It’s here.
Discuss. Here’s a question to start out with, maybe: Are you a bundle of nerves? Because I’m a bundle of nerves.
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We Hunted The MammothIt’s here.
Discuss. Here’s a question to start out with, maybe: Are you a bundle of nerves? Because I’m a bundle of nerves.
@Kat – we will. Damn right we will.
Best wishes USian Mammotheers.
All the stores are starting to board up, MexicanHotChocolate and I are trying to avoid election coverage. The plan is to hunker down with fried food and alcohol.
Please stay safe and hydrated my luvs, and remember to always pack and emergency snack.
@Naglfar
I’ll settle for more counties going blue if we can’t flip the state. Anything to make the GOP leadership sweat.
I’m glad my parents and I voted by mail already. Our ballots were recorded as arriving October 13th.
We all voted for Biden. I think my Momma was the only one here had him as her first choice. He certainly wasn’t mine.
@Mish
The white House wall is new, but the boarded up shops just look like your average May Day (and we got a similar frightened-sounding email from the building property manager about procedures in case of ‘riots’ as we do on May Day every year).
On the topic of how everyone is coping, I was able to concentrate on work better today than yesterday. Who knows what my mental state will be tomorrow, though.
I’ve been following the results on the USAToday website,
https://www.usatoday.com/
and according to them, Biden is leading, but only by just over ten electoral votes. Texas, with half their votes counted, is leaning blue. Florida was leaning blue for about the first hour or so, but is now leaning red. Illinois and New Hampshire, two of the bellweather states, have been called for Biden. Pennsylvania is going blue big time, but not all their votes have been counted yet so that can still change. Senate is leaning blue, but only like by four races.
Film at 11.
What’s worrying to me is the slide to the right the House may be doing.
What gets me is the number of people who obviously looked at Trump’s lies, corruption and handling of the coronavirus over the past 10 months and said, “Yup, I want more of that.”
Good grief.
@kobun37
I think part of the problem is that some people lack so much compassion and/or have too much hatred for others that they vote for anyone they think will harm those people regardless of how much it’ll harm them.
On the record-breaking front, Sarah McBride of Delaware is the first openly trans state senator In US history.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2020/11/03/sarah-mcbride-become-first-openly-transgender-state-senator-u-s/6153308002/
@Fabe
Yes, I think that’s what it is. The GOP mindset is zero-sum, so they think that by making life worse for their enemies it’s by definition better for themselves. Republicans are fine destroying themselves so long as the other side is hurt worse. This is why the “own the libs” mindset exists to a self-destructive degree.
@kupo
Thanks for that! I wasn’t sure if it was a regular thing or not, so it helps to have that info.
I’ve stayed away from news all day (it’s almost 4pm Wednesday here) and I’m on a Twitter break. Just peeked at an update and it’s still terrifying.
I’ve been trying to post a pic of Mei-Mei’s tummy. I hope this helps with the frazzled nerves!
In any case, please stay safe, usanian mammothers !
I do not know how fresh are the news of the journal i read (Le Monde), but here, at about 8 am, Biden has the lead with 223 votes against 209 for Trump. It seems that the last bigger swinging states are Pennsylvania, Michigan, Georgie and north Carolina.
Of course, Trump is already yelling that the elections are stolen…
God this is nerve wracking.
Anxiety is eating me alive.
Trump has now declared victory and basically demanded that states stop counting their votes where he’s ahead.
Looks like it’s going to turn into Bush vs. Gore 2.0.
I’m crossing my fingers that Biden will pull ahead on the mail/absentee ballots as some people suggested before the election and it won’t end up close enough for the Supreme Court to step in because I don’t like those odds.
Either way it’s going to get ugly.
Good luck to … well, everyone. Even europeans or asians will be worse off if there is an american civil war.
I have trouble concentrating. The current Biden advance is subtantial but stil.
Mish wrote (from Australia):
Good to know there’s no point checking the news until at least 4pm Wednesday 🙂
Looks like it will be Trump again.
Republicans will probably keep the Senate, dems might keep the House.
I guess four more Supreme Court judges will die in the next four ears, too.
Well, that’s it. It’s over. I saw it coming, honestly.
Prepare for death camps and gulags within the next 10 years or so.
Europe will fall, too. I see it, France is next. The FN will probably win next time, their base has increased steadily. Germany is weak and limb-wristed and will not prevent anything or do something.
Things will only get worse, so, SO much worse. It’s like 1933, when no one expected how bad things would ultimately become.
@Herbert : in France the FN isn’t poised to win and have its base shrink. You confuse with the fact that the current president *is* becoming a bona fide fascist.
What is the point of doing catastrophical predictions who apparently aren’t grounded in knowledge ?
It’s still two years, Ohlmann.
And Trump’s victory, which I now see as inevitable, can easily embolden authoritarians everywhere.
It’s best we fully expect an apocalyptic situation by the end of this decade.
But I think the only thing left for Americans right now is to run away before it becomes impossible. Of course I don’t know where to.
I guess New Zealand and Australia would be safest in case of a nuclear war.
Even South America might end up as a better place to live than the USA, but I don’t expect them to not fall into the authoritarian trap again.
My beef is more that your position on France isn’t fact based, and ignore the real issue at the same time. The FN did not gain ground in the last 20 years, and just like in the USA the danger is a mainstream party going full fascist. (here, LRM would be the american Republicans)
I suspect your other positions have the same problem : they were pre-determined by you and your pessimism and aren’t the result of analysis
I know the situation is stressful and that the world is in deep shit. I fear we lose track of what happen in favor of what we expect, in both good news and bad news.
The FN (and I will never stop calling them that) doesn’t poll too bad right now.
Of course we know how useless polls can be, but I would not sign them off now. I have seen more extreme comebacks, especially in difficult times.