GET OUT: US politics November 2020

FFS this is so fucking dumb and predictable

The statement was followed by a stilted laugh, so it is unclear if he was speaking in serious reference to the Trump administration’s legal challenges to the election, or in an attempt at humor.

good joke Mikey!

*bombs Iran*

"lol come on where's your sense of humor?"

Biden now up by 47.5k in PA. There is no way any judge will throw out that many votes. No one on Trump's team has presented any evidence to get more than a handful of ballots tossed. They're relying on the same ol BS of dead voters, "I talked to a guy who knows a guy who saw something strange". Shit doesn't hold up in court. Hilary is gonna be in jail, big investigation into Obama spying, I'm going to show Obama birth certificate is a fake, etc etc. Dude is all talk.

love to laugh about my role in creeping authoritarianism, lulz

That's just what villains do tbf.

My mom just texted me about Pompeo statement, asking to be talked down. We're all so traumatized by this fuck and his enablers.

If these mostly GOP secretaries of state insist elections happened fairly in their states, Pompeo, McConnell, etc. can babble all they like. They're thinking of GA, not Biden.

Granny D otm, exactly where we were on Saturday.

O wau you found a ballot with a name that matches an obituary

Grebt

Now you only need another 56,999 of those

Good luck usa

wait til they find out some of the fraudulent votes *didn't* go to Biden! Zounds!

Hah, yep. Amazing how if you exclude all mail-in ballots you will also be excluding those you like, etc.

Such as TROOPS

They're used to making sacrifices for the greater good of the Republic.

this shit is making me really fucking nervous!!

same

does the term selling someone a bill of goods referring to somebody selling someone the list rather than the product. Was just reminded of taht by what somebody up list was saying about thsi reporting that somebody is saying there is fraud in an election result being the news reported when the con is that its the person themselves.
Almost metatextual or something.
Like there is so much expectation of there being a further reality to what one is sold that one believes that the label itself equates to a reality. But one would be left wioth smoke and mirrors and fun things like that.

I'm doing my best to reassure y'all. Getting in our heads is what these fuckos do best.

On the plus side, you'd think the GOP effort to undermine the results of legit elections might have the effect of reducing GOP turnout in GA while prompting dems to flood the polls.

Trump began transitioning 24 hours after he won the election.

This hurt my head for a quick second.

I'm def curious to see what impact all this has on "Trump's man in Georgia" (David Perdue) and also whether Trump gives a fuck about those elections (my guess is no, but maybe it depends whether he continues to think he has a chance). A demotivated Trump base would sure be nice in the runoffs.

Trump & co. arguably have less power now than they did at any point in the past four years. Yet their propensity for hardman trolling seems to be having more of an effect upon the left than it did at any point in the past four years.

Yeah, well ... yeah.

BREAKING: White House tells federal agencies to proceed with plans for Trump’s February budget in latest sign of election defiance @JStein_WaPo @ericawerner @jdawsey1 https://t.co/a3rLciOwRq

— Damian Paletta (@damianpaletta) November 10, 2020

Fash scum.

so just as everybody feared , but it will be so much fun watching him get the bailiffs in. About the only time ever.

this is getting a bit like the story of Phil Collins' house

It doesn't matter that Trump doesn't have a leg to stand on, this is still a coup attempt.

I became physically nauseous when I saw that Pompeo quote.

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I'm actually liking all these shenanigans... anything that reduces Trump to an even more disgraceful, sad & pathetic figure, a lonely old man yelling at the TV. I hope he gets hogtied to the back of a golf cart on Jan 20th.

Ya I'd feel letdown if he concedes

Dear everyone in this thread: every time you get nervous about Trump and his cronies flapping their stupid fucking gums, send $5 to Stacey Abrams and help flip the Senate. An influx of cash in the GA runoffs will make McConnell nervous enough to nip this shit in the bud toot sweet.

FWIW, here are the dates that the big-story states certify their election results:

Georgia (Nov 20)
Pennsylvania (Nov 23)
Michigan (Nov 23)
North Carolina (Nov 24)
Arizona (Nov 30)
Wisconsin (Dec 1)
Nevada (Dec 1)

Thank you Eric. That's very helpful.

xp to OL: just gave.

It doesn't matter that Trump doesn't have a leg to stand on, this is still a coup attempt.

otm otm otm x1000

Worth noting Biden's been speaking/responding to questions these last few minutes and basically just doing the business

Biden on McConnell refusing to recognize his win: "I think that the whole Republican Party has been put in a position, with a few notable exceptions, of being mildly intimidated by the sitting president." pic.twitter.com/aNNx0OMCms

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) November 10, 2020

"I just think it's an embarrassment ... it will not help the president's legacy" -- Biden on Trump's refusal to concede pic.twitter.com/uHu1Xswj6v

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) November 10, 2020

I'd feel letdown if he concedes

I would welcome such a letdown. I have better things to move on to than whatever Trump thinks, feels, demands, or suffers. Just GET OUT, already.

I'm generally as nervous as nellies get, but all of the shit these fuck-os have been pulling over the past week has just made me angry. It's a dude with no gun who keeps sidling up and threatening to shoot you. Fearmongering with nothing to back it up. Just the same textbook bullying tactics we've seen at play for years now but now coming from a lame duck administration. And they seem to be working! TELL THE FASCIST COSPLAYERS TO FUCK OFF

Also re Eric's list, votes have to be reported earlier than certification as well. For instance, Nevada has to finish Tuesday; the Clark County registrar said today that they may be running up against the deadline at midnight but they'll make it -- they've processed all mail votes, and it's just a matter of provisionals and cures.

I'm sorry, not Tuesday, THURSDAY for Nevada, so a couple more days.

Loath as I am to quote this fucker, I flagged this:

If there is a value proposition to the Biden administration, as this presser makes clear, it is that he declines at every turn to reinforce your hysteria.

— Noah Rothman (@NoahCRothman) November 10, 2020

Does that Georgia certification date include the inevitable recount?

Does that Georgia certification date include the inevitable recount?

The certification date would be set by state law, so I'd say 'yes, unless the law is changed prior to Nov.20.'

the wizard of Georgia just flicked his wand and changed it

In PA

New: latest Philadelphia count adds over 2k votes and Biden wins them 92%-7%, pushing his statewide PA lead past 47k.

— Dave Wasserman (@Redistrict) November 10, 2020

We're well out of automatic recount territory now (0.7 > 0.5), and Biden is still on track to win PA by more than double Trump's 2016 PA margin (44,292 votes).

— Dave Wasserman (@Redistrict) November 10, 2020

i lold

I shouldn’t be laughing but holy shit I’m laughing so hard pic.twitter.com/CvBLVGZndo

— C.A. Pinkham (@EyePatchGuy) November 10, 2020

Ummmmm somebody come look at this pic.twitter.com/bDzZpkaU1z

— philip lewis (@Phil_Lewis_) November 10, 2020

I'm the black gay guy drummer for Gay Dad

It doesn't matter that Trump doesn't have a leg to stand on, this is still a coup attempt.

Trump has never had a leg to stand on in any of his own enterprises, since he stopped slumlording for his daddy's apartment buildings. His grand, classy real estate? Tacky bullshit. His vaunted dealmaking? Fictional. His university? Fraudulent. His mail-order steaks? Blister-packed crap. His entire football league? An incompetent shambles. His airline? Overleveraged from the start and never profitable. His film acting? Incompetent. His TV stardom? Pieced together with endless editing. He went bankrupt running casinos in Atlantic City, after being refused a casino in Sydney due to his fraudulence and organised crime connections.

All he has ever had is bluster, and the stamina to keep blustering until he reached enough marks to go along with his idiocy. He's blustering now, and as usual he's finding some people to go along with it conceptually. But for the last four years he's had a lot of people willing to actually carry out his dumbest ideas for the chance to ride alongside power for a little while; almost nobody who has the ability to leverage power is pretending to buy his shit anymore. (And those that do, like Meadows and Bossie, are dropping to the 'vid.)


Hell, even NPR referred to it as the "still disputed election" just this morning, which is irresponsible at best

NPR radio news has been carrying water for him via both-sides-ism during the entire admin. It's worse than useless as an information source.

Feels like NYT is missing a big opportunity here to package this existential dread about Trump staying on in the form of, I dunno, maybe a needle of some type?

sic otm re: NPR, such infuriating garbage

I'm doing my best to reassure y'all. Getting in our heads is what these fuckos do best.

This is the majority of my FB comments on friends' posts today. Level-headed lefties doing a lot of work today.