He can thcream and thcream until he’s sick but the US has taken its future back (Trump thread #112)

[TheNorthWestPawsage]

They’ve only been and gone and done it.
Previous thread:
www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/4072116--Trump-thread-No-111-and-the-count-goes-on?pg=10

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/nov/08/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-ends-truce-by-warning-incompetent-democratic-party

Have I misunderstood how the US Gov't works? I thought that Biden's picks for top positions had to be approved by the Senate, which is Republican controlled still. If that's right, how the hell does AOC think that he's going to be able to put progressives in top positions, even if he wanted to?

Have I misunderstood how the US Gov't works? I thought that Biden's picks for top positions had to be approved by the Senate, which is Republican controlled still.
Certain posts have to be ratified, others do not.

Biden's transition team is all his own, as are his key advisers
but statutory posts have to be ratified

and control of the Senate may not be total after the Georgia run off votes on Jan 6th
and Harris will then have the casting vote (currently its Pence)

All eyes on Georgia. At least we'll have a bit of a rest from staying glued to it though. I feel sorry for Georgians starting to campaign and get out the vote all over again. They must be exhausted already.

AOC has gone after the Lincoln Project too.

Well Donald Junior seems to have worked out every possible way of creating a fraudulent mail in ballot, so expect so see lots of dodgy republican ones in the Senate run off...

Interesting take on Arizona

GEOFFREY SKELLEY
NOV. 7, 8:59 PM
Biden mentioned Native Americans as he listed off the groups he received support from, and as things may play out in Arizona, that group could be the difference between him winning and losing the state’s electoral votes. Currently, Biden leads there by about 19,000 votes, but in the three counties that overlap the lands of the Navajo Nation and Hopi Tribe in northeastern Arizona, Biden edged out Trump by a little more than 22,000 votes. We’ll see where Arizona ends up as it has another 100,000 or so votes to count, but it’s possible that support among American Indian communities in Arizona might make the difference there.

Biden could be a great President by being an average person. Or by reducing the cult of the personality from the Presidency.

www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/11/07/joe-biden-presidency-434793

Georgia has just updated with 1 vote.
alex.github.io/nyt-2020-election-scraper/battleground-state-changes.html#

Arizona is McCain's home. Did some moderate Republicans not like Trump's attitude towards him?

I think McCain's wife came out in support of Biden

She did.

Cindy McCain did indeed support Biden. Good for her in putting party loyalty aside to do what she saw as the right thing.

@HoneysuckIejasmine

AOC has gone after the Lincoln Project too.

It would certainly be a mistake for the Dems to act beholden in gratitude to Republicans who voted for them. Biden needs to make deals, but he shouldn't therefore become a Republican by proxy.

Republicans voted for Biden because their own party had elevated someone so abhorrent that they just couldn't vote for him. That was their failure. I can't see a case for rewarding Republicans for that failure.

Anyone scrolled back over Randy Rainbows twitter feed?
At crucial points in the race he tweeted
I hereby claim Jake Gyllenhaal
I hereby claim, for sex purposes, the Commonwealth of Bradley Cooper

and a lot more besides

Morning all!! Ooooh, not so loud I have a bit of a sore head this morning. 😉😆

I actually had to pinch myself this morning to be sure it wasn't all a dream.

Fox are discussing Biden's cabinet and the direction of the Democratic Party under Biden's direction.
Clear message to their former fave child.

On a side note, and because we had discussions about storms. We're now into the Greek alphabet - global warming for you - , and Fox presenter didn't know iota was a Greek letter. Well...

Back to the Paris Agreement soon. 🤞🤞🤞

Trumps behaviour to McCain was truly awful, I’d hope there are enough decent people to make a stand against this regardless of political alliance. His wife was really clear about her views on the DT.

Trump has totally lost it on Twitter. Why aren't his family or the GOP doing something?

4 tweets in quick succession saying the whole election is a fraud. And worse.

I always wondered what he might do should he lose, I laughed to myself that he might act like this, but assumed the party or family would sort him out. Obviously not.

Arizona has a lot of people moving from california as well I believe. Lots of military there as well and they supported Biden over Trump by about 7%I seem to rememeber. I find it interesting that McCain clip thats gone viral, it didnt really have much comment at the time- not that McCain wasnt a decent man and right in what he said, but thats just how it should be and how we just expected people in power to behave back then.

@Roussette

Trump has totally lost it on Twitter. Why aren't his family or the GOP doing something?

4 tweets in quick succession saying the whole election is a fraud. And worse.

I always wondered what he might do should he lose, I laughed to myself that he might act like this, but assumed the party or family would sort him out. Obviously not.

I imagine he managed to get hold of his phone and barricaded himself in the loo whilst frantically tweeting before they got in and confiscated it again!!

I dont think anybody has pointed out through this- if the Democratic party did 'steal the elction' it would probably be the one case in history of the sitting government being so useless that an opposition party fixed the election and not them

Exactly.

Actually ive found one positive thing about Trump, he didnt do that awful phoney claim to irish roots thing they all do since Kennedy and Biden is now revelling in.

or the GOP doing something?
seeing as they haven’t done anything to keep him in check for the last 4 years, I don’t think we should be surprised they’re doing nothing now. Just disappointed, yet again.