GET OUT: US politics November 2020

Oh boy!

The president is now speaking at 6:30 pm, per updated schedule

— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) November 5, 2020

As a government employee, I can say this is untrue.

For sure, but also my point wasn't that having Obama in the White House was good for us personally, it was good for everything we were trying to do to help people who needed help. Especially in a state where we couldn't count on support from the capital.

PA margin down to 78k

Steve Bannon called for the beheading of Dr. Fauci and FBI Director Chris Wray.

Oh, that's just the bottle talking.

president is now speaking at 6:30 pm

trying to get his last licks in before PA or GA get called.

Wondering how many votes Trump lost for saying he’d sack Fauci after the election.

Hope PA is called at 6:25 PM.

sadly, probably not many.

And GA at 6:29 just to rub the salt in.

I guarantee that trump lost 0 votes for anything he’s done in months. Trump voters do not think like that. Mayyyybe he lost some r votes for the stimulus checks.

tv cameras will let him bypass Twitter's masking of his tweets about fraud and election stealing.

tv cameras should put a mask that blurs his face and plays air horns every 4th word

PA 100% not getting called today. Neither is AZ.

Are there any GOP-leaning urban areas in the U.S.?
I'm thinking maybe San Diego.

Phoenix, iirc.

president* is now speaking at 6:30 pm

San Diego has leaned democratic for a while now

🐦[No one is surprised. https://t.co/DZ0GNZMjqG🕸
— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) November 5, 2020🕸]🐦

Guessing weaponized autism is some cross pollination of vaccine conspiracy and chemtrails conspiracy. They’re going to douse us all in thimerosal from the skies.

How that helps trump win the election, he lost me there...

Phoenix, iirc.

yeah, Phoenix and Jacksonville both went for Biden this year

president*

We'll have Trump as president until Inauguration Day at noon. That's a long time to suffer, but it's the law.

y-y-y'mean he doesn't just evaporate immediately?

xpost Yeah this year, but hasn't Phoenix been a reliable GOP big city otherwise? I thought I heard that

Oklahoma City

y-y-y'mean he doesn't just evaporate immediately?

Has anyone tried pouring water on him?

Well the majority of the population Arizona live in greater Phoenix and it was Republican until this year so sure.

If you draw the line at populations over 1m I would be surprised if there are any gop cities.

re: weaponized autism i think that's a libs "destroyed by LOGIC and FACTS" thing?

The entire Phx metro area is usually lumped together which afaik doesn't really happen with other cities. So you get the "suburban mom" vote of Scottsdale mixed in with more traditional urban voters.

Gratifying thread

The Trump campaign lawyer (surname Marcus, didn't catch his first name), chimes in again: "There's one other dimension to this problem".

Diamond, *loudly exhales: "Length and width? Time and space?"

— kadhim (＾ｰ^)ノ (@kadhim) November 5, 2020

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/weaponized-autism

CONFIRMED: There will be 2 U.S. Senate runoffs in Georgia in January, & they will decide who controls the U.S. Senate.

(This has been fairly clear since yesterday afternoon given outstanding ballots. It was just called by at least NBC.)

— Taniel (@Taniel) November 5, 2020

re: weaponized autism i think that's a libs "destroyed by LOGIC and FACTS" thing?

― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Thursday, November 5, 2020 11:15 PM (seven minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

yeah in this instance "weaponized" is .. not pejorative

but we've spent way too much time on that tweet already

Pfft.

On Fox just now, Kellyanne Conway says Trump is going to address “the state of the race from his perspective.” She says he’ll focus on how wrong the pollsters and media were.

“He’s going to go through some of those numbers, which I think is pretty clever.”

— Felicia Sonmez (@feliciasonmez) November 5, 2020

Dunking on the pollsters like everyone’s already done for two days, excellent work.

there aren't that many cities with populations over 1m! many states do not have even 1 (one).

What a clever boy.

awesome news about GA, thanks map

Re: posts from YMP and tipsy mothra, of course the parties aren't the same. One is a socially liberal, economically neoliberal party that at least pretends to be on the side of the population, though also spends a lot of time enriching corporations. The other is a socially fascistic, economically neoliberal party that exists for the sole purpose of enriching corporations and making life miserable for anyone who isn't rich and white.

The commonality between the two parties is large enough that sometimes it becomes easy to become frustrated and conflate then. I understand that frustration in myself, and I understand it in a lot of other people.

The other issue is related to the representational politics that have been talked about a bit in this thread already, but many people on the left (and perhaps some of those minorities who went for Trump) are tired of representational politics standing in for actual substantive work on major issues. That is, we're tired of being seen as a guaranteed vote and not receiving much in return.

So, you take those two huge issues, and I think it's pretty easy to understand why people get so goddamn frustrated with Dems and don't trust them at all.

Hey Americans

STAR: Grumpy Trumpy set to lose bigly #TomorrowsPapersToday pic.twitter.com/EwDB9r7TXW

— Neil Henderson (@hendopolis) November 5, 2020

there are some differences at the local level that will make for strange bedfellows at times though.

plus the issue of their declining to take obvious, popular, and achievable actions to improve the country or stop the opposition, some of which is explained by the other reasons but not all

america's system of government.....sucks ass is how I break it down to an extent

Katherine otm

and the shit rolls downhill -- so you end up with local governments being blamed for the ass sucking nature at the federal level, etc.

so T, tell me more about this nice radical landshare spot with the chill lake/river

― sarahell, Thursday, November 5, 2020 9:49 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

Also me but looking at every 2+ acre parcel for under $30k in the Northeast with a stream and a southern exposure. ilxors unite.

Uh oh!

Panic-stricken Donald Trump Jr. calls for 'total war' in clueless tweet https://t.co/o6Nmpzfc4K pic.twitter.com/VO02SlI1Do

— New York Post (@nypost) November 5, 2020

But then we have to think about who was in power when, let's say, parts of the Bay Area were sold wholesale to Chinese LLCs and techies. Sure, it was easier to get food stamps, and getting stuff done at City Hall was great, but...