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16 Nov 2020, 8:58 pm

We're asking you to be honest, none of us are obligated to constantly fact check your implicit bias.

Our election is not over but you've been insisting it's undecided. This is factually incorrect, 306 electoral votes are decided. This is a free country, in that we're just as free to disregard an illegitimate administration as you are to click on an American site & BS us with exactly the same nonsense coming from Trump.


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16 Nov 2020, 9:16 pm

cberg wrote:
We're asking you to be honest, none of us are obligated to constantly fact check your implicit bias.


The implication is that he is *not* being honest?



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16 Nov 2020, 9:17 pm

the sheer impertinence of some international WPers here commenting on american politics, sickens me. and i am sooooo embarrassed to be an amuuuurican right now.



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16 Nov 2020, 9:18 pm

auntblabby wrote:
the sheer impertinence of some international WPers here commenting on american politics, sickens me. and i am sooooo embarrassed to be an amuuuurican right now.


Good one. ;)



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16 Nov 2020, 9:31 pm

cberg wrote:
We're asking you to be honest, none of us are obligated to constantly fact check your implicit bias.


Thus far, all I have seen are accusations of dishonesty and "implicit bias", yet no facts that demonstrate any evidence of such. Given I provide sources for this, it would be a simple matter, were I to be mistaken, to demonstrate where the mistake occurred, but thus far all I have seen are unfounded claims such as those above which appear to be designed to deflect from inconvenient facts...

cberg wrote:
Our election is not over but you've been insisting it's undecided. This is factually incorrect, 306 electoral votes are decided. This is a free country, in that we're just as free to disregard an illegitimate administration as you are to click on an American site & BS us with exactly the same nonsense coming from Trump.


I believe you are somewhat mistaken: The "electoral votes" are not "decided", and this "won’t be official until every state fully canvasses and certifies its president election results"
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On November 6, Insider and Decision Desk HQ projected that now President-elect Joe Biden had won the Electoral College and defeated President Trump.
But the results won’t be official until every state fully canvasses and certifies its president election results, which occurs on a different timeline in every state.
After certification, the slate of presidential electors selected by every state’s voters will gather and cast their votes in each state and the District of Columbia on December 14 in 2020.


Similarly, Mr Biden is not officially "President-Elect":
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But while Insider and Decision Desk HQ and other major news outlets projected Biden to be the winner on November 6 or 7, Biden won’t officially become the president-elect until each state formally certifies its results, which occurs on a different timeline in each state, and electors for those states gather and vote in mid-December.

Source: https://www.businessinsider.com.au/how-the-electoral-college-works-timeline-2020-8?nojs=1

The following may help you understand the steps in the process, and clear up certain of your misconceptions:
https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/IF/IF11641



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16 Nov 2020, 9:38 pm

i certainly would not put a coup past the present crooks sitting astride the american people.



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16 Nov 2020, 9:52 pm

Locked indefinitely per OP request and for obvious reasons.