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UshiromiyaEva
12/14/20 4:37:04 PM
#302:


Mitchell is also leaving in January, so it's purely symbolic. He specifically calls it out in his letter, though, so it's not like he's pretending otherwise.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/14/politics/read-paul-mitchell-republican-party-letter/index.html

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xp1337
12/14/20 4:39:36 PM
#303:


HeroDelTiempo17 posted...
Amash was essentually bullied out too, I don't think that counts. I'm not even sure if he got re-elected.
He didn't even seek re-election. Seat was won by another Republican 53-47.

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Suprak the Stud
12/14/20 5:01:19 PM
#304:


For those interested in election betting, all of the "iN cOnTeSt" states are back down to 0.94 after being up as high as 0.97.

It is possible they dip back to the 0.89/0.90 range if the MAGA crowd gets desperate and delusional again about the elector route. I've already see a change in attitude at TD. Basically free money if it dips in that range so keep an eye out.

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xp1337
12/14/20 5:17:40 PM
#305:


California electors getting ready to vote right now. When they do it'll put Biden over the top (to 302 with just Hawaii's 4 EVs yet to vote)

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KamikazePotato
12/14/20 5:18:54 PM
#306:


Have there been any faithless electors this year?

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xp1337
12/14/20 5:19:26 PM
#307:


KamikazePotato posted...
Have there been any faithless electors this year?
None so far, just CA and HI left so I'm doubting it.

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xp1337
12/14/20 5:29:56 PM
#308:


And the tally was just read for CA's Presidential vote. 55-0 to Biden as expected; no faithless electors. (They're now voting on VP but yeah)

EV count (for president) now at: 302-232. The only 4 Electoral Votes yet to be cast are Hawaii's and as I mentioned this morning they plan to vote at 7 PM Eastern.

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Inviso
12/14/20 5:30:19 PM
#309:


xp1337 posted...
He didn't even seek re-election. Seat was won by another Republican 53-47.

Didn't he seek re-election, but only as a Libertarian since someone else got the GOP nomination?

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Corrik7
12/14/20 5:30:48 PM
#310:


https://twitter.com/NRA/status/1338276458582708225

lmfao I can't what the lmfao

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xp1337
12/14/20 5:35:06 PM
#311:


Inviso posted...
Didn't he seek re-election, but only as a Libertarian since someone else got the GOP nomination?
Nah. He switched to Libertarian in April and announced an exploratory campaign for President under the Libertarian nomination but cancelled that in May. And in July he announced he wasn't seeking re-election for his House seat.

He didn't run in the Republican primary. He received, but declined, the Libertarian nomination for his house seat.

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UshiromiyaEva
12/14/20 5:48:14 PM
#312:


Barr is out.

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xp1337
12/14/20 5:49:48 PM
#313:


"resigned"

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MoogleKupo141
12/14/20 5:52:24 PM
#314:


its so wild that there are still people buying into this like its more likely that every Conservative in a position of authority who they previously trusted have just simultaneously decided to sell Trump out than Trump just being wrong
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kevwaffles
12/14/20 5:54:47 PM
#315:


Announcing Barr's "resignation" is a desperate attempt to change the focus of the news cycle, which will work because it always does.
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xp1337
12/14/20 5:55:47 PM
#316:


kevwaffles posted...
Announcing Barr's "resignation" is a desperate attempt to change the focus of the news cycle, which will work because it always does.
I agree the timing is designed to try and hijack the media cycle from Biden winning the EC but I'm not sure it does that and even then Biden is addressing the nation tonight so he'll just take it back. =/

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UshiromiyaEva
12/14/20 6:22:19 PM
#317:


Graham has conceded that Biden won.

Thats a big one down.

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RaidenGarai
12/14/20 6:25:07 PM
#318:


UshiromiyaEva posted...
Graham has conceded that Biden won.

Thats a big one down.
This shocks me. I thought he would be too busy loving the smell of Trump's colon to say anything

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red sox 777
12/14/20 6:54:18 PM
#319:


Apparently the Hunter Biden tax investigation was ongoing for months and Barr made sure it stayed secret until after the election. He must not have told Trump about it either. Kind of a shocker, but Barr handled this much better than Comey did!

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foolm0r0n
12/14/20 10:18:51 PM
#320:


MoogleKupo141 posted...
Most of the country didnt choose to go this route, theyre just stuck in a weird system devised by a bunch of long dead people that allows a smaller group to have disproportionate power. They dont deserve this.
Minority protections in a tri-branch system of checks & balances isn't a weird system. It's the longest running federal system in modern history and has been copied many times by other countries. What's weird and undeserved is the erosion of balances, especially in the legislative which is explicitly meant to be the voice of the people.

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UshiromiyaEva
12/14/20 10:37:08 PM
#321:


The SC is an unbalanced mess, but at least the last couple of weeks have convinced me it's not completely in shambles.

https://mobile.twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1338665077679902721

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UshiromiyaEva
12/15/20 3:06:52 AM
#322:


Gonna note whenever I see a major crackpot source has given up on Trump.

Newsmax has admitted Biden's victory.

OANN...has not updated there news feed at all since this morning, lol.

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LinkMarioSamus
12/15/20 5:01:26 AM
#323:


MoogleKupo141 posted...
its so wild that there are still people buying into this like its more likely that every Conservative in a position of authority who they previously trusted have just simultaneously decided to sell Trump out than Trump just being wrong

This. For there to be a conspiracy to get Trump out of office regardless of the vote, there would have to be so many people of both parties in on it that you might as well just draw the conclusion that lots of people wanted Trump out of office.

Donald Trump never won a presidential election on his own merits. He was just there at the right place at the right time in 2016, and it turns out 2020 isn't 2016. And yes, this does mean I believe Joe Biden did not win this election on his own merits either.

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LordoftheMorons
12/15/20 11:00:14 AM
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LinkMarioSamus
12/15/20 11:03:57 AM
#325:


Republicans now acting like Joe Biden's going to sell the whole country out to China. As if Trump didn't already do something similar which they either denied or approved of.

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JonThePenguin
12/15/20 11:14:46 AM
#326:


McConnell also acknowledging Bidens victory now.

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UshiromiyaEva
12/15/20 11:38:18 AM
#327:


The Senate in particular I think is about to completely turn heel and start shifting the message.

Not just because the college, but GA early voting for the runoffs yesterday demolished the first day early voting numbers for the presidential election, with an even higher Dem turnout ratio. Not good for them, obviously. Trump is about to be abandoned en masse in favor of the runoffs.

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Jakyl25
12/15/20 11:38:36 AM
#328:


JonThePenguin posted...
McConnell also acknowledging Bidens victory now.


Send him to jail Donald!
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xp1337
12/15/20 12:01:01 PM
#329:


IIRC reporting was saying that McConnell was trying to keep the Senate in line and not go full crazy "reject the certified electors" like the House seems priming to do so yeah, the EC vote probably is going to be the turning point for them.

Still only need one Senator to turn January 6 into a circus though even if it'd be an entirely futile gesture.

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LinkMarioSamus
12/15/20 12:43:36 PM
#330:


I got into an argument with someone who proclaimed that the electoral college gave Trump all the swing states (what?) and that the EC certifying the results means nothing because they still need to be taken to the Senate to be counted by Pence. Actually this just sounds more stupid the more I realize, I have no idea why this worried me into thinking Trump won the election.

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NFUN
12/15/20 12:51:51 PM
#331:


LinkMarioSamus posted...
I got into an argument with someone who proclaimed that the electoral college gave Trump all the swing states (what?) and that the EC certifying the results means nothing because they still need to be taken to the Senate to be counted by Pence. Actually this just sounds more stupid the more I realize, I have no idea why this worried me into thinking Trump won the election.

I can think of a reason
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UshiromiyaEva
12/15/20 1:07:01 PM
#332:


Can only imagine Republicans are starting to realize how truly deeply they fucked up letting Trump run rampant now that Literally Mitch Effing McConnell is being called a RINO.

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MitsuruKirijo
12/15/20 1:18:24 PM
#333:


UshiromiyaEva posted...
Can only imagine Republicans are starting to realize how truly deeply they f***ed up letting Trump run rampant now that Literally Mitch Effing McConnell is being called a RINO.

McConnell is definitely a RINO. Anyone who supports him is also a RINO. He was never going to help Trump, and anyone who thought otherwise was thoroughly fooled. Georgia needs to make sure they get out and vote for Warnock and Osoff to make McConnell pay for betraying Trump like this.
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neonreaper
12/15/20 1:21:39 PM
#334:


mwc!

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UshiromiyaEva
12/15/20 1:25:07 PM
#335:


I assumed that was a sarcastic wink and a nod post, but if it's MWC then I can only assume it's legit.

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kevwaffles
12/15/20 1:28:25 PM
#336:


It definitely sounds like him, at least

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neonreaper
12/15/20 1:29:59 PM
#337:


I guess it's probably not MWC, there's far too little violence being proposed

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kevwaffles
12/15/20 1:31:58 PM
#338:


Give it time

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GuessMyUserName
12/15/20 1:43:05 PM
#339:


MWC with a 2008 account? Doubt, he's always created new ones returning from his bans.

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LinkMarioSamus
12/15/20 1:43:45 PM
#340:


New excuse why the election results must be fake: they don't follow the trend over the past 20 years shifting away from both Republicans and Democrats. Yes, because elections must follow trends. And more nonsense about Hillary Clinton having more force behind her than Joe Biden did behind him, although that may be true in a sense.

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UshiromiyaEva
12/15/20 2:06:53 PM
#341:


Looks like Pete is confirmed for...wait...

https://twitter.com/CNNPolitics/status/1338921481775026177?s=20

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UshiromiyaEva
12/15/20 3:05:10 PM
#342:


See these people get completely and totally shut down gives me life. What a dressing.

https://youtu.be/S3tm3ID0eDM

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UshiromiyaEva
12/15/20 3:06:46 PM
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HashtagSEP
12/15/20 3:07:28 PM
#344:


McConnell is apparently begging Senate Rs not to object to the election certification, since then they'd have to vote it down and it'd make them appear anti-Trump

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red sox 777
12/15/20 3:08:45 PM
#345:


UshiromiyaEva posted...
Looks like Pete is confirmed for...wait...

https://twitter.com/CNNPolitics/status/1338921481775026177?s=20

Great. Mayor Pete, we've got a lot to do on infrastructure in this country. President Trump promised a lot on this front but has done absolutely nothing. I think Obama and Bush also did nothing, and maybe even further back than that. It's time to bring our infrastructure back up to first world standards.

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ChaosTonyV4
12/15/20 6:36:26 PM
#346:




Not really real, but you know its real.

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Suprak the Stud
12/15/20 6:39:12 PM
#347:


ChaosTonyV4 posted...


Not really real, but you know its real.

If Amy Klobuchar knew how to use Twitter it would be real.

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LordoftheMorons
12/15/20 6:51:24 PM
#348:


Jesus Christ

https://twitter.com/amandacarpenter/status/1338991148099104775?s=21

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xp1337
12/15/20 6:55:29 PM
#349:


but i've been told that this is all just entirely normal election dispute process stuff. nothing being normalized and influenced with this rhetoric at all, no sir

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UshiromiyaEva
12/15/20 6:56:13 PM
#350:


The former HPD captain told authorities the repairman was hiding 750,000 fraudulent ballots in a truck he was driving, but it turns out he had air conditioning parts and tools.

Aguirre allegedly never told police that he had been paid a total of $266,400 by the Houston-based Liberty Center for God and Country, with $211,400 of that amount being deposited into his account the day after the incident.

Could this technically be prosecuted as an attempted hit?

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UshiromiyaEva
12/15/20 6:56:55 PM
#351:


xp1337 posted...
but i've been told that this is all just entirely normal election dispute process stuff. nothing being normalized and influenced with this rhetoric at all, no sir

Typically it's safe to assume the opposite of anything foolmo says!

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