The Election Day Thread

[User.45]

It will take something like that to remove him from office, for better or worse. They made a go of free elections over there but Putin wasn't having it.

lets wait it out, so more reputable outlets corroborate this

 

[Thomas Veil]

Colbert weighed in on Trump's presser.

https://www.twitter.com/i/web/status/1324571460673949702/

I saw that and it was amazing to see Colbert get so upset that at one point he actually stops talking because he needs to compose himself.

There’s an extended version that’s great because he calms down and goes into his monologue where he shows us Trump’s spiritual advisor, Paula White...and ho ho, is she a piece of work, vacillating between sounding like Max Headroom stuck in a groove and—I kid you not—speaking in tongues.

The woman is a nutcase, and just one more reason for me to ask, what is this thing Trump has for blondes? He’s got the same fixation that Alfred Hitchcock had, except that Hitch’s blondes weren’t all mental cases.

 

[Thomas Veil]

..."“Fox, you can’t even trust them,” said Rob Phail, 51, from South Lyon, Michigan, who had been leading the “stop the count” chants. “They’re the worst chameleons of all. So you’re like, OK, who do you trust?”

Okay. First of all...great name! Perfect. The Onion couldn’t have done better.

And second: if you have to ask, “Is it everyone else, or is it me?”...it’s you.

 

[Scepticalscribe]

lets wait it out, so more reputable outlets corroborate this

@PearsonX two things: Could you please start a thread on this so that we can discus it elsewhere?

And, I'm curious as to your source, as I've seen no reference to it anywhere.

For, this is fascinating, and, as Mr Putin (a notorious hypochondriac, from what I can gather) has stayed almost all of the time - more or less isolated - in a (palatial) dacha outside Moscow since the Covid crisis struck, these days, he rarely appears in public, - and those visiting him there have been obliged to take extraordinary precautions, hence, there could well be some truth to this.

 

[Scepticalscribe]

I saw that and it was amazing to see Colbert get so upset that at one point he actually stops talking because he needs to compose himself.

There’s an extended version that’s great because he calms down and goes into his monologue where he shows us Trump’s spiritual advisor, Paula White...and ho ho, is she a piece of work, vacillating between sounding like Max Headroom stuck in a groove and—I kid you not—speaking in tongues.

The woman is a nutcase, and just one more reason for me to ask, what is this thing Trump has for blondes? He’s got the same fixation that Alfred Hitchcock had, except that Hitch’s blondes weren’t all mental cases.

Ah, the old (Beauty & the Beast stuff, old cautionary tales brought to startling life) where we have a world of ugly men (mentally, morally and physically) and cool blondes. Yes, it's almost a trite cliché, isn't it?

Nevertheless, Mr Hitchcock's blondes weren't mental cases until he met them and mistreated them, unfortunately.

 

[User.45]

for comic relief

 

[rdrr]

I'm too lazy to put this over in the TFG thread but DeJoy is a piece of work:

https://www.twitter.com/i/web/status/1324532671947550720/

I think it was very surgical. I posted this before, but my mom a registered Dem in Florida requested an absentee ballot in late June and didn't receive until yesterday Nov 5th. After repeated contacts with her county commissioner.

She has reported this to the Democratic party in Florida.

 

[Scepticalscribe]

I'm currently attending an online talk - a sort of seminar - and they just passed on a news flash which places Mr Biden ahead in Pennsylvania.

 

[Eric]

Biden just took the lead in PA, it's all but over now.

 

[lizkat]

I'm currently attending an online talk - a sort of seminar - and they just passed on a news flash which places Mr Biden ahead in Pennsylvania.

Yes multiple outlets report Biden ahead now by more than 5k votes in Pennsylvania -- Washington Post, AP, Reuters, NYT -- but they're not calling the race yet.

snapshot of how WaPo summarizes key states where Biden leads. If just Pennsylvania stays in his column as now expected, he will have won.

 

[lizkat]

Pennsylvania's Republican Senator Toomey has apparently decided to go with the flow in the Pennsylvania count and commented negatively on Trump's allegations of fraud. Toomey's careful language seems like a predictable attempt to get on the right side of now probable history --in case his state does put Biden over the top-- but at least he did join the handful of Republicans who didn't just mumble about how all "legal" votes should be counted...

Senator Pat Toomey, a Pennsylvania Republican, said there was no evidence to substantiate Trump’s claims of widespread fraud as his state continues to count ballots three days after the election.

“I saw the president’s speech last night and it was very hard to watch,” Toomey said on NBC’s “Today” show. “The president’s allegations of large-scale fraud and theft of the election are just not substantiated. I’m not aware of any significant wrongdoing here.”

Above quote appeared in a Bloomberg roundup of where the counts stand this morning:

Biden Expands Lead in Pennsylvania: Election Update

Democratic nominee Joe Biden overtook President Donald Trump in Pennsylvania, a state that offers all the Electoral College votes Biden would need to win. But the race remained in doubt as Trump and his supporters lodged unsupported charges of voter fraud there and in other states.

www.bloomberg.com

 

[iMi]

I'd call this The War on War on Drugs.

Wait... wha...ooooooh, got it. Sorry. I had to read that a few times. Way too high right now.

 

[iMi]

Arizona is really taking their time counting. Bankers hours?

Look at it this way... if this was a quick election, it would be like a shot to the head for Trump. What's happening now is like a death by thousand cuts. I'm kind of loving it. Watching this orange baboon losing it has been deliciously wonderful.

 

[lizkat]

NV is still slogging along too... with what seems like an interminable count of its remaining votes. Memes have actually popped up that comically depict a sloth doing the count in Nevada, although I'm sure the election workers would not be amused to see them.

Anyway below a quote from the NYT.

Mr. Biden led by just over 11,000 votes in Nevada, but local officials in Las Vegas announced Thursday that 51,000 ballots from Clark County there were being tallied and would be announced Friday. Mr. Biden was winning the county by about eight percentage points. If he wins the bulk of the new votes, it would make it almost impossible for Mr. Trump to take the state, because about 70 percent of Nevada’s voters live in Clark County.

I dislike how the papers run these election updates and commentary in a way that can make it hard to reference a particular subsection --they don't always put permalinks for each new snippet of info-- but here's the source for that quote.

Biden Pulls Ahead in Key States as Anxious Nation Awaits Winner (Published 2020)

Joe Biden picked up votes in Pennsylvania, Nevada and Georgia and urged patience with the slow-moving vote count. President Trump appeared in the evening to break his silence, lying about “illegal” votes.

www.nytimes.com

 

[Arkitect]

Champagne is on ice!

Link

 

[Huntn]

3 Days After:
An important change are the undecided States that are shaded light blue.

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From the Forces Of Evil Thump Dept they are scrambling and spewing their manufactured filth, about vote counting irregularity, just because they can, because they have mouths in their faces, and twist brains that make those nashing teeth move.

The Thump Koolaid Forge is in full force, where he is ahead stop counting, and where he is behind keep counting, and if I’m behind its BECAUSE OF CHEATING. What kind of upside down BULLSHIT are the minions willing to swallow? We see Trump groups trying to swamp vote counting facilities. PLEASE, grow up, get smart, cast that cup of orange bug juice on the floor, stop being volunteer victims and get real for once in your lives.

This is the greatest attempted Con of Donny’s life and it appears that he’s losing it.

 

[Huntn]

Oregon decriminalized all drugs. This is big. Especially that drug related incarcerations disproportionately impact black people. In Oregon, you’ll go to treatment, not prison. Big deal.

About damn time! We need this across the country.

 

[Huntn]

I'm wondering how they're going to keep a lid on this guy during the transition.

Straight jacket and a Hannibal Lector mask, but that would be too noisy, so:

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[User.45]

West Philly's response!
https://www.twitter.com/i/web/status/1324725533595312129/

 

[Arkitect]

Excellent response!

"Asked about the possibility that Donald Trump won’t concede, Joe Biden’s campaign pointed to a statement they made earlier this summer, indicating this is a scenario they’ve long anticipated.

“As we said on July 19th, the American people will decide this election,” said spokesman Andrew Bates. “And the United States government is perfectly capable of escorting trespassers out of the White House.”

Link

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