US Election 2020: President Elect Biden and VP Elect Harris

[Chief]

This thread is continued in... The Aftermath

US Election 2020: President Biden and VP Harris - The Aftermath

Now we have most of the main players confirmed its time to start the thread on this Pence I assume will be Trumps VP - but I will leave the ? until confirmed https://www.timeanddate.com/countdown/generic?iso=20210120T09&p0=900&msg=Inauguration+2021&font=sanserif

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[Monkey King]

Wow! Michigan just refused to certify the election results! Having courage is a beautiful thing.

Read: Two Republicans just blocked the certification of votes in Michigan. Corruption is a powerful thing.

Oh Donald. Didn't quite work out in the end.

 

[CrowBloke]

Sadly, I too studied philosophy - and logic. May I ask which august institution you attended to study this?

Sure --- Adelaide Uni. Philosophy Department --- I remember most vividly "Rationalism, Determinism and Empiricism" with Michael Bradley (who refuted brilliantly Prof. Smart's "Identity Theory", and Smart was steamed up after being counter-argued to shreds by a Philosopher from Smart's own Department, ha!). I loved Michael Bradley whose lectures were deadpan and sense-of-humour bitingly dry, all from a brilliant mind. One day, I was walking out of the building complaining to my then-girlfriend that " ... if Bradley ever smiled in one of his Lectures, his face would crack".
When I heard his voice behind me (busted!) I turned quickly and saw for the first time that he was sporting a nasty, crusty cold sore, as he said: "Today, Mr P****, for the first time ever, you might just be right" .
About 6-7 years later, when I thought I'd come up with an original theory about "The Impossibility of Time-travel" , I visited his office and used up two of his blackboards explaining my ideas which had come from a few years of serious thought. He sat quietly, ever deadpan, until I finished, was silent for a few minutes then spent another (only) 3 or 4 minutes in calm counter-argument shooting down my "theory", in screaming flames.
I did 3 years of Formal Logic and Mathematically-based wff-Logic with the intense, also brilliant, Eddie Hughes.
The "Ethics" bloke was very softly spoken (forgotten his name) behind which benign facade was a relentlessly incisive, suffer-no-fools, take-no-prisoners tenacity. He made Third Year Philosophy students cry, literally.

How about you?

P.S. Somewhat ironically, years later an ex-High School student of mine (in Maths and English classes) did his Ph.D. thesis --- I believe with Bradley --- on The Fundamental Question,
(paraphrasing) "Why is there something, and not nothing?" . The author's Philosophical breadth of reading and depth of understanding far exceeded mine. He sent me a draft of his book based on that thesis, asking for my opinions, but after several readings I had to let him know it was waaaaaay over my head, lol.
I loved Philosophy, still do, for the way/s it drained my mind of dangerous 'certainty', by which Trump supporters are so bloated and baseless, in here.

 

[RudyBlue]

Now the Wayne county has had "another vote" which completely reverses its earlier decision and will now certify the outcome in a unanimous decision. That all sounds above board.

 

[NSWCROW]

With all these replies I need to know what is in that tweet as it's not showing for me. Don't make me throw a trumpy

Rex Chapman laughing at " child of the corn " kayleigh

 

[happy_eagle]

poetry

 

[darrenmorgan]

poetry

Legend

 

[campbell]

I suspect nothing will come of it. The new normal will take care of that.

Sad but true.

What a snake.

 

[Substance]

Harris and graham fist bumping - the show rolls on

 

[CrowBloke]

On the off chance the Trump team proved systematic election fraud it would uncover the greatest attack on a western democracy ever perpetuated. The media would never recover their reputations and big tech would lose their protections. Many people would have to go to jail. The whole current democrat hierarchy would probably have to be turned over. Democrat voters across the US would abandon the party on principle, admit they were wrong and fall in behind president Trump

Oh, good grief, WHAT?
Just when I think you (just like Trump) cannot possibly be more ridiculous, you get even worse. Well, kudos for perseverance in the face of overwhelming ridicule.
The Trump team claims of systematic election fraud is all ready "the greatest attack on a western democracy ever perpetuated".
Your utterly baseless, unproven, outrageous, broken-record claims have been annihilated in here by many patient posters who've tolerated your inanities way more than you deserve.

 

[bourbons]

poetry

Haha, was just about to post this. I'd pay more attention in my Zoom meetings if they were a bit more like this, what an evisceration

Balls In, he's talking about the actions of the 2 Wayne County board members in not certifying the results - prior to them joining us back in reality of course, a result that you somehow think is dodgy. These are a few tweets from one of them, for context.



But yeah, its totally the democrats that are dodgy hey

 

[Sixpence]

Haha, was just about to post this. I'd pay more attention in my Zoom meetings if they were a bit more like this, what an evisceration

Balls In, he's talking about the actions of the 2 Wayne County board members in not certifying the results - prior to them joining us back in reality of course, a result that you somehow think is dodgy. These are a few tweets from one of them, for context.



But yeah, its totally the democrats that are dodgy hey

Haha, is that Hartmann and Palmer in the last frame? They look like they felt the full brunt of that! Even behind masks, they look shocked as shit.

 

[Sydney Kicker]

Let's move on to Wisconsin.
In Wisconsin, all 72 counties completed canvasses of local election results, a spokesman for the state elections commission said Tuesday. Following the canvasses, Biden led Trump in Wisconsin by 20,608 votes, or about 0.6 percent, according to the Associated Press. Given that the margin separating the two candidates is less than 1 percent, Wisconsin law now allows for Trump to request a recount.

However, state law requires that the request be made no later than the end of Wednesday and that the Trump campaign must submit payment up front to cover the costs of the process if it wishes to proceed — which the state has pegged at $7.9 million for a statewide recount.

 

[Chief]

Now the Wayne county has had "another vote" which completely reverses its earlier decision and will now certify the outcome in a unanimous decision. That all sounds above board.

READ.

GOP members reverse course, vote to certify Wayne County election results

The two Republican members of the Wayne County Board of Canvassers reversed course, voting for certifying the county's election results.

www.freep.com

READ SOMETHING.

The Republicans wanted to certify some results but not others. They came to an agreement about reviews of results and then voted to certify.

This is how it works. If you don't like it, too bad.

It's not a ****ing mystery. It's all reported if you LOOK WITH YOUR ****ING EYES.

I am really getting sick of your constant refusal to discuss anything reasonably.

 

[Chief]

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Bloody love Jordan Klepper

OH SHIT - they talked about this one on The Bugle.

"Take California out a' the equation and yeah, Trump got more votes."

- Add the rest of the world INTO the equation and Trump got 6 billion less votes.



"I'm the local Tea Party representative!"

 

[Monkey King]

Now the Wayne county has had "another vote" which completely reverses its earlier decision and will now certify the outcome in a unanimous decision. That all sounds above board.

Trump 101 - when all else fails, play the victim.

 

[Balls In]

Haha, was just about to post this. I'd pay more attention in my Zoom meetings if they were a bit more like this, what an evisceration

Angry dude having a rant and inexplicably bring race into it?

 

[Chief]

Angry dude having a rant and inexplicably bring race into it?

You're an idiot.

 

[Balls In]

READ.

GOP members reverse course, vote to certify Wayne County election results

The two Republican members of the Wayne County Board of Canvassers reversed course, voting for certifying the county's election results.

www.freep.com

READ SOMETHING.

The Republicans wanted to certify some results but not others. They came to an agreement about reviews of results and then voted to certify.

This is how it works. If you don't like it, too bad.

It's not a ******* mystery. It's all reported if you LOOK WITH YOUR ******* EYES.

I am really getting sick of your constant refusal to discuss anything reasonably.

That post that you quoted was from immediately after the reversal and well before the information you posted had come out. I see the compromise is for audit of the disputed ballots. That's fine. Good. That is how the process should work. I am genuinely trying to keep my posts to facts as they are presented but yeah I might have gone into a dark area insinuating wrong doing with that "nothing dodgy there" quip.

 

[bourbons]

Angry dude having a rant and inexplicably bring race into it?

Inexplicably? Thought he made his argument pretty clear and supported it with specific examples. What inference do you believe we should draw from these people certifying a 95% white area despite it having more voting irregularities, while not certifying Detroit which had less? Text book voter suppression or disenfranchisement along racial lines I would have thought? I mean yeah, you could probably make the argument it wasn't about race specifically and more about simply obeying orders from higher ups - I'm just not sure that's any better, considering their job

Would also appreciate a comment from you on the part of my post you selectively left out - that'd be the tweets from one of the non-certifying board members gushing about Trump rallies. Those pesky democrats hey? So dodgy, so partisan.

 

[Nikita Blue]

Angry dude having a rant and inexplicably bring race into it?

Inexplicably

 

[The Casey Cat]

I am genuinely trying to keep my posts to facts as they are presented

Start 'genuinely' trying harder then.

 

[GreyCrow]

Let's move on to Wisconsin.
In Wisconsin, all 72 counties completed canvasses of local election results, a spokesman for the state elections commission said Tuesday. Following the canvasses, Biden led Trump in Wisconsin by 20,608 votes, or about 0.6 percent, according to the Associated Press. Given that the margin separating the two candidates is less than 1 percent, Wisconsin law now allows for Trump to request a recount.

However, state law requires that the request be made no later than the end of Wednesday and that the Trump campaign must submit payment up front to cover the costs of the process if it wishes to proceed — which the state has pegged at $7.9 million for a statewide recount.

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[Balls In]

Inexplicably? Thought he made his argument pretty clear and supported it with specific examples. What inference do you believe we should draw from these people certifying a 95% white area despite it having more voting irregularities, while not certifying Detroit which had less? Text book voter suppression or disenfranchisement along racial lines I would have thought? I mean yeah, you could probably make the argument it wasn't about race specifically and more about simply obeying orders from higher ups - I'm just not sure that's any better, considering their job

Would also appreciate a comment from you on the part of my post you selectively left out - that'd be the tweets from one of the non-certifying board members gushing about Trump rallies. Those pesky democrats hey? So dodgy, so partisan.

He stated that the dissenters are racist because they refused to validate the results (because of voting irregularities) in a county that happens to have a high black population. Actual racism would be certifying the results despite the voting irregularities BECAUSE of the high black population. As it is the compromise was to audit disputed votes, which by the logic of the shouting orange man would imply that he too is racist for agreeing to this action. Either that, or none of the participants are racist and they are all just doing their jobs?

 

[Roby]

He stated that the dissenters are racist because they refused to validate the results (because of voting irregularities) in a county that happens to have a high black population. Actual racism would be certifying the results despite the voting irregularities BECAUSE of the high black population. As it is the compromise was to audit disputed votes, which by the logic of the shouting orange man would imply that he too is racist for agreeing to this action. Either that, or none of the participants are racist and they are all just doing their jobs?

Happens to have.

I'm gonna stand by and stand back.

 

[Crankyhawk]

He stated that the dissenters are racist because they refused to validate the results (because of voting irregularities) in a county that happens to have a high black population. Actual racism would be certifying the results despite the voting irregularities BECAUSE of the high black population. As it is the compromise was to audit disputed votes, which by the logic of the shouting orange man would imply that he too is racist for agreeing to this action. Either that, or none of the participants are racist and they are all just doing their jobs?

He said that the republican representatives certified a county with MORE irregularities which was 95% white while not certifying the county with less irregularities which happens to be 80% black. He infers the reason is racist

Now I don’t think that racism is the real motive, it’s pure vote rigging (allow the presumably republican favouring vote through and block the presumably democrat one)