# 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:** 348
**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 24, 2020, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/6955 "2020-11-24T19:25:19Z")
> [@muldoonthief](#): > > mulfoonthief? Lol sorry. I knew what I meant to type. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2020, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/6956 "2020-11-24T19:26:09Z")
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**Author:** ![ShadowFacts](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shadowfacts/32/2934_2.png) [@ShadowFacts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShadowFacts)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2020, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/6957 "2020-11-24T19:30:35Z")
Well played, good sir. I salute you! ---
**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 24, 2020, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/6958 "2020-11-24T20:37:25Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > > [@Spice\_Weasel](#): > > > > PA has certified its votes. > > From the NY Times article on the certification: > > > [@](#): > > > > With multiple battleground states that Mr. Biden won now having certified their results, the flailing effort by Mr. Trump and his allies to subvert the election and overturn the votes of millions of Americans is nearing its end. > > I particularly like the use of the word ā€œflailing.ā€ [![](https://imgc.artprintimages.com/img/print/tell-them-is-fake-news-work-of-moose-and-squirrel-cartoon_u-l-q13f0p80.jpg?h=550&p=0&w=550&background=fbfbfb) ](https://imgc.artprintimages.com/img/print/tell-them-is-fake-news-work-of-moose-and-squirrel-cartoon_u-l-q13f0p80.jpg?h=550&p=0&w=550&background=fbfbfb) ---
**Author:** ![muldoonthief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muldoonthief/32/3188_2.png) [@muldoonthief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/muldoonthief)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2020, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/6959 "2020-11-24T21:09:35Z")
Well hereā€™s a hell of a headline: [Dow tops 30,000 for the first time ever as Biden transition begins](https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/24/investing/dow-stock-market-today-transition-yellen/index.html) Thatā€™s going to the old lame duck just crazy. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2020, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/6960 "2020-11-24T21:25:04Z")
[Oh, heā€™s already taken credit for it:](https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/527365-trump-makes-one-minute-appearance-to-tout-dows-30000) > ā€œI just want to congratulate everybody,ā€ Trump said, entering the room moments after the event was alerted. > > ā€œThe stock market Dow Jones Industrial Average just hit 30,000, which is the highest in history. Weā€™ve never broken 30,000, and thatā€™s despite everything thatā€™s taken place with the pandemic,ā€ he said. > > ā€œNever been broken, that number. Thatā€™s a sacred number, 30,000,ā€ he added. > > ā€œI just want to congratulate all the people within the administration that work so hard, and most importantly I want to congratulate the people of our country,ā€ Trump said. > > He then thanked the reporters who had hastily assembled and walked out. The Dow hits a record, and he calls that ā€œsacred.ā€ Yet the evangelicals stand by him. Smh. ---
**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 24, 2020, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/6961 "2020-11-24T21:48:48Z")
Heā€™ll still have Twitter. Although, he wonā€™t have the ā€œat POTUSā€ handle come innaguration day. Twitter has made that known. ---
**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 24, 2020, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/6962 "2020-11-24T21:56:20Z")
> [@bobot](#): > > Heā€™ll still have Twitter. Although, he wonā€™t have the ā€œat POTUSā€ handle come innaguration day. Twitter has made that known.- I canā€™t wait to see Twitter gleefully cut his tiny thumbs and the rest of him down to size. I only look at Twitter occasionally, but I expect Dopers to keep us up to speed on the Butt-Hurt thread. Itā€™s nice to have something to look forward to after the holidaysā€¦ ---
**Author:** ![flurb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/51bf81/32.png) [@flurb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flurb)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2020, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/6963 "2020-11-24T22:43:31Z")
Do former presidents continue to get the ā€œnewsworthinessā€ dispensation from Twitter for their hate speech? ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Colossus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.colossus/32/9423_2.png) [@Dr.Colossus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Colossus)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2020, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/6964 "2020-11-24T22:46:50Z")
NO. [Twitter has made it abundantly clear](https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-11-09/donald-trump-twitter-protections-joe-biden-inauguration-election/12862196) as soon as heā€™s not a public figurehead, [he will lose ā€œpresidentialā€ protections and will be held to the same standards for hates speech as normal people](https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/11/9/1994415/-After-Jan-20-2021-Trump-will-lose-immunity-on-Twitter-and-could-get-suspended-for-being-Donald). ---
**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 24, 2020, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/6965 "2020-11-24T23:16:39Z")
Yep. He wonā€™t have Twitter for long. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Colossus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.colossus/32/9423_2.png) [@Dr.Colossus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Colossus)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2020, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/6966 "2020-11-24T23:47:52Z")
Iā€™m sure PARLER will be equally as useful. So Iā€™ve been thinking about the cult-like nature of Tramp and his followersā€¦Iā€™m starting to wonder what would happen if he carved out some swamplands around Mar-a-lago and started a Jim Jones style compoundā€¦how many thousands would move to Tramptopia? ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2020, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/6967 "2020-11-24T23:52:39Z")
> [@eschrodinger](#): > > Yep. He wonā€™t have Twitter for long. Heā€™s going to Parler for sure. ---
**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 24, 2020, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/6968 "2020-11-24T23:52:55Z")
> [@Dr.Colossus](#): > > Iā€™m sure PARLER will be equally as useful. Maybe. But heā€™ll know heā€™s being kicked down a step. Maybe heā€™ll cause it to grow exponentially, though. He can be to Parler what he was to coronavirus. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2020, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/6969 "2020-11-24T23:53:34Z")
> [@Dr.Colossus](#): > > Iā€™m sure PARLER will be equally as useful. I suggested joining it elsewhere, but was informed they ban any non-right-wing ideas. Like, they ban the ā€œliberalsā€ for fact-checking things. I honestly think itā€™s a very scary place and could lead to a lot of scary things in the next few years. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2020, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/6970 "2020-11-25T00:02:34Z")
> [@Dr.Colossus](#): > > NO. > > [Twitter has made it abundantly clear](https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-11-09/donald-trump-twitter-protections-joe-biden-inauguration-election/12862196) as soon as heā€™s not a public figurehead, [he will lose ā€œpresidentialā€ protections and will be held to the same standards for hates speech as normal people](https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/11/9/1994415/-After-Jan-20-2021-Trump-will-lose-immunity-on-Twitter-and-could-get-suspended-for-being-Donald). Finally one of his misspellings will become true when he gets unpresidented. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2020, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/6971 "2020-11-25T00:45:42Z")
Trump gained 57 total votes in the Wisconsin recount. I hope that was worth it. ---
**Author:** ![Ulf\_the\_Unwashed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Ulf\_the\_Unwashed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ulf_the_Unwashed)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2020, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/6972 "2020-11-25T00:50:07Z")
$3.8 million, was it? And they say you canā€™t buy votes. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2020, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/6973 "2020-11-25T00:52:25Z")
The DOW likes stability. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2020, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/6974 "2020-11-25T01:26:03Z")
Did you see this pathetic 63 second briefing from Trump. Mike Pence looks like generic ā€œman who wear suitā€. Itā€™s so pathetic. I mean, itā€™s just awful to see how pathetic the whole thing is. [Stephen King today:](https://twitter.com/StephenKing/status/1331365443542642695) [quote]The stock market (Dow) hit 30,000. The COVID-19 death count in America hit 260,000. Guess which one Trump takes credit for?[/quote] [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618.md?page=347) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618.md?page=349)