# 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:** 228
**Author:** ![TreacherousCretin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treacherouscretin/32/476_2.png) [@TreacherousCretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TreacherousCretin)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2020, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/4550 "2020-11-07T21:22:21Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > I actually don’t even put Biden or any other political signs out. I kind of have a little bit of fear of the rabid Trump supporters. I have more than “a little” fear of them. Dumber than dogshit, angry as hell, and likely as not armed and dangerous. ---
**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, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/4551 "2020-11-07T21:26:40Z")
> [@bobot](#): > > I just now realized that I can go back to capitalizing the word “President”. Haha! I just started doing that, too! 👍🏽 I love you guys. ---
**Author:** ![I\_Love\_Me\_Vol.I](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/i_love_me_vol.i/32/521_2.png) [@I\_Love\_Me\_Vol.I](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/I_Love_Me_Vol.I)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2020, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/4552 "2020-11-07T21:28:19Z")
> [@flurb](#): > > Agreed on Trump’s portrait. It’s important not to whitewash history, and I’m sure there’s space for it by the kitchen dumpsters. I agree with Trump’s portrait going up too. I’d love to have him erased from history but that’s not the way we do things. Let’s try to set an example–as hard as that may be. ---
**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, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/4553 "2020-11-07T21:28:39Z")
> [@TreacherousCretin](#): > > > [@Mahaloth](#): > > > > I actually don’t even put Biden or any other political signs out. I kind of have a little bit of fear of the rabid Trump supporters. > > I have more than “a little” fear of them. Dumber than dogshit, angry as hell, and likely as not armed and dangerous. Yup. We have a ton of Trump signs in my neighborhood along with, “Don’t Tread on Me” and confederate flags and vehicles with stickers all over about how eager they are to shoot people with their stash of guns. I stay as far away from them as possible and try not to provoke them. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2020, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/4554 "2020-11-07T21:31:52Z")
> **[2020 Latest: Romney congratulates President-elect Biden](https://apnews.com/article/election-2020-joe-biden-donald-trump-virginia-media-ee442a479ad8a9a4ca28ae085c2f339b)** > > WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on the presidential campaign (all times local): 1:40 p.m. Sen. Mitt Romney, the 2012 Republican presidential nominee, is congratulating President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris. > [@](#): > > President Donald Trump has returned to the White House and a very different Washington, D.C., after losing his reelection bid. > > Trump’s motorcade returned from his golf club in Virginia via roads largely cleared of other cars and people Saturday afternoon. > > But as he approached the White House, he was welcomed home with boos and raised middle fingers. Chants of “Loser, loser, loser” and profanities were also heard as his motorcade drove by. ---
**Author:** ![rocking\_chair](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rocking_chair/32/2918_2.png) [@rocking\_chair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rocking_chair)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2020, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/4555 "2020-11-07T21:32:28Z")
Some portraits are people who are good examples, some are people who are terrible lessons. Putting up the 2 presidential portraits you have that side by side. ---
**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, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/4556 "2020-11-07T21:33:21Z")
SWEET! 😘 ---
**Author:** ![BlankSlate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blankslate/32/80_2.png) [@BlankSlate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlankSlate)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2020, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/4557 "2020-11-07T21:38:33Z")
> [@I\_Love\_Me\_Vol.I](#): > > I agree with Trump’s portrait going up too. I’d love to have him erased from history but that’s not the way we do things. Let’s try to set an example–as hard as that may be. Can we draw little horns on his head with a Sharpie? ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2020, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/4558 "2020-11-07T21:38:49Z")
Lol. I’m not getting into an Andrew Jackson debate, but of all American Presidents he most resembles Trump in his arrogant racism, his disregard and destruction of the institutions of his day, his shameless white nationalism, his presidency allowed via a popularity and success in fields which are not grooming grounds for the Presidency (and more than a bit of luck), and his ignorance of major policy issues beyond those which furthered his ends. But this isn’t the thread ---
**Author:** ![not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/not_what_you_d_expect/32/3246_2.png) [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/not_what_you_d_expect)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2020, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/4559 "2020-11-07T21:39:06Z")
It is so wonderful to see all the congratulatory messages being sent by so many world leaders. My heart is healing. ---
**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, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/4560 "2020-11-07T21:44:14Z")
I haven’t felt much emotion other than relief, but I gotta admit when I saw a video of the party going down in West Philly, with all the passing cars honking in celebration, I teared up. ---
**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, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/4561 "2020-11-07T21:45:17Z")
Just saw the clip of Van Jones and did the same ---
**Author:** ![rocking\_chair](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rocking_chair/32/2918_2.png) [@rocking\_chair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rocking_chair)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2020, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/4562 "2020-11-07T21:45:46Z")
The entire world was able to take a breath again. Most of the leaders know and trust Biden. This will make it a bit easier for them to trust what is coming out of the u.s… ---
**Author:** ![Fiendish\_Astronaut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fiendish_astronaut/32/3295_2.png) [@Fiendish\_Astronaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiendish_Astronaut)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2020, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/4563 "2020-11-07T21:46:07Z")
> **[Here's Every Trump Campaign Lawsuit Filed Since Election Day](https://time.com/5908505/trump-lawsuits-biden-wins/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=editorial&utm_term=politics_2020-election&linkId=103881227)** > > Trump's campaign blitzed U.S. courts with new lawsuits this week. Judges have so far rejected most of them. ---
**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, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/4564 "2020-11-07T21:49:52Z")
> [@JohnT](#): > > Lol. > > I’m not getting into an Andrew Jackson debate, but of all American Presidents he most resembles Trump in his arrogant racism, his disregard and destruction of the institutions of his day, his shameless white nationalism, his presidency allowed via a popularity and success in fields which are not grooming grounds for the Presidency (and more than a bit of luck), and his ignorance of major policy issues beyond those which furthered his ends. > > But this isn’t the thread Fair, and agreed. Almost reported my own post as a hijack, even. ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2020, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/4565 "2020-11-07T21:52:47Z")
Welcome home, Mr. President. How was your golf game? [[Album] Welcoming committee. ![](https://i.imgur.com/jIUgGYy.jpeg?fb "Welcoming committee.") ](https://imgur.com/a/jVK1VWg) ---
**Author:** ![not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/not_what_you_d_expect/32/3246_2.png) [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/not_what_you_d_expect)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2020, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/4566 "2020-11-07T21:54:40Z")
I wonder if Melania has moved out yet? ---
**Author:** ![nelliebly](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nelliebly/32/5422_2.png) [@nelliebly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nelliebly)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2020, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/4567 "2020-11-07T21:59:07Z")
I don’t want Trump erased from history. That’d be impossible. But while I was half-joking about his official portrait, I’d certainly appreciate a long wait before his portrait is hung, not because I opposed him, but because there will be people passing by that portrait every day to whom the fear and pain wrought by his presidency are still very fresh and very real. Barring that, perhaps a tradition of turning one’s head or murmuring, “A grave mistake was he,” when passing Trump’s portrait could be established to temper the blow. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2020, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/4568 "2020-11-07T22:01:23Z")
Shamelessly stolen from somebody else: We can all start wearing our **MAGA** hats now. **MADE ASSHOLE GO AWAY** ---
**Author:** ![nelliebly](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nelliebly/32/5422_2.png) [@nelliebly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nelliebly)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2020, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/4569 "2020-11-07T22:01:34Z")
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