US election 2020 thread

[littlebabyjesus]

Fuck me I really didn't think they would.

Perdue's the one that's gotta hurt. A proper incumbent up against a relative nobody, and he only just failed to win in one round. While bimble's right about the efforts to register voters in Georgia, overcoming decades of voter suppression, this defeat belongs to Trump. He tipped the scale.

 

[belboid]

Tomorrow belongs to... not you, Donny

 

[bimble]

Good news has become such an unfamiliar thing it kind of doesn't feel real.

 

[littlebabyjesus]

Reminds me a bit of this.

 

[rubbershoes]

I wonder how the protestors in Washington will take the news

 

[bimble]

I don’t think donald trump will care, he might even be quite pleased that he broke the Republican Party, a sort of retribution for them not fixing the election for him, but that’s fine, it’s not his feelings that matter.

 

[bimble]

 

[Ax^]

 

[Johnny Doe]

I'm quietly hoping that the Scotland Option gets to play out.

Surely Trump being met at the plane steps by Scotland's finest would be both funny, but also much more public

Is should be arranged for it to be the guy who battered the terrorist at Glasgow airport and afterwards told journalists: "This is Glasgow. We'll just set aboot ye."

 

[bimble]

How could loeffler possibly have lost with tv ads like this? Fraud, got to be.

 

[moochedit]

So the vote counting (and republicans attempts to object to the results) in congress is starting 6pm uk time (1pm local time) tonight. All very complicated but everyone seems to think they have no chance overturning it.

CNN: Opinion: Republican lawyer: Here's what to expect when Trump supporters in Congress object to counting electors.

Opinion: Republican lawyer: Here's what to expect when Trump supporters in Congress object to counting electors | CNN

Benjamin L. Ginsberg writes that with the House's Democratic majority and enough Republican senators rejecting the President's plea to ignore the Constitution in the counting of the electoral college, those objecting to any state's slate of electors have no chance of overturning the election result.

www.cnn.com

 

[existentialist]

Perdue's the one that's gotta hurt. A proper incumbent up against a relative nobody, and he only just failed to win in one round. While bimble's right about the efforts to register voters in Georgia, overcoming decades of voter suppression, this defeat belongs to Trump. He tipped the scale.

And he only thought he had his thumb on it. The other way.

 

[pesh]

Is should be arranged for it to be the guy who battered the terrorist at Glasgow airport and afterwards told journalists: "This is Glasgow. We'll just set aboot ye."

make Janey Godley a police special for the day so she can be the one to tell him to GTFO

 

[SpookyFrank]

Photos of Mitch McConnell looking sad please.

Second thoughts, scratch that. They'd still be photos of Mitch McConnell after all.

 

[bimble]

There’s some genuinely moving stuff on the Twitter today (yes I know but it’s true). Against a backdrop of generations of voter suppression it’s amazing what’s been achieved. This for instance.

 

[ddraig]

yeah but deluded
"If voting changed anything..."

 

[Raheem]

yeah but deluded
"If voting changed anything..."

...they'd try to make it harder for black people.

 

[ddraig]

...they'd try to make it harder for black people.

guaranteed

 

[a_chap]

Today's trump twitter tirade has started...

 

[cupid_stunt]

 

[hitmouse]

He is actually going to get on board with the "arrest and execute Mike Pence" train, isn't he? Excellent stuff.

 

[Streathamite]

Ossoff looking more and more certain now, but no definite.

 

[Dandred]

 

[rubbershoes]

He is actually going to get on board with the "arrest and execute Mike Pence" train, isn't he? Excellent stuff.

It would be interesting if it happened. Not great for Pence, but I have limited sympathy for him

 

[rubbershoes]

Ossoff looking more and more certain now, but no definite.

Newsmax says Ossoff has won

 

[hitmouse]

It would be interesting if it happened. Not great for Pence, but I have limited sympathy for him

Yeah, I suppose it could be a good unifying policy to bring a divided nation together.

 

[Sprocket.]

Crowds of Trump supporters gathering in DC.

 

[petee]

Fuck me I really didn't think they would.

yeh neither did i. i was up until 4 am following the vote. paying for it today!

 

[littlebabyjesus]

Politically, Ossoff is probably best described as a Biden loyalist. Opposes universal medicaid. Warnock is a little more radical.

They don't look like all that until you turn your attention to the feeble excuses for human beings that they've defeated. Loeffler campaigns in her private jet, donates her wages (she doesn't need them with her insider trading fortune - she lives in the most expensive house in Georgia) to anti-abortion, anti-LGBT rights groups.

Voting has a limited effect. But an effect it does have.

 

[Lord Camomile]

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Will be interesting to see if tries to triple-back and pivot away from Trump again.

I think he stuck with Trump directly after the election(?), but would be funny to see him try, at least.