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#11561 Mentalist

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Posted 04 November 2020 - 05:18 AM

Azath Vitr (D, on 04 November 2020 - 05:09 AM, said:

Cause, on 04 November 2020 - 05:05 AM, said:

Despite all the mail in ballots and talk of delayed results pretty much everything is getting called fairly early.

Why does everyone think pensylvania especially will take so long?

Still a large number (more than 2 million) mail-in ballots to count.

Republican state legislature refused to allow them to start counting mail-in ballots before election day.

That will only really matter if at least some other states flip, though.

right now Biden's leading in Arizona and Maine if those get called he's got 238. even with Pennsylvania that's 258.

If Trump holds his lead in the Rust Belt, and the South, then it's not looking good.

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Jump Around, on 23 October 2011 - 11:04 AM, said:

And I want to state that Ment has out-weaseled me by far in this game.

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Posted 04 November 2020 - 05:23 AM

Not over yet

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Posted 04 November 2020 - 05:36 AM

BBC reporting Biden leading but that means little at this point of course.

This was a bad night for my night shift to be very quiet. I've been constantly checking stuff and going to bed in a couple of hours won't be easy I expect.

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#11564 Mentalist

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Posted 04 November 2020 - 05:40 AM

Florida called for Trump. ugh.

Gonna go to bed. Hopefully I wake up to decent news.

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Jump Around, on 23 October 2011 - 11:04 AM, said:

And I want to state that Ment has out-weaseled me by far in this game.

#11565 Azath Vitr (D'ivers

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Posted 04 November 2020 - 06:03 AM

Seems Trump's started tweeting:

'Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump

Some or all of the content shared in this Tweet is disputed and might be misleading about an election or other civic process. Learn more

We are up BIG, but they are trying to STEAL the Election. We will never let them do it. Votes cannot be cast after the Polls are closed!

12:49 AM · Nov 4'

[Edit: And there it is:

Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump

I will be making a statement tonight. A big WIN!

12:45 AM · Nov 4, 2020

... he couldn't wait until 3 AM....]

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Posted 04 November 2020 - 06:12 AM

Man I started the day being so hopeful and then Florida struck.

Who else is at the "screaming profanities into the air" portion of their evening?

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Posted 04 November 2020 - 06:13 AM

Urgh no landslide then.

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Posted 04 November 2020 - 06:29 AM

This is 2020. I think we know where this is going.

Fingers crossed for postal votes.

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Posted 04 November 2020 - 07:09 AM

EmperorMagus, on 04 November 2020 - 06:12 AM, said:

Man I started the day being so hopeful and then Florida struck.

Who else is at the "screaming profanities into the air" portion of their evening?

It's closer than I would have liked, but Trump was expected to win Florida and Ohio and Texas and no one should have been pinning their hopes on those states. Biden has flipped NE-2 and Fox has already called Arizona for Biden, too, which is also a flip. NYT is giving Biden a 64% chance to win Georgia at this moment. Those are all good signs. The bad news is that it's mostly down to the states that we knew it would be down to, which likely won't be fully tallied tonight/this morning: WI, MI, and PA.

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There it is.

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Posted 04 November 2020 - 07:35 AM

Christ this speech.

And beyond the content I still cannot understand how people can listen to this guy speak and think "that's who I want in the white house".

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Grief, FFS will you do something with your sig, it's bloody awful

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Posted 04 November 2020 - 07:36 AM

Hasn't bellend just announced that's he's got PA at his dumb little press conference? Admittedly I'm extremely tired now so I may have missed what he actually said...

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Posted 04 November 2020 - 07:37 AM

Grief, on 04 November 2020 - 07:35 AM, said:

Christ this speech.

And beyond the content I still cannot understand how people can listen to this guy speak and think "that's who I want in the white house".

Bunch of morons looked at the chief of morons and went "yeah he's just like me"

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Posted 04 November 2020 - 07:38 AM

Tiste Simeon, on 04 November 2020 - 07:36 AM, said:

Hasn't bellend just announced that's he's got PA at his dumb little press conference? Admittedly I'm extremely tired now so I may have missed what he actually said...

Yeah he claimed victory, and he wants them to stop counting in states where he's ahead, and keep counting in states where he's behind. He's buttmad at Fox for calling Arizona for Biden. Gotta keep counting there! But shut it down in PA where millions of mail-in votes haven't been counted yet.

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Please proceed, Governor.

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There it is.

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Posted 04 November 2020 - 07:47 AM

He just literally said to please recount the votes where he is behind and stop counting where he is ahead. This is entering full-blown 1984 territory. What the hell happened to the US?

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Posted 04 November 2020 - 08:03 AM

Gorefest, on 04 November 2020 - 07:47 AM, said:

He just literally said to please recount the votes where he is behind and stop counting where he is ahead. This is entering full-blown 1984 territory. What the hell happened to the US?

It's the fact all this sort of behaviour seems to be largely hand-waved that gets me.

Also, just watched a clip of Bernie Sanders predicting exactly this to the letter. It's almost like this is the sort of behaviour a rational person would expect of a spoiled child elected to office.

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Posted 04 November 2020 - 08:28 AM

Think it's time for my cousin's to get out their Irish passports and get the fuck out of dodge

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Posted 04 November 2020 - 08:30 AM

TheRetiredBridgeburner, on 04 November 2020 - 08:03 AM, said:

Also, just watched a clip of Bernie Sanders predicting exactly this to the letter. It's almost like this is the sort of behaviour a rational person would expect of a spoiled child elected to office.

I've seen that video going around and wondering if people just really don't know that Bernie was just saying the same thing literally every other seasoned election commentator has been saying aside from Trump nuts? One of the weirdest things on my Twitter tonight.

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Please proceed, Governor.

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There it is.

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Posted 04 November 2020 - 08:46 AM

Macros, on 04 November 2020 - 08:28 AM, said:

Think it's time for my cousin's to get out their Irish passports and get the fuck out of dodge

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Posted 04 November 2020 - 08:47 AM

We don't have a spare room any more but I'm sure we could manage something for you guys who want to emigrate if the worst happens.

I simply cannot believe how anyone in the USA who isn't white and rich could want to vote for this fucktard.
I just don't get so-called "Christians" voting for someone who pretty much stands for everything they are (supposed to be) opposed to.

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