Board 8 > Politics Containment Topic 313: August and Everything After

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Mr Lasastryke posted...

i don't think anyone is saying "harris is good" (besides LotM maybe).

what people are saying, however, is "harris isn't worse than biden so if biden goes to a nursing home/dies/whatever and harris becomes president, we're not worse off, at least." seems like a reasonable position.

Thats nice, but Im talking about Susan Rice dude.


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oh.

well, replace "harris" with "rice" and i'm pretty sure my post still applies.

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I think Harris would be a better President than Joe Biden. So she'd be a step up, and that's a good thing imo.

Don't know enough about Susan Rice to say much about her. She's never held public office, and I don't know much about her policy positions vs Biden. But I do think we'll hear nothing but BENGHAZI if she's chosen as VP. I mean we'll probably hear about it anyway, and I'm sure Q is preparing statements about how Kamala Harris was really responsible for Benghazi as we speak. But with Rice, they have a bit more credibility - even when they shouldn't.

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big news

https://twitter.com/breakingnews/status/560712682?s=21
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The NY AG thing is a lawsuit to dissolve the NRA for violations of state law governing charities

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Oh fuck

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Peace___Frog posted...

The NY AG thing is a lawsuit to dissolve the NRA for violations of state law governing charities

you love to see it

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The Mana Sword posted...

you love to see it

hell yes

Anyone really surprised that the NRA is guilty of using money for personal use? I mean they kept asking for more money, but how much money do you need to type out emails that say "They're going to take our guns!" and go on the media and blame everything but the ease at which people can get a gun for gun violence?

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It's been a pretty open secret that the NRA was literally laundering Russian money for a few years now.

https://twitter.com/ddale8/status/1291433410393780225

wow SMTV has some real viral marketing going on

biden to announce his campaign's theme song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=marMHH6a63g

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Whose theme is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qO6LWQhvzRw ?

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"Joe Biden will hurt God!"

"Puny God."

https://media1.tenor.com/images/31518ab4f03b12f85ee1ef71eaf99a9b/tenor.gif


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https://twitter.com/byrontau/status/1291464063004938240?s=21

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I wish Biden was half the candidate Trump claims he is
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i wish biden was as anti-christianity as trump is making him out to be

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In addition to claiming that Biden is against God and will hurt God, Trump also claims Biden is against energy.
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If Biden gets in, he's going to build a cancer-causing windmill on your lawn. If you don't have a lawn, it's going to go on your roof. If you don't have a roof, you'll be carted off to a labor camp to generate electricity by spinning a turbine.

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https://twitter.com/donovanxramsey/status/1291427060355923968?s=19

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UshiromiyaEva posted...

https://twitter.com/donovanxramsey/status/1291427060355923968?s=19

This got a belly laugh from me

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Shin Joe Tensei

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https://www.newsweek.com/joe-biden-dismisses-diversity-african-american-community-he-launches-ad-targeting-black-voters-1523340

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The remarkable thing is that question had absolutely nothing to do with black people. He tripped over an obstacle that was down a different street.

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FFDragon posted...

This is going to be a three month sprint of both campaigns doing their absolute best to not let their candidate open their mouth.

oh hey this is more true every day

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Suprak the Stud posted...

The remarkable thing is that question had absolutely nothing to do with black people. He tripped over an obstacle that was down a different street.

gotta respect his commitment to maintaining his brand

But yes, that was quite remarkable. *sigh*

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2020/08/06/georgia-teens-shared-photos-maskless-students-crowded-hallways-now-theyre-suspended/

Georgia suspends student for posting pictures of hallways at school filled with kids who are maskless.

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*edit*oh it was posted

my god joe just go back to the basement

for real just how did he learn absolutely nothing from the "you ain't black" comment he got burned on not that long ago

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The TikTok executive order was signed.

TikTok has 45 days to be sold or it will be banned.

It's definitely a strange way to handle the "national security risk" posed. I'm also not sure how those concerns are magically resolved the moment Microsoft has ownership.

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Forceful_Dragon posted...

The TikTok executive order was signed.

TikTok has 45 days to be sold or it will be banned.

It's definitely a strange way to handle the "national security risk" posed. I'm also not sure how those concerns are magically resolved the moment Microsoft has ownership.

Not TikTok. ByteDance, the owner, and TENCENT

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This is insane, they have stake in like a million game companies, including some HUGE ones like Activision Blizzard, Epic, and Ubisoft

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NFUN posted...

Not TikTok. ByteDance, the owner, and TENCENT

What exactly does this cover? Like the company I work for does business with Tencent.
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Team Rocket Elite posted...

What exactly does this cover? Like the company I work for does business with Tencent.

The wording Ive seen is no American-based companies can do financial transactions with them.

So uh, who knows

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Yeah.

Tencent can outspend America.

So.

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Finally, the swamp is being drained as promised.

Forceful_Dragon posted...

The TikTok executive order was signed.

TikTok has 45 days to be sold or it will be banned.

It's definitely a strange way to handle the "national security risk" posed. I'm also not sure how those concerns are magically resolved the moment Microsoft has ownership.

It does solve it; the issue is that Chinese companies can be forced to give data to the Chinese government. Microsoft can't be forced to comply with them.

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LordoftheMorons posted...

It does solve it; the issue is that Chinese companies can be forced to give data to the Chinese government. Microsoft can't be forced to comply with them.

The logical conclusion to this is banning all Chinese companies from the US.

In fact, this is the only way to be certain it wont happenand even then its not!

Seems extremely stupid.

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ChaosTonyV4 posted...

The logical conclusion to this is banning all Chinese companies from the US.

In fact, this is the only way to be certain it wont happenand even then its not!

Seems extremely stupid.

I'm not saying the ban is a great idea, just that selling it to Microsoft does resolve the issue.

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uh that kind of ban seems like it would have massive unintended consequences

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Also, Pelosi keeping it 100

https://www.axios.com/pelosi-republicans-covid-stimulus-0be7d23c-f97b-4a6d-9c32-a2fc91ecb926.html

Cramer: "Why can't you go across the aisle and say, Rep. Lewis, civil rights legend, would have loved it if we could do something for the totally disenfranchised in this country. Can we give a huge chunk of money to the people who are disenfranchised, to the minorities who want so badly to stay in business and can't? And the people who are trying to go to college or who have student loans who are minorities, who are the most affected because they have the least chance in our country? That's gotta be something that both sides can agree to."

Pelosi: "Perhaps you mistook them for somebody who gives a damn, for what you just described. That's the problem. See the thing is, they don't believe in governance, And that requires some acts of governance to do that."

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xp1337 posted...

uh that kind of ban seems like it would have massive unintended consequences

https://twitter.com/Slasher/status/1291557056256901126

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Actually just saw an even wider scope tweet on that!

https://twitter.com/Slasher/status/1291565115670695936

Tencent has stake in Reddit and Discord too.

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Trump out here showing gamers that games CAN be political! /s

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That said, if this guy is right, Section 1(c) of the EO means that the order in and of itself doesn't ban anything. It's up to the Secretary of Commerce to decide what transactions count as banned.

https://twitter.com/WillJPowers/status/1291562591915896832

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I assume this will be challenged in court.

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how about pokemon unite tho

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Seems like it's only intended to block transactions related to WeChat and not Tencent as a whole.

https://twitter.com/SamAugustDean/status/1291576813685108736
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Once again Biden apologizes when he screws up rather than quadrupling down (three tweet thread):

https://twitter.com/JoeBiden/status/1291540507416559617

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LordoftheMorons posted...

Once again Biden apologizes when he screws up rather than quadrupling down (three tweet thread):

https://twitter.com/JoeBiden/status/1291540507416559617

No, that's exactly what he meant. And that's not an apology, he's saying that he meant something the opposite of
what he said.

Regarding the new executive orders, I hope the courts swiftly find that this is beyond the President's power (maybe beyond the power of Congress too as there are major free speech issues). It's really disappointing that the US and China have gotten to the point of banning each other's companies, as if the Cold War were back.

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The drastic increase in the asserted executive power shown by Trump in the past month, in which he's claimed to have near dictatorial powers over the economy, is really troubling. Joe, can you please pick someone as your VP who isn't a prosecutor, Obama official, liberal elitist, or neocon? How about Mayor Pete? Then promise to issue no executive orders other than revoking unconstitutional ones issued by previous presidents, promise to appoint a conservative Supreme Court justice, and reappoint Betsy Devos, and you've got my vote.

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LordoftheMorons posted...

Once again Biden apologizes when he screws up rather than quadrupling down (three tweet thread):

https://twitter.com/JoeBiden/status/1291540507416559617

Biden's Twitter handler apologizes, you mean.

Kinda gross he keeps getting a pass for saying shit like this.

Edit: And before the predictable "But Trump" argument, he's a racist piece of shit too. Just because one allows his campaign looking out for him more doesn't mean he's less racist. These guys both suck and it's gross these are our options.

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Old men just bein' old men.

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