Prickly City by Scott Stantis for November 07, 2020

Yeah, that about describes it for me, too.

Well, you’re half right Carmen. With Trump’s record, it should have been a landslide of 20points in all 50 states against him, but to have it be this close…..? Means we are a seriously broken people.

Biden said “We are better than this”

Actually half of us are better than this!

It’s interesting how people vote against their own self interest.

Seniors who voted for trump even though he has promised to eliminate the payroll tax. I guess they don’t need Social Security and Medicare.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2020/08/08/trump-payroll-tax-cut/

People who depend on a subsidy to afford health insurance and/or who have preexisting conditions. Since 2016 trump has promised a replacement for Obamacare but has yet to even propose new legislation. On November 10th the Supreme Court is hearing arguments to overturn Obamacare which if successful will eliminate subsidies and coverage for preexisting conditions.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/todaysdebate/2020/10/07/biden-improve-obamacare-trump-repeal-replace-with-nothingburger-editorials-debates/3629112001/

People who believe the Republicans are better for the economy.

https://www.politico.com/story/2012/05/data-show-dems-are-job-creators-076338

Same thing we do every night Pinky. Try to take over the world.

Insider and its partners at Decision Desk HQ made the call for Biden early Friday. Biden surpassed the 270 electoral votes required to win the White House by flipping the battleground states of Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania, according to projections by Decision Desk HQ.

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With Biden’s projected victory, Trump becomes the 13th president to lose reelection and just the fourth to do so since World War II.

Trump has yet to concede and is still committed to challenging the result in the courts, claiming voter fraud. There is no evidence of any ballot-rigging, however.

According to reports, the president is becoming an increasingly isolated figure as his allies in the media now press him to accept the inevitable.

In a monologue, Fox News host Laura Ingraham advised Trump to accept defeat with “grace and composure” in a messaging shift from a usually fawning network.

Other Rupert Murdoch-owned media outlets — Fox News, the Wall Street Journal, and the New York Post — called on the president to accept defeat.

“Mr Trump’s legacy will be diminished greatly if his final act is a bitter refusal to accept a legitimate defeat,” wrote the Wall Street Journal in an opinion article entitled “The Presidential Endgame.”

Biden had over 3 million more votes than Trump as of early Saturday, a lead that is likely to grow as states finalize their results in the coming days and weeks.

Biden has received the most votes of any candidate ever.

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https://www.businessinsider.com/joe-biden-wins-general-election-against-donald-trump-2020-11

One last grift for the road…

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As Common Dreams reported earlier on Friday, the Trump campaign—in addition to the president’s outrageous and baseless claims of fraud—is making desperate, last-ditch attempts to contest vote-counting procedures in multiple battleground states where the incumbent’s early leads have disappeared.

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Legal experts, however, say that Trump’s election litigation efforts “have no merit whatsoever.”

Wendy Weiser, director of the Democracy Program at the Brennan Center for Justice at the NYU School of Law argued that the president’s lawsuits “look more like public relation stunts meant to create a false impression that the election is filled with improprieties and fraud.”

“I don’t see any real strategy here,” she added.

Despite the fact that nearly all of Trump’s legal battles in Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, and Pennsylvania are being dismissed in court due to a lack of compelling evidence, the RNC is still trying to fundraise for the president.

“They want $60 million,” a Republican donor who was contacted by the Trump campaign and the RNC told Reuters.

Critics, however, smelled a grift.

Political observers pointed to the “fine print” of the Trump and RNC donation forms with a warning that such gifts could readily be used to pay off pre-existing campaign debt:

The fine-print on the flurry of fundraising emails being sent out by the Trump campaign/RNC and associated committees: pic.twitter.com/cQ6TXatvNh

— Zeke Miller (@ZekeJMiller) November 5, 2020

“If you give money to Trump’s recount/postelection litigation efforts,” tweeted Rick Hasen, professor of law and political science at UC Irvine, “half of that money will go towards retiring his campaign debt instead, per the fine print.”

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https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/11/06/fine-print-rnc-trump-election-fraud-fundraising-shows-half-money-can-go-pay-existing

Joe Biden and Kamala Harris are one laboratory experiment away from becoming supervillains.

What’s amazing is that Trump got 7 million more votes than in 2016.

It’s anecdotal, but some Fox viewers didn’t know who Stormy Daniels is. The bubble holds.

Some times in order to remember what your are, you must experience what you are not. We are a kind, generous, optimistic people. I hope the last 4 years is enough of a reminder of that, so we don’t have to go through this for another century of two.

Oh, so true.

I went out and walked a few miles today. The sun was shinier, the grass was greener, and the sky was bluer.

Next question, How long until VP Harris accuses President Biden of groping her, opening the door to impeach him?

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You republican losers still have a chance to destroy what’s left of the USA.

There’s a cheesy 1959 movie called “The Killer Shrews”. That’s the first thing I thought of after I read this.

My Dad was a scientist, but not a mad one. He never got past ill-tempered.