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Thanks, though. The sabbatical was restful!
2020 US Elections | Biden certified as President | Dems control Congress
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Thanks, though. The sabbatical was restful!
So he stopped the count after every tee shot?
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Hey, bad pub is better than no pub.
Slow down, it's way too soon to make a decision. Could go either way.
BoJo just jumped off the Trump ship
Sadly, this was always going to happen regardless of the winner.
However, at least this way, at a bare minimum the vast majority of people on the streets are wearing Masks.
That's 4x the average mortgage size and the monthly repayments alone would be triple the average income after tax leaving nothing for anything else. Not to mention the casual half a million downpayment that absolutely nobody outside of the upper class happens to have sitting around in their bank accounts.
There were a couple of posters obsessed with the early betting offs that were clearly just excited Trumpers as they've not been seen for a long while.
I was gonna create a thread to discuss precisely that, with some data I’ve pulled together and saved. It’s a mixed bag. You can go ahead and create one and I’ll chime in after I’ve gotten some sleep.
They have embraced Trumpism like a second religion. Voting for Trump is considered a religious duty by them.
It was disgusting to see the grift playing out in real time. They were literally pocketing the money in the guise of "consulting fees" and using
vendors that the Lincoln project founders themselves owned.
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I presume everyone criticising betting market made a lot of money then.
I net around 8k.
You could also say that the Republican party normalized it, rather than him personally. He later emerged as someone whose views differed drastically from the Republicans who actively supported and enabled Trump prior to the 2016 election.
But sure - it's hardly unproblematic that he had Palin as his running mate, that represented a shift in terms of trying to reach actively out to the sort of voters who would later become Trump's "base".
ETA McCain's initial choice was allegedly Joe Lieberman (a former Democrat) but this wasn't viable (because he wouldn't fly for too many in the party - he was pro-choice, for one thing).
McCain "officially" went with Palin because she - like himself - was considered a "maverick" (unconventional, etc). Whatever - I still think the idea was to appeal to a certain segment of potential GOP voters (again - the same kind Trump later appealed to). But it shows that choosing your running mate is much more a matter of pragmatism (cynicism, some would say) than a matter of idealism.
By all accounts McCain was shocked when he realized how - to be blunt - feckin' ignorant Palin actually was with regard to the basics. Which immediately prompts the question of why he/they didn't do better research in the first place - but there you are.
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Don't be coy, say names.
Has Trump's massive cry baby statement been posted yet?
Holy crap
Holy crap
Not all of us were laughing. Many saw them for the right wing grifters they are.
But hey, everyone was worried about how effective they'd be with a Dem in their sights instead next time. Not so much maybe.
Nice! Pre- market or election night mainly?
Made a bit more myself and I do agree odds climing to over 5 for Biden was ridiculous, but to totally dismiss betting market is also ridiculous. Truth unsurprisingly lies somewhere in the middle.
Look at large swaths of the red in this country. Much of it is what we call ‘flyover states,’ places that aren’t a positive force in this country. This is what I consider worthless.
Another ground zero of worthlessness is NW Georgia, the location where the new Qanon congressman is from. The cultural bedrock of NW Georgia is the assortment of outlet malls. It is the collection of negative societal discharge that met after it flowed from Atlanta & Knoxville. It’s a strip of absurdity that exists solely because an interstate runs through it.
In other words, worthless.
Love it.
Sad day for you. Commisserations.
Thats a pretty disgusting view.
I'm happy Trump lost.
4.5k from pre-election. 3.5k from a 1k bet when odds climbed.
Market is reactive, not predictive.
Somewhere there’s males.
A Trump twitter meltdown would feel good right about now.
That's what I'm waiting for, honestly. Or even better, a trademark press conference.
Of course. If he had won, it would have been a disaster. Still knowing how you felt about Biden, it's not an easy result. Not a lot of hope for upcoming days but small victories for today
That's the worse thing. It's not that are rich folk and many more relatively poor folk. It's the shockingly huge gulf.
For example, in the USA, the top 1% earns forty times more than the bottom 90%. And in 2017, Forbes found that just three individuals (Jeff Bezos, Warren Buffett and Bill Gates) held more wealth than the bottom half of the entire population. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Income_inequality_in_the_United_States
It's been conclusively shown that the wider this gap, the more mental ill-health there is in a society: http://www.newvisionformentalhealth.com/2019/03/04/how-economic-inequality-harms-societies/
It is what it is.
Looking back I think market's 67% for Biden is a lot better guess than Economist's 97%.
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