The GOP and it’s voters have fooled themselves and hope to do the same to the rest of us.
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Such a peculiar group of zealots. “I think in America you have the right to challenge something if you think there’s improprieties, no matter what side,” one of them says. Why do they think there are improprieties? There was no evidence of it at all. Only Trump hollering about “cheating” for the months leading into the 2020 election. That’s it. That’s all they have to go on.
And Michael Magnanti saying that what the fake electors did in 2020 was treasonous. Treasonous! And yet…as @txlawyer points out, he remains the chair of his county’s republican coven, and he’s still voting for Trump. Despite what he himself describes as “treason”.
A peculiar bunch. I won’t ever understand them in a million years.
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Feelings are not evidence. One needs conclusive evidence that would change the outcome of the election. But Ok, if your Republican candidate for the House wins but Trump loses then what happens?
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Racial grievance and misogyny channeled by propaganda into voting for the interests of corporations and the 1%.
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I’m very interested to see whether Joe Biden or Kamala Harris tries to block the peaceful transfer of power.
Maybe Buttigieg is involved.
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…designed to desecrate every person, institution, and value in the most extreme way…
It’s the political equivalent of a quadratic equation, which is also something I’ll never understand.
That happened in 2020. It would seemingly require the logical equivalent of building the George Washington Bridge to not link one to the other, but they just skip that part and swim right to Fort Lee.
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It begins. I’m just gonna tune these articles out. Nothing you or I can do about what we already know would happen. On that note, there are people in the Biden Administration and the Harris Campaign (i.e. Marc Elias) that are far more knowledgable than most of us about what’s going on and what to do about it. I’m guessing they gamed it all out long ago, so nothing is a surprise or catching anyone flat footed. Indeed, much of it sounds very familiar. Getting anxious or wringing our hands over this accomplishes nothing.
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If you are primed to cheat then ask yourself who are you actually representing other than yourself?
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I want a bumper sticker that says, “Fuck your grievances.”
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I believe researchers at the CDC have identified the particular strain of the e-coli outbreak…
Elie Mystal thinks trump and MAGA Mike’s “little secret” plan is to convince states with Republican legislatures where Biden won to refuse to certify their electors, so that trump doesn’t even have to get to 270 in order to win a majority of the electoral college.
Okay, sure but it won’t work because legislatures don’t certify electors. In Georgia, Brad Raffensperger certifies the election, the winning electors vote, and Brian Kemp signs and sends the certificates of ascertainment. And any dispute over who won a state’s electors would go to federal court on an expedited basis to certify the correct slate by a panel of three judges. So once again, the “little secret” is a plan that’s guaranteed to fail.
And as much as Elie worries about SCOTUS playing along with the delay game, Congress has its own unilateral authority to wait out SCOTUS and reject any bullshit outcomes. If Dems hold the House – which seems pretty likely, odds of the Senate slimmer but far not at all hopeless – Speaker Jeffries can gavel the House out of session on January 6 until the litigation is resolved. That makes him Acting President on January 20. And even then, Congress isn’t obligated to agree with SCOTUS’s determination. If SCOTUS decides that trump gets California’s electoral votes, Congress can still reject those electors and accept instead the certificate Gavin Newsom sent in.
I like Elie, but he – like trump – hasn’t thought this all the way through.
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OT, but it looks like trumpty dumpty had a great fall today… Maybe Elon was pissed that PravdaSocial’s capitalization had briefly eclipsed Xitter’s and sold off some holdings.
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It was trading at $12-13 a month ago. And in January, it jumped from $17 to $53 in a two-week period. If you look at the spikes and dives of this stock over 2024, it looks…fishy.
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I refuse to believe trump would be party to something so unsavory.
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Trump is to unsavory as Ted Cruz is to cringe
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