rolling “Trump is gonna win” containment thread

that's a damn good sign

yah. 20,000 sounds small but recounts don't generally result in 100,000 votes.

half-expecting them to find a big box that says TRUMP VOETS in crayon with handwritten ballots written on looseleaf

Handwritten ballots on loose leaf are totally valid in my state!

Postmarked "Yesterday"

https://app.leg.wa.gov/WAC/default.aspx?cite=434-261-075

Next time there’s a special election with almost nothing on it I might write my votes out in cursive on wove with a fountain pen

Maybe I'm naive, but I'm having a REAALLLLY hard time coming up with a theory under which Trump could challenge this election at SCOTUS. Also, it would be really nice if the Wisconsin recount gets mooted by other states.

Ur a lawyer so thats reassuring

There’s always a tweet. https://t.co/H7FKgIT3Vt

— Apodyopsis (@Moyamal) November 4, 2020

I mean, don't be too reassured, bc it's not my area at all, but like what is the argument? Don't count the votes that were properly cast according to their own states' laws? That seems different than the scenarios in the recent decisions where I believe it was SCOTUS overturning a state court's decision that was in turn *rejecting* or *overturning* a state official's election decision. Still wrong, but that's not what's happening here. People have pointed to that (I think Kavanagh?) dicta about the sacred need for finality or whatever, but that was dicta. There's no basis I know of for not counting votes that were properly cast and on time. I guess if it is really down to a hair's breadth issue where the deciding votes are iffy on whether they were properly cast or something, that's different, but right now it's not looking like that yet. Don't want to be overconfident though.

Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
We are winning Pennsylvania big, but the PA Secretary of State just announced that there are “Millions of ballots left to be counted.”

This election is just ballots, ballots, ballots. Terrible.

Yeah how dare people try to vote using ballots

The argument is I did you a solid by helping to get multiple conservatives into the Supreme Court, so now you pay me back by throwing the election.

that doesn't even make sense (not that you're the one arguing it) because other Trump officials actually do things like that because if they don't, he fires them. The fuck does a lifetime appointed SCOTUS judge care about Trump now that they have the job?

Moreso, people seem to think all that Trump has to do is knock on Mr Supreme Court's door and say "I awnt a change in result" and they go "otay!", not like...him having to file a million state lawsuits.

I know the 6-3 court is going to produce some heinous results, including the decision in Wisconsin, but even they have some minimum standards, and we've seen in recent weeks even psycho conservatives aren't going to just greenlight meritless lawsuits.

but again I know that wasn't your argument so...this was just a response to the argument itself, not you.

we await silent tristero's empire

⏤O⏤▷▷

from the "rolling 'biden is gonna win' containment thread"

REMINDER TO THE REPUBLICAN STATE LEGISLATURES, YOU HAVE THE FINAL SAY OVER THE CHOOSING OF ELECTORS, NOT ANY BOARD OF ELECTIONS, SECRETARY OF STATE, GOVERNOR, OR EVEN COURT. YOU HAVE THE FINAL SAY -- ARTICLE II OF THE FED CONSTITUTION. SO, GET READY TO DO YOUR CONSTITUTIONAL DUTY

— Mark R. Levin (@marklevinshow) November 5, 2020

good. let them try to do that and see what the response is.

poor donnie 1term :(

Mark Levin is the guy who sounds exactly like Master Shake right

I used to listen to him for a few minutes here and there on the radio because he was on during my drive home and he would start off as your bog standard Reagan admin constitutional scholar/flack and devolve quickly into the most insane Alex Jones-without-the-supplements rants.

rolling "Nobody is gonna win" containment thread

Lol This reads like part of a Star Wars film opening crawl:
(via CNN)

“ Entrenched at the White House with no public events on his schedule, Trump has personally dispatched advisers to battlegrounds across the country hoping to wage legal battle in places where the margins remain tight. Despite skepticism about the efficacy of his strategy, Trump has remained intent on waging a prolonged fight, viewing it as his only option.”

lol

he's gonna make the best deal between the trade federation and naboo

Hahaha

many many xposts but I think it was treeship that previously posted the tweeted Fox News screenshots with their polls on the issues from election night. Is this for real?? I never fuck with Fox News so I'm clearly ignorant of whether this is a crazy outlier but are their own viewers this degree of not on the same page with all their crap? Or are those exit polls of voters, in which case still amazed that they're honestly reporting that most Americans want public health care, climate change action, mask mandates, stricter gun laws etc etc.

The screenshots in question (it's a thread so there's more than these 4 questions):

lol these fox news voter polls pic.twitter.com/NoiNjPiqOH

— John Whitehouse (@existentialfish) November 3, 2020

is this true, ugh

This is hard to believe: Dems didn't pick up a single state legislative chamber in 2020.

Republicans, against expectations, won the New Hampshire state Senate and the Alaska state House.

— Josh Kraushaar (@HotlineJosh) November 5, 2020

it's just...how

the republican state legislatures just spent 2 years in open warfare against their own constituents

From the voters voting for candidates

Hahahaha HAAAAA

Jay Vee, your wish just came true

https://starwarsintrocreator.kassellabs.io/#!/CMLP0f7hYvBSBqWj_Xwu

I didn't make that, BTW; I shared a screenshot on Twitter and someone ran with it.

“Remember the glorious Obama years” as your party’s raison d’etre maybe not as effective as some would hope.

xpost lol Ned just came to post a similar one from the same site

Thanks Ned. Hilarious!

yeah that was good.

really need a downfall meme or two right now too.

I've seen at least one!

My two fave comments from Twitter in response to Jay Vee's post and the resultant screencrawl:

The thing that gives it the touch of authenticity is the use of the word "dispatch". https://t.co/tKW5tmYtIx

— Alejandro José Quintana (on hiatus) 🏴🏳️ (@alejoseQB) November 5, 2020

oh wow. only thing missing the occasional all-caps thing, like LAWYERS

— Bowiesongs (@bowiesongs) November 5, 2020

The pivotal moment (bald general breaking the bad news) needs to be Arizona, obv

xp

Our man hasn’t been on tv for a while yet

at least we'll still get use of this thread in 2024, that's one positive

I’m not a vindictive or cruel person by nature but I want to see the anguish

Star Ears X: Wrath Of The Dotard

*WARS

Yoda's, sure.

lol

fake news votes trashed except in arizona and vegas and boom, 2scoops goes over the top, the dow hits 30,000, and moscow trump tower 2021, baby!

For some reason my anxiety is massively playing up that a Trump win is still possible and that the world being the hell that it is that it will actually happen. Please can I be reassured?

Philly alone is gonna push PA to Trump, much less everything else