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1 minute ago, Barack said:

Might watch Trading Places in homage, once PA confirms finally for Biden.

“Turn the machines back on!!!!”

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1 minute ago, JFK-1 said:

 

There simply comes a point when you have to acknowledge reality if you're going to retain any credibility at all. Fox hit that point. Trump never will.

Thanks.   So  Fox News became  Fake News - just shows how volatile and unstable the "very stable genius" really is. 👍

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2 minutes ago, Barack said:

Might watch Trading Places in homage, once PA confirms finally for Biden.

Nothing to do with Jamie's tits then?    

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1 minute ago, Stokesy said:

Perdue dipped below 50% in his Georgia Senate election. If he stays below 50% there will be a run-off.

Stauner alert!

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Love this Pennsylvania Secretary of State, she is so transparent.  Mega polite under pressure, unlike the prick from Nevada earlier who was losing his rag.

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Just watching the tv news. 
If these scenes were seen in a South American banana republic or in a Russian backed country, the western democracies would be calling it for what it is. Mob rule, trying to intimidate and threaten to overcome a democratic result they don’t like.

All that has to be done to further copy Nazi Germany is give those nutters, talking about Civil War if they can’t overturn a democratic vote, brown or black shirts. 

America, in my lifetime, has usually flattered to deceive as far as being “the land of the free” is concerned, but this is heading for a disastrous outcome. They have, through past extreme complacency, a nutter in the White House who looks like he is out of control. How the Republicans allowed Trump to use them as a vehicle for his erratic and divisive behaviour is staggering.
That said, there are commentators, in America, who think that the people surrounding Trump are desperately trying to keep him away from the cameras, for fear of him stoking up further trouble that could end in tragedy.

Let’s hope that sense and calm prevail and nothing bad happens, whoever eventually wins.

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2 minutes ago, Justin Z said:

 

A little late to the party with that one Justin :thumbsup: but it’s entertaining to see it again nonetheless :lol: 

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5 minutes ago, RobboM said:

Taken from Guardian website latest

 

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Assuming this is accurate, Biden only needs 56% of the vote in Pennsylvania. It's a much higher number of votes left than I've seen in other estimates so not sure how accurate it is.

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Something weird going on in Penn.  A couple of hours ago, there were 550k votes to be counted and Trump was 120k ahead.  There are now 326k votes to be counted and there’s a 90k gap?  So Biden has only made up 30k votes across the 224k votes counted the last few hours?

 

Edit - ignore me, I’m talking shite!

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1 minute ago, Stokesy said:

 

Assuming this is accurate, Biden only needs 56% of the vote in Pennsylvania. It's a much higher number of votes left than I've seen in other estimates so not sure how accurate it is.

I think it is actually from yesterday.

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2 minutes ago, hughesie27 said:

I think it is actually from yesterday.


The gaps look current. I've no idea about the volume of votes to count. Also how would you know the number of votes that will arrive tomorrow (ie still valid) that were postmarked Nov 3?

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5 minutes ago, King prawn said:

A little late to the party with that one Justin :thumbsup: but it’s entertaining to see it again nonetheless :lol: 

 

Hah cheers for letting me down easy :biggrin2:

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I’m like a kid getting to stay up on Christmas Eve here. I can’t wait for it all to over to see Trump’s post election speech. Win or lose it’s going to be a beaut. 

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10 minutes ago, Stokesy said:

 

Assuming this is accurate, Biden only needs 56% of the vote in Pennsylvania. It's a much higher number of votes left than I've seen in other estimates so not sure how accurate it is.

 

Two big problems with this stuff. One is that the votes still to count stats are based on estimates and can be out by a couple of hundred thousand.  The other is that different media outlets in the States report different figures for votes still to count.

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4 minutes ago, Ulysses said:

 

Two big problems with this stuff. One is that the votes still to count stats are based on estimates and can be out by a couple of hundred thousand.  The other is that different media outlets in the States report different figures for votes still to count.

 

Official site here - https://www.votespa.com/About-Elections/Pages/Counting-Dashboard.aspx

 

Gives 326,000 votes to count at present.

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Just now, NANOJAMBO said:

CNN (in last few minutes) talking about Trumps proposed speech up coming "he's going to lie to the nation...". 

 

What time did they say he was going to talk. I was going to go to bed but might stay up if it isn't too long to go.

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1 hour ago, SwindonJambo said:

 

Very easy to believe. I think the more sensible Republicans view this election as expendible so that they can put this sorry chapter behind them and put forward a more credible candidate next time.

 

America has to now have a good hard look at itself and put some checks and balances in place to stop such an absolute nutter from getting anywhere near the White House ever again.

It isn't very expendable if Biden gives citizenship to millions of illegals - those who broke the law to enter the US - because the Dems thinks it will guarantee they win every election in the future.

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Shanks said no

Trump to speak from the White House
President Trump is due to address the country from the White House at 18:30 EST (23:00 GMT), the press secretary has just announced.

 

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Just now, Stokesy said:

 

What time did they say he was going to talk. I was going to go to bed but might stay up if it isn't too long to go.

Someone just posted, 11-30, UK time, 6.30 US time.

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1 minute ago, Barack said:

Trump on in 45 minutes.

 

Get your Bingo cards ready!

 

"Conspiracy."

 

"Stolen elections".

 

"Fraud."

 

"Illegal."

 

 

Any others...?

 

 

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1 minute ago, Barack said:

Trump on in 45 minutes.

 

Get your Bingo cards ready!

 

"Conspiracy."

 

"Stolen elections".

 

"Fraud."

 

"Illegal."

 

 

Any others...?

 

 

 

 

Room to squeeze in Hunter surely. 

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2 minutes ago, Barack said:

Trump on in 45 minutes.

 

Get your Bingo cards ready!

 

"Conspiracy."

 

"Stolen elections".

 

"Fraud."

 

"Illegal."

 

 

Any others...?

 

 

 

"Socialist"

 

"Lies"

 

"Patriots"

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4 minutes ago, Barack said:

Trump on in 45 minutes.

 

Get your Bingo cards ready!

 

"Conspiracy."

 

"Stolen elections".

 

"Fraud."

 

"Illegal."

 

 

Any others...?

 

 

Beautiful

Bigly

Proud Boys

Guns

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1 minute ago, Stokesy said:

 

Nice one. I'll stay up for this.

 

Think I will go get a nice drink.

 

🙂

 

Wonder if he will call for violence to stop the count in one State and keep counting in another.

 

 

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7 minutes ago, Barack said:

Trump on in 45 minutes.

 

Get your Bingo cards ready!

 

"Conspiracy."

 

"Stolen elections".

 

"Fraud."

 

"Illegal."

 

 

Any others...?

 

 

Truth, Democracy and Integrity are wording whose sentiment perhaps makes some feel uncomfortable.

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1 minute ago, Barack said:

Trump on in 45 minutes.

 

Get your Bingo cards ready!

 

"Conspiracy."

 

"Stolen elections".

 

"Fraud."

 

"Illegal."

 

 

Any others...?

 

 

If we’re serious about playing my 5 are:

 

Fraud!

sad group of people 

I’ve been saying this since day 1

We’ll be going to the US Supreme Court

They’re “finding” ballots 

 

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6 minutes ago, Stokesy said:

 

Official site here - https://www.votespa.com/About-Elections/Pages/Counting-Dashboard.aspx

 

Gives 326,000 votes to count at present.

 

But none of the media sources are using that figure, probably because they're relying on some other source or using their own.

 

As an Irish person, one thing that astonished me was hearing some CNN guy saying that most journalists have never been at a count centre.  There isn't an Irish journo or media person alive who hasn't spent days in an election count centre.  The notion that you could be a political correspondent and avoid count centres would just be laughable here.

 

Different cultures, I guess.

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