2020 U.S. Presidential Election - Took place November 3, 2020. Former U.S. Vice President Joe Biden assumed office January 20, 2021.

[The High Prophet of Truth]

He rewarded a trucker who helped his mom who had been attacked. He's still very much loved by people here, mostly working class.

I also heard he gave a ton of money to a guy who saved a guy from getting hit with a subway train.

 

[Gehenna]

I would say for the GOP to survive future elections is to maybe reform the electoral college so it's proportional to the popular vote. This allows New York and California to be competitive states as under the winner take all, California and New York are huge voting blocks fow now. And also make election day a national holiday ffs. And bring in Voter ID laws as well.

How in any way would that make New York or California COMPETITIVE?

 

[Notgoodwithusernames]

folllowing on what Ive said earlier the world economic forum deserves a lolcow thread

 

[MrJokerRager]

Hmm, I guess I took black pills by watching amazing Lucas streams for the past week. Seeing rudy on tv acting the way he is kinda seems incompetent at times.

Amazing Lucas has lost his shine during the BLM riots.

The black conservatives I watch are youngrippa59, Brandi Tatum, Hodge Twins, ABL and Jericho Green. Youngrappa59 is probably the best of the bunch and Brandon Tatum apparently has exploded in subscribers for the last few months. There is also Aaron Coleman as well.

 

[CapricornusRex]

How in any way would that make New York or California COMPETITIVE?

If anything shouldn't CA be losing value with how many of their tax paying citizens have moved? Shouldn't Idaho, Colorado, Arizona, and Texas be getting some of those 55 by now?

 

[HumanHive]

Isn't direct appointment of electors done by each state's legislature though, not the US senate? All of which are Republican controlled, though I haven't checked the actual members of each one to judge how many will cuck out (I doubt many considering how most of the GOP seems to be backing Trump now). You might be thinking of what someone else brought up, regarding the Senate:

Speaking of, can the Senate actually refuse to certify votes, or is this considered unconstitutional? I'm not seeing anything suggesting they'd be able to do this, compared to appointment of electors where the method of choosing electors isn't set in stone, even if traditionally it's through popular vote of the state.

It’s hypothetically within the Senate’s right. Who exactly would force them? I mean, sure the SC could yell at them, but then they’d explain their reasoning (fraud) and remedy (goes to House). But there is a reason I called this a defiant coup, because that’s exactly what it would be and there’d be a low intensity civil war afterwards.

I did see an article talk about this, and I tried to search for it again, but it’s super hard to find anything on the election right now since it’s all “BIDEN WON”.

 

[Kane Lives]

If anything shouldn't CA be losing value with how many of their tax paying citizens have moved? Shouldn't Idaho, Colorado, Arizona, and Texas be getting some of those 55 by now?

Not if you get illegal aliens to make up the numbers instead.

Shame about the state's economy though. Taxbase gonna crash through the floor.

 

[AirdropShitposts]

If anything shouldn't CA be losing value with how many of their tax paying citizens have moved? Shouldn't Idaho, Colorado, Arizona, and Texas be getting some of those 55 by now?

California is supposed to be losing one or two seats with this current/upcoming census/redistricting.

 

[MarvinTheParanoidAndroid]

Much of the problem is the way we teach. Math, history, sciences. They are all contextualless raw facts that have no bearing on our immediate lives. “Eventually” they might, but the end result is not education. Education involves learning information that changes your worldview. Causes you to act differently, or reinforces your actions. What goes on in public schools is some elaborate Simon Says game stretched out over 10+ years.

I've heard there were better education programs but I can't remember what they are.

 

[MrJokerRager]

How in any way would that make New York or California COMPETITIVE?

California is currently worth 55 electoral votes. Over 5 million votes in this state went to Trump, which is a record probably for most number of votes a republican has gotten here. It's about 33 percent of the popular vote. If it was done proportional, Biden would get like 37 votes and Trump like 18 votes. Republicans would actually bother to vote in deep blue shitholes as our votes truly matter and are not just a dick measuring contest for the popular vote.

 

[Gehenna]

California is currently worth 55 electoral votes. Over 5 million votes in this state went to Trump, which is a record probably for most number of votes a republican has gotten here. It's about 33 percent of the popular vote. If it was done proportional, Biden would get like 37 votes and Trump like 18 votes. Republicans would actually bother to vote in deep blue shitholes as our votes truly matter and are not just a dick measuring contest for the popular vote.

Oh, alright. I see what you mean. SPLIT the electoral votes proportionally and...


This would be done in every state. Its just the popular vote with extra steps. Sooo, not a good idea.

 

[ditto]

Do we get a dissenting opinion still if it is unanimous?

Who would write the dissent?

 

[Jaimas]

I still don't know why Borat got so popular. I never watched the movies, so maybe I missed something, but they seemed like the typical Reddit "act like a jackass in public" comedy style which is so quirky doe. The Rudy thing just solidified it for me.

Back in the day the original was loved because it made jokes the sequel couldn't possibly get away with, like "my retarded brother," a skit that features Borat waxing about his mentally-challenged brother who is kept in a cage and taunted until he eventually escapes and rapes his sister. That's a firm adherent to the comedy law of crossing the line twice, and it makes the comedy work because of the absurd overreach.

Basically it was a product of its time and like most things trying to tap into a property long after it's nonviable, the sequel takes no risks whatsoever because PC Culture has killed comedy entirely.

 

[EmuWarsVeteran]

I would say for the GOP to survive future elections is to maybe reform the electoral college so it's proportional to the popular vote. This allows New York and California to be competitive states as under the winner take all, California and New York are huge voting blocks fow now. And also make election day a national holiday ffs. And bring in Voter ID laws as well.

End FPTP, get ID and PUBLIC OBSERVERS, end the mail in fuckery. (not the absentee ballots, just the mail ins) et voila. Without FPTP Cali would be getting eaten up by regionalists and New York would've imploded via 3rd parties long ago, the dems can't survive proper competition.

 

[A_Callow_Youth]

I've heard there were better education programs but I can't remember what they are.

It all comes down to the mandatory education system. Back in the day, you got the education your parents could afford, ranging from learning on the farm as you go to high-end private tutorships. But then around the turn of the century (I think it was Wilson, but I'm not certain), the ruling came down that everyone needed to have what is now understood to be a high school-level education. When the problem of "what about us that can't afford that" came up, the government said "okay, we'll fund some public schools for the poor kids". Fast forward a hundred years, and we now have members of Congress saying that we need to ban private schools for teaching wrongthink. Public school was always a second-quality education, but the siren song of "free shit" outstripped the question of "is this really the best I can do for my child?"

Who would write the dissent?

Ginsburg

 

[TheClappening]

Oh, alright. I see what you mean. SPLIT the electoral votes proportionally and...


This would be done in every state. Its just the popular vote with extra steps. Sooo, not a good idea.

Or just split California into smaller states, which would be funny.

Only the hypothetical coastal states would stay blue.

 

[Übertroon]

I am really curious about how the Supreme Court's dissenting () opinion might read. The same for fact-checking sights, once they are called upon to actually address the evidence. Given clear evidence of a significant (even massive) level of voter fraud, how does one advance the argument that it still simply doesn't matter? Voter fraud is free speech? Better to let 100 invalid votes be counted, then let a single valid one be thrown out? Rest assured, it can be done. If you didn't already have the answer in front of you, you'd never figure out in a million years how the US Constitution akshually forbids abortion, but America's greatest legal minds found a way, and they made it stick. So they are sure to figure out some kind of justification, and you're bound to see it at the top of a lot of Reddit comment sections. The reasoning seems inconceivable in foresight, yet will become trite and banal in hindsight. Fascinating!

I mean, it's pretty obvious it's going to be the second point. Yes there's strong inclinations towards a lot of votes being fraudulent and a lot more that should never have been considered valid in the first place. But hey, after weeks of scrambling them in with the legitimate votes you can't tell exactly how many there are, so better just count them all. For democracy.
Which is going to be the exact opposite view of the people who want to invalidate the batches where we can't say for certain the votes actually were legitimate or not.

This is basically how massive voter fraud can continue for decades. Just make it impossible to discern between a genuine and fraudulent vote. Kinda like spiking the money supply with counterfeit currency that you can't differentiate from the real thing because the authentication security for the actual currency is piss poor

 

[Harvey Danger]

If anything shouldn't CA be losing value with how many of their tax paying citizens have moved? Shouldn't Idaho, Colorado, Arizona, and Texas be getting some of those 55 by now?

Now you know why everyone got so angry about the 2020 Census having a citizenship question.

California is currently worth 55 electoral votes. Over 5 million votes in this state went to Trump, which is a record probably for most number of votes a republican has gotten here. It's about 33 percent of the popular vote. If it was done proportional, Biden would get like 37 votes and Trump like 18 votes. Republicans would actually bother to vote in deep blue shitholes as our votes truly matter and are not just a dick measuring contest for the popular vote.

Texas went for Trump 52-46, and is worth 38 votes; Biden would get 17 of them this year.
Florida only went for Trump 51-47, and is worth 29 votes; Biden would get 14 of those this year.

Republicans always eye CA and NY as some sort of prize if they can just come up with a clever enough scheme for splitting up votes. They forget what happens if that gets applied everywhere else.

 

[A_Callow_Youth]

I mean, it's pretty obvious it's going to be the second point. Yes there's strong inclinations towards a lot of votes being fraudulent and a lot more that should never have been considered valid in the first place. But hey, after weeks of scrambling them in with the legitimate votes you can't tell exactly how many there are, so better just count them all. For democracy.
Which is going to be the exact opposite view of the people who want to invalidate the batches where we can't say for certain the votes actually were legitimate or not.

This is basically how massive voter fraud can continue for decades. Just make it impossible to discern between a genuine and fraudulent vote. Kinda like spiking the money supply with counterfeit currency that you can't differentiate from the real thing because the authentication security for the actual currency is piss poor

Perhaps unsurprisingly, I'm on the "throw it out" side. If your county or state is fucked up, that's your problem to unfuck, and don't come back until you've done just that.

 

[Feline Supremacist]

Do we get a dissenting opinion still if it is unanimous?

If its unanimous we get a concurrence which is a justice saying they agree with the decision in part or for different reasons, and maybe dissent in part.