Mega-Thread: 2020 United States General Election

[starlord]

another update on GA:

Biden (D): 49.39.% ( 2,449,580 votes)
Trump (R): 49.37% ( 2,448,484 votes)

Biden Margin: (+ 1,096)
Estimated: > 99% votes in

https://twitter.com/DecisionDeskHQ/s...339794945?s=20

[beanman12345]

Isn't it weird that the US has had postal votes since the civil war..... and yet suddenly it is only now that they are being called "illegal" and "fraudulent" on a mass scale. Weird. Clearly it has nothing to do with Trump losing.

Even more ironic since Lincoln, the first republican president was a mail man, a post master, and strongly supported using mail in ballots.

[PACOX]

Isn't it weird that the US has had postal votes since the civil war..... and yet suddenly it is only now that they are being called "illegal" and "fraudulent" on a mass scale. Weird. Clearly it has nothing to do with Trump losing.

Well there's people in the US who think minorities are 2nd class citizens and should be allowed to vote at all (or only for their candidate).

The US has never been good at the whole voting thing.

[Cosmic Janitor]

Isn't it weird that the US has had postal votes since the civil war..... and yet suddenly it is only now that they are being called "illegal" and "fraudulent" on a mass scale. Weird. Clearly it has nothing to do with Trump losing.

I mean everything surounding trump is shockingly obvious and yet for some reason this election is actually a close call. And it's not just in the US, even here in Europe there are unreal amounts of trump sympathizers that seem to have lived in another universe the last 4 years.

[hellhamster]

There is a registry yes. Though it's not public. There will be fraud. there is always fraud. but we're talking maybe at most a few hundred or a few thousand cases across the entire country. not at the scale it'll tip the presidential race.

Yeah this is what I was thinking.

[Mormolyce]

Is PA still stopped?

Gah, I should just leave it till morning.

[starlord]

Is PA still stopped?

Gah, I should just leave it till morning.

they haven't released any updates in hours.

[Crispin]

I mean everything surounding trump is shockingly obvious and yet for some reason this election is actually a close call. And it's not just in the US, even here in Europe there are unreal amounts of trump sympathizers that seem have lived in another universe the last 4 years.

The idiots got their leader. I gotta admit, the 2 people I know who spew Trump stupidity on social media, really do not surprise me at all, always figured them to be ignorant.

[eschatological]

Philadelphia City Commissioner just said on CNN that they're going to have a new vote dump in "1 to 2 hours."

[Thrundi]

So infuriating to see a french news channel invite a spokeperson for "republicans overseas france" to spew bullshit and lies.
He parroted the "republican observers were barred access in pennsylvania" crap.
No one called him out.
The french dumb cunts are all "how outrageous to cut the president short during a speech, at worst let him finish and counter if he said false stuff". But no one bringing up the fact that his lies are literally inciting violence and that cutting him short is protecting the ballot counters (and at worst, riling the yallqaeda against the news crews who are way more protected for now)


At least, I found this :



From a somewhat popular FB channel (?) called "les répliques" (= the punchlines), a kind of "murderedbywords" gathering all this kind of twitter comebacks and burns.

[zealo]

I mean everything surounding trump is shockingly obvious and yet for some reason this election is actually a close call. And it's not just in the US, even here in Europe there are unreal amounts of trump sympathizers that seem to have lived in another universe the last 4 years.

Just for reference, while Trump sympathizers do exist, they're not anywhere near a majority in most of Europe. Most see him for what he is on this side of the pond, even if they're not as loud as them.

[PhaelixWW]

Yeah but do military troops care about that and if so is it enough to hold Georgia.

Again, there are only about 5k overseas military registered in GA.

But more importantly, they're not somewhere, waiting to still be counted. They had the same time requirement to be in. They're a part of all the rest of the mail-in ballots. So they've already likely been counted as much as any other mail-in ballot.

[thilicen]

Just for reference, while Trump sympathizers do exist, they're not anywhere near a majority in most of Europe. Most see him for what he is on this side of the pond, even if they're not as loud as them.

I have yet to meet an actual live Trump sympathizer here in Norway. We see some on the public news forums etc. but wherever I go (work, friends, meeting new people) everyone seems to agree that that piece of shit is as fucked up as they come.

[Thrundi]

I have yet to meet an actual live Trump sympathizer here in Norway. We see some on the public news forums etc. but wherever I go (work, friends, meeting new people) everyone seems to agree that that piece of shit is as fucked up as they come.

Same in France, I'd say.
But isn't that the same as the people lying for the polls ? Do you know people who assume their voting for the far right in norway ? I see a bit more of them in France than trumpsters, but that is also because people care and are more vocal about domestic politics. Far from 20% which the RN seems to attain regularly in diverse elections nowadays ... Even accounting for sociocultural bias, I don't have 1 in 5 contacts who admit in leaning right

There still is a stigma linked with voting/adhering to far-right views and many people won't admit in doing so, despite being secretly convinced, sometimes way too much to be convinced otherwise. Fuels the martyr narrative, too. Everyone is out to get them...

[Cosmic Janitor]

The idiots got their leader. I gotta admit, the 2 people I know who spew Trump stupidity on social media, really do not surprise me at all, always figured them to be ignorant.

My sister works in retail and has dozens of stories about random people singing his praises (why they feel the need to tell that to the person that cuts their cheese/meat, I have no idea). Their reason usually involves him being a good christan (lol) and his "honesty" (lmao). Since I very much doubt that old folks in Germany watch alot of international/US news my guess is their primary source for this information has to be online, most likely the facebook account that their children opened for them.

I'm getting the feeling historians will name this time period the misinformation age in hindsight, at least it is my hope that this is large part of the reason.

[thilicen]

Same in France, I'd say.
But isn't that the same as the people lying for the polls ? Do you know people who assume their voting for the far right in norway ? I see a bit more of them in France than trumpsters, but that is also because people care and are more vocal about domestic politics. Far from 20% which the RN seems to attain regularly in diverse elections nowadays ... Even accounting for sociocultural bias, I don't have 1 in 5 contacts who admit in leaning right

There still is a stigma linked with voting/adhering to far-right views and many people won't admit in doing so, despite being secretly convinced, sometimes way too much to be convinced otherwise. Fuels the martyr narrative, too. Everyone is out to get them...

It's possible I would assume, but I would expect those people to be more "quiet" when discussions come up. What I see here are people starting discussions on their own volition and it's never in favour of him in any way.

[hellhamster]

We here in Greece find him funny and a caricature of politics as a major troll, but we do respect what he did for the American economy plus no wars waged.

I'm on neither side personally, I'm against Trump because he's being pro Turkey, but I'm also against Biden because I think he has nothing to offer.

[Cosmic Janitor]

https://www.pewresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/ft_01.08.20_USglobalimage4-1.png?resize=640,650

Just for reference, while Trump sympathizers do exist, they're not anywhere near a majority in most of Europe. Most see him for what he is on this side of the pond, even if they're not as loud as them.

While that certainly looks better than the 50% the US has to deal with right now, that is still between 1 in 5 and 1 in 7 on average. While it may look low in comparison, just imagine if the same number of people was homeless. That many people being disconnected from reality will never cease to terrify me.

[Puzzony]

The hungarian mafia state is in full support of him, since they are trying to mimic his christian-right wing leadership while robbing the country blind. As for the common people? They couldnt care less.

[starlord]

a good portion of my family are "shy trump supporters". won't come out and say it even to me but the way they talk about politics you can tell.
mostly it comes down to they think he will help them get more money via stocks or less taxes.