U.S. Presidential Election 2020

Can I pretend that God is speaking directly through me too every time something I don’t like happens?

As long as you role up your sleeves and pull your best eyes closed serious face then go for it.

Well I found Deadly 🙂

I’m assuming God won’t take too long to get here?

I say Biden gives Him half an hour and if He is a no-show then we call the election done.

After randi reed’s word soup, here’s how to communicate – John McCain’s concession speech; compare and contrast with the vitriolic, poisonous message which trump will emit.

Well I found Deadly

I don’t really do the anonymity thing very well. 😀

If you find a deadlydarcy anywhere on the webernet, it’s likely to be me. Apart from a few profiles on swingers’ sites.

Another one for @Drac in case he missed it earlier:
https://twitter.com/miffythegamer/status/1324368231491096576?s=21

This one is **** awesome!

@DD: brilliant!

I absolutely laughed from the bottom of my stomach when I watched that cat thing. Think it’s captured the moment purrfectly.

That Emily Maitlis interview with Randi Reed on that link is infuriating.

I love the utter contempt that Emily shows.

What is quite surprising to me, and indeed scary, is how what Rani says seems to be quite true and reasonable on the surface. If you give it more that a nonoseconds thought you realise she’s talking complete shite, but on the face of it the way she presents it is surprisingly persuasive. I’m not surprised that a lot of scum are taken in by it.

Another

Couldn't stop watching this dude daundering about behind the president's spiritual adviser Paula White pic.twitter.com/tVwH5pj00z

— Sarah Mackie (@lumi_1984) November 5, 2020

Despite the big numbers being swung around, turn out was still 67%. A third of the electorate couldn’t be **** arsed. 😐

deadlydarcy
Free Member

Despite the big numbers being swung around, turn out was still 67%. A third of the electorate couldn’t be **** arsed. 😐

Or were effectively deterred by decades of (actual) gerrymandering and vote suppression by the republican party. Remember, because of the electoral college and winner-takes-all system, just like in the UK there’s a huge percentage of people whose votes are fundamentally worthless. It really doesn’t take much to deter someone who knows that from voting- you might queue for 12 hours in inner city Atlanta but would you in Alaska?

The irony is that voter suppression works best in the states that aren’t really in play, of course.

P-Jay
Full Member

Fox News, a very Republican News Outlet is being far more confident of a Biden lead than CNN or New York Times. They already have Biden at 264 with Michigan and Arizona blue, and saying things like “Biden is close to being on his way to the White House”.

I think, basically, that CNN have nothing to gain by calling early, and something to lose. Whereas for Fox, getting off the Trump train is a titanic job if they want to do it, and probably best started early. But very definitely they either need to avoid getting dragged into the endless war on democracy that threatens, or they need to go all in, and they need to decide that right now not in a few days time because then it’ll be in full roll.

P-Jay
Full Member

The Beeb just had a member of Trumps staff on. Quite measured for. Trump staffer, saying things like “he just wants all legal votes counted” etc.

Which would be fine, if it weren’t a massive blatant lie. The measured ones are worse than the overt lunatics.

iolo
Free Member

His spiritual advisor is preying for him.

She’s always good value, I like when she speaks in tongues. But she just tweeted “stop worrying over what went wrong and thank God for what went right”. Looks like even professional christians-for-hire can see the writing for the wall.

frankconway
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After randi reed’s word soup, here’s how to communicate – John McCain’s concession speech;

Forget the speech, McCain worked directly with Obama after the election to aid the transition, and not only that but defended Obama throughout the years that followed. Basically because you can, still, be a conservative but not an absolute thunder****, if you just try a little bit.

McCain’s words and actions were consistent and reflected his basic human decency.
trump’s words and actions are often contradictory and he doesn’t have a shred of humanity or decency.
Completely agree it’s possible to be a conservative and a decent person; many are but you wouldn’t think it from the prize chumps who appear in the media.

Superb @deadlydarcy that’s genius.

@deadlydarcy
A third of the electorate couldn’t be **** arsed. 😐

Highest turnout in 120 years apparently:

https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2020-11-04/2020-election-trump-biden-count-analysis

Not sure if I can see Trump coming back in four years, but I can certainly see Eric Trump or Ivanka/Jared being steamrollered through the Republican system by him. His supporters will lap that up. “Keep daddy our of jail darling, or at least pardon me”

I see certain Fox commentators are talking about true believers heading to Philadelphia as a show of strength.

Rather you than me, pal.

If you find a deadlydarcy anywhere on the webernet, it’s likely to be me. Apart from a few profiles on swingers’ sites.

In terms of historical choice of account name I have zero **** sympathy there, dude.

Just so that we are all clear that this isn’t something that only effects us from a distance:

pic.twitter.com/sbFZxI45yk

— Andrew Rosindell MP (@AndrewRosindell) November 4, 2020

That’s one of our elected MPs there.

For a Conservative not being a thundercat, I invite you to listen to Malcolm Rifkind on Trump on radio 5 Live, from 7.08: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000p2ks

Rosindell is about as much a Conservative as Cummings, Tice and Elliot are.

Completely agree it’s possible to be a conservative and a decent person;

Not a complete thundercat perhaps but a decent person? Nope. McCain is a decent chap for a far right conservative perhaps but its a low bar

Bevans quote “No attempt at ethical or social seduction can eradicate from my heart a deep burning hatred for the Tory party. So far as I am concerned they are lower than vermin.”
– I agree with every word

That’s one of our elected MPs there.

Yes, but he is clearly expressing the concern that as a hard-working and responsible MP he is well aware that the Democrats are less a free market party than the republicans and are more likely to tend toward protectionism. A Republican white house would tend to be more inclined towards a desperately needed trade deal with the UK.

Not: Bro, commies! snigger.

A Republican white house would tend to be more inclined towards a desperately needed trade deal with the UK.

‘Desperately needed’? Not once we’ve completed the ‘easiest deal in history’ with the EU. You make it sound like Brexit isn’t going to be a success, and that our gallant government is instead desperately hawking around some kind of international begging bowl for scraps from other nations. Get a grip!

McCain is a decent chap for a far right conservative p

Mccain was a pretty centrist republican. He didn’t really have a place in the current party. The people that elected him for !any years have now elected a fairly centrist democrat. He’s the husband of Gifford? The representative that was shot in the head. He’s pro gun control in an open carry state and still managed to take a republican seat.

Get a grip!

Sorry, been reading too much neutral analysis and lost my head. Back in line now, ready to do my lizard overlords bidding.

The left of the republicans is still far right in any objective assessment of politics. The democrats are centre right. I loathe all right wing politicians – they have damaged so many lives and even the moderates amongst them are enablers. Lie with a dog – get fleas.

Its a product of what I and my other half have had to deal with all our working lives

That’s one of our elected MPs there.

He’s been hanging out on the same sites as 5thElephant.

People so ignorant of politics, history and reality shouldn’t be able to vote, let alone be an MP. 🙁

Back in line now, ready to do my lizard overlords bidding.

The sunlit uplands await you, brother. 🙂

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Not a complete thundercat perhaps but a decent person? Nope. McCain is a decent chap for a far right conservative perhaps but its a low bar

McCain was a decent human being – IMO; we disagree – bon.

@Northwind brilliant, genuinely laughed out loud at that. Got some really odd looks from the other funeral attendees.

Got No major issue with McCain. Don’t agree with his politics but he had principles.

Tbh there have been many Tory mp’s I didn’t mind also. Just because their politics is different than mine doesn’t make them a bad person.

What makes our current lot so bad is not so much their politics as the fact they are a bunch of self serving, lying charlatans. Very much in the form of trump.

Greta juat biden her time on this one

How it started How it's going pic.twitter.com/dmPCgyCiO2

— Steve Peers (@StevePeers) November 5, 2020

^^^ Revenge is a dish best served cold. 😀

Does John King (CNN) ever sleep?

Trumpworld very anxious right now about the prospect of Fox calling Pa. tonight.

— Jonathan Swan (@jonathanvswan) November 5, 2020

Please, please, during Hannity. 🙂

trump due to talk to the nation from WH at 11.30pm GMT; either aggressive – we’re going all the way with this – or conceding defeat?
An hour ago…

President Trump is not planning to throw in the towel simply because Joe Biden declares victory, CBS reports, quoting a senior Trump campaign official.

“In a free and fair election, the president will win,” CBS quotes the official as saying.

I think this is the end for him – in a torrent of vitriol.

Or…will trump make big announcements as if he’s won?

Why not? Are you not entertained?

… again?

don junior looking for some daddy love

The best thing for America’s future is for @realDonaldTrump to go to total war over this election to expose all of the fraud, cheating, dead/no longer in state voters, that has been going on for far too long.

It’s time to clean up this mess & stop looking like a banana republic!

— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) November 5, 2020