Elections; 2024
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UPDATED: Friday, November 21, 2025 00:12
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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Wow. We won't know what the actual popular vote was until after New Years at the rate Democrats count.
75,175,276 for Trump / 71,933,375 for Harris.
That's like 80,000 votes counted in almost 2.5 hours.
Why are you so broken, West Coast?
We've gotten a pretty decent amount more in the following few hours...
75,405,508 for Trump / 72,270,039 for Harris.
Total votes counted: 147,675,547
Trump's lead: 3,135,469
California: 22% left
Alaska: 20% left
Oregon: 12% left
Utah: 11% left
Maryland: 7% left
Washington: 7% left
Washington D.C.: 7% left
Arizona: 5% left
New Jersey: 5% left
Colorado: 4% left
Nevada: 3% left
New York: 3% left
Nebraska: 2% left
Mississippi: 2% left
Compared to the 2020 election:
The 2020 results were 74,223,369 for Trump and 81,282,916 votes for Biden*
The total EXACT vote count in 2020 was 155,506,285.
The total amount of votes less in 2024 compared to 2020 is down to only 7,830,738 now.
Trump now has 1,182,139 more votes than he did in 2020.
Harris now has 9,012,877 less votes than Biden* did in 2020.
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Quick breakdown of California since most of the remaining votes are coming from there...
Harris: 7,995,458 votes (58.9%)
Trump: 5,180,722 votes (38.1%)
Total: 13,176,180 votes
22% remain... (16,892,539 would be an exact number. We'll call it 16.75 Million to be conservative).
That gives us another 3,573,820 yet to come out of California.
Out of those, using the existing percentage splits, the candidates will get the following of the remaining votes...
Trump: 1,361,625
Harris: 2,104,980
If we add these numbers to the existing totals, that will be fairly close to the final numbers with what little else still needs to be counted outside of California.
Popular Vote Count with California projected and figured in:
Trump: 76,767,133
Harris: 74,375,019
Trump's lead: 2,392,114 (If California were 100% counted today with the same splits toward each candidate).
Total Vote: 151,142,152
With California counted, the popular vote would now only be 4,364,133 less than it was in 2020. It will still be less than that with the stuff in other states that still needs to be counted.
We're already way under less than 1/3rd of what YouTube commentators were claiming was the difference.
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Republicans got a pickup in there somewhere. 219R / 209D.
(Ah... looks to be one of the 3 in California I said were leaning that way)
Maybe they get a buffer or two after all.
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Fox talking head is our new Secretary of Defense
Is this a joke?
President-elect Donald Trump chose Pete Hegseth, who is a combat veteran and co-host on the weekend edition of “Fox & Friends,” to be his defense secretary.
Hegseth has no defense experience—aside from having lots of opinions. He has no government experience and no experience dealing with the Pentagon bureaucracy. He's never run anything bigger than a broom closet. Even at Fox he's only junior varsity, co-hosting the weekend edition of Fox & Friends.
On the other hand, he sure looks like a cabinet secretary. And he agrees with Donald Trump a lot. I suppose that might be good enough for a press secretary, but heading up the biggest, most complex organization in the federal government? You'd think that even the most servile Republican senators might think twice before letting a Fox talking head run the Defense Department. It's considered a pretty important job in some circles.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Define to me the job responsibilities of the Secretary of Defense.
Don't use Google.
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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Define to me the job responsibilities of the Secretary of Defense.
Don't use Google.
When you think about the money involved in defense, won't a multi-billionaire be the better choice?
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Trump is assembling ultra-rich dream team to run the country
https://eedition.houstonchronicle.com/infinity/article_popover_share.a
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In billionaires, we trust.
President-elect Donald Trump and his new best friend, Elon Musk, are assembling a dream team to lead the nation. The world’s billionaires, including many Texans, are advising them on who to hire or signing up themselves.
In 2017, Trump formed the wealthiest Cabinet in history, and he’s doing it again.
Voters in 2024 rejected experts, especially economists, scientists, generals, journalists and others who spend their lives gathering knowledge to make the world a better place. Trump convinced Americans to misplace the blame for the nation’s problems on those dedicated to addressing them.
I understand why people admire successful capitalists, but past performance on Wall Street does not guarantee future success in Washington.
Howard Lutnick, the billionaire CEO of trading firm Cantor Fitzgerald, is Trump’s headhunter in chief, co-chairing the transition team. Gary Cohn, the former Goldman Sachs president and chief economic adviser in Trump’s last administration, is helping connect Wall Street talent to Trumpworld. They are not working on behalf of the working class.
Priority number one is getting Wall Street executives back in the top roles. In the Biden administration, Lina Khan has led the Federal Trade Commission to slow the monopolistic mega-mergers that hurt consumers. At the same time, Securities and Exchange Commission boss Gary Gensler has tried to corral some of the abuses in commodities trading, particularly in cryptocurrencies.
Stock and crypto prices jumped in anticipation of Trump ending commonsense financial industry regulation. He has promised to install the most capitalist-friendly administration in world history.
Trump is considering a hedge fund manager, Scott Bessent, to lead the Treasury Department. Bessent, who attended Trump’s victory party, has promised the administration will slash business regulations so corporations can make more money, the Wall Street Journal reported.
Many of these executives recognize the risks Trump’s stated policies pose to the global economy. But like so many Trump supporters, they don’t think he’ll follow through on punishing tariffs or mass deportations. These billionaires believe that staying in Trump’s good graces will allow them to bend his will toward symbolic gestures rather than actual implementation.
Musk is the highest-profile Texas billionaire in Trump’s orbit, but he’s not alone. Oil and gas moguls were anxious to roll back President Joe Biden’s policies to slow climate change and unleash fossil fuel emissions.
Kelcy Warren, co-founder and chairman of Energy Transfer Partners, operates one of the nation’s largest fossil fuel pipeline companies. He invested more than $15 million in pro-Trump political action committees, the watchdog group Open Secrets reported.
Tim Dunn, who recently sold his oil and gas company, gave Trump’s Make America Great Again PAC $5 million. He’s been deeply involved with Christian nationalist groups in Texas for some time and only recently branched out across the nation, giving $18 million this year to a conservative PAC called the Jefferson Rising Fund that supports Trump allies.
Houston billionaire and Hilcorp CEO, Jeff Hildebrand, hosted Trump fundraisers where he helped raise millions from the oil and gas industry. Casino and hospitality magnate Tilman Fertitta gave more than $370,000 to the Republican National Committee and other Trump-affiliated groups.
If you think any of these billionaires support Trump lowering consumer prices or addressing income inequality, you’re mistaken. Business leaders understand that bringing prices down, called deflation, wreaks havoc on the economy and destroys profits.
Many of Trump’s largest donors and most fervent supporters have conflicting interests. M
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Former Trump White House attorney Ty Cobb on Tuesday said it would be a “tragic event” that would have ramifications worldwide if President-elect Donald Trump follows through on his 2024 campaign promise to pardon the Jan. 6, 2021 rioters who stormed the U.S. Capitol in his name.
The move would further demean “the rule of law to those of us in this country, and it’s not going to go unseen around the world,” the lawyer warned.
“I mean, this is the type of conduct that, when viewed internationally, makes it impossible to distinguish the United States from a third-world country or, you know, a South American dictatorship,” he feared. “This is really lawlessness of the highest order, and there’s no principal basis for it. I think it’d be a very sad event.”
https://www.rawstory.com/ty-cobb-trump-2669865494/
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Russia is claiming credit for Trump’s win.
Russia’s intelligence chief, Nikolai Patrushev, made the following comment in an interview with the Moscow newspaper Kommersant:
The election campaign is over. To achieve success in the election, Donald Trump relied on certain forces to which he has corresponding obligations. As a responsible person, he will be obliged to fulfill them.
The Russians are basically telling Trump: We put you in office. Now it’s time for you to pay us back.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2024/11/trump-election-results-pat
rushev-putin-rubio-russia-ukraine.html
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Originally posted by second:Quote:Procurement. A trillion dollars per year.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Define to me the job responsibilities of the Secretary of Defense.
Don't use Google.
When you think about the money involved in defense, won't a multi-billionaire be the better choice?
I suppose that it depends on exactly what it is you want that person to be up to if you are their boss.
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Trump is fine.
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