GET OUT: US politics November 2020

Vaughn Hillyard has been good on reporting from AZ and from what he says it looks like the election there is going to be very close

Apparently Joe isn't making a victory speech, but decided to speak anyway. Hopefully he'll regale us with stories about Corn Pop or something.

He's just trying not to concede the stage entirely to Trump and his fraud/stolen election narrative. As is sensible.

He's about 7k votes shy of the ~35k recount margin in PA. For some reason I thought he was closer that that and he was about to declare victory.

it's about the duty of care, for all Americans

|(Biden votes cast/Total votes cast)-(Trump votes cast/Total votes cast)| <= 0.5% of total votes cast

― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Friday, November 6, 2020 9:08 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

it's 0.5% in every state?

I'm not a Biden fan, but that was a damn good speech

I am happy Biden has found a good speechwriter (or team of them) and apparently they work together well. It's going to be an important facet of any success he has as president. Now he needs a superlative team for tweets and social media. Maybe a part time moonlighting gig for AOC?

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BREAKING: Trump's chief of staff, Mark Meadows, has the coronavirus. Meadows informed a close circle of advisers after the election.

Story by me, @tylerpager and @MarioDParker out soon.

— Jennifer Jacobs (@JenniferJJacobs) November 7, 2020

that speech felt good, and the Meadows dessert course satisfied the cynic in me

lol meadows

giant lol Meadows

hahaha takes a special kind of stupid for the CoS to get Covid a month after the president should’ve put everyone on high alert

assuming 0.5% recount threshold in every state

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EmMay56VoAA8ou7?format=png&name=medium

Please enjoy this one-two-three of whining and self-pity

Laura Ingraham criticizes the political consultants who blew through all the Trump campaign funds without leaving enough money for an adequate legal team pic.twitter.com/XpZVmBBQoz

— Acyn Torabi (@Acyn) November 7, 2020

Laura Ingraham criticizes Doug Ducey and Republican officials in Georgia pic.twitter.com/dpim5lCrKB

— Acyn Torabi (@Acyn) November 7, 2020

Laura Ingraham prepares her audience for the likely possibility that the President will lose the election pic.twitter.com/tG50EIHj60

— Acyn Torabi (@Acyn) November 7, 2020

As someone said in sharing the last one, "The velvet shiv of Rupert Murdoch."

tonight marked the first coherent televised speech in 4 years

thx uncle joe

it's 0.5% in every state?

― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, November 6, 2020 8:02 PM (thirty-three minutes ago)

Oh right, should have done my homework:

PA = 0.5%
GA = 0.5%
NC = 0.5%
AZ = 0.1%
NV = none

Yo didja hear they spotted boats in the Colorado river transporting real life, magic fairies?

Turned out to be fay canoes.

Don’t read the comments, but our RW national paper’s front page tomorrow is:

The Post's #frontpage for Saturday, November 7, 2020. pic.twitter.com/55gtqIJkDM

— National Post (@nationalpost) November 7, 2020

i never watch ingraham. i didn't realize what a giant kissass she is

You can't be the Queen over untold numbers of Trump idolators unless you kiss Trump's ass.

NEWS: Along with Trump chief of staff Mark Meadows, at least FOUR other White House aides currently have coronavirus, per sources.

Pains were taken to keep Meadows’ illness a secret, I’m told. And people around him who knew were told to keep quiet.

— Jennifer Jacobs (@JenniferJJacobs) November 7, 2020

Increasingly isolated

here needs to be a national standard for processing early votes and mail-in votes as they arrive before the election date

When you don't bother to change the incumbent for three months, taking three days to count the votes is utterly insignificant.

The US could absolutely do with the equivalent of the AEC, though, along with other massive electoral reforms.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Q1QcAuhvak

Series finale writers are really milking it huh

On ABC, Rahm Emanuel literally says a Biden White House should tell people laid off from retail stores like JC Penney to learn to code.

He actually said this. Amazing. pic.twitter.com/xlSnVi7445

— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) November 7, 2020

can we give him COVID

Confusing that Rahm Emanuel isn’t in jail but I guess that’s Chicago for you

Show some respect for your next Secretary of Labor, yeesh

Secretary of Kneecaps

I'm kinda loving this slow turning of the knife. A+ schadenfreude. Need to turn around all the BS said after 2016 back on the conservatives.

"You Trumpers don't like the election results, you should move to Canada. Love America or leave it bitches." (Sorry Canada.)

lmao

Per Current Vote Count:
GA: Trump -4k. Libertarians won 61k
PA: Trump -27k. Libertarian 77k
WI: Trump -20k. Libertarian 30k
AZ: Trump -29k. Libertarian 47k.

Absolutely blood boiling. I hope these voters are happy.

— Scott Ruesterholz (@Read_N_Learn) November 7, 2020

lol

Libertarians finally doing something for other people, whoda thunk?

There needs to be a national standard for processing early votes and mail-in votes as they arrive before the election date

The US could absolutely do with the equivalent of the AEC, though, along with other massive electoral reforms.

Election law is reserved to the states by the constitution. The US federal government could set a national standard, but it would not have the legal power to enforce it, except indirectly, as with so many laws, by threatening, if they don't comply, to revoke funding for something else that states want federal money for.

The only pollster you can trust is James Brown. He called these districts back in '85. pic.twitter.com/7gw7M3SQdT

— Roy Wood Jr- Ex Jedi (@roywoodjr) November 6, 2020

We’re staying in the fight: to defeat Trumpism we must also defeat David Perdue.

Let’s elect Jon Ossoff. pic.twitter.com/p7IAPaCaZY

— The Lincoln Project (@ProjectLincoln) November 6, 2020

Someone should ask them to campaign for Perdue, it would be more useful.

?

I'll take it. (Their candidate did win....)

The US federal government could set a national standard, but it would not have the legal power to enforce it, except indirectly, as with so many laws, by threatening, if they don't comply, to revoke funding for something else that states want federal money for.

aiui amendments to the constitution are also made by a consensus of states

The Lincoln Project did absolutely nothing except maybe help down ballot Republicans.

i never watch ingraham. i didn't realize what a giant kissass she is

she did a literal nazi salute on TV

Biden now 7K ahead in Georgia

In 2013…Ingraham also interrupted a segment about John Lewis and commemorating the March on Washington with a gunshot noise.

She is, quite literally, a fascist.

PA Lt. Governor is PA through and through: he just told the President's legal team on the ground in PA not to buy any green bananas.

http://i.imgur.com/4FKtTqw.jpg

This Texas lawyer is flying to Philadelphia this morning to link up with a team of attorneys from across the country to fight for a fair and honest election in Pennsylvania. #lawyersfortrump pic.twitter.com/UreAhaK6IY

— philly yeehaw (@mckellogs) November 7, 2020

The Lincoln Project did absolutely nothing except maybe help down ballot Republicans.

― Donald Trump Also Sucks, Of Course (milo z), Saturday, November 7, 2020 2:25 AM (five hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

the lincoln project should have just supported the libertarians

He's up

Tens of thousands of votes were illegally received after 8 P.M. on Tuesday, Election Day, totally and easily changing the results in Pennsylvania and certain other razor thin states. As a separate matter, hundreds of thousands of Votes were illegally not allowed to be OBSERVED...

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 7, 2020

....This would ALSO change the Election result in numerous States, including Pennsylvania, which everyone thought was easily won on Election Night, only to see a massive lead disappear, without anyone being allowed to OBSERVE, for long intervals of time, what the happened...

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 7, 2020

....Bad things took place during those hours where LEGAL TRANSPARENCY was viciously & crudely not allowed. Tractors blocked doors & windows were covered with thick cardboard so that observers could not see into the count rooms. BAD THINGS HAPPENED INSIDE. BIG CHANGES TOOK PLACE!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 7, 2020