What does it all mean? Where do we go from here?


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Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden appears to be inching toward victory as counting continues in several key states that could put him over 270 electoral votes, the threshold needed to win the Electoral College and take the White House. President Trump and his supporters, meanwhile, have attacked the process and falsely claimed Democrats are stealing the election, and the Trump campaign has launched a barrage of legal challenges in swing states related to ballot counting.

With the results closer than many pollsters had predicted, Democracy Now! co-host Juan González says “a false narrative” is taking root that Latinx voters were primarily to blame for the weak Democratic result. “The main story is that people of color, especially Latinos, flocked to the polls in numbers that far exceeded what the experts had expected, while the total number of votes cast by white Americans barely increased from the last presidential election,” says González. “How come none of the experts are asking why white voters underperformed the Democratic Party?”

Juan González: The Media Has It Wrong. Record Latinx Turnout Helped Biden. White Voters Failed Dems

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Analyzing the Election

The Election Map and Potential Challenges

Guest: Steven Rosenfeld is the Editor and Chief Correspondent for Voting Booth, a project of the Independent Media Institute.

Analyzing the Known Results

Guest: Arun Gupta, contributor to The Intercept, Daily Beast, The Nation, Jacobin, and the author of the forthcoming book Bacon as a Weapon of Mass Destruction.

Guest: Cat Brooks, organizer with the Anti-Police Terror Project and host of KPFA’s Upfront

Other than the American people, who are likely to see Mitch McConnell’s Senate continue to thwart their every need, the biggest losers of 2020 are shaping up to be two New Yorkers—Donald Trump and Chuck Schumer. President Trump, of course, could still conceivably have the courts keep him in power, should they choose to override the nation’s voters. Senate Democratic Leader Schumer has no such backstop. The judiciary isn’t going to intervene to reverse the verdicts of the voters who appear to have chosen to keep the Senate in Republican hands.


As Democrats fail to take the Senate, their leader’s performance merits some scrutiny.

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down our collective throats and told us we had no alternative.

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There is no justice. There can be no peace.

which is named Jeff Merkley, who was Speaker of the House in the OR legislature before being elected to the US Senate. In his very first post first victory interview on national media Merkley made his ambitions plain, and those ambitions don't include a spot on a national ticket. He told the interviewer, and this was before he had ever got on the plane for DC, that the Senate needed to do better at passing legislation. In other words, he wants Schemer's job some day. He has gained the loyalty of progressives for endorsing Bernie in '16--Warren will never be forgiven her endorsement of Killary--and I doubt not he had a hand in the decriminalization referendum this year. All of which is why, in part, Sen Schemer could not, could not allow any progressives, or even any persons of non-milquetoast integrity, to be elected to the senate. I am thinking that there will certainly be a challenge to his leadership, probably not (yet) from Merkley, but from someone of sense whom Merkley decides to get behind.

About the Biden victories in CO, NM, as well as probably AZ and NV, part of that is that there are two issues on the top of consciousness for Western voters. #1 is water, which T-Rump flat doesn't understand, that complicated science stuff, you know, and #2 is public lands. I emphasize PUBLIC, not 'government' lands, because that is what they are, public, places for ordinary people to hike, hunt, fish, camp out, look for rocks, prospect for minerals, and so on, and most Westerners don't think they had ought to be best friends with a billionaire to do those things. There is a reason why presidents who are interested in carrying western states appoint the Sec. of the Interior from that region.

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There's no possible failure by the Party who can do no wrong. "You rotten bastards! And after all we've done for you!" That didn't take long. There's still lots of votes to count too. The extent of the loss much less the failures leading to the failures are not even fully known. But then who coulda known? What a mystery!

Yet they get a pass from the faithful failure after failure. It's not only the trumpistas who are living in an alternate reality universe of unreality and denial. Does anyone think the Party could or would look a clue?

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"Ah, but I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now..."

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"People of color" is an ACTIVELY RACIST TERM.

In an increasingly diverse society, they are trying to turn it all back into "White VS Black" - good enough for the Deep South, maybe, but certainly NOT for anywhere I've ever lived, not even for my own blood family.

Anybody who thinks African-Americans and Hispanics can just be lumped together doesn't know jack-shit about at least one of those groups - hell, look closely at either of those groups, and they're not even *internally* cohesive. The differences BETWEEN most any demographic don't hold a candle to the differences WITHIN THEM - and that makes them entirely bunk. This is all a delusion of marketing-department hacks who view people as nothing more than numerical data - modern-day Eichmanns.

"Post-Racial America" is NOT a myth - I grew up there. It took a lot of work to get there, but some of us made it. "Race" is the myth ('delusion' would be a better term - and "race-blindness" a nefariously Luntzian inversion of good and bad, like there's something wrong with you if you DON'T see race), and always was, but they are trying to raise it from its deathbed, and deny it was ever dying in a clear contradiction of decades of hard-earned consensus, because it's their beloved Golden Goose of divide-and-conquer.

"If you wish to study a granfalloon, just remove the skin of a toy balloon."
- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. Cat's Cradle

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In the Land of the Blind, the One-Eyed Man is declared mentally ill for describing colors.

Yes Virginia, there is a Global Banking Conspiracy!

... I would observe that the comment about "the Dems under Schumer failed to take control of the Senate" may be premature. Just a few minutes ago, Perdue dropped below 50% in the Georgia count. That means two runoffs in Ga, with the Rs at 50 seats (I see Tillis and Sullivan winning, McSally losing to Kelly who is running ahead of Biden in the AZ count), and if the Dems manage to win both, with Biden as Pres and Harris as VP, then McConnell and the GOP would no longer be in control.

Therefore, assuming Trump and the Rs don't get the results of this Nov election reversed in the Courts, battle will be renewed on Jan. 5, 2021, when the two Georgia senate seats will be up for grabs in a runoff, and control of the US Senate will also be at stake. So, if you think there was alot of money thrown into the Nov. Senate races, wait a few weeks.

I am also gonna go out on a limb and predict, as it seems likely that Trump will be challenging the results of the election in the Courts, that he will have McConnell and the R establishment as an ally, given that they probably don't want to roll the dice on a pair of tossup Senate races two months from now.

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