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In It to Win It

In It to Win It's Journal
In It to Win It's Journal
November 6, 2020

Trump barely cared about COVID before, he REALLY isn't gonna give a fuck about it now!

He cared slightly (barely) because of his reelection chances, that tiny amount of fuck that he gave will be gone out the window.

He's gonna have power for the next 2.5 months. The bare minimum strategy they have now will be gone once all the networks call the race for Joe.

I hoped Joe saved a copy of that pandemic handbook they made. Joe and Kamala will need to add a few chapters because I'm sure the handbook assumes competent governance in it. One thing I'm sure the handbook didn't account for in its assumptions and models of all things that could go wrong was fucked up nonexistent leadership.

November 6, 2020

Fuck the bullshit! GOP spin about it being a 'great' election for them is horseshit!

FOR WHATEVER REASON, every time their narrative is always the main story.

In 2018, we had a WAVE year. We did PHENOMENAL! Their narrative was that it wasn't much of a wave year for Democrats. They had Democrats questioning whether it was really a wave for us.

This year, losing the presidency is a 'great election' for republicans because they possibly didn't lose the senate?????

EXCUSE ME? WHAT KIND OF FUCKERY IS THIS?

We knew the Senate was an uphill battle. Because we didn't oust Mitch McConnell or Lindsey Graham, they took back a Senate seat we should have never had any chance of winning in the first place and we didn't win in ruby-red Montana, it was a bad year for us. FUCK THAT!

1) After 2016, we got to work.
2) In 2017, We won a senate race in fucking ALABAMA! ALABAMAAA! We had no business winning that seat!
3) We had a historic victory in 2018. We were competitive in states we had no business being competitive in like Texas and Georgia.. and won a governorship red ass Kansas.
4) We lessened their Senate majority. We made Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski the most powerful senators in their possible majority (and we'll be waiting on our gift basket for that).
5) They lost 2 Senate seats in Arizona, a long republican stronghold, IN TWO BACK-TO-BACK ELECTIONS.
6) In 2020, for the ultimate prize, we're about to win the Presidency.

IF I COULD DO A FUCKING MIC DROP ON THIS FORUM, I WOULD!

We're doing our job! This is progress! They're not taking this away!

November 6, 2020

Fuck the bullshit! When Joe Biden is called 'President-elect', that's a BLUE WAVE for me!

They brought out their best turnout game...


...AND IT MET THIS BIG ASS BLUE WALL!

November 6, 2020

While Americans voted, the Trump administration quietly revoked the union rights of immigration judg

While Americans voted, the Trump administration quietly revoked the union rights of immigration judges, which could jeopardize their independence

The Federal Labor Relations Authority ruled this week that immigration judges are "managers," not workers, denying them the right to collectively bargain.

The ruling comes after the Trump administration sought to silence the judges, some of whom have spoken out against its policies on immigration and COVID-19.

"FLRA's decision betrays the predetermined nature of the whole case," Judge Ashley Tabaddor told Business Insider. "It makes a mockery of the rule of law."

https://www.yahoo.com/news/while-americans-voted-trump-administration-011918497.html
November 5, 2020

Trump's huge vote total breaks my heart. I recognize this America and I wish I did not [Opinion]

This is going to be a scorched earth column, so buckle up.

Yes, former Vice President Joe Biden may squeak out a victory. But even if he does, we’ve been slapped with the heartbreaking reality that nearly half our country voted for President Donald Trump after spending four years watching him spew unbridled bigotry, engage in blatant corruption, and tell so many lies you’d need a magnifying glass to read the Washington Post's running list of false and misleading claims.

My best friend just called in disgust to say he did not recognize this country. Unfortunately, I do. It’s the same country that built itself largely on the backs of slaves who had their most basic human rights stolen and whose descendants, more than 150 years after emancipation, still carry the weight of the chains that held them down.

It’s the same country that closed its eyes to Matthew Shepard, beaten and broken and tied to a fence in rural Wyoming, where he was left to die … because he was gay.

And it’s the same country where you can see countless cell phone videos of people telling Latino Americans to speak English or "stay in Mexico" or “go back" to where they came from.


https://www.yahoo.com/news/trumps-huge-vote-total-breaks-081504467.html
November 5, 2020

North Carolina: Reports show that 94-95% of the votes have been counted, meaning about 300k votes

are left to be counted.

I'm uncertain if that's correct or close, is NC gone to the dark side?

November 5, 2020

Wow! Georgia is a squeaker!

November 4, 2020

When Joe wins, THIS WILL BE A WAVE... and let me tell you why

The GOP brought out their best. The sheer amount of turnout that they were able to mobilize is astonishing. Their turnout was MASSIVE and I give them credit for that. The loser will have gotten more votes than his own last win and the previous election winner. Trump is on track beat the current record holder of the candidate with most voters (being Obama's historic election in 2008) in pure vote count... and he's still gonna lose.

November 4, 2020

Election 2020: Thus far, what has shocked you about this election?

For me, there are a couple things...

1) I didn't expect this election to be a blowout, but I didn't expect it to be the squeaker that it has become.

2) As a Floridian, I wanted Florida to go for Joe (I'm sure we all would have liked that). I had no idea that the GOP-voting population had grown as much as it did since 2016. I didn't expect Trump to completely outperform his 2016 turnout by such a huge number. He's gotten over 1M votes more than he did in 2016.

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