# Election Day \[Week\]\[Month\[s\]\] \[Year\] 2020 follow-along thread **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [November 3, 2020, 5:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618 "2020-11-03T05:36:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 205
**Author:** ![GreenWyvern](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/greenwyvern/32/2834_2.png) [@GreenWyvern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GreenWyvern)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2020, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/4090 "2020-11-07T04:44:52Z")
From the Onion: > **[Media Condemns Biden For Baseless Claim That Nation Will Come Together Once...](https://www.theonion.com/media-condemns-biden-for-baseless-claim-that-nation-wil-1845596433)** > > NEW YORK—Blasting the former vice president for spreading misinformation at this perilous time for democracy, media figures across the political spectrum condemned Joe Biden Friday for his baseless claim that the nation will come together once the... Seriously, though, it will be good to see an intelligent, decent man as president again. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2020, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/4091 "2020-11-07T04:47:33Z")
Fair enough. 👋 ---
**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2020, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/4092 "2020-11-07T04:48:55Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > A friend just texted me that Mark Meadows tested positive for COVID. So at least one person gives a shit. 😉 It’s on CNN now. Meadows is the guy I liked to call “the shirt” because as a Congressman he never seemed to wear a jacket, preferring the “get things done” kind of shirtsleeve affectation. Though the only thing he ever seemed to get done was utter spittle-mouthed accusations against anyone daring to criticize the Orange Imbecile, while praising said imbecile to high heaven at every opportunity. Naturally his reward was not long in coming in a world where being a shameless sycophant was the top and only qualification\*, and he got to be Chief of Staff (and had to start suiting up with a jacket). And then he got to have COVID, following in the footsteps of his idol. \* Being a son-in-law is the only exception. ---
**Author:** ![Mike\_Mabes](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mike_mabes/32/1782_2.png) [@Mike\_Mabes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mike_Mabes)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2020, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/4093 "2020-11-07T04:49:32Z")
> [@beowulff](#): > > Yes, I live in Scottsdale. Do you read Goody’s movie reviews. AZ Journal, I think, I grew up with him in Radford, VA. Which I am proud to say, voted for Biden, although I think most of that were student votes. ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2020, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/4094 "2020-11-07T04:53:12Z")
Bloomberg reporting several aides have COVID and that the White House tried to keep it quiet (on election day I assume). ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2020, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/4095 "2020-11-07T04:54:08Z")
> [@GreenWyvern](#): > > From the Onion: Soon we will once again to be able to tell the difference between Onion headlines and actual headlines. ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2020, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/4096 "2020-11-07T04:56:44Z")
Do we have an estimate on when they’ll call PA? ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2020, 4:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/4097 "2020-11-07T04:57:25Z")
> [@susan](#): > > Bloomberg reporting several aides have COVID and that the White House tried to keep it quiet (on election day I assume).- B-b-but COVID is a Democrat hoax!! Isn’t it? ---
**Author:** ![JaneDoe42](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/janedoe42/32/14104_2.png) [@JaneDoe42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JaneDoe42)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2020, 4:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/4098 "2020-11-07T04:58:14Z")
> [@beowulff](#): > > Good for you to help the guy who got hit. I hope your testimony helps him. I wouldn’t have done it if he had been white. Well, I would have given my name and number, but I wouldn’t have waited because I was worried that the victim would end up in jail or dead. I’m praying that Biden will make it so I don’t have to do it again. ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2020, 4:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/4099 "2020-11-07T04:58:17Z")
Duh, that’s why they didn’t tell us about it! ---
**Author:** ![Win\_Place\_Show](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/win_place_show/32/13469_2.png) [@Win\_Place\_Show](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Win_Place_Show)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2020, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/4100 "2020-11-07T05:01:14Z")
I’m reminded of [this incident from just a couple weeks ago](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AShZZRwgHlU) when he mocked the idea of wearing a mask, in a hallway interview with the reporter pool. Fuck this guy. On MSNBC, Brian Williams quoted a Bloomberg journalist (I didn’t catch the name) who said that four other Trump aides also had tested positive, and that the WH tried unsuccessfully to keep Meadows’ diagnosis under wraps. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2020, 5:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/4101 "2020-11-07T05:05:36Z")
> [@Ann\_Hedonia](#): > > I hope that it’s not just the story that…I can’t finish that though without breaking a rule, I think. > > But if McConnell, like a miracle, just disappears, then the Democratic governor of Kentucky appoints the replacement. …and THAT’S why Joe should make him Secretary of State (until the Senate goes blue. Then he should fire him). ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2020, 5:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/4102 "2020-11-07T05:06:43Z")
> **[Ballot Tracker Tracker](https://xkcd.com/2382/)** > > Good luck to Democrats in the upcoming Georgia runoff elections, and to the Google Sheets SREs in the current run-on elections. ---
**Author:** ![Kron](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kron/32/12444_2.png) [@Kron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kron)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2020, 5:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/4103 "2020-11-07T05:06:51Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > > [@susan](#): > > > > Bloomberg reporting several aides have COVID and that the White House tried to keep it quiet (on election day I assume).- > > B-b-but COVID is a Democrat hoax!! Isn’t it? Yeah, and I thought we weren’t going to hear about it any longer starting Nov. 4th? ---
**Author:** ![eschrodinger](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschrodinger/32/122_2.png) [@eschrodinger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschrodinger)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2020, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/4104 "2020-11-07T05:07:26Z")
Of course they didn’t tell anyone. It kind of runs their whole narrative that we won’t hear about Covid-19 after Nov. 3. You know, the White House people plus the 125,000 new cases. ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2020, 5:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/4105 "2020-11-07T05:27:23Z")
I blame Obama. ---
**Author:** ![eschrodinger](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschrodinger/32/122_2.png) [@eschrodinger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschrodinger)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2020, 5:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/4106 "2020-11-07T05:30:35Z")
> [@eschrodinger](#): > > runs Ugh – “ruins.” Darn short edit window. ---
**Author:** ![Whack-a-Mole](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/whack-a-mole/32/141_2.png) [@Whack-a-Mole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whack-a-Mole)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2020, 5:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/4107 "2020-11-07T05:39:57Z")
I used to play Dungeons & Dragons and that had a spectrum of good and evil. Trump is chaotic evil (sort of flails about and causes mayhem but there is no real goal to any of it). Like a spree murderer. McConnell is lawful evil (everything they do is meant to make things worse on a grand scale). Like Hitler. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2020, 5:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/4108 "2020-11-07T05:41:53Z")
> [@mhendo](#): > > > [@Fiveyearlurker](#): > > > > I assume he will blanket pardon himself in the very near future. > > I admit that pardons is one area of presidential power where I don’t have much expertise, but can a president pardon himself pre-emptively, in the absence of a charge or a conviction? I would be very surprised if Trump could issue a blanket pardon, relieving himself of any consequences even from future prosecutions. > > If he can, in fact, do that, it’s a travesty of the pardon privilege. If he can, it raises the question of why Nixon didn’t do it, and save Gerry Ford the headache and taint. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2020, 5:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/4109 "2020-11-07T05:43:21Z")
> [@Whack-a-Mole](#): > > I used to play Dungeons & Dragons and that had a spectrum of good and evil. > > Trump is chaotic evil (sort of flails about and causes mayhem but there is no real goal to any of it). Like a spree murderer. > > McConnell is lawful evil (everything they do is meant to make things worse on a grand scale). Like Hitler. As a longtime D&D player, I agree with this assessment of their alignments. 😃 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618.md?page=204) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618.md?page=206)