Biden cements victory by flipping Arizona, as Trump keeps transition in limbo

[fangless]

2 hours ago, ExpatOK said:

 

 

 

Guys, next election have your candidate read the Constitution.

Ok but can your "candidate" (ex President elect) actually read anything?

[Lacessit]

Trump called Biden the worst Presidential candidate in America's history, then was soundly beaten by him in the popular vote, 50.9% to Trump's 47.5%. That makes it even more galling for Trump.

Trump's words are coming back to haunt him, Meghan McCain's crack about losing Arizona is another example. I'm wondering how many more there will be.

While it's not deemed sporting to kick a man when he is down, IMO many people are making an exception for Trump, mainly because he has been such an a##ehole previously. Som nam na.

[fangless]

3 minutes ago, Lacessit said:

While it's not deemed sporting to kick a man when he is down, IMO many people are making an exception for Trump, mainly because he has been such a

absolute idiot that you must keep him down for ever.  Do not allow DT any shot at another term and the way he is going he is shooting both himself, and  his family in the foot (mouth) of any chance they possibly had of that run with this spoilt brat behaviour!

[ChouDoufu]

19 minutes ago, fangless said:

absolute idiot that you must keep him down for ever.  Do not allow DT any shot at another term and the way he is going he is shooting both himself, and  his family in the foot (mouth) of any chance they possibly had of that run with this spoilt brat behaviour!

 

no need to worry.  he doesn't WANT another term.  jinkies, he didn't even want this term!  his running last time was just an exercise in publicity for his "brand." 

 

right now he's prepping for life after the white house.  setting up superpacs to collect donations to funnel off to pay his debts, campaign of course, legal bills, possible other debts as well.  porn stars are expensive.  depends on how the organizations are structured.

 

he's also hitting out at fox news, trying to destroy their brand, and will miraculously come up with a new streaming alternate (reality) news service ready to hit the interwaves at the end of january.

 

remote podcasting from sing-sing is a thing.

[Jingthing]

55 minutes ago, katatonic said:

 

Not my candidate (not American) but that is hardly relevant. Trump is political history.

 

He actually isn't. Yes he will no longer be president but its clear he still intends to continue to control the republican party and it appears so far that the republicans will go along with that. The power of his base. Of course if he is convicted and incarcerated it might become harder for him.

[Phoenix Rising]

6 minutes ago, Jingthing said:

He actually isn't. Yes he will no longer be president but its clear he still intends to continue to control the republican party and it appears so far that the republicans will go along with that. The power of his base. Of course if he is convicted and incarcerated it might become harder for him.

I'm not so sure, not with that base.

[Susco]

11 minutes ago, Jingthing said:

He actually isn't. Yes he will no longer be president but its clear he still intends to continue to control the republican party and it appears so far that the republicans will go along with that. The power of his base. Of course if he is convicted and incarcerated it might become harder for him.

 

Why he has so much power in the party. Before he was elected, he had to self finance 2 of his campaigns, which to me sounds as he was a nothing burger.

[Tug]

1 hour ago, Chomper Higgot said:

And have your candidate defend it.

 

1 hour ago, Chomper Higgot said:

And have your candidate defend it.

And abide by it that’s what makes trump so dangerous also his compleat lack of honor/morals/integrity/class.it also in the case of Arizona it’s gotta sting to be bested by a dead guy,even in death McCain continues to give to his country thankyou to the McCain familie

[animalmagic]

14 hours ago, placeholder said:

If you think that the Constitution has some specific bearing on this issue, then it's clear you haven't read the Constitution.

To be fair it looks like 45 hasn't either.

[mtls2005]

Arizona and Georgia.

 

Massive (quoting trump from 2016) victory for President-elect Joe Biden.

 

Electoral College, total, percentage, popular vote difference. People are saying this was a massive victory.

 

And a crushing defeat for trump.

 

Now we expect trump to pull himself up by his bootstraps and continue to fulfill his oath of office. 

 

Just kidding.

 

 

[Lacessit]

Biden is now bringing in his own national security experts, as Trump continues to deny him access to intelligence briefings.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-11-14/joe-biden-denied-classified-briefings-brings-in-security-experts/12884046

 

Meantime, the Secret Service won't say how many of their staff are infected with coronavirus, arising from their duties at Trump's political rallies.

 

More than 130 US Secret Service officers assigned to protect President Donald Trump have been sidelined by COVID-19, the Washington Post reported on Friday as the novel coronavirus outbreak spread at the White House. 

 

A US government source familiar with the situation confirmed that numerous Secret Service officers had gone into quarantine but did not provide a specific number. Not all those in quarantine had tested positive for COVID-19, the source said. 

 

The Post did not say how many officers tested positive for the virus versus those who had to isolate because of close contact with an infected co-worker. It said about 10 per cent  of the core security team had been sidelined. 

 

When Trump is finally winkled out of the White House, IMO handcuffs or a straitjacket are good options.

[Scott]

Troll post removed.

 

[mtls2005]

30 minutes ago, Lacessit said:

More than 130 US Secret Service officers assigned to protect President Donald Trump have been sidelined by COVID-19, the Washington Post reported on Friday as the novel coronavirus outbreak spread at the White House. 

 

This is staggering.

 

Hopefully all, and their families, make full recoveries.

 

Will be interesting to see which trump family members continue to get Secret Service protection after Jan 20, 2021.

[BobBKK]

It was close 73m vs 77m and both candidates increased their vote by many millions. Biden won and I'm sure another week or so that will be over and, as Gore did after 4 weeks, he will concede. 

[placeholder]

9 minutes ago, BobBKK said:

It was close 73m vs 77m and both candidates increased their vote by many millions. Biden won and I'm sure another week or so that will be over and, as Gore did after 4 weeks, he will concede. 

Nice try. Likening Gore vs. Bush to Trump vs. Sanity is nonsense.

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[Lacessit]

12 minutes ago, BobBKK said:

It was close 73m vs 77m and both candidates increased their vote by many millions. Biden won and I'm sure another week or so that will be over and, as Gore did after 4 weeks, he will concede. 

Latest figures are Biden 78,114,012 votes ( 50.9% ) and Trump 72,741,893 ( 47.4% ). You're a mere million votes out. Biden's vote is increasing as later votes come in.

Your second sentence is ambiguous, who will concede? If it's Trump, welcome back to the real world. Otherwise, continue fantasizing.

[placeholder]

7 minutes ago, vandeventer said:

If Biden wins the election, Please tell me in 6 months time how extremely happy you all are!

Happier than we would be if Trump hadn't lost.

[Throatwobbler]

10 minutes ago, vandeventer said:

If Biden wins the election, Please tell me in 6 months time how extremely happy you all are!

Ok no problem.

[Salerno]

14 minutes ago, vandeventer said:

If Biden wins the election

 

In the real world he already has; and the world is rejoicing.

[BobBKK]

37 minutes ago, Lacessit said:

Latest figures are Biden 78,114,012 votes ( 50.9% ) and Trump 72,741,893 ( 47.4% ). You're a mere million votes out. Biden's vote is increasing as later votes come in.

Your second sentence is ambiguous, who will concede? If it's Trump, welcome back to the real world. Otherwise, continue fantasizing.

"as later votes come in" says it all - the election should be closed - it's over not keep counting to get your figures up

ok so now it's 73 vs 78 both increasing their votes by many millions - no landslide, no blue wave (no senate) but a win I agree.

[BobBKK]

3 minutes ago, Salerno said:

 

In the real world he already has; and the world is rejoicing.

 nah YOU are rejoicing but 73m Americans are not and until you win them back, if that were possible, the pendulum will swing again 2024 or 2028 but swing it WILL

[PaoloR]

17 minutes ago, vandeventer said:

If Biden wins the election, Please tell me in 6 months time how extremely happy you all are!

Sadly very few will be happy as Biden will have to clean up the absolute sh** show that Donny has left behind - Corona virus, Climate change, Distrust of Government, Racial tensions - just to name a few. His supposed efforts to Make America Great Again have had entirely the opposite effect and have left the USA with greatly diminished standing throughout the world (save of course in key dictatorships!)

[placeholder]

16 minutes ago, BobBKK said:

"as later votes come in" says it all - the election should be closed - it's over not keep counting to get your figures up

ok so now it's 73 vs 78 both increasing their votes by many millions - no landslide, no blue wave (no senate) but a win I agree.

I got some exciting news for you. Most if not all states are legally required to keep counting until all the votes are tallied. It's always been that way.

Edited November 14, 2020 by placeholder

[stevenl]

11 minutes ago, BobBKK said:

"as later votes come in" says it all - the election should be closed - it's over not keep counting to get your figures up

ok so now it's 73 vs 78 both increasing their votes by many millions - no landslide, no blue wave (no senate) but a win I agree.

According to Trump it is a landslide, see his words in 2016.

Legitimate votes should be counted.

[Lacessit]

12 minutes ago, BobBKK said:

 nah YOU are rejoicing but 73m Americans are not and until you win them back, if that were possible, the pendulum will swing again 2024 or 2028 but swing it WILL

You're probably right, swings in politics are part and parcel of government.

I would hope the next time around, the Republicans will have the sense to pick a candidate who is not a sociopathic, narcissistic bully. Whose sole debating weapon is demeaning people who disagree with him. Who lies for practice. Otherwise, Santayana's aphorism about history will be revisited.

[Lacessit]

23 minutes ago, BobBKK said:

"as later votes come in" says it all - the election should be closed - it's over not keep counting to get your figures up

ok so now it's 73 vs 78 both increasing their votes by many millions - no landslide, no blue wave (no senate) but a win I agree.

Trump claimed his win in 2016 with 306 electoral college votes and a minority popular vote was a landslide. Biden has the same 306 votes, plus the majority popular vote by a margin of more than 5 million. Seems to me you have doublethink going at full throttle.

[placeholder]

31 minutes ago, BobBKK said:

"as later votes come in" says it all - the election should be closed - it's over not keep counting to get your figures up

Because it's not the case that every vote counts?

[placeholder]

35 minutes ago, BobBKK said:

ok so now it's 73 vs 78 both increasing their votes by many millions - no landslide, no blue wave (no senate) but a win I agree.

Democrats will get a lot more of the remaining votes than will Republicans.

Edited November 14, 2020 by placeholder

[ChouDoufu]

33 minutes ago, BobBKK said:

"as later votes come in" says it all - the election should be closed - it's over not keep counting to get your figures up

ok so now it's 73 vs 78 both increasing their votes by many millions - no landslide, no blue wave (no senate) but a win I agree.

 

not keep counting?  sez who?

 

elections are managed according to state, not federal, laws.  each state sets it's own time constraints for receiving ballots.

 

some require domestic mail-in ballots be received by election day, others accept up to a week later if postmarked by election day.

 

military ballots are usually accepted up to a week later.

 

provisional ballots require data look up and investigation which takes time.

 

millions of mail-in ballots must be counted.  in pennsylvania, the republicans prevented pre-canvassing of these ballots, meaning they could not begin sorting and opening the envelopes until after the polls closed.

 

states have until december 14 to certify their votes.

[Phoenix Rising]

3 hours ago, mtls2005 said:

 

This is staggering.

 

Hopefully all, and their families, make full recoveries.

 

Will be interesting to see which trump family members continue to get Secret Service protection after Jan 20, 2021.

Quite a lot of them I would think and that's why I suggest that in order to save taxpayers' money they all be incarcerated in the same detention facility.

Edited November 14, 2020 by Phoenix Rising