GET OUT: US politics November 2020

Yes one of the remarkable things about 2016 was that Trump actually alleged voter fraud IN CALIFORNIA. Because, regardless of the fact that he never could have won that state, he just couldn't stand that someone else got so many more votes than him anywhere.

Have these people not paid attention to any prior elections (where media has called winners each time) or are their brains just that devoured?

Yes and yes seems likely.

more shocking claims

https://www.facebook.com/IAmAFirstWorldProblem/posts/10100595119988718
https://www.facebook.com/IAmAFirstWorldProblem/posts/10100595107858028

looooool

murdoch smelled the stench of loserdom on these creeps a mile away. the only thing he likes less than social justice is backing a loser

about that

"The anger out there in these red states is so deep and palpabale that GOP legislators may have a difficult time seating Biden electors,” Fox News’ John Roberts casually says on air

— Igor Bobic (@igorbobic) November 11, 2020

Good thing we only need Biden electors in blue states like Georgia and PA

GOP legislators may have a difficult time seating Biden electors

No. It is very easy for them to do it in spite of that anger. They just do what they are supposed to do. It is harder to seat electors who weren't elected by the people. What Roberts means is those GOP legislators are afraid to do their job.

jobs are hard

don't make me do stuff

Roberts is a nutball

Eichenwald, on the other hand...

If @johnrobertsFox is right and red state legislatures overrule the vote by seating Trump electors when Biden won, this country will burn to the ground. We will be Belarus. America will end, and the revolt would play out in a very ugly, high-death way. https://t.co/mpos44uWnV

— Kurt "Mask Up, Vote Early" Eichenwald (@kurteichenwald) November 11, 2020

Fox has obv getting hate mail, hence the backpedaling into irrelevance.

Roberts doesn't seem aware how the choosing of electors in various states actually works

Eichenwald is hyperbolic but he's right there would be a massive uprising in any state that tried to override the vote and install Trump electors. Not just people in the streets, but local, state and community leaders at every level. I really don't think anyone wants to push that and see what happens.

oh he's absolutely right about that. it'd be ugly like we've never seen.

Twitter will be on FIRE.

delete your account!
no YOU delete YOUR account!

In Wis., Mich. and Pa. you have Democratic governors who are emphatically not going to turn out the National Guard on people protesting a stolen election.

lol @ how even this thread has already moved from "the outcome is set in stone, relax, nothing will happen" to "so here's how the protests are going to shake out"

we're talking about things that I think have a 3% chance of happening.

yeah, I was being a little flip, but it is a marked shift in tone here.

Ride the thread wave man

*starts packing a go bag*

I've got a single shot pellet gun and am slightly afraid to use it!

^^^ ILX liberalism in a nutshell

Our noting that stealing an election, however casually it is suggested by FOX News reporters that it would be easier than respecting the vote, would in fact result in mass revolt and turmoil, is simply stating the obvious consequences of what Roberts was blathering about. Fuck, I'm old and I'd be on the streets yelling my head off.

bahahahaha Alfred I love you

Oh I know what this is in response to and I'm not suggesting any of you are implying any of this will actually happen, but it's interesting to note that a week later this is even being casually discussed!

Who doesn't love Alfred? Quips like that are what keep me relatively sane.

Relatively because we are currently on week three of our entire house vibrating significantly due to neighboring construction, so I'm on a hair trigger with anxiety and stress as it is. Today we had a clock fall off the wall and books fall off the shelves it got so bad. I haven't really slept at night for the past three weeks, during the week days anyway, because my body constantly feels like it is still shaking (kinda like the feeling you get after being on a boat for a long time).

So this is why my anxiety surrounding this stuff may be being more easily led astray by the theorizing.

Tales from the Court:

THE COURT: I understand. I am asking you a specific question, and I am looking for a specific answer. Are you claiming that there is any fraud in connection with these 592 disputed ballots?

GOLDSTEIN: To my knowledge at present, no.

THE COURT: Are you claiming that there is any undue or improper influence upon the elector with respect to these 592 ballots?

GOLDSTEIN: To my knowledge at present, no.

what's the current status of this postal worker who made claims of ballot tampering story? yesterday it was said he recanted, then about an hour later I saw a video of him (from o'keefe, of course) claiming he hadn't recanted.

can't Veritas get charged with election tampering for this crap?

I love the lot of you.

Christ, that sounds genuinely awful, jon. I wish you silence and sleep.

Thanks. Having worked on a lot of construction sites in my life I had mentally prepared myself for the noise, but I never could have imagine the vibration impacts going on as long and as insistently as they have. It's some sort of foundation bracing system they are using given the limited project site, but it's not the kind of piles I'm used to seeing. Anyway, it's been GREAT to have this overlap exactly with the contentious election and the only time when the entire family is home every day due to the pandemic.

part of my panic disorder is that I can easily talk myself into something happening if I worry about it enough.

in 2017, during the "Muslim ban", when CBP was briefly not complying with court orders, I was barely able to function for a week, thinking democracy had shut down.

i also have OCD and constantly get paranoid about weird, nonsensical things. when I was 29 I convinced myself I had Parkinson's due to twitching/hand spasms I developed purely due to my anxiety. I couldn't even grip things and was taking cold medicine to stop the shaking. this was pre-medication. the medication gets most of it now, but there's some residual absurd obsessions.

Lol

https://www-businessinsider-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/www.businessinsider.com/trump-michigan-election-lawsuit-poll-watchers-social-distancing-complaints-2020-11?

I really don't think anyone wants to push that and see what happens.

― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Wednesday, November 11, 2020

anyone though?

Hey guys really, here is the new trump voter fraud hot line number: 202 499-4921. Whatever you do, don't prank call!

— Leona Lioness (@LeonaLioness6) November 11, 2020

There is no legal mechanism for the state legislature to act alone and appoint electors. None. https://t.co/IPqtVVdf4Y

— Josh Shapiro (@JoshShapiroPA) November 11, 2020

But can't some dude with a bunch of guns go into his office and say "now you listen heah mistah Josh HUSSEIN Shap-iro, these boys heah are yo new elect-ors, show them to their seats" ?

(Think of Foghorn Leghorn's voice, but picturing the southern sheriff from Live and Let Die.)

What we have heah is a failure to communicate bipartisanly.

what happened to the formerly gay midget cowboy who went to Philly?

Rudy?

every GOP insinuation of voter fraud boils down to this tiktok https://www.tiktok.com/foryou?lang=en#/@mrzesty/video/6688382598718164229

what happened to the formerly gay midget cowboy who went to Philly?

not much since his bombshell exposure that electioneering is real

except for this update two days later

did your daddy take his hat back? you’re such a big boy!

— DC (@guyatkeyboard) November 10, 2020

Yes.

— 𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐜𝐨𝐞 𝐂𝐚𝐢𝐧 (@BriscoeCain) November 10, 2020

Amazing. Just seeing this. I’m getting trolled so hard I can barely use this app.

Make no mistake, the radical left is at war with us and they mean to take advantage of our character.

— 𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐜𝐨𝐞 𝐂𝐚𝐢𝐧 (@BriscoeCain) November 9, 2020

President-elect Joe Biden has chosen longtime Washington operative Ronald A. Klain as White House chief of staff, sending an early signal that he intends to rely heavily on experience, competence and political agility after a Trump presidency that prized flashiness and personality.

Klain, 59, has been a senior adviser to Democratic presidents, vice presidents, candidates and senators. His appointment marks a homecoming of sorts, since Klain served in the late 1980s as a top aide to Biden when he was chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee and ran Biden’s office when he first became vice president.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/klain-biden-white-house/2020/11/11/3c64069a-21d3-11eb-a688-5298ad5d580a_story.html

that seems good, yeah?