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[Election 2020] Joe Biden Wins

BogartBogart Streetwise HerculesRegistered User, Moderator mod
edited November 2020 in Debate and/or Discourse
OP copied from the last one, including this sentence.

This here is your official thread for discussing the great basket of wonder and joy that is the upcoming 2020 election.

What You Can Talk About:

- Any national or local 2020 US election.
- The impact of the conventions that just happened.
- The policy platforms of candidates AS THEY PERTAIN TO THE ELECTIONS. "Biden plans to roll out a public option" is okay. "A public option is awesome because of X,Y, and Z" is not.
- Polls related to the election.
- Voting outreach efforts
- Other things that directly pertain to the 2020 election and have not been explicitly banned.

What You Can't Talk About:

- The 2020 primaries that have already occurred. Upcoming 2020 primaries, if there are any left, are okay.
- Bernie Sanders
- 20-motherfucking-16
- Hillary Fucking Clinton
- Policy in general. This is not the place to discuss health care or taxes or policing in general. We have threads for all those things! If not, feel free to make one!
- Who you plan to personally vote for. Nothing good has ever come from a conversation in these threads about why you're definitely voting for Biden / voting third party / not voting. Just rest assured that your personal reasons for voting are the best in the whole world and everyone agrees with you and thinks you're smart and good looking. Masterfully done, you.

If you have previously been banned from this thread, you are still banned from this thread, sorry. Rest assured you can participate in discussions when 2024 rolls around, assuming elections are still a thing that exists in that far away time.

HEY! LISTEN! Some bright spark had the excellent notion to link the resources thread from SE++ for people who are having a hard time, so:

If you're having a tough time of it in these testing times, here are some resources that can help.

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  • Munkus BeaverMunkus Beaver You don't have to attend every argument you are invited to. Philosophy: Stoicism. Politics: Democratic SocialistRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    Great thread title

    Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but dies in the process.
  • RMS OceanicRMS Oceanic Registered User regular
    Great thread title

    Alternate feelings about right now:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DA83R3_qKY0

  • HenroidHenroid Mexican kicked from Immigration Thread Centrism is Racism :3Registered User regular
    Great thread title
    I got to learn about something new. And damn is it apt.

    I would've gone with the watched-pot-never-boils thing myself because I have a baby brain.

  • davidsdurionsdavidsdurions Your Trusty Meatshield Panhandle NebraskaRegistered User regular
    Haha forum bug would have to happen on this thread in this year of all threads and years.

    I fell asleep but I’m awake again, not sure if I’ll get back to sleep.

  • GnomeTankGnomeTank What the what? Portland, OregonRegistered User regular
    From the last thread:
    I don't think it's funny. He has the ear of a lot of people with guns. He is actively misleading and getting them worked up.

    And it's not academic at this point. We've already seen a rising tide of real violence in relation to his rhetoric. He has whipped these people in to believing the United States is being stolen from them by "liberals". Most of them will be far too cowardly to act on it, but there will be plenty who aren't.

    Sagroth wrote: »
    Oh c'mon FyreWulff, no one's gonna pay to visit Uranus.
    Steam: Brainling, XBL / PSN: GnomeTank, NintendoID: Brainling, FF14: Zillius Rosh SFV: Brainling
  • RaijuRaiju Shoganai JapanRegistered User regular
    665 votes separate Biden and Trump in Georgia. That's... bonkers, man.

  • Phoenix-DPhoenix-D Registered User regular
    edited November 2020
    Aww I wanted to get 270 pages out of that thread.

    Anyway, reminder again for everyone: if you know anyone in the states still in doubt, ask them to check their ballots. Tomorrow is the deadline to repair rejected mail in / absentee ballots in many places

    https://www.11alive.com/article/news/politics/elections/2020-election-cure-absentee-ballot-georgia/85-c7e1858e-4a44-4c41-9a82-694a21c39e13

    Phoenix-D on
  • Inkstain82Inkstain82 Registered User regular
    edited November 2020


    ... the zeno's paradox bit is starting to not be funny


    241-49 that update

    Inkstain82 on
  • Knight_Knight_ Dead Dead Dead Registered User regular
    i was promised one thread until the election was over and there was a new thread and i was like oh shit and now i'm sad

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  • TheBigEasyTheBigEasy Registered User regular
    I just saw Colbert commenting on the meltdown. The fucker broke Colbert.

    That clip from MSNBC (where they cut out of the rant and refute everything) was great and infuriating at the same time. Really, it took you 4 fucking years to get to that point? You couldnt have done this from the beginning and spared us this whole thing?

    Jesus fuck, I hipe you guys get through this and have something of a country left afterwards. It is heartbreaking to watch from afar.

  • Commander ZoomCommander Zoom Registered User regular
    Welp, I have an interview in the morning, so I'll see you all in seven or eight hours.
    Maybe Achilles will have chased the turtle over the line by then.

  • SanderJKSanderJK Crocodylus Pontifex Sinterklasicus Madrid, 3000 ADRegistered User regular
    https://alex.github.io/nyt-2020-election-scraper/battleground-state-changes.html has an "Enable notifications" button that will send you a ping if it adds a line, and in which state.

    Steam: SanderJK Origin: SanderJK
  • V1mV1m Registered User regular
    edited November 2020
    I just woke up, where we at?

    EDit wait, so Biden won?

    OK well that exceeds my expectations also whhy is my face wet?

    V1m on
  • Stabbity StyleStabbity Style He/Him | Warning: Mothership Reporting Kennewick, WARegistered User regular
    edited November 2020
    Trump wrote:
    I easily WIN the Presidency of the United States with LEGAL VOTES CAST. The OBSERVERS were not allowed, in any way, shape, or form, to do their job and therefore, votes accepted during this period must be determined to be ILLEGAL VOTES. U.S. Supreme Court should decide!

    Welp, I guess that's his strategy? Dunno if that got posted in the other thread. I doubt even his handpicked Supreme Court would agree with that argument, though.

    Stabbity Style on
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  • V1mV1m Registered User regular
    ok this is nice

  • RMS OceanicRMS Oceanic Registered User regular
    It reminds me of the "illegal immigrants" rhetorical trick. Keep referring to stuff with the right adjective and it tarnishes perception of them.

  • ProhassProhass Registered User regular
    edited November 2020
    Trump wrote:
    I easily WIN the Presidency of the United States with LEGAL VOTES CAST. The OBSERVERS were not allowed, in any way, shape, or form, to do their job and therefore, votes accepted during this period must be determined to be ILLEGAL VOTES. U.S. Supreme Court should decide!

    Welp, I guess that's his strategy? Dunno if that got posted in the other thread. I doubt even his handpicked Supreme Court would agree with that argument, though.

    What a disgrace. And what a disgrace that 70 million voted for this dangerous buffoon

    Prohass on
  • Phoenix-DPhoenix-D Registered User regular
    V1m wrote: »
    I just woke up, where we at?

    EDit wait, so Biden won?

    OK well that exceeds my expectations also whhy is my face wet?

    Not over yet, still in the counting a little at a time phase.

  • lonelyahavalonelyahava Call me Ahava ~~She/Her~~ Move to New ZealandRegistered User regular
    Hahaha fuck you, Donald.

    My vote is just as legal as yours, fuckstick.

    Go on. Keep pissing off the military voters.

  • [Expletive deleted][Expletive deleted] The mediocre doctor NorwayRegistered User regular
    Both the leader of the US election commission and the Organization for Safety and Security in Europe (OSSE, of the US is a founding member and which has election observers in the US) have publically condemned Trump's baseless and dangerous (their words) accusations of election tampering.

    Sic transit gloria mundi.
  • AtomikaAtomika Live fast and get fucked or whatever Registered User regular
    I’m never gonna be not-confused as to where he comes up with the phrases he uses

    “Illegal votes”
    “Perfect phone call”
    “Beautiful sleeping gas”
    “Sleepy Joe”

  • BogartBogart Streetwise Hercules Registered User, Moderator mod
    For Christmas this year I want that piece of shit dragged screaming out of the White House by his legs while his fingers claw bloody furrows in the floorboards.

  • cckerberoscckerberos Registered User regular
    Trump wrote:
    I easily WIN the Presidency of the United States with LEGAL VOTES CAST. The OBSERVERS were not allowed, in any way, shape, or form, to do their job and therefore, votes accepted during this period must be determined to be ILLEGAL VOTES. U.S. Supreme Court should decide!

    Welp, I guess that's his strategy? Dunno if that got posted in the other thread. I doubt even his handpicked Supreme Court would agree with that argument, though.

    Even if they did, presumably the remedy ordered would be saying that all those votes have to be redone with the proper observation procedures in place this time.

    Not, you know, just saying "okay, guess all those votes go in the trash."

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  • RMS OceanicRMS Oceanic Registered User regular
    Bogart wrote: »
    For Christmas this year I want that piece of shit dragged screaming out of the White House by his legs while his fingers claw bloody furrows in the floorboards.

    It'll be a late Christmas present. Like someone booking you a weekend at a B&B but chose the dates for you.

  • DhalphirDhalphir don't you open that trapdoor you're a fool if you dareRegistered User regular
    Bogart wrote: »
    For Christmas this year I want that piece of shit dragged screaming out of the White House by his legs while his fingers claw bloody furrows in the floorboards.

    and his pampers leave a different kind of trail

  • Inkstain82Inkstain82 Registered User regular
    And there it is. Biden leads Georgia by almost 1k votes

  • autono-wally, erotibot300autono-wally, erotibot300 love machine Registered User regular
    oh please

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  • SchrodingerSchrodinger Registered User regular
    Trump wrote:
    I easily WIN the Presidency of the United States with LEGAL VOTES CAST. The OBSERVERS were not allowed, in any way, shape, or form, to do their job and therefore, votes accepted during this period must be determined to be ILLEGAL VOTES. U.S. Supreme Court should decide!

    Welp, I guess that's his strategy? Dunno if that got posted in the other thread. I doubt even his handpicked Supreme Court would agree with that argument, though.

    He did the exact same thing in 2016.

    Thanks to social media, plenty of people actually believe this.

  • DhalphirDhalphir don't you open that trapdoor you're a fool if you dareRegistered User regular
    edited November 2020
    Inkstain82 wrote: »
    And there it is. Biden leads Georgia by almost 1k votes

    can you post the links or at least screengrabs of where you see info when you're the first to share it? not all of us are following the same sources

    Dhalphir on
  • WinklebottomWinklebottom Registered User regular
    MSNBC Just had Biden take the lead in Georgia

  • Inkstain82Inkstain82 Registered User regular
    Dhalphir wrote: »
    Inkstain82 wrote: »
    And there it is. Biden leads Georgia by almost 1k votes

    can you post the links or at least screengrabs of where you see info when you're the first to share it? not all of us are following the same sources

    https://mobile.twitter.com/DecisionDeskHQ/status/1324643210283593728

  • DJ EebsDJ Eebs Moderator, Administrator admin
    Dhalphir wrote: »
    Inkstain82 wrote: »
    And there it is. Biden leads Georgia by almost 1k votes

    can you post the links or at least screengrabs of where you see info when you're the first to share it? not all of us are following the same sources

    Here's the Decision Desk:


    GA Presidential Election Results - Biden takes the Lead

    Biden (D): 49.39.% ( 2,449,371 votes)
    Trump (R): 49.37% ( 2,448,454 votes)

    Biden Margin: (+917)
    Estimated: > 99% votes in

  • bloodyroarxxbloodyroarxx Casa GrandeRegistered User regular
    edited November 2020

    GA Presidential Election Results - Biden takes the Lead

    Biden (D): 49.39.% ( 2,449,371 votes)
    Trump (R): 49.37% ( 2,448,454 votes)

    Biden Margin: (+917)
    Estimated: > 99% votes in

    bloodyroarxx on
  • P10P10 An Idiot With Low IQ Registered User regular
    edited November 2020
    Dhalphir wrote: »
    Inkstain82 wrote: »
    And there it is. Biden leads Georgia by almost 1k votes

    can you post the links or at least screengrabs of where you see info when you're the first to share it? not all of us are following the same sources


    eod tweet

    P10 on
    Shameful pursuits and utterly stupid opinions
  • FencingsaxFencingsax It is difficult to get a man to understand, when his salary depends upon his not understanding GNU Terry PratchettRegistered User regular
    Oh fuck yes!

  • FencingsaxFencingsax It is difficult to get a man to understand, when his salary depends upon his not understanding GNU Terry PratchettRegistered User regular
    It feels so good!

  • lonelyahavalonelyahava Call me Ahava ~~She/Her~~ Move to New ZealandRegistered User regular
    That sounds like a good time to go to sleep.

    I'll check in with y'all in the morning. Godspeed and good luck.

  • tuxkamentuxkamen really took this picture. Registered User regular
    Inkstain82 wrote: »
    And there it is. Biden leads Georgia by almost 1k votes

    Please, let this now be the last part of the Radiator Springs ride where everything just accelerates to the end.


    Games: Ad Astra Per Phalla | Choose Your Own Phalla
    Thus, the others all die before tuxkamen dies to the vote. Hence, tuxkamen survives, village victory.
    3DS: 2406-5451-5770
  • Inkstain82Inkstain82 Registered User regular
    I guess my only concern in Georgia would be provisionals. Usually, those favor D by a lot. But you only cast one if you show up in person, so maybe not this time?

  • ProhassProhass Registered User regular
    Jesus that’s close, how many votes left and what’s the margin for a recount?

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