GET OUT: US politics November 2020

Ridiculous

🚨BREAKING: Plaintiffs DISMISS Wisconsin lawsuit claiming election officials included illegal results in certain counties and seeking to to stop the certification of election results from these counties.

Trump and allies are now 1-24 in court.https://t.co/hyZPz3wW6A

— Marc E. Elias (@marceelias) November 16, 2020

Wow, the lawyers who filed that case voluntarily dismissed their complaint on the MORNING of oral arguments.

Live-tweet canceled. Case dismissed.https://t.co/0Ys3j9tG2F

— Adam Klasfeld (@KlasfeldReports) November 16, 2020

This is beyond performative, this is just stupid.

Vexatious, abusive lawsuits often survive and even thrive. The swift, conclusive failure of such a large number of Trump lawsuits is an outlier. Trump’s lawyers lack the savvy or staying power of the most marginal pro se litigant. Kool-aid is not the drink of legal champions.

— HATWONTHEELECTION (@Popehat) November 16, 2020

A Trump lawsuit in three parts:

1. We PROMISE we will find evidence

2. Where is the evidence?

3. Ok we're dismissing

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— Andrew Fleischman (@ASFleischman) November 16, 2020

BTW this applies to the questions upthread re if any of these useless lawyers can suffer consequences:

Here's the text of Rule 11.

These lawyers promised these suits were legitimate and that they believed evidence would arrive to support those suits. They probably were not being truthful. pic.twitter.com/B7MO4KHD3K

— Andrew Fleischman (@ASFleischman) November 16, 2020

disbar them all, IMO

yes but rumors are circulating that ivanka is breaking through to him, and he is beginning to understand that he may have lost

Save us, Ivanka, you're our only hope. You fought with my father in the clone wars.

Cue the speculation that she intends to run in his stead next time, blah blah blah ;lwakjre;oiwhg don't care.

I was wondering what would happen if he just refused to pack up and leave.

The Presidency is a role, not a building. Leave him in place surrounded by rotting hamberders, I don't care. The new President can work from any number of buildings. Truman used Blair House during WH renovations; we will still have Camp David etc. The whole thing is stupid.

Really the biggest obstacle is that idiot Emily Murphy of the GSA right now. Biden should file suit soon.

Like the idea of "wait til the lawsuits play out" is such bullshit. He can keep filing them and filing them all the way out to Dec 14, to prevent them from ever being settled

No mention here yet of Sidney Powell? MAGAworld seems to think she's got the goods to overturn the election!

The Presidency is a role, not a building. Leave him in place surrounded by rotting hamberders, I don't care. The new President can work from any number of buildings. Truman used Blair House during WH renovations; we will still have Camp David etc. The whole thing is stupid.

This, exactly, but at the same time it would be so fucking stupid to just give up the White House to him because he is stubborn and pouty. Which means there is a 65% chance of this actually happen.

Sidney Powell is just Rudy with better hair. She knows exactly as much as he does.

Which is that Trump only wants fIghTing fiGhtErs wHo fiGHt, and they are willing to step into that role.

Meanwhile, the real lawyers are noping out, because they can see there's nothing probitive there. But what Trump wants to happen is for his partisans to see that he is FIGHTING, and therefore conclude that it's not over, so that they hang on to ever-more-desperate doses of hopium.

The endgame for Powell and Giuliani is "well, at least we tried to save the republic, unlike those eeyore pansies who gave up early."

MAGAnauts will go to their graves believing Trump won but it was stolen by Dominion and by corrupt Dem judges, and by Roberts stabbing him in the back by not taking up the case and reversing the results. Sad!

Totes agree with all of this, and kudos for "ever-more-desperate doses of hopium."

https://ajc.com/education/georgia-election-recount-nears-finish-line-with-few-hiccups/C57XUV33SVGQZBWGVXI5RVM65I/

I look forward to being incredibly exhausted by the word "Dominion" within about three weeks.

"Fraud" is like "Freebird" at this point

Saw a kook arguing that Biden wrote the bill to make student loans non-dischargeable just so he'd have that as a tool to exploit later with forgiveness.

That is the ultimate 12D chess and if you believe your opponent is that crafty you should probably get on their team.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2LntQlbvu_o

Liberals are do-nothing weenies who are somehow craftsmen at stealing elections

Kinda quietly interesting. Are they just not taking up either of these cases at all or are they trying to kill them out by refusing?

A quiet orders list from the Supreme Court this morning. No new cases added to the docket, and no action on pending requests seeking the court's intervention on Pennsylvania mail-in ballots and on a Manhattan grand jury's subpoena for Trump's tax records. https://t.co/CZG8oNdw5M

— SCOTUSblog (@SCOTUSblog) November 16, 2020

That Sisters of Mercy dude looks an awful lot like Justin T in the Dick in a Box short.

From his wikipedia page-

Speculation about a new Sisters of Mercy album release was renewed in November 2016 when Eldritch was quoted by TeamRock website: "I can tell you one thing: If Donald Trump actually does become President, that will be reason enough for me to release another album. I don't think I could keep quiet if that happened."[7] As of October 2020, no new album has been released.

Honestly I would love to hear a new SoM album fueled by anger at the Trump era and the rise of neofascism.

Considering he's got quite a few songs out there that have never been formally released, it would be nice.

They should escort him into a pit and leave him there.

https://64.media.tumblr.com/dd1e07c78e1ab34d68ff22c1b337dfcc/tumblr_nwbuv3JN8Q1tl48uqo1_640.jpg

xp i gather he's completely uninterested in the whole charade of recording and releasing an album. either that or there's an amphetamine shortage.

TS: pit vs. pendulum

yes but rumors are circulating that ivanka is breaking through to him, and he is beginning to understand that he may have lost

are these like the rumors that republican senators are deeply troubled by the latest news and are considering defecting, leaving trump with no allies left

just gonna drop this here

misters of cercei

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Don't you know it's gonna be

are these like the rumors that republican senators are deeply troubled...

yes. I believe they are very much alike and equally pointless.

imo all that matters in US politics from now to mid-December is whether a stimulus bill gets put together that passes the House and Senate. I see no indication of this happening, but it matters much more than Trump does now.

Maybe too much to hope for, but it's possible Trump's pathetic Twitter posts are doing more to undermine his support than anything Biden or social media fact-checkers can do. Deluded losers tend to give off a stench after a few weeks.

My dad always hated Trump so he's not the target market, but in that he's a more conservative fellow in general he's a good sounding board, and let me tell you -- he's been more voluble about Trump being a truly pathetic figure since the election happened than I've ever heard him about any other politician under discussion in my lifetime. Just a pure disgust.

I just don't see the whining turning off any worthwhile chunk of the deluded MAGAts at this point. They genuinely believe the election has been stolen and that Trump is 100% justified in his whining.

are these like the rumors that republican senators are deeply troubled by the latest news and are considering defecting, leaving trump with no allies left

Is it possible he's becoming... increasingly isolated?

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/gsa-official-blocking-bidens-transition-privately-plans-post/story?id=74234794

what an awful human being. fuck Emily Murphy.

I can tell the Biden admin doesn't want to sue because they believe it will eventually happen anyway and they don't want to create the impression that they sued their way to victory but who the fuck cares? the right is doing exactly that right now and they're gonna believe the election was stolen, regardless.

there were assholes who thought the Obama election was stolen in 2012 ffs.

It seems to me that there's at least a small chance that, if they're ready to go while he's still in office, Trump could just spitefully have all the COVID vaccinations routed to some warehouse or perhaps a reservoir and let them spoil. That'll show us little SOBs.

It seems that if anyone is prepared to take over the presidency with a minimum of transition fuss it's a career politician who was already VP for 8 years.

Some are casting a wide net, such as hiring television agents and speaking with various law firms.

I love how the first career change choice involves hiring a TV agent and not, say, learning coding.

Learn to Chud

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/16/us/politics/trump-troop-withdrawal-afghanistan-somalia-iraq.html

I’m no fan of trump but this seems like a good thing from my limited perspective

misters of cercei

maesters of cercei also works.

This, exactly, but at the same time it would be so fucking stupid to just give up the White House to him because he is stubborn and pouty. Which means there is a 65% chance of this actually happen.

The genuinely funny part of this outcome would be all the White House staff leaving on Jan 20th, and the big boy wandering around the halls with no-one around but Bill Stepien, trying to figure out how to turn the contents of a series of catering-sized fridges into meals.

"I can tell you one thing: If Donald Trump actually does become President, that will be reason enough for me to release another album. I don't think I could keep quiet if that happened."

Sad to see that Eldritch wavered in self-belief for a minute, but at least he recovered fully.

I just don't see the whining turning off any worthwhile chunk of the deluded MAGAts at this point. They genuinely believe the election has been stolen and that Trump is 100% justified in his whining.

Deluded MAGAts are a fairly small minority of his voters (see 5,000 people showing up to the Million MAGA March on Saturday. Most of them will have been people who simply do not think about politics much, and don't follow news media or the president's tweets feverishly. Many of these folks who assumed Whoever The President Is was doing a good job, will absolutely be able to see that the non-president guy screaming about everyone in the world being unfair to him is a big crybaby loser, if they happen to notice that he's screaming. Not many people have paid attention to GWB's career as a portrait painter.

A big chunk also will have been Fox voters, not Trump voters, and while on-air anchors might be riding the Stop The Steal train, Rupert's own care obviously evaporated the second his independent decision desk called Arizona.


(His main influence in the US being cable news, not actual reporting journalism that requires people to translate type into brainworms, makes for a different genus of worm. That audience will be ready to stop caring about Trump, at all, as soon as they're told who to be mad at next. It's very unlikely that there will be a figure they can be induced to rally behind, rather than against, during The Melting Candle's remaining lifespan.)

Good ol’ Lindsey Graham

Georgia SoS Brad Raffensperger says Sen. Lindsey Graham asked him if it would be possible to toss all mail ballots in places where there were higher rates of signature mismatch. Raffensperger said he was stunned. https://t.co/Benk91yziz via @AmyEGardner pic.twitter.com/0qJb6vAJyO

— Sam Levine (@srl) November 16, 2020

we as a nation are pretty lucky that, against all odds, this georgia secretary of state has some integrity

I mean, we all know about the ladybugs, but the guy must be a real sub, subjecting himself to so much shame. I'm starting to think he gets off on it.

apparently, on a hand recount, Floyd County GA (Rome) found that they had undercounted by ~2700 votes

“there were an additional 1,643 votes for Republican President Donald Trump, 865 for Democrat President-elect Joe Biden and 16 for Libertarian Jo Jorgensen.” https://t.co/2YmgORt2PD

— stephen fowler covers Georgia's election! (@stphnfwlr) November 16, 2020

welp, we're never gonna hear the end of that as long as we live

I mean, that's no big deal, but jesus christ that is all we are going to hear for months on end now.

I mean... that's the literal purpose of a recount. Though that's a huge error for an individual county to make