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Still can’t admit you were wrong?

Fact: Millions of votes have not been counted.

Fact: You’re physically incapable of admitting you were mistaken by several orders of magnitude.

Facts don’t care about your feelings. Read more carefully next time.

Sorry you can’t process a single number on a spreadsheet. Must be hard.

This is what I said:

Y’all really need to stop quoting these numbers as if they’re anything but preliminary.

Don’t put words in my mouth.

Scroll down to the bottom of the page and please try to math better if you’re going to respond again. This is getting frustrating.

That’s exactly the same link I just provided for you. Are you trolling?

5.4 million.

There are still millions of uncounted votes in CA. Trump has gone from 72.6 million yesterday morning to 73.4 million today. Y’all really need to stop quoting these numbers as if they’re anything but preliminary.

edit: Knee-jerk downvoting of a factual correction. Class act right here. Screen shot for those who have poor vision and/or analytical reasoning skills…

edit 2: Up to 74.2 million Trump votes and 70.3 million Harris votes now, and counting.

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Maybe. Not sure we can be afraid of that anymore, though, if I’m being perfectly honest. Even Harris was labeled a "kam"munist, so I’m not sure it could get any worse.

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There’s a reason we got hammered for “virtue signaling” for so long. It’s a shell game that doesn’t require any real sacrifice on the part of educated whites, and minorities are starting to realize that.

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I think it’s less about offering specific policies that will help and more about looking them in the eye and saying “I hear you, it’s fucked up. We’ll change everything.” It’s a bit like when my wife has a bad day at work, and when I get home she starts venting. Sometimes I try to cut in and come up with a solution to her problems, but it usually makes things worse. One day she stopped me dead in my tracks, took a deep breath, and said, “Please don’t try to fix it. Sometimes I just need to vent and I want you to tell me you hear me and that you love me. That’s all.” She didn’t want me to offer a solution at all, she just wanted me to actively listen and comfort her.

I think that’s what Trump is doing. He’s engaging them on a human level and validating them as individuals with problems. He’s going to do absolutely fuck all to fix them, but it’s a really powerful level of connection that’s obviously working.

Yeah Trump won 46% of Latinos and 20% of the black vote, and the “everyone’s racist” trope is starting to lose its luster. We absolutely cannot win if we keep using race and gender as a prerequisite for exaltation and insist that they take deferential precedence over all else. To be sure, there’s a shitload of racists/sexists in Trump’s party, but the fact that their coalition is sucking in minorities should tell us identity politics is only part of the equation. He’s cultivating working class solidarity in a really powerful way, and it’s starting to appeal more and more to folks who’ve watched the Democrats pay only lip service to racial grievances, and then proceed to never make meaningful sacrifices to ameliorate the underlying problems of economic inequality and then work constructively to promote financial security. All racists are Trump supporters, but not all Trump supporters are racists.

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I volunteered with a group to drive people to the polls. One of the ladies I drove was black and not quite elderly, still obviously working a full time job. On our way back from the polling place and after we chatted about what time we’d know the results, she asked, “Do people in Africa get to vote for President, too?” And no, she didn’t mean the President of Africa. She was sincerely asking if people in Africa get to vote in US elections.

There is a profound level of ignorance in this country, and it’s so staggering as to be utterly paralyzing. I honestly don’t know where we go from here as a nation, and I fear folks like that will be the first casualties if the worst comes to pass.