2020 US Election (Part 3)

[Hrothbern]

By sowing enough confusion and getting in front of judges he installed, he in theory had at least a bit of wiggle room to throw it to his 6-3 Supreme Court and to mobilize other GOP leaders in government to back his play to stay in power. I think it was a long shot but not impossible.

knock on wood

I am happy that it did not came (so far) to violence in the streets

 

[Sommerswerd]

This almost brought me to tears and I don't care who knows If anyone knows how to embed videos from twitter please, please do.

https://twitter.com/i/status/1324801623781122048

Yes I'm a nerd. Fight me.

 

[Farm Boy]

Right above a tweet of "king of the uneducated." It was a good one, but twitter is still for assfaces.

 

[Light Cleric]

My district went blue for the first time since 1995

 

[Imaus]

That was close, and too close. Texas, Georgia, Penn, and Florida will remain swing states but I think the map is drawn for the next ten, twenty years, don't expect this to change unless a lot of gentrifiers return to Ohio or somesuch....

This is a divided country, with party over nation and fellow at the hem. Democrats will win by inches, Republicans will rush in, back and forth. The Dems need to pull off extraordinary leadership and actually get some media clout (or break) that Sinclair and Fox has.

This isn't the end of anything but the beginning.

 

[Estebonrober]

https://politics.theonion.com/biden-frantically-cleaning-up-trashed-vice-president-re-1819579543

In honor of Joe's return to the WH I think it is good we look back at where we left him. . .

 

[Light Cleric]

 

[mitsho]

Great, yes! That was anti-climatic, but it is a good feeling.

On another note, that's the most interesting visualization I saw today:

Spoiler Purple States of America :

It's from https://purplestatesofamerica.org/# and together with this gif does paint a real good argument that the normal visualizations don't show or ar misleading about.

Spoiler Land is not People :

Can't include a gif here, so here's a twitter link: https://twitter.com/raykwong/status/1324330586215911426

 

[Gori the Grey]

Probably just bruising, mitsho.

 

[Joij21]

Canada would be glad to offer its expertise in the domain to assist your effort and rebuild the ties between our nations.

Only British regulars burned the White House. Not Canadian militias. So it would be better to ask Britain.

 

[Kyriakos]

Only British regulars burned the White House. Not Canadian militias. So it would be better to ask Britain.

Canadians were probably fighting "for King and Country"
Ultimately France (the napoleonic sale which doubled the US - and wasn't even all french land, some spanish too) is to blame for the US becoming a massive power.

 

[GenMarshall]

Right now, I’m of the view of the WWII Italians that are now fed up with Mussolini and want him chucked out and join the allied side. Though it’s looking more like being a Japanese military brass who’s more level headed and realist who wants to concede and forge rapprochement while having to fight back a zealot military junta who refuses to surrender.

 

[Kyriakos]

Right now, I’m of the view of the WWII Italians that are now fed up with Mussolini and want him chucked out and join the allied side. Though it’s looking more like being a Japanese military brass who’s more level headed and realist who wants to concede and forge rapprochement while having to fight back a zealot military junta who refuses to surrender.

Iirc the Japanese only surrendered in WW2 because if they hadn't Russia would take more land from the north. I've seen it argued that the nuclear bombings didn't really matter in their decision.

 

[Joij21]

Canadians were probably fighting "for King and Country"
Ultimately France (the napoleonic sale which doubled the US - and wasn't even all french land, some spanish too) is to blame for the US becoming a massive power.

I heard Napoleon only gave us that land in order to invade and take it back later, after he was done with Europe. He needed the cash, but unfortunately he didn't finish Europe

 

[Evie]

Only British regulars burned the White House. Not Canadian militias. So it would be better to ask Britain.

Entirely beside the point - one is history, the other is modern mythology. And because our world largely runs on how people perceive it, rather than on how it actually is, the mythology matters more in the end than the history.

At least for the purpose of jokes and of trolling Americans.

 

[Joij21]

Entirely beside the point - one is history, the other is modern mythology. And because our world largely runs on how people perceive it, rather than on how it actually is, the mythology matters more in the end than the history.

Okay. Then by that logic we should all take the Aryan myth peddled by Hitler seriously.

 

[Hrothbern]

Canadians were probably fighting "for King and Country"
Ultimately France (the napoleonic sale which doubled the US - and wasn't even all french land, some spanish too) is to blame for the US becoming a massive power.

Napoleon saw the UK as his prime enemy
And selling Lousiana was handing over to the US to prevent the Brits getting it. The money welcome. And had Napoleon not lost... he could always come back on that deal by force ?

 

[Evie]

Wow, that's epic from-zero-to-Godwin nonsense right there.

Me "It may not be true historically, but it IS the accepted version of history and a long-standing basis for legitimate banter and teasing between the US and Canada"
You "THAT MEANS YOU BELIEVE IN NAZISM!"

Yep, entirely rational thinking right there.

 

[GenMarshall]

Iirc the Japanese only surrendered in WW2 because if they hadn't Russia would take more land from the north. I've seen it argued that the nuclear bombings didn't really matter in their decision.

So I take the Italian example...

 

[Ziggy Stardust]

Well done America on choosing the blatantly obvious.

Next time if your shoelaces are undone, don't be embarrassed to ask us for advice. We have some experience in this. Our advice:

Don't vote for the fascist.


Thank you.