Mega-Thread: 2020 United States General Election

[Poopymonster]

Did you forget who “the game” is???

Triple H.

/formerlyknownasTerraRising

[Thekri]

Yep. I'm all for 4 years of "acting" appointees. Republicans haven't had any problems with them the last 4 years, so they should be fine with 4 more years of "acting" officials who were not Senate confirmed.

Same. I hate the concept, but if they really do try to stonewall nominations, they have to be treated as they deserve.

Either confirm this rational and experienced legal mind to AG, or we are going to let Nancy McCrazyperson be the acting AG. She wants to outlaw Heterosexual Relationships and calls the Southern Baptist Convention a hate group. Your call guys. You get to pick how much you want your life to suck.

[Kaleredar]

The senate republicans intending to be obstructionist asshats as always aside, do we have any ETAs on when we’ll get some definitive counts in the remaining states?

[Antiganon]

I'm talking judges. As for cabinet, I completely agree.

Yeah I would just do all federal judges as recess appointments.

McConnell will try to block every one he can regardless of their qualifications unless they are blessed by the Federalist Society, and if you want so see any remotely liberal judges in the next 4 years, they have to be recess appointments. Maybe in 2022 if we flip the Senate, or if we get insanely lucky with GA runoffs.

[Thekri]

PA is sounding more optimistic than NV. I'm fine with either.

Nevada is looking pretty safe for Biden. Assuming Arizona is actually sound, there shouldn't be too much that can throw it now.

I fully expect the last 10k votes in Georgia to break for Trump at exactly the ratio he needs to barely keep the lead. There is no way Raffensburger is going to give a close election to Biden, even if he has to fill out the last two thousand ballots himself.

[Poopymonster]

Trump just tweeted: "ANY VOTE THAT CAME IN AFTER ELECTION DAY WILL NOT BE COUNTED!", he truly is a special case isn't he.

Edit: Already flagged 3 minutes after the fact. Twitter's on the ball.

Probably at least 1 guy who's job for the next week or three is "Watch this twitter account. Refresh every 30 seconds. Tag as applicable"

[Xeones]

Anyone share this yet?

https://www.fox17online.com/news/ele...ng-camera-gear

Might have been posted while I was asleep.

[Amunrasonther]

PA having 370k votes left instead of 550k...makes things a lot scarier.

[Thekri]

Probably at least 1 guy who's job for the next week or three is "Watch this twitter account. Refresh every 30 seconds. Tag as applicable"

Should just straight up ban the account for 72 hours. It hasn't done anything except spew bile that threatens democracy and incite violence. Now is not a time when the American people need to hear from the President, now is time for President to shut the hell up and listen to the American people.

[Xeones]

Nevada is looking pretty safe for Biden. Assuming Arizona is actually sound, there shouldn't be too much that can throw it now.

I fully expect the last 10k votes in Georgia to break for Trump at exactly the ratio he needs to barely keep the lead. There is no way Raffensburger is going to give a close election to Biden, even if he has to fill out the last two thousand ballots himself.

Georgia count is really slowing down this last update was only 900 votes with 300 going to Trump.

[SavoirFaire]

Relax, we have time. Make sure it is done right and they are ready to deal with the psychos after.

I’m guessing these slow counters are dotting their i’s and crossing their t’s to avoid being sucked into any litigation. Nobody wants to be the next hanging chad area.

[PACOX]

Is Nancy still stepping down as Speaker? I feel like we might need her another 2 years for this shit. I wouldn't mind someone fresh and/or progressive as long as they can be as effective as she's been the last 4.

Why so we can another cycle of deciding how to govern based on focus groups?
Fuck that, she needs to pass the torch. But to answer your question she walked back that statement.

[Shadowferal]

[Thekri]

Georgia count is really slowing down this last update was only 900 votes with 300 going to Trump.

Georgia may wind up insanely close. Like within a thousand votes. But it will probably be in favor of Trump. It is too easy to cheat when it is this close, and Georgia is good at it.

[beanman12345]

Yeah I would just do all federal judges as recess appointments.

McConnell will try to block every one he can regardless of their qualifications unless they are blessed by the Federalist Society, and if you want so see any remotely liberal judges in the next 4 years, they have to be recess appointments. Maybe in 2022 if we flip the Senate, or if we get insanely lucky with GA runoffs.

Yeah I guess recess is the only way.. I think the country is right fucked right now no matter what we do they are gonna go with the same gameplan, and they never face consequences for it, yet we'll get screwed regardless of what we do. I would just say fuck it, but idk if Biden will.

[Timester]

PA having 370k votes left instead of 550k...makes things a lot scarier.

"Pennsylvania’s secretary of state, Kathy Boockvar, said there are about 500,000 ballots yet to be counted and told CNN “we definitely could” know the winner by the end of Thursday."

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/...eporterUpdates

[Edge-]

Yes, but can't have "acting" judicial appointee's. That's what I was responding to.

Yep. Though I'm hoping it'll be at worst a tie in the Senate, which is de-fact (provided Democrats don't break ranks) Democratic control on nominees etc. as Harris can consistently cast the tiebreaking vote.

[Hadriker]

PA having 370k votes left instead of 550k...makes things a lot scarier.

NYT says there is still 500k left as of 30 minutes ago.

[Valdhammer]

PA having 370k votes left instead of 550k...makes things a lot scarier.

Where is this from?

[Amunrasonther]

"Pennsylvania’s secretary of state, Kathy Boockvar, said there are about 500,000 ballots yet to be counted and told CNN “we definitely could” know the winner by the end of Thursday."

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/...eporterUpdates

NYT says there is still 500k left as of 30 minutes ago.

Someone on CNN said the 500-550k figure might have been incorrect and 370k being the true figure. I hope you guys are right!