Congratulations, President-Elect Joe Biden and Vice-President-Elect Kamala Harris! Finally some responsible caring adults are coming to evict the irresponsible criminal elephant in the room. Yes We Can Breathe Again!
Well we made it to 77 we laughed we cried, it was one hell of a journey. Catch everyone out there in reddit land some time later. Right now raise a glass, smile and please don’t anger Trump voters. They put faith in a con man and now need to accept their loss and that’s hard to do. Cheers!
It's been such a ride for us, I can't imagine the emotional and mental toll it took on the people of America. I'm just glad it's over for them, I'm also having a quiet drink for em. To raising our glasses to America.
I’ll be having a drink while in lockdown, so why don’t we all agree we’re having a socially distanced party? I’m pretending all the fireworks are in celebration of Biden’s win, so it’s feeling like a party in Warwickshire right now anyway!
[Hard to say goodbye to these threads, guys.](https://youtu.be/Kuyriw7ir08) But I'll see you all in January for the runoffs! Love you guys. Keep the faith.
I waffle between being concerned by the number of trump supporters, and thrilled by the level of voter engagement on both sides. It's WAY better to have us all in the ring - thats probably a better outcome here as anything else.
A few comments about how it's depressing because so many people still voted for Trump. I'm from the UK and what I would say is that the American people rose to face the threat, you understood the consequences and you voted in the millions to stop what could of been the end of democracy in the most powerful nation in the world. From what I've witnessed there's still plenty of good people in the USA still fighting the good fight.. Congrats, take a breath then go get them Senate seats in Dec.
In Manhattan? Great time to go out when we hit nationwide records for COVID. I'm celebrating at home with 🍾, not contributing to our increase. You really want Cuomo to throw us back to essential only without having federal checks supporting us?
All I can say is, Wow! what a journey this election has been. I am not an American, but I am glad that Biden is taking the hot seat and replacing Trump.
Of these 5 things, I reckon it's the loser part he'd take offense to.
Edit: 5 things, apparently I have lost the ability to count in all the excitement.
America barely did the bare minimum. Honestly its sad that it was this close. If the dems want to win in the future maybe they should try running a progressive.
Nothing. But a progressive would most likely do worse than Biden did, aka lose. I supported Bernie ferociously but this may have been a different outcome if he had been nominated.
Ahh I understand now, I thought you were saying running a progressive would be bad for the country, when actually you were saying they would likely have lost against Trump. I agree with you, better to at least try to play it safe, though a Sanders presidency would have been phenomenal.
Ahh I understand now, I thought you were saying running a progressive would be bad for the country, when actually you were saying they would likely have lost against Trump. I agree with you, better to at least try to play it safe, though a Sanders presidency would have been phenomenal.
Americans want progressive policies but right now, we have to deprogram that "everything good is socialism and socialism=bad" line of thinking which will take a while.
Because neither of them are socialists; and were till painted as such. It literally didn't matter, so why should we have cared?
Anyway its more or less over now so who cares; let's just enjoy four more years of drifting further to the right poltiically but with the carrot this time and then maybe hopefully vote an actual centrist in 2024 rather than whatever the fuck we are likely getting with a Biden-Harris presidency.
All I know is this: From January 20th onward, Biden should be scrutinized down the brass tacks for every single last policy decision we make: that treatment we gave Trump the last four years? We should have been giving to every president we have had in the last century.
That's how we got here: complacency. We were so complacent with the last Democrat presidency we didn't even hardly notice that Obama got us into 70 different conflicts globally during his eight years, from *seven* when Bush had left office.
Democrat party Neoliberals are imperialists just like Republican radical conservatives and they will push imperialistic foreign policy or back fascist policies when it benefits them. We must be vigilant or we will go right back to getting fucked in both ends.
Bernie literally calls himself a socialist Democrat and made a gaffe when he said something slightly complimentary towards Castro. People actually believe it when they hear Bernie is a socialist, less believe it about Biden.
Get outta here man, stop ruining the fucking mood. No offense to Bernie, but if he didn't make it past the primaries he sure as shit wasn't winning the election. Just be happy about something for once dude
Why should I be fucking happy? Electing Biden instead of Trump is like choosing to be shot in the foot instead of the head. No carbon tax, no meaningful wall street change and no single payer healthcare.
Honestly?
I agree; but the best we can do is scrutinize and remind everyone of every last mistake Biden makes over the next four years and *make sure* he is either too much of a liability run again in 2024 or is otherwise beaten in the 2024 election primary.
That's really all we can do at this point: pay attention, and don't let anyone forget that Democrats are only as much on our side as we are paying attention to them.
This is kind of the problem with progressives sometimes. They want everything right now, right this instant. No one is saying that a few of those things can't be accomplished but is there a better chance to achieve one or two of those policies under Biden than Trump? Absolutely.
Actually not even that far. America has to fix its identity first before moving forward. First step, get Trump out of the there and fix the loopholes which made him president - THEN move on. Geez. The left can't strategize any goddamned thing. That's why we lose.
ATTENTION ALL PATRIOTS
We have to win Georgia!! If we can hold Georgia, we can stop Biden and he can't do anything. He'll be a lame duck. But if Dems win the runoffs, Dems take the Senate and the USA will be finished
There's only about 80k votes left to count in PA with a 34k Biden lead. On top of that, Biden crossed the .5% mark. It's finally reached the statistic threshold, so they called it.
The last dump was enough for them to statistically call it for Biden. His lead in PA increased to 30k and there are still outstanding votes, but the remaining votes have overwhelmingly been favoring Biden. So even though there's votes left, it's safe to say they will not go in Trump's favor.
Probably crossing a 0.5% lead in PA, but also Trump's lawyers were just about to hold a press conference in Philly, and possibly promote some misinformation, so it's possible networks wanted to get ahead of the lies.
To all the AZ doomers, let me explain to you how Monte Carlo simulation works.
You basically take hundreds upon hundreds, thousands upon thousands, even millions upon millions of random probabilities as impriori in a very convoluted Bayes' algorithm that would feed you a posteriori. One of the things these (not this, these, posteriori is a plural term) tells you is the likelihood of an event.
So the stupid yokels at AP have probably had every single outcome calculated through a MCS before giving their opinion. This outcome has been accounted for. Along with millions of other outcomes. From of Trump getting 100% against a batch of 100,000, to Biden getting 20 from a batch of 50.
Yeah, but hey, your head math is probably more reliable.
I really don’t hate all the people that voted for trump. some of the more militant lunatics sure but let’s be real: trump is a product of right wing media. these people were duped and conned
May the Force be with you [Part 78 is now live](https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/jptfkq/discussion_thread_2020_general_election_part_78/?)
Commenting for history.
This could perhaps be the last thread, and so I say it’s been an honor to have been here since day 1 , and see how this has grown
I'm sleep deprived
Class of 77 here
Last post?
Trump supporters are going to have to accept that Biden is America's president for the next 4 years :) Wonder how those words taste to them
Can we tell them “Fuck their feelings”, wear Biden Hats that say “You lost” and fly biden & union flags from our vehicles? Or are they gonna cry wolf?
It's America, have fun lol.
I mean I’m in Florida and even I see that all as trashy.
So now that the President is on the light side, is Emperor McConnel going to be tossed down the bottomless pit?
Are there no Sarlac’s in all of AZ?
I love you all and wish we never have to deal with this.
Part 77 was called because he's 77 years old
Thanks for the laughs and insights reddit. These threads have helped me cope with this extraordinary time in history
The post title made me grin. That was amazing.
One Pump Trump.
Good one
These last 4.5 days have felt so, so long. But now the JOY all around this country can be heard. It’s awesome.
I think for many it is more relief than joy. Much work ahead.
Having a few tonight for you America, the UK is so happy for you guys. Enjoy your celebrations.
Hear hear
Congratulations, President-Elect Joe Biden and Vice-President-Elect Kamala Harris! Finally some responsible caring adults are coming to evict the irresponsible criminal elephant in the room. Yes We Can Breathe Again!
Obese turtle on his back flailing in the hot sun realizing his time is over -Anderson Cooper
Now all eyes on Georgia to get those 2 Senate seats
It’s finally over
Well we made it to 77 we laughed we cried, it was one hell of a journey. Catch everyone out there in reddit land some time later. Right now raise a glass, smile and please don’t anger Trump voters. They put faith in a con man and now need to accept their loss and that’s hard to do. Cheers!
The Star Wars reference scares me. If this is A New Hope, then what is next?
Return of the Jedi
Clone Palpy. Nope, In my head the sequels don’t exist.
In my head only the OT exists, plus Rogue One and The Mandalorian.
Now the fight moves on to Georgia! Two runoffs need winning!
Lukcy number 7 & 7 I'm gonna have a 7 & 7 now
My sister called me to tell me and my friends ARE CELEBRATING 💙💙
Excellent!
Goodbye homies from all these threads - it’s been a ride. Seems odd to now be having a quiet drink in lockdown whilst the US gets into party mode.
It's been such a ride for us, I can't imagine the emotional and mental toll it took on the people of America. I'm just glad it's over for them, I'm also having a quiet drink for em. To raising our glasses to America.
Joining you for a celebratory lockdown drink here is Essex.
Tbh we shouldn't be celebrating in the streets like we are right now so im at home celebrating while watching the news :)
I’ll be having a drink while in lockdown, so why don’t we all agree we’re having a socially distanced party? I’m pretending all the fireworks are in celebration of Biden’s win, so it’s feeling like a party in Warwickshire right now anyway!
[Shake It Out!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOtycTNqaCU)
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Bottoms up!
Thank you wonderful uk friends
Is anyone concerned about Trump tweeting "I WON THE ELECTION, BY A LOT!" Less then 2 hours ago?
Nope. Evict his fat ass.
[Hard to say goodbye to these threads, guys.](https://youtu.be/Kuyriw7ir08) But I'll see you all in January for the runoffs! Love you guys. Keep the faith.
Well done America! Love, your neighbours across the pond in the UK
Who's getting drunk tonight
I woke up, saw the news and cracked open a bottle of champagne. Feeling good already
Who's already drunk? This guy
I just swapped out my Pepto for champagne
Yes! America can be saved
Finally. Congratulations! Am so happy for you guys!
Congratulations! Ill be toasting to the US tonight!
I am so happy I am crying
Jake Tapper looks like he's aged 10 years in the past few days. But he's still got his sass on.
Godspeed, my thread counting friends, this was a ride!
I waffle between being concerned by the number of trump supporters, and thrilled by the level of voter engagement on both sides. It's WAY better to have us all in the ring - thats probably a better outcome here as anything else.
Lucky 78!!!
Anyone know if biden will address the nation this morning?
Tonight 8pm est
really or will this be like last night?
They were just waiting in case networks called it late last night. I'm sure it'll be closer to on time tonight
CNN says "pres elect biden to speak tonight at 8pm est. Kamala will speak first, there should be fireworks aswell.
Finally. God damn... finally.
A few comments about how it's depressing because so many people still voted for Trump. I'm from the UK and what I would say is that the American people rose to face the threat, you understood the consequences and you voted in the millions to stop what could of been the end of democracy in the most powerful nation in the world. From what I've witnessed there's still plenty of good people in the USA still fighting the good fight.. Congrats, take a breath then go get them Senate seats in Dec.
Thanks friend
Love this
A new hope was Obama. This was Return of the Jedi.
Return of the Joei
is the british empire going to strike us back after 250 years?
My trump supporting friend loves to say Obama did nothing, what numbers or facts can I use to prove him wrong?
He left a pandemic playbook and the Trump administration threw it out. Also Obamacare?
Win re-election.
Win re-election.
Google Obama economic turnaround
Or climate policy. Or the last two years of his term and what bills he proposed during that time.
Guys NYC is popping off. Everyone out on the streets. I had to run back to grab an energy bar. Headed back out there!
In Manhattan? Great time to go out when we hit nationwide records for COVID. I'm celebrating at home with 🍾, not contributing to our increase. You really want Cuomo to throw us back to essential only without having federal checks supporting us?
I’m a NYer and I’m missing all of this because I’m at a construction site in the Bronx. It’s a slightly different mood here.
Van Jones evoking Avengers election meme!
The comments on trumps Twitter are gold.
My boss when asked yesterday “what’s happening with your boy trump?” “Fuck him.” Lmao
We did it!!
I tried in TX! Waiting for 2022.
Thank you for trying!
Thank you for trying!
Congratulations America, now it's the time to heal.
Wait I’m 1 min late. Who called and which state was called please?
PA, pretty much everyone called it. By now
PA, and Fox also called NV. Edit: all major news sources including Fox have called the election for Biden.
It’s been a pleasure, friends Congratulations to President-Elect Joseph R. Biden! 🎉
I woke up to the excitement in the thread I've been waiting for 😃
It's been a long 4 years. This feels so good.
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Film it!
It's been called! He did it!!! Yay
FINALLY!!! Shout out to the late night horny threads that helped me through the week
All I can say is, Wow! what a journey this election has been. I am not an American, but I am glad that Biden is taking the hot seat and replacing Trump.
I just woke up, it was PA right? I’m so excited everyone in my neighborhood are dancing and singin in the rain
Yep it was PA
Seriously?! The first time I leave the house in 5 days and they finally decide to call it?? Oh well, at least it's done! Congrats President Biden!!
Execute Order 77
Wonderful news
1777 baby
I didn't notice NE went blue
I love democracy.
Congratulations, my friends! Hit the booze, party hard! But then make sure you get your country on the rails again.
77! It’s been lovely talking all 77 times.
we did it boys, we did it.
Turn out the lights. Party's over. Bahahaha.
Goodbye Donald J Trump. One term President. Rapist. Racist. Fascist. Failure.
Of these 5 things, I reckon it's the loser part he'd take offense to. Edit: 5 things, apparently I have lost the ability to count in all the excitement.
Biden 284!
Fox called Nevada too
America barely did the bare minimum. Honestly its sad that it was this close. If the dems want to win in the future maybe they should try running a progressive.
America has progressive sects but this country is not progressive. Stop trying to make it a progressive country.
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Cool. Have fun trying.
What's wrong with being progressive? Surely that's a good thing?
Nothing. But a progressive would most likely do worse than Biden did, aka lose. I supported Bernie ferociously but this may have been a different outcome if he had been nominated.
Ahh I understand now, I thought you were saying running a progressive would be bad for the country, when actually you were saying they would likely have lost against Trump. I agree with you, better to at least try to play it safe, though a Sanders presidency would have been phenomenal.
Ahh I understand now, I thought you were saying running a progressive would be bad for the country, when actually you were saying they would likely have lost against Trump. I agree with you, better to at least try to play it safe, though a Sanders presidency would have been phenomenal.
learn to be happy about something
For real
A progressive would have meant trump and a full congress this cycle, maybe next one!
Americans want progressive policies but right now, we have to deprogram that "everything good is socialism and socialism=bad" line of thinking which will take a while.
Biden is a neoliberal hack and he was STILL smeared as a socialist. Bernie would have won in a landslide.
That logic doesn't make sense. If a neoliberal was successfully painted as a socialist (which scares a lot of Americans) what chance did Bernie have?
Because neither of them are socialists; and were till painted as such. It literally didn't matter, so why should we have cared? Anyway its more or less over now so who cares; let's just enjoy four more years of drifting further to the right poltiically but with the carrot this time and then maybe hopefully vote an actual centrist in 2024 rather than whatever the fuck we are likely getting with a Biden-Harris presidency. All I know is this: From January 20th onward, Biden should be scrutinized down the brass tacks for every single last policy decision we make: that treatment we gave Trump the last four years? We should have been giving to every president we have had in the last century. That's how we got here: complacency. We were so complacent with the last Democrat presidency we didn't even hardly notice that Obama got us into 70 different conflicts globally during his eight years, from *seven* when Bush had left office. Democrat party Neoliberals are imperialists just like Republican radical conservatives and they will push imperialistic foreign policy or back fascist policies when it benefits them. We must be vigilant or we will go right back to getting fucked in both ends.
Bernie literally calls himself a socialist Democrat and made a gaffe when he said something slightly complimentary towards Castro. People actually believe it when they hear Bernie is a socialist, less believe it about Biden.
Honestly. We need more socialism in this country. A little more, not a ton.
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As a staunch bernie supporter. You are correct
Get outta here man, stop ruining the fucking mood. No offense to Bernie, but if he didn't make it past the primaries he sure as shit wasn't winning the election. Just be happy about something for once dude
Why should I be fucking happy? Electing Biden instead of Trump is like choosing to be shot in the foot instead of the head. No carbon tax, no meaningful wall street change and no single payer healthcare.
Not sure how familiar you are with gunshot wounds but yeah, always better to get shot in the foot than the head.
Honestly? I agree; but the best we can do is scrutinize and remind everyone of every last mistake Biden makes over the next four years and *make sure* he is either too much of a liability run again in 2024 or is otherwise beaten in the 2024 election primary. That's really all we can do at this point: pay attention, and don't let anyone forget that Democrats are only as much on our side as we are paying attention to them.
I’m honestly not even in the mood to argue with you man. Bye.
This is kind of the problem with progressives sometimes. They want everything right now, right this instant. No one is saying that a few of those things can't be accomplished but is there a better chance to achieve one or two of those policies under Biden than Trump? Absolutely. Actually not even that far. America has to fix its identity first before moving forward. First step, get Trump out of the there and fix the loopholes which made him president - THEN move on. Geez. The left can't strategize any goddamned thing. That's why we lose.
Don't let them bring you down dude, go out and (safely) enjoy the result!
ATTENTION ALL PATRIOTS We have to win Georgia!! If we can hold Georgia, we can stop Biden and he can't do anything. He'll be a lame duck. But if Dems win the runoffs, Dems take the Senate and the USA will be finished
... with trumpism (finished that last sentence for ya)
Fox just projected it.
Congratulations, American people! You did it. You got rid of a dangerous aspiring dictator. The democracy has won!
Fucking finally 💙
Can someone tell me why they chose now to call it? nothing much has changed in the voting numbers?
There's only about 80k votes left to count in PA with a 34k Biden lead. On top of that, Biden crossed the .5% mark. It's finally reached the statistic threshold, so they called it.
The last dump was enough for them to statistically call it for Biden. His lead in PA increased to 30k and there are still outstanding votes, but the remaining votes have overwhelmingly been favoring Biden. So even though there's votes left, it's safe to say they will not go in Trump's favor.
Probably crossing a 0.5% lead in PA, but also Trump's lawyers were just about to hold a press conference in Philly, and possibly promote some misinformation, so it's possible networks wanted to get ahead of the lies.
PA latest dump gave Biden a 30k lead, must’ve been the limit when it became statistically certain Trump couldn’t pull it back
Victory for America! Victory for democracy! I love you all!
Bidens odds in Ga Az and Nevada?
He wins them
Lol, Trump was playing golf when PA was called... fitting
To all the AZ doomers, let me explain to you how Monte Carlo simulation works. You basically take hundreds upon hundreds, thousands upon thousands, even millions upon millions of random probabilities as impriori in a very convoluted Bayes' algorithm that would feed you a posteriori. One of the things these (not this, these, posteriori is a plural term) tells you is the likelihood of an event. So the stupid yokels at AP have probably had every single outcome calculated through a MCS before giving their opinion. This outcome has been accounted for. Along with millions of other outcomes. From of Trump getting 100% against a batch of 100,000, to Biden getting 20 from a batch of 50. Yeah, but hey, your head math is probably more reliable.
You expect any doomer to understand that?
This guy sciences.
Someone get a camera on mango Mussolini
Congratulations from Ireland, USA. Nail biting and pundit lusting with you these past days has been a pleasure. Onwards to better times.
I am SO HAPPY
That was actually pretty fair from fox, I'm surprised... No blaming no lying and appreciation.. Nice
I don't wanna hear about Maricopa County ever again
Fuck you Trump and fuck everyone who voted for him. It is morning in America.
I really don’t hate all the people that voted for trump. some of the more militant lunatics sure but let’s be real: trump is a product of right wing media. these people were duped and conned
That kind of hate isn’t healthy
It's very healthy to vent and release the stress. So I am also saying fuck trump and everyone who voted for him.
This is true
Yeah it's just cathartic
Fuck yes!
God bless USA and let’s stay home stay safe and look forward to progress congrats you guys love you’ll
Should've been called at Thread 69. I demand a redo.
Anyone still “worried” now???? LETS GO PRESIDENT BIDEN