こんにちは！

Japanese news is much more balanced than US/UK news. They actually discuss his policies (especially foreign policy) whilst I am used to "Orange man bad", "Trump promotes racism", etc from back home.

I don't really talk to people about politics (I can't vote here, so it's nice in a way) but I can understand them liking his anti-China policies.

There should be a "burst pipe" in the middle of counting. Then start counting again at around 4am and declare Jeb as the winner with a whitewash of 538 electoral votes.

I heard from CNN that it's illegal to look at this database. So I'll wait for CNN to investigate and tell me that it contains only one name, repeated millions of times -- Donald Trump.

Its the oval office

Democrats three point plan:

1. Hope people don't turn up with fake polling.

2. If that fails cheat badly.

3. If caught waste Trumps second term claiming "He is a Tyrant", "Dictator", "Stolen election", "illegitimate", etc

Biden will never go to jail as he doesn't leave his basement anyway.

It's so strange living here in Japan.

I see the news of the US/Europe, everyone being so strict: calling the police on people for going to the beach or because they drove alone to a national park to walk their dog. Queueing to gain access to supermarkets, lockdown for months and months, etc.

In Japan what did we do? We wore masks, shut down schools, and 30% of people worked from home (lots of Japanese companies will not let employees work from home or let them take paperwork home). Then there was one two week period of "unenforceable lockdown" in March. People wear masks in Japan all the time anyway (hayfever, influenza, etc)

After that? Nothing, just the masks (as usual). Lots of people still work from home, but you should see Tokyo/Yokohama during the weekend. Everyone goes to parks, malls, eats out at restaurants, students doing homework in Starbucks, crowds at baseball, etc. I was eating out 3/4 times a week until recently (my kitchen sucked).

I really don't get this. In the UK they count all night and report results from 11pm through to 11am the next day. With many results coming in around 2-5am.

I am sure they could do it in shifts if they had to... it's pretty crazy.

Jeb is already winning. He's controlling everything from the shadows.

Calm down, the only reason states aren't being called is because they haven't counted Jeb's votes yet. He has them all in the bag.

NC keeps getting stronger for Trump on the NYT. It was 61% about 30-40 minutes back, then 69%, 76%, and now 78% *edit 81%

Nah, they accidentally put the Trump votes in the photocopier instead of the shredder.

NYT claims earlier votes will be counted first and will be stronger for the Democrats.

Up to 71% (or my browser is slow)

I currently live in Tokyo -- I'll be heading home next year. However, I avoid the "ex-pat" areas; although, I lived in one for my first year here (Azabu). Apart from the convenience of buying certain foods (like cheese) and school access (lots of good international schools in those areas), I can't see why you would want to move to one of those places.

I moved to Tokyo to experience Japan. Not bring my culture to Japan. I couldn't use Japanese in Azabu; almost everything was tailored to speaking English. I was so glad to move out and actually have to speak Japanese to order a coffee.

I think anyone with a brain would realise the economy "crashed" because of coronavirus lockdowns, etc. It's happened everywhere in the world, but I guess Japan, China, Europe, the UK etc all "crashed" because of Trump too.

Compare that to last time, I think CNN had Trump at incredibly low numbers in the debates.

According to the crooked polls, Trump is "doing better" than against Hillary A

CBS poll gave it to Biden...

Of those polled, 48% say Biden won, while 41% say the title should go to Trump and 10% saw the night as a tie.

But, compare that to the first Hillary debate:

After the first debate, a CNN/ORC poll found that 62 percent of those who watched thought Clinton won – only 27 percent awarded the victory to Trump.

This kinda happens in the UK. There’s the House of Lords that has to green-light laws, budgets, etc. it has no size limit. So parties always fill it to get an advantage when they can...

Depends if Biden can counter with 100% of the votes from the pet cemeteries.

Soapy water would make for a change.

Yeah, I don't get it either.

The only Nike shoes I buy are the Vaporfly, but that's because there's still nothing that comes close when running a Half or Marathon. Most of their shoes are ugly junk...

They should do what they did to Boris. They had the debate anyway with an empty stand.

Tokyo is crazy. I can leave my bike ($2000 Cyclocross bike) outside unlocked in central Tokyo and no-one will touch it. Back home that would be taken immediately, even if you put D-Locks on it.

People leave their phones on coffee shop tables as they make an order... those would be taken too.

I dropped my wallet, went to the police station and got a call the next morning. My wallet was handed in -- with all the cash still in it.

He might have been ordering pizza for the "protestors".