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  • dissonance
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    How long before twatter blocks his account

    Unlikely to happen until he is no longer president since he uses it as the presidental account. Once that is lost given how many times he breaches standards hopefully he will vanish.

    Was she a plant or a hat stand?

    Libertarians contest pretty much every election and they are fruitcakes. Basically full blown deregulate everything.
    Wonder if they did better than 2016 overall which was their best effort to date.

    white101
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    This Director of National Intelligence position is a bit of an oxymoron

    P-Jay
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    Georgia saying they’ve got about 50k votes left the count, they’re all postal votes and… at the moment at least they’re averaging 9 votes fro Biden for every Vote for trump. If that trend continues it’s 45k Votes for Biden, 5k for Trump.

    Trump currently has a 18k vote lead.

    They’re counting about 3000 votes an hour at the moment, and with neither likely to get a meaningful lead (relative to the 5m votes cast) it’s going to be about 16 hours.

    I’m going to need a drink after this.

    kimbers
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    igm
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    The far right frequently claim to be the normal moderate ones.

    PS even Democrats are right wing by UK standards

    5thElefant
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    didnt 5thelephant say that republicans would just accept the result & carry on as normal?

    If they start shooting I’ll express surprise. Bigly.

    cookeaa
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    I think there’s been some confusion

    Trump’s “STOP THE COUNT!” tweet was actually aimed at this guy:

    He finds him quite scary…

    theotherjonv
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    If they start shooting I’ll express surprise. Bigly.

    It doesn’t take ‘they’ – it only takes one person, the rest don’t know where the firing came from and start firing back and you have a massacre potential.

    GrahamS
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    How long before twatter blocks his account

    They won’t – but they have been putting various content warnings on loads of his recent posts.

    GrahamS
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    Good quick summary:

    grum
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    If they start shooting I’ll express surprise

    Yeah since when did right wing extremists ever hurt anyone?

    https://time.com/5647304/white-nationalist-terrorism-united-states/

    mrmonkfinger
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    I don’t know, maybe it’s optimism, but I get a feeling the GOP are ready to accept defeat, even if Trump isn’t.

    All about distance. My moneys on the party suddenly discovering just how bad he was all along, right about the time it becomes apparent he ain’t getting back in.

    frankconway
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    Latest from Georgia…

    Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger just said the state had about 90,000 ballots to go by last night, but by this morning there were just around 25,000 ballots left to be counted.

    Speaking to WSB-TV in Atlanta, Raffensperger said: “We should be done no later than noon-time today.” That’s 17:00 GMT.

    Fulton County, home of Atlanta, is expected to conclude counting in the next hour, he said.

    Biden is behind by about 18,000 votes in Georgia, according to the latest estimates.

    If Biden takes Georgia on first count, a recount is guaranteed given the miniscule margin.

    frankconway
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    monkfinger – McConnell has everything he wanted from trump…SC majority and c400 GOP judicial appointments so the orange one has outlived his usefulness from a purely political perspective.
    Note that McConnell has also been clear that all votes will be counted.

    jimdubleyou
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    slowoldman
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    What is it with counting in America? Do they not learn how to do it in school?

    BoardinBob
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    How long before twatter blocks his account

    They won’t – but they have been putting various content warnings on loads of his recent posts.

    When Biden takes over and gets the POTUS account, do they delete all of the Donald’s historic rants?

    it’s shame if that is all lost. It should be preserved as a warning to future generations.

    theotherjonv
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    I just watched a Georgia press conference on CNN where the official (not sure who) called out the remaining votes to be counted as ca 60K (61367), calling them by county.

    Lots were in the urban Atlanta areas where Biden is getting >75% and possibly more once you count the increased % by post. Trump leads by 18K

    The 30K surplus that Biden could get if the 60K remaining split 75:25 would give him a 12K win. But: not all were from the urban areas, then again it was >75% in those areas, add the favouring of postal votes and that’s a fair margin of 12K to play with.

    I reckon Biden will get Georgia on that BOTE calc.

    [edit – that bloke on the Guardian live feed – a spokesman for Raffensperger]

    kimbers
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    I don’t know, maybe it’s optimism, but I get a feeling the GOP are ready to accept defeat, even if Trump isn’t.

    a lot of them always hated him anyway

    I think theyll be relieved when they no longer have to defend his batshit nonsense

    Nick
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    I think theyll be relieved when they no longer have to defend his batshit nonsense

    Consolation prize only, they would much rather win and will go along with his batshit and lying to win

    john_l
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    Did I imagine it, or did Guilliani suggest that he wanted to see how many mail votes had been cast by people that had since died?

    PrinceJohn
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    Apparently Biden is 30000 votes behind in Georgia with 60000 to count

    cromolyolly
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    Here is the thing about any potential Supreme Court challenge. Trump is a transactionalist. Everything is viewed as its own deal. He put 3 judges on the court therefore those 3 judges will side with him.
    While his appointments get all flushed and sweaty at the prospect of leading us all into Gilead, they are all literalists when it comes to the constitution. They don’t believe it should be interpreted or updated. Just read. That is really bad news for Trump if he challenges the election. They probably won’t go the way he’s betting they will.

    BoardinBob
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    Did I imagine it, or did Guilliani suggest that he wanted to see how many mail votes had been cast by people that had since died?

    The latest republican conspiracy

    Footage on twitter of folk going onto some US website and putting in details of people born in 1900 and it’s showing that they’ve voted in this election. Shows that their ballot has been recorded.

    theotherjonv
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    Apparently Biden is 30000 votes behind in Georgia with 60000 to count

    CNN and Guardian say 18K with 60K to count

    GrahamS
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    When Biden takes over and gets the POTUS account, do they delete all of the Donald’s historic rants?

    As I understand it all posts on the official POTUS account are saved for the National Archive.

    But Trump doesn’t use the official @POTUS account for his rants, he uses his personal @realDonaldTrump so who knows. I imagine they are historically significant enough that they should be saved, if only as a warning to future generations.

    fingerbang
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    Guiliani “put down your CHRAM!”

    “I will let you enjoy my chram in your mouth”

    cromolyolly
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    Did I imagine it, or did Guilliani suggest that he wanted to see how many mail votes had been cast by people that had since died?

    There have been issues with dead people voting. People that were dead before the election. Not people who voted and then died.

    Oddly though, that often helps the republicans.

    Jolsa
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    Apparently Biden is 30000 votes behind in Georgia with 60000 to count

    30k behind? Guardian goes with 18k:

    A spokesperson for Georgia secretary of state Brad Raffensperger expressed hope that the state would know the winner of its electoral votes by the end of the day.

    “I am prayerful that we could get to a resolution by the end of the day today,” the spokesperson said.

    There are about 60,000 votes left to be counted, according to the secretary of state, and Donald Trump leads by about 18,000 votes, or 0.4% of the total count.

    sharkbait
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    How the hell can his face be this colour yet around his ears is completely different!!

    GrahamS
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    they are all literalists when it comes to the constitution. They don’t believe it should be interpreted or updated.

    Quite right.

    If it was meant to be updated then it would end up as a big list of Amendments…

    frankconway
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    jonv – if the winning margin in Georgia is less than 0.5% either candidate can request a recount.
    In numbers that means Biden needs a margin of at least 25,000.

    Houns
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    How the hell can his face be this colour yet around his ears is completely different!!

    His mouth, hands, eyes, and I suppose ears are where he washes and the tango tan comes off on his towel

    GrahamS
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    How the hell can his face be this colour yet around his ears is completely different!!

    It’s a strangely familiar shade…

    cromolyolly
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    Amendments are made by know-nothing politicians. They should leave it to the know everything judges, who know exactly what the founding fathers meant, having a direct line through Jesus/a snake/their dead spaniel to their spirits.

    theotherjonv
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    as the press conference guy said, it would be nice to be fast but it’s more important to be accurate. 12K is still a substantial margin of error even if recounted, and the impression given that they are counting properly enough that they won’t have made a 12K error.

    pondo
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    … if the winning margin in Georgia is less than 0.5% either candidate can request a recount.
    In numbers that means Biden needs a margin of at least 25,000.

    If the recount returns the same count, that must stand, shirley?

    cromolyolly
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    If the recount returns the same count, that must stand, shirley?

    That’s when they challenge the method, election rules etc. The 2000 Florida election wasn’t won in court in the actual count, it was an argument about deadlines and procedures etc. They actually did not count all the votes cast in that election b/c the court ruled they couldn’t b/c the procedures were wrong.

    P-Jay
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    How the hell can his face be this colour yet around his ears is completely different!!

    Side point, if you use photoshop or the like to give him a human skin tone and remove his erm… comb-over / wig, you get Alf Stewart from Home and Away, honestly it’s uncanny.

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