GET OUT: US politics November 2020

really hope after losing all these states by like .1% some it starts a movement on the right to get rid of the "bullshit electrical college"

I’d like to salute the return of deems with a quality niche tweet.

an election taking 3 days to tell a 1 day story. i fuckin know peter jackson is behind this

— slate (@PleaseBeGneiss) November 6, 2020

this is a great day for the country

Half the country voted for Trump. Don't forget that.

i definitely won't forget it. i can't escape it.

i didn't say everything was awesome now. but this is still a great day.

Why is everyone excited? I heard that once you throw out the illegal ballots and only count the legal ones Trump will win easily.

Fox calling AZ on Tuesday night in retrospect really was a kinda key psychological moment, and that call playing out? Amazing.

Half the country voted for Trump. Don't forget that.

― DJP, Friday, November 6, 2020 11:10 AM (one minute ago)

Pinned post for US politics thread for ever.

it's time to get rid of the lunatic who has hijacked our entire society for four years. he was like the child-demon in ubik, assimilating anything and everything into himself. now we don't have that problem so we can work on others.

I mean rhetorically yes but 74 million vs 70 million is not a nothing margin

The horror still stands tho

Xpost

The Tea Party existed before Donald Trump became President. Don't pretend this all goes away once he's out of office.

who is pretending that?

Just keep it as an axiomatic baseline.

oh it's not going away once he's out BUT not having Donald Trump on TV saying insane shit all the time is gonna have a very real impact

Who knew this gremlin would be the first to throw in the towel?

Kudlow on CNBC: "This is the greatest democracy in the world, and we abide by the rule of law, and so will this president."

"I think there will be a peaceful transfer of power."

— Alan Rappeport (@arappeport) November 6, 2020

yeah ngl I’m pretty shook that he improved his totals, and made inroads into non-white and college-educated white women demos.

oh it's not going away once he's out BUT not having Donald Trump on TV saying insane shit all the time is gonna have a very real impact

It’s a great day for the rest of the world.

I don't really like an America where "non-college whites" are the key coalition demographic but what can I do

I mean, he’ll still be on tv not shutting the fuck up, but at least he won’t be doing it from the office of President ffs

It's not that all those voters liked Trump, it's that they just really hated that radical socialist firebrand bomb thrower Joe Biden.

I don’t think he’ll recover, mentaly speaking.

i share the pessimistic and painful spirit of realism intended in that point, but I think it's worth emphasizing now and forever that LESS than half of America voted for Donald Turnip in 2020 AND in 2016

"Whoa whoa whoa..."

Rick Santorum on CNN literally saying "Democrats need to give Republicans, including Trump, time and space to work through their feelings about losing." #ElectionResults2020

— Kathy Benjamin (@KathyBenjamin) November 6, 2020

Impeach Biden.

safe space

Trump will got the route of that guy in Errol Morris's "Mr. Death," so consumed by arrogance and the need for praise that he just gets crazier and crazier for smaller and smaller numbers of people. (I hope.)

so its officially been called by business insider

this is a great day for the country

Half the country voted for Trump. Don't forget that.

― DJP, Friday, November 6, 2020 11:10 AM (one minute ago) bookmarkflaglink

The brand recognition was so strong. Wonder if they can come up with another Immortan Donnie for the cult extremist caravans to froth over going forward.

Interview from last night with Mary Trump:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2foSk8KVUXc

The brand recognition was so strong. Wonder if they can come up with another Immortan Donnie for the cult extremist caravans to froth over going forward.

― Evan, Friday, November 6, 2020 11:23 AM (one minute ago) bookmarkflaglink

I hope they get stuck with Trumpism without Trump for a long time.

Now. *tents fingers* How can I leverage MAGA pain & suffering to my economic advantage...

commemorative coins

At the risk of hopeless pedanticism, the current estimate is that one-third of eligible/registered voters didn't vote at all this year. Given the stories that there were a lot of first-time voters on both sides this year -- that Trump and the reaction to him did absolutely drive up the numbers -- one has to wonder what, if anything, could actually drive that number higher.

worth noting that there are still 3.5 million votes that haven't been counted yet in California, and if they reflect the count received so far, Biden will have won the election by ~6 million, which is like 52% of the vote

"Hey relax man, it's Friday."

It’s a great day for the rest of the world.

― Van Horn Street,

My wife was just on the phone with her Afghan colleague and she was sooooooo excited

Anyway, Clark in Nevada to report numbers in half an hour and that should be the coup de grace.

At the risk of hopeless pedanticism, the current estimate is that one-third of eligible/registered voters didn't vote at all this year. Given the stories that there were a lot of first-time voters on both sides this year -- that Trump and the reaction to him did absolutely drive up the numbers -- one has to wonder what, if anything, could actually drive that number higher.

― Ned Raggett, Friday, November 6, 2020 11:27 AM (two minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

Lifting people out of poverty, restoring voting rights to felons

Such minor details!

xp Latter should please Trump and Bannon by time next election comes around.

So I’m the only one thinking there’s going to be armed showdowns in PA and Michigan this weekend?

worth noting that there are still 3.5 million votes that haven't been counted yet in California, and if they reflect the count received so far, Biden will have won the election by ~6 million, which is like 52% of the vote

Yeah this seems much like 2018, where the drawn-out nature of it obscures the actual final result. Very good chance that this will not in fact be a historically close election.

lol Trump is absolutely not voting for anyone from here on out

I hope they get stuck with Trumpism without Trump for a long time.

anticipating more like Standard-Issue Conservatism With Trumpist Characteristics

Biden just doubled his lead in Nevada

What if you don't count the fraudulent votes?

can we plz not joke about that just yet?

Arizona looks to have corrected their remaining ballots total - it’s down by about 70,000.

There will be so much inauthentic tryhard Trump roleplaying by hopefuls in the future