Danny Dravot

@joesaiditstrue Maybe I'm missing the joke in that caption. I think an ardent Biden supporter and ardent Trump supporter putting aside their differences to shake hands instead of screaming at each other like idiots is reassuring, if nothing else.

It shouldn't destroy your career today, either. Probably something we need to work on.

As a Republican, there are plenty of nominees that I would support. Saw something about Michele Flournoy for either SecDef or SOS. I'd support that. I'd be disappointed if McConnell and co did not (but I think they will, based on both her resume and Mitch's rumored feelings). I'd also support Tony Blinken for one of those positions. I think that's reasonable. And while obviously individual Americans can't change much, the trend matters. The trend here seems to be to reject Trump but not go overboard in the opposite direction either. So I don't think more progressive candidates will get approved and I don't personally see that as an issue.

Bush 41 was inaugurated with an oppositional Senate. Every president since Carter has faced one at some point. Joe Biden should appoint moderates. You can be upset about it, but IF the Senate races hold this way and one of Perdue/Loeffler win their runoff, Biden doesn't have a progressive mandate. He'll find a reasonable way to handle it.

And? This is exactly how balance of power is supposed to work. As long as they're not roadblocking every nominee just for the hell of it, I see no problem. If Americans wanted Bernie Sanders as Sec of Labor, they'd have given Dems the Senate.

@KipWellsFan I think that's a very fair and accurate summary of that situation. Personally lean right and I don't think it's the rantings of a crazed leftist at all. Kudos.

I’d add that it’s not uncommon for the two to be bitter enemies, either. Saw a video of a march in Denver the other day with a banner at the front that said, “Death to fascism and the liberals that enable it”. Woof.

Missed it. Recap please?

As a Never Trump conservative, I never get this. How does Trump fight? He just whines about things on Twitter. Is that “fighting”?

You did. I’m not watching but I’m assuming Trump is ranting about the process in Georgia, which is a state run pretty much entirely by Republicans. So not a group likely to cheat him.

He thought a hanging chad was a type of STD.

Are either of you going to make a point here, or are you just going to make dead end statements about how the other is lying?

To be fair, with population growth, it’s reasonable that the record for getting the most votes ever will continue to be shattered. I mean, Trump 2020 got more votes than everybody ever except for Biden. So it’s kind of a meaningless metric.

It’s peaceful mostly because everyone’s on the same side. I voted for Biden but otherwise don’t really agree with most here, and when I’ve gotten more explicit with some of those opinions, things have gotten a bit testy. Telling him to go away probably doesn’t help the combativeness either, nor does it persuade him to change his opinion, assuming he was even willing. Just FWIW.

Thanks, but what was the response after that? Sorry for playing twenty questions.

Sarcasm? Where do they get information for race and gender anyway? I early voted but don’t remember if I provided demographic info at the end. Is that it, or do they have my demo info on my voter registration? If it’s exit polls that are used to correlate that, I suppose it would be easily falsifiable.

https://mobile.twitter.com/larrymlease/status/1324399183231672320 Just followed your post down a brief rabbit hole. I don’t buy in to Kirk’s assertions, but what is the truth here? Are Dems trying to stop Republican poll watchers? Why would they do that? If the Republicans can similarly sue to stop Dem poll watchers, why is that? Wouldn’t poll watchers be a good thing in all cases? I love politics but I don’t pay a ton of attention to the method side of things, so I’m genuinely curious about how this works.

There’s an Arleigh Burke class destroyer USS John McCain. I’d love it if Esper renamed the ten traitor bases. Trump whined about it a while back by saying we weren’t going to have Fort Cesar Chavez, but that ignores an absolute shitload of actual American heroes who deserve bases named after them. Fort Hood gets named after Texan Audie Murphy, Fort Jackson (where army chaplains train) gets named after Emil Kapaun (need to figure out how to pronounce that, but he was a Korean War chaplain who won the Medal of Honor and could soon be sainted by the Vatican), Fort Benning gets named after Rick Rescorla (a Brit who fought for us in Vietnam and later died at the WTC on 9/11), etc. I don’t at all understand how Trump could be a patriot’s choice. He doesn’t know or appreciate anything that makes this country great.

Nah. Saw reporting the other day that second term Trump intended to fire Esper, Haspel, and Wray. He probably decided that working for an idiot for two more months of pay isn’t worth it.

I hate Trump too, but maybe we could take it easy on talking about how punchable female members of his staff are? Thanks.

This is a good point. As a military member, his employment of Mattis, Kelly, McMaster, etc, was enormously popular throughout the force. Of course, he ended up dumping all of them in less than friendly circumstances. I don’t know the stats on it, or even where to find them, but I think he’d be the worst performing Republican amongst service members in a long time.

Wouldn’t surprise me. I work with a lot of people I disagree with politically. We get along just fine and I consider them friends. However, I tend to avoid any loud mouthed, idiotic carnival barkers with racist and conspiratorial tendencies who might exist at my workplace. If I were Senate majority leader, I’m sure I’d behave the same way.

COVID took away Trump’s greatest strength- the economy. Yeah, the left would have ran on him being a racist asshole, but in a non-traumatized world where people were living the high life, they’d overlook that. With that gone, however, the racist asshole with a shitty economy is bound to lose to just about any alternative.

I mean, who would want to be that guy? You can criticize the EC if you want, but if they said, “Hey Danny, you’re an elector now”, well I’m just a symbol, aren’t I? I’m not supposed to think about it or insert my own desires, I’m just supposed to mechanically follow the orders of my state’s voters. Honestly, it’s a little weird they even have specific people in those slots at all.

It’s really hard to read in any coherent form because Twitter has hidden every third post or so.