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Gorsameth
Netherlands22667 Posts
Americans are worse then the rest of the world thought. The fact that after 4 years of Trump bullshit and this year his Covid response the race still comes down to a nail biter is a scathing criticism of the state of American politics and the beliefs of the American people compared to the rest of the western world. For shame America, for shame. (obviously not all Americans are bad, and the popular vote goes to Biden but still, WTF man). | ||
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GreenHorizons
United States24403 Posts
Americans are worse then the rest of the world thought. Can't say some of us haven't been telling the world this  | ||
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sharkie
Austria18762 Posts
On November 04 2020 19:31 Gorsameth wrote: I said it 4 years ago when I woke up to a Trump win, I'll say it now waking up to not a Biden landslide. Americans are worse then the rest of the world thought. The fact that after 4 years of Trump bullshit and this year his Covid response the race still comes down to a nail biter is a scathing criticism of the state of American politics and the beliefs of the American people compared to the rest of the western world. For shame America, for shame. (obviously not all Americans are bad, and the popular vote goes to Biden but still, WTF man). God knows I am not a trump supporter but why are Europeans all high nose on Trump regarding covid? There are many Europeans countries with worse numbers than the US? | ||
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Wegandi
United States2455 Posts
On November 04 2020 19:28 Acrofales wrote: Trump totally mishandles the COVID crisis. Democrats take the blame. HOW DOES THIS MAKE SENSE? As callous or whatever as this may be, people care more about being unemployed and out of work by Government edict rather than the 200k that died of C-19. One effects them one doesn't. That's how people generally work. You throw people out on the streets and you tell them it its worth it for some amount of X lives (very vague here we have no idea if lockdowns will lower death count in the long run or not especially if you consider the unintended consequences with suicides being up as a result), they're not likely to buy that unless it's some outstanding # of deaths like 25%+ of the population. | ||
FlaShFTW
United States10574 Posts
COME ON I NEED THIS RIGHT NOW | ||
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Laurens
Belgium4558 Posts
On November 04 2020 19:32 sharkie wrote: God knows I am not a trump supporter but why are Europeans all high nose on Trump regarding covid? There are many Europeans countries with worse numbers than the US? Yeah the continued bashing of Trump's Covid response starts to look a bit silly when Europe is reporting worse numbers and various countries are entering a 2nd lockdown. Our politicians sure did a much better job eh. | ||
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GreenHorizons
United States24403 Posts
On November 04 2020 19:32 sharkie wrote: God knows I am not a trump supporter but why are Europeans all high nose on Trump regarding covid? There are many Europeans countries with worse numbers than the US? I don't think Biden's even speculated he could have kept the deaths to half (not insignificant, but still several orders of magnitude worse than many countries). | ||
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Deleted User 26513
2376 Posts
On November 04 2020 19:31 Gorsameth wrote: I said it 4 years ago when I woke up to a Trump win, I'll say it now waking up to not a Biden landslide. Americans are worse then the rest of the world thought. The fact that after 4 years of Trump bullshit and this year his Covid response the race still comes down to a nail biter is a scathing criticism of the state of American politics and the beliefs of the American people compared to the rest of the western world. For shame America, for shame. (obviously not all Americans are bad, and the popular vote goes to Biden but still, WTF man). Or the Americans are just tired of corrupt useless politicians... Like the ones we have in EU. The fact that Trump is that close to winning after 4 years of left propaganda in the media, means that the the Americans have really strong feel of democracy and freedom. | ||
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Amui
Canada10567 Posts
On November 04 2020 19:17 Laurens wrote: Still puzzling to me that Arizona has been called. At 70% votes counted, Biden was ~200k votes ahead. We're now at 84% votes counted and the lead has shrunk to ~93k votes. ABC News refuses to call it yet but Politico and various other news outlets have. I took a look at the map for arizona. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/11/03/us/elections/results-arizona.html Vast majority of remaining are in 3 counties(My assumption is the remaining numbers mostly balance out). Maricopa is Biden+6, Pima is Biden +22, and Pinal is Trump +13, and the first two outstanding outnumber the third. | ||
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Biff The Understudy
France8209 Posts
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Acrofales
Spain18473 Posts
On November 04 2020 19:31 Gorsameth wrote: I said it 4 years ago when I woke up to a Trump win, I'll say it now waking up to not a Biden landslide. Americans are worse then the rest of the world thought. The fact that after 4 years of Trump bullshit and this year his Covid response the race still comes down to a nail biter is a scathing criticism of the state of American politics and the beliefs of the American people compared to the rest of the western world. For shame America, for shame. (obviously not all Americans are bad, and the popular vote goes to Biden but still, WTF man). To be fair, they inherited it from the Brits, who are only very very very slightly better. Seeing how, in many aspects, their democratic institutions are very similar, I'm starting to think it might be the system and its effect on polarizing the discussion, rather than the people. But then I look at Italy and their system that is not dissimilar to other mainland European nations, and the fact that they elected and then reelected Berlusconi. As a person, Berlusconi is definitely no better than Trump. But I guess it being Italy and their politics having been a disfunctional shitshow for as long as anybody can remember made us disregard that? | ||
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FlaShFTW
United States10574 Posts
On November 04 2020 19:35 Amui wrote: I took a look at the map for arizona. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/11/03/us/elections/results-arizona.html Vast majority of remaining are in 3 counties(My assumption is the remaining numbers mostly balance out). Maricopa is Biden+6, Pima is Biden +22, and Pinal is Trump +13, and the first two outstanding outnumber the third. Arizona is pulling an Ohio by having all the EV and absentee in first and then the in-person votes later. Just a matter if there's enough vote there for Trump to flip Arizona. | ||
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Wegandi
United States2455 Posts
On November 04 2020 19:35 Amui wrote: I took a look at the map for arizona. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/11/03/us/elections/results-arizona.html Vast majority of remaining are in 3 counties(My assumption is the remaining numbers mostly balance out). Maricopa is Biden+6, Pima is Biden +22, and Pinal is Trump +13, and the first two outstanding outnumber the third. Maricopa is traditionally GOP and Trump won it in 2016. Biden will have to keep that margin if he wants to win AZ. Going to be very very close. | ||
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Biff The Understudy
France8209 Posts
On November 04 2020 19:34 Pr0wler wrote: Or the Americans are just tired of corrupt useless politicians... Like the ones we have in EU. The fact that Trump is that close to winning after 4 years of left propaganda in the media, means that the the Americans have really strong feel of democracy and freedom. I think corrupt and useless are the two most on point adjectives describing Trump, really. | ||
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Acrofales
Spain18473 Posts
On November 04 2020 19:34 Pr0wler wrote: Or the Americans are just tired of corrupt useless politicians... Like the ones we have in EU. The fact that Trump is that close to winning after 4 years of left propaganda in the media, means that the the Americans have really strong feel of democracy and freedom. Tired of corrupt useless politicians. Vote en masse for a self-proclaimed grifter who spent his first term playing golf instead of dealing with the largest (acute) health crisis since the invention of modern medicine. | ||
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Gorsameth
Netherlands22667 Posts
On November 04 2020 19:34 Pr0wler wrote: Are you implying Trump is not an utterly corrupt and useless politician?Or the Americans are just tired of corrupt useless politicians... Like the ones we have in EU. The fact that Trump is that close to winning after 4 years of left propaganda in the media, means that the the Americans have really strong feel of democracy and freedom. I'm sorry that you have been in a coma for the last 4 years and have only just woken up, congratulations on that, but Trump has 4 years of strait corruption after corruption case and has been spending most of his time golfing. He is the utter definition of Corrupt and useless. And a strong feeling of Democracy and Freedom? Trump literally said not long ago that the vote counting should stop and that he should be declared the winner with an unfinished count. That isn't Democracy, that is a strait up Dictatorship. | ||
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Wegandi
United States2455 Posts
On November 04 2020 19:38 Acrofales wrote: Tired of corrupt useless politicians. Vote en masse for a self-proclaimed grifter who spent his first term playing golf instead of dealing with the largest (acute) health crisis since the invention of modern medicine. On a per capita basis the flu epidemic during the Woodstock years was worse. No one gave a shit back then though (as evidenced by all the pictures of Woodstock lol). | ||
KwarK
United States44393 Posts
On November 04 2020 19:33 Laurens wrote: Yeah the continued bashing of Trump's Covid response starts to look a bit silly when Europe is reporting worse numbers and various countries are entering a 2nd lockdown. Our politicians sure did a much better job eh. This is a bad take because it assumes that Trump is responsible for the successes of the US response when he is not. Individual state governors are primarily responsible for successes after the abdication of responsibility by the Federal government. Trump skipped the first few briefings on Coronavirus, ignored the next few, and after it became clear he couldn't ignore it he publicly dismissed it. Remember "it'll be gone by Easter" and "one day it'll disappear, like magic". Those were six months ago. It didn't disappear. Remember the politicization of masks? How Trump held parties and infected everyone around him? But without Federal leadership state governors had to step up. Evidence of this can be clearly seen by the dramatic differences between the outcomes in otherwise comparable states. MLG in NM was more aggressive with lockdowns and has been rewarded with much lower deaths per capita than neighbouring AZ, for example. Were we to accept your argument that would lead us to conclude that Trump can be thanked for NM's low rate of death when, in fact, he insisted that the lockdowns were part of a conspiracy to destroy the economy and make him look bad. | ||
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KwarK
United States44393 Posts
On November 04 2020 19:34 Pr0wler wrote: Or the Americans are just tired of corrupt useless politicians... Like the ones we have in EU. The fact that Trump is that close to winning after 4 years of left propaganda in the media, means that the the Americans have really strong feel of democracy and freedom. Trump was literally impeached by the legislative for his corruption. | ||
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Australia1972 Posts
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