2020 Presidential Election Results & Exit Polls commentary thread

[brucejoel99]

Didn't see this coming:

https://twitter.com/kaitlancollins/status/1325285860393295873

[brucejoel99]

Didn't see this coming:

https://twitter.com/kaitlancollins/status/1325285860393295873

Kushner / Ivanka were always the most reasonable of the Trumps.

Not even 12 hours out & the revisionist history of this era already begins to emerge.

[brucejoel99]

Didn't see this coming:

https://twitter.com/kaitlancollins/status/1325285860393295873

Kushner / Ivanka were always the most reasonable of the Trumps.

Not even 12 hours out & the revisionist history of this era already begins to emerge.

Literally what are you talking about. This has been a standard take for the last four years lmao

It's only been the "standard take" if you haven't been paying attention, like, at all for the last 4 years lmao

Jared Kushner: [Blue states] "are going to suffer & that's their problem."

[brucejoel99]

God, I'm sorry, I love my country:

https://twitter.com/JohnJHarwood/status/1325260977693188101

[brucejoel99]

Slightly off topic, but has Jill Biden indicated what her platform as FLOTUS is going to be?

Laura Bush was childhood literacy, Michelle Obama was healthy eating and reducing obesity, and Melania's is reducing cyberbullying, however ironic that is.

She'll probably make her platform something about education, given that she plans to continue working full-time as a teacher even as First Lady &, when she announced she'd continue to do so, she said it's "important" to continue teaching because "(she) want(s) people to value teachers and know their contributions, and lift up the profession."

[brucejoel99]

CNN reporting that Melania Trump is urging her husband to concede the race.

Too bad she can't get him to plagiarize an Obama concession speech since Barack never lost.

[brucejoel99]

Murtaugh deleted the tweet but not before even the Fox News of newspapers smacked him for being a lying dipsh*t:

https://twitter.com/ddale8/status/1325528640046632960

[brucejoel99]

No one is asking the real question though:

When will Biden replace Trump in Disney’s “Hall of Presidents?”

Probably by next summer, that's usually the turnaround with making a new president, writing a new script, updating the effects, etc. Trump was an outlier, his version of the show wasn't done until almost a year into his presidency for whatever reason.

I heard it was because they had already been working on a Hillary robot and had to scrap it.

If you look at his animatronic, it was clearly originally built to be Hillary before the upset forced them to start converting it into the monstrosity that it ended up being.

[brucejoel99]

Ladies & gentlemen:

https://twitter.com/Redistrict/status/1325492894267039750

[brucejoel99]

What are the chances the Supreme Court sides with him?

Literally 0. He's been unable to present any evidence of fraud (because there isn't any), & so the federal courts have 12(b)(6)'d all of his "claims" so far. At this point, none of his suits are even making it to the Court (the PA case that Alito partially "ruled on" (read: literally just reminded the state to keep doing something it was already doing) will be as close as it gets). If Trump thought he could just ramrod the cases to the Court & then - since he appointed 3 justices - think they'd give him a favorable result, he's in for some disappointment.

[brucejoel99]

Matt Stevens (NYT): The Trump campaign announced that Representative Doug Collins, a staunch Trump ally who failed in his recent bid for a Senate seat, would lead its recount team in Georgia, where Trump trails by about 10,000 votes.

Chances that seeing Collins head up Trump's recount operations convinces depressed Trumpists to either stay home in the runoff or at least not tick the box for Loeffler (given that they spent the last year pretty much doing nothing but relentlessly attacking each other in their race to the runoff)?

[brucejoel99]

Here we go:

https://twitter.com/alaynatreene/status/1325588182382092293

[brucejoel99]

Once this is released, rip up the Jackson ones and take them to the bank to get Tubman's. As long as both serial numbers on the ripped ones match, it's legal.

Obviously, priority #1 is gonna be a stimulus package, but I really do hope that Secretary Brainard does eventually get around to expediting the process of putting Tubman on the $20 bill.

[brucejoel99]

https://www.axios.com/trump-administration-iran-sanctions-january-3951f776-09c9-4e55-b0f5-4a9c80e9e974.html
some last minute sanctions

I mean, what can 2 months of extra sanctions do that hasn't already been done, except for maybe just pissing off the EU more? It's not like they weren't gonna attack literally anything the Biden administration tries to do in this realm as "too conciliatory" anyway.

[brucejoel99]

Friendly reminder that the electoral college is still the dumbest system around for electing a President.

You speak facts. Weird how so many Americans care more about corn than people.

California shouldn't dictate to the other 49 states who gets to be president.

Or or or, maybe every individual American's vote should just count no more or no less than every other individual American's vote in our country, unless you believe that Wyomingites are approximately 3.6 times more American than Californians (which just isn't how anything works).

[brucejoel99]

Once this is released, rip up the Jackson ones and take them to the bank to get Tubman's. As long as both serial numbers on the ripped ones match, it's legal.

Obviously, priority #1 is gonna be a stimulus package, but I really do hope that Secretary Brainard does eventually get around to expediting the process of putting Tubman on the $20 bill.

If so, I hope she gets a better portrait than what's in that image. Frankly, I can't help but think the main reason for selecting Tubman is so as to tick off the boxes for both having a woman and a POC on our money with a single person.  [...]

I think that earlier image was just something somebody mocked-up when her $20 bill was initially announced. For what it's worth, here's the actual design from the Treasury:

[brucejoel99]

https://twitter.com/AndrewFeinberg/status/1325991007876509696

I guess the 2000 presidential election is too far in the past for Lindsey to remember.

[brucejoel99]

Bruh:

https://twitter.com/Yamiche/status/1326227901654642695

[brucejoel99]

Will Biden's margin of victory be closer to 10 million or 5 million votes?

Eyeballing it, it looks like the final outcome is gonna end up somewhere around ~82M-~75M, & a 7M margin would be closer to the latter than the former.

[brucejoel99]

remember this?

https://twitter.com/ECaliberSeven/status/1326103002206380033

She ought to be put in charge of the DCCC yesterday.

[brucejoel99]

https://twitter.com/toddgillman/status/1326568128843821056

inb4 Trump tweets about how this proves Jeffress isn't a real Christian or some such BS.

[brucejoel99]

It makes complete sense, if you don't really think about it:

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1326679385966047236

[brucejoel99]

God, that means Republicans get to carve a Republican CD out of New Hampshire, right? At least the state is elastic enough that it probably can't be completely Safe R.

Is that even possible, given the size (& federal dynamics) of the state?

[brucejoel99]

Ladies & gentlemen, we got 'em:

https://twitter.com/Redistrict/status/1327105993910722560

[brucejoel99]

He almost said "the next administration" but caught himself.

*sigh*