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7 Nov, 4 tweets, 2 min read
Welcome to the golden age for RTE
Straight into my veins!
Biden’s secret service code name is “Celtic.” His first visit to Ireland will be like nothing since JFK’s visit
There have been other Presidents with Irish connections since JFK, such as Reagan and Obama. But there is none to whom Irishness is so central to his identity as Biden.

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9 Nov
Counterpoint: Trump *did* lose, is not conceding gracefully.
Also, the idea that Trump is a graceful loser is nonsense. He claimed fraud *when he won the 2016 election.* He insisted that fraud was the only explanation for how he lost the popular vote by millions. usatoday.com/story/news/pol… Image
Trump formed a special panel to validate his claims of voter fraud - again, after an election that he won - which was disbanded after they found nothing.

This is what Trump does, win or lose: proclaim he is the victim of fraud. It's nonsense.
washingtonpost.com/news/politics/… Image
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7 Nov
The mismanagement of the pandemic was the difference between Trump getting re-elected or not. It was the mass event that offered a coherent narrative of how bad governance mattered to our daily lives. But it shouldn’t have come to this.
For a lot of us, daily life continued more or less as normal under Trump, if you ignored the tweets and the declining discourse and corruption and deinstitutionalization. Because most of that stuff did not affect our daily lives, at least not immediately.
For a lot of people daily life has not been easy for the past four years. They have had to wonder if those around them viewed them as lesser somehow, if their rights were diminished. Hoping they have some sense of relief today.
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7 Nov
A couple of weeks ago Trump praised Meadows for not keeping distance even after Trump tested positive.
"I said, ‘You know what? I just tested positive.’ He didn’t care. He was in that helicopter.”

washingtonpost.com/politics/meado…
Trump blamed the DC Mayor for requiring his DC hotel party follow city public health guidelines. As it was he had the party at the White House, which featured Mark Meadows mingling with guests. washingtonian.com/2020/10/30/don…
Maskless Mark Meadows at the White House on election night the day before he received a positive COVID test.

The reason people in the White House keep getting COVID is because they keep violating basic public health guidelines.
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4 Nov
NY Times saying Trump will almost certainly win North Carolina nytimes.com/interactive/20…
Current votes are really tight, not that many left to report. Struggling to understand why NY Times seems so certain unless all of unreported regions are GOP.
NC likely to be very tight
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Don Moynihan Profile picture
3 Nov
The USPS
a) slowed down mail the week of the election
b) said 300K ballots cannot be traced
c) is ignoring a Judge's call to sweep for missing ballots to ensure they are delivered by midnight washingtonpost.com/business/2020/…
DeJoy reassured state election officials that processing mail votes was his top priority. Hard to equate that with the data, or the fact that courts are still pushing him to get ballots delivered. (via @_cingraham) washingtonpost.com/business/2020/…
To provide both sides on the "sweeping" for ballots - DOJ lawyers say USPS plans to do that, at a later time than when the Judge is ordering. Plaintiffs in the case say USPS schedule will be too late. We will find out, but in many states late-arriving ballots will not be counted.
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3 Nov
The President barricaded himself in the Presidential Palace on the eve of elections.

Some say it was a precaution against mass protests, while others speculated that it signaled a refusal to leave office, especially as legal concerns of future prosecutions mounted.
Meanwhile in the capital and major cities, businesses boarded up, reflecting the unrest that had accompanied the Presidency and a deep sense of uncertainty about the future that conflicted with the President's promise of restoring greatness to the country.
While many of the intelligentsia suggested fears of authoritarian action were overblown, the President called on the judges he had appointed to cancel legal votes in crucial districts. Others read the message as a call to his paramilitary supporters to mobilize.
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