US election 2020 thread

[maomao]

I’ve always used it and I’m not American

You're weird then.

 

[Sprocket.]

Gotten is in very common usage around here, but so is thee and thine. (Not a Quaker)

 

[Orang Utan]

You're not a soft southern ponce then.

Ffy

 

[Flavour]

i see we've moved onto the really important matters here.

 

[killer b]

there's not much else on other than that photo of the big lad sitting at a tiny table tbf

 

[StoneRoad]

Anyone got a link to how many (& which) states have officially certified their votes / results (as I've lost count !) and when the remaining ones are due to do so ?

 

[moochedit]

Anyone got a link to how many (& which) states have officially certified their votes / results (as I've lost count !) and when the remaining ones are due to do so ?

Found this although i can't vouch for it's accuracy or if it is up to date.

States Certifying 2020 Presidential Election Results and Certification Deadlines by State | Calcasieu Parish News

A Map of States Certifying 2020 Presidential Election Results and Certification Deadlines by State

calcasieu.info

 

[killer b]

I think the time for hovering over the breaking news for updates about the outcome of the united states presidential election has probably come to an end tbh. The fat lady has sung.

 

[StoneRoad]

Just wanting to watch (from a safe distance) the progressive meltdown / impending tantrum from the white house ...

it is mildly entertaining, if simultaneously very depressing ...

Keeping more of an eye on how the up-coming occupant is developing after the largely failed blocking attempts is also on-going.

Plus the on-going republican car wreck in Georgia ...

 

[MickiQ]

Found this although i can't vouch for it's accuracy or if it is up to date.

States Certifying 2020 Presidential Election Results and Certification Deadlines by State | Calcasieu Parish News

A Map of States Certifying 2020 Presidential Election Results and Certification Deadlines by State

calcasieu.info

All the contentious swing states where his Orangeness and his cronies have tried to indulge in legal tomfoolery have certified now, those that are left are either solid R or solid D.
The fat lady hasn't merely sung, she has taken her bows to rapturous applause and has left the stage.

 

[Streathamite]

All the contentious swing states where his Orangeness and his cronies have tried to indulge in legal tomfoolery have certified now, those that are left are either solid R or solid D.
The fat lady hasn't merely sung, she has taken her bows to rapturous applause and has left the stage.

Hmm...Arizona and Wisconsin still to certify

 

[StoneRoad]

Maybe the fat lady will come out and do the encores on Nov 30th and Dec 1st !

 

[elbows]

This photograph which he posed for yesterday, it's a work of art. The tiny desk, the invisible pen that he is pretending to hold, i hope this is the one they choose for his portrait that will be hung in the WH.
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Has he been playing golf on that carpet?

 

[brogdale]

They've got to him...

 

[bimble]

It’s extra stupid this, as a whole days news cycle, but I suppose they were all cooking turkeys all day and imagining how apoplectic with rage he is is quite nice.

 

[bimble]

They've got to him...

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Hahaha that’ll confuse em.

 

[MickiQ]

 

[bimble]

Good thread here, her prediction is that trump’s lies about the election are quite likely to cost the gop it’s senate majority.

There’s something really satisfying in this, even if doesn’t actually happen it’s like an old fashioned cautionary tale.

 

[William of Walworth]

I hope I can avoid deliberately learning and using that one

Meanwhile I'm probably stuck with "gotten" through hanging out with Americans online - but never "dove" as the past participle of "dive"

How abouit "jamp" as the past tense of "jump"?

 

[petee]

but never "dove" as the past participle of "dive"

hey, i say that!!

 

[Pickman's model]

Yeah it is. It's one of the many Americanisms that are older forms than the British usage, but it is slipping back into the UK from the US.

it's in the king james bible so it's not an americanism no matter how auld

 

[gentlegreen]

hey, i say that!!

How can you live with "A apple" ?

 

[petee]

How can you live with "A apple" ?

i don't, nor does anyone i know.

 

[maomao]

it's in the king james bible so it's not an americanism no matter how auld

Americanism means 'commonly used by Americans' not 'invented by Americans'. The words diaper and faucet both have origins older than the new world but are commonly regarded as Americanisms.

 

[Orang Utan]

Americanism means 'commonly used by Americans' not 'invented by Americans'. The words diaper and faucet both have origins older than the new world but are commonly regarded as Americanisms.

Brits don’t use those terms though while we do use ‘gotten’

 

[Pickman's model]

Americanism means 'commonly used by Americans' not 'invented by Americans'. The words diaper and faucet both have origins older than the new world but are commonly regarded as Americanisms.

Originating from or specific to American language use according to Wiktionary Americanism - Wiktionary

So as it didn't originate from and is not specific to American language use I don't think it's an Americanism

 

[cupid_stunt]

Another Trump appointed judge tells Team Trump to fuck off.

In a blow to Donald Trump’s spurious legal campaign to challenge the results of the 2020 presidential election, a federal appellate court has rejected his emergency appeal in a Pennsylvania lawsuit.

The 3-0 rejection in the case, seeking another attempt to overturn the results in the state after a lower court had tossed out the suit last week, follows yet another loss in his campaign’s attempts to undermine president-elect Joe Biden’s victory in the 2020 race. Mr Biden won the state by roughly 80,000 votes, according to Pennsylvania secretary of state’s office.

A blistering ruling from the Third District’s Stephanos Bibas – a Trump-appointed judge – said “free, fair elections are the lifeblood of our democracy.”

“Charges of unfairness are serious,” he said in his ruling on Friday. "But calling an election unfair does not make it so. Charges require specific allegations and then proof. We have neither here."

Trump loses Pennsylvania ‘election fraud’ appeal

President’s legal team will attempt to bring election case to Supreme Court

www.independent.co.uk

Another big HaHa at Marty1

 

[petee]

Another Trump appointed judge tells Team Trump to fuck off.

Trump loses Pennsylvania ‘election fraud’ appeal

President’s legal team will attempt to bring election case to Supreme Court

www.independent.co.uk

Another big HaHa at Marty1

i read about this wednesday. had to wait over thursday (thanksgiving, you know) to get a ruling which was a little nervous-making. looks like the judge wasted no time.

 

[xenon]

hey, i say that!!

Everyone does, he's just having you on.

OK, I say it
ride / rode
Write / wrote
Dive / dove

Simple innit.

 

[cupid_stunt]

Supporters of Donald Trump’s effort to overturn the results of the presidential election in Georgia say they have filed a federal lawsuit that accuses top state officials of abetting voter fraud.

The lawsuit says Gov. Brian Kemp and Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger rushed to buy new election software that played a big role in a scheme “illegally and fraudulently manipulating the vote count to make certain the election of Joe Biden as president of the United States.”

FFS, there's already been a recount by hand in Georgia, that proves there was no problem with the counting machines, what a bunch of fucking clowns.

Georgia Trump supporters fight on in court

It’s unlikely any of the lawsuits will lead to a second term for President Trump, but the lawsuits are a sign that some of the president’s supporters are not giving up.

bangordailynews.com