Originally published at: Republicans Soft Launch Their 2026 Election Disinfo Campaign With California Freakout - TPM – Talking Points Memo
Big Lie 2026 Gets Underway It was already burbling up in various venues toward the end of last week, but it officially got underway over the weekend: the long-expected 2026 midterm election disinfo bonanza. At its core, the extremely predictable claim is this: That as we all watch California slowly, slowly tally its millions of…
I wonder. At what point did we start expecting election results on election day? At no point in history Has it been possible to definitively have all of the election results on election day, so I’m curious as to at what point did we start having the expectation, and why?
We’ve slowly started to unlearn that in Washington State. We all know it’s going to take time to count the votes, and that’s because we have to wait for the damn post office to deliver them all, and we have to count them. It’s work. We could count them faster, but that would cost more, and is it really worth it? Is it really worth it to get results a few days earlier if it cost millions of dollars? Those are my millions of dollars, and I’d rather they get invested in things that help people of my state, not things that just make people feel better on election day.
Anyway, I hope someone with more perspective than me can help me understand where this historical trend came from, because maybe we can start unwinding it, and start getting people to demand fair elections, not fast elections.
Good food, not fast food.
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Republicans have been pushing hand counting since 2020 - but now they don’t like it?
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They’ll troll you if you do and troll you if you don’t. None of it is sincere,
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I would not feel so all alone; everybody must get trolled.
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“And on Monday, Speaker of the House Mike Johnson opined that the election “stinks to high heaven.”
There are born Nazis and made Nazis. Trump and Hegseth, born. Johnson, made. Of course, this is a distinction without a difference.
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Its improper to call it a Scroedigger war. His cat is both alive and dead until observed. But we have been observing for twelve weeks, and the damn thing is always a war.
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“Some of these efforts are so diabolical and so far upstream it is impossible to prove,” he said. “But think everybody knows instinctively something is wrong here.”
Tell me without saying it, that you are playing hard to an audience that is beginning to have questions.
None of that is for the benefit of the public at large. They are having problems.
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Everyone knows that proper vote counting ends when Shitler goes to bed for the night.
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Just a reminder: Demonstrating his limitless magnanimity Pratt has said if he loses he will leave California. I hope the Golden State’s citizenry doesn’t drown in their tears of regret.
Here’s wishing him “Bon voyage, connard.”
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Spencer Pratt is the kind of moron that makes morons look bad, and he’s a complete jerk. Notably, his own sister hates him for some meanspirited shit he pulled on their ‘reality’ show. Why anyone voted for that skidmark is a mystery to me.
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In Colorado the results are available very quickly because as ballots come in registration and signatures are verified and the ballots are then entered into the system. This is a time consuming process that is out of the way when votes are tallied after the polls have closed so the results are not delayed to complete it.
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IS THE MOTHERFUCKER DEAD YET?!?!?
h/t Tena
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(@jamellebouie.net on Bluesky )
It’s the kind of allegation that just, instintively, get’s ‘No Billed’ by the grand jury.
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As someone pointed out on the other thread, he has a future in Idaho.
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Speaker Johnson is saving the shape shifting, interdimensional lizard people for when things get really hairy.
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I think it was in the '90s or earlu '00 when voting by paperless machines were all the rage is when the expectation of getting the results on Election Day. Pretty sure that has never happened in a national election, or statewide, but it did happen at the local level.
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I just looked him up for the first time.
Instant reaction: ‘What a punchable face!’
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I suspect there’s an identifiable date in 2016 or 2020 when it became a concern of “many people.”
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