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On November 07 2020 13:18 FlaShFTW wrote:Show nested quote +On November 07 2020 13:17 {CC}StealthBlue wrote: Mark Meadows has been diagnosed with COVID-19. He informed his staff after the election. You see if he just never got tested he wouldn't have it!
He was around Trump and Co. election night, and others during the day. So makes me wonder how many now have to be tested.
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On November 07 2020 13:19 Dante08 wrote:Show nested quote +On November 07 2020 13:17 FlaShFTW wrote:On November 07 2020 13:12 Dante08 wrote:On November 07 2020 11:47 iamthedave wrote: It's got to be out of worry of what the trumpkins will do when it becomes official. This was always going to be a more violent election whoever wins. Don't act like the more extreme people other side wouldn't be calling for riots if Trump won. People really need to take a step back and chill. Yeah no sure about this take that people are waiting for Trumpers to riot. Doesn't everyone remember the rioting from 2016? I mean ffs, I was at UCSD and they ran onto a highway and a girl got hit by a car. This stuff happens in elections on either side, we don't know anything until we see it. Trumpers, except the Arizona ones, have mostly been tame (I don't count them harassing poll workers as violent. Dumb yes, but not violent). Let's chill, wait for the official announcement, then we can talk. I'm sure Trump will have something to tweet or say when the news agencies call it officially. Yeah I'm annoyed at people conveniently taking the high road when Biden is winning and labeling Trump and Trump supporters as the violent ones. If the positions were swapped there would 100% be violence as well.
This is pretty disingenuous.
Equivocation has consistently shown to be a lie. There haven't been widespread occurrences of progressives organizing and arming themselves, threatening violent action if Trump won the election. There's no indication that progressives would've protested outside vote counting places, interrupting the vote counting process and threatening vote counters while espousing utterly delusional bullshit. Progressives weren't the ones that were repeatedly arrested for conspiring with foreign terrorists, traveling across state lines to incite riots and political terrorism, or conspiring to kidnap and murder a sitting governor.
So no, "the exact same thing" would not have happened. Riots? Maybe, but those aren't organized political reactions akin to what conservatives have been doing.
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On November 07 2020 13:33 Stratos_speAr wrote:Show nested quote +On November 07 2020 13:19 Dante08 wrote:On November 07 2020 13:17 FlaShFTW wrote:On November 07 2020 13:12 Dante08 wrote:On November 07 2020 11:47 iamthedave wrote: It's got to be out of worry of what the trumpkins will do when it becomes official. This was always going to be a more violent election whoever wins. Don't act like the more extreme people other side wouldn't be calling for riots if Trump won. People really need to take a step back and chill. Yeah no sure about this take that people are waiting for Trumpers to riot. Doesn't everyone remember the rioting from 2016? I mean ffs, I was at UCSD and they ran onto a highway and a girl got hit by a car. This stuff happens in elections on either side, we don't know anything until we see it. Trumpers, except the Arizona ones, have mostly been tame (I don't count them harassing poll workers as violent. Dumb yes, but not violent). Let's chill, wait for the official announcement, then we can talk. I'm sure Trump will have something to tweet or say when the news agencies call it officially. Yeah I'm annoyed at people conveniently taking the high road when Biden is winning and labeling Trump and Trump supporters as the violent ones. If the positions were swapped there would 100% be violence as well. This is pretty disingenuous. Equivocation has consistently shown to be a lie. There haven't been widespread occurrences of progressives organizing and arming themselves, threatening violent action if Trump won the election. There's no indication that progressives would've protested outside vote counting places, interrupting the vote counting process and threatening vote counters while espousing utterly delusional bullshit. Progressives weren't the ones that were repeatedly arrested for conspiring with foreign terrorists, traveling across state lines to incite riots and political terrorism, or conspiring to kidnap and murder a sitting governor. So no, "the exact same thing" would not have happened. Riots? Maybe, but those aren't organized political reactions akin to what conservatives have been doing. I don't think its unequivocal as you argue. No doubt some part might be organized, while some parts might not be organized. I'm sure some of these Trumpers that are out protesting are random. To be sure, I don't think that any progressive or leftist would ever do something like what is going on now, but I think he's referring to what happens AFTER the election is called. So when viewed in the context of merely the events after an election, yes, I think the two sides might be fairly represented as similar in many ways, but also different in others.
The right is far better at actual intimidation and threat of violence, while the left actually performs the violence but it is, for the most part, the occasional person getting their ass beat and property damage. The right is more capable of actual human death (Kenosha), but I genuinely don't believe something to that scale will happen. I could be proven wrong, but I simply wish to have more faith in Trumpers, as dumb and awful as they might be.
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Now it's another two WH aides have also tested positive.
edit: Jesus Christ now it's four aides.
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On November 07 2020 13:29 {CC}StealthBlue wrote:Show nested quote +On November 07 2020 13:18 FlaShFTW wrote:On November 07 2020 13:17 {CC}StealthBlue wrote: Mark Meadows has been diagnosed with COVID-19. He informed his staff after the election. You see if he just never got tested he wouldn't have it! He was around Trump and Co. election night, and others during the day. So makes me wonder how many now have to be tested.
Oh yeah. Right. That whole election night party thing...seems like forever ago.
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Now it's five cases. Wonder where Pence is in all this?
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“We may be opponents but we are not enemies. We are Americans. No matter who you voted for, I am certain of one thing. The vast majority of almost 150 million Americans who voted, they want to get the vitriol out of our politics. We're certainly are not going to agree on a lot of issues, but at least we can agree to be civil with one another. We have to put the anger and demonization behind us. It's time for us to come together as a nation and heal. It's not gonna be easy but we have to try. My responsibility as President will be to represent the whole nation. And, I want you to know that I will work as hard for those who voted against me as those who voted for me. That’s the job. That's the job. It’s called the duty of care for all Americans.” - Joe Biden
https://www.c-span.org/video/?c4921465/user-clip-duty-care
Already doing the job better than Trump. With Biden we have at least a chance to heal some wounds.
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On November 07 2020 11:52 Nevuk wrote:Carlson said some more insane shit. I don't even know what this means, but Biden is apparently a hologram that isn't real. He's the most viewed fox news host, and has been pointed to as the next GOP nominee by at least 1 political observer today, so I'm quoting this even though it's only tangentially related to the election: Something like 10 million Republicans are going to believe this tomorrow. Show nested quote +Fox News host Tucker Carlson, in a bizarre rant Friday night during his primetime show, said that not only is Democratic nominee Joe Biden a “hologram” that “doesn’t exist,” but also told viewers a Biden presidency would bring about forced “uniformity” resulting in all people being mandated to drink Starbucks coffee.
“Who is Joe Biden?” Carlson began. “This man who claims to be our president? We ought to find out.”
“The truth is as of tonight, we don’t really know. We have no clue what Joe Biden thinks or even if he is capable of thinking. He hasn’t told us. No one made him tell us. For a full year now. That’s by design. In fact, it’s becoming clear there is no Joe Biden. The man you may remember from the 1980s is gone. He no longer exists. What remains is a projection of sorts, a hologram designed to mimic the behavior of a non-threatening political candidate. Relax, Joe Biden is here; he smiles a lot. That’s the message from the vapor candidate,” Carson stated. “Don’t think too much. Who is running the projector here?” “You know the people behind Joe Biden are not like that at all. They don’t believe in dissent. That’s not them at all. They demand obedience,” Carlson continued. “Diversity is the last thing they want. It’s a cruel joke. These people seek absolute sameness. Total uniformity.”
“You’re happy with your corner coffee shop. They want to make you drink Starbucks every day from now until forever,” he stated. “That’s the future they promise.”
Quotes from mediaite, but it's a painful site to visit without an adblocker. So here's the daily beast writeup dailybeast + Show Spoiler +https://twitter.com/thedailybeast/status/1324899720767164417 and a short clip: + Show Spoiler +https://twitter.com/RexChapman/status/1324887827868508162 Mediaite with full monologue (it's pretty nutty): https://www.mediaite.com/election-2020/tucker-carlson-says-joe-biden-doesnt-exist-and-is-a-hologram-but-presidency-will-make-you-drink-starbucks-every-day/
To be fair (not that much fairness should be given to carlson), I think the idea here is that Biden is no longer what he was in the past, but is a puppet of whoever is "running the projector". Ironically enough it's also probably meant to be taken literally by the same imbeciles who parrot QAnon tripe.
The starbucks thing is really funny though. That's top of the agenda for the left; not dealing with Coronavirus, maybe fixing the healthcare system, dealing with climate change, finding a way to stop systemic racism; they want you to drink starbucks.
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There's a fun coincidence that November 7th is also the same day that Biden first was elected to the Senate back in 1973, 48 years ago.
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On November 07 2020 14:02 Golgotha wrote:“We may be opponents but we are not enemies. We are Americans. No matter who you voted for, I am certain of one thing. The vast majority of almost 150 million Americans who voted, they want to get the vitriol out of our politics. We're certainly are not going to agree on a lot of issues, but at least we can agree to be civil with one another. We have to put the anger and demonization behind us. It's time for us to come together as a nation and heal. It's not gonna be easy but we have to try. My responsibility as President will be to represent the whole nation. And, I want you to know that I will work as hard for those who voted against me as those who voted for me. That’s the job. That's the job. It’s called the duty of care for all Americans.” - Joe Biden https://www.c-span.org/video/?c4921465/user-clip-duty-careAlready doing the job better than Trump. With Biden we have at least a chance to heal some wounds. im almost in tears about the fact that we can have an american president that is capable of saying something sensible. the last 4 years has been a horror show
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On November 07 2020 14:37 evilfatsh1t wrote:Show nested quote +On November 07 2020 14:02 Golgotha wrote:“We may be opponents but we are not enemies. We are Americans. No matter who you voted for, I am certain of one thing. The vast majority of almost 150 million Americans who voted, they want to get the vitriol out of our politics. We're certainly are not going to agree on a lot of issues, but at least we can agree to be civil with one another. We have to put the anger and demonization behind us. It's time for us to come together as a nation and heal. It's not gonna be easy but we have to try. My responsibility as President will be to represent the whole nation. And, I want you to know that I will work as hard for those who voted against me as those who voted for me. That’s the job. That's the job. It’s called the duty of care for all Americans.” - Joe Biden https://www.c-span.org/video/?c4921465/user-clip-duty-careAlready doing the job better than Trump. With Biden we have at least a chance to heal some wounds. im almost in tears about the fact that we can have an american president that is capable of saying something sensible. the last 4 years has been a horror show
I'm with ya mate
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Good morning. Any Updates what happened overnight? Scolled throug and saw Bomb threads and that Meadow and WH staff got tested on Covid 19  How bad is it?
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On November 07 2020 14:44 JimmiC wrote: Kind of a random thought. But might have Biden lost the Cuban vote so bad not because they thought he was a socialist but because he was part of the admin who eased relations with Castro?
Has anyone read about anyone going and asking them?
As a Cuban, it’s literally around socialism/communism. Most of them don’t understand anything other than a dictatorship. Their dictatorship used “socialism” as a way to gain power. Republicans labeled democrats socialist.
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“Who is Joe Biden?” Carlson began. “This man who claims to be our president? We ought to find out.”
“The truth is as of tonight, we don’t really know. We have no clue what Joe Biden thinks or even if he is capable of thinking. He hasn’t told us. No one made him tell us. For a full year now. That’s by design. In fact, it’s becoming clear there is no Joe Biden. The man you may remember from the 1980s is gone. He no longer exists. What remains is a projection of sorts, a hologram designed to mimic the behavior of a non-threatening political candidate. Relax, Joe Biden is here; he smiles a lot. That’s the message from the vapor candidate,” Carson stated. “Don’t think too much. Who is running the projector here?”
“You know the people behind Joe Biden are not like that at all. They don’t believe in dissent. That’s not them at all. They demand obedience,” Carlson continued. “Diversity is the last thing they want. It’s a cruel joke. These people seek absolute sameness. Total uniformity.”
“You’re happy with your corner coffee shop. They want to make you drink Starbucks every day from now until forever,” he stated. “That’s the future they promise.”
I'm no fan of Tucker Carlson, but this is obviously a metaphor, and it's a perfectly coherent one. It's not an insane rant. He's saying that Biden is vapid, lacking in substance, and that his real opinions are unclear because he's acting as a mouthpiece for The Establishment.
I don't think that's especially true, and I think Tucker Carlson is a lot more worried about The Establishment running the world than is reasonable. But this is clearly what he's saying here.
Anybody framing this as "Tucker Carlson is crazy and thinks Joe Biden literally doesn't exist" is obviously disingenuous.
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Indeed. Seems like a metaphor to me as well rather than a rant that is meant to be taken at face value.
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It's still an insane rant. Or perhaps worse than insane, it is calculated to start the gears turning for his many listeners who are then going spout insane stuff all over their social media. "Joe Biden is a puppet of sinister forces, we can't know what or if he thinks despite his being in the public eye for decades. Let me give you a little glimpse and taste of those sinister forces, you fill in the rest for yourself." Fuck him, what a fucking weasel.
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On November 07 2020 14:55 ASoo wrote:Show nested quote +“Who is Joe Biden?” Carlson began. “This man who claims to be our president? We ought to find out.”
“The truth is as of tonight, we don’t really know. We have no clue what Joe Biden thinks or even if he is capable of thinking. He hasn’t told us. No one made him tell us. For a full year now. That’s by design. In fact, it’s becoming clear there is no Joe Biden. The man you may remember from the 1980s is gone. He no longer exists. What remains is a projection of sorts, a hologram designed to mimic the behavior of a non-threatening political candidate. Relax, Joe Biden is here; he smiles a lot. That’s the message from the vapor candidate,” Carson stated. “Don’t think too much. Who is running the projector here?”
“You know the people behind Joe Biden are not like that at all. They don’t believe in dissent. That’s not them at all. They demand obedience,” Carlson continued. “Diversity is the last thing they want. It’s a cruel joke. These people seek absolute sameness. Total uniformity.”
“You’re happy with your corner coffee shop. They want to make you drink Starbucks every day from now until forever,” he stated. “That’s the future they promise.” I'm no fan of Tucker Carlson, but this is obviously a metaphor, and it's a perfectly coherent one. It's not an insane rant. He's saying that Biden is vapid, lacking in substance, and that his real opinions are unclear because he's acting as a mouthpiece for The Establishment. I don't think that's especially true, and I think Tucker Carlson is a lot more worried about The Establishment running the world than is reasonable. But this is clearly what he's saying here. Anybody framing this as "Tucker Carlson is crazy and thinks Joe Biden literally doesn't exist" is obviously disingenuous.
Even the metaphorical version is crazy. What shadowy people behind Joe Biden are supposed to impose uniformity on anyone? Tucker isn't worried about the The Establishment running the world, he's worried about his ratings when Biden turns out to be exactly the boring, non-threatening president that he is.
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So i think it funny that if you compare the two stronghold for its party it tells a much different story. Biden is going to win CA by 4-5 mil votes about 30%. Trump won texas by 600k about 6%. IT the past 3 election it goes down every time. 15%, then 9% now 6%. THe dems just need to find a candidate that work for texas. While the current GOP is never going to threaten cali.
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