# 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:** 295
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2020, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/5890 "2020-11-13T21:13:32Z")
The White House Press Bimbo says Trump will attend his own inauguration. > **[McEnany dodges on Trump attending Biden inauguration: He’ll ‘attend his own...](https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/525883-mcenany-dodges-on-trump-attending-biden-inauguration-hell-attend-his/)** > > Top Trump aide Kayleigh McEnany on Friday sidestepped whether President Trump would attend President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration, saying Trump plans to “attend his own inauguration.&… ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2020, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/5891 "2020-11-13T21:20:49Z")
> [@Ann\_Hedonia](#): > > I can prove it right now, here is a challenge for you. One of the affidavits contained the following claim > “I overheard my supervisor and another employee talking about backdating the postmark ballots received on the fourth”. > > Now, pretend you told that lie. Try to describe that conversation, _word for word_ . Tell me exactly what person 1 said and what person 2 said. > > Make up a believable conversation. I bet you can’t. I know I couldn’t cover that lie. Not logically valid. In the first place, think of a discussion you may have read or participated in on the Straight Dope a few hours ago. Try and accurately reproduce who said what from memory without going back to reread. I’ll bet you can’t. Even though you recall the general gist of the discussion, you can’t accurately quote it from memory. And second, a plausible sounding conversation doesn’t prove anything. You personally might be unable to make one up, and neither could I, but many people can. It would be impossible to write works of fiction otherwise. ---
**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 13, 2020, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/5892 "2020-11-13T21:23:06Z")
Forward this to your friend. There goes MIchigan > **[Michigan judge rejects demand to block certification of Biden win in Detroit...](https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/13/politics/trump-michigan-election/index.html)** > > A Michigan state judge has rejected an attempt by two poll challengers to block the certification of a Joe Biden win in Detroit, which helped carry his victory in the state. The judge also denied the request for an audit of the election. ---
**Author:** ![kambuckta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/53a042/32.png) [@kambuckta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kambuckta)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2020, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/5893 "2020-11-13T21:31:08Z")
Oh dear, what a sad presser Mister Trump. ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2020, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/5894 "2020-11-13T21:32:27Z")
It’s amazing. He’s spewing bullshit not for any political gain, but just out of habit. ---
**Author:** ![Railer13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/railer13/32/9742_2.png) [@Railer13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Railer13)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2020, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/5895 "2020-11-13T21:34:06Z")
His hair is as white as the stripes in the flag. Evidently his stylist has left the building. ---
**Author:** ![kambuckta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/53a042/32.png) [@kambuckta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kambuckta)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2020, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/5896 "2020-11-13T21:34:48Z")
Never mind… ---
**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 13, 2020, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/5897 "2020-11-13T21:36:14Z")
Quote from the Michigan judge : “It is not surprising that many of the votes being observed by Mr. Sitto were votes cast for Mr. Biden in light of the fact that former Vice President Biden received approximately 220,000 more votes than President Trump.” Teehee ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2020, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/5898 "2020-11-13T21:36:36Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > The White House Press Bimbo says Trump will attend his own inauguration. For what? President of the Deluded Fruitcakes of America? ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2020, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/5899 "2020-11-13T21:38:22Z")
He almost slipped up and referred to the Biden Administration, but caught himself in time. ---
**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 13, 2020, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/5900 "2020-11-13T21:40:58Z")
Still going on? Not even mentioned on CNN, MSNBC, AP. Live on FOX but will not watch it. Wonder what the daytime people will say about it ---
**Author:** ![Railer13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/railer13/32/9742_2.png) [@Railer13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Railer13)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2020, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/5901 "2020-11-13T21:41:41Z")
> [@jsc1953](#): > > He almost slipped up and referred to the Biden Administration, but caught himself in time Yep, I saw that as well! ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2020, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/5902 "2020-11-13T21:47:45Z")
MSNBC carried it live, until Trump turned the podium over to someone from the virus task force, and cut away when it was apparent that he wasn’t going to be making a concession speech. To recap: it was classic Trump. I wondered if his tone would change when he wasn’t running for anything, but I needn’t have worried. It was a long litany of praise for himself; how wonderful Operation Warp Speed is. That Pfizer was wrong when they said they weren’t a participant in O.W.S. That New York won’t be getting the vaccine unless they beg for it. And incredibly, he continues to downplay the virus: it only affects the elderly, it’ll go away as soon as the vaccine gets here which will be really soon; the economy is rebounding spectacularly and a lockdown would be terrible and that “this administration” would never do that … and that’s where he started to stumble and mention the next administration but recovered with a limp “we’ll see what happens”. ---
**Author:** ![snowthx](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowthx/32/10660_2.png) [@snowthx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snowthx)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2020, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/5903 "2020-11-13T21:57:46Z")
I am watching it now - talking about “Operation Warp-Speed”. Pence just stepped up to the podium. Butt-snorkeling never looked so grey. They are reaching-around pretty hard to pat themselves on the back, none of this would have happened without Trump, and only Trump at the tiller. 😆 🤣 😂 ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2020, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/5904 "2020-11-13T22:01:39Z")
> [@snowthx](#): > > They are reaching-around pretty hard to pat themselves on the back, - It would be a lot easier if they just gave each other a goddamned reach-around. ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2020, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/5905 "2020-11-13T22:02:50Z")
> [@SuntanLotion](#): > > Is he really hurting Biden by not helping with the transition? The 9/11 commission’s report stated that the delay in Bush Jr.'s transition left us more unprepared for the Sept. 11 attacks. So, lots of people in addition to Bush were hurt. And worse. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2020, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/5906 "2020-11-13T22:03:45Z")
> [@snowthx](#): > > none of this would have happened without Trump, and only Trump at the tiller. This is true. Anybody competent (i.e.: not Trump) wouldn’t have dismantled the overseas offices watching for impending pandemics and the domestic offices intended to handle said pandemics. ---
**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 13, 2020, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/5907 "2020-11-13T22:07:55Z")
He only did it because Obama started it. ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2020, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/5908 "2020-11-13T22:08:02Z")
Fuckin A. ---
**Author:** ![asahi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asahi/32/8693_2.png) [@asahi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asahi)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2020, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/5909 "2020-11-13T22:08:22Z")
If I recall from reading Woodward’s book, the reality is that we could have been prepared for 9/11 had Bush’s handpicked team focused more on Bin Laden and less on Hussein. There are inevitably going to be ‘caught with pants down’ moments as the new president learns the ropes, but policy matters as much as anything. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618.md?page=294) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618.md?page=296)