"Have the microphone automatically shut off after the 2 minutes has elapsed and not turn on again until it is their turn to speak."

You think you saw a meltdown yesterday? Wait until you keep this President from being heard. Watch him pull out his phone to rage tweet in the middle of Biden's answers.

" The SC will crown ------- king."

I currently believe there are even odds that the vote will be Roberts, Breyer, Kagan, Sotomayor, And Gorsuch in Biden's favor.

I don't think any of the rest have the requisite self control to vote impartially.

" I wouldn't do another debate with Trump"

A few weeks back I would have disagreed but now that the world has seen how he'll behave I think Biden can probably back out arguing that yesterday proves how pointless it is. However, that would probably be used as justification for Trump to cancel the VP debates which I believe still have some potential value.

"The whole thing looked cocaine fueled."

Stop it. This is not significantly different from his behavior on any other day of the week. If it was cocaine a guy of his age and his bmi would have been dead of a heart attack years ago.

"You really have to wonder how much Trump really wants to win."

I don't think winning is as important to him as staying in power. His is really a "by any means necessary" campaign strategy.

" Would you shut up man."

"One of you is going to prison because of that."

I'm willing to bet $100 to your $1 that Trump will never see the inside of a prison cell. Loser donates to the charity of the winner's choice.

Poor people were certainly disproportionately impacted by coronavirus. They were more likely to be compromised from an initial health standpoint, more likely to be fired from their jobs, less likely to have the type of job that allowed them to work from home, and more likely to live with more people and with people of multiple generations than the average, more likely to live with someone who was considered an essential worker so the infection rate was greater for them. I don't understand why anybody would be immediately suspicious about this reporting.

I'm a member of the YMCA the song is about. Nobody there has any illusions about what the song is about. If anything it's celebrated.

FTR it's not exactly the scene it was 40 plus years ago. Those guys migrated to other health clubs and to bars where you don't have to be on the DL so much to find what you're looking for. Mostly now it's old fat dudes with corn chip toenails who spend too much time in the sauna.

He paid $750 more in taxes than Amazon. So that's something I guess.

Headline win.

There's plenty of people in this country for whom Red Dawn fantasies are regular themes in their spank bank. Since that never actually materialized they were forced to recruit their left-of-center fellow Americans to play the part of the Soviets. Since that never actually materialized they were forced to exaggerate the behavior and the threat those left-of-center posed to the "American" way of life in order to perpetuate their mastubatory dreams. Prime these people with decades of right wing propaganda, give them a charismatic leader, and throw in a little conspiracy fiction and it's only a matter of time before simply fantasizing about it is not sufficient and we found ourselves where we are now.

" And then there was the watermelon. Lots and lots of watermelon. Fried chicken too."

Don't forget the grass skirt and the bone through his nose.

" what his presidency was meant to represent."

What his Presidency was sold as representing maybe. I believe we're getting exactly what was actually intended.

" The largest county in Ohio has over 1.3 million people in it, the smallest has 13,000."

That's your rationale right there. Odds are the smaller counties are red.

Settle down, boys.

to continue from my last comment at #16: ... especially if they are represented by an overworked public defender.

"republicans haven't gone this route (for fear of losing election I assume) anywhere in the past so I'd be shocked to see them lead with this vs the democratic party."

They haven't had anybody with a cult of personality about them like this guy does. Even Reagan had to be relatively consistent with the things he'd said and done before. Trump has no such burden.

"not to mention public defenders and prosecuting attorneys.....it's all job security."

The public defenders I know would love to be able to spend more time mounting an effective legal defense for their clients if they were not so overburdened with low level drug arrests. Prosecutors are a different breed though. A friend of mine left the Brooklyn DA's office over a decade ago because he became disillusioned with how the habit was to throw the weight of the state at anyone they came across, regardless of the crime or the evidence supporting the indictment. 99% of the time if you can't get the defendant to plead guilty to the original charge you could get them to plead to a lower offense simply by threatening them with significant jail time.

"What cops still want marijuana illegal? This doesn't sound right."

I know cops who love it being illegal because it is an easy thing to arrest a pot head caught in the act. They are far less likely to resist because they're so mellow compared to other drug users. If their arrest numbers are low at the end of the month they spend more time in the known pot head hang outs to meet their quotas.

"how so? you think Trump wins re-election easily by decriminalizing MJ?"

There are a lot of people who are disillusioned with both parties and don't vote, who will go to the polls to reward somebody who makes real change on this issue. Certainly enough to make all the difference in the tightest of battleground states. If Trump does it he doesn't lose any votes because the far right will never risk a Biden presidency and the center right would agree with the move (there's 70% support for legalization nationally).

You know who could have led the charge on decriminalization without any political reprecussions? Trump. If he decides to grow a brain and deschedule last minute then this election is over.

Nulli would have been all over this thread.

"Bizarro is truly a useful idiot."

He's not an idiot, he's a volunteer propagandist for his dear leader, willing to say whatever it takes to make him look better.

"IMHO, it is so shameful that he should not be allowed to post here."

He's probably auditioning for an invite to Boaz's Discord server, if he's not already a member.

"But I'd love to hear in your words why you're still so unhappy, even after four years of So Much Winning."

Short answer? Democrats, liberals, and minorities still exist. Until that is no longer the case they will never be truly satisfied.

If Bloomberg could convince NYC Democrats to change the constitution to give him a third term as mayor I don't see any reason why Trump couldn't do the same. That said, he's just trolling. He knows we freak out over every single stupid thing he says.