GET OUT: US politics November 2020

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

I was pondering this more on my morning walk, this and other things re what'll be happening in Georgia. Harris as a perfect proxy now on several fronts for the state, Trump's interest level, calculations about whether they WANT his interest level, etc. I'm still assuming Perdue and Loeffler will hold, sadly, but I have to wonder.

Senate Reps must be holding their breath as to what Trump does next. His supporters turned out for HIM. Will they turn out for a GA Senate run-off? If he's playing golf, that will give suburban Whites (who tend to vote at higher rates in lower-turnout elections) cover to vote Rep

— Michael McDonald (@ElectProject) November 6, 2020

new numbers from nv are great

Mark Kelly called in AZ!

NV was never in doubt, Biden was leading and the remaining vote was going to overwhelmingly be in his favor. Only reason it wasn't called is because Fox and AP prematurely put AZ as blue

Re: Trumpism, there has been no real "have you no sense of decency, sir?" moment, despite several real opportunities. I'm not sure what it would mean for the next 2-4 years, but the GOP can go fuck itself for the last four(+). Like, the disgusting behavior of even the so-called moderates in defending one of the biggest pieces of shit this country has ever produced? Let alone the completely disingenuous bullshit of McConnell, Cruz et al.? How do you even deal with that. And that's not counting the absolutely lunatics in the House, who are going nowhere.

So at this point it's still only DecisionDesk with the (accurate) presidential call, I think? Wonder who jumps next.

I thought someone mentioned Business Insider upthread?

Let me rephrase that -- wonder who aside from a weird-ass aggregator newssite jumps next.

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

― brotherlovesdub, Friday, November 6, 2020 10:33 AM (five minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

Here's the thing: we're likely to soon have a president who won't egg shit like this on and/or turn a blind eye. Like, I know that people who are so inclined probably aren't great at impulse control or thinking things through, but they might want to consider that there could now be legit consequences to acting like lawless maniacs.

so its officially been called by business insider

― treeship., Friday, November 6, 2020 4:23 PM (sixteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

business insider is like the dorky kid who breaks the ice and hits the floor with awkward moves at 10:15

and then takes you home and etc

DecisionDesk is business insider

That’s their in-house forecasting team I think

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

all the other catastrophizing about armed conflict and competent coups turned out to be completely wrong but why stop now

What Simon H said. Call it a hunch if you must: nobody could/should handwave things. DJP is absolutely right re the built in horribleness. Yet, for all that, the claims/worries about armed confrontations/uprisings/etc just don't play OUT, or haven't. Most people absolutely are thinking more about what they're doing to chill this weekend.

Hi Kate, it's good to see you.

DecisionDesk is business insider

"The calls are coming from inside the web churn!"

How can it be catastrophizing considering what happened over the last 8 months?

Like, actually am really happy to see you post.

Also, I appreciate others doing my wet blanket rollout for me.

Trump probably hopes there is some kind of conflict he could blame the left for as a way to—somehow—sow doubt about the election outcome and consolidate support behind himself in the interest of unity.

The thing is

It won’t work

Who cares

And fuck him

#upriseandchill

It might have not been the most rational sentiment, but I’m not going to fault anyone to anticipate PTSD over election week.

Some lunatics could try something. But it’s just as likely they’re demoralized as worked up.

Trump probably hopes there is some kind of conflict he could blame the left for as a way to—somehow—sow doubt about the election outcome and consolidate support behind himself in the interest of unity.

His best chance for that if if shit had really gone down on Election Day itself for whatever reason. And it didn't! It was thoroughly straightforward and boring!

Yep!

He will not be able to do the coup thing.

I wasn't too concerned about that on Election Day itself because polls saw Republicans thinking they had this one in the bag. Polls showed most Democrats thinking Trump had this in the bag.

goodly morning, ilxors

Re: Trumpism, there has been no real "have you no sense of decency, sir?" moment, despite several real opportunities. I'm not sure what it would mean for the next 2-4 years, but the GOP can go fuck itself for the last four(+). Like, the disgusting behavior of even the so-called moderates in defending one of the biggest pieces of shit this country has ever produced? Let alone the completely disingenuous bullshit of McConnell, Cruz et al.? How do you even deal with that. And that's not counting the absolutely lunatics in the House, who are going nowhere.

Re: Trumpism, there has been no real "have you no sense of decency, sir?" moment, despite several real opportunities.

Agree. To a certain extent, Romney's impeachment vote was for me as close as they got, but it wasn't really the same thing.

weird-ass aggregator newssite

lol Ned

Trump showing up exclusively to events he can control every aspect of may have something to do with that. The man is an incredible coward.

Some rough math: If the remaining ~140k Maricopa ballots come in at 53%...

It'd require Trump to pull off 75.1% among remaining ~70k non-Maricopa ballots.

Most of these are Pima & Pinal county ballots.

Yesterday's Pima batch: Trump 52.6%
Yesterday's Pinal batch: 68.4% https://t.co/PYLscKa3QL

— Vaughn Hillyard (@VaughnHillyard) November 6, 2020

Helen Thomas, had she lived to cover a Trump WH, would probably have called him on something and been perma-banned.

The republican party is rotten and also their project is radically destructive. Hopefully it has an identity crisis post-Trump and collapses

We don’t need that party. Maybe a less evil conservative party will take it’s place.

what?

With the attack by the Radical Left Dems on the Republican Senate, the Presidency becomes even more important!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 6, 2020

(I promise this tweet is actually recent)

Yeah but what the tweet doesn’t include is that he yelled that while slowly shrinking into a corncob

Part of the problem with the armed conflict/militia narrative has always been ... who exactly are they going to fight? I saw a Facebook post yesterday that I can't find now, but it was a super-Trumper responding to his tirade last night by saying, "Yes! We have to fight this! I'm ready to load up my car and drive somewhere!" That's a paraphrase, but the "and drive somewhere" part is a direct quote. Where you gonna drive?

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