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[Make America hate again 2020]

"Whatever else emerges from the US’s 2020 election, one thing is clear: it has not delivered a comprehensive repudiation of Donald Trump. The shock of 2016 has not been undone. There is nothing in the result to expiate the humiliation of the last four years, the disgraceful vulgarity and illegality. Even if Joe Biden is ultimately sworn in as president, the fact that Trump was not booed off the greatest stage in world politics in disgrace will be hard for Biden’s supporters to come to terms with. This is an inconvenient truth not for the US alone, it has implications for the rest of the world too.

Rather than a rejection of Trump, the election results reshuffle the finely balanced and deeply polarised configuration that has prevailed in American politics since the days of Bill Clinton in the 1990s. As in 2016, Trump lost the overall vote, but he continues to command overwhelming majorities in small-town and rural white America. Despite his vituperative hostility towards immigrants, Trump made remarkable gains among the rather diverse group crudely lumped together under the label Latino. Confusingly, he did well not only with anti-socialist communities of Cubans and Venezuelans in Miami, but with Mexican-Americans in Texas too. And he continues to garner a majority of votes from white women and white men of all backgrounds.

In the meantime no one, either inside or outside the country, should be under any illusion about the scale of the nationalist and xenophobic electoral bloc. The GOP has lurched into the territory of Viktor Orbán and Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and, nevertheless, commands solid support. Indeed, for a sizeable minority of the electorate, it is precisely the stridency of Trump and the GOP that appeals. They love Trump’s aggression, and his gleeful slaughter of liberal sacred cows. Now he has modelled the style, there will be plenty of others who will want to follow."

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David Moye·Reporter, HuffPost
Thu, November 5, 2020, 6:31 PM EST·3 mins read

Donald Trump Jr. is not happy with how the election vote count is going and expects his dad to do something about it.

On Thursday, the president’s eldest son posted a tweet demanding that his pop “go to total war over this election to expose all of the fraud, cheating, dead/no longer in state voters, that has been going on for far too long.”

Like many of the tweets being posted by the president and brother Eric Trump these days, Twitter immediately tagged Donald Jr.’s post as potentially misleading.

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But one of Trump’s top congressional supporters said he supports efforts to question the vote counting process and is donating money to shore up legal challenges. Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., said on Fox News Thursday night he would donate $500,000 to the president’s “legal defense fund” and urged people to go to the Trump campaign’s website to pitch in.

Where did he get the money? Wasn't he crying on live tv about not having enough money to defend his reelection?

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I laugh every time I open a news story about the election...has Biden won Arizona or not?




The latest on key races:



• Arizona: The AP called Arizona for Biden around 2:30 a.m. ET on Wednesday. Fox News had also called the state for Biden, angering the president's campaign, which expressed confidence it can still win. With 90 percent of the vote counted, Biden leads Trump by about 46,000 votes.

• Georgia: Trump has lost his lead in Georgia, with Biden sliding ahead. As of 7 a.m. ET Friday, the margin was roughly 1,000 votes.

• Nevada: Biden had been leading by a comfortable margin on election night, but the race tightened considerably, with Trump trailing Biden by just 12,000 votes on Thursday evening. More results are expected to be released Friday.

• Pennsylvania: Trump's lead has shrunk under 20,000 in the Keystone State, and the Biden campaign believes it will overtake the president as mail-in ballots continue to be processed.



Here's where the race to 270 currently stands:



• Biden: 264



• Trump: 214



The following states have been called:



Biden: Vt., Va., Conn., Del., Ill., Md., Mass., N.J., R.I., N.Y., N.M., D.C., Colo., N.H., Calif., Ore., Wash., Hawaii, Minn., Ariz., Maine (3 of 4 electoral votes), Wis., Mich.



Trump: Ky., W. Va., S.C., Ala., Miss., Tenn., Okla., Ark., Ind., N.D., S.D., Wyo., La., Neb., Kan., Mo., Idaho, Utah, Ohio, Iowa, Mont., Fla., Texas, Maine (1 of 4 electoral votes)

[Proud Boy snowflakes 2020]

God, there's no limit to the victimhood and conspiracy that trump supporters will allow themselves wallow in. Fucking ignorant hypocrites.

Calling fox news "lefty"?!?! Haha, fucking morons.

'Fox News sucks!': Trump supporters decry channel as it declares Biden wins
President’s backers have grown increasingly vocal about their anger at a network that has long allied with Trump

Trump supporters across the United States increasingly say they no longer trust Fox News, the Rupert Murdoch-owned TV network that has acted as one of the president’s staunchest allies in past years.

As Fox News announced more state-level victories for Joe Biden on Wednesday, Trump supporters across the country grew more vocal in their frustration with the network. Some say they have shifted their allegiance to media outlets that lean even further right, such as One America News, which employs a prominent conspiracy theorist as one of its correspondents.

In Arizona, pro-Trump demonstrators who massed outside an election facility in Phoenix chanted: “Fox News sucks!” A man in Nevada screamed the same slogan repeatedly in the background of a live news feed there.

In Detroit, as Trump supporters chanted “Stop the count” outside a ballot-counting location, the news that Fox had just called Michigan for Biden had little effect on the demonstration.

“Fox, you can’t even trust them,” said Rob Phail, 51, from South Lyon, Michigan, who had been leading the “stop the count” chants. “They’re the worst chameleons of all. So you’re like, OK, who do you trust?”

Asked whom he would trust to confirm the actual results of the election, he said: “Trump.”

On Facebook, on a now-deleted group for Trump supporters that claimed Democrats were trying to steal the election, dozens of commenters described how “totally betrayed” they felt while watching Fox News on election night.

“When CNN appeared more pro-Trump, I was concerned,” one person wrote.

Others said they felt Fox was “turning on” the president and said that they believed several Fox reporters had gone “full lefty”.

On Twitter, some Trump supporters were starting to label Fox News as “fake news”.

Trump supporters’ frustration with Fox was building before the network’s election calls for Biden this week.

The rightwing network, owned by Rupert Murdoch and built up by the late Roger Ailes, was once so closely aligned with Trump that many observers said it functioned as “state media”. Reporters chronicled how political talking points aired by Fox News hosts were picked up by the president, and then were reinforced again on the news network.

Trump himself has turned up his criticism of the network, railing against its decisions and some of its anchors for months. His supporters appeared to have moved with him. During the first presidential debate in September, moderated by the Fox News anchor Chris Wallace, many Trump supporters said they believed Wallace was biased against the president.

On election day, Fox made an early call that Joe Biden had won Arizona, a decision that reportedly infuriated the Trump administration and helped shift the broader public narrative of the election result towards a likely Biden victory.

Now, some Trump supporters say they have shifted their allegiance to smaller, even more vehemently pro-Trump media outlets, such as Newsmax or One America News. OAN has spread multiple conspiracy theories, including amplifying baseless claims about a 75-year-old protester shoved by the police during demonstrations over police brutality this summer.

As Trump has feuded with Fox, he has lavished more praise on OAN, tweeting last year that it “is doing incredible reporting”.

[Tiny Hands 2020]

It is a US-born slur that was inspired by Honduras and has haunted Latin America for decades – a deprecatory way to describe politically volatile and economically puny backwaters ruled by erratic and venal autocrats.

But on Friday, after Donald Trump’s alarming press conference at the White House yesterday, voices across the region, from Mexico to Uruguay, delighted in lobbing the insult back at their neighbours to the north.

“Who’s the banana republic now?” wondered the frontpage headline of Colombia’s Publimetro, one of many Latin American newspapers whose editors thought the term perfectly captured the electoral turmoil playing out in the US.

Over the border in Venezuela, a columnist from the El Nacional agreed calling Trump’s behaviour “intemperate and foolish” and telling readers the US election seemed to be taking place “in a country at war, or a república bananera”.

Merval Pereira, one of Brazil’s most prominent political commentators, called his daily column “Bananas americanas” and wrote: “This is a singular event in US democratic history which puts the country in the list of banana republics, an expression created by the Americans themselves.”

The Latin American Twittersphere went bananas too, with the Uruguayan human rights defender Javier Palummo asking followers: “How do you say banana republic in American English?”

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It seems like everyone is waiting in anticipation of the presidential election results after three days of refreshing Twitter and Google for the latest information. As of Friday morning, the Decision Desk HQ projected that Joe Biden had won enough electoral college votes to be named the president-elect. As for the rest, we are still waiting for The Final Countdown.



Biden’s win will be historic for a lot of reasons: He will be the oldest elected president in U.S. history at 78-years-old on inauguration day; his running mate Kamala Harris will be the first woman, as well as the first Black and South Asian American, vice president; and Biden will be the 10th person to unseat a sitting president after just one term. That’s right, President Donald Trump will be joining just 9 other presidents who lost their reelection campaigns — and he’s not happy about it.



It would seem there’s also something monumental about Trump’s losing campaign, like the fact that he is the only president ever to lose the popular vote twice, or that he is the first president ever to lose a reelection after being impeached. But luckily for Trump, he can now use one of his favorite insults to describe himself: Loser. Sad!

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But ahead of Biden’s speech in Wilmington, President Trump made clear that he would not be conceding defeat in the race anytime soon.



“Joe Biden should not wrongfully claim the office of the President!” Trump tweeted. “I could make that claim also. Legal proceedings are just now beginning!”



Early on Wednesday, several hours after the polls closed, Trump made an appearance and declared he had already won the election.



"We will win this, and as far as I'm concerned, we already have,” he told supporters in the East Room of the White House.



On Thursday, Trump repeated that claim and baselessly alleged a conspiracy between Democrats, the media, pollsters and state election officials to keep him from being reelected.



“Our numbers started miraculously getting whittled away, in secret,” he said, without providing any evidence to back up that explosive assertion. “This is a case where they’re trying to steal an election. They’re trying to rig an election. And we can’t let that happen.”



Trump’s speech drew sharp rebukes from Republicans and Democrats alike, many of whom accused him of undermining the trust of the American public in the institution of voting.

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A fool like {insert troll's name) and his money....


The Trump campaign has repeatedly signaled that it is preparing for a lengthy battle in the courts, even if Biden remains in the lead or crosses the 270-vote threshold, giving him the presidency. On a call with top donors — which the campaign said was its largest ever — officials said they need to raise “tens of millions” of dollars to pay for upcoming legal fees.

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Screw Russian and Iranian election interference:


A disinformation push to subvert the election is well underway, and it is coming straight from President Donald Trump and his allies. The goal: to somehow stop a victory by former Vice President Joe Biden, or, failing that, undermine his legitimacy before he can take office.



Trump’s false declaration of victory in the small hours of Wednesday morning quickly united hyperpartisan conservative activists and the standard-bearers of the right-wing media, such as Breitbart, with internet trolls and QAnon supporters behind a singular viral message: #StopTheSteal.



But its impact has become apparent far beyond the internet, with the theme dominating conservative talk radio and the prime-time lineup on Fox News. There, Trump-aligned hosts pressed the false notion that the vote counting in the crucial, still-undecided states was illegitimate — the sort of message that was drawing flags on Twitter and Facebook but flourishing elsewhere.

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Oh the irony"


White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany ripped the celebrations that occurred after news spread of President-elect Joe Biden's victory, calling them "superspreader events" and asking Biden to denounce them.

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One also has to ask when the yuge stock market crash is coming according to the current president.

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President Donald Trump, infuriated by an election loss he’s refusing to acknowledge, will have “meltdowns upon meltdowns” until he leaves the White House, his niece Mary Trump warned in an op-ed in The Guardian Sunday.

Trump is “not going to concede. ... He’s not going to engage in the normal activities that guarantee a peaceful transition. All he’s got now is breaking stuff, and he’s going to do that with a vengeance,” she wrote.

She argued that Trump has never won anything “legitimately” in his life but has never before lost anything either.

He “thinks that even if you steal and cheat to win, you deserve to win,” said Mary Trump, a psychologist who wrote the Donald Trump tell-all book “Too Much and Never Enough.”

The irony is that the tactics the president used to cheat may have doomed his race, Mary Trump said. Republicans heeded the president’s warning not to vote by mail, so he was subjected to a “slow drip-drip of disaster” as mail ballots from Democrats were counted, she said. “It must have been like slow torture, but he set up this failure for himself.”

The next months could be “dangerous,” she warned. Donald Trump will do nothing about COVID-19, escalating the death toll, she argued

He’ll also “go as far as he can to delegitimize the new administration, then he’ll pass pardons that will demoralize us — and sign a flurry of executive orders,” Mary Trump predicted.

Though Donald Trump faces ongoing investigations into suspect finances and taxes, that’s not what the narcissist-in-chief is most concerned about, Mary Trump said.

The “worst thing Donald’s looking at isn’t financial difficulties or the prospect of jail,” she said. “It’s becoming irrelevant. I don’t think he would ever recover from that.”

[Tiny Hands 2020]

The Mary stuff is amazing 😂