GET OUT: US politics November 2020

Maybe this has been asked already: what is the point of a Georgia recount if Georgia's EVs are redundant? Is it an ego thing?

stake in the heart, also influences the upcoming Senate runoffs

It's a legal requirement

(as I understand it)

ah right, yes that too

A Georgia recount keeps alive the narrative that Trump actually won. This narrative will eventually fail to deliver a victory, but it sets the table for the continuing grievance narrative of "take back our country from the traitors". Plus, it's an ego thing for Trump.

CNN said it's only done when requested in Georgia. But those explanations make sense.

I thought that beyond a certain margin the Georgia recount actually cost either Trump or the GOP cash money so wasn't likely to go ahead if so. Did it fall within the n cost recount margin then.

I saw that Georgia doesn't have automatic recounts, but a recount can be requested if the margin is under 0.5%, which it will be even if Biden wins every last vote. And the Republican secretary of state seems to think there will be one.

A full Georgia recount would also presumably have an effect on the Senate and other downticket races

Backers of Donald Trump prayed at the Clark County election department in Nevada #Election2020 pic.twitter.com/e5O4pvOkVA

— Reuters (@Reuters) November 6, 2020

Hahaha from the purported "screening schedule" for the "Alt-Right Auditorium" at the https://djtrumplibrary.com/ Ned found upthread:

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THURSDAY:
A NETFLIX DOUBLE HEADER:

Becoming
A Netflix original about Melania’s speech writer

Barry
A Netflix original about the early years of America’s first Kenyan president.
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There's also the John Lewis thing eating away at Trump. (Feelings about McCain aside, I hope Karl Malone creates some kind of graphic involving Trump and the ghosts of Lewis and McCain.)

Lewis is in heaven John McCain is burning in hell and their souls will never be on the same plane, for eternity

otmfm

Tell me more about this heaven and hell.

newfangled Christian inventions

Shucks

We're off to an interesting start here https://t.co/sgVu1xHykW

— Chris Megerian (@ChrisMegerian) November 6, 2020

guys stop talking about heaven and hell and looking at dan crenshaw tweets and come over to the party thread there's achewood content

this reply to Marjorie made me lol

Hey Marjorie, I just got a super secret message from Q. It said B-e-s-u-r-e-t-o-d-r-i-n-k-y-o-u-r-O-v-a-l-t-i-n-e.

— Peter Pescadero (@PeterPescadero1) November 6, 2020

Reuters: RNC seeking to raise at least $60 million to fund Trump legal challenges - sources

Hopefully Steve Bannon will be tasked with overseeing the funds.

How I learned to stop worrying and ignore the presidential election

just the most beautiful grift

The GA runoffs will be decided in large part on whether Republicans turn out for Perdue and Loeffler. How right-wing media digests Trump's loss will probably have a big impact on that. Interesting thread here from @rickperlstein. https://t.co/Ma8ULTsCbl

— Adam Jentleson 🎈 (@AJentleson) November 6, 2020

Big fan of internal GOP warfare but I don’t trust that Dan Crenshaw means that. It’s pure posturing to distance himself (insane) from a different insane fringe with 22/24 in mind.

His antagonist definitely means it though, and this is good

I read every word.

Why are you “leading” with losing?

Our Republican base is sick and tired of weakness coming from Congress.

I’m doing exactly what the people of NW Georgia elected me to do.

Fight.

I hope you’ll join me. https://t.co/o7W6sL6G40

— Marjorie Taylor Greene 🇺🇸 (@mtgreenee) November 6, 2020

Just finished two pages in Perlstein's Reaganland describing proposed electoral reforms by Carter in 1977--vehemently opposed by the emerging New Right because, well, everybody would end up voting then--and you'd swear you were reading about the last week.

hope these weirdos like pingponging through Rayburn trying to figure out what they're supposed to be doing

I manage our firm's LA office, and just got passive-aggressively called out for making a pretty benign but positive comment about the direction the election was going in my office-wide Zoom yesterday.

And so the fuck what. DJT is a total human stain, and his behavior would get my business - or any other - sued 100x over for bad workplace behavior. I am totally fine being on record as saying as much. Conservatives? Have a seat! Let's talk about stuff. But I'm done thinking about Trump. He can go to hell.

There's a big problem with the theory that anti-GOP trumper sentiment helps Ossoff:
https://www.businessinsider.com/david-perdue-trump-man-in-the-senate-2018-2

I’m doing exactly what the people of NW Georgia elected me to do. Fight

Marjorie Taylor fights her way out of bed. Fights herself into her clothes. Fights her way to her office. Fights with her staff. Listens to her favorite fights songs on her way home. Another successful day!

Trumpism starts to look a little like stalinism sometimes, where no one is trumpist enough and everyone proves their trumpiness by accusing others of not being trumpy enough.

dems kinda out there positioning too rn

Runoff is going to be Jan 5. It'll be fascinating to see whether by that point Trump has any motivation to help Perdue. My guess would be no.

I’m sure someone could lure him down with some serious $$$

The way the news outlets are reporting today, Biden sounds like an Edgelord.

lmao

America Assembled!🇺🇸🎉@JoeBiden @KamalaHarris @BarackObama @ChrisEvans @MarkRuffalo @RobertDowneyJr @brielarson @AOC @staceyabrams @michaelb4jordan @Russo_Brothers #Election2020 #ElectionResults2020 #joebiden #DonaldTrump #BidenHarris2020 #avengers #endgame pic.twitter.com/cDl1VsFbOo

— John Handem Piette (@JohnHPiette) November 6, 2020

Georgian here. Attack ads against Osoff were already blatant lies and fear-mongering cranked to 11. I don’t see how he can overcome more of that.

Ossoff should be aggressively courting Offset for an endorsement.

You should really stop posting old Trump tweets.

I repudiate any imposition on frogbs' first amendment right to be hilarious

We don’t need that party. Maybe a less evil conservative party will take it’s place.

We already have a less evil conservative party! Let's get a more humanistic one as the alternative instead, if we're wishing in one hand

son can I speak to your mother and make sure she’s aware her toddler is going unattended to fuck with philadelphia dressed as a literal cowboy

NB that this cowboy-dressed lawyer was an out, gay, real actual cheerleader in high school, but went to a conversion camp and then got elected by running hard against unisex bathrooms

Long answer: the networks are in a tight place compared to previous elections where it was accepted that when the outcome was apparent to experts, it was all but settled. A huge fraction of the population not only distrusts experts more than ever before, but they have been primed by the fucking President of the United States for months to expect massive fraud

tbf the networks primed the population by running the president's lies and fraud unchecked for a solid 66 months until 19:02 last night

Wtf is that tweet caek

NB that this cowboy-dressed lawyer was an out, gay, real actual cheerleader in high school, but went to a conversion camp and then got elected by running hard against unisex bathrooms

oh god i'm .. not sure i wanted to know that

Biden's margin in GA up to 4K now

Aimless

Marjorie Taylor fights her way out of bed. Fights herself into her clothes. Fights her way to her office. Fights with her staff. Listens to her favorite fights songs on her way home. Another successful day!

Puts me in mind of an old Ian Frazier piece in the New Yorker:

First thing every morning when I sit down to eat, I get in my breakfast's face. I violate the space of that breakfast.

https://archives.newyorker.com/newyorker/1995-05-29/flipbook/096/

Is this genuine?!

The Trump campaign moves from courting donors to getting aggressive with them, a clear sign of desperation. pic.twitter.com/P1l5MdXd1g

— David Cay Johnston (@DavidCayJ) November 6, 2020

haha I hope so

Always read the small print.

If you give money to Trump's recount/postelection litigation efforts, half of that money will go towards retiring his campaign debt instead, per the fine print. pic.twitter.com/JnryvupS67

— Rick Hasen (@rickhasen) November 6, 2020

But but but I was told he is a massively rich billionaire, why does he need my $25

oh god i'm .. not sure i wanted to know that

dying for this interview... “From Cheer Camp to Conversion Camp... the story of how out and proud high school cheerleader Briscoe Cain turned conservative lawyer and Trump supporter” https://t.co/yUhtUdnEjM pic.twitter.com/2LHSURgCOP

— sky (@skylarkrawczyk) November 6, 2020

into. my. veins.