Pace yourself, @Magnus
See @Alright_Now for advice.
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FFS Nevada. Stop standing around. Too many old people counting too slowly…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WKi81m7FG8
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Why are you hurrying them up??
You need to be yelling at Arizona.
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Criticism taken onboard. I will try to be a bit more positive and focus less on the negatives, but I can’t really dispel, successfully anyway, the fear I have when I see the state of the US. Primarily this is because the US is so powerful militarily and geopolitically and I see it all in this context.
But I’ll try to be less negative. I have deep, deep fears though. I follow geopolitics very, very closely. Have followed the Karabagh war intimately as an example. I see it all in a geopolitical context. But even so, I will try to be less negative.
@anon27364116 , @Livvy, @SBYM and so on.
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I don’t think a fractured Republican Party holding the Senate is necessarily a positive - it is going to be very difficult to get legislation through. It is going to be very difficult to confirm Cabinet and all the needed undersecretaries. McConnell has already said he is going to abuse the Senate confirmation power to force Biden not to pick ‘liberals’ for his government. At a time when it will be critical for the Federal government to come alive, the Republicans are going to be worried about attacks from their right and being accused of ‘betraying Trump’ by acceding to Democratic governance. I am not sure that I hope I am right.
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Shit, is that so? Where’s Arizona’s feed…
Ok, these guys look organised. NO TOILET BREAKS!!
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From my knowledge of US presidents, Trump is not unique but he is unusual. I think Jackson (and others have suggested) was similar and you have traits through others. Problem is do the Republicans have anyone quite like Trump? Not sure they do, they probably have characters like him but no one quite like him various times, Rubio or Cruz isn’t going to do better.
So will he be able to run in 2024, I dunno and will the country move on. It’s kind of why I want to see Georgia go blue, it will see the Democrats start to make some inroads in a key area especially if the blue wall returns.
Always did, it was the most difficult one for him to overturn. Still it’s still possible.
YES! 
No criticism. And you won’t hear much optimism for the future from me either. It’s just that right now it’s all about getting the man out who doesn’t even accept the process.
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I was wondering earlier, as Americans are so slow at counting how do they keep the score in a basketball match? 
It is evident to me Nevada don’t play basketball after seeing your post.
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OK, I’ll settle for the other states to simply pause what they’re doing!
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Wilmington, Delaware.
What’s all that about?
No worries Magnus. I’ve stopped reading your negative posts. We can delve into negativity after all is declared. 
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They look like they might be able to keep up with a junior basketball match or maybe even a European one.
I watched first few episodes and really liked them. But it was difficult to follow since each episodes aren’t independent.
Just to throw it out there to explain a bit. I see people getting killed every day because of US position on various conflicts and conflict zones. I see Recep Tayyip Erdogan doing whatever he wants, using Hard power all over the Middle East and the Caucasus. I see a lot, and so much of this, where authoritarians have successfully challenged the “Liberal Order” (which I have never been a fan of, but it is in every way better than the “Authoritarian order”) is due to the current GOP governance with Trump at the helm. The betrayal of the Kurdish SDF and the Kurdish civilians in northern Syria as an example (who fought ISIS alongside US and NATO troops), this shame cuts so deep. They got etnically cleansed from Afrin and the territory of the Turkish “Euphrates Shield”, Turkey successfully ethnically engineered a new ethnic population there with Turk-loyal Arab sunnis and these are just a couple of examples of how the US has betrayed and got thousands killed. One can also not forget how lucky we are that Iranian ballistic missiles did not impact near the hardened shelters , the IRGC had never test fired them before with anything near that long distance. We were meters from a horrific war. If the Iranian missiles had missed just a few meters, this election would have been held during both Corona and a messy war. I cannot overstate how lucky we have been post-Soleimani assassination. And there is so much else. NATO, future of NATO if Trump had won would have been unclear to say the least. Already Trump has made the GOP, previously the msot pro-NATO party in the US, into anti NATO. It is all terrifying what has happened under Trump. And when you then don’t see a repudiation of Trump by the US electorate, it is beyond depressing, it means the future is so unclear and unpredictable in a very negative way.
So yeah, the US election is life and death. It is extremely important.
Just felt like explaining why I am so serious when I talk about the US election and why I am not allowing much positivity.
I apologice to those who are sick and tired of my negativity. Some day soon, I will focus on something else than the US election and I will write a lot more positive stuff.
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