[The above electoral map from the New York Times shows where we are as of 9:30 AM this morning, with ballots still being counted across the United States.]
As expected, Donald Trump claimed victory early this morning, before all of the votes were counted, saying that he would call upon the Supreme Court to stop millions of legally cast ballots from being counted. Appearing in the East Room of the White House at approximately 3:00 AM, Donald Trump said, “Frankly we did win. So we’ll be going to the U.S. Supreme Court. We want all voting to stop. As far as I’m concerned, we already did win.” And, I should add, Trump said this after Fox News had called the historically Republican state of Arizona for Biden, signaling that things were trending well for the former Vice President. As Chris Wallace said on Fox after Trump made his statement about having won, “This is an extremely flammable situation and the president just threw a match into it.”
Chris Wallace: "This is an extremely flammable situation and the president just threw a match into it. He hasn't won these states … the president doesn't get to say he won states … there's no question that all these states can continue to count votes." pic.twitter.com/iquygEE39Y
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) November 4, 2020
The truth is, we don’t yet know who won, but things are looking positive for Biden at the moment, as ballots across the United States continue to be counted. As of this moment, Biden is leading in Wisconsin, Michigan and Nevada, and, if his lead in these states holds, he will have the 270 electoral votes he needs to claim victory, even if Pennsylvania and Georgia go to Trump. And there’s still a good chance that Biden could win in those states as well.
As for the Senate, things are still up in the air, as we’re waiting to hear how things go in a number of states, including Michigan, where Democratic Senator Gary Peters is presently trailing his Republican challenger. If things play out the way people think that they will, the best case scenario for Democrats is a split Senate, with 50 Democrats and 50 Republicans, in which Kamala Harris would be in the position to cast tie-breaking votes as the Vice President. This, however, would require not only that Peters win, but that Warnock win his run-off in Georgia… In order to have gained control of the Senate outright, the Democrats would have needed to pick up four seats, and, with Doug Jones losing in Alabama, that became even more of an uphill battle. Still, though, the Democrats appear to be picking up seats in Arizona, Colorado and Georgia. [There were two Georgia Senate races this election cycle.] And it’s conceivable that North Carolina, Maine and Iowa could still be in play.
One last thing. Just keep in mind, when you hear Donald Trump complaining about the counting of mail-in ballots, that we have Republican legislatures to thank. The following is from USA Today’s Kirsten Powers.
So, no, there are no “surprise ballot dumps (being) counted” as Donald Trump just claimed. The ballots being counted are ballots that were lawfully cast, and are now being counted in accordance with rules established by Republican legislatures. There is nothing “magical” about what it happening. Absentee ballots were cast, and now they are being counted.
update: Here’s the Detroit Free Press weighing in on Trump’s claim that Michigan flipped for Biden because of a massive “ballot dump.” That’s not true, they report.
You may have seen a map or graph going around that alleges Biden "found" 138,000+ votes overnight to overtake Trump in Michigan, with people claiming it's evidence of an election being "stolen."
That's false. Here are the facts. And a correct graph. https://t.co/oBLVNUvVW5 pic.twitter.com/Rt0AE8tlmN
— Detroit Free Press (@freep) November 4, 2020
update: Jonathan Oosting is reporting that the Trump campaign is seeking to stop the count in Michigan. The Trump campaign, he says, has put out the following statement: “We have filed suit today in the Michigan Court of Claims to halt counting until meaningful access has been granted.”
update: Another response to Trump’s assertion that “Michigan has now found the ballots” to change the course of the election.
I was literally just in a room in Michigan where more than 59,000 absentee ballots are being tabulated. There are Republican challengers in the room, fully active in the process. The county clerk overseeing it all is a Republican who said in 2018 she supports Trump's policies. https://t.co/uPZ8NpLDmN
— dustindwyer (@dustindwyer) November 4, 2020
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Arizona. John McCain’s revenge from beyond the grave.
http://hill.cm/cYGNgKG
This won’t be a popular take, probably, but: if Biden wins, it will be an achievement. The campaign will have (barely) overcome the most sustained assault on voting rights in recent memory and the largest disinformation operation—conservative media—in American history.
The REASON Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin didn’t count their votes earlier is because the REPUBLICAN LEGISLATURES WOULDN’T LET THEM.
Most of these votes were cast weeks ago.
They’re going to be counted. And Biden is going to win.
Trump is going bananas again. It’s important that his supporters go bananas with him. I was disappointed to meet so many Trump supporters at the polls who didn’t display his ignorance and impulsive, clownish behavior…like the ones that comment here do.
I am worried that somehow this is going to go to the SCOTUS and then we will see right away and first hand the end result of that bit of court packing
If my math is correct, Biden can still win even if he loses Pennsylvania. If he can pick up Michigan, Wisconsin, Arizona, and Nevada, he is in! And it looks good in those 4 states. Fingers crossed!
“Last night I was leading, often solidly, in many key States, in almost all instances Democrat run & controlled. Then, one by one, they started to magically disappear as surprise ballot dumps were counted. VERY STRANGE, and the “pollsters” got it completely & historically wrong!” – Trump tweet
Maybe someone should explain stuff to the dumb president. Can we draft FF for the job?
IRobert— I’m glad you met some of the other Trump voters. It’s important that we not buy into the demonization if we are going to move the country forward after Biden wins.
I read where Trump intends to continue campaigning, having rallies and such to denounce the votes counted after he declared victory, raise money for lawyers and to fire up his bass for…?
Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson said final results are likely by Wednesday night.
“At least 5.26 million ballots were cast overall, a record that surpassed the 2008 vote, when Barack Obama won the state. More than 60% of the votes were cast by absentee ballot.
Turnout in heavily Democratic Detroit was expected to be close to 55%, the highest in two decades.
About 28,000 voters took advantage of same-day voter registration, which was offered in Michigan for the first time in a presidential election.”
Looks like there will be an automatic recount in Wisconsin. They require one if the vote is within 1%, Biden is just shy of winning by 1%. I don’t know what the law is in Michigan on recounts. Unless it has changed since 2016 there is no automatic recount. So there will be lawsuits pretty quickly here, maybe later today.
My buddy Joe just got a fund raising tweet from Trump needing money to fight the Democrats theft of the election. That didn’t take long.
Joe Biden has won Wisconsin.
BREAKING Wisconsin Elections Commission Administrator says on @NBCNews: “All of the ballots have been counted.” Joe Biden has won Wisconsin by 20,697 votes.
As of noon today, Joe Biden is up to 69.9 million votes, surpassing Obama’s record for the most votes of anyone who has ever run for president.
1) Biden is ahead in enough places to win the Presidency.
2) Trump wants to count all the votes in those states to see if he can catch up.
3) In GA and PA, where he is currently ahead, he wants to stop counting.
4) Donald Trump only wants to count Donald Trump votes.
My understanding is that Wisconsin requires a recount if margin is less than 1%.
Can anyone confirm or deny.
Networks are finally calling Wisconsin for Biden
I’m wondering if Fox called Arizona for Biden in order to provoke Trump into filing court actions against Michigan and Wisconsin. They do seem to manipulate him often. He’s so dumb.
Senator Peters has a very slight lead in the count currently.
https://twitter.com/annalise_frank/status/1324079313176678402
NBC has called Michigan for Biden.
Looks like a much bigger margin than I expected this morning–could be over 70000 + votes. Trumpers are trying to cause trouble at the vote counting center in Detroit. If the margin is this big–they are toast.
https://www.freep.com/story/news/politics/elections/2020/11/04/tcf-center-challengers-detroit-michigan/6164715002/?fbclid=IwAR1F4pQlXbjM6KGe6eQsHq3YMLzw9YjG7Y07pve0RBdJPYOK6DfysOAA62g
Hurry up, FF! Get down to the TCF Center and stop the count!
HW and EOS should already be down there. The three of you can go get coneys afterward.
ABC and Fox have called Michigan for Biden.
Trump just declared victory in MI, GA, NC and PA.
John James tried to declare victory. But he’s behind in the count.
Curious what FF thinks the Trump campaigns errors were since he was so quick to weigh in re his perception of Biden’s. Namely thatBiden is supposedly a liar. Vintage FF and rich coming from a Trump supporter.
Was just reading that Biden got the lowest support from Black men than any recent Democrat Presidential candidate–only 80% of Black men supported Biden. Maybe holding a grudge for that 1994 crime bill that sent so many of them to prison. Biden support among Black woman—the backbone of the Democratic Party–remained very high at 91% (not quit as high as with Hillary).
Whew. I am still worried for Peters but am starting to let myself breathe a little. I won’t be ok though until the other states are in.
There wasn’t the great blue turn out I was hoping for but the good news there may be that if the GOP can see that greater turnout doesn’t necessarily lead to losses on their part, maybe they can stop keeping people from voting?
Cori Bush, a BLM organizer, has won a seat in Missouri in the House. In my mind at least The Squad just gained a member! She is the first black woman Missouri has sent to the House.
Sarah McBride won her race in Deleware which means we get our first transgendered Senator!
The ranked-choice voting in Maine didn’t seem to ruin things for anyone. Hopefully, that will help people be less afraid of it!
McCormack and Welch won spots on Michigan’s Supreme Court ending an era of conservative control!
Oh and this one is for HW, it looks like marijuana was the big winner with some states making recreational use legal and even Mississippi making medicinal use legal! So there you go, something to be happy about even for Trumpers!
Wobblie, it’s more likely that they identify with Trump’s misogyny, degeneracy, and empty puffery. That’s why the rappers like him so much. Lil Pump was all up in dat shit.
Wobblie— Black women pushed fir the crime bill at the time and black men opposed it so that makes sense.
The crime bill was a disaster and I opposes it at the time but it arose out if demands from black communities. In that case the cure was worse than the disease. Barely. Now that addiction is more a rural white people problem, we understand that treatment is the solution not incarceration.
Treatment for white people, incarceration for black people–oh well that’s America for you. Does anyone else think that if Trump had not politicized the covid response, he would have won in a landslide?
The Democrats lost house seats, but it was not as bad as it could have been after the debacle of impeachment. Both the impeachment and the Trump covid response was playing to each parties base. Maybe not the best election strategy.
Judge Sullivan is very angry at DeJoy for fucking with the mail-in ballots.
I think that without COVID, Trump probably would have won by a larger margin for sure. I wonder if the impeachment really hurt that much in that I am not sure that most people were paying much attention.
Lynne you maybe right about the impeachment. Republicans were hammered after there failed Clinton impeachment. Looks like only a 7 or 8 members loss for the Dems.
Seeing larger “Count all the Vote” marches happening in New York and Chicago.
JH,
Trump should not have been an anti masker. He should have tied wearing a mask to the economy. He should have vocally judged protests as possible super spreading events. He should have just worn a mask and encouraged people to wear masks.
I am still not convinced Trump has lost yet though. If he would have taken a more strategic approach to masking he would have won big, imo.
https://twitter.com/aoc/status/1158569576168402945?s=21
Trump could have won if he was not himself. Got it.
Not the lying, then, FF?
Your double standard is showing again.
Vague Guy,
I am not sure he lost yet. I also am not sure his masking choice encompasses the totality of who Trump is….
You never cease to amaze me Mr Vague! Every time you talk I swear to god I hear a fart noise. Fart brain.
People, imo, know what they are getting with Trump. He is a known bullshitter but you basically know what you are getting. Joe and Kamala are all over the place about their basic principles. So yeah. Trump’s bullshitting does not hurt him as much as Biden and Kamala’s bullshitting in my opinion. I gave my answer for what I thought was Trump’s greatest strategic mistake was because you asked. You are welcome. Feel free to disagree if you want….
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GyPJQaZtiKQ
Krystal Ball @krystalball
Fox News exits had 70% backing govt healthcare and big majorities for climate action. Florida passed $15 minimum wage with 60% of vote. Dems could have run on these things but instead they chose some vague sanctimonious soul of the nation bullshit.
With Trump you know you’re getting a constitutional criminal willing to deploy armed militia to undermine American democracy. And a lot of shit for brains traitors voted for that. They are still a threat for years to come. Liberals must keep getting gunned up, training, and being ready to defend democracy against those treasonous fools.
You can’t know what is not true, FJB.
You and the Dems are complicit in a 4 year treasonous coup attempt through your support of the Russia hoax and fake impeachment. So many slanders and lies from people like you FJB. You are not even capable to assess what you have done. No orientation to the truth.
We will not know for awhile who won this election. Even then, because it will be close, it will require concessions on one the sides. Your side set the groundwork for resistance and non acceptance of our democratic processes. You are the ones who have been promoting your civil war fantasies for 4 years.
#goofball
FJB,
It was my sincere hope that one side or the other would win big. It did not turn out that way unfortunately. If you are really interested in peace, a good first step would be for people like you to take inventory of your participation in Russia hoax and confess your sins. Wouldn’t that show good faith? In order to do it you need to learn to swallow truth. If you can’t do it then you are on a foundational level always already fighting in the civil war you claim to be reluctant about.
The election was not close. Biden beat Trump worse than Clinton beat him. Trumps attempts to obstruct the count and certification of the election is what LOSERS do. The last stand for institutional racism is at hand. The real battle is over the Senate. If the Dems can take one of the two seats in Georgia and North Carolina, Puerto Rico and DC become states, the ERA becomes law and the white supremist death cult days are history.
of course never under estimate the Democrats ability to fuck up things, ala 2000 and 2016.
It’s not close? Do you think Georgia, NC, Nevada, alaska are going Biden?
The election of the president is not close *if you redefine* how we elect presidents.
More than 157 million ballots were cast.
Biden received between 8 and 9 million more votes than Trump.
That’s considerable.
Biden’s policy platform is pretty developed and straight forward, whether or not you agree with it.
https://joebiden.com/joes-vision/#
What’s the GOP platform again? Oh that’s right they don’t have one. They have a person, Trump. Cult of Personality. The argument for tyrannical strongmen is as simplistic as your argument for Trump. In the end he’s implementing aggressively the dismantling of government and tightening borders. He’s a nativist. (That’s being kind) And if you like that, you like him. If you like that you have bought into a bunch of garbage blaming the marginalized for all social ills instead of the system. But that tribalism/othering is a well documented element of the slide to tyranny.
What Biden stands for is a return to core American principles rather than relying on core American failings (white supremacy, nativism, punitive, moralistic puritanism, and militarism) which, in essence, is what Trump stands for.
Seems pretty clear to me.
Did John Barr Warlord Jr do himself in? Squeezing himself into his body armor?
“People, imo, know what they are getting with Trump. He is a known bullshitter but you basically know what you are getting. Joe and Kamala are all over the place about their basic principles.”
You, my friend, are a fucking riot. You do know that Trump was a Democrat up until he decided to run for president, right?
Dems are the peace party now? Ok. Let’s see it.
Yeah, fuck off. Let’s hope Harris quickly takes over for an ailing Biden and starts gutting Republicans in the nastiest way possible.
I was talking about foreign war in response to Jean’s claim that Biden is against militarism.
You should team up with JB, Bob. You guys should just hit the streets to harass and perpetrate violence on Republicans. Why not? What is stopping you? You hope that other people do what you secretly desire to do right? Why not just try to do it yourself?
GA is becoming a closer race.
I do like the idea of a JB & Bob buddy movie. I’d go see that, or rent it on Netflix.
This new jovial, reach across the aisle direction doesn’t really suit you, FF. We already know what a rotten human you are.
I am not sure which is the bigger bullshit statement. That wobblie thinks it wasn’t guys like HIM who screwed our nation in 2000 and 2016 or that FF thinks that the impeachment and Russian interference were hoaxes. Sheesh.
In what way am I reaching across the aisle? I don’t get it. Because I expressed an anti-war opinion? Jesus man. Why do you think I liked Tulsi? She was the only one besides Trump who was courageous enough to speak out against the endless war scams. Being anti war scam is basic.
Seriously, why not hit the streets and try to do for yourself what you want other people to do?
Lynne,
We already know how you feel about theRussiahoax and impeachment. You have demonstrated many times how low info you are on those topics. I suspect you think knowing a few people in the state department who agree with you and Maddow — somehow magically makes your views credible. LOL
I know people who get paychecks too. You wouldn’t believe what some of those people have agreed *to not do* to keep earning those paychecks. Your people are still working for their checks though right? LOL.
#superduperdupedupers
Oh right. Liking Tulsi just makes you a traitor. My bad.
I think that having a guy like you, FF, think that my views are not credible is just fine. You simply are not in a position to judge anyone on issues of credibility. You have demonstrated over and over here that you will lie to yourself while accusing others liar any time they don’t agree with you.
It is true that I think people in the State Department and even Rachel Maddow know more about these things than you do. You only seem to believe Trump lies. I assume that like many white men it is because while he is lying to you about things like Russia and the impeachment and COVID, he is also lying to you that whiteness and maleness are superior to other states of being.
Black men voting for the Republican candidate:
2008, McCain, 5%
2012, Romney, 11%
2016, Trump, 13%
2020, Trump, 18%
Zapata County, Texas is the second most Hispanic county in America.
In 2012, Obama won it by 43 points.
In 2016, Hillary won it by 33 points.
In 2020, Biden lost it by 5 points.
Gravel Institute @GravelInstitute
Trump just won the highest share of non-white support of any Republican in 60 years. The Democratic Party is an absolute joke.
12:27 PM · Nov 4, 2020
“The ‘demographics are destiny’ argument has been blown apart. The party’s ethnic and sectarian coalition can’t be sustained simply by reliance on this kind of a strategy. IMO, the election in part reflected revulsion against identity politics and corrosive atomisation. PS I would add that the health authorities strategy to mitigate COVID-19 spread was blown apart the minute they began to differentiate between BLM marches (good) & other forms of public gatherings (bad). You can’t do that & make the claim that you’re just “following the science””
I honestly think that a lot of the support for Gabbard would have evaporated if she had found herself with a chance of winning. So much of her base was sexist men that I suspect that they were just supporting her so they could say that they would support a woman for president while never ever having to actually risk it! But I guess we will never really know.
The Republican Party has only won the popular vote once in the last 8 national elections. That was 2004 when they had to gin up a war in Iraq, and were still mobilizing us for more wars. I will give Trump credit for not doing what Bush did. That was the start of the Republican transformation into a death cult. Trump simply lacked the courage, integrity, and desire to do anything but magnify the Trump brand. He will go down in history as one of the weakest Presidents kinda on par with Buchanan or Ford. This will not be remembered as the Trump era, it will be the McConnell era. He set policy and determined what legislation happened and who got the tax cuts. If the Democrats fail to take control of the Senate, we are looking at 4 years like the last 6 of the Obama regime, lots of feel good (and some short term benefit) executive orders–but no progressive legislation. Time to start looking at which Senators are up for reelection in 2020.
Crises averted (yeah right), we can pretend the ice is not disappearing and that the US is an exceptional nation.
AG – I think these results will (hopefully) be a wake-up call to liberal white Americans that they aren’t dealing with homogeneous populations.
Wobblie, indeed. One thing I hope for but am not expecting is for Biden and our next Congress to work some on limiting the power of the presidential office. Next time we might not be so lucky and the shitty half of Americans like FF will elect someone just as evil but actually competent!
“It is true that I think people in the State Department and even Rachel Maddow know more about these things than you do.”—Cassandra
I believe you! I believe you! I believe you!
Note: It was not my theory that you simply believe THE PEOPLE in the state department—as if they are a monolith. It is my (now confirmed) theory that you believe the people in the State Department who you *happen* to know and who *happen* to align themselves with Maddow and yourself…I think it is interesting that I knew that about you even though you still don’t quite get it :)
“AG – I think these results will (hopefully) be a wake-up call to liberal white Americans that they aren’t dealing with homogeneous populations.”
I think someone hijacked Lynne’s account! Can siteadmin look into it?
Maybe it was Lynne? Maybe I misinterpreted her? Maybe she meant there are just more Uncle Toms than she thought? After all it is a term the White Princess has attached to black people—who had the audacity to disagree with the official White Princess viewpoint.
The total vote was actually over 159,800,000.
Biden didn’t do as well with Black and Hispanic men. Big deal. Like all black or Hispanic men are the same. And like it is the winning strategy to appeal to the maximum number of black men, Hispanic men, white men, or any specific racial, gender, or otherwise group identity demographic. What matters is appealing to a majority of the voters regardless of demographic markup of that majority.
“What matters is appealing to a majority of the voters regardless of demographic markup of that majority.“
That is the ideal, I think. It does not at all match up with the actual Dem strategy though does it? The strategy is identity politics all day, everyday.
Robeson County, NC precincts where Native Americans are a majority of voters:
2012
Obama – 59.4%
Romney – 39.2%
2020
Trump – 69.1%
Biden – 30.1%
https://twitter.com/Vinncent/status/1323957543002058752
Vincent Bevins @Vinncent
The loss of many Black and Latino voters to Donald Trump would be a pretty stunning repudiation of everything the Democratic Party establishment has claimed that it stands for since 2015
6:57 AM · Nov 4, 2020
Native Americans, as members of sovereign nations within our borders, are very very suspicious of big government. They have been predominantly GOP voters for a long time. That changed with Obama and it may change again with Biden if he establishes similar trust and actually solicits/listens to tribal policy priorities and concerns. Like Obama did.
I’m all for more minority dispersal among the parties, All parties should be vying for their vote by better serving them. It will only make our country and our parties stronger.
The Dem party needs to serve communities of. Olie not lean on them.
*color
Again, Annoying Gadfly, Biden has gotten the largest majority of the vote since 1900. I think Dems are doing just fine. It’s not bad news that our country is becoming more integrated in beliefs and viewpoints.
Trying to pigeonhole people of any race or ethnicity is antiquated thinking. Populations are becoming less homogenous. That’s not a bad thing. Getting support from a majority is a good thing. The more diverse te support for any particular candidate or viewpoint, is a good thing.
I said that wrong. Sorry. Biden got the majority in a vote which was the largest portion of the eligible vote since 1900. Please forgive me, my fellow maytards.
FF— militarism is different than fundamental support for military service and a non isolationist foreign policy. You love a dictionary. Look it up.
Trump is a militarist. A hard power only leader who loves a show of power and has almost completely dismantled US diplomatic capacity by gutting the State Dept. Biden is at heart a diplomat. Yes that makes him almost necessarily a moderate. It’s my belief that only a moderate had a chance to win this thing in the current fear-basted climate .
Here I did it for you:
“the tendency to regard military efficiency as the supreme ideal of the state and to subordinate all other interests to those of the military.“
Nice turnout. Hope it is legitimate. 89% in Wisconsin a realistic number for example?
Yay! John Barr Jr.’s back! We missed you, brutha.
Yeah, it’s so hard to believe 89%. 88% or 90%, sure. But 89%?! No fucking way.
I think there was a free cheese curds incentive
What do the numerologists say about the number 89? Maybe it’s satanic and a code being used to signal the vampires.
Wisconsin voter turnout jumped from 67% in 2016 to 89% in 2020.
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/nov/05/donald-trump-jr/no-wisconsin-voter-turnout-did-not-jump-67-2016-89/
Why haven’t you popped over to confront that person you think I am? You are just another pinhead internet pussy, correct?
No, Wisconsin voter turnout did not jump from 67% in 2016 to 89% in 2020
IF YOUR TIME IS SHORT
This claim is based on bad math, not reality.
Turnout is measured as a percentage of eligible voters, not registered voters.
Trump Jr.’s figures use eligible voters for the 2016 figure but registered voters for 2020.
Using the proper denominator for 2020 shows a turnout around 72%, firmly in the range of past presidential elections.
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/nov/05/donald-trump-jr/no-wisconsin-voter-turnout-did-not-jump-67-2016-89/
HW: “Why haven’t you popped over to confront that person you think I am? You are just another pinhead internet pussy, correct?”
Is that what he told you, lol.
That’s still very high. I hope there isn’t rampant fraud in several states. No phony or backdated ballots or anything.
Assuming you have not done that. If you did please tell.
What a pinhead. Damn.
HW: lAssuming you have not done that. If you did please tell.”
LOL
You were gone so long, we wondered if Bob put you in the hospital. I’ve been trying to get him to be nice to you. He doesn’t realize you’re special.
I’m iRobert and I live in a make believe bullshit world! If I keep saying something enough times it becomes true no matter how stupid it is! I spend my time yammering total bullshit at people online and I never stop thinking about it! I even dream about it every night!!! What bullshit can I say about HW today??? Yayyy MEEE!!!!
LOL
You better make sure he has a weapon if you want him to put me in the hospital. I don’t appreciate insinuations like that. It does show how ill you are though. It’s weird to talk to someone who actually has hate flowing their veins. You are preoccupied with thoughts of violence towards me.
We talked Bob down. He’s promised not to put you in the hospital. He didn’t realize you’re special. I think he understands now though, after that last few comments. We won’t have any violence or talk of violence here. We are all one big happy family here now. While you were away we went all kumbaya. Without you here there was a surge of good will.
The Wisconsin vote turn out between 2016 and 2020 is explained by the absence of a voter suppression effort by the State Government. I posted a link to Greg Palast and his work a while back. He explains it quite clearly. In 2016 the state purged 10 of thousands of minority voters from the polls. Thousands of “provisional” ballots were cast that were never counted because of this purge. The Democratic control of the AG and SOS offices meant that the partisan purge program the Republicans used with great effect in 2016 was ditched in favor of a much better program to identify dead and moved voters.
Trump/Kanye 2024
I expect Warlord will be very busy for the next few years as he battles every Trump family prosecution with the appropriate Q story. You should probably get some colored tabs or markers. It’s gonna be tough to keep it all straight. CMT will have the Trump family reality show by fall 2022. It’s the only way they stay out of the poorhouse. Like the Kardashians. Only stupider.
Trump is a marginal candidate in California–crushed two to one.
In California, Washington, Vermont, Mass. ,NJ, Maryland, and DC Trump went down by over 60%. They account for about 22% of the US population.
WV, Kentucky, Tenn, Alabama, Ark, Ok, SD, ND, Idaho, Wy, Alaska, Biden was beat by over 60%. These states account for 8%. Absent the winner take all Electoral College allocation of votes Trump would not be in contention. If states adopted the Maine, Nebraska, allocation of votes the death cult would be history.
Start the countin’! Stop the countin’!
With the nonsensical bullshit, he is a fountain
Like Stephen Miller he’s swastika mounting
I’m talking election
Liberal insurrection
Suppressing minority votes gives JB jr a little nubby erection
He’s down with Q
Misses the New Zoo Revue
The turnout in cheezeland is bullshit, can’t be true
He likes it white
Extreme right
Trying to lure men over under the pretense of a fight
Says he’s got guts
His mouth never shuts
He’s dropping Facebook science about Charlie Brown and Peanuts
Got his eye on antifa
Eats more meatloaf than Queen Latifah
He called up Comet takeout but all he got was pizza
Now he’s in the dump
Can’t manage a feeble sock pump
Looks like a fool cuz he promised four more years of Trump
You such an ass Jean. Why not just give a fuller explanation of your particular use of the term? Militarism, imo, often also implies the belief in the USE of the military to forward perceived interests. If you are using the term as way to distinguish Trump from others then that is odd because he is the first president in a while to not enter us into a war.
Your definition is more narrow than most dictionaries and imo opinion more narrow than everyday usage. Look at other dictionaries. Look at Wikipedia…
The reason I make fun of you for saying you don’t like dictionaries is because you also rely on them in your bullshitty arguments. Think about it. When is the last time I quoted a dictionary? But you do it a lot….
There might be a discrepancy, at any given time, between what I think Jean means and what Jean means. That discrepancy is not solved by pointing at an overly narrow definition. It is solved by a bit more conversation—jackass.
HW: “I live in a make believe bullshit world! If I keep saying something enough times it becomes true no matter how stupid it is! I spend my time yammering total bullshit at people online and I never stop thinking about it!”
Well said. Seriously this is Trump’s playbook and you prove he is correct!
FF, being a dolt it took me awhile to figure out I was wrong to give Trump credit for not starting a war. After reflection on the past year, he did everything he could to provoke the Iranians into a shooting war. The assassination of Suileman almost got the shooting war he wanted. It may very well be impeachment saved us, that and some restraint by the Iranians.
more good news. Neither Republican Senate candidate achieved the 50% of the vote necessary to avoid a January runoff election. I always wanted to move south. Now would be a great time.
Jan. 5 – Federal races (Voter registration deadline: Dec. 7)
Luzerne County resident facing voter fraud charges after accusations of submitting absentee ballot application for deceased mother
https://fox8.com/news/luzerne-county-resident-facing-voter-fraud-charges-after-accusations-of-submitting-absentee-ballot-application-for-deceased-mother/
(From Fox 8)
This guy in Pennsylvania attempted to cast a ballot in the name of his deceased mother. He could get 5 years in prison.
Ff— That was so cool the way Trump defunded the military because he’s not a militarist right?
PS I use dictionary definitions with you because you believe they are incontrovertible. At least when it supports your POV.
I’m happy to never use them again. If ppl can’t agree on the meaning of a term, there’s no sense making any kind of argument around it, is there? It’s irresolvable.
The definition I supplied for militarism makes my statement accurate.
You asked me to flesh out my meaning, FF, and I did and then you called me an ass for answering your comment. Fuck off. You are a waste of time.
JH,
You are really bad at identifying issues and points of agreement. An aspect of militarism is funding the military—duh. Another aspect is using the military to further perceived interests—duh. I disagree that the administration Biden was a part, 4 years ago, can be a point of distinction between the Trump administration because Obama/Biden did heavily find the military and did enter into additional foreign conflicts. Trump heavily funded the military but started zero new wars.
Learn how to think!
“PS I use dictionary definitions with you because you believe they are incontrovertible.”
No Jean. You misuse dictionaries with me because you think I think dictionaries are incontrovertible. It’s just another stupid thing that landed in your head a long time ago. You are an extremely rigid thinker. The weird ideas that land in your head control your thoughts. I know you think you are being clever and cute but it just comes across as very weird, imo.
“The definition I supplied for militarism makes my statement accurate.”
With your narrow definition all of our presidents have been more or less committed to militarism. Using your definition loses the point of distinction.
Ps it is such a weird thing for you to say about a definition especially since you are the one who always criticized others for loving dictionaries. I honestly have always just found your weird anti-dictionary stance weird. Not because I heart dictionaries but because you are the one who often misused them to support/defend your weird commentary.
I remember people claiming that Obama/Biden were in favor of using militarism to engage in foreign conflict while simultaneously in favor of UNDER funding the military to the point of endangering soldiers needlessly.
Assuming that complaint was valid: Where would that fall on your “militarism” scale, Jean?
“You asked me to flesh out my meaning, FF, and I did”
I don’t think you fleshed our meaning. You defended your empty statement with an overly narrow dictionary definition. FF loves dictionaries though?
You are a weirdo.