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don't forget the bottle of cheap booze
Pink noise sounds soothing.
Glad to see that other people are doing the same thing as me
That profile pic is amazing
A little too literal, but I like your style, lol
Unless I take the extreme measure of touching grass, social media will keep me appraised unbidden.
The Associated Press seems to have a decent results presentation ready to go:
https://apnews.com/projects/election-results-2024/
I wouldn't bother watching minute-by-minute. There is a decent chance that some swing state will be close enough to trigger a recount, and/or one side files lawsuits challenging the results. This circus is far from over.
It took about a week for Biden to be declared the winner last time IIRC.
What I'm really dreading is another Bush v. Gore, which would almost certainly result the same as it did the first time around.
I'm 99.997% certain we're going to see Trump V. Harris.
In that case there's 100% chance Trump would be the president.
That depends entirely how this all plays out. Its too soon to say. If his only defense is "just look at them" then I don't think the SC would go for it, especially if Harris wins decisively or even in a landslide (highly improbable).
Do the dems win the senate and house? Are immediate impeachments on the table?
If there's any ambiguity though (think hanging chads), then yeah Trump 100%. I just think the SCOTUS is filled with cowards who want a veneer of a lie to hide under.
You just have so much more faith in the Integrity of the Supreme Court than I do. I have no faith whatsoever. I've been following their movements the last few years way too closely to have any respect at all for their discretion or good judgment. They've shown time and time again that they have no sense of reality no sense of consistency and no sense of justice. Evidence is made up and ignored at will. Precedent is enforced or ignored by their whims. The narrative history of our entire nation is up to how Samuel Alito feels on that particular day. There's no doubt in my mind that if in any way whatsoever the Supreme Court gets a hold of this thing they will find in favor of Trump no matter the circumstances or evidence.
Well, looks like it won't even matter. The world is doomed.
The fact that the Electoral College was determined to be more important than the people's votes was shameful.
Al Gore and Hillary should have won.
The fact that the Electoral College was determined to be more important than the peopleβs votes was shameful.
Huh? First of all the Electoral College has never not been the basis for presidential elections, and second of all that election had nothing to do with the Electoral College. It had to do with hanging chads, Florida governor Jeb Bush, and the Supreme Court.
Just drink alcohol in the basement alone and check the internet in a week.
In January... 2029
Stay offline entirely, and read the result in a printed newspaper the next day
It'll be more than a day. Expect a week and be pleasantly surprised by 5 days.
I'm sorry to inform you, but Burgerland is not technologically advanced enough to tally the results in a day.
all of our media is controlled by capitalists so i plan on going with organizations that have had a reliable history within the last decade or so; like democracynow or npr.
Is it bad that I get most of my non-local news from foreign sources? I do look at the AP and NPR but I usually go to the BBC or Reuters first and I almost always check the CSM for international stories I want more information on.
Reuters, BBC are fine, AP as well. Al Jazeera is good too. Always be aware of the media biases, nevertheless. Look how they frame and write.
Do they say:
[ethnic thing] arrested and stopped by Police...
or do they say:
Police murders person...
and;
Trump/Harris victim of witchhunt
or:
[nothing of that sort at all], just facts like:
"The elections have started."
The BBC and Reuters have both gone way, way downhill in recent years, but the concept is reasonably valid. AP and NPR are still good. Aljazeera is actually pretty decent for US news, though I'm not sure if that's true for US news related to the middle east.
I think Al Jazeera is good for news related to the middle east - Al Jazeera has an Arab bias, the same way US news has a US/Israel bias. When there's a conflict between US/Israel and the Arabs, I tend to be more sympathetic to the Arabs, so I prefer their news. Somebody with politics different from mine would disagree.
Plus they sometimes put out absolute fire like this: https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2024/9/11/debate-in-nuclear-armed-former-colony-fails-to-reassure-global-community
i don't think that they're much different, if at all.
NPR is state media, and who runs the state? The capitalist class.
very true and if it weren't for the tireless efforts of their journalists i would have classified it as the same category as the others.
i think that the best you can do under the overwhelming circumstances in my country is to try and i think that they are trying despite their own biases manifesting themselves from time to time and their perpetual funding dance with partners like the imperial gov't and the american oligarchs.
Unless I take the extreme measure of touching grass, social media will keep me apprised unbidden.
un-biden
Most of the major newspapers (this is from a UK perspective but I'd imagine they're accessible in other places) have a live news page for big developing news stories - the BBC site is probably a good unbiased-ish one
I think the US news sites are going to post their live updates to their websites too, that is at least how it was the last few presidential elections (I think I mostly used CNN). That is the same data they use for their news coverage, so you could use that; but watching live television will give you a clue when important updates have happened on them.
Of course you could just follow election-related hashtags on Mastodon to get a wide variety of people shouting all kinds of things about the election.
Open your neobroker app, if Trump won, the market will crash before it made the news.
Jane Street Capital lost like $100m 8 years ago assuming this would happen and it didn't.
Yeah looks like the wallstreet is looking forward for deregulations. Haha
Depending on which bit of the market you look at I suspect it could also go up.
Some More News will do a livestream of the results. They are usually on point with their analysis and sources.
Maybe good ol newspapers or eventually check if the federal government has an official result page
The federal government doesnβt run the elections so youβd have to check the 51 Secretary of State (or equivalent) sites to actually get live results.
Local news usually have a webpage or a YouTube channel keeping track of stuff too.
Your state likely has a web page designated for election results, so you could get information straight from the source for everything you voted for in your state and see which way your state goes for the presidential election. Your county website may also have a page to show whether any propositions were accepted or rejected.
I'm not sure about a better source to see where all 50 states' results are reported. Maybe Balllotpedia has something that updates. I'm not sure the federal government would have something because the official results won't happen until January 6 when a joint session of Congress reads and counts the votes from the Electoral College (who doesn't vote until December 17).
Hasan Poker ain't for everyone but he's super knowledgeable and provides great context for ongoing issues. I mainly watch on YouTube so the clips are edited down and even more context (charts, sources, etc) are added.
The Philip DeFranco Show on YouTube.
For just the results. Decision Desk HQ gets updated quickly, as they provide data to media outlets and others. I donβt think they require a subscription just for results. The AP does the same and generally βcallsβ states anyway. (As in, the networks will call the results when the AP does, though some have extra requirements like their own data team agreeing.)
Probably europe or Australia. Though I know some people who have no complaints about doing it in Thailand