"If you count the legal votes I easily win."

Aaaand we drop to 0%. I guess this is to be expected when you've lived in a fantasy world where your entire popular vote margin last election was from illegal votes, though.

Nevuk

United States16280 Posts

November 05 2020 23:49 GMT

#3582

On November 06 2020 08:47 WombaT wrote:

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On November 06 2020 08:43 FlaShFTW wrote:

On November 06 2020 08:38 Blitzkrieg0 wrote:

On November 06 2020 08:27 FlaShFTW wrote:

On November 06 2020 08:26 Wegandi wrote:

On November 06 2020 08:22 Nevuk wrote:

On November 06 2020 08:20 Excludos wrote:

On November 06 2020 08:16 Wegandi wrote:

On November 06 2020 08:08 FlaShFTW wrote:

On November 06 2020 08:07 FragKrag wrote:

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you are becoming incomprehensible

Yeah not sure what he's going off of anymore. Feel like maybe his bias is showing a bit too much and he just needs to double down on everything. He definitely has not had a fun time with this election.

What? I actually prefer a divided government as I prefer gridlock rather than the inexorable expansion of statism (faster under dems slower with reps). Im ecstatic GOP kept the Senate (could care less if Trump won or not given that scenario). (Its also not like the GOP reverses the awful impositions from the past. Still have ACA, still have all the gun laws from 86, 68, 34, still have the Patriot Act, still have all these ABC departments and agencies, etc. So having GOP control all 3 branches is not exactly thrilling for me)

Is this the "Thank god our system is bad so they can't get anything done, because government doesn't work" argument?

Yes. This is also why Danglars advocated the filibuster. Being unable to even discuss something without 3/5 of the chamber agreeing with you highly stifles progress.

"Progress". Its only progress when your side is in power? I heard the D's liked the filibuster the last few years. Why you hate progress?

Pretty sure Republicans started using it first. In fact, the political weaponization to this extent (what I call hyper-modern politics) was a Republican strategy when Mitch McConnell realized what he could do with the rules of the Senate.

You're crediting the wrong Republican though. The no compromise Republican strategy was started before Mitch with Newt Gringrich.

Really? Thought Newt and Clinton got along pretty well during the Clinton administration. huh. Well turtle man mcconnell certainly has perfected that art and it was learned from Schumer.

Newt drove some hard bargains iirc, and sure laid some groundwork in terms of precedent, I don’t think it was quite as extreme as literally try to block everything but I may stand to be corrected on that.

The Hastert rule was formalized by Hastert but practiced by Gingrich first. What it meant is that even if something would pass 325-125 in the house, unless it was backed by a majority of republicans it was never coming to a vote at all.
(informally called "majority of majority rule")

Excludos

Norway8281 Posts

November 05 2020 23:49 GMT

#3583

On November 06 2020 08:48 ahswtini wrote:
I gave it a 1% chance he would concede here

He's not conceding until they start dragging him out

KwarK

United States44401 Posts

November 05 2020 23:49 GMT

#3584

On November 06 2020 08:49 ZerOCoolSC2 wrote:
He sounds like he's admitting defeat...

He's not, he's insisting it's fraud.

FlaShFTW

United States10584 Posts

November 05 2020 23:49 GMT

#3585

On November 06 2020 08:49 Excludos wrote:

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And it's still somehow incomprehensible

It's actually a little depressing. It basically sounds like he's pouting. Actually scratch that he always sounds like that.

Also didn't Dems flip one seat but just lost a bunch of others? Pretty sure Republicans did not defend every seat.

m4ini

4215 Posts

November 05 2020 23:50 GMT

#3586

On November 06 2020 08:49 Excludos wrote:

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He's not conceding until they start dragging him out

He will never concede, don't kid yourself.

It will always be the story of how the "thems" cheated him out of the white house.

ZerOCoolSC2

9070 Posts

November 05 2020 23:50 GMT

#3587

That's why I said it sounds like it. But he's just having a pissy fit.

PhoenixVoid

Canada32755 Posts

November 05 2020 23:51 GMT

#3588

He's airing out every grievance possible.

Luolis

Finland7199 Posts

November 05 2020 23:51 GMT

#3589

"Polls were election interference" can you guys throw this fuck out already?

Starlightsun

United States1405 Posts

November 05 2020 23:51 GMT

#3590

On November 06 2020 08:49 ZerOCoolSC2 wrote:
He sounds like he's admitting defeat...

Yeah I agree.

m4ini

4215 Posts

November 05 2020 23:51 GMT

#3591

Kinda makes me wanna pinch his cheek and go "there, there".

That's a grown ass man. In case you didn't notice.

mahrgell

Germany3943 Posts

November 05 2020 23:51 GMT

#3592

Usually, that's the moment when someone drags granpa out of the room making this typical apologetic face...

TheTenthDoc

United States9561 Posts

November 05 2020 23:53 GMT

#3593

Seems like he knows he's lost, even if he can't bring himself to say it. That's honestly better than I anticipated.

Zambrah

United States7393 Posts

November 05 2020 23:53 GMT

#3594

This sure is something

FlaShFTW

United States10584 Posts

November 05 2020 23:53 GMT

#3595

Did... did he just sniffle? Was he crying before this? Wtf is happening? He's actually just pouting.

HelpMeGetBetter

United States766 Posts

November 05 2020 23:53 GMT

#3596

so he is complaining that there was NOT a blue wave?

Luolis

Finland7199 Posts

November 05 2020 23:53 GMT

#3597

Sleepy Donnie

Excludos

Norway8281 Posts

November 05 2020 23:53 GMT

#3598

hahahaha
"We weren't allowed observers", they were.
"We went to court and won", they went to court and got laughed at.
"and we got inserted observers but they were only allowed 60 feet away", wat?

FueledUpAndReadyToGo

Netherlands30548 Posts

November 05 2020 23:53 GMT

#3599

He got DT-rushed and didn't have observers