US Election Late Nighers? Who’s staying up as the results come in?

God no. I prefer my nightmares to be when I’m asleep, not when I’m awake and watching TV.

Working off Louisiana, and on watch until midnight local time.

I’ll try not to get distracted, but that’s inevitable…

Is it, in any way, possible that we get a draw?

Mathematically, with 538 electoral college votes, it could be split 50/50 but I don’t know if there’s a permutation of states that could result in that, but even if there was, with so many absolute certainties around most states, the remaining swing states don’t offer a route to a draw

@seadog101
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Working off Louisiana, and on watch until midnight local time.

I’ll try not to get distracted, but that’s inevitable…

Just being nosy, you on one of the rigs or support vessels?

@Poopscoop

Drillship.

Currently getting ready to run away from yet another hurricane… both meteorological and political

seadog101
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@Poopscoop

Drillship.

Currently getting ready to run away from yet another hurricane… both meteorological and political

I have to pinch myself occasionally to remind me of what a miracle the ‘net is. I’m here in the UK just casually chatting to someone on a ship in the gulf of Mexico.

Good luck evading the hurricane!

Kamala would obliterate Trump in a fight to the death. He’s a fat old man with child’s hands.

Currently listening to last night’s Rogan podcast with Elon Musk, and it’s worrying me that the collective consciousness of political rhetoric in the US is even worse than we think. The conversation so far is a constant stream of misinformation yet all on the subject of fighting misinformation. It’s horrendous,  and drifting well into Tucker Carlson territory, except this man could soon be one of the most powerful on earth.

After that I’ll listen to the Rest is Politics live stream for a bit, then I’m going to bed. I’m not going to torture myself while I could be sleeping.

It’s horrendous, and drifting well into Tucker Carlson territory,

In order to quiet my mind and get to sleep, I have to put on a sleep mask with headphones built in and listen to a podcast. Puts me to sleep in 10 minutes and I’ll generally sleep until my alarm

In recent months, when the podcast I started finished, Spotify would start playing random ones.

Several times I’ve been woken up in the middle of the night thinking wtf is this in my head, and discovered it’s playing Tucker Carlson. Unfortunately Spotify doesn’t allow you to block podcasts so you’re at the mercy of their algorithm.

His podcast is so batshit crazy it actually wakes me up

I file the US elections under “I can’t influence it so don’t I get hung up on it“

@BoardinBob what Spotify does have is a sleep timer that can stop play at the end of the podcast you’ve selected.

There’s really no need to torture yourself like that.

^not all heroes wear capes!

I think polls close around 9am my time so I’ll have things on in the background most likely and be feeding key things to my mate in LA.

I’m watching rest is politics YouTube livestream so far and will stick with it. And stay up for north Caroline result?

TRIP stream is good. With marina Hyde et al

No Vox pops with trump freaks unlike mainstream media

Fair play to Channel Four – apparently they have Stormy Daniels as a guest!  Unfortunately Johnson as well.

not techie enough for an eyemask with built in podcasts, i rely on R5 from an am radio through one earphone.

i suspect election night is a bit like the golf, tennis etc…. if i wake up, i will be going back to sleep in silence

I’ve got a horrible 23rd June 2016 sense of foreboding about all this so I’m going to pretend it’s not happening right up until the point where it inevitably does

WWE politics from another country no chance. Our brand of old man moral outrage, subterfuge and distraction is bad enough!