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JimmiC
Canada22817 Posts
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dbRic1203
Germany2655 Posts
On November 07 2020 01:44 FlaShFTW wrote: sigh... BREAKING NEWS: The TL.net Decision Desk has a projection to make... that we already made over 12 hours ago. The TL.net Decision Desk can project that the states of Arizona, with its 11 Electoral votes, Nevada, with its 6 electoral votes, and Pennsylvania, with its 20 electoral votes, will go to Former Vice President Joe Biden. This puts Joe Biden at 290 projected electoral votes, making him the President-Elect of the United States. We have not called Georgia yet... actually you know what? No fuck that noise. The TL.net Decision desk also projects Georgia to go to Joe Biden, increasing his total electoral vote tally to 306. There, end of the election. I'm grabbing a drink. GGs  On November 07 2020 01:46 JimmiC wrote: I mean it is Donald Trump, making easily proven wrong declarations of fact is basically his go to move. My hope is that his long time legacy is that when a politician makes one of these people say "OH on he just pulled a Trump" . I think he quoted some FOX news guy, as there is a whole thread where he keeps rumbling on  | ||
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DarkPlasmaBall
United States45925 Posts
On November 07 2020 01:44 FlaShFTW wrote: sigh... BREAKING NEWS: The TL.net Decision Desk has a projection to make... that we already made over 12 hours ago. The TL.net Decision Desk can project that the states of Arizona, with its 11 Electoral votes, Nevada, with its 6 electoral votes, and Pennsylvania, with its 20 electoral votes, will go to Former Vice President Joe Biden. This puts Joe Biden at 290 projected electoral votes, making him the President-Elect of the United States. We have not called Georgia yet... actually you know what? No fuck that noise. The TL.net Decision desk also projects Georgia to go to Joe Biden, increasing his total electoral vote tally to 306. There, end of the election. I'm grabbing a drink. It's official! | ||
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LegalLord
United States13779 Posts
On November 07 2020 01:32 Nevuk wrote: Ironically, the biggest impediment to rural areas is probably lack of investment in their internet infrastructure (which has been enabled by Rebulicans refusing to publish comcast for literally burning government money instead of using it for this purpose) and anti-WFH culture(solved somewhat by covid). If you can get a job in a city and work from you farm 4 hours away then the distance of the actual job doesn't matter much. This is what my brother-in-law does, but he still has issues since being an hour from the nearest city means that his only option is 512kbps DSL or super expensive satellite. (My sister is a doctor and has 5 goats, 20 chickens, some turkeys, 4 cats, 3 dogs, and apparently just got some pigs... they just have most of them for fun? I don't really get it, aside from the chickens whose eags they eat and the goats who do their lawn.) Well, they are spending a good $20 billion on better rural internet. Hopefully fiber or at least 5G eventually. | ||
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TheTenthDoc
United States9561 Posts
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FlaShFTW
United States10402 Posts
I'm gonna petition our social media guys to give me a TL.net political twitter account to shit post with next election. | ||
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JimmiC
Canada22817 Posts
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Erasme
Bahamas15899 Posts
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JimmiC
Canada22817 Posts
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FlaShFTW
United States10402 Posts
800k?! Holy shit she basically won Georgia for Biden. She needs a payroll bump or a top spot in the DNC at this point. | ||
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ChristianS
United States3304 Posts
On November 07 2020 00:50 FlaShFTW wrote: Yes. We don't heal this country by mocking the other side. We heal by coming together, letting those people sit and reflect, and then when they're ready, we break bread and discuss politics like civilized people. This didn't happen in 2016 when Trump supporters were gleeful and full on mocking/making really hurtful messages to the liberals who lost. Myself included. Took me a couple years to realize that all that does is sow the divisiveness in this country. We get a couple days to celebrate as Biden supporters, but after that, we calm down, we let the electoral process do it's job, we celebrate again on Inauguration day, and then we move forward. I don’t know what “healing the country” looks like in this environment. It’s not just that Republicans obviously have no interest in “coming together” (although I wonder how long we’ll keep seeing those “fuck your feelings” shirts in the wild). They’ve overridden basically every democratic norm as soon as it remotely impeded power acquisition. It far predates the last four years, they still have most of the spoils of those moves, and they’ve given no indication whatsoever of stopping. If GA goes how we should expect, and they retain the Senate, it’s very unlikely they’ll let Biden appoint a cabinet. If any judge seats need to be filled, they’ll leave them vacant until either they get back the White House, or Dems get back the Senate. Meanwhile every Dem state legislature will appoint an independent commission for drawing district lines, while every Republican state legislature will find the mathematically optimal configuration for maximum Republican seats with minimum persuaded voters. The only part of what I just said that seems likely to change is Dems deciding they have to gerrymander too to stay competitive. Like, if this had been a landslide maybe some Republicans would pretend some contrition and appeal to restoring norms now that it would hurt them, but with this outcome they can stay the course, and almost certainly take back the House in 2022 while vowing to make Biden a 1 term president. What healing is to be done there? | ||
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Gorsameth
Netherlands22369 Posts
On November 07 2020 01:39 JimmiC wrote: Please don't give the mods an aneurysm by suggest to attract outside people to discuss politics on TL :pMaybe TL needs to start promoting itself as a political analysis site and can brag about how accurate and early the calling of states was done. We have to be at least is credible as some of the sites that get listed. | ||
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WombaT
Northern Ireland26794 Posts
On November 07 2020 01:55 Gorsameth wrote: Please don't give the mods an aneurysm by suggest to attract outside people to discuss politics on TL :p Frankly we should have done the rebrand it 10 years ago when SC2 was already a dead game | ||
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Gorsameth
Netherlands22369 Posts
On November 07 2020 01:40 dbRic1203 wrote: Might be talking about a state court that allowed ballots to be delivered for longer, so long as they were post marked on tuesday? Think they kicked something about that up to the Supreme Court.Yes, please. Also wtf is this about: https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1324750555059728384 I m watching ABC and they have been saying the entire day, that in Pennsylvania there have been observers ALL THE TIME. | ||
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FlaShFTW
United States10402 Posts
On November 07 2020 01:53 ChristianS wrote: I don’t know what “healing the country” looks like in this environment. It’s not just that Republicans obviously have no interest in “coming together” (although I wonder how long we’ll keep seeing those “fuck your feelings” shirts in the wild). They’ve overridden basically every democratic norm as soon as it remotely impeded power acquisition. It far predates the last four years, they still have most of the spoils of those moves, and they’ve given no indication whatsoever of stopping. If GA goes how we should expect, and they retain the Senate, it’s very unlikely they’ll let Biden appoint a cabinet. If any judge seats need to be filled, they’ll leave them vacant until either they get back the White House, or Dems get back the Senate. Meanwhile every Dem state legislature will appoint an independent commission for drawing district lines, while every Republican state legislature will find the mathematically optimal configuration for maximum Republican seats with minimum persuaded voters. The only part of what I just said that seems likely to change is Dems deciding they have to gerrymander too to stay competitive. Like, if this had been a landslide maybe some Republicans would pretend some contrition and appeal to restoring norms now that it would hurt them, but with this outcome they can stay the course, and almost certainly take back the House in 2022 while vowing to make Biden a 1 term president. What healing is to be done there? With Trump out of the office, there is a lot more potential for Republicans to move back to the center a bit. Trump took them on a wide ride, I'm sure a lot of them only hopped onto the train to stay in good faith with the Republican electorate. There is healing, you just have to look for it. Dems shouldn't be using this line of thought of "well they won't want to heal so why should we?" Dems should be, and are, the party with the higher moral ground and standing. Now they have to act like it. You can call out Republicans when they refuse to budge, you can call them out when they make really outlandish statements, but I'm done with the whole fuck them we'll do it ourselves argument. Hyper-modern politics is a disease. It's a tumor that continues to grow. Either we do some radiation and chemo, or we let the tumor grow. We have to at least try. | ||
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Zambrah
United States7393 Posts
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Toadesstern
Germany16350 Posts
On November 07 2020 01:41 HelpMeGetBetter wrote: What the hell is up with Alaska? anybody know? Alaska is huge with very few people in it. I assume the votes they did so far are the in-person votes and everything left would be mail votes they're trying to do at once. Somewhere there in Alaska is some husky mail delivery service trying to do it's best. we count all the in person votes, wait for all the mail votes then cross check the names to make sure no one double voted before counting mail | ||
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{CC}StealthBlue
United States41117 Posts
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TheTenthDoc
United States9561 Posts
That or they really hate Fox and AP. Or both! | ||
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FlaShFTW
United States10402 Posts
Will be echoed through the halls of many court rooms in the near future. For anyone who missed it, this thread was just the funniest thing to read as a law student. | ||
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