Clown Car V: 2020 version!

[Arwon]

So, bring us some fun unhinging from the Democrats winning the Senate today?

 

[Birdjaguar]

atm it is too close to call and it all hinges on the degree of victory the Dems have in the Atlanta area. As I type the two Repubs are both slightly ahead and most of the outstanding votes are from Atlanta.

 

[cardgame]

I think the failure was, at the end of the day and broader scope, in the American political culture, the dinosaur that is the Electoral College, and the toxic U.S. media. I think you're view of responsibility is far too narrow.

Oh, they have definitely failed us, but in an analogous way that a dam fails when it is bombed by a Lancaster

 

[Arwon]

atm it is too close to call and it all hinges on the degree of victory the Dems have in the Atlanta area. As I type the two Repubs are both slightly ahead and most of the outstanding votes are from Atlanta.

Nah it's done, the remaining vote just hasn't been logged yet. You're in that period where the result is clear but US media outlets are super duper reluctant to say it before literal mathematically certainty.

 

[Patine]

Oh, they have definitely failed us, but in an analogous way that a dam fails when it is bombed by a Lancaster

I, personally, think you have the order of blame reversed. Trump and his cronies did not make the toxic American political culture and U.S. Media relevant and the problem it is now - the toxic American political culture and U.S. Media made Trump even remotely electable in the first place...

 

[Arwon]

Specifically, there are a couple of hundred thousand votes not added yet in DeKalb County, mostly early votes, and those will go 80% or more to the Dems, putting them well up.

 

[Birdjaguar]

Changing as we speak....

 

[Ferocitus]

U.S. actuarial stats (2016), no accounting for coronavirus.

Candidate: Age, p(Death) in next year.
Ossoff : 33, 0.2%
Warnock: 51, 0.5%
Loeffler : 50, 0.3%
Perdue : 71, 2.5%

 

[Ferocitus]

CNN reports the following notable vote tallies are left:

• 20,000 to 25,000 votes left in Fulton County.
• 19,000 votes left in DeKalb County.
• Almost 5,000 votes left in Gwinnett County.
• 7,000 votes left in deep-red Coffee County in south Georgia.
• 3,000 votes in Chatham County (Savannah).

So most of what is left is in pretty Democratic territory.
https://fivethirtyeight.com/live-blog/georgia-senate-election-results/

 

[Birdjaguar]

Warnock is making a victory speech right now.

 

[Ferocitus]

Warnock is making a victory speech right now.

1am in DC now - Trump should start tweeting like a mad thing any minute.

 

[Sommerswerd]

So most of what is left is in pretty Democratic territory.
https://fivethirtyeight.com/live-blog/georgia-senate-election-results/

Massive Cheeting

 

[Ferocitus]

Massive Cheeting

Of course there is. How else would he know how many Dem votes are in the unopened ballot boxes?

 

[Sommerswerd]

Warnock is making a victory speech right now.

Moar Massive Cheeting

 

[Sommerswerd]

Of course there is. How else would he know how many Dem votes are in the unopened ballot boxes?

ALL THE NETWORKS!!!

 

[mitsho]

1am in DC now - Trump should start tweeting like a mad thing any minute.

Are you assuming Trump cares about other people?

Nice one, so there will be something done the next two years and not just another stand still. But it is a bit of a clown that two 51-49 %-splits can decide the whole fate of a country. American Democracy is kind of a clown car by itself.

 

[AmazonQueen]

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/worl...house-were-peaceful/ar-BB1cvA0u?ocid=msedgntp

Turns out the supposed Antifa protesters supposedly threatening Josh Hawley's wife and child at his home were actually peaceful according to the police.

 

[Patine]

Are you assuming Trump cares about other people?

Nice one, so there will be something done the next two years and not just another stand still. But it is a bit of a clown that two 51-49 %-splits can decide the whole fate of a country. American Democracy is kind of a clown car by itself.

The real joke of an assumption - the real hoodwink - is that the edifice and engines - and almost any elected officials of either major American political party - actually care about the will of their constituents or honour the concept of "democracy." But I guess singling-out such apathy to Trump alone makes swallowing the fact that most of the rest of these crooks - including a lot whom many on these have been suckered into gleefully supporting and putting their hopes (because what other choice do they have when they have no meaningful in the rigged U.S. electoral system) feel more softened in the blow. But it's a self-deception.

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/worl...house-were-peaceful/ar-BB1cvA0u?ocid=msedgntp

Turns out the supposed Antifa protesters supposedly threatening Josh Hawley's wife and child at his home were actually peaceful according to the police.

Antifa is a bad joke. Not only are they not, "Anti-Fascist," because there is no motive or significant ideological Fascist movement in the U.S., and those who do match such a label are tiny minority of the population who tend to live in tiny towns or "survival communes and bunkers," in the middle of nowhere, as well as a few burnt-out old skinheads in some dilapidated "White trash," suburbs, and tend to have collective power and influence on affairs dwarfed by, for example, the LGBTQ-rights lobby, alone, Antifa doesn't even remotely live up to the legacy of other groups (like Bakunin's Anarchists and others) they occasionally claim spiritual descendency from either. They're nothing but low-grade cowardly vandals, hooligans, and troublemakers doing no good for anyone, and are just as bad as the pitiful "Mama's basement," Alt-Right punks they've often been placed as "foils," to. Bad comedy, not radical advocacy!

 

[AmazonQueen]

The real joke of an assumption - the real hoodwink - is that the edifice and engines - and almost any elected officials of either major American political party - actually care about the will of their constituents or honour the concept of "democracy." But I guess singling-out such apathy to Trump alone makes swallowing the fact that most of the rest of these crooks - including a lot whom many on these have been suckered into gleefully supporting and putting their hopes (because what other choice do they have when they have no meaningful in the rigged U.S. electoral system) feel more softened in the blow. But it's a self-deception.



Antifa is a bad joke. Not only are they not, "Anti-Fascist," because there is no motive or significant ideological Fascist movement in the U.S., and those who do match such a label are tiny minority of the population who tend to live in tiny towns or "survival communes and bunkers," in the middle of nowhere, as well as a few burnt-out old skinheads in some dilapidated "White trash," suburbs, and tend to have collective power and influence on affairs dwarfed by, for example, the LGBTQ-rights lobby, alone, Antifa doesn't even remotely live up to the legacy of other groups (like Bakunin's Anarchists and others) they occasionally claim spiritual descendency from either. They're nothing but low-grade cowardly vandals, hooligans, and troublemakers doing no good for anyone, and are just as bad as the pitiful "Mama's basement," Alt-Right punks they've often been placed as "foils," to. Bad comedy, not radical advocacy!

Point is the people Hawley was claiming were Antifa were just peaceful protesters. Trust you to miss it.

 

[Patine]

Point is the people Hawley was claiming were Antifa were just peaceful protesters. Trust you to miss it.

Not at all. I was just pointing out the over-hype over Antifa. Trust you to miss that, and use misunderstanding the vector of my response to state I missed your point. And I'm glad to see @Arwon was equally baffled by what I was saying, for all of his pretenses, given his 'like.'