# 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:** 428
**Author:** ![CaptMurdock](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/captmurdock/32/11736_2.png) [@CaptMurdock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CaptMurdock)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2021, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/8559 "2021-01-08T16:01:07Z")
Now _that’s_ cruel and unusual punishment. _I love it._ ---
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2021, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/8560 "2021-01-08T16:08:43Z")
> Well, that answers that question. ---
**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:** [January 8, 2021, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/8561 "2021-01-08T16:12:07Z")
> [@Telemark](#): > > that answers that question. Him going to the inauguration would require him to face people face-to-face that he does not want to face. He’s happier behind a phone tweeting. ---
**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:** [January 8, 2021, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/8562 "2021-01-08T16:13:39Z")
> [@kenobi\_65](#): > > How about we put him in the “It’s a Small World” ride? Hearing that same saccharine song on infinite loop… But he was alone. Can you imagine the mind emptied by that thing? Without even a tormentor for company. [sorry wrong thread 🕶] ---
**Author:** ![Procrustus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/procrustus/32/2994_2.png) [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2021, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/8563 "2021-01-08T16:15:15Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > Him going to the inauguration would require him to face people face-to-face that he does not want to face. They might also make him wear a mask. ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2021, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/8564 "2021-01-08T16:17:59Z")
> [@Peter\_Morris](#): > > "I immediately deployed the National Guard and Federal Law Enforcement … " "I am [shocked - _shocked_](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjbPi00k_ME) to find people storming the Capitol. ---
**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:** [January 8, 2021, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/8565 "2021-01-08T16:18:12Z")
No surprise there. Nor will he be in the White House for the traditional meeting of the outgoing and incoming presidents, an iconic moment in American democracy. The orange shit-gibbon will either be golfing or cowering in the bunker and refusing to come out. Or trashing the Oval Office. I imagine Pence will take on the traditional role. If so, Pence should become president right now, and the shit-gibbon thrown out on his fat ass, since he’s refusing to do even the most basic duties of the presidency, and incites traitorous insurrections instead. ---
**Author:** ![beowulff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beowulff/32/542_2.png) [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2021, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/8566 "2021-01-08T16:24:20Z")
[ISWYDT](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dagger_of_the_Mind) ---
**Author:** ![beowulff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beowulff/32/542_2.png) [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2021, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/8567 "2021-01-08T16:26:58Z")
[_Powell the Insane_ is being sued.](https://www.yahoo.com/news/voting-machine-company-sues-pro-145851849.html) ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2021, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/8568 "2021-01-08T16:31:07Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > He can’t let the truth that he is a defeated loser ever sink in. “They’re probably watching me. [Let them.](https://youtu.be/dYDxxHrlmUg?t=12)” Can you tell I’m taking refuge in old movies this morning? ---
**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:** [January 8, 2021, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/8569 "2021-01-08T16:32:27Z")
That Trump video is the greatest display of heartfelt sincerity since Johnny Depp apologized for smuggling his dogs into Australia. ---
**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:** [January 8, 2021, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/8570 "2021-01-08T16:36:51Z")
> [@DesertDog](#): > > “They’re probably watching me. [Let them.](https://youtu.be/dYDxxHrlmUg?t=12)” > > Can you tell I’m taking refuge in old movies this morning? I hear ya. I’m about to watch my standard escape movie, [The Uninvited](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0037415/) (1944). It gave us that beautiful song, “Stella by Starlight.” Although… Psycho hardly seems like a cuddly comfort movie… 🤨 ---
**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:** [January 8, 2021, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/8571 "2021-01-08T16:43:54Z")
Perhaps, in comparison, though… ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2021, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/8572 "2021-01-08T17:52:52Z")
I loved that story. ---
**Author:** ![thorny\_locust](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thorny_locust/32/431_2.png) [@thorny\_locust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thorny_locust)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2021, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/8573 "2021-01-08T19:36:56Z")
> [@wolfpup](#): > > The orange shit-gibbon will either be golfing or cowering in the bunker and refusing to come out My guess is still that he’ll be on a plane headed out of the country. ---
**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:** [January 8, 2021, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/8574 "2021-01-08T23:46:19Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > I think Twitter needs to ban him permanently. 'tis done. [https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump?ref\_src=twsrc^google|twcamp^serp|twgr^author](https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor) Account suspended Twitter suspends accounts which violate the [Twitter Rules](https://support.twitter.com/articles/18311) You can’t even see his old tweets at the moment. ---
**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:** [January 8, 2021, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/8575 "2021-01-08T23:50:22Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > I think Twitter needs to ban him permanently. Done! ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2021, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/8576 "2021-01-09T03:19:32Z")
**Mahaloth** , quick, ask for a pony! ---
**Author:** ![romansperson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/romansperson/32/17100_2.png) [@romansperson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/romansperson)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2021, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/8577 "2021-01-10T22:25:02Z")
[The AP wrote an obituary for his Twitter account.](https://tulsaworld.com/news/national/govt-and-politics/a-farewell-to-realdonaldtrump-gone-after-57-000-tweets/article_26e1dd88-61ad-5a23-9c51-e7e1cce1cccb.html) ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2021, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/8578 "2021-01-10T22:45:40Z")
Heh. I love that his all-time-most-popular tweet was the one in which he announced he’d contracted COVID-19. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618.md?page=427) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618.md?page=429)