2020 Presidential Election Thread presents: The Aftermath

[Clyde_Style]

I think it's kinda entertaining watching him get his teeth kicked in all the time.

For you perhaps

But all they're doing is defecating on RealGM and making a pathetic fool of themselves

All chug jokes aside, it is just becoming sad. Watching people go insane is not actually fun TBH

IMO, everyone should’ve put the neo-nazis on ignore long ago as I have. Joking around, debating and playing footsies with them is insane. Engaging them lends credibility to their rhetoric, and makes it harder for me to ignore. Resist the urge as it’s a waste of energy and unproductive.

You're right. I wish we all did that. I've tried. I'll try again. We do need to cut off the troll's oxygen so the Nazi goes back into their crawlspace.

[KnicksGadfly]

Secretary Pompeo: “There Will Be a Smooth Transition of Power to a Second Trump Administration”…

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2020/11/10/secretary-pompeo-there-will-be-a-smooth-transition-of-power-to-a-second-trump-administration/

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Trump Campaign Attorney Lin Wood interview, says Biden is going to Jail, that this has been a two decade attempt to overthrow our government. China involved.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/11/huge-lin-wood-howie-carr-joe-biden-people-like-trying-steal-election-will-go-jail-video/

Reminder 2018 Trump EO:
(He's a builder, very long time lines, of course he saw this coming.)

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/executive-order-imposing-certain-sanctions-event-foreign-interference-united-states-election/

Executive Order on Imposing Certain Sanctions in the Event of Foreign Interference in a United States Election

Sec. 2. (a) All property and interests in property that are in the United States, that hereafter come within the United States, or that are or hereafter come within the possession or control of any United States person of the following persons are blocked and may not be transferred, paid, exported, withdrawn, or otherwise dealt in: any foreign person determined by the Secretary of the Treasury, in consultation with the Secretary of State, the Attorney General, and the Secretary of Homeland Security:

(i) to have directly or indirectly engaged in, sponsored, concealed, or otherwise been complicit in foreign interference in a United States election;

(ii) to have materially assisted, sponsored, or provided financial, material, or technological support for, or goods or services to or in support of, any activity described in subsection (a)(i) of this section or any person whose property and interests in property are blocked pursuant to this order; or

(iii) to be owned or controlled by, or to have acted or purported to act for or on behalf of, directly or indirectly, any person whose property or interests in property are blocked pursuant to this order.

Wow! You found out the truth!

https://secure.winred.com/djt/election-defense-fund

Please donate! Every dollar of yours counts! Stop the liberals and socialists!

[spree2kawhi]

For you perhaps

But all they're doing is defecating on RealGM and making a pathetic fool of themselves

All chug jokes aside, it is just becoming sad. Watching people go insane is not actually fun TBH

IMO, everyone should’ve put the neo-nazis on ignore long ago as I have. Joking around, debating and playing footsies with them is insane. Engaging them lends credibility to their rhetoric, and makes it harder for me to ignore. Resist the urge as it’s a waste of energy and unproductive.

You're right. I wish we all did that. I've tried. I'll try again. We do need to cut off the troll's oxygen so the Nazi goes back into their crawlspace.

Same here. We should give them nothing.

[j4remi]

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This excerpt is why I've been freaking out about the election results...

Although we don’t yet know the winners of some House races, we can already look ahead to the 2022 midterms and see a fairly straightforward path for the GOP to capture the House. Midterm elections historically go well for the party that’s not in the White House, and the out-of-power party is especially likely to do well in the House, since every seat is up for election (the Senate is a more complicated story).

Since the end of World War II, the presidential party has lost an average of 27 House seats in midterm elections, as the chart below shows. No matter how many seats Democrats end up with after 2020’s election — at this point, they will probably end up somewhere in the low 220s — a loss of that magnitude would easily be enough for Republicans to retake the House.

The recent history of midterms in a Democratic president’s first term seems especially promising for the GOP, too. Following Bill Clinton’s election in 1992, Democrats lost more than 50 seats in 1994, and after Barack Obama won the presidency in 2008, Democrats lost more than 60 seats.

If Democrats had added five to 10 seats this year, they could have survived a 20-seat loss in the midterms. Instead, Republicans will probably need to win fewer than 10 seats to gain a slender majority in 2022.

On top of this, Republicans could very well benefit from the new district lines that will be drawn ahead of the 2022 midterm elections. The GOP is set to fully control redistricting for about two-fifths of all House seats, while Democrats will only hold sway over one-tenth of them, with the remaining seats are in states with divided governments or where redistricting is done by a commission system. The Republican line-drawing advantage should help the party draw favorable maps that could help the GOP win more seats than we might otherwise expect.

[Oscirus]

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This excerpt is why I've been freaking out about the election results...

Although we don’t yet know the winners of some House races, we can already look ahead to the 2022 midterms and see a fairly straightforward path for the GOP to capture the House. Midterm elections historically go well for the party that’s not in the White House, and the out-of-power party is especially likely to do well in the House, since every seat is up for election (the Senate is a more complicated story).

Since the end of World War II, the presidential party has lost an average of 27 House seats in midterm elections, as the chart below shows. No matter how many seats Democrats end up with after 2020’s election — at this point, they will probably end up somewhere in the low 220s — a loss of that magnitude would easily be enough for Republicans to retake the House.

The recent history of midterms in a Democratic president’s first term seems especially promising for the GOP, too. Following Bill Clinton’s election in 1992, Democrats lost more than 50 seats in 1994, and after Barack Obama won the presidency in 2008, Democrats lost more than 60 seats.

If Democrats had added five to 10 seats this year, they could have survived a 20-seat loss in the midterms. Instead, Republicans will probably need to win fewer than 10 seats to gain a slender majority in 2022.

On top of this, Republicans could very well benefit from the new district lines that will be drawn ahead of the 2022 midterm elections. The GOP is set to fully control redistricting for about two-fifths of all House seats, while Democrats will only hold sway over one-tenth of them, with the remaining seats are in states with divided governments or where redistricting is done by a commission system. The Republican line-drawing advantage should help the party draw favorable maps that could help the GOP win more seats than we might otherwise expect.

Yet pelosi gets to stay in power unchallenged. Oh well

So far, we have:

1st Black vp, 1st female vp, 1st east asian vp
1st jewish spouse of either party
1st italian first lady
3rd divorcee first lady
2nd roman catholic president
oldest president

Probs missing some but thats what ive gathered so far.

[GONYK]

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I believe this makes Trump 0/11 in legal challenges around the election

[SelbyCobra]

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This excerpt is why I've been freaking out about the election results...

Although we don’t yet know the winners of some House races, we can already look ahead to the 2022 midterms and see a fairly straightforward path for the GOP to capture the House. Midterm elections historically go well for the party that’s not in the White House, and the out-of-power party is especially likely to do well in the House, since every seat is up for election (the Senate is a more complicated story).

Since the end of World War II, the presidential party has lost an average of 27 House seats in midterm elections, as the chart below shows. No matter how many seats Democrats end up with after 2020’s election — at this point, they will probably end up somewhere in the low 220s — a loss of that magnitude would easily be enough for Republicans to retake the House.

The recent history of midterms in a Democratic president’s first term seems especially promising for the GOP, too. Following Bill Clinton’s election in 1992, Democrats lost more than 50 seats in 1994, and after Barack Obama won the presidency in 2008, Democrats lost more than 60 seats.

If Democrats had added five to 10 seats this year, they could have survived a 20-seat loss in the midterms. Instead, Republicans will probably need to win fewer than 10 seats to gain a slender majority in 2022.

On top of this, Republicans could very well benefit from the new district lines that will be drawn ahead of the 2022 midterm elections. The GOP is set to fully control redistricting for about two-fifths of all House seats, while Democrats will only hold sway over one-tenth of them, with the remaining seats are in states with divided governments or where redistricting is done by a commission system. The Republican line-drawing advantage should help the party draw favorable maps that could help the GOP win more seats than we might otherwise expect.

I can't find the tweet thread I read on this in the last day or two, but it was a very sober look at things, and it basically said the likely scenario is a GOP stranglehold on the legislative branch until at the very LEAST 2028. I'm still searching for it to link, but yeah, it basically said this is the statistically probable outcome for the 20's.

[Kampuchea]

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I believe this makes Trump 0/11 in legal challenges around the election

I think he won in Pennsylvania the smaller case and that is it

https://www.post-gazette.com/news/crime-courts/2020/11/12/trump-campaign-election-2020-presidential-pennsylvania-lawsuit-ballots-late-identification/stories/202011120132

[Oscirus]

yea trump is 1 and 11 currently. As funny as this is, he needs to stop **** around with the intelligence briefings

[Kampuchea]

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/nov/13/trump-law-firm-withdraws-pennsylvania-election-case

A major law firm withdrew overnight from a Trump campaign case in Pennsylvania seeking to have mail-in ballots thrown out, in the latest blow to the president’s efforts to challenge the 2020 election result in court.

The Ohio-based Porter Wright Morris & Arthur firm, which brought a suit on Monday alleging that the use of mail-in ballots had created “an illegal two-tiered voting system” in the state, abruptly withdrew from that case in a memo to the court.

“Plaintiffs and Porter Wright have reached a mutual agreement that plaintiffs will be best served if Porter Wright withdraws,” the memo said. The lead lawyer in the case, the Pittsburgh-based Ronald L Hicks Jr, did not immediately reply to a request for comment. The news was first reported by the New York Times.

Separately, lawyers for the Trump campaign withdrew a lawsuit in Arizona, conceding that the case would not move enough votes to change the election result in the state. “Since the close of yesterday’s hearing, the tabulation of votes statewide has rendered unnecessary a judicial ruling as to the presidential electors,” Trump lawyer Kory Langhofer told an Arizona state court, in news first reported by the Wall Street Journal.

Unlike most lawsuits brought by the Trump campaign, which targeted small pools of votes whose exclusion would not change the election result, the Porter Wright suit in Pennsylvania challenged nearly 2.65m votes that were cast by mail, the majority by Democrats.

[Clyde_Style]

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/nov/13/trump-law-firm-withdraws-pennsylvania-election-case

A major law firm withdrew overnight from a Trump campaign case in Pennsylvania seeking to have mail-in ballots thrown out, in the latest blow to the president’s efforts to challenge the 2020 election result in court.

The Ohio-based Porter Wright Morris & Arthur firm, which brought a suit on Monday alleging that the use of mail-in ballots had created “an illegal two-tiered voting system” in the state, abruptly withdrew from that case in a memo to the court.

“Plaintiffs and Porter Wright have reached a mutual agreement that plaintiffs will be best served if Porter Wright withdraws,” the memo said. The lead lawyer in the case, the Pittsburgh-based Ronald L Hicks Jr, did not immediately reply to a request for comment. The news was first reported by the New York Times.

Separately, lawyers for the Trump campaign withdrew a lawsuit in Arizona, conceding that the case would not move enough votes to change the election result in the state. “Since the close of yesterday’s hearing, the tabulation of votes statewide has rendered unnecessary a judicial ruling as to the presidential electors,” Trump lawyer Kory Langhofer told an Arizona state court, in news first reported by the Wall Street Journal.

Unlike most lawsuits brought by the Trump campaign, which targeted small pools of votes whose exclusion would not change the election result, the Porter Wright suit in Pennsylvania challenged nearly 2.65m votes that were cast by mail, the majority by Democrats.

Even if Trump could magically overturn both PA and GA, Biden would still have exactly 270. This is going nowhere fast.

[Oscirus]

Aww meghan trying to be funny, so coot

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bigly loss for the GOP here.

and:

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[robillionaire]

Is the acceptance phase setting in yet or are we still in denial and bargaining? Tune in to find out

[HarthorneWingo]

Is the acceptance phase setting in yet or are we still in denial and bargaining? Tune in to find out

I betcha Trump never comes back from Mara lago.

Anyhow. we got a civil war brewing in the House. Team AOC vs Team Pelosi.

[HarthorneWingo]

I think it's kinda entertaining watching him get his teeth kicked in all the time.

For you perhaps

But all they're doing is defecating on RealGM and making a pathetic fool of themselves

All chug jokes aside, it is just becoming sad. Watching people go insane is not actually fun TBH

IMO, everyone should’ve put the neo-nazis on ignore long ago as I have. Joking around, debating and playing footsies with them is insane. Engaging them lends credibility to their rhetoric, and makes it harder for me to ignore. Resist the urge as it’s a waste of energy and unproductive.

Yeah, I’m done. I tried but only because of JVG.

[HarthorneWingo]

I think it's kinda entertaining watching him get his teeth kicked in all the time.

For you perhaps

But all they're doing is defecating on RealGM and making a pathetic fool of themselves

All chug jokes aside, it is just becoming sad. Watching people go insane is not actually fun TBH

IMO, everyone should’ve put the neo-nazis on ignore long ago as I have. Joking around, debating and playing footsies with them is insane. Engaging them lends credibility to their rhetoric, and makes it harder for me to ignore. Resist the urge as it’s a waste of energy and unproductive.

Yeah, I’m done. I tried but only out of respect for JVG.

[Clyde_Style]

For you perhaps

But all they're doing is defecating on RealGM and making a pathetic fool of themselves

All chug jokes aside, it is just becoming sad. Watching people go insane is not actually fun TBH

IMO, everyone should’ve put the neo-nazis on ignore long ago as I have. Joking around, debating and playing footsies with them is insane. Engaging them lends credibility to their rhetoric, and makes it harder for me to ignore. Resist the urge as it’s a waste of energy and unproductive.

Yeah, I’m done. I tried but only because of JVG.

TEAM TROLL IGNORE!

LET'S GO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[robillionaire]

Stop quoting them

[HarthorneWingo]

Two of Trump’s election law firms are dumping his fat ass. They probably know that Trump will stiff them on the bill.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/13/business/porter-wright-trump-pennsylvania.html

Porter Wright withdrew from a federal lawsuit it had filed days earlier. A top Jones Day lawyer said the firm wouldn’t take on new election litigation.