Quote (thundercock @ 11 Nov 2020 21:34)
Trump doesn't need to concede. There are no legal ramifications regarding a concession and his refusal to concede so just reflects his character. In terms of Biden becoming President, I'd put that at 99.9%. Kamala would be the next most likely followed by Nancy Pelosi. The only reason we have these meritless lawsuits is due to white fragility.
Do you just ignore the election all together until the electoral college actually votes? That's an asinine position IMO. At that point, you might as well wait until someone is actually inaugurated. After all, you'd be quite the partisan hack to assume that winning the electoral college means you're going to be POTUS.
Interesting. The highest odds I've seen Vegas offering were 1:20 in biden's favor. So based on that I'd say I'd give Biden a 95% chance to win. I gave Hillary a 99.9% chance to win, and she lost. So I'm not ready to propose those odds. Though if you really believe in those odds, I'd be happy to bet 1 fg vs your 999 fg, me on Trump, you on Biden? Don't like wasting FG outside of Ladderslasher, but I can probably manage 1fg for that bet. You'll need to scare up a bit more to cover your end though.
Your "white fragility" bit is funny. Trump lost a fairly sizeable percentage in the white vote, and did BETTER among minority voters than he did in 2016. Odd that you bring identity politics into it.
Nobody is ignoring election results. I'm still waiting on some house and senate seats to be called. But more and more, the media appears to be showing it's extreme bias where anything republican-led is. As an independent, that screams "partisanship" to me. Why did it take them a week to call Alaska's senate and house seat, for instance? Is it because they refused to call it until the State itself released this:
https://www.elections.alaska.gov/results/20GENR/data/sovc/ElectionSummaryReportRPT13.pdf by chance? I mean, they called Hawaii as blue with 0 reporting, prior to the polls even being closed.
Again, take a step back, forget your bias for a moment, and simply assess what you've seen. Any state where Biden took a lead as healthy as Trump's lead in Florida was called within an hour. Then you have states like MI, WI, and GA where Trump had an incredibly healthy lead, as did red house seats, and they refused to call anything for days to a week. Why?
I'm not jumping to fraud or misconduct conclusions. I'm merely questioning the media's conduct. When you have reporters saying, "How could trump win? We already called it! It's OUR job to call the elections!" Um... No. So, do I trust the media reporting? Not particularly. Do I think they're wrong? Not necessarily. I simply advise to wait, and stop with this useless nonsense of "Oh, candidate x or y or z should simply concede because here's what the media has said!" That's not how the contest works.