The great 2020 election thread....

[ProfessorDetective]

Welp, we have finished step one... Now for steps two through ten... after a bit of celebration! Whoop!!!

[clearspira]

"But they better remember who gave them this victory; it was progressives, and black women, and black men, and black youth; it was not moderates...and we're going to hold them accountable" #Election2020results #Elections2020

If that's true then where the f-k were they back in 2016? This really speaks to what I was saying a couple of pages back about apathy. Amazing what months of race related riots will do for finally getting you off your ass and vote. I sincerely wonder what the result would have been without Covid and a couple of asshole cops beating a guy to death.

Did you forget that this election had a huge amount of mail-in ballots? Jeez you're a grouch.

The buzzkillers can complain all they want, I'm celebrating this election victory with a champagne bottle in one hand and an eggplant emoji in the other.

That avoided my question expertly.

[Madner Kami]

I love my city
https://twitter.com/i/status/1325220724055871489

Explain please.

[CharlesPhipps]

FYI -

Qanon is about to disintegrate.

https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/11/06/qa ... here-is-q/

Qanon followers are wondering what the hell is going on with Q (Who doesn't exist but has con men who post in his name) since he hasn't posted since the election. Also, you know, all of his predictions about the election failed to come true along with every other.

That's because, and this article doesn't mention it, Q is the product of a group of con men that took an internet fanfiction game (I know because I was there at 4chan when it was created) and then marketed it as real. Because PT Barnum was right about humanity.

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/ ... on-n900531

Huge numbers of Q boards are having people slowly but surely debate the possibility that, yes, they may have been suckered. Some of the complaints are terrible like, "My wife and kid left me because of this. I don't have anything else!"

[BridgeConsoleMasher]

I don't see too many people talk about Trump's escalation of the military.

I mean I'm really not sure if he did inflate it, but I know his budget allotment for technology upgrades sounded somewhat exuberant.

[Makeshift Python]

Thank the Prophets that this is over with.

Now onto trying to fix the damage Trump made. Too bad that fucking turtle is still in the senate, which is honestly even worse than the prospect of Trump being reelected.

[TexasRed]

I don't see too many people talk about Trump's escalation of the military.

I mean I'm really not sure if he did inflate it, but I know his budget allotment for technology upgrades sounded somewhat exuberant.

https://www.bbc.com/news/election-us-2020-54060026

tldr: Nothing has really changed that much, spending hasn't increased significantly, but there have been redeployments from the Middle East and Europe to Asia. Regardless of what you think we'd still be in a trade spat with China regardless of who'd been elected in 16'. As Trump actually had the softest china policy of the 16' candidates, and troop deployments have continued their steady drop even during Trump's rule.

Additionally I think one of the good things to come out of this administration is the Quad Alliance between the US, Japan, India, and Australia, with Taiwan, Vietnam and possibly Russia (Via its friendship with India) as secondary partners.

[Fuzzy Necromancer]

I love my city
https://twitter.com/i/status/1325220724055871489

Explain please.

Sorry, Gritty cannot be explained, only experienced.

[Fuzzy Necromancer]

"But they better remember who gave them this victory; it was progressives, and black women, and black men, and black youth; it was not moderates...and we're going to hold them accountable" #Election2020results #Elections2020

If that's true then where the f-k were they back in 2016? This really speaks to what I was saying a couple of pages back about apathy. Amazing what months of race related riots will do for finally getting you off your ass and vote. I sincerely wonder what the result would have been without Covid and a couple of asshole cops beating a guy to death.

Did you forget that this election had a huge amount of mail-in ballots? Jeez you're a grouch.

The buzzkillers can complain all they want, I'm celebrating this election victory with a champagne bottle in one hand and an eggplant emoji in the other.

That avoided my question expertly.

My point is that a lot of people in the USA don't vote simply because they can't. The massive expansion of voting by mail made that possible for a lot more people.

[TGLS]

As Trump actually had the softest china policy of the 16' candidates
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Additionally I think one of the good things to come out of this administration is the Quad Alliance between the US, Japan, India, and Australia, with Taiwan, Vietnam and possibly Russia (Via its friendship with India) as secondary partners.

I dunno. I'd be hesitant to much of anything that happened under the Trump administration as any concerted policy. He had lots of bluster about China, but thrashed around when came to actually doing anything. Maybe the QSD could develop into an Asian NATO, but quashing the TPP was a step backwards there, and I can't help but see it as India hedging themselves against China.