GET OUT: US politics November 2020

The way I'm seeing it, it's going to be an exact mirror of the 306-232 loss last time. (Admittedly dependent on both Georgia and Arizona emerging for Biden.)

I give two shits if Biden's presidency is over when all I care about is Trump's presidency being over tbqfh.

^^^

Ok, enjoy having no meaningful legislation pass, no judicial nominees getting confirmed, and watching another supreme court seat sit empty with a 6-2 conservative court

https://jacobinmag.com/2020/11/takeaways-election-night-trump-biden-democrats

^ some analysis of exit polls

I think the more productive way to think about it is as a chance to define the Democratic agenda, if they can agree enough on what that is. Do like the GOP House did when the Dems held the Senate, pass a ton of bills that you know won't pass but will force the Republicans to refuse to act on popular legislation, just keep going back at them over and over. Stimulus, healthcare, climate bills, minimum wage, student loan forgiveness, bam bam bam. I know Pelosi has already been doing this to some extent, but with the White House on board it would be significantly amplified. Think of it as a two- or four-year campaign, essentially, with the goal being to take the Senate and win the presidency again in '24.

xp -- my memory is that early analysis of exit polls in 2016 was useless and a lot of it wound up walked back. I would think even moreso this year with so many mail-ins?

Why the hell are people protesting outside the elections department in Phoenix. They know Biden’s ahead right?

xp Seems like polling needs to get some better data scientists involved.

In Arizona they are demanding ... they keep counting votes. In Michigan, they were demanding that they ... stop counting votes.

Oh jeez, Breyer isn't retiring.

After he wins do you think biden will pull Lindsey graham aside and be like “wtf man?” Isn’t graham on tape extolling Biden’s integrity as a human being from a few years back? How are these fucks going to act when trump is gone? Biden always said he could work across the aisle; maybe before these guy’s brains got sucked out by Trump.

have any sitting Republican senators made a comment on what he's doing? are they backing away?

He’s old as shit, the aged have a tendency to die.

that was an xp about Breyer but it's true about every single other person at the top level of government lol

After he wins do you think biden will pull Lindsey graham aside and be like “wtf man?” Isn’t graham on tape extolling Biden’s integrity as a human being from a few years back? How are these fucks going to act when trump is gone? Biden always said he could work across the aisle; maybe before these guy’s brains got sucked out by Trump.

have any sitting Republican senators made a comment on what he's doing? are they backing away?

― akm, Wednesday, November 4, 2020 10:43 PM (two minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

Were you around during either (a) the 8 years of the Obama presidency or (b) the last four years? Why do you think Lindsey Graham or any Republican is suddenly going to start behaving differently now?

Why are they protesting that they continue counting votes. Is like me protesting outside the Oreo factory for them make more cookies

I give two shits if Biden's presidency is over when all I care about is Trump's presidency being over tbqfh.

So what do you think the country looks like 365 days from now if there's no stimulus?

The whole situation with Fox calling AZ is very perplexing. They didn't have to stick their necks out like that at all.

So what do you think the country looks like 365 days from now if there's no stimulus?

Pretty darned dead mate. At least no one's snake-charmed by the world's greatest grifter on the same level of world-stage.

"Why do you think Lindsey Graham or any Republican is suddenly going to start behaving differently now?"

honestly, because it's not a black guy sitting in the White House.

In any case, as someone who had an eye on local vs. national metrics last night, the level to which this country thinks the presidency is the one and the only thing that matters is still pretty galvanizing.

They impeached a white guy* for lying about a blowjob and shut down the government multiple times! Long long ago.

What is the conceivably good piece of policy that can be reached via bipartisan compromise with the best Republican Party you can conceive of?

*white guy sex criminal

GOP all-out war on dems goes back at least to the Clinton years. It predates Obama.

me and milo on the level

It goes back to Nixon.

Yeah, so what's your solution?

resistance bands

inexpensive, reusable. flexible. proven tough.

I'm sorry, I know it's infantile, and not even creative, and there have been so many nicknames, but I just read someone refer to Trump as "President Grumpyshits" and I lost it. Almost shot my tea out my nose, which would have hurt.

Solution to the GOP's intransigence? There isn't one. But the idea that they only acted like they did because of Obama is just wrong.

xxxp C'mon man, you know intermittent fasting is where it's at.

Well I know milo’s

I am feeling man alive all the way on this but know it’s going to be preoccupying for the next four years so am just choosing to luxuriate in shithead’s demise for a couple weeks.

This country's gonna get so swole so quick.

The era of the federal government passing legislation is over, that’s no longer what it does

A welcome development honestly, we just need nonprofits that pay for queer teens to relocate to coastal cities and the federalist project will be over

The law of the land will just change precipitously between executive terms as rules are rewritten from scratch based on existing statutory authority

The federal bureaucracy will be permanently shrunken by brain drain as the largely Democratic civil service loses heart and patience with the insanity

Soon, we’ll be a de facto confederation of city-states

Surrounded by hostile rubes

my favorite oozing wound song

The hostile rubes won’t have any money

But they will have the silos with nukes.

Which is a pretty good way to get money.

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/11/03/donald-trump-julius-caesar-433956

I’d just dare ‘em to

Nice Wall Street you got there, be a shame if someone blew it up.

Paying Nebraska tribute in gold bars and Monster Energy cases

I’ll gladly die in a nuclear strike launched by the Christian Dominion of Montana