GET OUT: US politics November 2020

I really doubt the Hunter Biden story generated any significant movement

sic we aren’t watching tv for a reason stop posting about stuff that’s happening on tv

now I have on a ten-hour train journey to the arctic circle

That’s more like it

Maybe it’s because of smug British tankies posting tweets in a message board thread

― all cats are beautiful (silby), Wednesday, 4 November 2020 bookmarkflaglink

Who can tell anymore!

Anyway Joe Biden fuckin sucks, I’m starting the 2024 dem primary poll thread tomorrow

I vote King Diamond. he's ineligible but that doesn't matter anymore

Bernie would've won by now..

SHUT. THE. FUCK. UP

ha

Get.out.

#WarrenWouldaWon

I really hope Inslee doesn’t get a cabinet post bc then a guy named Denny would be WA-Gov

A Biden victory which half the country and a Senate majority considers illegitimate is really not the greatest outcome

I don't need the greatest outcome. I need Trump out. The planet needs Trump out.

Exactly. This night is not exactly what I wanted but it’s just so monumentally important that Trump loses. I still think that might happen. But this shit is just gonna be so awful for this country.

Win or lose, Never Trumpers can hold their heads high. We made our best case, wrote our most cogent columns, produced our most convincing commercials.

I know that I left it all out on the field. We all did.

The rest is up to the voters. https://t.co/WzvVcLn18y

— Max Boot (@MaxBoot) November 2, 2020

I really hope Inslee doesn’t get a cabinet post bc then a guy named Denny would be WA-Gov

what the heck?!??!

Good night folks. A la prochaine.

what a weird fuckin night

amazed and proud of arizona but otherwise what a shitshow

not looking forward to nervously checking the news every 10 minutes over the next few days

To frogbs point, yeah this isn't the worst outcome of election night (ie not the election itself) but it's def not good.

I will never not be shocked by how many people look at Trump and go yes this is the guy to lead my country

You are still trying to infer people’s mental states or decision processes from election results which is a mistake!

I don't think any lincoln project ad changed a single voter's mind

apparently nothing on earth can change a single voter's mind

“leading the country” is too abstract an idea, I don’t think Joe Biden “should” “lead the country”

No voter’s mind has ever been changed about anything, within epsilon

I'm wondering if working in the hospitality industry in large numbers partially explains why Latinos moved towards Trump. I've spoken with a few restaurant workers and owners who are at their wits' end with the lockdown and reduced customer capacity. Obviously you feel terrible for them, but it's fool's gold to think Trump (who uh already is in power) is going to solve their woes. Then again everything about Trump is fool's gold.

It’s impossible to convince anyone of anything through means short of feeding poison into their brains constantly throughout their waking moments

Ok fine dude change it to "vote for him for president" Jfc the nitpicking

I just don’t get why the search for answers, there was nothing last time and there’s nothing this time, it’s billiard balls bouncing off each other chaotically and occasionally filling out ballots on a whim

Not searching for answers. I'll never understand it. Hence never not be shocked.

humans like to find meaning in random patterns I guess

Our fellow humans are impenetrably unknowable

somebody needs to remind DT coups are meant to be exports, not imports

You're the coup!

Anyway talk to your state legislators about the national popular vote interstate compact!

North Dakota legislature candidate who died from COVID-19 appears to win electionhttps://t.co/q74IBUCtgI

— FOX 9 (@FOX9) November 4, 2020

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The good news is that no matter who wins America will still be terrible indefinitely

dead people winning election is a venerable tradition in most deomcracies, at least they can't take bungs anymore

Trump's economic approval remains slightly positive, much better than his overall approval. People don't seem to blame him for our current economic woes and outside of COVID, Democrats haven't exactly put in the work over the last few decades to show that they'd make the economy better for people.

turning on that faucet already eh

I don't think you can discount the number of people who believe the COVID response (in human cost and economic support) wouldn't be that much better under a Democrat/Biden. Trump's coronavirus approval has sat steadily just under 40%, but that's a base to work off of if you add the people I'm talking about.

though the two party system has def failed everyone

... where are you getting this? xp

is it terrible to opine from my ivory tower (britain) that a controversially narrow trump win at least nicely clears deck for the grand aoc uprising

It doesn’t really make the least bit of sense so yes it’s terrible

nah but that’s sort of like how i fantasized about a leftist uprising when trump won the first time

Have another English breakfast or whatever and try again!

lol just checking

My brother is 25 & angry over this so I was like “Let me tell you about a little court case called Bush v Gore.”

Things are looking better for Biden, so hopefully he gets enough to get to 270 asap, but fuck me, not nice to wake up to. I don’t care for him much but jfc, get Trump out and sort the rest out later.