Seth takes a closer look at President Trump and his allies falsely declaring victory, lying to discredit the results and trying to stop the count altogether as Joe Biden tentatively gains enough states to win the presidency.
Shadowy Dem Operative 1: So you rigged it all, right?
Shadowy Dem Operative 2: Yup, POTUS is ours
SDO1: Nice. With that and the Senate, we’ll be set to install neo-Marxism
SDO2: …
SDO1: You did remember to rig the Senate vote, right?
SDO2: …
SDO1: Jesus Christ, Carl…— Jesse Singal (@jessesingal) November 5, 2020
re: #2 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo
Kittems. <3
The MSNBC reporter outside the counting center in Maricopa County is broadcasting without the camera lights turned on because every time they turn the lights on, the crowd rushes him and starts screaming.
The crowd is chanting ‘Fox News’ sucks.’ Heh.
MSNBC with reporter on scene at Maricopa counting center which is getting… protested? Cheered? Crowd chanting “Fox news sucks!”, Trumpence signs, flags, wtf.
re: #6 NetworkKed
MSNBC with reporter on scene at Maricopa counting center which is getting… protested? Cheered? Crowd chanting “Fox news sucks!”, Trumpence signs, flags, wtf.
Because FNC called Arizona for Biden.
This is particularly notable because, last I heard, Maricopa voting was going heavily Trumpward.
It had to happen…
who did this? pic.twitter.com/2aZKP6oHJ0
— Brett Meiselas (@BMeiselas) November 5, 2020
re: #6 NetworkKed
This @Msnbc dude covering the MAGA Arizona thingy is acting like he’s covering a pack of hyenas and doesn’t want to get too far from his Jeep.
[Attenborough voice]: “We don’t want to turn on the lights and startle these complicated, brutal creatures.”— Elie Mystal (@ElieNYC) November 5, 2020
Santorum is such a pathetic toad.
re: #8 A hollow voice says, Beware the strongman con
This is particularly notable because, last I heard, Maricopa voting was going heavily Trumpward.
I’m not surprised. Kelly’s doing well and I think Trump’s asshole behavior to McCain is being remembered.
Michelle Malkin is the Tila Tequila of Laura Ingrahams. https://t.co/AjBbSWnNu6
— Ace-o-aces (@aceoaces) November 5, 2020
re: #6 NetworkKed
MSNBC with reporter on scene at Maricopa counting center which is getting… protested? Cheered? Crowd chanting “Fox news sucks!”, Trumpence signs, flags, wtf.
Pro-Trump crowd upset since Fox called AZ for Biden on Tuesday night.
Meanwhile, persuade me that if we end up with a 49-51 Senate, Lisa Murkowski doesn’t become the most powerful broker in it.
She’s up for reelection in 2022. She knows that if the Senate doesn’t go D in 2020, it’s very likely to do so in two years.
She’s bucked the GOP on several big votes including ACA repeal and Barrett.
The GOP tried to oust her in 2016… recall that she lost the primary and only won reelection as a write-in. She doesn’t need the party.
And: she’s a second-generation Senator, which means she grew up watching her father as part of the old clubby, friendly Senate where Joe Biden was formed. They speak the same language. I wouldn’t be suprised if they know each other pretty well.
Which is to say: Murkowski owes McConnell nothing. I wouldn’t be at all surprised if there are some quiet efforts on the part of Biden and Harris (who, again, has served with Murkowski for four years now) to see what it would take to get her to go independent, and to caucus with the Dems on at least some of the policy priorities?
Maybe I’m overestimating her… but she’s been a lot better for our side than Collins ever was or will be. And she can’t be at all happy watching Trump further melt down the “old” GOP she grew up in.
…more like he doesn’t want to get charged by rabid magats. Seriously, wtf do these idiots think they’re doing? Injecting themselves into the process to… intimidate? Follow the poll workers and ambush them? Stop the counting when their guy is behind?
Deplorable idiots, all.
re: #8 A hollow voice says, Beware the strongman con
This is particularly notable because, last I heard, Maricopa voting was going heavily Trumpward.
My understanding was that it was trending around 19-20% Trumpward, but would need to be going around 25% Trumpward for him to take AZ, so it is heavy, but not quite heavy enough last time I checked….
re: #13 Ace-o-aces
It really sucks aging naturally for women in Fox News/Right Wing Loony Land. Once you hit 35 or so, it is out to the pasture pretty quickly once they are done with your “hotness.”
Pennsylvania:
Trump’s up by only 167,800 now.
Biden can win if he holds on to 64% of the remaining ballots. He says he’s been winning about 78% of those mail-in votes.— Tami Burages (@tburages) November 5, 2020
re: #13 Ace-o-aces
Michelle, dear. Take your lithium.
re: #15 i(m)p(each)sos
Meanwhile, persuade me that if we end up with a 49-51 Senate, Lisa Murkowski doesn’t become the most powerful broker in it.
She’s up for reelection in 2022. She knows that if the Senate doesn’t go D in 2020, it’s very likely to do so in two years.
She’s bucked the GOP on several big votes including ACA repeal and Barrett.
The GOP tried to oust her in 2016… recall that she lost the primary and only won reelection as a write-in. She doesn’t need the party.
And: she’s a second-generation Senator, which means she grew up watching her father as part of the old clubby, friendly Senate where Joe Biden was formed. They speak the same language. I wouldn’t be suprised if they know each other pretty well.
Which is to say: Murkowski owes McConnell nothing. I wouldn’t be at all surprised if there are some quiet efforts on the part of Biden and Harris (who, again, has served with Murkowski for four years now) to see what it would take to get her to go independent, and to caucus with the Dems on at least some of the policy priorities?
Maybe I’m overestimating her… but she’s been a lot better for our side than Collins ever was or will be. And she can’t be at all happy watching Trump further melt down the “old” GOP she grew up in.
She voted for Barrett. Nuff said.
In other Maricopa County news, I wandered over to my mother’s house, where I learned the hospital had sent out a home health nurse after mom’s fall last week. The nurse found a rash on my mother’s lower abdomen and chewed my brother out for not doing whole-body skin checks for rashes, bumps, lesions, etc. My mother cheerfully (and I think gleefully, based on her reaction when my brother told me of my new task) told the nurse, “My daughter will do that.” Therefore, I get to look at my mom’s whole naked body once a week.
So you say there are some patriot thugs in front of the voting center? Idiots.
re: #21 NO SMOCKING GUN!
She voted for Barrett. Nuff said.
Yeah, Murkowski is not going to be the key to stopping Mitch.
Murkowski is for Alaska, which when it came to the ACA meant that Alaskans need healthcare.
Lincoln Project is going to continue making Trumpers’ lives miserable. Schmidt is talking about Satan’s Tinkerbell.
She isn’t the only one. First we will foment your employee rebellion. Next, we will go after your clients. It will be painful. Very. https://t.co/GxJc9BBWCh
— Steve Schmidt (@SteveSchmidtSES) November 5, 2020
Sounds less like a threat and more like a promise.
re: #23 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Yeah, Murkowski is not going to be the key to stopping Mitch.
Murkowski is for Alaska, which when it came to the ACA meant that Alaskans need healthcare.
They also need other stuff that Republicans don’t seem to give a shit about. The Dems are going to have to use every tool in the box if they are to be successful.
The US Constitution clearly has critical weaknesses as originally written.
Some of those have been addressed by Amendments over the years.
But right now the archaic nature of said Constitution is really coming to the fore. Said Constitution is being used to deny the concept that the governed get to decide who governs. This was always a weakness, addressed over time with abolishing slavery and then giving women universal suffrage.
Yet there still remains the archaic Electoral College, itself a compromise just like slavery in the Constitution.
And the Senate was archaic from the start (too much like Lords in the UK.) It took many years before Senators were elected.
The past few years I have become more resolute in my feelings that the Senate needs to be abolished (along with the electoral college.)
FINISH HIM
Biden’s lead is now currently bigger than Trump’s final 2016 margin in both MI and WI and is projected to grow. Estimates are his PA lead will be bigger as well. If smaller margins were good enough for Trump to collapse the Blue Wall, larger ones certainly OK to rebuild it.
— David Plouffe (@davidplouffe) November 4, 2020
re: #13 Ace-o-aces
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And Matthew Seely is the Rush Limbaugh of Tucker Carlsons.
A conservative, Trump-loving Grosse Pointe Shores councilman suggested Wednesday that four congresswomen nicknamed “the squad” “are the proof we have forgotten” about the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
Councilman Matt Seely, who previously mocked sexual assault victims on social media, posted a meme on Facebook with the words, “We said ‘Never Forget,’” atop an image of the Twin Towers burning. Below the image is a photo of the four congresswomen with the words, “They are the proof we have forgotten.”
CNN’s Dana Bash says a source tells her Trump is feeling “down” and “starting to see this slip away”
— Michael Crowley (@michaelcrowley) November 5, 2020
You hate to see it. Wait, no you don’t.
re: #27 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
The US Constitution clearly has critical weaknesses as originally written.
Some of those have been addressed by Amendments over the years.
But right now the archaic nature of said Constitution is really coming to the fore. Said Constitution is being used to deny the concept that the governed get to decide who governs. This was always a weakness, addressed over time with abolishing slavery and then giving women universal suffrage.
Yet there still remains the archaic Electoral College, itself a compromise just like slavery in the Constitution.
And the Senate was archaic from the start (too much like Lords in the UK.) It took many years before Senators were elected.
The past few years I have become more resolute in my feelings that the Senate needs to be abolished (along with the electoral college.)
Constitutional Originalism is the same boat as Biblical Fundamentalism: literalism in service to bullshit that has so thoroughly embedded itself into our political structure as to make any reform impossible.
re: #27 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
The US Constitution clearly has critical weaknesses as originally written.
Some of those have been addressed by Amendments over the years.
But right now the archaic nature of said Constitution is really coming to the fore. Said Constitution is being used to deny the concept that the governed get to decide who governs. This was always a weakness, addressed over time with abolishing slavery and then giving women universal suffrage.
Yet there still remains the archaic Electoral College, itself a compromise just like slavery in the Constitution.
And the Senate was archaic from the start (too much like Lords in the UK.) It took many years before Senators were elected.
The past few years I have become more resolute in my feelings that the Senate needs to be abolished (along with the electoral college.)
I was talking about how greatly the proportions between the ratio of persons represented per Senator by the largest and smallest state’s Senator in 1790 census and our most recent one. It’s incredible really. The smallest state of today population wise I believe is Wyoming and it’s around the same population that the country had that first census. I just don’t know what you would replace the Senate with and how would you handle the confirmation of presidential appointees with that among other things that are solely Senate business at the moment. I don’t know how a federal unicameral legislature would work. I do support expanding the size of the House though.
It’s a great thing that Fuckface Von Clownstick’s presidency* will end at noon on 20 January 2021, for real.
But this made my night.
One of my favorite pro skiers just followed me. How cool is that?!? pic.twitter.com/A51pvA9OnP
— Charlie Vogel, aka His Teleness the Charlie Lama (@teleskiguy) November 5, 2020
As a teenager I had centerfolds of him from Powder Magazine and Freeze hanging up on my wall in my bedroom and college dorm room.
re: #31 Citizen K
Constitutional Originalism is the same boat as Biblical Fundamentalism: literalism in service to bullshit that has so thoroughly embedded itself into our political structure as to make any reform impossible.
The Senate is an especially difficult thing to reform, since altering the equal votes of the states in the Senate is the one thing the Constitution places beyond the reach of its own amendment procedures:
The Congress, whenever two thirds of both Houses shall deem it necessary, shall propose Amendments to this Constitution, or, on the Application of the Legislatures of two thirds of the several States, shall call a Convention for proposing Amendments, which, in either Case, shall be valid to all Intents and Purposes, as Part of this Constitution, when ratified by the Legislatures of three fourths of the several States, or by Conventions in three fourths thereof, as the one or the other Mode of Ratification may be proposed by the Congress; Provided that no Amendment which may be made prior to the Year One thousand eight hundred and eight shall in any Manner affect the first and fourth Clauses in the Ninth Section of the first Article; and that no State, without its Consent, shall be deprived of its equal Suffrage in the Senate.
To me this means that reform of the Senate must consist of stripping it of its powers and duties.
re: #32 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
I was talking about how greatly the proportions between the ratio of persons represented per Senator by the largest and smallest state’s Senator in 1790 census and our most recent one. It’s incredible really. The smallest state of today population wise I believe is Wyoming and it’s around the same population that the country had that first census. I just don’t know what you would replace the Senate with and how would you handle the confirmation of presidential appointees with that among other things that are solely Senate business at the moment. I don’t know how a federal unicameral legislature would work. I do support expanding the size of the House though.
Make DC and Puerto Rico states and that at least slaps a decent bandage/cast on the Senate.
The latest from Georgia:
90,735 votes left to count
31,748 votes between Trump & Biden (0.65%) pic.twitter.com/nBc2G82PTH— Brendan Keefe (@BrendanKeefe) November 5, 2020
how it started: how it’s going: pic.twitter.com/IqwjY1xI3X
— bleaks (@bleakfacts) November 5, 2020
This would be violation of 18 USC 592 (and 594) and anyone ordering armed law enforcement officials to ballot-counting venues could be imprisoned for up to 5 years. #LawAndOrder https://t.co/bADi8Y6YXL
— Tammy Duckworth (@SenDuckworth) November 5, 2020
re: #35 jamesfirecat
Make DC and Puerto Rico states and that at least slaps a decent bandage/cast on the Senate.
That’s chewing gum and bailing wire, at best. Better than nothing, but what’s to stop Republicans from carving up the Dakotas into teeny tiny pieces in retaliation next chance they get?
It’s much like rebalancing the courts (if possible) — something that has to be done to deal with an emergency, but not even close to fixing the underlying problem.
1877
— Edwin Mix (@TheEdMix) November 5, 2020
re: #36 makeitstop
Ughhhhh. Come on Georgia.
Upon reading the horrible news waking up the morning of Nov 4, 2016, complete dread filled my soul. Perhaps I thought I was overreacting.But Trump’s Presidency was every bit as bad as I thought it would be and probably worse.
Along the way I learned that Republicans are all-in on White Supremacy as long as it served the corporate master’s agenda of wealth and power as a zero sum game. This includes direct violence against US citizens, backing armed gangs to intimidate protestors, and child kidnapping among many many crimes.
But the past 24 hours are showing there is still hope. We can pull ourselves out of Hybrid Regime status shared with Turkey and Russia and redirect more towards democracy and egalitarianism. But it will be a long and exhausting fight. 2 years and another midterm election. Then comes the re-election of Biden/Harris in 2024. Be prepared to fight.
re: #18 Florida Panhandler
It really sucks aging naturally for women in Fox News/Right Wing Loony Land. Once you hit 35 or so, it is out to the pasture pretty quickly once they are done with your “hotness.”
Not seeing it.
Laura Ingraham 57
Martha Macallum 56
Shannon Bream 50
Dana Perino 48
Dagan Mcdowell 51
Harris Faulkner 55
Maria Bartiromo 53
Heather Childers 51
Uma Pemmaraju 62
Can’t wait for Trump to win the 2024 GOP nomination from prison
Gaaaaaaah, watching the PA counter doesn’t make it go faster.
I am looking at the 7500 margin for Biden in Nevada…then I am giving the stink eye to the 23000+ people in that state so far who voted third party or none of the above.
Not real thrilled with the 48000 in Wisconsin, the swingingest swing state, who used their vote this way either.
If you are able to see that Trump doesn’t deserve a second term but are unwilling to vote for the one person who can beat him, I think you’re off your rocker.
re: #48 bratwurst
I am looking at the 7500 margin for Biden in Nevada…then I am giving the stink eye to the 23000+ people in that state so far who voted third party or none of the above.
Not real thrilled with the 48000 in Wisconsin, the swingingest swing state, who used their vote this way either.
If you are able to see that Trump doesn’t deserve a second term but are unwilling to vote for the one person who can beat him, I think you’re off your rocker.
I would be unable to hide my contempt for this kind of fuckwittedness, so it’s a good thing I don’t hang around third party types trying to get them to see reason.
re: #45 SpaceJesus
Can’t wait for Trump to win the 2024 GOP nomination from prison
As much as it would be nice to see the Trump syndicate behind bars, I’m not going to hold my breath. I seriously doubt there are going to be any Federal charges and currently I think all the NY stuff is civil prosecution not criminal. That could change, but again, not gonna hold my breath.
I think all the talk of Trump fleeing the country is just wishful thinking.
bright days ahead for this future member of congress pic.twitter.com/iB3ij03vhr
— Matt Binder (@MattBinder) November 5, 2020
re: #51 danarchy
As much as it would be nice to see the Trump syndicate behind bars, I’m not going to hold my breath. I seriously doubt there are going to be any Federal charges and currently I think all the NY stuff is civil prosecution not criminal. That could change, but again, not gonna hold my breath.
I think all the talk of Trump fleeing the country is just wishful thinking.
I’ve always felt the best ending for Donny is to spend the rest of his life going from courtroom to courtroom, watching his “empire” dismantled piece by piece as his creditors call in his debts and the government bleeds him dry for unpaid taxes. So that he meets his end destitute, senile, and forgotten.
Lame duck Trump is going be so mental.
— Evan McMullin 🇺🇸 (@EvanMcMullin) November 5, 2020
Here’s how the Atlanta protest is looking right now at 10:37pm. https://t.co/m4UXtwiSHj pic.twitter.com/R3wnafnoGt
— Matt Johnson (@MattWSB) November 5, 2020
we’ve been waiting for HOURS regarding this shit, sorry to be so cranky about it but it is just as fucking taxing as last night.
I know everyone is hopeful, I know the signs are bright, but we haven’t won SHIT yet.
don’t get me wrong, I WANT TO BE HAPPY but perhaps I’ve got 2020 fatigue but I really think we need to check ourselves until this shit is official.
#Georgia Update: The Director of Registration & Elections Richard Barron tells #CNN there are still about 20,000 mail-in ballots to be counted in Fulton County (Atlanta). Barron thought his team would finalize their ballot count “sometime between” midnight and 3 am ET. #CNN
— lisa mirando (@LisaMirandoCNN) November 5, 2020
So Va Beach proved to be a mixed bag this year as well. We’re sending Elaine Luria back to Congress for another term, but our Repub Mayor (Dwyer) managed to fend off another challenger. And the state as a whole is returning Mark Warner to the US Senate, though that race was never really in doubt.
Some data on voters 18-29. In 2016, 1.9 million of them turned out. This year, nearly 10 million turned out, favoring Biden by 2 to 1.
If we keep them going to the polls, things will turn around pretty quickly.
re: #59 Belafon
Some data on voters 18-29. In 2016, 1.9 million of them turned out. This year, nearly 10 million turned out, favoring Biden by 2 to 1.
If we keep them going to the polls, things will turn around pretty quickly.
The kids are all right.
re: #59 Belafon
Some data on voters 18-29. In 2016, 1.9 million of them turned out. This year, nearly 10 million turned out, favoring Biden by 2 to 1.
If we keep them going to the polls, things will turn around pretty quickly.
I am hopeful they will learn from the mistakes many in my generation who voted Obama 2008 and then stayed home.
Hey, it’s John Oliver’s evil twin
Meet the Trumpers Who Went to Detroit to “Stop the Count”…
There are all kinds of crazy pro-Trump memes on Facebook about the counting…
Via Mother Jones https://t.co/Ooan7fmSA6— The Fighting Liberal (@texyellowdogdem) November 5, 2020
re: #60 jamesfirecat
The kids are all right.
Sometimes
I feel I got to get away
Bells chime
I know I got to get away
And I know if I don’t, I’ll go out of my mind
Better leave her behind
With the kids they’re alright
The kids are alright
Oh, sorry, not quite what you meant …
Ana Navarro talking about how diverse the Latino community is nationwide. I think many Anglos don’t get that.
Trump is getting so tired of Biden’s winning that he’s begging the courts to stop it.
— Windsor Mann (@WindsorMann) November 4, 2020
Technically I got about a two hour nap this afternoon, but I’m finally bonking. Thanks to everyone here for keeping me sane. Saner. Feeling really good, hopefully Trump will shout and bluster and do nothing useful, as he so often does.
Just watch, he’ll show us his plan for how to win the election in “two weeks”.
If any Republican did this today they would be excommunicated and tarred and feathered.
This is his how you concede defeat gracefully @realDonaldTrump 👇👇 pic.twitter.com/tDwxmofwYC
— Grant Tucker (@GrantTucker) November 5, 2020
re: #59 Belafon
Some data on voters 18-29. In 2016, 1.9 million of them turned out. This year, nearly 10 million turned out, favoring Biden by 2 to 1.
If we keep them going to the polls, things will turn around pretty quickly.
Holy shit at the 5x turnout difference. But that’s another reminder that Trump really did turn out millions of additional votes for himself, even after fucking up the covid19 response worse than any federal fuckup since the civil war.
That increased GOP turnout is what I wasn’t expecting in this election, and thankfully it seems to have fallen just short of giving Trump another win.
Ooh, this could get ugly.
MARICOPA COUNTY, AZ: Sherriff’s office ready to crackdown on pro-Trump protestors outside vote counting station.
— US Politics Polls (@USPoliticsPoll) November 5, 2020
Data visualization insights:
Land doesn’t vote. People do.#USElection2020 pic.twitter.com/MJWKPftOsx— Bettina Forget (@BettinaForget) November 5, 2020
re: #69 makeitstop
Ooh, this could get ugly.
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Well that’s the advantage of not having Sheriff Joe in there. I’m sure he would have his boys join em.
re: #69 makeitstop
Ooh, this could get ugly.
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UPDATE: Now a massive crowd outside. Way more people than earlier. MCSO being called. Security worried they may try to make their way inside. #ABC15 pic.twitter.com/bhUpHuJFoI
— Nicole Valdes (@NicoleValdesTV) November 5, 2020
So far, the armed terrorist bands have not made an appearance. The crisis will come when they do.
America is about to deliver Donald Trump the FULL Pandemic experience.
He will lose his job, he will lose his salary, and he will be evicted.— 🇺🇸 Anne From Maine 🏳️🌈 (@AnneFromMaine) November 4, 2020
It’s gonna be close in Atlanta. Joe has a shot with maybe 60k votes left (official estimate)
My photographer and I have left after one protester threatened us and said he would find where we live. We are filing a police report. https://t.co/mx9cr6MDq1
— Kim Powell (@KimPowellTV) November 5, 2020
The guns are starting to appear outside the counting centers. If the motherfuckers break in, shoot them. There is no better justification for lethal force than the defense of democracy from fascist savages.
“Hi, I’m a guy with a gun. I’d like to count the vote instead of the local officials who are supposed to do that.”
They’ll never understand that they’re the communist bullies they think they’re defending us against. https://t.co/XHTbUJrwW5— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) November 5, 2020
re: #78 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo
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Yeah law and order my ass.
re: #63 William Lewis
Sometimes
I feel I got to get away
Bells chime
I know I got to get away
And I know if I don’t, I’ll go out of my mind
Better leave her behind
With the kids they’re alright
The kids are alrightOh, sorry, not quite what you meant …
I don’t envy the GOP lawyers who are going to have to go into court knowing that their colleagues representing the same clients and interests are arguing the exact opposite position they are… judges typically don’t like it when they know you’re taking contrary positions in different court rooms
Stop counting votes here, keep counting votes there, and do a recount over there… that’s not a winning strategy
re: #79 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
Yeah law and order my ass.
They’re big on the order part, less do on the law part
Highly competitive #UnitedStates #Elections2020 tarnished by legal uncertainty and unprecedented attempts to undermine public trust, international observers say. Read our press release 👉 https://t.co/uR6JxMZOOL. pic.twitter.com/mVCSrv8yUn
— OSCE/ODIHR (@osce_odihr) November 4, 2020
BREAKING: Maricopa is now CLOSING due to concerns about unrest from sizeable crowds protesting vote counting per @CNN
— Alexa O’Brien (@alexadobrien) November 5, 2020
Vote count will be transmitted electronically by officials, but the media (CNN is last crew there) has to leave per @CNN
Vote count may be delayed.— Alexa O’Brien (@alexadobrien) November 5, 2020
re: #81 KGxvi
I don’t envy the GOP lawyers who are going to have to go into court knowing that their colleagues representing the same clients and interests are arguing the exact opposite position they are… judges typically don’t like it when they know you’re taking contrary positions in different court rooms
Stop counting votes here, keep counting votes there, and do a recount over there… that’s not a winning strategy
Yeah there’s no coherent strategy.
re: #64 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
Ana Navarro talking about how diverse the Latino community is nationwide. I think many Anglos don’t get that.
The Cuban diaspora especially.
re: #84 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
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This is bullshit. Call in the National Guard, issue live ammunition, and surround the place with armor if you have to. Do not let the terrorists and traitors get away with this.
re: #87 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo
This is bullshit. Call in the National Guard, issue live ammunition, and surround the place with armor if you have to. Do not let the terrorists and traitors get away with this.
Ducey the GOP governor won’t call out the National Guard and he’s probably signaling to the thugs to keep up the pressure to disrupt the counting.
re: #86 BeenHereAwhile
The Cuban diaspora especially.
Absolutely. I took a history course on Latin America in college because how many Hispanic Americans I’ve known over the years. It’s complicated and I remember Biden trying to explain that but it got turned into a fauxrage because people misconstrued what Biden was trying to say.
Trumpster in barbecue and beer t-shirt goes apeshit during press conference.
I regret to inform you that my fellow overweight white guys are at it again https://t.co/eS8Mah6E5q
— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) November 4, 2020
Those goons were chanting ‘count the votes’ earlier. Way to get what you want, ya freaking imbeciles.
If the Maricopa vote counting is taking place where I think it is, it’s about five miles from my house to the west and south of US 60. I’m not going anywhere near the place.
re: #93 mmmirele
If the Maricopa vote counting is taking place where I think it is, it’s about five miles from my house to the west and south of US 60. I’m not going anywhere near the place.
Yeah stay safe.
I feel there’s gonna be a lot of angry crazy people real soon.
re: #94 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
Yeah stay safe.
The last time I was at that building was four years ago today, when Trump won and I decided I needed a passport.
From a smart netizen: pic.twitter.com/cUzqXgFaB7
— Hu Xijin 胡锡进 (@HuXijin_GT) November 5, 2020
re: #95 IngisKahn
I feel there’s gonna be a lot of angry crazy people real soon.
It’s starting to dawn on the MAGAts that they’ve lost. And now they’re starting to work themselves up into a frenzy.
The lying, rioting fascist Trumpsters are evil, depraved people. They do this because there are no consequences. There must be consequences and the reprisals must fall most heavily on the conspiracy/disinformation industry
Hold Marky Mark and @jack responsible for allowing disinformation to spread like wildfire!
re: #101 🌹UOJB!
Hold Marky Mark and @jack responsible for allowing disinformation to spread like wildfire!
REPEAL SECTION 230!!!
I have one message for the big tech oligarchs in Silicon Valley: winter is coming.https://t.co/hIkyG3fy3m
— Tom Cotton (@SenTomCotton) October 15, 2020
A member of Congress inciting a riot to intimidate good, decent people doing their civic duty by honestly counting the vote. Always remember about Gosar, his own siblings made a TV add to denounce his character, which is on ugly display here. https://t.co/UJzrP3a9z5
— Mark Salter (@MarkSalter55) November 5, 2020
re: #104 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
I don’t think they’re getting a Tea Party redux.
It’s gonna be worse Happy! This time it’s the QAssholes and they are really angry that the mass arrests haven’t occurred.
Looking at Georgia and seeing Joe close the gap. This could be a case of revenge because the Libertarian looks like she pulled enough votes away from Trump to let Joe get Georgia!
re: #106 🌹UOJB!
Looking at Georgia and seeing Joe close the gap. This could be a case of revenge because the Libertarian looks like she pulled enough votes away from Trump to let Joe get Georgia!
How close is he, and how many votes are left?
But biden is in the lead for arizona
— AKAuniverse (@Aymankaltamimi) November 5, 2020
A quick add Joe at 264 with Arizona
Add Nevada’s 6—it’s 270
Add Georgia’s 16—it’s 286
Add Pennsylvania’s 20—306.
It would be fitting that Joe wins with 306 and Trump winds up with the same number 232 that Hillary got in 2016…
re: #105 🌹UOJB!
It’s gonna be worse Happy! This time it’s the QAssholes and they are really angry that the mass arrests haven’t occurred.
I mean they’re not gonna sweep back the House on that shit.
re: #107 Belafon
How close is he, and how many votes are left?
Biden is within 23k votes, not sure how many are outstanding. AP is reporting 98% in, nyt is saying 95% in.
re: #109 🌹UOJB!
A quick add Joe at 264 with Arizona
Add Nevada’s 6—it’s 270
Add Georgia’s 16—it’s 286
Add Pennsylvania’s 20—306.It would be fitting that Joe wins with 306 and Trump winds up with the same number 232 that Hillary got in 2016…
Symmetry. I like it.
Biden just under 10K in Georgia. Oops misheard that. I think it’s 60 K left.
Military ballots likely among those left to be counted https://t.co/s6rum4sxQs pic.twitter.com/9cjBAjMicH
— The Hill (@thehill) November 5, 2020
re: #114 Dread Pirate Ron
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Oooh the military finishing him off would be beautiful.
re: #115 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
Oooh the military finishing him off would be beautiful.
Didn’t the officers side with Biden while the enlisted went with Trump?
re: #116 Belafon
Didn’t the officers side with Biden while the enlisted went with Trump?
I think so but who really knows with polling. From what I’ve read, he’s done a lot to hurt military morale through making people like Eddie Gallagher into heroes.
re: #117 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
I think so but who really knows with polling. From what I’ve read, he’s done a lot to hurt military morale through making people like Eddie Gallagher into heroes.
Yeah, from what I’ve read here and there, seems like Trump has alienated a pretty big chunk of the military with his bullshit.
Staff at the @maricopacounty Elections Department will continue our job, which is to administer elections in the second largest voting jurisdiction in the county. We will release results again tonight as planned. We thank the @mcsoaz for doing their job, so we can do ours.
— Maricopa County Elections Department (@MaricopaVote) November 5, 2020
Tough guy! pic.twitter.com/O8ChTtQTjl https://t.co/LKoDm6y6eT
— Charlie Vogel, aka His Teleness the Charlie Lama (@teleskiguy) November 5, 2020
Is he 14 or 40? Feel kind of bad for him, what with all those times he got shoved in lockers in high school.
Show offs
— tgc (@jazz01068) November 5, 2020
re: #120 teleskiguy
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Is he 14 or 40? Feel kind of bad for him, what with all those times he got shoved in lockers in high school.
re: #122 Dr Lizardo
Be careful out there, big guy pic.twitter.com/GggKtRRAST
— Nobou (@NouveauBougee) November 5, 2020
Denmark to cull entire mink herd amid mutation fears for #coronavirus vaccine https://t.co/HjCdR81ZU7
— Canoe (@Canoe) November 5, 2020
#Canadian health authorities report the country’s first case of a human infected with the H1N2 virus, a rare strain of #swineflu.https://t.co/K9tpgziSAd
— Al Arabiya English (@AlArabiya_Eng) November 5, 2020
re: #125 Dread Pirate Ron
2020 needs to calm the fuck down.
America (including California) loves its celebs, even if they are conspiracy spinning whack-a-loons:
Tito Ortiz wins city council seat in Huntington Beach, California
Former UFC light heavyweight champion and Hall of Famer Tito Ortiz has won a seat in the city council in Huntington Beach, California.
The 45-year old ran on a heavy conservative platform linking himself to President Donald Trump, with Ortiz often spreading erroneous conspiracy theories throughout his campaign.
The city council had three seats up for grabs with Ortiz topping all other candidates with 14.3 percent of the vote that equaled 34,901 votes. Democrats Dan Kalmick and Natalie Moser finished behind Ortiz in the field of 15.
[…]
America is addicted to celebrity.
A idiot but famous fighter on the ballot - let’s vote for him!
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This election was not good for the Democratic party. Or for the US for that matter.
Sure, Biden is almost certainly going to win an electoral vote. A victory.
But no coattails.
Dems are down 6 seats in the House.
This is bad.
Winning parties ought to at least hold if not increase their Congressional delegation.
Call me a wet blanket, a debbie-downer… still, I think there has been exposed a deep divide in the options going forward for the Democratic party.
There is little, probably no, way to harmonize a modernist, non-religious (or at least a-religious) modern cultural belief with conservative (fundamentalist, evangelical, etc.) Christianity.
And that is going to be very hard to figure out politically.
Because while only about a fourth of Americans self identify as that type of Christian, of that group a great percentage now vote. Religiously. Especially religiously.
The GOP and religious right have demonstrated that abortion is the issue by which to neuter Democrats.
Biden is going to have a very hard time with a majority Republican Senate and a tiny Dem majority in the House.
Congratulations?
— Sonny (@Myrtle_Kombat) November 5, 2020
re: #131 Dread Pirate Ron
Maybe they’ll just prop up his corpse like Weekend at Bernie’s?
OAN repeating repeatedly debunked lie about sharpies… pic.twitter.com/VvJKwoD9Hh
— Andrew Feinberg (@AndrewFeinberg) November 5, 2020
Eta still giving models problems:
GFS now has a recovered Eta doing a triple landfall in Florida.
European model now has Eta missing Florida by turning a sharp left, heading west in the strait and heading to Louisiana as a weak depression.
The Canadian model as a spawn-of-Eta barely clipping southern Florida while moving east.
Thing that distresses me is how Trump got more votes this year than in 2016…in fact, in 2020, he got more votes than Hillary did in 2016.
Show the extent to which his sickness and craziness has become mainstreamed in the USA.
Even if he loses (knock on wood), Trumpism is not going to go away.
Just started looking, but Muscogee County GA (Ft Benning) and Cumberland County NC (Ft Bragg) both went Biden by large margins (+24, +17). Russell County AL, across the border/river from Muscogee also went Biden.
However, the counties bordering Ft Campbell in KY and TN went solidly Trump
Finally looked, Duval County FL (location of my cave) home of Jacksonville NAS and Mayport Navel Base went Biden. Pretty sure that was a Trump win in ‘16
Is this a rhetorical question? https://t.co/F7yEWgf1ZD
— Ana Navarro-Cárdenas (@ananavarro) November 5, 2020
re: #137 Dread Pirate Ron
What we know, 3:00am EST 11/5.
Biden needs 17 EVs out of NV, AZ, GA, PA, (NC)
—NV: up 6K: more tmrw.
—AZ: up 68K. To offset Pima/Cococino, Trump will need more than he got today in Maricopa.
—GA: down 22K. 10s of 1000s mail left. Tight.
—PA: down 164K. 100s of 1000s mail left.— Taniel (@Taniel) November 5, 2020
re: #49 BigPapa
Debs was a political prisoner, unjustly convicted for a fake “crime”.
Trump is a crook. There is no comparison.
re: #140 John Hughes
Debs was a political prisoner, unjustly convicted for a fake “crime”.
Trump is a crook. There is no comparison.
Debs was a prisoner of conscience.
Trump has no conscience.
re: #142 Nyet
I dislike the fact that AZ is still not in the bag.
Same here, but I’m still confident he’s got it.
re: #144 Nyet
Why?
Honestly, because AP called it and they have a 99.8% accuracy rating on their calls.
The Associated Press has declared Democrat Joe Biden the winner in Arizona, flipping a longtime GOP state that President Donald Trump won in 2016.
The AP called the race at 2:50 a.m. EST Wednesday, after an analysis of ballots cast statewide concluded there were not enough outstanding to allow Trump to catch up.
With 80% of the expected vote counted, Biden was ahead by 5 percentage points, with a roughly 130,000-vote lead over Trump with about 2.6 million ballots counted. The remaining ballots left to be counted, including mail-in votes in Maricopa County, where Biden performed strongly, were not enough for Trump to catch up to the former vice president.
I admit, there’s a slim chance AP could have called it wrong, but I think their analysis of the situation in Arizona is correct.
re: #83 Dread Pirate Ron
When Albania sends observers to see whether your election is fair…
re: #145 Dr Lizardo
Honestly, because AP called it and they have a 99.8% accuracy rating on their calls.
I admit, there’s a slim chance AP could have called it wrong, but I think their analysis of the situation in Arizona is correct.
Nate Cohn says nothing is clear about AZ, Nate Silver says early calls were wrong and should be withdrawn. So no reason for confidence. Could still go to Trump.
re: #147 Nyet
Sure, it could - but Trump would need to win 57% of all the remaining votes, and that includes Pima County, which is heavily Biden. Not impossible for a Trump comeback (after all, nothing’s really impossible in politics), but I still think Biden’s got AZ.
re: #121 Dread Pirate Ron
Now they just have to remember to keep the stock up, not like last time when they let half of it rot and forgot to replenish what they used.
re: #148 Dr Lizardo
Your words into Dog’s fluffy ears, but it will be done when it will be done.
re: #150 Nyet
Your words into Dog’s fluffy ears, but it will be done when it will be done.
Indeed - after all, it ain’t over ‘til it’s over. And when I look at where Trump’s filing his lawsuits, seems like they’re seriously worried about losing Georgia too. Georgia. That’s pretty amazeballs when you think about it.
re: #142 Nyet
I dislike the fact that AZ is still not in the bag.
considering how blood-red AZ has been since the 80’s, that is still encouraging
re: #145 Dr Lizardo
Honestly, because AP called it and they have a 99.8% accuracy rating on their calls.
I admit, there’s a slim chance AP could have called it wrong, but I think their analysis of the situation in Arizona is correct.
If Trump had not pissed off so many McCain supporters, he might have done better…
re: #153 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
If Trump had not pissed off so many McCain supporters, he might have done better…
Yep. McCain was pretty much a beloved AZ favorite son and pissing off his supporters was an act of monumental idiocy.
It sucks that most of the mistakes that will probably cost Trump the presidency were relatively superficial, like the McCain thing, while the actual grave almost-crimes seem to have little effect.
re: #155 Nyet
My main how is now on PA.
If my math is correct, if Biden won PA, he wouldn’t even need Arizona (or Nevada) to seal the deal.
re: #157 Dr Lizardo
If my math is correct, if Biden won PA, he wouldn’t even need Arizona (or Nevada) to seal the deal.
Sure, as of now he lacks 17 EVs, PA delivers 20.
re: #156 Nyet
It sucks that most of the mistakes that will probably cost Trump the presidency were relatively superficial, like the McCain thing, while the actual grave almost-crimes seem to have little effect.
It scares me how he still managed to get this many votes after all he has done…
re: #161 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
It scares me how he still managed to get this many votes after all he has done…
Because of it.
re: #160 Nyet
Cohn and Wasserman feel good about PA.
That’s good to hear.
I haven’t looked, and I have no desire to, but I’ll bet that right now, RW media is absolutely flooded with misinformation, disinformation and all manner of insane conspiracy theories. If/when Biden is called as the winner, that’s when things could really kick off.
Hopefully, the vast majority of the RWNJ’s will be so demoralized they won’t do a damn thing aside from cry on social media….but it’s that handful of loonies, perhaps convinced that ZOMG TEH COMMUNIST COUPE IS HAPANNING!!! that certainly gives me pause.
re: #163 Dr Lizardo
That’s good to hear.
I haven’t looked, and I have no desire to, but I’ll bet that right now, RW media is absolutely flooded with misinformation, disinformation and all manner of insane conspiracy theories. If/when Biden is called as the winner, that’s when things could really kick off.
the closer the win, the bigger the ensuing clusterf*ck
re: #165 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
the closer the win, the bigger the ensuing clusterf*ck
A good point.
BTW, here’s a bona fide communist coupe:
Škoda Rapid cabriolet MTX (mid-1980s)
re: #129 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
The GOP and religious right have demonstrated that abortion is the issue by which to neuter Democrats.
They have shown that abortion is the magic word of the time, not necessarily the issue. Just like guns is a magic word, and socialism. If you asked Republican voters, they would say any of these magic words and say that’s why the support the GOP. But none of these are true. Democrats could mimic GOP positions on these issues exactly, and they would still vote Republican. These voters do not share reality, and thus changing the parameters of reality won’t change their actions.
Democrats will have a hard time going forward, but it’s not because of any issue. It’s because of systemic problems in the US electoral system and the religion of right wing media, which has total control over those who consume it.
I’m sorry y’all but I still have an uneasy feeling. Joe doesn’t have this yet. Sigh.
re: #172 GlutenFreeJesus
I’m sorry y’all but I still have an uneasy feeling. Joe doesn’t have this yet. Sigh.
I am down to my last shredded strands of optimism
re: #172 GlutenFreeJesus
I’m sorry y’all but I still have an uneasy feeling. Joe doesn’t have this yet. Sigh.
Yes. But at this point I’d rather be him than Trump.
Fulton 77% for Joe, so *if* this continues, he may as well win by a few 100s in GA
re: #175 Nyet
Fulton 77% for Joe, so *if* this continues, he may as well win by a few 100s in GA
If Biden could pick off Georgia, a reliable GOP state, that’d be pretty impressive.
Since I gave up waiting for results in Georgia about 7 hours ago, they have reported 23,273 additional votes. Biden won 78% of those votes, and now trails by 18,450 votes. In every batch of votes Biden has run slightly ahead of where he needs to be to close the gap.
— Tom Bonier (@tbonier) November 5, 2020
Also, Purdue at 50.03 or something percent by AP tracker. Under 50 and it’s a runoff. Looks like that will happen.
re: #178 ericblair
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Oh dog, let it be so!
re: #179 Barefoot Grin
Oh dog, let it be so!
A well-wired Democrat in Georgia tells me he expects Biden to jump ahead of Trump today in his state — potentially by noon, by a margin of less than 20,000 votes.
He’s expecting a recount in Georgia.— Dave Catanese (@davecatanese) November 5, 2020
Grain of salt, of course.
Nope, Trump knew just how racist America really is and he exploited it. Con men know how to identify weaknesses in their victims and manipulate them. All Trump had to do is call Mexicans rapists and criminals, and millions of Americans were ready to vote for him. https://t.co/fGVE13YX1m
— Christopher Bouzy (@cbouzy) November 5, 2020
Georgia is only as red as it has been because the GOP has been good at keeping “the wrong people” from voting
I think a lot of us have already done this thought exercise:
Imagine, for a moment, if there were a large gathering of Black people, some with guns, outside of a ballot tabulating location in Arizona.
Imagine the police presence and violence toward that group, and the calls for “law and order.”
The democratic process is being disrupted.— Be A King (@BerniceKing) November 5, 2020
re: #182 DodgerFan1988
Trump knew just how racist America really is and he exploited it. Con men know how to identify weaknesses in their victims and manipulate them. All Trump had to do is call Mexicans rapists and criminals, and millions of Americans were ready to vote for him.
Trump infected nobody, he just erased the distinction between sick and normal.
I’m getting the hang of commenting on US politics
- if Trump scrapes home in the electoral college, but loses popular vote in 2016, the Democrats are out of touch.
- if Biden scrapes home in the electoral college, and wins popular vote in 2020, the Democrats are out of touch.— Henry Mance (@henrymance) November 5, 2020
re: #185 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Trump infected nobody, he just erased the distinction between sick and normal.
Yep.
Over the years, I’ve seen the question asked, “How did Hitler brainwash an entire nation?” He didn’t, truth be told. All Hitler really did was tell the German people what they already believed about themselves and their place in the world.
Hitler was a sounding board, albeit an exceptionally shouty and megalomaniacal one.
re: #186 ericblair
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re: #186 ericblair
You would never know reading takes like that the Democrats have won the popular vote in 7/8 elections. Maybe those who insist the Democrats are out out of touch should talk to the party who has only done that once since 1992. And yes I know about the EC but Republicans are the ones who are actually out of touch with the majority of the country.
re: #185 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Trump infected nobody, he just erased the distinction between sick and normal.
yes he unlocked the door and showed it was ok to come out
re: #187 Dr Lizardo
Yep.
Over the years, I’ve seen the question asked, “How did Hitler brainwash an entire nation?” He didn’t, truth be told. All Hitler really did was tell the German people what they already believed about themselves and their place in the world.
Hitler was a sounding board, albeit an exceptionally shouty and megalomaniacal one.
I once watched a Yale Open Course lecture by John Merriman where he said (paraphrasing): ‘angry, resentful men hid their guns in their basements and went down there to practice marching’ in the 1920s.
re: #189 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
You would never know reading takes like that the Democrats have won the popular vote in 7/8 elections. Maybe those who insist the Democrats are out out of touch should talk to the party who has only done that once since 1992. And yes I know about the EC but Republicans are the ones who are actually out of touch with the majority of the country.
And if you compare the relative number of congressional votes cast for each party over past elections, that the GOP has been consistently over-represented.
re: #187 Dr Lizardo
Yep.
Over the years, I’ve seen the question asked, “How did Hitler brainwash an entire nation?” He didn’t, truth be told. All Hitler really did was tell the German people what they already believed about themselves and their place in the world.
Hitler was a sounding board, albeit an exceptionally shouty and megalomaniacal one.
All Hitler did was give voice to the anger and resentment that already existed in the German people. Told the people that every dark thought and impulse they had was not only right, but was inherently German and thus should be encouraged rather than restrained. All he had to do was give them an outlet and they thanked him for it.
re: #193 Targetpractice
All Hitler did was give voice to the anger and resentment that already existed in the German people. Told the people that every dark thought and impulse they had was not only right, but was inherently German and thus should be encouraged rather than restrained. All he had to do was give them an outlet and they thanked him for it.
MARRITZA: Oh, no, no, Major. You can’t dismiss me that easily. I did what had to be done. My men understood that, and that’s why they loved me. I would order them to go out and kill Bajoran scum, and they’d do it. They’d murder them and they’d come back covered in blood, but they felt clean. Now why did they feel that way, Major? Because they were clean.
DS9-Duet.
He’s going to try to delegitimize reality.
Don’t worry. My lawyers are ready.— God (@TheTweetOfGod) November 4, 2020
#Breaking: A very rare form of influenza has been diagnosed in Alberta. There have only been 27 cases worldwide.https://t.co/Pg9eumFS52
— Toronto Star (@TorontoStar) November 4, 2020
NOT NOW, 2020!!!
I’m done 🐈 pic.twitter.com/78GbxDuYd9
— Tim Doutré (@Timdoutre) November 5, 2020
Crazy Trump Jeezus Lady be groovin
re: #88 🌹UOJB!
Ducey the GOP governor won’t call out the National Guard and he’s probably signaling to the thugs to keep up the pressure to disrupt the counting.
Wait. If they certify Arizona as is due to disruptions doesn’t that mean Biden wins?
Or is this going to be the supposed leverage to create a court case for the SC due to Arizona not being able to complete counts and thus throwing the entire result in doubt?
re: #198 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
Wait. If they certify Arizona as is due to disruptions doesn’t that mean Biden wins?
Or is this going to be the supposed leverage to create a court case for the SC due to Arizona not being able to complete counts and thus throwing the entire result in doubt?
If they can work it so that neither candidate can get 270 votes, then it goes to the courts…
re: #189 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
You would never know reading takes like that the Democrats have won the popular vote in 7/8 elections. Maybe those who insist the Democrats are out out of touch should talk to the party who has only done that once since 1992. And yes I know about the EC but Republicans are the ones who are actually out of touch with the majority of the country.
Yes but the GOP has consistently won far more dirt, or won more counties, or something.
re: #200 Sir John Barron
Yes but the GOP has consistently won far more dirt, or won more counties, or something.
more gerrymandered districts
re: #198 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
Wait. If they certify Arizona as is due to disruptions doesn’t that mean Biden wins?
Or is this going to be the supposed leverage to create a court case for the SC due to Arizona not being able to complete counts and thus throwing the entire result in doubt?
Yeah I don’t get this. I would think that they would want the counting to continue in AZ.
re: #197 ericblair
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I thought she might be speaking in tongues
I’m keeping an eye on Georgia:
A nail-biter: The gap in Georgia has narrowed to about 18,500 votes between Trump and Biden. The Secretary of State told @wsbtv there are fewer than 25,000 absentee ballots remaining and they should be finished by noon today. #gapol pic.twitter.com/cKU7IWavVo
— Greg Bluestein (@bluestein) November 5, 2020
re: #202 Sir John Barron
Yeah I don’t get this. I would think that they would want the counting to continue in AZ.
This is the kick-over-the-table strategy.
Just make sure that the results cannot be certified and therefore it will be up to the SCOTUS to do its appointed task of naming Trump President-for-Life with the right to appoint his successor.
The @ajc’s @markniesse ran the numbers and found there’s at least 50k absentee ballots remaining to be counted, and Democrats say there’s more than 70k left, primarily in metro Atlanta and Savannah. #gapol https://t.co/W68vgTb0XF
— Greg Bluestein (@bluestein) November 5, 2020
re: #204 Dr Lizardo
I’m keeping an eye on Georgia:
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so there are only 25k votes left to count in total, or just 25k absentee ballots, in addition to other ballots left to count? Biden would have to win 75% of the remaining to even things out.
re: #209 Sir John Barron
so there are only 25k votes left to count in total, or just 25k absentee ballots, in addition to other ballots left to count? Biden would have to win 75% of the remaining to even things out.
OK, something like 50k-70k
So Joe could win the election by less than 1% of the vote in a red state that the Trump campaign viewed as in their corner and thus didn’t campaign as strongly there as they might have otherwise?
I feel like I’ve seen this movie before…//////
re: #208 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
Georgia’s gonna go Joe in the end.
I’d pay $5 to see the look on Newt Gingrich’s face if that happened. 😂
re: #184 Barefoot Grin
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White privilege is something to behold.
re: #147 Nyet
Nate Cohn says nothing is clear about AZ, Nate Silver says early calls were wrong and should be withdrawn. So no reason for confidence. Could still go to Trump.
I don’t know about the rest of you, but I’m feeling a bit burned by Nate Silver. I wouldn’t be using him as an authority.
re: #212 Targetpractice
So Joe could win the election by less than 1% of the vote in a red state that the Trump campaign viewed as in their corner and thus didn’t campaign as strongly there as they might have otherwise?
I feel like I’ve seen this movie before…//////
Assuming NV comes through. GA alone is not enough.
re: #213 Dr Lizardo
I’d pay $5 to see the look on Newt Gingrich’s face if that happened. 😂
Trump already lost his old district.
re: #213 Dr Lizardo
I’d pay $5 to see the look on Newt Gingrich’s face if that happened. 😂
I’d buy that for a dollar!
re: #216 Nyet
Assuming NV comes through. GA alone is not enough.
Pennsylvania plus Georgia would though.
re: #215 garzooma
I don’t know about the rest of you, but I’m feeling a bit burned by Nate Silver. I wouldn’t be using him as an authority.
Then there are no authorities, because everyone has been off.
re: #212 Targetpractice
So Joe could win the election by less than 1% of the vote in a red state that the Trump campaign viewed as in their corner and thus didn’t campaign as strongly there as they might have otherwise?
I feel like I’ve seen this movie before…//////
Hahahahaha
re: #219 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
Pennsylvania plus Georgia would though.
But with PA you don’t need GA.
re: #151 Dr Lizardo
Indeed - after all, it ain’t over ‘til it’s over. And when I look at where Trump’s filing his lawsuits, seems like they’re seriously worried about losing Georgia too. Georgia. That’s pretty amazeballs when you think about it.
Amazeballs is the correct word for this occasion.
re: #137 Dread Pirate Ron
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re: #215 garzooma
I don’t know about the rest of you, but I’m feeling a bit burned by Nate Silver. I wouldn’t be using him as an authority.
Here’s the thing: Nate’s models only work with the data they’re given, which is generally from pollsters and officials who are not commissioned by 538. The time-honored programming principle of GIGO (Garbage In, Garbage Out) applies here. If Nate’s model is off, it’s because the data fed into it and thus the assumptions made were wrong to begin with.
That said, this is now the second election where the polls at the state-level were off, in some cases wildly so, and that brings into question whether traditional polls are valid anymore.
re: #226 Targetpractice
That said, this is now the second election where the polls at the state-level were off, in some cases wildly so, and that brings into question whether traditional polls are valid anymore.
This election was most unprecedented for the number of write-in votes cast and for the fact that we have a criminal incumbent supported by terrorists and foreign governments who knows that he faces criminal charges as soon as he loses immunity.
re: #226 Targetpractice
Here’s the thing: Nate’s models only work with the data they’re given, which is generally from pollsters and officials who are not commissioned by 538. The time-honored programming principle of GIGO (Garbage In, Garbage Out) applies here. If Nate’s model is off, it’s because the data fed into it and thus the assumptions made were wrong to begin with.
That said, this is now the second election where the polls at the state-level were off, in some cases wildly so, and that brings into question whether traditional polls are valid anymore.
This is what I have been preaching since I woke up yesterday morning and saw that we were in a bona fide Charlie Foxtrot. There is no way we could have gotten here without something fishy with the polls - whether through outright manipulation, or simply that the techniques and methodology are no longer valid for the current era and need to be completely scrapped and rebuilt. Nate Silver is an aggregator, and there’s only so much bias he can apply to his numbers without resorting to literally placing his thumb on the scales.
If anything, he’s been tempering the polls’ enthusiasm.
re: #227 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
This election was most unprecedented for the number of write-in votes cast and for the fact that we have a criminal incumbent supported by terrorists and foreign governments who knows that he faces criminal charges as soon as he loses immunity.
Yeah, that’s gonna be towards the top of the list of reasons why this election was a total aberration: The standard model of most votes being cast in-person (early voting and Election Day) and mail-in ballot comprising a much smaller portion of the total vote, not to mention the record-breaking turnout of this election, just didn’t apply at all.
I just saw on MSNBC that Perdue is down to 50% with 5% of the vote to count. It sure looks like there will be two Senate runoffs in Georgia in January, with control of the Senate on the line. Could not be more important; if McConnell controls the Senate, no legislation will pass.
re: #230 Targetpractice
Yeah, that’s gonna be towards the top of the list of reasons why this election was a total aberration: The standard model of most votes being cast in-person (early voting and Election Day) and mail-in ballot comprising a much smaller portion of the total vote, not to mention the record-breaking turnout of this election, just didn’t apply at all.
and how it highlighted that our electoral system, built as it is on mutual trust and goodwill, is not designed to stand up to massive fuckery and manipulation.
re: #231 NO SMOCKING GUN!
I just saw on MSNBC that Perdue is down to 50% with 5% of the vote to count. It sure looks like there will be two Senate runoffs in Georgia in January, with control of the Senate on the line. Could not be more important; if McConnell controls the Senate, no legislation will pass.
*4%
But looking good.
re: #228 Dopefish: Ever hopeful.
This is what I have been preaching since I woke up yesterday morning and saw that we were in a bona fide Charlie Foxtrot. There is no way we could have gotten here without something fishy with the polls - whether through outright manipulation, or simply that the techniques and methodology are no longer valid for the current era and need to be completely scrapped and rebuilt. Nate Silver is an aggregator, and there’s only so much bias he can apply to his numbers without resorting to literally placing his thumb on the scales.
The polls in 2018 were very accurate though. My theory is Parscale’s plan to get white noncollege educated nonvoters activated through social media worked, and since they don’t vote, most pollsters screened them out of their likely voter models. It remains questionable whether they will turn out for anyone besides Trump.
re: #233 Nyet
*4%
But looking good.
The NC race is still too close to call, but it doesn’t look good.
re: #199 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
If they can work it so that neither candidate can get 270 votes, then it goes to the courts…
they’re not going to certify Arizona before all the votes are counted. Vote counters did not leave last night because of disruptions, but because the state called it a night. They’re all coming back at 7:30 this morning, Arizona time.
re: #231 NO SMOCKING GUN!
I just saw on MSNBC that Perdue is down to 50% with 5% of the vote to count. It sure looks like there will be two Senate runoffs in Georgia in January, with control of the Senate on the line. Could not be more important; if McConnell controls the Senate, no legislation will pass.
Let me be expansive on this for a moment, because I’m actually a frustrated syndicated columnist who is in fact neither. If the senate winds up with 48 democrats/independents, my first stop while greeting the senatorial hoy-paloy as president would be to have a very private meeting with Murkowski and Collins. I would ask them to strongly consider becoming independents and caucusing with the Democrats. Crazy? Not really. Collins would do herself an enormous favor in Maine if she became an Independent. I suspect Murkowski wouldn’t hurt herself at all. Neither of them is in a state where they are gonna get tea-bagged in an election. And obviously if they’re caucasing with the dems, they don’t have to deal with a moderate Democrat taking them on 6 years from now. They don’t even have to vote in favor of Democratic legislation coming up from the House. All they need to do is to change the Senate majority so that the majority leader will be democratic, and so that Democrats can change the rules and dump the filibuster. The two senators would obviously have enormous power, which would have to be somewhat enticing for two senators who at the moment are going to go down in history as having contributed nothing to any legislation, because the senate refuses to bring anything forward for a vote. Do they really want to go through the hassle of senatorial life in order to sit on the sidelines and do nothing?
#BREAKING OSCE election observer mission accuses Trump of ‘gross abuse of office’ pic.twitter.com/FZPBhEdEtz
— AFP news agency (@AFP) November 5, 2020
Um, yeah.
Also, there are OSCE election observers every election in the US, and usually (I think) OAS, although Trump didn’t invite them this year. So if you have people overseas telling you haha, maybe you need some election observers too, well, they’re there.
How about talking to Bernie Sanders and Angus King about changing from Independent to Democrat?
re: #241 steve_davis
Let me be expansive on this for a moment, because I’m actually a frustrated syndicated columnist who is in fact neither. If the senate winds up with 48 democrats/independents, my first stop while greeting the senatorial hoy-paloy as president would be to have a very private meeting with Murkowski and Collins. I would ask them to strongly consider becoming independents and caucusing with the Democrats. Crazy? Not really. Collins would do herself an enormous favor in Maine if she became an Independent. I suspect Murkowski wouldn’t hurt herself at all. Neither of them is in a state where they are gonna get tea-bagged in an election. And obviously if they’re caucasing with the dems, they don’t have to deal with a moderate Democrat taking them on 6 years from now. They don’t even have to vote in favor of Democratic legislation coming up from the House. All they need to do is to change the Senate majority so that the majority leader will be democratic, and so that Democrats can change the rules and dump the filibuster. The two senators would obviously have enormous power, which would have to be somewhat enticing for two senators who at the moment are going to go down in history as having contributed nothing to any legislation, because the senate refuses to bring anything forward for a vote. Do they really want to go through the hassle of senatorial life in order to sit on the sidelines and do nothing?
Its worth a shot. Anything to get that shit McConnell out of power. Senators flipping parties has happened before.
re: #244 NO SMOCKING GUN!
Its worth a shot. Anything to get that shit McConnell out of power. Senators flipping parties has happened before.
And both Alaska and Maine have independent traditions.
re: #243 Egregious Philbin
How about talking to Bernie Sanders and Angus King about changing from Independent to Democrat?
They already caucus with the Democrats, so that wouldn’t flip the Senate.
re: #242 ericblair
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Also, there are OSCE election observers every election in the US, and usually (I think) OAS, although Trump didn’t invite them this year. So if you have people overseas telling you haha, maybe you need some election observers too, well, they’re there.
Great going Premier Trump.
re: #241 steve_davis
Collins appears to have been quite happy doing nothing more than stating she is concerned while voting lockstep with the GOP the entire way.
Murkowski was pro-ACA since that made sense for Alaska. Beyond that?
GOP is party uber alles. I think you’d be more likely to get people like Rubio or Cruz to abandon ship since they’re already known to be total rats.
Plus anyone in the Senate trying to do such a switch is pretty much shooting their remaining career down the disposal. (See Specter, Arlen) The GOP will definitely go after them, and the Democrats will not necessarily support them either. The general adage is that no one likes and trusts a traitor.
re: #245 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
And both Alaska and Maine have independent traditions.
Murkowski won a write-in campaign when she lost the GOP primary.
See what I think happened is the Senate elections have mirrored the presidential one. That’s why we’re not getting the gains we hoped and why we lost some seats. Trump being on the ballot helped some of these Republicans in a high turnout election. Ultimately I think there’s still a chance we walk away with the Senate. Not with the majority we may have wanted but a working one imo.
re: #249 NO SMOCKING GUN!
Murkowski won a write-in campaign when she lost the GOP primary.
Yep. And she’s up for re-election.
If your election lasts more than four days, please consult a physician
Biden is nearly up 3% now in Michigan. Shouldn’t have encouraged kidnapping their Governor there Don DonZ
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Just a reminder about Asshole Harlan Hill
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re: #253 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
If your election lasts more than four days, please consult a physician
We have 330 million people and an unprecedented number of mail in votes. This all was expected. Add historic turnout. It’s gonna be a nice Biden win in the end. Biden might well end with a higher percentage of the vote than Reagan did 40 years albeit with a smaller margin but much more diverse coalition.
Shit’s getting real now - the Trump campaign is bringing the Doobie Brothers dude.
INBOX: @TeamTrump will make a “major announcement” in Las Vegas this morning, headlined by 2000 Brooks Brothers Riot participant @mschlapp, ex-Acting DNI Ric Grenell, Nevada GOP Chair Michael McDonald, and ex-NV AG Adam Laxalt. pic.twitter.com/OCGjmnOKRz
— Andrew Feinberg (@AndrewFeinberg) November 5, 2020
re: #257 makeitstop
Shit’s getting real now - the Trump campaign is bringing the Doobie Brothers dude.
I totally hear the voice of America’s forgotten man! //
re: #256 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
We have 330 million people and an unprecedented number of mail in votes. This all was expected. Add historic turnout. It’s gonna be a nice Biden win in the end. Biden might well end with a higher percentage of the vote than Reagan did 40 years albeit with a smaller margin but much more diverse coalition.
we are simply spoiled for instant results
ever since the sub-space carrier pigeons brought in the results of the 1788 election within 15 seconds of the polls closing…
re: #251 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
Yep. And she’s up for re-election.
But Collins final pitch was on the importance of divided government, so for her to undivide it would be massive hypocrisy.
re: #258 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
I totally hear the voice of America’s forgotten man! //
That’s the hangover talking. Take two aspirin and call me in the afternoon.
Trump predicts “massive Democrat mail-in voter fraud”. Trump ends up ahead on election day but then loses once mail-in votes are tallied
GOP = “Trump is a visionary”.
Democrats = “Trump is a con man who was setting up his scam.”
re: #259 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
we are simply spoiled for instant results
ever since the sub-space carrier pigeons brought in the results of the 1788 election within 15 seconds of the polls closing…
It’s nerves. I’m used to not knowing the next day. We’ve had so many close elections that I’ve lost count here in Virginia.
re: #260 NO SMOCKING GUN!
W
But Collins final pitch was on the importance of divided government, so for her to undivide it would be massive hypocrisy.
Wouldn’t be the first time she’s been massively hypocritical. Hey look at this way. We thought hte Senate was gone. It’s not gone. The two Georgia races will be a challenge but they’re doable. This is happening as a lot of people thought it might.
re: #257 makeitstop
Shit’s getting real now - the Trump campaign is bringing the Doobie Brothers dude.
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I thought they were already there? This wasn’t them in Clark County?
re: #265 lizardofid
I thought they were already there? This wasn’t them in Clark County?
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I think he was in Pure Prairie League. Maybe Orleans, not sure.
The Trump campaign is literally using a super PAC to astroturf these ‘protests’ outside boards of election. It’s all a sham. https://t.co/t3LkKtaOVv
— Matt McDermott (@mattmfm) November 5, 2020
There’s a fucking shocker. WHERE’S MY SOROS CHECK I MEAN MY KOCH BUCKS
That Paula White/Eminem mashup with the cat is giving me life. I’ve watched it 5 times already.
re: #268 makeitstop
That Paula White/Eminem mashup with the cat is giving me life. I’ve watched it 5 times already.
So… how does Paula White spin Trump losing?
Trump failing God? God failing Trump? America failing God and Trump?
In any case it does imply her influence with the Lord is not as cracked up as she believes it is.
re: #269 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
So… how does Paula White spin Trump losing?
Trump failing God? God failing Trump? America failing God and Trump?
In any case it does imply her influence with the Lord is not as cracked up as she believes it is.
Judges 1:19:
So the LORD was with Judah. And they drove out the mountaineers, but they could not drive out the inhabitants of the lowland, because they had chariots of iron.
Hey if God couldn’t beat Iron Chariots, how do you expect him to stand in the way of +72 million votes?
re: #269 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
So… how does Paula White spin Trump losing?
Trump failing God? God failing Trump? America failing God and Trump?
In any case it does imply her influence with the Lord is not as cracked up as she believes it is.
Paula is gonna go see God’s manager.
The orange loser tweets about stopping the count. Is he a vampire hunter now?
re: #269 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
America failed God so god is punishing them by forcing them to live under Libtard rule. I guess.
I also think Trump will punish america for being Nasty to him from now on to January.
If you want to help with the election today:
🚨 GEORGIA: We need your help contacting voters across the state to ensure their votes are counted. Voters only have until THIS FRIDAY, November 6th - sign up to help today: https://t.co/uQuSMf6f58 1/2
— Fair Fight (@fairfightaction) November 4, 2020
re: #272 Nyet
The orange loser tweets about stopping the count. Is he a vampire hunter now?
Whole Conway is on TV saying we should take a deep breath and wait for all the votes to be counted.
Solid messaging ain’t their thing, man.
Is hope-scrolling a thing now?
— Justin Wolfers (@JustinWolfers) November 4, 2020
re: #277 makeitstop
Whole Conway is on TV saying we should take a deep breath and wait for all the votes to be counted.
Solid messaging ain’t their thing, man.
Trump’s toddler mentality is impacting reality and losing what little cohesion it has.
re: #272 Nyet
The orange loser tweets about stopping the count. Is he a vampire hunter now?
Thing is, if the count were stopped, surely that would mean Biden has 270 electoral votes?
re: #279 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
Trump’s toddler mentality is impacting reality and losing what little cohesion it has.
And sending tag-team jokers like Rudy and Eric and Rick Grenell and the Doobie Brothers guy around the country to threaten lawsuits isn’t helping either.
He’s reading from the ‘how to stiff a drywall contractor’ playbook, and it’s not working.
re: #280 Alephnaught
Thing is, if the count were stopped, surely that would mean Biden has 270 electoral votes?
It would, yes.
This would be hilarious if it wasn’t so goddamn pathetic.
And again just now. https://t.co/3WY96RPwN3
— Natasha Bertrand (@NatashaBertrand) November 5, 2020
re: #278 BlueSpotinAL
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re: #283 makeitstop
This would be hilarious if it wasn’t so goddamn pathetic.
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The gang that couldn’t keep its message straight.
re: #280 Alephnaught
Thing is, if the count were stopped, surely that would mean Biden has 270 electoral votes?
Are you expecting rationality or logic from Trump tweets?
re: #283 makeitstop
This would be hilarious if it wasn’t so goddamn pathetic.
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Oh, it is pathetic and hilarious.
Breaking:
It’s time to go Mr Trump pic.twitter.com/TLDqOEf8vu
— Theo Shantonas (@TheoShantonas) November 5, 2020
Stop the count? Trump loses.
Keep counting? Trump potentially loses even more.
Trump’s not merely calling for stopping the count. He’s openly claiming that he wants to invalidate ballots cast by mail because he thinks they didn’t vote for him (he’s right - they didn’t vote for him).
Trump is losing the popular vote by an even bigger margin than in 2016. He’s illegitimate. He lacks the popular mandate now, while VP Biden has both a popular mandate and the EC behind him.
Trump’s desperation is driven by one thing: knowing that indictments are coming as surely as winter is. Trump’s an unindicted coconspirator on felonies even outside Mueller. He’s individual 1 in Cohen felony case, which included conspiracy.
Mueller’s obstruction charges would be separate felony conduct.
Ukraine crimes are still other felony conduct.
The tax fraud and wire fraud are state charges as well as federal ones.
There’s a metric shit-ton of crimes and legal cases Trump faces, and he’s got a cash crunch too.
Grab a hot toddy:
And sit back and watch the great unraveling.
re: #259 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
we are simply spoiled for instant results
ever since the sub-space carrier pigeons brought in the results of the 1788 election within 15 seconds of the polls closing…
And what is polling if not “results” before the polls even open…
re: #243 Egregious Philbin
How about talking to Bernie Sanders and Angus King about changing from Independent to Democrat?
They already caucus with the Dems, at least enough, to be counted in the current 48.
re: #291 dangerman
And what is polling if not “results” before the polls even open…
As it is done now, the polls available to the public are crude tools for self-delusion. There can be good polling, but it’s prohibitively expensive and it’s not given away for a few clicks.
re: #271 ericblair
So… how does Paula White spin Trump losing?
Trump failing God? God failing Trump? America failing God and Trump?
In any case it does imply her influence with the Lord is not as cracked up as she believes it is.
Paula White Leads Fervent Prayer in Bid to Secure Trump’s Re-electionre: #269 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
November 05, 2020
Paula White has delivered an impassioned prayer in a bid to secure Donald Trump’s presidential reelection as Joe Biden pulls ahead in the race to the White House.
White, who is Trump’s spiritual adviser, took aim at the “demonic confederacies that are attempting to steal the election from Trump,” during the energetic prayer that was streamed live at 7p.m. ET.
Clips of the event have been circulating widely across social media as the U.S. waits to hear decisive news from key states that are still counting the vote.
re: #269 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
So… how does Paula White spin Trump losing?
Trump failing God? God failing Trump? America failing God and Trump?
In any case it does imply her influence with the Lord is not as cracked up as she believes it is.
Please make sure you sit down before reading the next sentence.
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Some updates from Philly should be dropping soon.
re: #292 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
They already caucus with the Dems, at least enough, to be counted in the current 48.
They do.
re: #295 🌹UOJB!
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re: #295 🌹UOJB!
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re: #274 darthstar
He’s awake.
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There is no “the”
Elections are run by the states and counties ya knobhead
There are 3k+
Oh and *many* are still counting. Not just the 5 states everyone’s focused on.
Because poll workers take their work seriously and tend to want to be accurate
Oh and eta: ever hear about overseas military ballots?
STOP THE COUNT!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 5, 2020
The wailing about how Arizona is Democratic at my company is starting.
re: #294 Colère Tueur de Lapin
The most ironic part of this whole thing is she’s calling on angels from Africa and South America (you know, the places Trump calls, “shit-holes”, to come help Trump win the election. I kid you not. 😂😂😂 https://t.co/8IpoI9qHb7
— Ana Navarro-Cárdenas (@ananavarro) November 5, 2020
re: #301 Belafon
The wailing about how Arizona is Democratic at my company is starting.
Coastal elites.
re: #300 dangerman
There is no “the”
Elections are run by the states and counties ya knobhead
There are 3k+
Oh and *many* are still counting. Not just the 5 states everyone’s focused on.
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Biden had gone up to nearly 3% in Michigan. This is going to be a solid win in the end. Not a landslide but a steady win and given how polarized the electorate is, I’ll take it. Biden’s gonna win by more than Trump did and I’m actually optimistic about the midterms because we seem to have learned lessons from 2010.
re: #301 Belafon
The wailing about how Arizona is Democratic at my company is starting.
Shouldn’t have crapped on McCain.
An FB friend was amazed at how strident and reckless the GOPers are in their lying and even more extreme attempts to undermine the election. “Could so many of them be that scared of losing their sugar-daddy, Trump?”
They are, but there is more to it than that. The utter, violent go-for-broke desperation of the Trumpsters looks like pretty good evidence of what I have been saying for years. The GOP hierarchy and many thousands of their stooges are massively involved in crime, including treason and crimes against humanity. They are afraid of losing their meal ticket, to be sure, but they are a lot more afraid of prison.
re: #304 Decatur Deb
Coastal elites.
I can’t wait for when Texas finally goes blue so I can refer to them as “Gulf Coastal Elites.”
re: #308 jamesfirecat
I can’t wait for when Texas finally goes blue so I can refer to them as “Gulf Coastal Elites.”
Hey… Alabama has a coast. Sort of.
re: #304 Decatur Deb
Coastal elites.
Yes, those infamous coastal elites in [checks notes] Phoenix. Curses!!
re: #309 Decatur Deb
Hey… Alabama has a coast. Sort of.
Enough to have a battleship floating in one of the bays.
re: #295 🌹UOJB!
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re: #311 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
Enough to have a battleship floating in one of the bays.
And a shrimp fleet. You can boil ‘em, you can fry ‘em…
re: #310 Dr Lizardo
Yes, those infamous coastal elites in [checks notes] Phoenix. Curses!!
A camel is a ship of the desert.
The desert is therefore a sea.
Therefore Phoenix is on a coast.
Therefore people in Phoenix are coastal elites.
Checkmate.
#BREAKING: Georgia Senator David Perdue (R-Inc) has now fallen below the 50% mark. With outstanding ballots to be counted coming from primarily Democratic-leaning precincts, it is likely that Georgia will have two runoff races for U.S. Senate.
— Political Polls (@PpollingNumbers) November 5, 2020
BWHAHA….
Georgia’s going to have two runoff special elections if this holds.
Doug Jones got 200,000 more votes than he did in the special election. He scored higher than Biden in every county. Alabama felt more comfortable with the crooked, ignorant football coach. Roll Tide.
re: #308 jamesfirecat
I can’t wait for when Texas finally goes blue so I can refer to them as “Gulf Coastal Elites.”
There are so many Putin-stooge conspira-liars, plague-rats and pulpit pimps in Texas that jailing them or forcing them to abscond will probably turn Texas blue all by itself.
re: #317 Decatur Deb
Doug Jones got 200,000 more votes than he did in the special election. He scored higher than Biden in every county. Alabama felt more comfortable with the crooked, ignorant football coach. Roll Tide.
Needs to be considered for AG.
re: #316 lawhawk
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BWHAHA….
Georgia’s going to have two runoff special elections if this holds.
Senate can still be won folks.
re: #316 lawhawk
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BWHAHA….
Georgia’s going to have two runoff special elections if this holds.
Good year to own a 5000 watt FM station in the Atlanta market.
re: #319 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
Needs to be considered for AG.
That’s Preet. But with Jones running the Civil Rights Division right under him.
re: #317 Decatur Deb
Doug Jones got 200,000 more votes than he did in the special election. He scored higher than Biden in every county. Alabama felt more comfortable with the crooked, ignorant football coach. Roll Tide.
Saban coulda took him.
In light of the Trump campaign’s premature declaration that they have won Pennsylvania, a reminder of what the U.S. government requested early today from this West African country during their election period:
“Show commitment to the democratic process and the rule of law.” https://t.co/WZXvrMSKcG— Dan Lamothe (@DanLamothe) November 4, 2020
re: #322 i(m)p(each)sos
FBI director.
DHS
ICE
CBP
There’s a bunch of law enforcement facing orgs that need strong competent leadership to clean up the mess Trump’s made of things. DOJ is a priority to be sure, since they take the lead on going after Trump’s criminal malfeasance, but there’s other slots that are priorities.
re: #322 i(m)p(each)sos
That’s Preet. But with Jones running the Civil Rights Division right under him.
Yeah nothing stopping both of them from going to DOJ.
re: #325 lawhawk
FBI director.
DHS
ICE
CBPThere’s a bunch of law enforcement facing orgs that need strong competent leadership to clean up the mess Trump’s made of things. DOJ is a priority to be sure, since they take the lead on going after Trump’s criminal malfeasance, but there’s other slots that are priorities.
USCIS.
Right hand, meet left hand. pic.twitter.com/XkPnMWh2qN
— Steve Vladeck (@steve_vladeck) November 5, 2020
re: #324 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
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The US under Trump is doing what every banana republic and authoritarian despot has done over the decades - try to steal elections, subvert the will of the electorate, and game the counting of votes to favor them where possible.
Typically, the US calls them out. Here, we need the rest of the world to call out Trump for being the authoritarian despot desperate to steal a win to avoid indictment.
re: #327 darthstar
I hope it’s turning his guts inside out.
In a way, it’s better than an outright landslide since Trump actually thought he was winning at one point. Now he’s bleeding to death.
re: #303 Dave In Austin
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I still don’t get the dude walking around the stage in shorts and sandals.
It’s totally absurd. And I still love this version.
re: #325 lawhawk
FBI director.
DHS
ICE
CBPThere’s a bunch of law enforcement facing orgs that need strong competent leadership to clean up the mess Trump’s made of things. DOJ is a priority to be sure, since they take the lead on going after Trump’s criminal malfeasance, but there’s other slots that are priorities.
Why is FBI director at the top of the list?
re: #331 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
In a way, it’s better than an outright landslide since Trump actually thought he was winning at one point. Now he’s bleeding to death.
See, Trump had hope that he’s pulled it off. Now, he’s watching that hope vanish before his eyes.
re: #328 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
I’ve said before that one should invest in Dow Chemical stock now . It’s going to take their entire inventory to fumigate all the offices and entire departments of what Trump has foisted into American institutions and government offices. The cockroaches and ratfuckers will warrant a complete inch by inch coverage starting with Barr.
have we gotten Trump to the point of being a Scooby Doo villain yet? I would have won everything if it weren’t for those meddling votes!!!!!
sorry, I shouldn’t be glib, this asshat and his cronies have wreaked a very personal havoc on a good many people, foremost those seeking asylum, but his casual cruelty can be seen and felt everywhere.
re: #333 garzooma
Why is FBI director at the top of the list?
Because we need someone to clean up the FBI and they do direct investigations on civil rights matters as well. That’s in Jones’ wheelhouse. It’s not to say that he can’t or shouldn’t be considered for the others, but if you’re suggesting Jones for DOJ as AG, he should be considered for FBI as well.
If you’re not having him within the DOJ, then you’re looking at DHS and the included agencies there.
re: #316 lawhawk
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BWHAHA….
Georgia’s going to have two runoff special elections if this holds.
Usually an off election has lower turnout, which favors Republicans. But with Stacey Abrams…
As expected, McConnell’s just shredding the Constitution and the rule of law. Advise and consent doesn’t mean rush unqualified GOP nominations thru to lifetime appts while blocking qualified Democrats from the same. This is how democracy dies - at the hands of McConnell https://t.co/tJZFmN6T6A
— lawhawk #maskingforafriend (@lawhawk) November 5, 2020
re: #87 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo
This is bullshit. Call in the National Guard, issue live ammunition, and surround the place with armor if you have to. Do not let the terrorists and traitors get away with this.
Yeah, where the fuck is the tear gas, pepper spray and rubber bullets now?
re: #339 lawhawk
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So McConnell just steps up from being the Shadow Emperor to the actual Emperor at this point with all the actual power in Washington.
re: #338 BlueSpotinAL
Usually an off election has lower turnout, which favors Republicans. But with Staci Abrams…
Plus this won’t have Trump on the ticket. And I doubt that a lame duck Trump will do rallies for them either since he’s not a party guy and might well feel that be was betrayed by Georgia.
re: #339 lawhawk
Do the optics change on this at all once he’s blocking Biden and not Obama?
re: #337 lawhawk
Because we need someone to clean up the FBI and they do direct investigations on civil rights matters as well. That’s in Jones’ wheelhouse. It’s not to say that he can’t or shouldn’t be considered for the others, but if you’re suggesting Jones for DOJ as AG, he should be considered for FBI as well.
If you’re not having him within the DOJ, then you’re looking at DHS and the included agencies there.
What’s great is we have so many men and women who can be considered for many positions in the cabinet. And I’ll add something else. Harris made her bones as a prosecutor but she also is very well versed in economic policy as well.
re: #343 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
Do the optics change on this at all once he’s blocking Biden and not Obama?
No. I don’t think they do. He’s doing this purely out of spite and refusal to uphold the Constitution. Same as he’s done all along. He only seeks to act when it benefits GOPers, and blocks everything coming from Democrats.
re: #269 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
So… how does Paula White spin Trump losing?
Trump failing God? God failing Trump? America failing God and Trump?
In any case it does imply her influence with the Lord is not as cracked up as she believes it is.
Paula White is an entertainer who works Jesus into her shtick.
Call his bluff and simply appoint people. There are no norms. https://t.co/3acljkA6hW
— David M. Perry (@Lollardfish) November 5, 2020
re: #341 Citizen K
So McConnell just steps up from being the Shadow Emperor to the actual Emperor at this point with all the actual power in Washington.
Biden should just use temporary appointments that don’t need confirmation the same way Trump did.
Goose meet Gander.
re: #304 Decatur Deb
Coastal elites.
If we’re talking about AZ, wouldn’t it be No-Coastal Elites?
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re: #324 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
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My chess pals in Turkey, Brazil, Philippines and other spots around the world have this message for the United States.
“We don’t need to be lectured about integrity from the corrupted country that is #1 in rigging elections”
re: #337 lawhawk
Because we need someone to clean up the FBI and they do direct investigations on civil rights matters as well. That’s in Jones’ wheelhouse. It’s not to say that he can’t or shouldn’t be considered for the others, but if you’re suggesting Jones for DOJ as AG, he should be considered for FBI as well.
If you’re not having him within the DOJ, then you’re looking at DHS and the included agencies there.
The FBI director has been the least awful of Trump’s appointees. Surpisingly reasonable. He’s been extremely vocal about the danger of white supremecist terrorists, enough that I suspect he’s made them an investigative priority. He’s locked up more boogaloos, militia and oath keepers than I would have anticipated.
re: #348 jamesfirecat
Biden should just use temporary appointments that don’t need confirmation the same way Trump did.
Goose meet Gander.
I’m with you.
Appoint even more liberal “acting” cabinet members than who Biden would nominate.
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re: #338 BlueSpotinAL
Usually an off election has lower turnout, which favors Republicans. But with Staci Abrams…
Doug Jones won in a special election.
re: #347 jaunte
THIS. Go with however many “acting” folks you need like Trump did for years. If Mitch starts crying about it, too fucking bad.
re: #353 Belafon
Doug Jones won in a special election.
And honestly Trump not being on the ballot helps us here.
So is today the day Joe finally makes it to 270 or do we have to wait even longer?
re: #349 Eclectic Cyborg
we prefer endless Coastal Elites, tyvm…. although that doesn’t really apply to the northern part of the state…
re: #356 Eclectic Cyborg
So is today the day Joe finally makes it to 270 or do we have to wait even longer?
I think we do today.
re: #355 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
And honestly Trump not being on the ballot helps us here.
Will be an early assessment of how the GOP base is reacting to the Trump loss.
re: #349 Eclectic Cyborg
If we’re talking about AZ, wouldn’t it be No-Coastal Elites?
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The complaint is that all those terrible people from California has made it a liberal hellhole or something. Which is funny, because I’ve been told for years that it’s conservatives and republicans leaving California. Maybe it turns out a conservative California voter is a moderate or even liberal everywhere else?
re: #359 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
Will be an early assessment of how the GOP base is reacting to the Trump loss.
Yeah and honestly I think with Trump gone but lingering in the background, you’re gonna have internal GOP power struggles.
re: #356 Eclectic Cyborg
So is today the day Joe finally makes it to 270 or do we have to wait even longer?
I guess Nevada will report in a few hours. Assuming the Biden lead held there will be an unofficial 270 EC votes at that time.
re: #360 KGxvi
The complaint is that all those terrible people from California has made it a liberal hellhole or something. Which is funny, because I’ve been told for years that it’s conservatives and republicans leaving California. Maybe it turns out a conservative California voter is a moderate or even liberal everywhere else?
Exactly.
re: #352 b.d.
I’m with you.
Appoint even more liberal “acting” cabinet members than who Biden would nominate.
I
SCOTUS will be ready to block any decisions made by them since they are acting. We will have to remember that.
re: #354 Eclectic Cyborg
Mitch McConnell is in office because of 1,237,260 voters (fewer than voted in my county) and a bunch of elite special interest money. We shouldn’t allow him a stranglehold on more than half the country.
re: #362 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
I guess Nevada will report in a few hours. Assuming the Biden lead held there will be an unofficial 270 EC votes at that time.
I’m holding out hope that Pennsylvania and/or Georgia also go blue just so we don’t have to worry about a faithless elector throwing this to Congress
The county where I grew up.
This is huge. Bucks County is normally a @GOP stronghold. Biden will win Pennsylvania. https://t.co/79Wcv7dAH4
— Andrew C Laufer, Esq (@lauferlaw) November 5, 2020
The crazy thing is, when I was a kid Bucks was a big-time liberal stronghold, while adjoining Montgomery County was a hotbed of conservatism - there was a jeweler in the neighboring town who displayed Bircher literature in his storefront window.
And MontCo looks to have gone heavily for Bien.
Weird how they seem to have totally flipped.
re: #356 Eclectic Cyborg
I know one thing….its gonna be 98 freaking degrees here in Phoenix. Getting damned sick of having to run A/C in November…..
Stay optimistic!
re: #368 KGxvi
I’m holding out hope that Pennsylvania and/or Georgia also go blue just so we don’t have to worry about a faithless elector throwing this to Congress
I’m hoping for Biden to get past 300 EC votes as well.
re: #365 Decatur Deb
Doug Jones had a special opponent.
Kelly Loeffler is a “special opponent”. Just ask her about Genghis Khan.
re: #371 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
I’m hoping for Biden to get past 300 EC votes as well.
It’s certainly possible!
David Perdue has now fallen below the 50% mark. With outstanding ballots to be counted coming from primarily Democratic-leaning precincts, it is likely that Georgia will have two runoff races for U.S. Senate.
— Travis Akers (@travisakers) November 5, 2020
re: #363 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
Exactly.
It’s funny too, because nevada and arizona flipping have mostly to do with vegas and Phoenix becoming major metro areas. The lady friend grew up in Phoenix; we did a weekend trip a couple weeks ago and she was saying it’s almost unrecognizable because it’s grown so much in the last 15 years
re: #367 jaunte
Mitch McConnell is in office because of 1,237,260 voters (fewer than voted in my county) and a bunch of elite special interest money. We shouldn’t allow him a stranglehold on more than half the country.
Kind of hard when it’s become apparent that nearly everything important basically has to go through the Senate, and for what the Senate won’t stop cold, the courts will.
Unless some end around that the courts won’t shit on can’t be found, McConnell basically will run the country with an iron grip.
Just remember what I posted before about Biden’s EV total
Add Nevada
Add Arizona
Add Georgia
Add Pennsylvania
total for Joe 306—the same amount of electoral votes Shithead got in 2016.
re: #377 Citizen K
Kind of hard when it’s become apparent that nearly everything important basically has to go through the Senate, and for what the Senate won’t stop cold, the courts will.
Unless some end around that the courts won’t shit on can’t be found, McConnell basically will run the country with an iron grip.
And I presume that if the Georgia run-off elections do not go the GOP’s way there will be delays in seating those Senators as well.
re: #370 Egregious Philbin
I know one thing….its gonna be 98 freaking degrees here in Phoenix. Getting damned sick of having to run A/C in November…..
Stay optimistic!
If it makes you feel better, mine was running yesterday too (83 here)
re: #376 KGxvi
It’s funny too, because nevada and arizona flipping have mostly to do with vegas and Phoenix becoming major metro areas. The lady friend grew up in Phoenix; we did a weekend trip a couple weeks ago and she was saying it’s almost unrecognizable because it’s grown so much in the last 15 years
I can relate to that. Northern Va’s always been diverse in my lifetime but it’s even more so now. The delegate for where I grew up is a son of a Jordanian-Palestinian immigrant. Quite a few of Virginia’s delegates are immigrants or first generation Americans.
re: #378 🌹UOJB!
Just remember what I posted before about Biden’s EV total
Add Nevada
Add Arizona
Add Georgia
Add Pennsylvaniatotal for Joe 306—the same amount of electoral votes Shithead got in 2016.
There’s a certain poetry to this.
re: #339 lawhawk
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“Mcconnell plans to block Biden cabinet picks”
before he even knows who they are
As expected, McConnell’s just shredding the Constitution and the rule of law. Advise and consent doesn’t mean rush unqualified GOP nominations thru to lifetime appts while blocking qualified Democrats from the same. This is how democracy dies - at the hands of McConnell https://t.co/tJZFmN6T6A
— lawhawk #maskingforafriend (@lawhawk) November 5, 2020
re: #377 Citizen K
There needs to be a coordinated publicity campaign to lay the responsibility for government disfunction on Mitch. He’s gotten away with being a quiet blockage for too long.
With Mcconnell still in control of the Senate, Biden can’t do shit about SCOTUS. Maybe once ACB and her friends start rapidly dragging us back to the stone age people will realize how important Senate elections can be.
re: #341 Citizen K
So McConnell just steps up from being the Shadow Emperor to the actual Emperor at this point with all the actual power in Washington.
one good thing trump did is shine a light on the way around that “advise and consent” nonsense
is it in quotes in the constitution? im not sure
re: #384 jaunte
There needs to be a coordinated publicity campaign to lay the responsibility for government disfunction on Mitch. He’s gotten away with being a quiet blockage for too long.
He needs to become the face of GOP obstruction.
re: #341 Citizen K
So McConnell just steps up from being the Shadow Emperor to the actual Emperor at this point with all the actual power in Washington.
As everybody knows, two months is a very very long time in 2020. With the upcoming Trump megameltdown and the first shots of internecine warfare between the Trump cult and the institutional GOP, an awful lot of extremely dirty laundry might get thrown around as ammunition. We’ve got a ways to go before we can talk about this intelligently.
Of course, that never stopped us here, so.
A bellweather in GA:
Someone go get them poles to help out Atlanta’s polls. Stat. pic.twitter.com/WQf7Rl5q97
— InMinivanHell (@inminivanhell) November 5, 2020
re: #348 jamesfirecat
Biden should just use temporary appointments that don’t need confirmation the same way Trump did.
Goose meet Gander.
Appoint former Obama cabinet secretaries who have previously won Senate confirmation. Then, when the Republicans raise a stink, name them “acting” secretaries. Then, replace them with other “acting” secretaries, as time goes on.
Then, use the new Trumpian Civil Service rules to purge Trump loyalists burrowed into departments.
When the Senate tries to subpoena members of your administration, blow them off. Dare them to impeach you, and, when they try to impeach you, insist upon strict party discipline so they can’t reach the 67 votes necessary to convict and/or remove you.
Embrace the Trumpian/Barr conception of the Imperial Executive.
re: #384 jaunte
There needs to be a coordinated publicity campaign to lay the responsibility for government disfunction on Mitch. He’s gotten away with being a quiet blockage for too long.
Quiet? He’s gleefully doing it all out in the open, and if nothing else he’s been rewarded for it constantly. He’s living proof that outside of a choice few exceptions to the rule, the GOP simply don’t get to pay the consequences. Too much of the country either loves them or hates Dems too much for that.
They need to be looking at the turtle and his wife with a microscope.
re: #384 jaunte
There needs to be a coordinated publicity campaign to lay the responsibility for government disfunction on Mitch. He’s gotten away with being a quiet blockage for too long.
Why would he care? He just won his final election.
re: #385 Eclectic Cyborg
With Mcconnell still in control of the Senate, Biden can’t do shit about SCOTUS. Maybe once ACB and her friends start rapidly dragging us back to the stone age people will realize how important Senate elections can be.
It’s not going to be as easy as you think for McConnell to do that. As others have suggested put pressure on Collins and Murkowski to go Indy and caucus with the Dems. We have some leverage.
Question: Do you think this slow burn on the results is good or bad in terms of how it will affect post-election protests and such?
re: #352 b.d.
I’m with you.
Appoint even more liberal “acting” cabinet members than who Biden would nominate.
I
i’d go so far as to come out and say it: you hold proper congressional hearings and vote on X, or i’ll appoint Y as acting - just like your boss did
re: #391 A Three Hour Tour
Appoint former Obama cabinet secretaries who have previously won Senate confirmation. Then, when the Republicans raise a stink, name them “acting” secretaries. Then, replace them with other “acting” secretaries, as time goes on.
Then, use the new Trumpian Civil Service rules to purge Trump loyalists burrowed into departments.
When the Senate tries to subpoena members of your administration, blow them off. Dare them to impeach you, and, when they try to impeach you, insist upon strict party discipline so they can’t reach the 67 votes necessary to convict and/or remove you.
Embrace the Trumpian/Barr conception of the Imperial Executive.
Correction “when they try to impeach you, ” have it fail in the house because the democrats control it.
re: #392 Citizen K
Quiet? He’s gleefully doing it all out in the open, and if nothing else he’s been rewarded for it constantly. He’s living proof that outside of a choice few exceptions to the rule, the GOP simply don’t get to pay the consequences. Too much of the country either loves them or hates Dems too much for that.
Quiet in the sense that the part of the country not engaged in politics doesn’t know anything about how he obstructs anything useful from getting accomplished, and blame both sides.
re: #384 jaunte
There needs to be a coordinated publicity campaign to lay the responsibility for government disfunction on Mitch. He’s gotten away with being a quiet blockage for too long.
I’d call a press conference every Time Mitch blocked an appointee, and put his office number and email on the screen and tell everyone to call his office and ask why he’s blocking everyone.
Furthermore, I’d run TV ads against Mitch every day. If he’s going to block everybody, then we need to actively campaign against him whether it’s election season or not.
Put Lincoln Project on it. Rick Wilson hates Mitch.
re: #383 dangerman
“Mcconnell plans to block Biden cabinet picks”
before he even knows who they are
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He didn’t need to know who the SC Justice nominee was to assure confirmation either. ; )
re: #367 jaunte
Mitch McConnell is in office because of 1,237,260 voters (fewer than voted in my county) and a bunch of elite special interest money. We shouldn’t allow him a stranglehold on more than half the country.
it’s time to focus all the media we can on this fact
over and over ad nauseum
re: #396 Eclectic Cyborg
Question: Do you think this slow burn on the results is good or bad in terms of how it will affect post-election protests and such?
No idea. But I think Biden coming off statesman like will help. And the fact that Fox rather than a network with a liberal reputation called AZ for Biden first might help too. It’s not gonna be easy but it’s becoming apparent that Trump is losing and losing by a good sized amount. The high turnout prevented us from truly landsliding him but Biden’s going to end up with a steady victory and as I mentioned likely with a higher percentage of the popular vote than Reagan did in 1980 and a much more diverse coalition.
re: #384 jaunte
There needs to be a coordinated publicity campaign to lay the responsibility for government disfunction on Mitch. He’s gotten away with being a quiet blockage for too long.
ah gmta
re: #395 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
It’s going to be as easy as you think for McConnell to do that. As others have suggested put pressure on Collins and Murkowski to go Indy and caucus with the Dems. We have some leverage.
If our hopes of neutralizing McConnell’s iron fist is Collins and Murkowski, then it’s simply not happening. We can’t keep doing this Lucy and the Football shit with those two.
re: #396 Eclectic Cyborg
Question: Do you think this slow burn on the results is good or bad in terms of how it will affect post-election protests and such?
I’d say good so far since some of the ranting about election stealing has been tossed out without triggering much yet.
But once the AP, CNN, *FOX* etc. broadcast Biden at 270 votes and “winner” we’ll see what sort of fuse is lit. The next Trump presser after that might well be a barnburner. Plus what Limbaugh and the usual conservative talking heads say.
(I just timed out a FB acquaintance for 30 days. Rant about “tyranny” since Gov. Cooper in NC is apparently about to institute a lockdown related to Covid-19 containment that is destroying their “freedom”.)
re: #383 dangerman
“Mcconnell plans to block Biden cabinet picks”
before he even knows who they are
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Play hardball. Announce an investigation into Mitch’s finances. Oh and also announce an investigation into the 7 Republican Senators who spent July 4th in Moscow with their Master Putin.
And also announce an investigation into who Kavanaugh’s Sugar Daddy is…
re: #405 Citizen K
If our hopes of neutralizing McConnell’s iron fist is Collins and Murkowski, then it’s simply not happening. We can’t keep doing this Lucy and the Football shit with those two.
Well then we work like hell for Ossoff and Warnock in Georgia. Two days ago a lot of people wrote off hte Senate as lost. It’s not lost. This just needs a little time to play out but I do think by January, Biden will have more political capital than Trump did his first January.
Allegheny County, PA still has 35,413 uncounted mail-in ballots, but elections staff is taking today off for “administrative work” and will not resume count until Friday. “I can’t get an answer as to why,” says @bethanyhallam, a member of county elections board.
— Trip Gabriel (@tripgabriel) November 5, 2020
re: #409 jaunte
Agh but but that’s okay. Philly metro will be the margin of victory. Allegheny’s just helping to add icing to the cake.
Oh, this is great. Just. Fucking. Great.
Long Island officials announced 10 new COVID cases that are connected to a polling location in Southhampton.
Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone made the announcement on Wednesday.
He says that six of those positive cases were workers at the polling site.
According to Bellone, another 48 people associated with the location are self-isolating.
Some mind-crushingly close state elections with huge policy consequences:
—Control of AZ legislature & MN Senate not final
—Amy Padden, reform DA candidate in CO, up 600 votes. (Up from 60…)
—HUGE race for NC Supreme Court Justice: GOP up 0.08%
—Maricopa prosecutor
More?— Taniel (@Taniel) November 5, 2020
In case you’re bored and want some more races to worry about.
re: #410 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
Weird to take an ‘administrative’ break in the middle of counting presidential election votes.
re: #400 makeitstop
I’d call a press conference every Time Mitch blocked an appointee, and put his office number and email on the screen and tell everyone to call his office and ask why he’s blocking everyone.
Furthermore, I’d run TV ads against Mitch every day. If he’s going to block everybody, then we need to actively campaign against him whether it’s election season or not.
Put Lincoln Project on it. Rick Wilson hates Mitch.
mitch is the reason you didnt get a check
mitch is the reason you couldnt vote
mitch is the reason you got evicted
mitch is the reason you could be deported
mitch is the reason…
Just paged this:
Humiliated & Furious Trump Will Be Gunning for Murdoch in 2021
Trump will launch his own TV channel to “Destroy Traitor Fox.” Will enough mouth-breathing yokels tune in? Or will it split the GOP?This can go a number of ways:
Georgia election officials say there are about 60,000 ballots to be still counted, which will continue through Thursday.
As of 10:30 a.m. ET, President Trump leads Joe Biden by less than 19,000 votes https://t.co/fxHKy8hSEp pic.twitter.com/K0nDXFCXTO— CBS News (@CBSNews) November 5, 2020
re: #401 lizardofid
He didn’t need to know who the SC Justice nominee was to assure confirmation either. ; )
precisely why i said it
re: #412 ericblair
In case you’re bored and want some more races to worry about.
In modern elections, I feel you can’t get a total idea on the election in the first day. This is gonna turn out to be a decent election day. Not great. I think what hurt us in the Senate races was that the Senate vote was heavily tied to the presidential election vote. Now that could be a problem going forward but will Trump voters continue to vote for the Senate without Trump on the ballot in the same numbers? I don’t think so honestly. Now some of those voters are Republicans to stay but I think you’re going to see internal strife happen in the GOP especially if the leadership more or less pushes Trump aside as it’s clear that Trump isn’t gonna win.
More:
“If Trump owned a media company, which advisors say he discussed when he believed he would lose the 2016 election, it might look something like “Team Trump Online,” the current production. And if he or his family start one after he leaves the White House, this could be the pilot.
“This is the warm-up act,” said Frank Sesno, a former CNN anchor and the director of the School of Media and Public Affairs at George Washington University. “There’s nothing he would like more than to throw his name on a channel, a digital brand.”
re: #413 jaunte
Weird to take an ‘administrative’ break in the middle of counting presidential election votes.
Maybe they need a nap since they’ve been working 48 hours straight through?
re: #415 Khal Wimpo (not drinking damn fish tank cleaner)
Just paged this:
Humiliated & Furious Trump Will Be Gunning for Murdoch in 2021
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This can go a number of ways:
- Trump’s new network is a raging success, as he launches nonstop attacks against “FAKE FOX!!!” and his followers desert to Trump TV
- Trump’s new network is popular, but not dominant, which sparks a fight, and the right-wing audience descends into a bitter war with itself for a generation
- Trump gets a lot of Deplorables, but Fox News launches counterattacks, coordinating with Sinclair to crush this rival
- Trump TV is an utter failure like every single other business venture Trump has ever tried and vanishes by 2022
I would think that Trump would buy OANN and just rebrand it as Trump TV. Wouldn’t doubt him getting some of FNC’s “talent” like Lumpy, Judge Jeanne, Lou, and some others.
re: #378 🌹UOJB!
Just remember what I posted before about Biden’s EV total
Add Nevada
Add Arizona
Add Georgia
Add Pennsylvaniatotal for Joe 306—the same amount of electoral votes Shithead got in 2016.
And he was calling it the biggest victory EVER. 😂
re: #415 Khal Wimpo (not drinking damn fish tank cleaner)
Trump blather.
1. He won’t personally do any of it. Just yell at underlings.
2. He has to pay to have it done. With whose money?
(And is some conservative deep pockets going to fund a Trump war on Fox?)
3. Tidal wave of legal stuff coming after Trump starting Jan 20th.
4. Given above what underlings want to be seen going after Fox? That’s the next gig to look for once the the Trump paycheck bounces and the government job is gone.
re: #416 The Pie Overlord!
Are they all mail-ins though?
re: #424 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
Trump blather.
1. He won’t personally do any of it. Just yell at underlings.
2. He has to pay to have it done. With whose money?
(And is some conservative deep pockets going to fund a Trump war on Fox?)
3. Tidal wave of legal stuff coming after Trump starting Jan 20th.
4. Given above what underlings want to be seen going after Fox? That’s the next gig to look for once the the Trump paycheck bounces and the government job is gone.
Oh don’t forget about OANN!
re: #415 Khal Wimpo (not drinking damn fish tank cleaner)
Trump can’t find enough employees who will accept his promissory notes, and sign the NDA.
re: #419 Khal Wimpo (not drinking damn fish tank cleaner)
More:
Pay 5 bucks a month for the Trump App and your favorite President will tell you the truth that the lying media won’t about Sleepy Joe’s socialist agenda. //
re: #426 🌹UOJB!
Oh don’t forget about OANN!
See what I said above, I think he would buy or be allowed to front OANN.
Sounds cool, me and the gang will be there pic.twitter.com/dPK1qfgWfI
— Rob Sheridan (@rob_sheridan) November 5, 2020
If provisionals ballots alone can shift the results by ~2 points toward Biden in a state, then people should be pretty careful talking about polling error until all votes have been counted and results have been certified.https://t.co/nuZriSLaCy pic.twitter.com/CXka3eCrg9
— Nate Silver (@NateSilver538) November 5, 2020
Yeah, it’s Nate Silver, but something we’ve mostly forgotten about.
re: #422 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
I would think that Trump would buy OANN and just rebrand it as Trump TV. Wouldn’t doubt him getting some of FNC’s “talent” like Lumpy, Judge Jeanne, Lou, and some others.
A couple of them might jump, but Murdoch’s got the bankroll that might keep them in check.
Money talks. Lumpy ain’t taking no pay cut.
I really hope Biden takes Georgia so I can enjoy all the wingnut splodey-heads.
Hit The Road JACK!
🎶 🎶 🎶pic.twitter.com/Va81dn65A4— RealDuckFrumpf (@RFrumpf) November 5, 2020
re: #347 jaunte
If McConnell wants to play this game there is a solution and it involves the very basic nature of Republicanism- money. It would be a shame if numerous corporations both domestic and foreign announce they are pulling out of Kentucky if McConnell decides to go for his power grab. All those quickly unemployed voters in Kentucky would be very unhappy.
re: #396 Eclectic Cyborg
Question: Do you think this slow burn on the results is good or bad in terms of how it will affect post-election protests and such?
this is how the system should work
its in fact how it works every single time
media ‘calling’ the election means nothing - it never did
this exercise is demonstrating - once again - that the overall system is working exactly like it’s supposed to
there is no election night horse race
there is no handicapping
there are so many canvassed and valid votes (ok this part can be a little fuzzy)
they get counted
the order they get counted in is a meaningless fiction
the order the states announce results is a meaningless fiction
anything intermediate is arbitrary
the final result is all that matters
re: #432 makeitstop
A couple of them might jump, but Murdoch’s got the bankroll that might keep them in check.
Money talks. Lumpy ain’t taking no pay cut.
Yeah Lumpy’s a Republican foot soldier in the end. I have no doubt that he would suck up to a Jeb administration the way he does Trump..
re: #435 Florida Panhandler
If McConnell wants to play this game there is a solution and it involves the very basic nature of Republicanism- money. It would be a shame if numerous corporations both domestic and foreign announce they are pulling out of Kentucky if McConnell decides to go for his power grab. All those quickly unemployed voters in Kentucky would be very unhappy.
Which would hurt his protege AG Cameron’s ambitions to run there statewide one day.
re: #391 A Three Hour Tour
Appoint former Obama cabinet secretaries who have previously won Senate confirmation. Then, when the Republicans raise a stink, name them “acting” secretaries. Then, replace them with other “acting” secretaries, as time goes on.
Then, use the new Trumpian Civil Service rules to purge Trump loyalists burrowed into departments.
When the Senate tries to subpoena members of your administration, blow them off. Dare them to impeach you, and, when they try to impeach you, insist upon strict party discipline so they can’t reach the 67 votes necessary to convict and/or remove you.
Embrace the Trumpian/Barr conception of the Imperial Executive.
Gotta say, the new Trumpian rules for the civil service would bring about the end of the civil service as we know it. No matter who uses them, no matter how good your intentions. They must not stand.
re: #382 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
There’s a certain poetry to this.
“History doesn’t repeat itself but it often rhymes,”
MT
re: #437 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
Yeah Lumpy’s a Republican foot soldier in the end. I have no doubt that he would suck up to a Jeb administration the way he does Trump..
Besides, he’s got hefty alimony payments to make. Not gonna get there on IOUs.
re: #440 Axolotl
“History doesn’t repeat itself but it often rhymes,”
MT
The more things change, the more they stay the same.
Hiding all the crime is going to keep them busy for the next few months.
👇🏻 @ICEgov is a terrorist organization. 👇🏻 https://t.co/YP5s1Zu5Sx
— Jenn Budd ✊🏻 (@BuddJenn) November 5, 2020
re: #441 makeitstop
Besides, he’s got hefty alimony payments to make. Not gonna get there on IOUs.
Yeah I don’t think Hannity actually genuinely cares about Trump. He needed Trump for his grift and vice versa.
re: #436 dangerman
I wonder how many people who want the election to be finalized on election night have ever looked at the results of local races the next day (or week) and observed that the school board race or Measure X is too close to call even at that point?
Might there be some correlation with the up ticket races not having been called either?
Stuff takes time.
re: #443 Dopefish: Ever hopeful.
The more things change, the more they stay the same.
Mairzy doats and dozy doats and liddle lamzy divey
oh. i thought we were doing… nevermind
re: #416 The Pie Overlord!
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Pretty sure I’ve seen information that the difference is appreciably smaller than that.
Steve Schmidt is in a mood.
.@IngrahamAngle What about the Trump campaign and Fox News? What about you? All that hard work fomenting racial animus, crazy conspiracies ect… for nothing. You will always be America’s Eva Braun. That’s something. https://t.co/IPbzMraZhD
— Steve Schmidt (@SteveSchmidtSES) November 5, 2020
He went after a NY Post reporter earlier.
You are a profoundly dishonest woman. You lied about my not voting in 2016 and wouldn’t correct it. You lied about my seeking a job with Trump. Never happened. You were Jason Millers go to. Everyone knows that. You deliver the hit and then get Oval Office interviews where you https://t.co/VN2Q79aPJU
— Steve Schmidt (@SteveSchmidtSES) November 5, 2020
Joe is going to have a tough time reining in CBP and ICE.
re: #416 The Pie Overlord!
The bulk of those outstanding ballots come from blue counties, including 17K from Chatham, 7K from Clayton, 11K from Fulton and 7K from Gwinnett, if I got my notes down right.
— Tal Kopan (@TalKopan) November 5, 2020
Feel like vote tallies are slowing down this morning. Ugh. Ugh Ugh.
(Of course they are - lots of places are running out of votes to count, so the process becomes less parallel.)
Big legal win in Pennsylvania!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 5, 2020
Oh hell, what the fuck happened now?
re: #450 Eclectic Cyborg
Joe is going to have a tough time reining in CBP and ICE.
Competent and good people in charge of those two would go a long way.
re: #450 Eclectic Cyborg
Joe is going to have a tough time reining in CBP and ICE.
He just needs to install new leadership and a no tolerance policy. They’ll come around quickly. CBP had lowered their hiring standards under Trump. A lot of people will need to be fired.
re: #454 Eclectic Cyborg
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Oh hell, what the fuck happened now?
Something about expanded access to the canvassing in PA?
You’ll be sharing a jail cell with Eric before the mid-terms Jr. Turn yourself in now and maybe you can get the top bunk.
— Ace-o-aces (@aceoaces) November 5, 2020
re: #454 Eclectic Cyborg
Trump campaign releases a statement claiming a “major victory” in Pennsylvania lawsuit.
Judge has ruled in their favor for part of their original lawsuit seeking greater access to voting process. pic.twitter.com/JErOA0OaQW— Anders Hagstrom (@Hagstrom_Anders) November 5, 2020
I notice Count Dracula is trending, which is all the excuse I need to remind everyone that THIS is Dracula Parrot, and yes, they really exist - DRACULA PARROTS! pic.twitter.com/elKqgcQexG
— Mark Rees (@reviewwales) November 5, 2020
It all goes back to why yes I want a “professional politician” to be President because a “professional politician” understands the ins and outs of the government. Even if I was more disappointed about Joe, I’d never vote for Howie Hawkins because he would have no idea how to run the government.
re: #457 calochortus
Something about expanded access to the canvassing in PA?
Shouldn’t affect any votes, and the fact that Trump calls it “big” rather than “the most stupendous and amazing court victory the world has ever seen” probably means it’s a nothingburger.
re: #454 Eclectic Cyborg
Trump campaign staff will get to watch him lose in the room where the votes are counted.
re: #435 Florida Panhandler
If McConnell wants to play this game there is a solution and it involves the very basic nature of Republicanism- money. It would be a shame if numerous corporations both domestic and foreign announce they are pulling out of Kentucky if McConnell decides to go for his power grab. All those quickly unemployed voters in Kentucky would be very unhappy.
And if they are, so what? You think Mitch McConnell gives a flying fart in a hurricane about those “voters”? They’ve ensured him another six years in office, there’s nothing they can do about it however “unhappy” they are, and he can always blame Somebody Else for the state’s problems.
re: #464 Jay C
And if they are, so what? You think Mitch McConnell gives a flying fart in a hurricane about those “voters”? They’ve ensured him another six years in office, there’s nothing they can do about it however “unhappy” they are, and he can always blame Somebody Else for the state’s problems.
He can, and from what we’ve seen, the electorate would follow along happily because despite having one of the shittiest approval ratings, he’s still somehow the single most invincible politician in the goddamn country.
Woke up stressed the hell out. How goes things?
re: #415 Khal Wimpo (not drinking damn fish tank cleaner)
Without access to power, the right wing discards you as you are no longer a useful tool anymore. Trump is done. He’s finished.
Trump TV would be a joke with no damage done to Fox News at all. Fox News has a circle jerk going on with the levers of power within the American right wing and Loser Trump with no Presidential power is now in the garbage can with no way to get out.
OSC was supposed to enforce the Hatch Act but went dark 6 weeks before the election & facilitated Trump’s misuse of govt resources. NOW its leader, Henry Kerner, is throwing a match on gasoline by announcing on-duty Fed law enforcement officials can wear campaign pins! Dangerous. https://t.co/niZ75E4oMX
— Walter Shaub (@waltshaub) November 5, 2020
These are my partial considerations for Biden Cabinet: competency and knowledge for the position being addressed. I will not consider anyone who will be in the US Senate come January.
Chief of Staff: Ron Klain
These are my guesses at who Biden may nominate:
DoD: Rep. Tammy Duckworth
Sec State: Susan Rice
UN Ambassador: Buttigieg
DoJ: Doug Jones or Phreet Bharara
FBI: Doug Jones or Phreet Bharara
Treasury: Sarah Bloom Raskin or Janet Yellen
DHS: Alejandro Mayorkas
Transportation: Eric Garcetti
HHS: Rep. Karen Bass
EPA: Gov. Jay Inslee
DHS: Sally Yates or Jeh Johnson
Vox’s take.
When Jay Powell’s term is up (and that’s not for a bit; expect Biden to pick someone else; Janet Yellen was denied a 2d term despite being highly effective and competent), I’d like to see Yellen back in the job or Raskin elevated.
About the Allegheny Co. “administrative break”:
Not just a day off. 29k of 35k left can’t be legally counted until Fri. due to court order. 29k are replacement ballots bc a contracted company delivered wrong ballots last month. Election return board HAS to legally meet tmrw before counting can resume https://t.co/1tvsWBlZiC
— Ryan Deto (@RyanDeto) November 5, 2020
re: #422 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
I would think that Trump would buy OANN and just rebrand it as Trump TV. Wouldn’t doubt him getting some of FNC’s “talent” like Lumpy, Judge Jeanne, Lou, and some others.
Trump doesn’t have the money to buy a gumball and a dog-eared back issue of Hustler magazine. He’s 400MM in debt to Russia, and 600MM in debt to everyone else.
Maybe he steals enough to make that up, but all his golf properties are bleeding abscesses, and he can’t make the payments or unload them unless he does a redux of the early 90s deal where he stuck investors with his Taj Mahal debt and emerged scot-free.
Don’t think people will line up to get snookered like that again.
You don’t the GOP turnout might have been driven by President Trump saying over and over again that Joe Biden is a literally senile socialist who wants to destroy America, kill unborn babies, and for some reason implode the economy?
— Erik Larson (@eelarson) November 5, 2020
No the Republicans made it an election issue by violating their own made up “norm” 3 weeks before the election. How dense are you?
— Jordan (@wemobilizewewin) November 5, 2020
Yes, it’s Biden not unequivocally rejecting court reform…ahem…”court packing”…that did this. Because again, Dems are always to blame for violating the norms that the Republicans shit on and ignore to massive rewards and praises.
Fuck all.
re: #428 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
Pay 5 bucks a month for the Trump App and your favorite President will tell you the truth that the lying media won’t about Sleepy Joe’s socialist agenda. //
Hm. There may be a path forward for Trump; get everyone who voted for him & donated to him on revolving monthly payments, with a thicket of hoops to jump through to cancel the credit card charges.
Basically, the “Girls Gone Wild” business plan. Without janky VHS tapes mailed to your house every month.
I’m going to Philly tomorrow with a team.
This is war.— HARLAN Z. HILL 🇺🇸 (@Harlan) November 5, 2020
re: #454 Eclectic Cyborg
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Oh hell, what the fuck happened now?
They’re allowed to observe the count.
Never mind that they were always allowed to observe the count.
Gotta take your ‘victories’ where you can get them.
re: #467 Varek Raith
Woke up stressed the hell out. How goes things?
Hey you! It’s going to work out, somehow.
re: #432 makeitstop
A couple of them might jump, but Murdoch’s got the bankroll that might keep them in check.
Money talks. Lumpy ain’t taking no pay cut.
There might be some tense conversation with agents taking place in the next few months, as the fine print in the Fox contracts is explained to Hannity & Carlson.
I’ve gone up against Murdoch’s lawyers. They are smart and they are vicious.
re: #470 lawhawk
These are my partial considerations for Biden Cabinet: competency and knowledge for the position being addressed. I will not consider anyone who will be in the US Senate come January.
Chief of Staff: Ron Klain
These are my guesses at who Biden may nominate:
DoD: Rep. Tammy Duckworth
Sec State: Susan Rice
UN Ambassador: Buttigieg
DoJ: Doug Jones or Phreet Bharara
FBI: Doug Jones or Phreet Bharara
Treasury: Sarah Bloom Raskin or Janet Yellen
DHS: Alejandro Mayorkas
Transportation: Eric Garcetti
HHS: Rep. Karen Bass
EPA: Gov. Jay Inslee
DHS: Sally Yates or Jeh JohnsonVox’s take.
When Jay Powell’s term is up (and that’s not for a bit; expect Biden to pick someone else; Janet Yellen was denied a 2d term despite being highly effective and competent), I’d like to see Yellen back in the job or Raskin elevated.
Duckworth is a Senator not a Rep but aside from that, I think that’s a good starting list.
re: #476 makeitstop
They’re allowed to observe the count.
Never mind that they were always allowed to observe the count.
Gotta take your ‘victories’ where you can get them.
So they get to watch them count in person? Sounds like watching paint dry would be more fun. But whatevs. :D
re: #474 Khal Wimpo (not drinking damn fish tank cleaner)
Hm. There may be a path forward for Trump; get everyone who voted for him & donated to him on revolving monthly payments, with a thicket of hoops to jump through to cancel the credit card charges.
Basically, the “Girls Gone Wild” business plan. Without janky VHS tapes mailed to your house every month.
You know he’s going to give their emails to god knows who.
re: #256 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
We have 330 million people
That’s a red herring. The more people you have the more people can be working on the count.
What makes your elections slow is the complexity, not the number of voters.
The count will go on… pic.twitter.com/VrpmUg5Ebs
— Arch (@Arch_LGF) November 5, 2020
Think we all saw this coming 😂
Presidential spiritual adviser Paula White Remix is 🔥#PaulaWhite #CountEveryVote pic.twitter.com/MftufXuRjV— Terrence Daniels (Captain 🍀 Planet) (@Terrence_STR) November 5, 2020
I’m super stressed this morning. I was pretty chill yesterday, but all the Trump/GOP created chaos has worn me down. The fact that chaos is a winning political strategy is depressing as hell.
I’m gonna breathe deep, pet Teddy and try to get some work done a little later.
re: #482 John Hughes
That’s a red herring. The more people you have the more people can be working on the count.
What makes your elections slow is the complexity, not the number of voters.
We do need national standards on voting I agree. I do think that so many mail in ballots this time has complicated things.
re: #449 makeitstop
Is that the guy who unleashed Sarah Palin?
GEORGIA: Trump +18,556 statewide.
In Fulton Co there are 140k outstanding ballots. We will know results soon. Currently there Biden has 73% of the vote.
If that trend continues, he earns approx 102k votes from Fulton, putting him +80k statewide with less than 50k to count.— Cara Korte (@CaraKorte) November 5, 2020
OK. This is saying that there are a lot more ballots counted but not reported yet, as opposed to the lower number which are not counted yet. So, if this is correct, very good news for Biden. Too many numbers flying around.
re: #468 Florida Panhandler
Without access to power, the right wing discards you as you are no longer a useful tool anymore. Trump is done. He’s finished.
Trump TV would be a joke with no damage done to Fox News at all. Fox News has a circle jerk going on with the levers of power within the American right wing and Loser Trump with no Presidential power is now in the garbage can with no way to get out.
Perhaps. I *was* astounded at how quickly Bush went from being the cardboard cutout that little right-wing evangelical children were made to kneel and pray to … to the most heinous warmongering traitor EVAR!!1! in the minds of Fox viewers.
But the connection to Trump is bone-deep in these people. Having to choose between Fox and Trump would cause a rupture in their brains that would send most of them to flee to full-time work in meth labs and gibbering in the street.
I mean, more than they already are, of course…
re: #484 Dave In Austin
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The cat is the star of that show.
Paula White is nuts. It’s hard to believe they let her walk around on her own.
Trump’s legal team in Philly making a “Lasagna of lies”.
Philly @DA_LarryKrasner on the Trump administration’s various lawsuits:
“I never know what they’re talking about. They just make up a variety of things, they layer them on each other, they throw in so many — It’s like a lasagna of lies.” pic.twitter.com/VDRj54V4hC— Zerlina on Peacock (@ZerlinaShow) November 5, 2020
I cannot tell you how many times this happened to me in my college dorm, only with pepperoni pizzas. pic.twitter.com/fskkueuZaU
— Mark Pitcavage (@egavactip) November 5, 2020
re: #479 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
You’re right. That would take Duckworth out of contention on my rule no Senators.
Defense would go to Michele Flournoy.
However, Biden could call on Susan Collins to be in the cabinet as a political jujitsu move to drop the GOP control by 1. Not sure where she’d be a good fit though.
re: #486 Teddy’s Person ✌
I’m super stressed this morning. I was pretty chill yesterday, but all the Trump/GOP created chaos has worn me down. The fact that chaos is a winning political strategy is depressing as hell.
I’m gonna breathe deep, pet Teddy and try to get some work done a little later.
Moar pix of Teddy getting petted & appreciating the simple love given to a beloved furperson, please?
re: #488 Nyet
Is that the guy who unleashed Sarah Palin?
OOPS! Big edit. I thought you were talking about Harlan Hill.
Yeah, he was Palin’s campaign manager.
re: #495 lawhawk
You’re right. That would take Duckworth out of contention on my rule no Senators.
Defense would go to Michele Flournoy.However, Biden could call on Susan Collins to be in the cabinet as a political jujitsu move to drop the GOP control by 1. Not sure where she’d be a good fit though.
Outside o Judiciary, what committees has she been on? But yeah I think Flournoy is the favorite for DoD. I have Mayor Pete for UN Ambassador.
I’m done 🐈 pic.twitter.com/78GbxDuYd9
— Tim Doutré (@Timdoutre) November 5, 2020
re: #497 makeitstop
I don’t think so - he identified as a Democrat until 2014. He started Democrats for Trump.
But if they’re sending that pencil-neck to ‘war’ in Philly, Philly will remove its earrings, rip his arm off and beat him over the head with it.
I think Sergey’s asking about Steve Schmidt and yes he’s the guy who helped push Palin.
This man is fomenting the violent overthrow of the government of the United States of America.
Charge him for it. pic.twitter.com/s3poU0jMt1— Keith Olbermann (@KeithOlbermann) November 5, 2020
re: #486 Teddy’s Person ✌
I’m super stressed this morning. I was pretty chill yesterday, but all the Trump/GOP created chaos has worn me down. The fact that chaos is a winning political strategy is depressing as hell.
I’m gonna breathe deep, pet Teddy and try to get some work done a little later.
Petting Teddy may not be enough. This situation calls for hugs and cuddles and doggie kisses.
Here’s something to look at if you want to develop a twitch.
NPR’s election tracker (margins version)
Things move around on a regular basis. They had Wisconsin moving toward tossup a few minutes ago. Joined by NV. Still blue, but I don’t need this kind of trouble. Why to I keep looking? Because Georgia is moving toward blue…
re: #498 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
HHS. Select Intelligence. Aging.
I don’t consider her competent enough for DCI. I don’t trust her judgment either.
re: #495 lawhawk
You’re right. That would take Duckworth out of contention on my rule no Senators.
Defense would go to Michele Flournoy.However, Biden could call on Susan Collins to be in the cabinet as a political jujitsu move to drop the GOP control by 1. Not sure where she’d be a good fit though.
Appoint Collins as Ambassador to Antarctica.
And I liked dangerman’s idea - appoint her then fire her.
re: #504 lawhawk
HHS. Select Intelligence. Aging.
I don’t consider her competent enough for DCI. I don’t trust her judgment either.
Yeah I don’t seen any fits unfortunately and I agree about DCI.
re: #500 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
I think Sergey’s asking about Steve Schmidt and yes he’s the guy who helped push Palin.
Yeah, I corrected it. I thought he was talking about that pencil-neck Harlan Hill. Mea culpa.
re: #507 makeitstop
Yeah, I corrected it. I thought he was talking about that pencil-neck Harlan Hill. Mea culpa.
All good. Harlan’s a weird looking guy. All these Trumpers look like cartoon charactesr.
re: #503 calochortus
I’m also not sure why these states are moving around. It’s not like the numbers they put up are changing. I need to go do something else for a while.
re: #509 Khal Wimpo (not drinking damn fish tank cleaner)
from Drudge:
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Bob Casey was on CNN predicting the same. These guys know their state and they know where the remaining votes are coming from.
re: #509 Khal Wimpo (not drinking damn fish tank cleaner)
from Drudge:
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It’s still a prediction. However, if it comes true, it would be the absolute best news I’ve heard this week.
re: #435 Florida Panhandler
If McConnell wants to play this game there is a solution and it involves the very basic nature of Republicanism- money. It would be a shame if numerous corporations both domestic and foreign announce they are pulling out of Kentucky if McConnell decides to go for his power grab. All those quickly unemployed voters in Kentucky would be very unhappy.
There’s always the matter of federal charges against the soon to be ex-secretary of Transportation…
re: #512 Dopefish: Ever hopeful.
It’s still a prediction. However, if it comes true, it would be the absolute best news I’ve heard this week.
Week.
Month.
Year.
Last 4 years, inclusive.
re: #515 Khal Wimpo (not drinking damn fish tank cleaner)
Week.
Month.
Year.
Last 4 years, inclusive.
My flag is still sitting in the back of the hall closet, patiently awaiting its turn to see the light of day.
BREAKING: Georgia judge dismisses lawsuit by Trump campaign - AP
— BNO News (@BNONews) November 5, 2020
Time for a new thread. Site is crashing even on spy mode.
Only 15,000 separating Biden and Trump in Georgia. We’re gonna get it. It’s gonna be tight but it will be won.
whistling in the dark to keep yourself company? pic.twitter.com/LDLVhEQFOV
— REESUS PATRIOT™💙 (@ReesusP) November 5, 2020
re: #519 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
Only 15,000 separating Biden and Trump in Georgia. We’re gonna get it. It’s gonna be tight but it will be won.
And we’ll get the runoff in both Senate races, too. With all the marbles at stake.
Bring it!
re: #505 makeitstop
Appoint Collins as Ambassador to Antarctica.
And I liked dangerman’s idea - appoint her then fire her.
That gets around the competency issue and adds to GOP misery. Twofer.
Rio Grande Valley weirdness:
That giant arrow is Maverick County, where the margin shifted by about 40 points even as Biden added about 6k votes from 2016 total pic.twitter.com/790wPrW4Qp
— Justin Miller (@by_jmiller) November 5, 2020
re: #519 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
Only 15,000 separating Biden and Trump in Georgia. We’re gonna get it. It’s gonna be tight but it will be won.
With 60k ballots outstanding this is doable.
re: #495 lawhawk
You’re right. That would take Duckworth out of contention on my rule no Senators.
Defense would go to Michele Flournoy.However, Biden could call on Susan Collins to be in the cabinet as a political jujitsu move to drop the GOP control by 1. Not sure where she’d be a good fit though.
Secretary of Concern
re: #526 BlueSpotinAL
Secretary of Concern
Sounds like something Gary Trudeau would have created for the Carter Administration.
re: #524 jaunte
Rio Grande Valley weirdness:
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re: #475 Dave In Austin
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Ah the same fool who got kicked off of Fox for using a nasty word about Kamala.
Do be sure to take your bedsheets and hood with you!— The 3-D Zanti Regent (@josephebacon) November 5, 2020
re: #524 jaunte
Larado? That’s not surprising. Lots of Republican/Cartel money there.
re: #526 BlueSpotinAL
and I really don’t believe that any GOP senator would be interested in serving in the Biden administration, Mitch seems to have them all in lockstep, unsure how in the hell one of them would now have developed the Chutzpah to abandon ship…
maybe I am wrong, but I just don’t see it, based on past behavior
CNN updated: Biden behind in PA by 120k with estimated 92% of votes calculated. Works out to around 500k outstanding votes.
re: #528 Mike Lamb
I know Biden apparently didn’t resonate as well with Latinos. However, the Rio Grande Valley screams of fuckery.
Ana Navarro pointed out that htis is actually wrong. Yeah Biden struggled in Miami-Dade with the Cubans but he actually did well with the other groups in Florida and credited Latino voters with helping Hickenlopper win as big as he did. The Hispanic vote is complicated and from what I’m seeing Biden has won them but we need to realize going forward that it’s not a monolithic bloc. I think Biden himself realizes that more than his detractors.
The firehose of lies keeps spewing:
All of the recent Biden claimed States will be legally challenged by us for Voter Fraud and State Election Fraud. Plenty of proof - just check out the Media. WE WILL WIN! America First!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 5, 2020
re: #535 Eclectic Cyborg
The firehose of lies keeps spewing:
The answer my friend is flailing in the wind.
re: #535 Eclectic Cyborg
The firehose of lies keeps spewing:
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“Biden claimed”?
Donald, that is not how it works.
Mexican-Americans actually look like a base we can and should continue to engage out West. And I think El Salvadoran-Americans helped out here in Virginia. Biden’s won Virginia by 9.3% which is bigger than how we won under Obama and Clinton.
Clown show.
After insisting that “thousands” of fraudulent ballots were cast in Nevada, Richard Grenell refuses to answer a simple question from @jacobsoboroff — where’s the proof?
They’ve got nothing.— Kevin M. Kruse (@KevinMKruse) November 5, 2020
Sir, the voters aren’t through counting the women you assaulted——right now it’s around 24. https://t.co/dMnvMZthri
— E. Jean Carroll (@ejeancarroll) November 5, 2020
re: #538 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
Mexican-Americans actually look like a base we can and should continue to engage out West. And I think El Salvadoran-Americans helped out here in Virginia. Biden’s won Virginia by 9.3% which is bigger than how we won under Obama and Clinton.
I knew we were in trouble in 2016, when my Salvadoran neighbors said they couldn’t vote for Hilary because they said they had heard she was “evil” and “just as bad as Trump,” so they were sitting the election out.
These were people who were in danger of being rounded up and deported. They just didn’t see the connection between how they voted and what was about to happen to them, or their relatives.
re: #531 Dave In Austin
Larado? That’s not surprising. Lots of Republican/Cartel money there.
That area has been hugely democratic the past few elections. Clinton won that area by like 40 points in ‘16, but it suddenly flipped red?
McConnell blocking nominations wont and shouldn’t stop Biden from picking the cabinet he wants. It just destroys what little comity is left after McConnell has already damaged with his hyperpartisan shenanigans.
Trump never bothered to even nominate. He shredded the rules and ignored rules in appointments that prevented him from filling it with his cronies.
He avoided Senate confirmations to keep Democrats from pointing out malfeasance by the very people Trump wanted.— lawhawk #maskingforafriend (@lawhawk) November 5, 2020
LOL. Philly is ready for Harlan Hill.
HE FELT THE PRESSURE AND TRIED TO DAP ME UP LOL pic.twitter.com/pcBEVheHt8
— pro bowl mvp (@rynej__) November 5, 2020
Please share with friends and family in Georgia:
If you voted absentee in Georgia, please check the status of your ballot now.
If it was rejected, you have until 5pm on Friday, November 6, to fix it and make sure your vote counts.https://t.co/dbcsk0fv0R— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) November 5, 2020
Calming myself.
In PA, Biden has caught up by about 50-60k this morning. In that time, Trump has added less than 10k to his total. So Biden is winning this morning’s totals by better than 5-1, possibly more like 7-1.
Here I am going to try to address some confusion about why Allegheny County is not going to begin counting 30,000+ ballots until tomorrow. People are going bonkers about this, or castigating hard-working employees on no sleep, and it is wrong. (thread)
— Chris Potter (@CPotterPgh) November 5, 2020
re: #546 NetworkKed
Calming myself.
In PA, Biden has caught up by about 50-60k this morning. In that time, Trump has added less than 10k to his total. So Biden is winning this morning’s totals by better than 5-1, possibly more like 7-1.
THat’s more than enough. I don’t know when Biden will take the lead in Pa but when he does, it will be there to stay.
Ignorance drives hatred and here is the proof https://t.co/JcUzbMLgxJ
— Eric Garcia (@EricG1247) November 5, 2020
We are kind of the anti-Belarus. The people stomping in the streets are the ones demanding an overthrow of democracy.
— Kurt “Mask Up, Vote Early” Eichenwald (@kurteichenwald) November 5, 2020
re: #541 Khal Wimpo (not drinking damn fish tank cleaner)
I knew we were in trouble in 2016, when my Salvadoran neighbors said they couldn’t vote for Hilary because they said they had heard she was “evil” and “just as bad as Trump,” so they were sitting the election out.
These were people who were in danger of being rounded up and deported. They just didn’t see the connection between how they voted and what was about to happen to them, or their relatives.
Not for nothing, if they were citizens they really weren’t in any danger of being rounded up and deported(no mater what some of the more imaginative folks think) and if they were not citizens, then they couldn’t vote anyway.
Of course there were probably about a 1000 other reasons that Hillary would have been better than Trump.
Steady increase for Biden in Nevada.
Latest David Perdue vote share, per @AP results:
49.997%— Steven Shepard (@POLITICO_Steve) November 5, 2020
This is pretty great.
Watch Grenell and Schlapp ignore questions and flee away: pic.twitter.com/tZlFDDQSQT
— The Recount (@therecount) November 5, 2020
re: #554 HRH Stanley Sea
Funny how literally every vote counts.
NEWS: @JoeBiden lead in Nevada just expanded to more than 12K with another round of counted ballots added to the tolals.
Biden: 597,353
Trump: 585,311@CBSNews #Election2020— Sarah Ewall-Wice (@EwallWice) November 5, 2020
re: #555 makeitstop
HEADS UP: Biden lead over Trump in Nevada expands from 7,647 to 12,042 per @CNN.
— Amee Vanderpool (@girlsreallyrule) November 5, 2020
Can someone talk me off the ledge about Arizona? I’m not seeing updated numbers, but there is chatter about the race tightening-and not everyone has called it for Biden yet.
Sudden, large last-minute bursts of nearly 100% Trump ballots appeared in counties across Texas, Florida and elsewhere.
That is statistically impossible.
Sample audits of the ballots vs actual voter intent should be verified, since this is an indicator of possible fraud.— Monty 🇺🇸Hamilton’s Battery🇺🇸 Boa (@MontyBoa99) November 5, 2020
I hate to cause more anxiety but…
Faithless Electors
We need much more than Nevada
re: #563 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
I hate to cause more anxiety but…
Faithless Electors
We need much more than Nevada
THIS. We can’t risk wingnut electors throwing it back to Trump.
re: #560 calochortus
Can someone talk me off the ledge about Arizona? I’m not seeing updated numbers, but there is chatter about the race tightening-and not everyone has called it for Biden yet.
Trump chances are not non-existent. The Fox/AP/ABC calls were premature.
re: #565 Nyet
Trump chances are not non-existent. The Fox/AP/ABC calls were premature.
Thanks? That calms me right down.
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re: #567 calochortus
Thanks? That calms me right down.
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Biden will most likely win it though.
re: #571 Eclectic Cyborg
I hate all this uncertainty.
If Trump pulls this out, we’ll long for the days of uncertainty.
Just as an aside: can any Georgia Lizards (or anyone with the requisite knowledge) tell me if there is a recount provision in the state’s election laws? Unlike PA, frex, it looks like the winning margin in the Peach State (for whoever) is likely to be miniscule, if trends keep up the way they have been going. Is there an “automatic” recount, or is pay-as-you-go?
Let them fight.
They are now attacking Fox News. pic.twitter.com/lRwDTq4huA
— Alexander Nazaryan (@alexnazaryan) November 5, 2020
re: #570 BigPapa
I need scritches too. This is too close.
Teddy sez you have have some of his scritches.
re: #549 Dave In Austin
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re: #571 Eclectic Cyborg
I hate all this uncertainty.
In 2000, I was taking a US Foreign Relations course. The professor was hoping to spend the last part of the semester talking about how the new president would impact our relationship with other countries. We never got to have that talk.
re: #573 Jay C
Just as an aside: can any Georgia Lizards (or anyone with the requisite knowledge) tell me if there is a recount provision in the state’s election laws? Unlike PA, frex, it looks like the winning margin in the Peach State (for whoever) is likely to be miniscule, if trends keep up the way they have been going. Is there an “automatic” recount, or is pay-as-you-go?
TL;DR: There is no automatic recount, it can only be requested if the margin is less than 0.5%, and the state pays for all recounts.
re: #577 Khal Wimpo (not drinking damn fish tank cleaner)
Let the internecine strife begin. It’s great.
re: #560 calochortus
Can someone talk me off the ledge about Arizona? I’m not seeing updated numbers, but there is chatter about the race tightening-and not everyone has called it for Biden yet.
Pinal, Yavapai, Yuma counties (Trump) are still counting along with Maricopa. But, their combined population is roughly 1/5 of Maricopa
The math is incredibly hard for Trump to overcome
re: #576 sagehen
When Keith Ellison was sworn in, he didn’t use just any old generic Koran… he used Thomas Jefferson’s Koran.
This morning’s moment of awesome brought to you by sagehen. 😊
re: #566 Belafon
This guy has a thread of some apparent anomalies:
Fascinating pattern Miami-Dade & many Texas counties ‘16 to’20:
Turnout substantially increases
Trump raw vote substantially increases
Biden matches Clinton’s raw votes
- Close to 100% of “new” voters seemingly vote Trump..for example Miami-Dade 1/5— David Manel (@DavidManel) November 4, 2020
Key point. Redistricting isn’t just poised to be a disaster for Dems & democracy because GOP won control of many states on Tuesday. It may also be even more extreme than 2010 WITHIN states because of the Supreme Court & possibly Trump corrupting the census too. More on this soon https://t.co/PDcRBSvbmj
— Stephen Wolf (@PoliticsWolf) November 5, 2020
Explanation for delayed count in Allegheny:
(tl/dr: it’s nothing nefarious) https://t.co/4DkKchaEUn— Helen Kennedy (@HelenKennedy) November 5, 2020
re: #582 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
Pinal, Yavapai, Yuma counties (Trump) are still counting along with Maricopa. But, their combined population is roughly 1/5 of Maricopa
The math is incredibly hard for Trump to overcome
Thank you. Seriously.
re: #584 jaunte
It may just mean Trump’s voters in red counties were extremely energized.
re: #563 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
I hate to cause more anxiety but…
Faithless Electors
We need much more than Nevada
dems pick dem electors
who’s gonna be ‘faithless’?
re: #588 jaunte
It may just mean Trump’s voters in red counties were extremely energized.
There are a variety of non-nefarious explanations for these phenomena. I know this administration is evil, and there are some who are probably smart enough to perpetrate ballot fraud, but large-scale voter fraud - across multiple states, no less - is extremely difficult to pull off. I have my doubts that anyone in the administration is THAT competent.
re: #551 danarchy
Not for nothing, if they were citizens they really weren’t in any danger of being rounded up and deported(no mater what some of the more imaginative folks think) and if they were not citizens, then they couldn’t vote anyway.
Of course there were probably about a 1000 other reasons that Hillary would have been better than Trump.
Parents were in the US without documentation. Kids born here shrugged, because they were OK. Uncles/cousins here without papers.
Some of them got rounded up in 2019.
re: #589 dangerman
dems pick dem electors
who’s gonna be ‘faithless’?
Yes. Chillax people. We’re gonna get this. It’s now a matter of when not if at this point.
re: #580 Dopefish: Ever hopeful.
TL;DR: There is no automatic recount, it can only be requested if the margin is less than 0.5%, and the state pays for all recounts.
Thanks.
Since “any candidate” can request one, I would guess that the loser of the GA ballot will do so, even if it’s unlikely to make a difference in the final results. Maybe.
re: #582 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
Pinal, Yavapai, Yuma counties (Trump) are still counting along with Maricopa. But, their combined population is roughly 1/5 of Maricopa
The math is incredibly hard for Trump to overcome
Likewise, most of the outstanding vote in PA is from Philly and the metro area and even the vote coming in from the Republican areas is more Democratic since it’s all mail in and Pennsylvania Dems voted by mail much more than Republicans.
re: #549 Dave In Austin
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re: #589 dangerman
dems pick dem electors
who’s gonna be ‘faithless’?
They paid off the debts of a supreme court nominee.
You don’t think they can someone weak out of 270 people?
re: #592 The Pie Overlord!
Some fucker votes for Bernie.
i dont see it
though i have nothing to base it on, i am solidly sure that the selection apparatus vetted the electors real carefully this time
re: #508 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
All good. Harlan’s a weird looking guy. All these Trumpers look like cartoon charactesr.
His background is pretty sketchy. Went to some religious prep school in Charleston, SC (of course)—was interning in the UK while a teenager. Claims to have attended 2 colleges—don’t think he graduated anywhere. Married to an event planner. No idea where the $ came from to start all his various companies. Started his career with a Dem consulting firm, but obviously switched to being a right-wing loon pretty quickly.
Just another freak on the trump train.
re: #574 makeitstop
Let them fight.
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I don’t get this whole thing. Who cares what fox declared, the votes were already all in and will be counted. There is no scale to put their finger on.
I expect protests to follow if faithless electors throw the Presidency back to Trump.
re: #600 danarchy
I don’t get this whole thing. Who cares what fox declared, the votes were already all in and will be counted. There is no scale to put their finger on.
Because Trump thinks Fox owes him I guess.
It’s happening.
NATE SILVER
NOV. 5, 12:28 PM
I’m not a decision desk, but I suppose I think Nevada is on the verge of being callable at this point. Two-thirds of the state’s population is in Clark County and Biden is gaining big in Clark County! Not sure I see the route for a Trump comeback.
re: #599 BeachDem
His background is pretty sketchy. Went to some religious prep school in Charleston, SC (of course)—was interning in the UK while a teenager. Claims to have attended 2 colleges—don’t think he graduated anywhere. Married to an event planner. No idea where the $ came from to start all his various companies. Started his career with a Dem consulting firm, but obviously switched to being a right-wing loon pretty quickly.
Just another freak on the trump train.
Started companies huh? Didn”t I hear he started out as a Berner? Yet another cosplay socialist gone far right. My shock.
re: #603 Nyet
It’s happening.
I’m seeing the same thing from Jon Ralston who is the guy when it comes Nevada political journalism. Good news.
UPDATE: PA Supreme Court Spokesperson says, “There is no filing in the Pa Supreme Court and the Court has NOT overruled any action by the Commonwealth Court. Again, the PA Supreme Court has NOT taken any actions on any Commonwealth Court case nor do they have any pending filings” https://t.co/akTzZoHB2S
— Political Polls (@PpollingNumbers) November 5, 2020
Counting will now resume in Philly. Trump’s lead is down to 115k.
— Amy Siskind (@Amy_Siskind) November 5, 2020
STOP THE FRAUD!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 5, 2020
Yes, the pres. of the US is putting this out. And yes, it’s a lie. And yes, his supporters buy into everything he says and will still be there once Biden is pres. https://t.co/CzTQo57RH7
— Laffy (@GottaLaff) November 5, 2020
re: #609 Eclectic Cyborg
Oh, he is begging to be stopped now.
re: #611 jaunte
Trump is pathetic.
Meanwhile, life goes on and I’ve got things I need to do.
Laterz.
re: #609 Eclectic Cyborg
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so presidential
such eloquence
STOP THE FRAUD!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 5, 2020
re: #609 Eclectic Cyborg
Here’s a bad boy, doesn’t know shit about Jesus.
Free flailing.
Trump, whose tweeted lies have been flagged by Twitter one by one, is now emailing tweet-length lies to reporters. https://t.co/ulsg0SIwvV
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) November 5, 2020
re: #615 dangerman
‘late’ votes are legal
Hell, they’re still counting votes that were in the ballot boxes on Election Day. There is nothing illegal about that!
Another Pulpit Pimp bites the dust!
Pastor Who Blamed COVID on People Who “Committed Fornication” Dies of COVID
End Times preacher Irvin Baxter has died of COVID.
His ministry announced on Tuesday that the 75-year-old Baxter was hospitalized last week and quickly succumbed to the disease.
The brief note doesn’t mention how he may have caught the virus, but we all know he never took it seriously. That’s because, in late March, he appeared on Jim Bakker’s show and attempted to explain why God gave us COVID: Fornication among unmarried couples.
re: #600 danarchy
I don’t get this whole thing. Who cares what fox declared, the votes were already all in and will be counted. There is no scale to put their finger on.
Gotta blame somebody. They’re flailing.
And they’ll grab for anything they can fundraise off of.
Get a load of this…
This smells like a Trump plot, given that that area is solid red and was won by Trump. If you wanted Trump to win, you would have kept your mouth shut instead of proving what a bunch of dumbasses you are.
— Eric The Fruit Bat (@ericfruitbat) November 5, 2020
re: #620 makeitstop
Gotta blame somebody. They’re flailing.
And they’ll grab for anything they can fundraise off of.
Yeah I didn’t expect Trump to go after FNC as he goes down.
I almost hope he barricades himself in the WH until the 21st and then one of those innocent (so they say, no?) police accidents happens as they are dragging him out. Poetic justice and all that.
re: #609 Eclectic Cyborg
STOP THE FRAUD!
We’re doing just that, Donald.
You’ll be back to civilian life in no time….
re: #623 Nyet
I almost hope he barricades himself in the WH until the 21st and then one of those innocent (so they say, no?) police accidents happens as they are dragging him out. Poetic justice and all that.
He should have just listened to the cops/ //
PURGE THE DISLOYAL ELEMENTS FROM PRAVDA. https://t.co/OlbiHjDtjC
— Ed Bott (@edbott) November 5, 2020
re: #623 Nyet
I almost hope he barricades himself in the WH until the 21st and then one of those innocent (so they say, no?) police accidents happens as they are dragging him out. Poetic justice and all that.
Or like the warden from Shawshank.
Lou Dobbs calls for violence
Fox Business host Lou Dobbs suggested that Republicans should “surround” the city of Philadelphia and exert “a real rigorous, demanding presence in those counting rooms” as Pennsylvania continues tallying votes.https://t.co/wG8zYmIXcK
— The Intellectualist (@highbrow_nobrow) November 5, 2020
re: #624 Dopefish: Ever hopeful.
Oh, Christ. This asshole again.
That Post Office is in a heavily red area, and went for Trump by a significant margin. If they backdated the late ballots up there, that would mean more Trump votes. Given what we know about the chicanery in the USPS, this doesn’t surprise me one bit.
re: #630 Eric The Fruit Bat
That Post Office is in a heavily red area, and went for Trump by a significant margin. If they backdated the late ballots up there, that would mean more Trump votes. Given what we know about the chicanery in the USPS, this doesn’t surprise me one bit.
It’s James O’Keefe and Project Veritas, a known ratfucker. Every single thing he says has been disproven in minute detail.
re: #629 Dave In Austin
PA Gov. Tom Wolf: “Pennsylvania is going to count every vote and no amount of intimidation will stop our dedicated election officials in our municipalities … The planned attacks on our elections this morning are undemocratic and all elected officials must denounce them.”
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) November 5, 2020
Twitter keeps tagging Trumps tweets less than 15 minutes after he posts them. Must be driving him insane.
630+ comments…. My phone headed out to the gate an hour ago.
Accosta says Trump’s people are talking to him about a possible 2024 run hahaha. Sure he can run from prison on a law and order campaign.
re: #633 Eclectic Cyborg
Twitter keeps tagging Trumps tweets less than 15 minutes after he posts them. Must be driving him insane.
Intern from Hell.
re: #635 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
Accosta says Trump’s people are talking to him about a possible 2024 run hahaha. Sure he can run from prison on a law and order campaign.
I hate to say it, but I think Trump could probably beat Kamala Harris…not that I think he’ll ever get the chance.
GOP holding a press conference in Clark County, NV but multiple speakers wearing team trump jackets won’t give their names despite several requests from reporters. pic.twitter.com/eI9SGETIMO
— Ezra Kaplan (@EzraNBC) November 5, 2020
“It might affect my future acting career.”
In other news, a Hennepin County judge has said that Minneapolis will get its justice done, ruling that all four former officers will stand trial together in Minneapolis rather than separating the cases and changing venue.
Key Point: Trump’s last appeal will be to his base. He has to convince them, which he’s trying to do with un-evidenced allegations of voter fraud, to support him to the end. https://t.co/expTFFm58w
— Joyce Alene (@JoyceWhiteVance) November 5, 2020
Putin’s final wish.
re: #638 Eclectic Cyborg
I hate to say it, but I think Trump could probably beat Kamala Harris…not that I think he’ll ever get the chance.
4 years is a long time.
re: #635 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
Accosta says Trump’s people are talking to him about a possible 2024 run hahaha. Sure he can run from prison on a law and order campaign.
He ain’t gonna live that long.
Besides, it would be like Vegas-era Elvis. He’d prolly still campaign against Crooked Hillary, and everybody would be like, ‘Who??’
Seems like a lesson learned from 2000 is that no one is breaking into the counting rooms like the Brooks Bros d-bags.
Will indeed be psychologically interesting.
“NATE SILVER
NOV. 5, 12:41 PM
A little inside baseball, but this dynamic may affect how different networks are handling Nevada. If you’ve called Arizona (which I don’t think you should have!), then a Nevada call would give Biden the election. But Nevada is probably callable at this point!”
re: #642 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
4 years is a long time.
The last 4 have been agonizingly long and distracting.
re: #645 makeitstop
He ain’t gonna live that long.
Besides, it would be like Vegas-era Elvis. He’d prolly still campaign against Crooked Hillary, and everybody would be like, ‘Who??’
Yeah the only thing he has in common with Grover Cleveland is that he’s fat. He’s not going to be the same guy in four years and four years a lot of us including I suspect even some Republicans will realize “Oh yeah we’ve had a normal Presidency” the past four years.
re: #405 Citizen K
If our hopes of neutralizing McConnell’s iron fist is Collins and Murkowski, then it’s simply not happening. We can’t keep doing this Lucy and the Football shit with those two.
keep in mind, my point was not to naively pretend that murkowski and collins are actually “moderate” Republicans, because clearly they aren’t. But an arrangement could be made where by caucasing with the Democrats, they could be allowed complete freedom to vote how they wish on legislation, as long as they vote to allow bills from the House to actually come on to the senate calendar. If a bill comes up and it doesn’t make it because there are only 48 votes for it, then that’s great. That’s democracy. But I’m betting that there will be plenty of legislation that comes up in which Republicans, freed from the procedural filibuster because a senate with a democratic majority leader killed it, will vote for some stuff simply because 2022 is not a good year for Republicans running for senate seats, and political survival will come into the calculus.
re: #647 Nyet
Will indeed be psychologically interesting.
“NATE SILVER
NOV. 5, 12:41 PM
A little inside baseball, but this dynamic may affect how different networks are handling Nevada. If you’ve called Arizona (which I don’t think you should have!), then a Nevada call would give Biden the election. But Nevada is probably callable at this point!”
Man, if Fox was the first to call the election for Biden, it would send Trump right over the edge.
re: #604 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
Started companies huh? Didn”t I hear he started out as a Berner? Yet another cosplay socialist gone far right. My shock.
From his LinkedIn—
Managing Partner
Code and Politics
Jun 2009 - Dec 2012
(so he would have been 19 at the time)
Founding Partner
Indigo Strategies
Nov 2012 - Jun 2014
Cofounder & CEO
TallyVoting
Feb 2014 - Jun 2015
President
The Logan Circle Group
Jun 2016 - Present
And many other activities—Harlan’s been a very busy lad.
re: #645 makeitstop
He ain’t gonna live that long.
This. I think the narcissistic injury is going to do him in.
re: #650 steve_davis
keep in mind, my point was not to naively pretend that murkowski and collins are actually “moderate” Republicans, because clearly they aren’t. But an arrangement could be made where by caucasing with the Democrats, they could be allowed complete freedom to vote how they wish on legislation, as long as they vote to allow bills from the House to actually come on to the senate calendar. If a bill comes up and it doesn’t make it because there are only 48 votes for it, then that’s great. That’s democracy. But I’m betting that there will be plenty of legislation that comes up in which Republicans, freed from the procedural filibuster because a senate with a democratic majority leader killed it, will vote for some stuff simply because 2022 is not a good year for Republicans running for senate seats, and political survival will come into the calculus.
That’s exactly right.
re: #655 Axolotl
He will be dead by then.
I think so too.He’s not gonna be a long lived ex president.
re: #656 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
I think so too.He’s not gonna be a long lived ex president.
I don’t know. There’s a lot of unhealthy assholes who have had lengthy lifespans.
re: #657 Eclectic Cyborg
I don’t know. There’s a lot of unhealthy assholes who have had lengthy lifespans.
Most unhealthy assholes don’t go through litigation hell in their late 70’s. If I thought he was just going go to Mar al Lago to sulk, maybe but he’s gonna be dealing with a lot of shit that will up his stress and stress eating.
BREAKING: Donald Trump has won the State of Denial
re: #657 Eclectic Cyborg
I don’t know. There’s a lot of unhealthy assholes who have had lengthy lifespans.
Didn’t his dad live to age 90? Also, dad may have been a drinker whereas the orange carbuncle does not drink alcohol.
“He Said……”
Are you going to spread his mis-information now so it won’t get #REDTAGGED? Shame on you Laura.
— And The Wind Cries: “I WON! STOP THE VOTING!” (@DaveoutofAustin) November 5, 2020
re: #655 Axolotl
He will be dead by then.
Oh he’s gonna do the Fat Elvis thing and blabber out them lyrics while the fans swoon around him. Then he’ll check out on the Golden Throne after trying too hard to take a dump. And just wait for the funeral when the Pulpit Pimps deify him the same way they did with Pruneface.
Looking at some NV vote metrics.
All NV Trump counties (15) have a combine population less than 1/7 of the combined population of Clark and Washoe counties.
Going to take a wild skewing from historical trends for Trump to claim NV
Fox really has a problem with their silly super-early AZ call.
Same thing, I fear? In the pre-2020 days, I think an 8% Biden lead with 70% counted in AZ, or whatever it was exactly, would merit a call! https://t.co/kiZ8YzcRPD
— Nate Cohn (@Nate_Cohn) November 5, 2020
re: #664 Nyet
Mikhael Penis will probably run tho.
Think? I’m not so sure, he’s got a lot of baggage (both as BP and governor) and zero, nay negative, personality
Next stop, Pun City.
While this must put Perdue in a fowl mood, he has only himself to blame: He shouldn’t have turned chicken and skipped the last debate. Now he’ll have to work his Ossoff to stay in ofice. Stealing this seat would be quite the coop for the Democrats. pic.twitter.com/Li9c9Dm8iv
— RobGobbleGobble (@RobGeorge) November 5, 2020
There it is. This is where this was always headed. https://t.co/fF8CfY9J7U
— Parker Molloy (@ParkerMolloy) November 5, 2020
re: #670 makeitstop
He could always run off to Turkey.
It is telling who is fighting for Trump publicly right now:
His family
Rudy
A handful of political hacks
Where is his legal dream team? Senate Republicans? GOP stalwarts like Nikki Haley?— Kate Brannen (@K8brannen) November 5, 2020
re: #653 jaunte
re: #645 makeitstop
He ain’t gonna live that long.
This. I think the narcissistic injury is going to do him in.
Yeah, heartbreaking, ain’t it?
Wonder if Jimmy Carter will live long enough to attend his funeral?
re: #664 Nyet
Mikhael Penis will probably run tho.
He will. It’s going to be interesting to see how they try to out Trump each other.
re: #671 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
Epic meltdown.
re: #664 Nyet
Mikhael Penis will probably run tho.
We already know Tom Cottonmouth, Gym Jordan, Josh Hawley, Nimrata and Ivanka (if she ain’t in jail) are probably running. Probably Killer Kristi and a couple other assholes will be in the 2024 GOP KKKlown KKKar
re: #609 Eclectic Cyborg
That’s precisely what this election is doing Donald!
The sound of doors slamming shut.
Judge Stephens DENIES the Trump campaign’s request for emergency relief in Michigan.
This is the campaign’s second loss in one day.— Adam Klasfeld (@KlasfeldReports) November 5, 2020
re: #671 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
Yeah, and they determined that they way they would choose electors was my having voters vote for the electors. If they decide, after the election, to appoint different electors… I highly doubt the courts will let that stand.
re: #671 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
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Levin assumes that Republicans are gonna roll in that Trump stank one more time.
Hell, even the enablers in Congress are staying far, far away.
Any smart Republican would just let him bleed out and move on.
re: #674 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
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Nikki’s busy shoring up support for her future run (ugh) congratulating all the misanthropic Republicans she campaigned for.
re: #623 Nyet
I almost hope he barricades himself in the WH until the 21st and then one of those innocent (so they say, no?) police accidents happens as they are dragging him out. Poetic justice and all that.
The Secret Service gonna drag his lard ass outa there strapped to a handcart like Hannibal Lechter.
re: #681 makeitstop
The sound of doors slamming shut.
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So what are they (Team Trump) claiming here?
Any substantive allegations as to ballot “mishandling” or just throwing-shit-at-the-wall ?
I’m guessing the latter: for all the blustering about how “tough” they were going to be in “fighting” against every “abuse” of the voting system, the (R) team don’t seem to have advanced any convincing arguments (so far).
I hate seeing Mark Levin quotes. Not only are they inane, but I can’t help reading them in his voice.
I’m trying to keep it together but may resort to stress punning.
re: #688 Barefoot Grin
I hate seeing Mark Levin quotes. Not only are they inane, but I can’t help reading them in his voice.
I don’t think Trump people (or most media people) are getting what’s happening right now, writ large
THE THING, Kavanaugh and the courts were willing to throw out were ballots received AFTER election day.
SO FAR, It sure looks like those ballots are Trump’s ONLY way to catch up— Elie Mystal (@ElieNYC) November 5, 2020
I keep vacillating between satisfying schadenfreude and anticipation anxiety.
re: #619 🌹UOJB!
Another Pulpit Pimp bites the dust!
Pastor Who Blamed COVID on People Who “Committed Fornication” Dies of COVID
End Times preacher Irvin Baxter has died of COVID.
His ministry announced on Tuesday that the 75-year-old Baxter was hospitalized last week and quickly succumbed to the disease.
The brief note doesn’t mention how he may have caught the virus, but we all know he never took it seriously. That’s because, in late March, he appeared on Jim Bakker’s show and attempted to explain why God gave us COVID: Fornication among unmarried couples.
Weird.
It’s as though the pulpit pimps aren’t immune to the covid despite all their claims the contrary. He didn’t just get covid and die, he got hospitalized last week and died within a week.
Seems like there’s a message there if you want to believe in some such thing.
Oh … and wear a fucking mask.
Fox News reporter Jonathan Hunt isn’t buying the Trump campaign’s voter fraud Nevada lawsuit.
“Perhaps they are holding that evidence so that a judge is the first person to see it but at the moment, it’s simply a grab bag of complaints trying to see what might stick to the wall” pic.twitter.com/2QSbHfEiGx— Justin Baragona (@justinbaragona) November 5, 2020
re: #609 Eclectic Cyborg
we’re trying to, but you won’t fucking stop…..
re: #682 KGxvi
Yeah, and they determined that they way they would choose electors was my having voters vote for the electors. If they decide, after the election, to appoint different electors… I highly doubt the courts will let that stand.
Not to mention the fact that (IIRC), most states have:
1) statutes requiring the specific “allegiance” of generally-elected Electors;
2) specify particular and unusual circumstances in which a Legislative “solution” would apply (and none of them, AFAICT, relevant in any current situation), and
3) Many have penalties for “faithless electors”, recently ruled applicable by SCOTUS.
Legislative appointment of Presidential Electors hasn’t been a thing in this country since the early 19th Century (SC, typically, was the last, I think) - and that’s one old-timey tradition I don’t think is coming back,
MAGA-head bloggers’ hysterics notwithstanding.
Be patient, folks. Votes are being counted, and we feel good about where we are.
— Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) November 5, 2020
Trump will be untethered by the office of the president, I can see him continuing his rallies and assemble his brownshirts for an orgy of fascist violence.
re: #686 The Pie Overlord!
The Secret Service gonna drag his lard ass outa there strapped to a handcart like Hannibal Lechter.
Hee hee…
Starting to get deep out there folks. Get the big boy boots on.
re: #619 🌹UOJB!
Well, at least he got laid before he died, according to his own framing of the disease.
re: #695 Backwoods_Sleuth
There’s no evidence anywhere that voter fraud has occurred, let alone mail fraud that would deliver votes for Trump or invalidate huge numbers of votes for either/both in such a way that delivers Trump a win in any of the states remaining to be called.
That’s the problem with all of Trump’s suits at the moment. There’s no substantive facts supporting his claims. None. There’s nothing to them. They’re vaporware, and the courts know it, the pundits know it, and even Fox knows it.
This is just a more drawn out version of Downfall.
re: #699 Amory Blaine
Trump will be untethered by the office of the president, I can see him continuing his rallies and assemble his brownshirts for an orgy of fascist violence.
Live by the sword…
re: #699 Amory Blaine
Trump will be untethered by the office of the president, I can see him continuing his rallies and assemble his brownshirts for an orgy of fascist violence.
That may be difficult while under indictment and should be considered a flight risk (since he has his own jet and can go anywhere in the world).
oh my god they’re trying to sing pic.twitter.com/b23Ed0PcHA
— Timothy Burke (@bubbaprog) November 5, 2020
re: #699 Amory Blaine
Trump will be untethered by the office of the president, I can see him continuing his rallies and assemble his brownshirts for an orgy of fascist violence.
Not if he has to pay to hold them.
He could charge admission, but I don’t think even his hard core would pony up to hear Crooked Hillary and Sleepy Joe for the 10,000th time.
re: #675 Jay C
Yeah, heartbreaking, ain’t it?
Wonder if Jimmy Carter will live long enough to attend his funeral?
I predicted last night that Carter would outlive trump. Then I said Ringo will outlive Paul. We shall see. If we outlive all of them.
re: #708 wrenchwench
I predicted last night that Carter would outlive trump. Then I said Ringo will outlive Paul. We shall see. If we outlive all of them.
Does it end in a Carter vs Ringo death match since there can be only one?
re: #697 Jay C
Not to mention the fact that (IIRC), most states have:
1) statutes requiring the specific “allegiance” of generally-elected Electors;
2) specify particular and unusual circumstances in which a Legislative “solution” would apply (and none of them, AFAICT, relevant in any current situation), and
3) Many have penalties for “faithless electors”, recently ruled applicable by SCOTUS.Legislative appointment of Presidential Electors hasn’t been a thing in this country since the early 19th Century (SC, typically, was the last, I think) - and that’s one old-timey tradition I don’t think is coming back,
MAGA-head bloggers’ hysterics notwithstanding.
There was talk in 2000 with Florida that if the vote wasn’t certified in time, the legislature was going to simply pick the electors. But that was a weird situation where there was a chance Florida wasn’t going to send any electors. This would be a completely different scenario.
re: #703 lawhawk
That’s the problem with all of Trump’s suits at the moment. There’s no substantive facts supporting his claims. None. There’s nothing to them. They’re vaporware, and the courts know it, the pundits know it, and even Fox knows it.
He’s playing to the cheap seats. The rubes will eat it with a spoon.
re: #703 lawhawk
There’s no evidence anywhere that voter fraud has occurred, let alone mail fraud that would deliver votes for Trump or invalidate huge numbers of votes for either/both in such a way that delivers Trump a win in any of the states remaining to be called.
That’s the problem with all of Trump’s suits at the moment. There’s no substantive facts supporting his claims. None. There’s nothing to them. They’re vaporware, and the courts know it, the pundits know it, and even Fox knows it.
This is just a more drawn out version of Downfall.
Based on the Tweets upthread, the only evidence of anything potentially hinky occurring was in Texas and FL, and it was hugely in favor of Trump.
re: #707 makeitstop
Yeah. Who wants to hear the same untethered to reality bulkshit stream of consciousness nonsense for 90 minutes? You hear it once you’ve heard it all. It’s the same thing. He’s a one-trick pony.
re: #709 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
Does it end in a Carter vs Ringo death match since there can be only one?
Keith Richards and Betty White would like a word
re: #708 wrenchwench
I predicted last night that Carter would outlive trump. Then I said Ringo will outlive Paul. We shall see. If we outlive all of them.
If Trump wins, there’s a good possibility we will all die in one day.
Biden is up by 11.4K right now in NV.
Dems are going to win these mail ballots coming in from Election Day and yesterday — 63K. And they should win them decisively. That leaves 60K provisionals, which have been evenly split.
I see no path left for Trump here.— Jon Ralston (@RalstonReports) November 5, 2020
re: #709 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
Does it end in a Carter vs Ringo death match since there can be only one?
Keith Richards would like a word.
re: #666 Nyet
I only just got into Ghost super recently (like the past month or so). Mostly digging the stuff from Papa III beyond, and Miasma is one hell of an instrumental.
re: #715 Nyet
If Trump wins, there’s a good possibility we will all die in one day.
Oh, good. I was CLed while staring at your comment, trying to think of a way to acknowledge it with a chastisement for negativity. Thanks, Charles!
re: #718 Citizen K
I love them. Great live too.
re: #646 Mike Lamb
Seems like a lesson learned from 2000 is that no one is breaking into the counting rooms like the Brooks Bros d-bags.
There’s an editorial in the WaPo today written by one of the Brooks Bros d-bags saying that what’s happening now is “way out of line”. I didn’t read it but I hope he’s getting flayed by people telling him that the BB Riot was out of line and that he’ll forever be a d-bag.
re: #634 Dave In Austin
630+ comments…. My phone headed out to the gate an hour ago.
Jeez, what kind of clockwork phone have you got? I’m using a famously underpowered Fairphone 3 and it’s having no problem
re: #686 The Pie Overlord!
Not their jobs.
Now, they probably would be obliged to stand aside when the Federal Marshals did the same thing.
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