Trump

[gilesgoat]

How the fuck will we (the USA) ever recover from this embarrassing shitbag

.. by starting applying a bit more "social measures" in place like I don't know "a public health service paid by the state" .. making lobbying illegal ... introducing at least a bit more restrictive gun laws .. providing more social assitance for those in need and not have everything tied to "or you have the money or you have nothing ?" ..

You know .. "just a dash of socialism"

But worries no, just kidding we know it's NEVER going to happen but it's fun to imagine ...

[merman]

Trump: get me out of here on the 20th, I can fly to my hotel in Scotland

Nicola Sturgeon: nope

[Foozwah]

Trump: get me out of here on the 20th, I can fly to my hotel in Scotland

Nicola Sturgeon: nope

I would laugh more, but I fear my sides have already split. Guess he'll have to go to Moscow now.

[p-saurus]

The Senate race in Georgia looks like it may have saved our Republic. Thank goodness.

[WiteWulf]

Care to expand/explain for those of us struggling to keep up?

[gilesgoat]

Care to expand/explain for those of us struggling to keep up?

My understanding from what I read is if the Democrats win those 2 seats then the situation in the parlament (?) become 50:50 but in the case there's a vote that ends in 50:50 the final decision is by the vice-president which means "Biden is always going to have the last word".

Effectively "ending the power of the republicans" .. like to say "finally kicking the tories away" or such, so I read on the BBC.

[tufty]

What Giles said, plus...

Looks like Warnock has won against Loeffler. it's too close to call in Ossoff / Perdue but it's looking more and more likely that Ossoff will win. The democrats need to win both to get control of the senate.

Of course, there will be demands for recounts.

[WiteWulf]

Cool, got it, thanks. I read up on the mechanics of the two houses, and who traditionally does what, during the main election, but wasn't up to speed on what was going on at the moment re. the balance of power.

[p-saurus]

Giles pretty much nailed it. The Senate is one of our longstanding institutions that was explicitly designed to prop up slavery (the Electoral College being another big one), and it takes power away from larger population centers and gives more rural areas an outsized say in what happens. If the two Democrats hadn't won Georgia (people are saying one of the races is too close to call, but most of the outstanding votes are from Democratic areas), Biden wouldn't have been able to get much done through the legislative process and he would have had trouble confirming judges and cabinet positions. Now, for the first two years of his Presidency, at least, he can and should ram through an aggressive agenda and do it in a way that would make it difficult for a Republican President to undo by executive order.

[(o)(o)]

Please tell me there's a chance Trumpy Wumpy will be going to go to Jaily Waily

[KlaxonCow]

There's an interesting side story here.

Republican candidate Kelly Loeffler - who lost to Warnock - is also rather rich (the richest member of the US Senate) and co-owns Georgia's women's pro-basketball team, the WNBA's "Atlanta Dream".

She tried to urge the WNBA to reject the "divisive" Black Lives Matter protests. So the players called for her removal as team owner, and made their dissatisfaction extremely clear, by them all sporting "vote Warnock" T-shirts:



More over, the team went further and raised $200,000 for Warnock's campaign and helped raise his profile at events early on (when he really wasn't polling very high).

Like, they really fucking hate her. With a passion.

[gilesgoat]

Watching this live :



I think they are bit "all talk and no meat" .. they are so many, if they REALLY would like to cross those barriers they'd be easily the other side in 5 mins, they can overpower those police by numbers .. but they are just PRETENDING they want to cross them ...

[F-ZeroOne]

I suspect more than one Republican is taking note of how Trump has thrown Pence - supposedly one of his most steadfast allies - under the bus by attempting to pin his election loss on him certifying the election result (a largely ceremonial role).

Also, apparently a newly elected Republican congresswoman Mary Miller has been recorded in public saying "Hitler was right". Annoyingly, I haven't been able to load the tweet with the audio, so I don't know what she thinks Hitler was right about. I'm guessing its not going to be to deploy the Me-262 as a bomber instead of as a fighter (just one of the everything Hitler was wrong about [1]).

[1] For strict historical accuracy although this story is often told the full version is, as ever, more complicated than that.

[gilesgoat]

Fuck me ! They are inside the building now !

[F-ZeroOne]

Apparently Mary Miller said: "Hitler was right on one thing. Whoever has the youth has the future."

Would you like to know the fate of many of the Hitler Youth?