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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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Please clap
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Congratulations to President-elect Biden. I have prayed for our President most of my adult life. I will be praying for you and your success. Now is the time to heal deep wounds. Many are counting on you to lead the way.
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This is surreal. Watching former GOP presidential candidates sort of represent... the protocol wing of the party?
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Ann and I extend our congratulations to President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris. We know both of them as people of good will and admirable character. We pray that God may bless them in the days and years ahead.
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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.
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CNN contributor Van Jones got emotional shortly after the news network called the election for Joe Biden.
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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 frustrations
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It’s reported that Stacey Abrams worked relentlessly to register over 800,000 new voters across Georgia who were affected by voter suppression in time for the U.S elections. That is some impact 👏🏾🇺🇸
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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.
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You may want to mute this account for a while because I feel I may have to individually insult every member of the outgoing administration in crude and personal ways
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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 interesting
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this party outside the White House maybe the best trolling i have seen in four years
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He speaks much more clearly and confidentially when he’s on a relaxed winning curve and his fumbles and slight stutters show up under stress. That’s one thing he shares with Trump... he does not know how to disguise his real emotions. He just has a healthier range of them.
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A splendidly mediocre speech by an optimally average speaker. Exactly what I was hoping for. He was steadily energetic and moved on stage. That physical energy and mood I think were well played counterpoints both to Trump’s physical demeanor and his sleepy-Joe line.
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Well, that’s all folks. We end this thread here. Follow this other thread for the excruciating analysis and lessons learned.
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This QT is my election livetweet thread. Now that things are winding down into a tight endgame with a cloud of murky lawsuits and doubt-merchanting hanging over them... I hereby declare the excruciating lessons learned meta-thread open. Muahahahaha. twitter.com/vgr/status/132…
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