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RE: looks like the orange man group making a come back..
December 14, 2020 at 7:48 pm
Yep, the Electoral College has officially voted and Biden reached the 270 votes he needed to win.
https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden-270...384dc7cc1e
Quote:The Electoral College gave Joe Biden a solid majority of its votes Monday, confirming his victory in last month’s election in state-by-state voting that took on added importance this year because of President Donald Trump’s refusal to concede he lost.
California’s 55 electoral votes put Biden over the top, clearing the 270-vote mark that affirmed he will be the nation’s next president.
And nothing short of a proper coup will let Trump stay in office.
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RE: looks like the orange man group making a come back..
December 14, 2020 at 7:52 pm
And fewer and fewer people want to be associated with him/it with every day that passes.
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RE: looks like the orange man group making a come back..
December 14, 2020 at 8:47 pm
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I think the best thing Americans could do going forward is to remember the names (write them down if you must) of every single representative and every single attorney general who signed on to that stupid, moronic lawsuit and - if they’re in your state, district, however you do it there - vote against them. Encourage your friends, neighbours and coworkers to vote against them. Volunteer for their opponents’ campaigns.
These are people willingly and knowingly tried to subvert a legal election. They don’t deserve your support and they’re counting on your indifference.
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RE: looks like the orange man group making a come back..
December 14, 2020 at 8:49 pm
(December 14, 2020 at 7:52 pm)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote: And fewer and fewer people want to be associated with him/it with every day that passes.
Trump needs to be a Pariah. That is best for democracy, but it is also best long-term for the Republican party.
Republicans can praise Trump's policies while admitting he was a deeply flawed human being.
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RE: looks like the orange man group making a come back..
December 14, 2020 at 9:10 pm
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(December 14, 2020 at 8:49 pm)HappySkeptic Wrote: (December 14, 2020 at 7:52 pm)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote: And fewer and fewer people want to be associated with him/it with every day that passes.
Trump needs to be a Pariah. That is best for democracy, but it is also best long-term for the Republican party.
Republicans can praise Trump's policies while admitting he was a deeply flawed human being. And given that, a few months ago, they decided against writing a new platform for the election (for the first time in recorded history), and chose instead to focus on the Trump cult of personality in lieu of literally anything else, not even an amendment for a COVID policy, I doubt that's going to happen. Hell, they haven't even come to terms with Biden winning the election. In 2016, I hoped that the whole Trump movement would end up being the moment where the GOP's Raskolnikov met Trump's Svidrigailoff, confronting someone who takes their policies to their logical and monstrous extremes, and four years later, it turned out, in this case, Raskolnikov and Svidrigailoff got along just fine. And the rest of the world is worse, and they wouldn't have it any other way.
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RE: looks like the orange man group making a come back..
December 15, 2020 at 1:16 am
IIRC the GOP platform for the 1940 election mentioned "defense" eleven times. This despite FDR's strong defense attitude. Back then they knew what the country needed.
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RE: looks like the orange man group making a come back..
December 15, 2020 at 1:39 am
(December 15, 2020 at 1:16 am)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote: IIRC the GOP platform for the 1940 election mentioned "defense" eleven times. This despite FDR's strong defense attitude. Back then they knew what the country needed.
Or to put it more accurately, they gave a shit about what the country wanted.
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RE: looks like the orange man group making a come back..
December 15, 2020 at 2:17 am
(December 10, 2020 at 12:23 pm)The Grand Nudger Wrote: Where's Drich?
Anywho, there's nothing wrong with the electoral college system that isn't wrong with any other system. They can all be gamed.
I would say that the EC system is far more easily gamed than any of the Irish election systems. But when you look at it, it was designed to be gamed.
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RE: looks like the orange man group making a come back..
December 15, 2020 at 10:09 am
(December 15, 2020 at 1:39 am)Rev. Rye Wrote: (December 15, 2020 at 1:16 am)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote: IIRC the GOP platform for the 1940 election mentioned "defense" eleven times. This despite FDR's strong defense attitude. Back then they knew what the country needed.
Or to put it more accurately, they gave a shit about what the country wanted.
Both Wendell Willkie and FDR supported a strong US military, and the public supported them.
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RE: looks like the orange man group making a come back..
December 15, 2020 at 2:40 pm
(December 14, 2020 at 8:49 pm)HappySkeptic Wrote: (December 14, 2020 at 7:52 pm)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote: And fewer and fewer people want to be associated with him/it with every day that passes.
Trump needs to be a Pariah. That is best for democracy, but it is also best long-term for the Republican party.
Republicans can praise Trump's policies while admitting he was a deeply flawed human being.
What exactly was praiseworthy? I must have missed a memo.
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