rolling “Trump is gonna win” containment thread

Lol This reads like part of a Star Wars film opening crawl:
(via CNN)

“ Entrenched at the White House with no public events on his schedule, Trump has personally dispatched advisers to battlegrounds across the country hoping to wage legal battle in places where the margins remain tight. Despite skepticism about the efficacy of his strategy, Trump has remained intent on waging a prolonged fight, viewing it as his only option.”

lol

he's gonna make the best deal between the trade federation and naboo

Hahaha

many many xposts but I think it was treeship that previously posted the tweeted Fox News screenshots with their polls on the issues from election night. Is this for real?? I never fuck with Fox News so I'm clearly ignorant of whether this is a crazy outlier but are their own viewers this degree of not on the same page with all their crap? Or are those exit polls of voters, in which case still amazed that they're honestly reporting that most Americans want public health care, climate change action, mask mandates, stricter gun laws etc etc.

The screenshots in question (it's a thread so there's more than these 4 questions):

lol these fox news voter polls pic.twitter.com/NoiNjPiqOH

— John Whitehouse (@existentialfish) November 3, 2020

is this true, ugh

This is hard to believe: Dems didn't pick up a single state legislative chamber in 2020.

Republicans, against expectations, won the New Hampshire state Senate and the Alaska state House.

— Josh Kraushaar (@HotlineJosh) November 5, 2020

it's just...how

the republican state legislatures just spent 2 years in open warfare against their own constituents

From the voters voting for candidates

Hahahaha HAAAAA

Jay Vee, your wish just came true

https://starwarsintrocreator.kassellabs.io/#!/CMLP0f7hYvBSBqWj_Xwu

I didn't make that, BTW; I shared a screenshot on Twitter and someone ran with it.

“Remember the glorious Obama years” as your party’s raison d’etre maybe not as effective as some would hope.

xpost lol Ned just came to post a similar one from the same site

Thanks Ned. Hilarious!

yeah that was good.

really need a downfall meme or two right now too.

I've seen at least one!

My two fave comments from Twitter in response to Jay Vee's post and the resultant screencrawl:

The thing that gives it the touch of authenticity is the use of the word "dispatch". https://t.co/tKW5tmYtIx

— Alejandro José Quintana (on hiatus) 🏴🏳️ (@alejoseQB) November 5, 2020

oh wow. only thing missing the occasional all-caps thing, like LAWYERS

— Bowiesongs (@bowiesongs) November 5, 2020

The pivotal moment (bald general breaking the bad news) needs to be Arizona, obv

xp

Our man hasn’t been on tv for a while yet

at least we'll still get use of this thread in 2024, that's one positive

I’m not a vindictive or cruel person by nature but I want to see the anguish

Star Ears X: Wrath Of The Dotard

*WARS

Yoda's, sure.

lol

fake news votes trashed except in arizona and vegas and boom, 2scoops goes over the top, the dow hits 30,000, and moscow trump tower 2021, baby!

For some reason my anxiety is massively playing up that a Trump win is still possible and that the world being the hell that it is that it will actually happen. Please can I be reassured?

Philly alone is gonna push PA to Trump, much less everything else

Joe Biden’s got this

i lives in philly for one year! feeling some city pride

love to bandwagon

https://i.imgur.com/Sd0JeIy.png

frogbs, did you mean to Biden?

oops, typo, I meant to say "in the opposite direction Trump needs"

Yknow I don’t think Trump is gonna win

well then get the hell outta here!

For some reason my anxiety is massively playing up that a Trump win is still possible and that the world being the hell that it is that it will actually happen. Please can I be reassured?

― emil.y, Friday, November 6, 2020 1:13 PM (ten minutes ago)

RONG THREAD

oh lol xpost

don't harsh our buzz, rutgers

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/its-a-very-likely-possibility-trump-could-win-election-through-court-challenge-rutgers-law-professor-112818679.html?

Sorry, I didn't want to shit up the other thread and I was feeling sick with anxiety about a Trump win. Still honestly feel so pessimistic that the possibility hasn't gone away yet, and that anything shit that can happen, will happen. Rationally I know it's not happening, but man does anxiety fuck you over.

(Usual caveat that Biden also sucks applies, but let us concentrate on the actual worst human alive for the time being)

I completely feel you, emil.y. I've been living in hopeless doomspace for the last couple of days, having completely withdrawn from news and the internet and just assuming the absolute worst and probably shaving years off of my life with all of the intense worrying. It's anxiety and it's also just trauma. 2016 was fucking traumatic. It's hard not to go through those miserable motions all over again. And also it's not like this was exactly a rout. The people who voted for him aren't just going away, so there's cause for residual anxiety wrt what that's going to mean going forward.

But still. This morning is the first time since Tuesday that I've allowed myself a little hope, and it admittedly does feel better than waking up bathed in sweat from nightmares about being in literal hell.

yeah that moment on Tuesday where it was like "holy shit we're really pulling out of the Paris Accord and the WHO and probably never having another fair election again and..." was legitimately crushing even though the reality was just that the scenario everyone said was gonna happen was happening

I mean you learn a lot about human nature, so many people said "DO NOT PANIC it's going to look like Trump won on Tuesday night but he'll lose due to the mail-ins in these particular states" and yet we all panicked anyway

It's OVAH.

Can we close this thread?!

He might win something else.

To what extent is it worth worrying about any malarky with electors in the coming weeks? Can people breathe easy before Dec 12?

Not worth it.

the fact that the GOP isn't really going along with this "challenge everything in the courts and try to dig up fraud" thing is probably a good sign they won't

also Joe was pretty consistent on his stance re: malarkey

I mean even Rush is saying it's over