GET OUT: US politics November 2020

If anything I'm guilty of displacement. My mom and esp my gf are worriers and I hate witnessing them constantly stressing themselves over stuff that either doesn't materialize or isn't as bad as they've built it up. I def see that same pattern on ILX and wish ppl didn't stress themselves out so much.

some of you act like Captains in WW1 trenches trying to motivate the troops to hop over the trenches into no-mans-land. which is cool, but in 2020, you're also (inadvertently) speaking to many more people who were rejected the from WWI simulation because they were deemed psychically unfit for trench warfare

Who's our Wilfred Owen

it's treesh :)

Wilfred Treed

re: "projection"...maybe there's a better term (?) but sometimes when straining to make sense of the assertive "STOP WORRYING!" posts in thee threads—when I don't in fact feel very worried, just sort of dryly observant—I wonder if the muzzlers aren't fearful of giving oxygen to their own, repressed worries.

We all gotta cope in our own ways, why not just let that happen.

i mean, i just let out *BLOODCURDLING SCREAMS* on occasion

feels good

that's why we have pillows

performative and projection are two words that inspire instant eyeroll from me in these threads. binch you can't see inside my brane

'Performative' is such an ambiguous term, too. I assume in most cases it stands for 'this is just a theatrical performance, you don't actually believe what you're saying', but that's just one layer, the other being: language deployed in such a way as to directly alter the social fabric, regardless of whether it matches available empirical data or not. If anything, Trump weds these two meanings together perfectly: he is inauthenticity personified and his every utterance wills pure, unadulterated falsehoods into existence. There's no evidence of widespread voter fraud? No matter, I will sow this seed of doubt into millions of American brains, until it becomes an incontrovertible fact through *my* words, which are the best words.

In all blunt honesty, I am just barely keeping it together most days. The 'vid shit (and mostly the fact that I won't have seen my family for at least a year) has got me severely down, I'm sleeping like absolute shit, etc. If I don't focus on what's good about the election-related stuff and let what's not good kinda slide to the periphery for the time being, I won't be getting out of bed for the foreseeable future.

Aha!

perfectly rational btw

Old Lunch or whoever else, I know I'm not a super notable or exciting presence here on ilx but I'd be happy to escape into a video game with you or any other feasible distraction like wehole etc. if you need someone to hang out with.

these are the people Biden wants to compromise with

A Wisconsin GOP state legislator has already endorsed this idea.

"You either have to toss this election out and have a whole new election, or we have our delegates to the Electoral College vote for the person they think legitimately should have won"https://t.co/kCUStGwE7F pic.twitter.com/vky7LI9HIK

— Andrew Prokop (@awprokop) November 11, 2020

he does?

that's prohibited under Wisconsin law, so good luck fucko

state legislature doesn't even pick the electors in WI

I suggest a winning $500M lottery ticket should materialize in my hands every day despite never playing the lottery.

still. SITTING POLITICIANS ARE SAYING THIS SHIT. fuck.

I hate this country.

I literally oscillate every day between thinking of ways I would like to bring never-ending pain and torment to Trump, his aides, the GOP, his followers, and thinking about the people I love and care about and how I want to keep it together for them.

I am not worried about results being overturned, I just do not enjoy living in society with delusional brain-dead idiots. I enjoy punching these people.

btw even when I picture myself fighting, I'm bad at it even in my fantasies

I suggest a winning $500M lottery ticket should materialize in my hands every day despite never playing the lottery.

― the colour out of space (is the place) (PBKR), Wednesday, November 11, 2020 12:14 PM (fifty-five seconds ago) bookmarkflaglink

You're exposing the major plot hole of my own lottery fantasies

https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/11/politics/georgia-full-state-recount-2020-presidential-race/index.html

hey why not? it's gonna result in a Biden win and it removes all talk of impropriety, so...hey, I'm for it

Pretty tight deadline to get that done by Nov. 20.

State legislatures include all kinds of idiots who say things.

they seem to feel they can finish by then per the article.

Boris Johnson referred to Trump as teh "previous President" today

IMO if Trump hasnt 'conceded' by Jan 5 (he will) all of the losing Democrat Senators should show up to be sworn in on Jan 5

cool guy: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/nyc-man-arrested-threatening-kill-sen-schumer-protesters-prosecutors-say-n1247381

Heads of state who haven't congratulated Biden on his win yet, a shortlist:

Vladimir Putin
Xi Jinping
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan
Kim Jong-un
Jair Bolsonaro
Andrés Manuel López Obrador

GA's SoS "acknowledged that the audit would be expensive and 'a heavy lift' and that election workers will be working overtime."

bill Trump

https://thehill.com/regulation/international/525285-turkeys-erdogan-congratulates-biden-on-winning-election

My bad, I was working with an older list.

Even if an elector could "vote for who they "thought legitimately should have won", aren't they Democrat electors due to Biden having carried the state??

think he was referring to the legislature planting GOP electors

None of the newly elected GOP congresspeople seem to be complaining about their elections.

That's where the Dem fraudsters failed, you see. They were unable to cover all the bases because they're just not that competent.

xxpost Think he was stating the current GOP platform which is 'reality itself must at all times be violently wrenched into that form which most benefits the GOP'.

It's virtually identical to the spoiled toddler at daycare platform of 'I want the ball, it's MINE'.

I mean, genuinely: these are people for whom all meaningful development abruptly stopped around age three.

That's where the Dem fraudsters failed, you see. They were unable to cover all the bases because they're just not that competent.

― pomenitul, Wednesday, November 11, 2020 12:33 PM (four minutes ago)

no no no, the idea is to not show your hand by getting too greedy

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The vote of the Electoral College is not the moment either Biden or Trump will legally win the presidency. All electoral votes must still be accepted as qualifying votes and then counted.

In our Constitution, this power belongs to the Congress. On January 6, 2021, the new Congress elected in November 2020 – not the current Congress – will hold a joint session of the House of Representatives and the Senate in the House Chamber.

During this session, Congress officially accepts the Electoral College votes of each state and counts them. Under ordinary circumstances, this is a ceremonial event in which the already-settled results of the November election are made official.

But let us be clear: there is nothing ceremonial about the power being exercised on this date. It is the result of this vote count, and no other, that determines who will be the next president.

Congress – not voters, not county election officials, not governors and legislatures – ultimately chooses the president. If the election is disputed, the final battle will be fought in Congress.

Just reposting this here as pretty thorough guide to all this stuff:
https://docs.google.com/document/u/0/d/1aqmM4xtwrQICCu5KldYePLf3Zk_TMzRo71wRvyPmLfk/mobilebasic?urp=gmail_link&gxids=7628

Haven't y'all heard the latest intel? Dems created phony ballots that only had the Prez race marked. Hence winning Prez and losing downballot races.

is it just majority vote rule for Congress? cos I imagine Romney, Murk, and Collins would vote "yay", as well as probably the fourth one Toomey, which would put us at least at 52 (depending what we get at runoff).

but wait, would the runoff Senators even be seated yet? cos if not, we'd probably be at a 48-48 tie.

damn, i was wondering why joe biden was the only option on the ballots i intercepted from republican voters, filled in and signed, then fraudulently submitted to election centers across the nation

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^no fuckin Imagine Dragons!

To be fair, Trump warned us this was coming. He's all-seeing, all-knowing.