For any claims of election fraud or irregularities, I've noticed that factcheck.org has good explainers/debunks on them: https://www.factcheck.org/fake-news/
2020 US Presidential Elections | OT | Biden wins MN, AZ, NE-02, WI, MI. Now leading in GA, PA, and NV! Tossup in NC (Read Threadmarks)
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For any claims of election fraud or irregularities, I've noticed that factcheck.org has good explainers/debunks on them: https://www.factcheck.org/fake-news/
You might not explicitly talk about politics, but as almost everything in life has a bearing in politics you are implicitly talking about it. Like if you complain about your pay for that month, it's politics.
I mean if you want to go that route then yes everyone talks about local politics but then the question is irrelevant because there is so much you could consider politics that its axiomatic that everyone talks about it.
I was honestly surprised when I woke up and it still wasn't called... again.
Wasn't CNN teasing the race being called soon on Thursday afternoon EU time? All that I've gotten from CNN since PA being called are spicy takes and Richard Quest being excited about the future of mice
Both are evolutions of long-term trends towards blue. I think Dems could hold Georgia given the huge amount of focus that's been put in the state.
I'm less certain about Arizona though, I think avenging McCain was the big push that flipped it this time. It looks like Biden's lead is more tenuous than it initially seemed, so perhaps they're not really as far along that trendline as people had hoped.
Mind you anything can happen in 4 years. Predicting anything in politics is truly futile.
I am talking about people on ERA specifically. But I guess we have different experiences in normal day to day conversation. It's a big topic here.
Basically, people don't want to call it until Biden's lead in PA is >35k, which is the range where an automatic recount isn't called. It hasn't met that yet so....everyone's going "Biden's proooooobably got this in the bag, buuuuuuuuuut...."
Well idk if they talk about it. I follow it to an extent and i talk about it with one friend from the US i have. Do me and my european friends talk about US politics? Not really but then again i can only speak for myself.
In a normal election year, nearly all the outstanding states would have been called yesterday. The networks seem to be extremely cautious this cycle, due to Trump likely to pitch a fit about losing, and due to the difficulties in projecting results during an election during a pandemic.
It seems likely that PA -- and with it the presidential election -- will be called tomorrow. Theres just not enough possible vote left for Trump to plausibly sustain the idea he could pull ahead there.
Life Of Brian - "You are all individuals"
This is the famous little speech Brian makes about his followers all having to think for themselves. From: Monty Python's Life of Brian (1979)
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Given only a few hours ago:
This would have been a longer pair of victory speeches if any network had called the election today, but alas.
Life Of Brian - "You are all individuals"
This is the famous little speech Brian makes about his followers all having to think for themselves. From: Monty Python's Life of Brian (1979)
Phew, someone got the reference. My post would have been a little weird if people took it seriously.
Should be within a few hours for PA, what with only needing that 35k target (we're at 28k now).
Not just that. Can you imagine a 24 hour news cycle without Trump shitting the bed every.single.fucking.day?
Fox can make up fear and shit but legitimate news outlets must be terrified
Sadly, I think Trump is more likely to be angry thinking that a company making oddly shaped bottles of water congratulated Biden.
At this point, despite what the media says, they're complicit in Trumps bullshit. They need to just call the election so that people can move on. They're letting the fraud narrative dangle more and more because they refuse to just tell people it's over.
I am waiting for that too. I think leaders are waiting for major news channels to call the elections before doing that though.
Let's be real here, non americans know much more about American politics that americans know about non-american ones.
I talk with my friends about politics constantly, and if there's one country other than ours that we speak about is of course the US.
(Helps that most of us have lived there at one point or other of our lives but the reason that we went there in the first place is the same as why people are more knowledgeable about it's politics)
I talk with my friends about politics constantly, and if there's one country other than ours that we speak about is of course the US.
(Helps that most of us have lived there at one point or other of our lives but the reason that we went there in the first place is the same as why people are more knowledgeable about it's politics)
Also as a bit of perspective for the non-Americans complaining about the global community checking in, you'd, uhh, be surprised how much your stuff dominates our news cycle globally.
This is the front page of Australia's non-profit, national broadcaster. We have a 24/7 liveblog dedicated to the election where people can ask questions as well as live updates news being reported, which has been running since election day. We also have a 24/7 news channel which you can stream or is on TV takes short breaks between election coverage to cover the national and local news going on here. I have to scroll down to the 7th top story to get an Australian, non-US politics central story. I had a chat today with someone who didn't know that a long standing court case by a Trumpian mining magnate here suing one of our states cause they closed their borders for COVID-19 has been thrown out and ordered to pay the court costs.
We certainly don't get the full experience or info, but, at least here in Australia, you guys are often our media world when something goes on.
This is the front page of Australia's non-profit, national broadcaster. We have a 24/7 liveblog dedicated to the election where people can ask questions as well as live updates news being reported, which has been running since election day. We also have a 24/7 news channel which you can stream or is on TV takes short breaks between election coverage to cover the national and local news going on here. I have to scroll down to the 7th top story to get an Australian, non-US politics central story. I had a chat today with someone who didn't know that a long standing court case by a Trumpian mining magnate here suing one of our states cause they closed their borders for COVID-19 has been thrown out and ordered to pay the court costs.
We certainly don't get the full experience or info, but, at least here in Australia, you guys are often our media world when something goes on.
It also takes a lot of the wind out of you yelling "Come the fuck on CNN, call Pennsylvania!!!" for hours.
Don't ask me how I know.
I need the sign language guy to be my best man at my wedding
Fiji is desperate for countries to start taking action on climate change, as are many low-lying island nations in the Pacific. Australia isn't doing shit, so I'm not surprised to see them reaching out to Biden.
This is the kind of thing why foreigners are so vested in this election (like myself). It's very hard to make global change without the US.
Nah he prolly out of breath from running to each city by himself to install that mystical fraudulent software
Thanks - that was a good speech. Some good points made, hopefully they are also heard and not ignored from the people that are angry and afraid over the elections.
Same over here in Spain. You might think that it's a us-only thing, but it's everything but, all the eyes are focused in your country right now, like it or not, and whoever wins will impact the lives of a lot more than the 350ish million in your country.Also as a bit of perspective for the non-Americans complaining about the global community checking in, you'd, uhh, be surprised how much your stuff dominates our news cycle globally.
This is the front page of Australia's non-profit, national broadcaster. We have a 24/7 liveblog dedicated to the election where people can ask questions as well as live updates news being reported, which has been running since election day. We also have a 24/7 news channel which you can stream or is on TV takes short breaks between election coverage to cover the national and local news going on here. I have to scroll down to the 7th top story to get an Australian, non-US politics central story. I had a chat today with someone who didn't know that a long standing court case by a Trumpian mining magnate here suing one of our states cause they closed their borders for COVID-19 has been thrown out and ordered to pay the court costs.
We certainly don't get the full experience or info, but, at least here in Australia, you guys are often our media world when something goes on.
You might be out of breath as well if you spent all day whoopin Trump's ass. Haha.
Yep, there's been a lot of hope that a Biden win will drag our Prime Minister (Fuckin Scomo) kicking and screaming into doing something, given he's been using Trump's complete disregard as a bit of an excuse
Will there even be a regular inauguration? With the current pandemic?
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