Day for of Counting for Godot. The news headlines are Cauchy converging on a Biden victory projection via Zeno’s paradox. Wish I’d taken screenshots. CNN is currently on “Biden nears victory.” Fox is on “America (still) waits.” NYT is on “Biden edges closer to victory.”
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Though the front page still shows a *new* counting-for-godot headline. You have to click through to see the call.pic.twitter.com/s4gSZkzxOX
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The NYT is reporting that AP and TV networks have called it
News that other news outlets are now sure there will be news. How much more meta can this get?pic.twitter.com/5fLsdhpKew
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Santorum is putting up a rather sad defense on CNN. It’s like speaker-for-the-dead. Bunch of disingenuous rationalizations but they’re humoring him.
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Fox calls it too. Trump is now the loneliest man on the planet. I imagine even Rudy is looking for a good moment to slink away.pic.twitter.com/J9uacKL2mw
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Obama must be the happiest guy on the planet now. This is *deep* redemption that his veep was the one to end what was effectively an “undo-Obama” 4-year-run of pure resentment. Undo/redo. Makes me think hard right will be auto-saving their own revert point here. Dueling forks.
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Fox coverage now is Bret Baier and Chris Wallace, the known reasonable moderates Trump is known to hate. They read out a WH press release verbatim but are otherwise firmly reinforcing that this is a solid call.
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Chris Wallace pointing out that Mitt Romney conceded gracefully despite being prepared for a legal fight, and the cost of nit doing so etc. Wonder if Fox will overall seek rehabilitation and sideline the Hannitty crowd.
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Fox is now being almost embarrassingly gracious about all things Biden. They’re going to give him a nice if short honeymoon till the Georgia runoffs. Trump is literally golfing and the Fox guy said something about putts. Kasich is on CNN. He’s pretty much a shoo-in for cabinet.
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Unfortunately for Trump the strong GOP downballot performance (arguably a rout of the Dems) makes it far harder to argue fraud even in principle/circumstantially. If you figure out a big enough exploit you’d obviously try to distort senate and house races too.
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Ok will stop tracking this here until Biden speech. After that we’ll close this thread. Replies time-stamped after Biden’s speech will not be counted.
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This is surreal. Watching former GOP presidential candidates sort of represent... the protocol wing of the party?https://twitter.com/MittRomney/status/1325142815354064896 …
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Anyone have a sense of breakdown of Biden vote among: a) pure anti-Trump single issue b) actually pro-Biden c) pragmatic Bernie-progressives compromising instead of horseshoeing over to Trump? I’m a) but do also like Biden. But I’d have voted for basically anyone against Trump.
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I voted Warren in primaries, but I liked Biden too. Wife voted Sanders and doesn’t, but gritted her teeth and voted for him anyway. I knew Warren was a long shot in the primaries but I was surprised by how badly she lost. I thought she was a potential center-far-left compromise.
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Missed this since I was not watching tv. I’d never heard of Van Jones before, but he was impressive on the CNN panel going toe-to-toe with Rick Santorum, who was doing a decent rearguard defense for Trump.https://twitter.com/HuffPost/status/1325138698740985856 …
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Social distancing is going to be tough. I’m betting new case peaks in a couple of weeks.pic.twitter.com/u6tL8uVa8K
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Adding a screenshot of a censored Trump here. Something symbolic there. He was elected as the voice of a broad sentiment, turned that voice into a narcissistic self-aggrandizing 24-7 party. Now he’s been muzzled. I expect many who support him will feel personally silenced.pic.twitter.com/CpSeN9ytgV
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Pair with spotlight on Stacey Abrams who worked to actually give a voice to vast numbers of people instead of merely exploiting their frustrationshttps://twitter.com/thewomensorg/status/1324653254450569218?s=21 …
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Subplot. If this keeps up they’ll be demanding a recount of the vote in Canada.pic.twitter.com/7SWssSgJLn
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Has it ever happened that a victory speech has been delivered before a concession? Even in 2000 Al Gore conceded before retracting the concession iirc, right?
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I guess this sort of thing is to be expected for a while. I personally find zero joy in this sort of thing tbh.https://twitter.com/harikunzru/status/1325129548325933056?s=20 …
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He didn’t have the biggest inauguration crowd but he’s definitely getting the biggest exit crowd. I wouldn’t join such crowds even without Covid but it’s interestinghttps://twitter.com/adamparkhomenko/status/1325181781386031105?s=21 …
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