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      CommentAuthorThor
    • CommentTimeNov 6th 2020 edited
    Edmund Meinerts wrote
    Biden is going to get about as many votes as I had expected. I figured he would surpass Obama's record from 2008. But I'm astonished that Trump is also going to get something like 8-9 million more votes than he did in 2016 - like where is he picking up this support from? Who didn't support him in 2016 and then decided after four years of sheer chaos and a criminally mismanaged pandemic "yeah, actually, he's not so bad after all"?


    I think the majority of these "extra" people don't vote for Trump, necessarily - just out of hatred against the Democrats. Anything - even Trump - is better than Democrats, in their eyes.
    I am extremely serious.
  2. I keep refreshing to see the vote count...wanting this agony to be over.
  3. Thor wrote
    Edmund Meinerts wrote
    Biden is going to get about as many votes as I had expected. I figured he would surpass Obama's record from 2008. But I'm astonished that Trump is also going to get something like 8-9 million more votes than he did in 2016 - like where is he picking up this support from? Who didn't support him in 2016 and then decided after four years of sheer chaos and a criminally mismanaged pandemic "yeah, actually, he's not so bad after all"?


    I think the majority of these "extra" people don't vote for Trump, necessarily - just out of hatred against the Democrats. Anything - even Trump - is better than Democrats, in their eyes.

    But if that was the case, they would have also voted in 2016 against Hillary Clinton, possibly the most hated Democrat in the country.
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      CommentAuthorThor
    • CommentTimeNov 7th 2020 edited
    Well, the divide and hate have only grown in the last four years.
    I am extremely serious.
  5. Hallelujah, some good news FINALLY, though Trump will not let this go by easily.
    waaaaaahhhhhhhh!!! Where's my nut? arrrghhhhhhh
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      CommentAuthorThor
    • CommentTimeNov 7th 2020
    Hooray!
    I am extremely serious.
  7. The whole thing about availability of covid vaccines is becoming a bit of a British vs. Europe thing, I think, with the UK press setting Europe as potentially blocking access to vaccine made in the EU by the UK.

    I do think that the EU (rather than European countries themselves) is flexing its muscles on this, trying to catch up with their own vaccination roll-out after a pretty poor organisation at the beginning meaning that they are now behind in getting vaccine and sorting out vaccinating everyone in their respective countries.

    I don't think that it's right that the EU can block vaccine produced in their bloc of countries going to other countries that had the wherewithall to order vaccine when they did. And, as far as I can tell, the a lot of the EU member states are pushing back on what the European Commission was threatening to do.
    The views expressed in this post are entirely my own and do not reflect the opinions of maintitles.net, or for that matter, anyone else. http://www.racksandtags.com/falkirkbairn
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      CommentAuthorThor
    • CommentTimeNov 6th 2024 edited
    So Trump won.

    Thankfully, I had prepared myself for that - mentally - for several months, so it didn't come as a shock the way it did in 2016. But I've still been depressed all day. Thinking about the consequences for the Palestinians and the Ukrainians. Thinking about the good, sane folks of the US. Thinking about the climate when the US withdraws from the Paris Accord. Thinking about the economy, and how it will affect my own, already poor financial situation here in Norway. Thinking about my own security if Ukraine falls and the US recedes from NATO. We're neighbours to Russia, after all. Stuff like that.

    The only remaining hope I have is that there are systems in place that will limit some of the damage he will inflict to his nation and the world over the next four years, and that there are still moderate Republicans left who can be a counter-voice, now that they control every US political institution.
    I am extremely serious.
  9. I am not sure that there will be many "guard rails" in place to limit the damage he can do.

    Also, there could be a "supermajority" of Trump-placed judges in the Supreme Court that could be in place for decades to come.

    The prospects are bleak indeed on so many fronts.
    The views expressed in this post are entirely my own and do not reflect the opinions of maintitles.net, or for that matter, anyone else. http://www.racksandtags.com/falkirkbairn
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      CommentAuthorThor
    • CommentTimeNov 7th 2024 edited
    FalkirkBairn wroteAlso, there could be a "supermajority" of Trump-placed judges in the Supreme Court that could be in place for decades to come.


    Wouldn't someone need to die or retire first? Most of them are relatively young. The oldest is also a Republican and the most conservative. The Democrat judges, who are in a minority, won't retire. So the most likely scenario is that Trump will only replace those that are already Republican.
    I am extremely serious.
  11. I had read there was a chance that, over the next 4 years, Trump could appoint opened vacancies to realise a 7-2 manority in his favour.
    The views expressed in this post are entirely my own and do not reflect the opinions of maintitles.net, or for that matter, anyone else. http://www.racksandtags.com/falkirkbairn
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      CommentAuthorThor
    • CommentTimeNov 8th 2024
    OK, but I just don't understand how there will be vacancies? Someone would need to die or retire. Unless I've misunderstood the system.
    I am extremely serious.
  13. Thor wrote
    OK, but I just don't understand how there will be vacancies? Someone would need to die or retire. Unless I've misunderstood the system.

    This is what I was referring to (taken from The Guardian newspaper)

    Having hand-picked three justices in his first term who helped overturn decades of federal abortion protections, Trump’s re-election and new Senate majority give him carte blanche to lock in the rightwing majority. Justices Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas could retire during the next four years and allow Trump to make younger picks to replace them. The next youngest justice, liberal Sonia Sotomayor, is 70, and must stay on the bench for at least another four years to prevent Trump securing a 7-2 conservative supermajority.
    The views expressed in this post are entirely my own and do not reflect the opinions of maintitles.net, or for that matter, anyone else. http://www.racksandtags.com/falkirkbairn
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      CommentAuthorThor
    • CommentTimeNov 9th 2024
    Yes, that's what I meant. Alito and Thomas can be replaced by younger conservatives, but unless Sotomayor retires, he can't secure an even greater majority than what the Republicans currently have. So we have to cross our fingers that Sotomajor keeps on chuggin'. I don't want another Ginsburg situation.
    I am extremely serious.

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