***Official Political Discussion Thread***

[bostoiah]

I haven’t seen a one term president in my lifetime (born in 94). Hopefully I see my first one now but got me thinking that no chance Biden is a two term if he holds on gon be back to back one term presidents

dude is gon be 83 when the next election rolls around

 

[Based Jesus]

For those of you among us who weren't with us and are now trying to pretend you are, you're a piece of **** sellout.
I hope any POC spouses you might have leave you and you die a lonely hateful bigot. Kiss my *** you nocturnal garbage eating mammal.

Yeah this about you, there's no name though, I'm speaking generally just to help me play it off

 

[kingfoamnyc]

I know I shouldn't bank much on exit polls but **** it

Black people are the true Americans and need to start believing that after this election is over.

Death to the term "African American"

We aren't hybrids or less than anyone else

We BUILT this country with our hands, literally

TRUE AMERICANS.

 

[whywesteppin]

So many new peeps in here last night acting like Playoff P when the lights got bright. Especially @Coupé It

We were never worried

Spoiler

post of the decade.

A+++

 

[dwalk31]

If you were skeptical about Biden and his plan for black people based on something that happen 26 years ago, I can only imagine how you feel about Trump RIGHT NOW, THIS EXACT MOMENT if he won the next 4 years.

"I love my African Americans"
"Look at my blacks... they love me"
"look at my african american over there"
"I've done more for black people than Abraham Lincoln"

Rhetoric vs. action.

As I’ve mentioned repeatedly, the First Step Act, Fair Chance Act and record funding to HBCUs mattered to me. And Trump’s ability to get these measures past a GOP senate that obstructed similar measures in the past showed that we could get similar measures passed in a second term.

The Dems were still unable to flip the senate. Which was my fear and part of my analysis in the Trump support for a second term. Great proposals getting obstructed by McConnell hardly seem like a win. That’s why the plan B is for Dems to flip the senate.

 

[RustyShackleford]

Ensuring the meaningful legislation gets passed is my objective.

I’m hoping that Biden gets all of the great proposals he campaigned on passed. Not completely sure your objective of going in on me. But go off.

Congrats on the win.

You are a damn liar

Enriching yourself was the main objective and you only start acting like you gave a **** when you got pressure.

You are a sellout, plain, and simple. Willing to sell out your people for a $1000 SBA loan scam, a few dollars on your check, and getting a few inches closer to a rental property.

I pray for your children. That somewhere in their life they meet people that will teaches them to love their people. Because they clearly won't get it from you.

 

[AEA18]

I hope people still hold these rats accountable. Don't get to pretend like they didn't rock with the orange clown for the last 4 years.

Jump ship and drown in the ocean.

 

[Upptempo]

And this was retweeted 7k times

Who stole the ballots? Marmaduke?

 

[freeze]

Saw somebody, white woman, say michigan is stealing the election because it's nothing but black people in the poll center counting votes and they're not letting white people in to count.


Aight man. You can have this one.

 

[KHUFU]

Miss me

You deserve every single criticism I have thrown your way

You are a grown man, you have agency over your actions, you chose to support white supremacy and defend a racist President

So please get the **** outta my face with that bull****.

I don't work for the Democratic Party, my post don't dictate their national strategy. Nancy Pelosi, Joe Biden, or Chuck Schumer is not calling you a sellout and pathetic racism supporting troll. I am. Because that is what you are. That is what you have shown yourself to be.

 

[IATT]

 

[whywesteppin]

I have claimed, for Electoral Vote purposes, the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (which won’t allow legal observers) the State of Texas, and the State of Florida, each one of which has a BIG WHYWESTEPPIN lead. Additionally, we hereby claim the State of California, even though it is infested with libs, but I'm pretty sure they all voted for me. Given all this, I now declare myself the winner of the 2020 Presidential election.

 

[whywesteppin]

For everybody asking about Arizona, here is Nate Bronze's explanation:

Arizona. We may need to do a longer post on Arizona later. What’s left to count is mostly mail votes that were returned late in the process — on Monday or Tuesday. There’s some ambiguity about how many ballots this actually is; Edison Research seems to think around 450,000. If so, Trump would need to win those votes by 21 points to overtake Biden’s current 93,000-vote lead. They’re disrupted fairly evenly throughout the state.

Wait — outstanding mail votes? Shouldn’t those be good for Biden, as in other states? Well, not necessarily, because Republicans have a fairly strong mail voting program in Arizona and — this is the key part — the mail ballots that were returned later in the process (the ones yet to be continued) were significantly redder than the ones that came in earlier on, as Democrats sent their votes in early. For instance, the party registration of the votes that came in Monday and Tuesday were: 23 percent Democratic, 44 percent Republican, and 33 percent independent or other parties. That is to say, a 21-point GOP edge, which would put Trump on track to tie things up.

But … here’s the bad news for Trump. Party registration may be a misleading indicator in Arizona. It has a lot of ancestral Republicans who have now turned into swing voters. Biden also had a big lead among independents in polls. And earlier batches of mail ballots were considerably stronger for Biden than party registration alone would suggest. So probably these ballots are going to come in more for Trump than for Biden, but not as strongly as he needs.

There’s also the fact that two other news organizations, the Associated Press and Fox News, have called the state for Biden. I’d assume they’ve put more work into looking into this than I have, so that shifts my priors a bit, but you never know and you will get incorrect calls occasionally. Overall, I’d say this is Likely Biden but I don’t think the state should have been called yet.

 

[reformeDWS]

if biden wins but republicans maintain the senate, it will be interesting to see the spin when the house and/or biden lobby for meaningful pro-black legislation and the senate says no.

if biden wins but republicans maintain the senate, it will also be interesting to hear that the senate actively opposing meaningful pro-black legislation would not have opposed similar meaningful legislation under trump or would have been withdrawn their opposition due to some magical "unique ability".

 

[QU!K]

latinks.

Latin X

?

 

[Cashflow]

 

[moe200069]

Giuliani and Eric Trump just threatened to take the entire country to court over not giving poll watchers access.

GOP equivalent of doug flutie hail mary

they're on the ropes

 

[Deleted member 42060]

The American public not understanding probabilities and statistics is the fail again. Polls lead us to a varying number of outcomes which include what we will inevitably end up with here. Most of the population doesn’t follow this stuff on a daily and then screams the polls were wrong on the day of.

If I had been telling you there was a 90 percent chance that the temperature is between 60-70 degrees today, but a 10% chance that the temperature is below 60 degrees, then the temperature being at 60.5 degrees shouldn’t have people calling me an idiot and wrong. We can complain about media coverage possibly — but people seemed very in tune with the possibility of Trump winning this go around.

Absolutely . Numbers don't lie, but it doesn't mean they can't change.

 

[whywesteppin]

We should get updates (and perhaps enough to make a call) from Arizona, Nevada, and Georgia tonight.

If Biden wins any two of those, he is the next president, regardless of what happens in Pennsylvania or North Carolina.

Alternatively, if Biden wins Pennsylvania, that alone is enough to win the election. Current projections are saying he should end up on top but there's still way too much uncertainty to say it with confidence.

 

[dwalk31]

if biden wins but republicans maintain the senate, it will be interesting to see the spin when the house and/or biden lobby for meaningful pro-black legislation and the senate says no.

if biden wins but republicans maintain the senate, it will also be interesting to hear that the senate actively opposing meaningful pro-black legislation would not have opposed similar meaningful legislation under trump or would have been withdrawn their opposition due to some magical "unique ability".

We’ve seen this play out already. Which is the fear I described.

The GOP-led senate blocked a version of the First Step Act under President Obama but passed a similar piece of legislation under Trump

 

[Based Jesus]

?

It's latin x

 

[kingfoamnyc]

Rhetoric vs. action.

As I’ve mentioned repeatedly, the First Step Act, Fair Chance Act and record funding to HBCUs mattered to me. And Trump’s ability to get these measures past a GOP senate that obstructed similar measures in the past showed that we could get similar measures passed in a second term.

The Dems were still unable to flip the senate. Which was my fear and part of my analysis in the Trump support for a second term. Great proposals getting obstructed by McConnell hardly seem like a win. That’s why the plan B is for Dems to flip the senate.

Those concerns are valid, I share some of the same butttttt coming from you my g people just see it as window dressing.

You said some real egregious **** in this thread over many months and folks are happy to throw **** in your face.

 

[ogbobbyjohnson773]

 

[ajiiiplatinum]

I know Mi Gente has been getting a lot of heat for our latino cuban brethren in Florida (who still pee their pants at the mention of Castro and Chavez) but you got to give the rest of us some credit for delivering Arizona and Nevada (here soon)
All my Latinos from CA who moved to AZ and Nevada represented last night.

 

[dwalk31]

We should get updates (and perhaps enough to make a call) from Arizona, Nevada, and Georgia tonight.

If Biden wins any two of those, he is the next president, regardless of what happens in Pennsylvania or North Carolina.

Alternatively, if Biden wins Pennsylvania, that alone is enough to win the election. Current projections are saying he should end up on top but there's still way too much uncertainty to say it with confidence.

If Trump wins any two of those, and maintains the lead in Pennsylvania, he wins.

Honestly, if he wins two of those. Pennsylvania will likely get decided by the courts.

But realistically Biden will win two and it’ll be over by Friday.