I followed on Instagram who was in one of my college classes, we weren't and aren't close. There's also documented cases of left wing terrorists like the Ohio bar shooter and the congressional baseball shooter. None of that is relevant to the violent uprisings we've seen from left wingers in places like Portland and Seattle. Even though they might not vote for Biden doesn't mean that they won't be violent if Trump wins.

[Coastal Elitist]

Here we are. As the rest of the world's nations flatten their curves, deals with their outbreaks, and slowly resumes something resembling normal life, the USA is the major outlier.

We have people refusing to wear masks or socially distance, and insisting that schools reopen. We have far, far more cases and deaths every day than other developed countries. And we have a health care system in which many people are afraid to seek testing or treatment due to cost.

Last and most, we have a President who seeks to rush a broken vaccine through in order to get re-elected, which will reduce public trust in a working vaccine once it does come out. And if re-elected, said President will continue to not do anything about COVID.

The effects this has had on the nation's standing, both domestically and internationally, are heartbreaking. The USA is set for another spike soon due to social distancing fraying, flu season isn't far away, and hospitals will be overburdened and have to cancel all non-COVID treatment due to overflowing with patients choking on or drowning in their own bodily fluids as a result of COVID.

Abroad, the US has become a further pariah. As other countries close their borders to Americans, including strong allies like Canada, while opening up to other nations that have dealt with their outbreaks successfully, Americans are seen as disease vectors. If World War II is what began Pax Americana, COVID is what ended it. I don't like that other countries aren't allowing us in, but I support their decision all the same, because we're diseased.

This all saddens me, because I love to travel and won't get to do so during the best years of my life. That said, I agree with their decision even if I'm not happy about it, for the reasons stated above.

If this pandemic ever ends and is relegated to the history books, future generations will learn of COVID-19 as the catalyst for the fall of the United States. Thank you for coming to my TED Talk.

what a bunch of nonsense

[Coastal Elitist]

The most idiotic post I've read on this forum... this week:

Great news! Unions are terrible doesn't matter how much you pay union workers they'll always demand more.

It's true and I have an example. The BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit) union here in the Bay Area went on strike a few years ago and the local news investigated and discovered that BART janitors were making six figures a year and train operators made like 200K+. Yet these people still went on strike and demanded more money. There was no actual rationale for them going on strike they just wanted more money despite the fact that workers there are highly paid.