GET OUT: US politics November 2020

So what does happen when some local yokel (and whatever level of government ) just refuses to acknowledge Biden?

― Josh in Chicago, Monday, November 9, 2020 6:38 PM (two minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

little rock, 1957

yawn

xpost

The only people outside the federal bureaucracy who have to acknowledge Biden are soldiers, no?

Governors and Mayors don't have to accord him anything in particular.

I swear I saw this weekend that there was actually going to be a coronavirus task force briefing today (a WH/Pence one, not Biden's team) for the first time in ages. What happened to that? Now I see Pence is going on vacation.

courts aren't going to invalidate 400,000 voters votes after the fact even if there is a semi-compelling concern on methodology. they're going to ask 'where was this lawsuit before Election Day' just like the Texas judge.

it's kind of funny though because it glosses over signature verification which does happen on mailed votes.

"yawn" indeed

"Being down 51-49 could still work if you get a Collins or a Murk to flip"

50-50 works too no? VP as tie breaker.

Even assuming anything else they said was true, it's not like they offered two different tracks to different classes of people -- anyone could have voted by mail or in person.

If that's the best they got, not much to worry about. By that logic, any differences among polling sites would also be an equal protection violation.

Also, who even has standing to challenge that? Who was harmed? It's not like anyone unfairly *lost* the right to vote as a result of this -- the claim is that the bar for some people was too low.

Best Senate hopes are either both Georgia seats, or one Georgia and Tillis in NC (which is not quite called, as NC is still counting)

50-50 works too no? VP as tie breaker.

― akm, Monday, November 9, 2020 6:45 PM (one minute ago) bookmarkflaglink

...yes?

re: deJoy: Biden can have him investigated though. But also, I'd be surprised if DeJoy wants that job if Trump isn't there. Doesn't he have other shit to do?

Um guys

Ezekiel Emanuel, Rahm's brother who argued in this 2019 essay that his life should end at 75 because life after that age is longer productive and may involve disability, is joining the Biden-Harris COVID-19 Advisory Board https://t.co/xZd0QYBhpx

— Dr. Steven W. Thrasher (@thrasherxy) November 9, 2020

you just gotta laugh at that one

maskoff.mp3

maybe not the guy you want trying to help elderly people survive

which yes I know is the reason for the post

Why do embarrassing Jews outnumber Bernie Sanderses in government

Speaking of Emanuels, did this get posted today

.@AOC fires a warning shot: Progressives will not accept former Chicago Mayor @RahmEmanuel in President-elect Biden’s cabinet, reports @AsteadWesley for the @nytimes https://t.co/xol8dwDXAT pic.twitter.com/3MOT5YHpwn

— Heather Cherone (@HeatherCherone) November 9, 2020

They're the third worst family in the country behind the Bushes and the Trumps.

I read the essay in question when it came out, it is ableist trash.

What is the point of that PA lawsuit? Even if there was "two tiers", you can't know which tier voted for whom.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Barr authorizes DOJ to probe 'substantial allegations' of voting irregularities despite little evidence of fraud.

— Jonathan Lemire (@JonLemire) November 9, 2020

In a memo to U.S. attorneys, obtained by The Associated Press, Barr wrote that investigations “may be conducted if there are clear and apparently-credible allegations of irregularities that, if true, could potentially impact the outcome of a federal election in an individual State.”

welp...too bad that is precisely zero of them

why don't we just impeach Barr, we're gonna fire him anyway but let's make his last few months hell

Trump has found lawyers willing to ask a federal court to disenfranchise *all* Pennsylvania voters.

I am pasting below their request and their signature block.https://t.co/ZABklTV1UH pic.twitter.com/xAMVEisA7K

— Matthew Segal (@segalmr) November 9, 2020

The basic claim at the heart of Trump’s new PA lawsuit is that mail-in voting *itself* is unconstitutional.

Never mind that we’ve had it for decades.

Never mind that they’d had months to make this argument.

Never mind that it would disenfranchise tens of millions of Americans.

— Steve Vladeck (@steve_vladeck) November 9, 2020

feels like noise. they can flap their arms all they want, but the results are clear

cities would be ablaze within a week if they tried it. remembering that Barr's appointment of an investigator for the Russia Probe resulted in no charges though, yaaaaawn

President Trump is beginning to come to grips with the reality that he will lose the election, a Trump adviser said based on conversations inside the campaign and with the President.

Trump sees a “path to losing,” the adviser said.

He has already begun to discuss with aides the prospect of running in 2024, as CNN reported last week.

I look forward to hearing about his fate-decreed comeback every single day over the next four years.

maybe Emanuel is being appointed bcz Biden is very tired and wants to die

Finally - a lawsuit that's not completely frivolous:

Artist Sues Trump’s Border Wall Contractors for Destroying His “Cheese Wall”
Artist Cosimo Cavallaro claims the construction company SLSCO, hired by Trump to fortify the US-Mexico border wall, “willfully destroyed” his sculpture made of Cotija cheese.

https://hyperallergic.com/600078/artist-sues-trumps-border-wall-contractors-for-destroying-his-cheese-wall/

With glassy eyes he looked up helplessly at the advisor “Trump... ...lose?”
Now the advisor is getting teary
“Yes sweetie. Trump lose, trump lose...”

beginning to come to grips with the reality that he will lose the election

The new "increasingly isolated"

"path to losing" is a great phrase

it really is

The road not taken.

maybe Emanuel is being appointed bcz Biden is very tired and wants to die

― @oneposter (👍) (sic), Monday, November 9, 2020 4:09 PM

haven't heard this news

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rON916bm3jg

path to losing

wake up

congrats! u have lost

Megan McCain’s going to end up in the admin isn’t she

Sheryl Crow is

trying not to get my hopes up that the Georgia Senate seats will flip, but it would be awesome

kinda feels like a fun time to impeach barr and trump. why not, isn't like the house is doing anything else right now?

also con Louie Gohmert into showing up with promises of free chickenfeed then lock him inside a closet

evan i am absolutely on the floor because of that post

haha thanks idk it's funny to imagine him trying to mentally accept losing. "path to losing" i mean come on

Four years ago my question was whether this ends with US troops opening fire on US citizens on US soil. Question still stands.

Wouldn’t be the first time.

why get the troops when the citizens are happy to do it themselves