The Politics Thread

[Vee]

A reporting error has led AZ to drop back to 86% reporting. I think Biden will still take it though.

 

Meanwhile:

 

 

 

[DRW50]

Republicans are claiming they will win Arizona by 10-30K. Hopefully that isn't the case, although they seemed to be right yesterday about GA (not done yet I know), NC and FL, so I can't write them off, much as I want to...

[Vee]

From the mouths of scum:

 

 

[Soapsuds]

Lolololololol

[Faulkner]

Looks like all the big AZ counties with under 90% reporting are strong for Biden.

[YRBB]

This is nerve wracking. I don't want to have hope, but I do.

[Vee]

LOL:

 

 

[Taoboi]

+1

[Soapsuds]

 

 

[Vee]

 

 

[Khan]

nm

Edited November 4, 2020 by Khan

[marceline]

What's amazing is that the Republicans lost the House in a wave in 2018, we're about to make Trump a one-term president with Obama's VP and the GOP still could lose the Senate yet Democrats are acting like we lost. It shows how many Democrats have internalized GOP talking points and gaslighting.

[Vee]

 

 

It's so fùcking tiresome. Of course, I'm not thrilled about the numbers or possibly not taking the Senate, but a win is a win. When Bush won by tiny margins or lost the Senate he still strutted around like Long Dong Silver calling himself a huge victor and the media believed it. That's how Dems have to learn to operate. Stop soul-searching, handwringing and weeping and do the work.

 

This isn't news to most of us, but I've had to say it more than once over the last 12 hours: America has always had this terrible side to it. It rose to the fore when it elected a Black man. For a lot of white people that caused a massive nervous breakdown; Trump was the racist id comfort food for so many of them, or for people just seeking the comfort of traditional masculine/heterosexual/etc. norms.

 

What we do now is dust ourselves off and push forward. Without Trump in the spotlight, that enabled aspect of the culture over the last four years will begin to wilt IMO, lacking a charismatic figurehead and in the face of inevitable cultural future progress. But it's still going to be a long rehabilitation and a long reckoning. America is a multi-century project. And it would've been even if this wasn't close. We weren't going to sweep away the shadow side of America overnight or in one cycle. We never have. But if we cut off the head of this disgusting fúcking filth, we have come that much closer to beginning to drag the worst of this country back towards something more sane. And tired or not, that is what we are going to have to do and what we can do.

 

Allegedly:

 

 

[Soapsuds]

There is an actual hurricane headed Miami way....the irony.....lol

[Vee]

 

This one's for you, @DRW50