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ancianita's JournalCHRIS HAYES: BIDEN'S DECISIVE WIN AND DEMOCRATIC PARTY POWER
Know Thy Enemy Before 2024
I highly recommend that everyone read this pre-election, 11-page Nov 2 New Yorker article by Nicholas Lemann. "The After Party," examines Trump/Republican Party history, and which features and ideas might form the basis for its newly revised messaging and players by 2024. Discussed are Tom Cotton, Josh Hawley (Remnant scenario), Tucker Carlson, Pence, Pompeo, Nikki Haley (Restoration scenario), Marco Rubio (Reversalist scenario), who gets special attention, along with Jamie Dimon and Jerry Nadler.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/11/02/the-republican-identity-crisis-after-trump
Let me know if you still hit a paywall under my signed in account, and I'll copy/paste the whole thing.
The second half (after a Trump/Republican review) is the most informative part, so if you're short on time, begin here:
Among the Republicans I spoke to, some of whom will vote for Trump and some of whom won’t, there are three competing predictions about the future of the Party over the coming years. Let’s call them the Remnant, Restoration, and Reversal scenarios.
Lemann is at least a starting point in our knowing who we'll be up against when Trump doesn't dominate.
Numbers Update and How Participatory Our Democracy Is
The AP Number update nationwide: https://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=electoral+votes+by+state+so+far&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8
Biden = 50.8%
76,327,446
Trump = 47.5%
71,430,824
(Difference = 4,896,622 so far)
Total votes = 147,758,270 out of the ...
Total registered voters as of Nov 3 2020 = 213,799,467
https://worldpopulationreview.com/state-rankings/number-of-registered-voters-by-state
Total voting age population (minus 74 mil minors and 10 mil immigrants = 246,000,000 (census)
Total population = 330,000,000 (census)
The real question is what percentage the Biden and Trump votes are a percentage OF -- the total vote, one can assume.
Later, when we want to talk about how representative the vote percentage is of America, we'd have to define that part of America a bit more clearly. In which case, all these numbers might or might not help explain how participatory our democracy is.
The Great Bell Chant
True, we're not at the end of suffering.
But to hear this is a preview, a peace break, until we get there.
VP-Elect Kamala Harris & President-Elect Joe Biden Speak In Delaware
Speeches start: 27:55
Bill Maher: If There's One Thing America Needs Right Now ...
"You complete me, Alabama"??
"... forgive our differences"??
GOODBYE, M'FERS!
Take mother with you!
Take your five languages with you!
Take your christo-fascism with you!
Take your Naziism with you!
Take your money bag with you!
Take your guillotine with you!
Take your brother with you!
Take your Behghazi bullshit misogyny and Saudi asskissing arms sales with you!
Take your sedition with you!
Take your treason with you!
Did I forget anyone? If so, please post!
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