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We're on the home run, let's stand together for a blue wave 🤗🌊 (Trump thread #107

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Roussette · 31/10/2020 13:52

Here we go!

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BoreOfWhabylon · 31/10/2020 13:55

Thanks Roussette. Going to try to stay up on Tuesday night

I'll repeat my Julian of Norwich mantra

All shall be well, and all shall be well and all manner of thing shall be well.

Lweji · 31/10/2020 14:00

Thank you.
Blue is the colour.

Roussette · 31/10/2020 14:01

I notice coverage is starting about 11.30pm, so might try and snatch a few hours then let my body clock wake me up as normal Grin
Ready to catch some results.
I just cannot believe 4 years have passed. Scary.

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Yohoheaveho · 31/10/2020 14:07

Checking into the new thread. ✅

Apileofballyhoo · 31/10/2020 14:12

Suspect this thread and the following one will be the places to be for the next week so I'm jumping in to see what you're all saying.

Roussette · 31/10/2020 14:17

Great! It's good to see lots on the thread watching and waiting

And this is reprehensible...

TRUMP: “You know, our doctors get more money if someone dies from COVID, you know that right?”

twitter.com/timjhogan/status/1322246965808291840

After everything health professionals have to put themselves through to save and help people through covid, he comes out with this crap.

And he wonders why no-one likes him?

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AskingQuestionsAllTheTime · 31/10/2020 14:31

Thanks for the new thread.

TheABC · 31/10/2020 14:35

Adding myself. I will be keeping my fingers crossed for a clear and unambiguous result on Tuesday.

TheNorthWestPawsage · 31/10/2020 14:36

Thanks Roussette

And Trump will never be popular with women.

ludothedog · 31/10/2020 14:38

Signing in. I have waves of anxiety, thinking this is a done deal to OMG he's going to get back in.

Sending everyone Halloween candy Halloween SmileBiscuitHalloween Biscuit

Mrsmorton · 31/10/2020 14:48

Amazing new thread. Aaagghhh.

PerkingFaintly · 31/10/2020 14:53

Me and my low expectations are checking in. It's the hope I can't bear...

PerkingFaintly · 31/10/2020 14:54

I bring Gin.

Roussette · 31/10/2020 15:12

Ooooh Grin and candy, and hope, what else do we need?

I agree, I have days when I think 'He's got this, Biden's got this', then I read something or hear something and that feeling of dread rises up in me and lasts all day.

The world is watching...

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/oct/14/us-foreign-policy-trump-biden-election-world

“The Biden versus Trump showdown in November is probably the starkest choice between two different foreign policy visions that we’ve seen in any election in recent memory,”

In an election which will determine so much about the future of America and the world, the Trump campaign has said very little about its intentions, producing what must be the shortest manifesto in the annals of US politics.

It appeared late in the campaign and has 54 bullet points, of which five are about foreign policy – 41 words broken into a handful of slogans such as: “Wipe Out Global Terrorists Who Threaten to Harm Americans”.

The word “climate” does not appear, but there are two bullet points on partnering with other countries to “clean up” the oceans, and a pledge to “Continue to Lead the World in Access to the Cleanest Drinking Water and Cleanest Air”. (The phrase ignores a series of US scandals about poor water quality – and the fact that millions of Americans can no longer afford their water bills.)

The November election is also likely to prove a decisive moment in determining how the US chooses its allies and partners in the coming years. Trump has made a bonfire of multilateral treaties and international commitments in pursuit of the splendid isolation of America First.

He has shown a consistent preference for dealing with autocrats abroad, over America’s traditional democratic partners.

That trend is likely to be accentuated if he wins a second term, a success he would see as proof he need not be constrained by US traditions and institutions. His former national security adviser, John Bolton, has suggested he might even take the US out of Nato, reshaping the world in an instant.

“I think the west as a concept would no longer be meaningful and instead there would be a realignment, whereby the United States would be increasingly in partnership with more authoritarian-leaning leaders, and more populist nationalist-leaning leaders,”

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This is why we worry about Tuesday....

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Roussette · 31/10/2020 15:39

I would like to think.....

www.politicususa.com/2020/10/31/gop-strategist-predicts-trump-and-republicans-are-headed-for-a-crushing-defeat.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

Stevens said:

Look, the Republican Party went down a path – it had a choice, but it went down a path to embrace white grievance as its core. And we’re in the last gasp of this as a national party. I think Donald Trump is going to be crushed on Tuesday, absolutely crushed. But even if he won, where this country is going is determined now. And Donald Trump and Stephen Miller and all of these people, they’re not going to stop it. Of the Americans who are 15 years and under, the majority are nonwhite. They’re going to be nonwhite when they turn 18 and start voting, and that is the end of the Republican Party as we know it. So you could deny gravity, but when you jump out of a window, gravity is going to win. And that is where the Republican Party is at.

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TheNorthWestPawsage · 31/10/2020 16:18

Unbelievable. Trump supporters Thugs (armed) are continually following a Biden/Harris campaign tour bus in Texas to harass and intimidate. Then one truck tries to side swipe a Biden support car off the road! (NB Biden and Harris are not on this bus)

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I flew down to Texas to help with the Biden/Harris bus tour, intended to drum up enthusiasm at polling locations. Instead, I ended up spending the afternoon calling 911. 1/
twitter.com/ericcervini/status/1322336226792321025?s=21

TheNorthWestPawsage · 31/10/2020 16:21

More video of the campaign bus harassment. twitter.com/nurseninapa/status/1322551977855885312?s=21

ListeningQuietly · 31/10/2020 16:40

I do not yet dare to be optimistic

boatyardblues · 31/10/2020 16:41

Reporting in for the curated round-up of goings-on.

Cacacoisfarraige · 31/10/2020 17:12

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Roussette · 31/10/2020 17:41

Carl Quintanilla
@carlquintanilla
New
@Stanford study estimates that 18 Trump rallies have led to 30,000 COVID cases and 700 deaths

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MerchantOfVenom · 31/10/2020 17:50

Hello, I haven’t been on any of the previous threads due to a break from MN, so hope you don’t mind if I join you in this one.

Have been following the events of the last four years closely.

Due to the time difference here, it’ll be the afternoon of Weds Nov 4th before things even start kicking off.

This week is going to make history.

Roussette · 31/10/2020 17:57

Welcome MerchantofVenom good to have you here Smile Please do hang around for this momentous week!

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