Miscellaneous And Off Topic Subjects

[froot loops]

They bought the whole shebang Hoss. That means every time they play the movie on TNT, they get money. You will search far and wide and not find an analyst that says that was a bad deal for them. Not one person at Disney thinks the company would be better off with the 4 billion in stock and cash.

Every time someone subscribes to Disney+ because of Star Wars they get the money. Every ticket the sell to the parks for Star Wars, they profit.

[froot loops]

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A Kinsley gaffe

[iam416]

[Hannibal]

Didn't see this before. That may be correct, I doubt it. If Biden wins, it will be tight. He's down against Trump in Wisconsin and that is all that matters. Its going to be an extremely tough state for Biden to win. The Walker machine will be out in full force and they will be using every trick in the book.

Trump and the Foxbots will come up with something to tarnish Biden and it will stick. He'll find something to make an issue like "her emails" and the Russian bots will amplify it. Hunter Biden may be it, Trump and all the Trumpboyz will have all of the followers believing every bad thing about Middle Class Joe. Heh, its already started, check out that Battle Creek speech. The Bernie Bros may sit out the election if Biden is the nominee and Gabbard will siphon away votes as a 3rd party candidate(with Russian help).

LMAO at the "Russian bots". Jesus Christ some of you still genuinely believe this bullshit.

[Hannibal]

Biden doesn't need Wisconsin to win. If he flips Florida he almost certainly wins.

[Jeff Buchanan]

Not easy for Biden. Broward County which encompasses Fort Lauderdale, Hollywood and the northern reaches of Miami along with Miami Dade voted for the democratic candidate Ron Gillum who was extremely popular among blacks and Latinos but the state went for and elected Republican, candidate, now Governor Ron Desantis.

I wouldn't call him a Trump slappy but he is firmly in Trump's camp. The problem for Biden is Trump is big in just about every precinct outside Broward and Miami-Dade.

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[Hannibal]

It will be extremely close. I don't see a lot of states flipping in 2020 but I think that Florida has at least a 50/50 shot.

[Jeff Buchanan]

Yeah, the gubernatorial race between Desantis and Gillum was extremely close something like 49.2 to 49.6. Both candidates had strong positions that appealed to mainstream conservatives and liberals. Desantis was not particularly popular being seen as a big business insider with ties to the hog farming industry that was polluting Lake Ochechobee and the coastal waters that lake drains in to creating the red Tide disaster. There may have been some R crossover to Gillum who was definitely not crazy progressive and stressed cleaning up FL's waters, It almost broke Desantis.

So, if the D and R presidential candidates were equally well liked and that was the deciding factor for a vote one way or the other, the R candidate should prevail.

But Trump has done so much damage to his likeability that there's more likely to be crossover form R to D in the presidential election, IMO, so, Biden probably prevails. I'm not sure about Warren and I definitely think there is no chance Sanders would win FL. Zero..... but that's over policy not personality. By-in-large, FL a very conservative state.

[froot loops]

No chance Biden winning Florida. It is all about Wisconsin.

[Hannibal]

No chance Biden winning Florida. It is all about Wisconsin.

Why do you say that?

[iam416]

Russian bots, man.

Florida will be close, but I think PDJT has the advantage. They love the Rs down there right now. DeSantis would bury Gillum if they voted tomorrow.

[Hannibal]

If Trump wins Florida then he wins, period.

[Dr. Strangelove]

US Steel announces it's laying off almost 1600 workers at its Great Lakes facility south of Detroit just in time for Christmas. Nice. US Steel's stock has dropped 75% since the steel tariffs were first put in place. They had a record profit in 2018 but in the last quarter actually posted a loss as demand has dramatically slowed

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-u-s-steel-layoffs/u-s-steel-says-to-lay-off-1545-workers-in-michigan-idUSKBN1YO287

[iam416]

Great news for the Ds!

[froot loops]

Florida is in no way, shape or form the tipping state. Trump is going to win Florida whetjer he wins or loses. The tipping point States in 2016 were Wisonsin and Pennsylvania, they look to be the same for 2020. If Biden won Florida, he would comfortably win the electoral college. Florida will be up in the tipping state probabilities because it will go close to the average but it won't be it. There is not a realistic scenario where Biden wins Florida but loses the trio of Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania.