Subj : Re: Trump Rallygoers Go B To : AARON THOMAS From : Mike Powell Date : Sun Sep 29 2024 11:01:00 > MP> What questions do you think they should ask candidates that would "unite > MP> us" while not pandering to one candidate or the other that they are not > MP> asking? > The media could start asking the real questions at hand, to unite us. Everyone > wants to know what's with all the migrants, what's with all the money wasting, > what's up with the corrupt Republican committees? What's up with the US > military exit from Afghanistan? Why doesn't the house of reps do anything abou > any of our problems? What's our status with nuclear safety? Is our military > being forced to do unsafe things for the sake of being woke? Is the USA still > colluding in the intentional mutation of SARS viruses? > How safely is China storing the GX_P2V virus? Many questions on many (but not all) of the above topics were asked during the debate. In most all cases, both candidates danced around or ignored them. You cannot blame the hosts if they ask the questions and the candidates refuse to give straight answers. > Those questions being answered by the media, would unite a lot of us I bet. But how many people believe the media, especially on the Trump side? We have at least two posters here who have come right out and said they don't trust the media -- I think one has even said they don't watch the news at all. How would that unite us when at least one whole side either doesn't believe, or doesn't even pay attention, to anything the media says? > MP> The delegates are supposed to vote based on the outcome of the election > MP> in their state. It has been a long while since there have been any rogue > MP> delegates in large numbers who actually were able to cast votes that > MP> counted. > Are you sure? The delegate is required to vote for the winner of the popular > vote? They are supposed to vote for the winner in their state, yes. Each party chooses their slate of delegates who are supposed to be loyal to the part. When it is determined which party wins the popular vote in that state, the slate of state delegates that party chose are the ones that will represent that state. There have been some rogue individual delegates who do ultimately try to vote for someone else but their votes are not always counted. Some states were playing around with the idea of basically giving up their own voice and requiring their state delegates to vote for the winner of the *national* popular vote. It was mostly blue states and I don't know whether or not any state decided that. This pertains to the Presidential general election electoral votes. I have no idea how each state's Democrat and Republican parties select their delegates/superdelegates for the primaries and, obviously, they don't always vote for who the people in their state choose. Up until very recent times, IIRC the Democrats in particular were not at all required to necessarily pick whoever won the most state delegates. Their conventions were always "open." > MP> We need to elect candidates who will set a strong fiscal agenda for the > MP> country, not to be our surrogate parents/ministers and not to lead us > MP> down some path into whatever their "Brave New World" (or "1984") vision > MP> is, consequences be damned. > I don't know what you mean by this? Short answer -- if you believe they are "chosen by God," then you are doing it wrong. > MP> So you think that someone can just shoot a President, or candidate, and > MP> nothing bad happens? There are posters in this very echo that have > MP> mentioned the violence they expect should Trump be killed. That is > MP> chaos. > What violence are they talking about though? How do they know that? Do you honestly expect that nothing at all would happen if Trump was shot, someone that you and apparently many others believe is "Chosen by God"? Just look at 2020. A man who wasn't even known outside of his local area died and people rioted all over. I don't expect that the assassination of a candidate would have a very good affect on the stock market, either. * SLMR 2.1a * The backup's not over 'til the FAT table sings. --- SBBSecho 3.20-Linux * Origin: capitolcityonline.net * Telnet/SSH:2022/HTTP (1:2320/105) .