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This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1342894
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1342894
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“If the facts are against you, argue the law. If the law is against you, argue the facts. If the law and the facts are against you, pound the table and yell like hell”
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May I suggest that SCOTUS simply declare Trump to be a Whiner and call it a day.
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whiner - a person given to excessive complaints and crying and whining. grumbler, moaner, sniveller, squawker, bellyacher, complainer, crybaby. disagreeable person, unpleasant person - a person who is not pleasant or agreeable. kvetch - (Yiddish) a constant complainer.
### Whiner - definition of whiner by The Free Dictionary
Yeah, that’s Donald Trump!
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Someone described the Trump team’s lawsuits as “tweets with a filing fee.” No facts asserted, and often no citation of a Federal or State statute or Constitution that they think is being violated. It’s all this:
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I’d just like to go on record here first…
BIDEN HAS A MANDATE!
And just to refresh the right wing memory hole - Bush claimed one in 2004, with apparently less.
https://www.mediamatters.org/george-w-bush/media-echoed-conservative-claim-bush-mandate
50.7% to 48.3%
Following President George W. Bush’s victory over Senator John Kerry in the 2004 presidential election, conservative media rushed to declare that the election was a decisive mandate for Bush’s agenda, and mainstream media outlets have followed their lead.
Their pronouncements echo Vice President Dick Cheney’s November 3 claim that “President Bush ran forthrightly on a clear agenda for this nation’s future and the nation responded by giving him a mandate.” But such pronouncements neglect important facts that suggest Bush’s narrow victory is far from a decisive endorsement of his agenda:
• With the exception of the 2000 election, Bush’s popular vote margin of about 3.6 million votes (out of approximately 115 million total votes cast) was the smallest since 1976, when then-Georgia Governor Jimmy Carter (D) defeated President Gerald R. Ford ® by about 1.7 million votes.
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All of this garbage is to demonstrate to Trump that they’re out there ‘fighting’ for him, and also to help create the narrative that the system is rigged and stealing the election from Donald. The reality his cult base is living in is NOT ours.
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As an election officer in Virginia, I see red every time Trump yells about vote-stealing, cheating, and so on. Election officers work in mixed teams during every step of the process. There are no pairs or teams composed entirely of supporters of one party - all pairs and teams are mixed. We check each other’s work for accuracy and we all welcome those checks. Let’s face it - working 16-17 hours on election day is tiring, every one of us needs someone to check our tallies, to double check our ballot counts, etc. We keep each other sharp in a friendly way, not at all accusatory. We all want a fair election for all voters. That’s our number one priority. We’ve all early voted since we can’t do so on election day, so we’ve already had our say. Our job on election day, and the rest of the week for those who continue counting mailed ballots, is to make sure that every voter has the opportunity to have their say. When idiots like Trump accuse election officers of somehow committing fraud, they are insulting thousands, perhaps millions, of citizens who believe in our system and want it to work as designed. It’s disgusting, boorish and un-American in the extreme.
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An attorney can be disbarred for filing a patently frivolous lawsuit, not that anyone should expect any of Trump’s lawyers to let that deter them from doing just that. Regardless of the ineffectiveness of these lawsuits to impact the ultimate outcome of the election, these actions can serve as a rationale for those who are angry and/or disappointed by the election of Joe Biden to simply deny that he is, in fact, the President and can exercise the power and authority of that office. I expect that Mitch McConnell and the rest of the republican senators will take that position and simply refuse to even conduct hearings to consider any judicial nominees or others (perhaps even cabinet members) Biden nominates.
The mere fact that Trump has occupied the White House for four long years is an insult, not just to millions of Americans, but to the entire world. Those people who still support this travesty need to examine their motives and their mental health.
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