I know a lot of Democrats are going to blame the national party for what's happened tonight … but it's not as of Americans don't know who Trump is. Maybe the problem isn't Democrats. It's the voters

— Michael Cohen (@speechboy71) November 4, 2020

Oh Jesus Christ. You foist on us — once again — an incredibly weak candidate, a senile barely-coherent ancient doddering lady-sniffer, and then blame the voters for not getting excited about such a weak offering.

I mean, Biden is likely to just barely squeak out a narrow win in the face of an historically-unpopular president in a pandemic during a de facto depression. I don’t think it’s the voters who are to blame here, really.

People go all I Fucking Love Science for statistics, any statistics, just because there's numbers involved, and formulas and textbooks and whatnot. Instant credibility, regardless of whether at root the project of labelling all uncertainty with numbers makes sense.

— Sridhar Ramesh (@RadishHarmers) October 16, 2020

“I love science” and “believe science” are clueless takes, just incoherent philosophies. I don’t love science or believe it or disbelieve it. I believe what the evidence says, recognizing that anything in that realm can be stamped by politics and bias, is often beset with poorly-gathered or misunderstood data, and is then further leveraged in inappropriate ways by the power- and money-motivated.

Nevertheless, science does advance and we achieve greater understanding of the universe. However, what we do with elections and polling has little to do with science or even statistics (which is more truly a philosophy with numbers). It’s more akin to astrology with semi-causal feedback loops.

Love science? Believe science? No. I believe in evidence and the weight of wisdom over time.

I’ve had the song “Complètement fou” stuck in my head for days now. Yelle, what you doing to me?

Don’t know who is going to win the election, but I do think Sanders would’ve won in a landslide, and I think Liz Warren would’ve won easily though not with as large a victory.

The Dems don’t really care about winning, though. Oh, they are fine if it happens. But what they truly care about is squelching the left.

Sometimes my former students make me very proud… https://t.co/ZSHbKZ8uNu

— Jonathan McDowell (@planet4589) October 31, 2020

Cute nerdy costume, but if a man did a costume like that it’d be considered harassing….

The internet has exposed us all to the raw hypocrisy and opportunism of politicians, the media, etc, but the result is that it’s just being normalized. Everybody knows everybody else is lying. All that matters is what team you’re on. This is how it’ll be from here on out.

— scientism (@mr_scientism) October 31, 2020

We’re all scammers running a con on one another now. It’s become the system. Whether it’s liberals or conservatives, doesn’t matter. Just the scam differs. In a world built on such normalized deceit the person who tells the truth appears insane.

This all started with Perot in 1992, in many ways, and how the press treated him, but has now become the norm.

i feel like the left keeps trying to police my thoughts, and the right keeps trying to police my actions

— Aella (@Aella_Girl) November 3, 2020

That’s not a bad first gloss, though they bleed into one another far too easily in reality.

The left is obsessed with words and believe they hold all power, so this is why they gravitate to thought thuggery. The right, being less academically-inclined and more practical, attempts to seize and hold real power.