The only remedy for this blatantly authoritarian behavior is for voters to turn out for Biden-Harris in such overwhelming numbers that Trump & the GOP can't steal the election. https://t.co/hVdMMsbUgq
— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) September 23, 2020
When Trump talks about "fake ballots", he's really talking about Americans he doesn't think should vote. https://t.co/Kk290XNA6r
— Patrick Chovanec (@prchovanec) September 21, 2020
Mitch McConnell & Senate Republicans have been blocking coronavirus relief bill passed by House for 129 days but vowing to confirm Trump justice 43 days before Nov 3
— Ari Berman (@AriBerman) September 21, 2020
New @QuinnipiacPoll finds that "just 30 percent of likely voters think the country will know the winner of the presidential election on Election Night, while 63 percent say they think we will not know." Glad this realization is sinking in with voters.
— Cameron Joseph (@cam_joseph) September 23, 2020
U.S. warns 'foreign actors' aim to sow doubts over mail-in voting https://t.co/DmdrYSW69X pic.twitter.com/WWjTghblC4
— Reuters (@Reuters) September 23, 2020
We can’t let 2016 repeat itself. There’s simply too much on the line for anyone to sit this election out.
Get registered to vote today: https://t.co/eoxT07d7QB#NationalVoterRegistrationDay pic.twitter.com/teVRgVxeeJ
— Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) September 23, 2020
Baud
Hillary knows of what she speaks.
japa21
You notice he expects one of the conservative justices to go against him, probably Roberts. But I think at least 2 would, Roberts and Gorsuch.
debbie
@japa21:
I like neither of them, but I don’t think Alito or Thomas would ignore the Constitution sufficiently to be of much help to Trump. There are limits.
Matt McIrvin
We may know the real winner, but not the winner that the judges and the guns support.
randy khan
Arpropos of voting, a friend who votes with great regularity checked her registration and discovered that it had gone *poof*, so if you haven’t checked your registration, check today. And, by the way, this was in New York, not in one of those states where there’s skullduggery going on.
randy khan
@debbie:
It feels funny to say this, but I have more faith in Thomas than in Alito. Thomas is a crank, but he’s a fairly principled crank. Alito is a hack.
Baud
@randy khan: I agree with this assessment.
Omnes Omnibus
@randy khan:
@Baud: As do I.
azelie
In Louisiana, the voter registration website was “down for maintenance” on National Voter Registration Day yesterday. Our Secretary of State and AG are fighting provisions to expand absentee voting.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
Florida Republicans decide this is a fine time to pick a fight with Mike Bloomberg
maybe he’ll cough up another few million to run ads about trump’s efforts to do business with Fidel.
Yutsano
@Omnes Omnibus: If it’s not 9-0 to call this complete insanity then we know the republic is officially dead. Oddly enough I think state laws might save us here. I think many have laws that officially give the electors to the popular vote winner.
different-church-lady
What’s he gonna do, murder the other three before election day?
different-church-lady
@debbie:
Has anyone checked recently?
Betty Cracker
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: Trump is really sucking up to Cuban-Americans via Twitter today. It may mean his aides can’t get him to strategically pick Barbara Lagoa (Cuban-American wingnut judge) for the SCOTUS instead of the Handmaid lady. The Handmaid lady is more “central casting” in the Trumpian sense. He’ll probably say something appalling about her when the time comes.
artem1s
I could see a situation where there has been so much early and mail in voting that the EC is out of reach for Trump as soon as the polls close in CA. Lots of east coast states will start counting mail in ballots the minute their polls close. They will be announcing early returns as soon as west coast polls close. We will probably know the outcome on election night. Trump/Barr will do their best to try to invalidate legally cast votes, but that’s going to be hard in states where the margin isn’t within the recount percent. I don’t think the GOP is going to have the gift of one state that could make the difference like FL in 2000. And the courts won’t be getting involved unless there is some reason to recount. Doesn’t mean the GOP won’t try some Brooks Brothers stand off in a bunch of swing states. But this isn’t 2016 or 2000.
And this plan to try to claim victory on Facebook before the polls have closed – that’s going to hurt Trump more than Biden. How many deplorables or Stans will believe it and then not bother to vote? I don’t see Democrats doing that.
Omnes Omnibus
@Yutsano: If that is the standard, we may as well pack it in. But I don’t think it is, and I think that there is a lot of bluster on Trump’s team that would be silenced by a big asskicking in the election.
different-church-lady
@artem1s:
From what I heard, it’s scheduled for midnight, so everything in the lower 48 should be closed by then.
SiubhanDuinne
Such a pity the Babylon Bee is a satirical site. This would be a fucking awesome story if only it weren’t fake news. The photo is wonderful.
https://babylonbee.com/news/nfl-to-adorn-all-uniforms-with-lace-doilies-in-to-honor-rbg
Baud
@artem1s: My hope is that FL gets called by 11, so we can call it a night. I recognize that’s not likely to happen.
opiejeanne
I want someone sane to tell me what an unsolicited ballot is.
Barbara
@randy khan: Hack is being too kind. Alito has every frigging demographic and socio-economic advantage a person can have in the world and with all that, his world vision seems positively apocalyptic.
Matt McIrvin
@debbie: The person I am most certain would go along with any scheme to anoint Trump as King is Alito. Anything for the Party.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Betty Cracker: I would bet his taste for pandering and theatrics make him lean toward Lagoa– which I would think is politically the smarter move, but I’m hearing that McConnell and Pence really want ACB, and twitter sages are saying she would help him in the mid-west. I’d think trump already has the midwesterners who think Pope Francis is a hippie.
Matt McIrvin
@artem1s:
The most likely case is that they’ll be trying to work Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin at once. And the real vote won’t actually be that close in any of those states–it could just be looking good for Trump on Election Night, because they process mail ballots late.
FelonyGovt
Don’t know If anyone has posted this, but Naomi Biden, Hunter’s son, posted a thread about her father.
Baud
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: I’ve never heard of this theory that voters reward or even care about judges who come from their region. To the extent voters care about judges, they care about ideology.
Martin
@opiejeanne: Every ballot in Washington state. It’s now GOP orthodoxy that asking permission to have a ballot is a requirement. Sending every registered voter a ballot is presumably now fraudulent by their reasoning.
David ? ☘The Establishment☘? Koch
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: Targeting a high profile Jew with government persecution right before a Florida election is brilliant! Oh wait…
Omnes Omnibus
@FelonyGovt: Naomi is Hunter’s son?
Aleta
Jay
Louisville,…..
Seattle,
Kent
Apparently he can hold his nose and nominate a woman (Betsy DeVoss) or a minority (Ben Carson) but to do both at the same time is just a step too far for Trump. And no, Mrs. Mitch McConnell doesn’t count. That was pure nepotism.
Enhanced Voting Techniques
Sounds like Trump wants to tossed the popular vote and have the SCTUS back it, so thank god the idiot telegraphed his dick move yet again so our side can counter it.
patrick II
Axios:
He will be inspecting for disloyalty. Members of the intelligence community had better be quiet about any Russian incursions into our election structure.
Baud
@Kent: I actually don’t think the issue here is Trump’s racism or sexism. The white judge is simply better well known in wingnut circles and is considered more a reliable vote.
FelonyGovt
@Omnes Omnibus: Yes, Hunter’s son.
opiejeanne
@SiubhanDuinne: Is the Babylon Bee located in SF? Because there was a long-running musical revue called Beach Blanket Babylon (SF has been called Babylon by the Sea), updated weekly, that satirized local and state politics, as well as national politics.
I wanted to go but I never got to during the 9 years we lived in the SF Bay area, and I missed out on Finocchio’s before it closed.
Marcopolo
Updating a comment I made down a few threads that MO’s 1st Lady was COVID + & why I am proud to be a mask wearing D:
Missouri governor, opponent of mandatory masks, has COVID-19
As the article states, this needs to be verified by a swab test but I am feeling some schadenfreude right now.
Kent
@Baud: So he’s torn between making a corrupt appointment for money, or a corrupt appointment for votes. And, because it’s Trump the money is what wins.
Jay
Portland,
Portland Parks denied the Nazi’s a permit for their Trumpfest and Riot.
Gettysburg
<blockquote class=”twitter-tweet”><p lang=”en” dir=”ltr”>Democratic rally canceled in Gettysburg after organizers receive threat that "shots will be fired" if the event takes place. <a href=”https://t.co/pF900Zh3us”>https://t.co/pF900Zh3us</a></p>— Christopher Mathias (@letsgomathias) <a href=”https://twitter.com/letsgomathias/status/1308511922367721472?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw”>September 22, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src=”https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js” charset=”utf-8″></script>
Omnes Omnibus
@FelonyGovt: Named Naomi?
FelonyGovt
@Enhanced Voting Techniques: Thank heavens he’s stupid enough to say in advance what stupid illegal corrupt thing he’s intending to do.
Marcopolo
@debbie: I take it you do not remember the way the 2000 election ended all that well.
Kent
@FelonyGovt:
Daughter: https://www.marieclaire.com/politics/a33645598/naomi-biden-joe-bidens-granddaughter/
FelonyGovt
@Omnes Omnibus: Yes, apparently she was named after the deceased sister.
opiejeanne
@Martin: Thank you, and that’s ridiculous. It won’t wash with Rs in Washington State, because that’s almost the only way to vote here: by mail. I have heard that there is a place to vote in person if you have some sort of disability, but I can’t imagine what that would be that would make it easier to travel to a building somewhere rather than fill out a ballot and drop it in the mail.
On that note, we didn’t get any mail yesterday or Monday. I need to go check the mailbox for today’s delivery.
randy khan
@artem1s:
This seems like a reasonable scenario to me. Most people don’t understand that a close vote in percentage terms is not necessarily a close vote in actual votes. If there are 2,000,000 votes and the margin is 50.5-49.5, that’s a margin of 20,000 votes, and there’s basically no chance a recount would change anything.
randy khan
@Barbara:
Well, I could have described him as “like a late-term Scalia from the first day he was on the court,” but that might have been unfair to Scalia.
Toldyouso
Excellent messaging indeed. I hope (and assume) that this is being coordinated through the Biden campaign because it will demonstrate that D leadership is properly focused.
Hope this keeps up.
Enhanced Voting Techniques
@FelonyGovt: I suppose if Trump could think passed the next five minutes he would be strolling to a re-election. But this is what, his fourth attempt to fix for the 2020 Trump has tried this year alone?
I noticed that the post office delivered my mail last sunday, so I suppose that stunt failed.
MattF
Trump has to be able to claim that he won— being a loser is absolutely unthinkable for a narcissist. Getting SCOTUS to go along with that claim is another matter. Yes, it’s very dangerous in the circle of Hell we’ve landed in, but the way out is through.
Omnes Omnibus
@FelonyGovt: Then wouldn’t she be a daughter?
Barbara
@randy khan: Yeah. Like Scalia became — like he spends all of his free time reading the Book of Revelations as updated by Fox News for the modern world.
Jay
opiejeanne
@patrick II: It’s become the Augean stables, so many horseshit appointments.
Kent
The various in-person voting sites are also accessible for people like blind voters who can’t necessarily vote privately using a paper mail-in ballot, they would need to rely on a 3rd person to fill it out. Also disabled people with motor skills issues who need a computer to do the ballot.
And they also have provisional ballots for last minute voters who didn’t get their mail-in ballot and waited until the very last minute to do something about it.
debbie
@Matt McIrvin:
I must have missed something. Has he been speaking outside of the court or is this based on his pursed lips bullshit at Obama’s SOTU?
opiejeanne
@Jay: what were you trying to link to under the word Gettysburg?
debbie
@Marcopolo:
Of course I remember. I’ve also read the Court since regrets its involvement in it.
opiejeanne
@Kent: Oh duh! I should have figured on blind people having a problem with mail-in ballots.
opiejeanne
@debbie: Well, that court did, but maybe not this court. Ugh.
SiubhanDuinne
@opiejeanne:
As far as I know, it exists only on the Internet. Have no idea where its principal writers are located — probably (like this place, and Wonkette, frex) scattered all over the place. But I’m just guessing.
Kent
@opiejeanne: Also various disabilities that prevent one from holding a pen and inking-in choices. I expect most such disabled voters just have someone fill it out for them but they have the RIGHT to vote in private if they want and the state accommodates with accessible in-person voting sites.
WaterGirl
@azelie: What a coincidence!
SiubhanDuinne
@FelonyGovt:
The issue isn’t what her name is or whom she was named for — it’s that your first post referred to her as Hunter Biden’s son. Some of us, even in a time of increased acceptance of gender fluidity, were a bit befuddled. It’s not a big deal.
WaterGirl
@Yutsano: Hopefully some enterprising journalist – I think we still have over a dozen! – is putting together a list of the states and how those are awarded.
I hope the Biden campaign is also doing the same thing.
WaterGirl
@FelonyGovt: Wow, that’s really powerful.
cmorenc
Barr has some plan ready to go on election day to challenge and halt counting of ballots not cast in person on election day, with the challenges especially targeted at critical swing states trump/barr believe they have best chance of having at least a slight edge in early in-person vote counting. They want to create an extended post-election period with the count frozen at a snapshot where the result is slightly in their favor ir at worst too close to call. Count on dirty trick roger stone-style squads harassing election officials to muddy up the tesults further.
Marcopolo
@debbie: Of those in the majority, the only Justice I heard wishing she could do it over differently was O’Connor. Of course, she & six other Justices from the 2000 SC are no longer there. I certainly hope the election doesn’t wind up hinging on a SC decision but I have no faith in the two Justices still on the court from then or any other conservative R appointed member.
PJ
@FelonyGovt: Uh, Naomi’s twitter feed refers to her as “sister, daughter, granddaughter” – there’s no “son” in there.
WaterGirl
@Omnes Omnibus:
FelonyGovt
@SiubhanDuinne: Oh, I see. Yes, stupid error on my part. Hunter’s daughter.
FelonyGovt
@Omnes Omnibus: OK now I understand, I mistakenly referred to her as a “son”. Sorry for the confusion.
Splitting Image
@japa21:
Roberts has a fair amount in common with some of the NeverTrumpers, in that Trump’s rise has the potential to diminish his power within the reactionary movement and the Republican party.
If he undermines the the election results to keep Trump in power, then the court will be reduced to writing explanations for the decrees of God-Emperor Trump rather than having any actual power to decide what is legal and what isn’t. That will eviscerate the power of one John G. Roberts, not to mention the other reactionaries.
Roberts ought to be smart enough to understand this, and as you suggest, Gorsuch may be as well.
germy
https://thenib.com/bad-precedent/
geg6
You are unrelentingly depressing. You may or may not mean to be, but I cannot deal with you and people like you right now. I don’t pie people, but I am putting you on my “skip this person’s comments because he has nothing productive to say” list. Jesus.
debbie
@Marcopolo:
Understood.
J R in WV
@opiejeanne:
We have a remote winter cabin in AZ. If AZ sends us two absentee ballots, they will be unsolicited ballots… but this will not happen, as we have never registered to vote in AZ. We aren’t there enough to qualify.
ETA fixed the mess around “sane” to look right…
Crashman06
@geg6: Seconded.
Chris Johnson
@debbie: That’s the problem. What Trump wants and demands, here, is absolute craven servitude in the most brazen fashion. I bet he can get Kavanaugh to do it, because I bet Kavanaugh is dirty: vulnerable to blackmail.
What Trump wants is to be ‘elected’ King and go about disempowering ALL THE OTHER BRANCHES OF GOVERNMENT, most emphatically including the courts. That includes the Supreme Court, which are accustomed to see themselves as a co-equal branch. Trump is looking to fire them: turn them into courtiers.
They must surely have awareness of this, having to deal with Kavanaugh on a regular basis. It must be obvious what direction this is going.
Is Kavanaugh enough, or can Trump and the people behind him, credibly threaten the Supreme Court so severely that they will cave(anaugh) and trade away their very real power to him? To an absolute lame duck who is looking to make them responsible for overthrowing the whole electoral system of the United States?
I feel like Trump has not thought this through.
PsiFighter37
@cmorenc: I highly doubt it. Honestly, people here should know that after the last 3+ years, the absolute WORST thing that Trump and his administration are good at is planning ANYTHING at all. Their modus operandi, pure and simple, is chaos all the time. As soon as Trump starts flinging poo on Election Night, Barr will almost certainly spring into action. But the idea that the clowns in this administration have any fucking clue about how to put a plan together is a joke. TBH, it’s also why there was clearly no super-detailed collusion going on between the 2016 campaign and Russia, just Russia using a bunch of rubes and useful idiots to go along with the measure.
Now, my main concern, as I was thinking about this, was if somehow a case gets to SCOTUS about state legislatures overriding the popular vote with their own slate of electors. Given the focus on ‘textualism’, I could easily see Barrett (she will be the next justice) and Gorsuch going along with that. Alito and Uncle Clarence probably will too, because they have proven themselves to be hacks. I honestly think it may come down to Brettski, who I don’t think is going to go along with such a bullshit rationale IMO. Maybe that’s placing too much hope in him, but I cannot see the right-wingers completely flushing away their legitimacy and possibly leading the country to the brink of near-anarchy by doing such a thing.
Chris Johnson
Oh, I’m getting one, but I’m fixing to use it. Vermont is mailing everyone the ballot, and I got turned away from the town clerk’s office because I thought I could go there and early vote. It was pretty disconcerting, but when I looked into it a bit further, it checked out with what other state web pages were saying.
They’re mailing EVERYONE ballots, unsolicited, to facilitate early and absentee voting. You’re meant to vote by mail if you mean to early vote. They just started mailing them a couple days ago, they mark you as ‘having requested’ a ballot on 9/2 if you had made no request, if you haven’t got the stuff by October 15th you should ask to get it fixed, and you seal it and sign it and mail it. I imagine I’ll get my ballot in less than a week, and I don’t anticipate problems, and they can’t see how you filled it out unless they go and steam ’em all open or something: I don’t expect that, not in Vermont.
Still kind of stomach-churning, but that’s 2020 for you.
So that’s an ‘unsolicited’ ballot. Mail voting, in a state where they are sending the ballots to EVERYONE. I can keep people posted on whether this promise is kept. Then it’s up to me whether to do that or to ignore it and insist on voting in person: I’m inclined to mail it, what with the sheer drama level of all this. I have as good a chance of banking my vote via mail, in Vermont, as I have anywhere in the USA.
J R in WV
@geg6:
You may misunderstand how the pie filter works.
If you pie someone, you automatically skip their comments — BUT you always have the option to “toggle” in order to see what the specific comment you are at says — if you need to for some reason, say, to understand a later comment about the pied comment.
I find it essential to keeping my sanity when surrounded by a few crazed nut jobs… without actually leaving Balloon Juice altogether.
debbie
@Chris Johnson:
Trump has never ever thought anything through in his entire life!
Bill Arnold
@Chris Johnson:
There’s this, which is consistent with D.J. Trump having strong [leverage] over Kavanaugh, though not evidence:
Book reveals Trump effort to persuade Justice Kennedy to step aside for Kavanaugh – New book Dark Towers tells of how family coordinated charm offensive to convince ageing supreme court justice to retire (Julian Borger, Tue 4 Feb 2020)
@Chris Johnson:
MisterForkbeard
Ugh. Just ended a 10 year friendship with someone because they’re a determined “Far Leftist” who is always willing to believe the worst about Biden and Harris and wouldn’t back down even when he demonstrably posted a lie about them.
Just told him I couldn’t deal with him anymore, that he was living in a fantasy world driven by grievance and needing to be ‘pure’ and that he was driving me insane with his counterproductive and delusional insistence on this stuff. Unfriended on facebook and all.
For context, his more recent online friends that he really identifies with are people who believe that Harris wants to enslave us all and force us to fight fires and that she’s really a secret republican. Oh, and that because Dems gave republicans a small amount of time at the convention to promote a crossover vote the Dems really just hate the Left and love Republicans. Also, Biden will make Romney his SoS.
I’m hoping this snaps him out of it – I’m one of something like 5 real life friends he still has left, and I’d been financially supporting him for the past several years with small payments, etc. Probably not. Fuck ’em.
As a bonus, I told my wife this and she tells me that this guy has always creeped her out so she’s totally fine with it
EDIT: Likely a dead thread, but had to vent to someone about this. Can’t really do it with the wife in front of the kids.
Baud
@MisterForkbeard:
Good move. Sounds like your friend has bought a one way ticket to QAnonville.
Still, I’m sorry.
Jay
@opiejeanne:
Open air/masked/socially distanced Democratic Party fundraiser/rally cancelled because of threats of “there will be shooting”,…. and other threats, deemed by the local Police as “credible”,
Sloane Ranger
Trump just held a press conference where he refused to say he would accept the result of the election. Usual rant about “unsolicited ballots” and fraud. I think he is relying on the Supreme Court to save him but I don’t think it will work. I think Roberts has had it with Trump’s incompetence and stupidity and Gorsuch has shown some degree of independence.
Of course, it means there will be some delay in them achieving their policy objectives but their still young, Biden will probably only serve one term and surely Americans won’t vote for a woman of colour. Four years isn’t too long to wait.
I think the big issue will be RWNJ violence in the two months between the election and Biden’s inauguration. I don’t see Red State Governors really doing anything to stop it and Trump will be fanning the flames.
James E Powell
@debbie:
This would be like Susan Collins type regrets? Long after the fact and of no consequence?
Jay
@MisterForkbeard:
dumped a childhood friend over 20 years ago when as a result of life issues, ( divorce, arrest, short prison stint),
he went full MRA/Opus Dei Conspiracy,
With out ever dealing with his anger issues.
James E Powell
Dr. Deborah Birx – taking a page from Susan Collins’s book.
If a nation’s response to a pandemic is nightmarish, I’d expect a physician to be a bit more than “distressed.” I’d expect loud & clear statements. But, then, I’m not a physician.
Josie
I am livid. A group of Texas Republicans are petitioning the court to take away the extra week of early voting that Governor Abbott announced, saying that he does not have the authority to add to early voting days. This is such blatant voter suppression in the middle of a pandemic. It’s probably a good thing that I will never be in the same room with any of these cretins.
MisterForkbeard
@Jay:
Yeah. This is the friend of a friend whom I met at a wedding and we’ve been online gaming buddies for about 10 years. Less so recently since I had kids. He’s a sad case – has a pain-related disease and can’t really work. We supported him for a few years with regular donations, used to send him games and cookies to keep his spirits up, etc. Even offered to pay for him to get some remote schooling and certification that would let him work from home.
I’m hopeful this snaps him out of it, but he’s somewhat self-destructive, likes to mope around and has descended into the left version of QANON – which is insane but not quite as insane as actual QANON. Same insistence that he’s secretly the hero and everyone else is letting down the nation, etc.
But right, just couldn’t deal with it.
@Baud: It’s not quite QAnon, but it’s kind of close. It’s what you’d think: Every bad rumor about democrats is true, and you can’t trust them or their records and policies because they’ll lie to you all the time. He’s one of the people that was really pissed at AOC for endorsing Biden, etc.
My wife recently cut her parents off for being actual QAnon people. So I’ve got some comparisons to make in real time about who is crazier.
Rand Careaga
@MisterForkbeard:
A woman with who I used to exchange fluids back during the second Alzheimer Administration—romance didn’t enter into it, but we enjoyed taking liberties with one another’s persons—was a Sandernista four years ago; is today a full-on MAGAhead, QAnon chapter. Haven’t seen her since early in the century; have remained in loose contact via social media, but following our last testy online exchange, cordial relations between us have ceased.
CatFacts
@MisterForkbeard: If your wife says the guy has always creeped her out, she’s probably right about his character. Some friendships can’t be saved.
Jay
MisterForkbeard
@James E Powell: I wasn’t aware the covid taskforce still existed in a meaningful sense.
They never did any actual work, from what I can tell. They just existed to give Trump an opportunity to yell in front of a camera when rallies were shut down.
Jeffro
@japa21:
@debbie:
@randy khan: I think it’s a given that Alito is all-in. Thomas has nothing left to lose and can’t be relied upon. Roberts is almost certainly against this nonsense. Gorsuch would likely not go along with it, but who knows.
The really NICE thing is, it’s September 23rd and not November 2nd. As usual, trumpov’s complete inability to keep his mouth shut/plan/organize is working for us. So…let’s make it work and beat the holy hell out of him via every media outlet we can get our keyboards and phones on.
MisterForkbeard
@Rand Careaga: Fucking horseshoe theory, man.
People that were really, REALLY into Sanders four years ago seem like they’re more prone to this stuff. I think they needed a hero and a villain, and anything that validates the “Sanders was robbed in 2016 and 2020 and Democrats are terrible!” gets a large amount of credibility.
Therefore: QAnon and the persistent but parallel conspiracy theories about Biden, ‘dementia’ and everything else.
Soprano2
Haha, the “Just practice personal responsibility and everything with COVID will be fine” Governor Parson and his wife got COVID. I hope they get really sick and become long haulers. I know that’s mean but don’t care. He’s been awful on COVID, serves him right.
MisterForkbeard
@CatFacts: It’s probably for the best. The person we met through tossed this guy out about 6 years ago and said “I can’t tell you exactly what went down, but I wouldn’t associate with him anymore.”
I think as best as we could determine, he’s one of those guys with no filter on emoting and did something well-intentioned but creepy with a female co-worker. Never had any complaints with him after that, but he lost some friends over it.
He also confessed to me once that he had a little bit of a crush on my wife. So yeah, I think better that this is over with short of some kind of abject apology which won’t be forthcoming.
Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes
@patrick II:
Souza is a raging psychopath.
Jeffro
@PsiFighter37: I can see Kavanaugh going along with whatever is requested by the orange moron, but hold out a little hope that Gorsuch might say, “enough”.
I also don’t care. All these schemes are just that – schemes to deny Americans their clear choice of president. We will be rid of this clown. Trumpistas are not the only ones willing to go all-in here, not by a long shot.
Jeffro
@MisterForkbeard: Good call. Life’s too short to engage with the TCN…er, excuse me…RWNJs ;)
Jay
@CatFacts:
sometimes, it’s hard to say. Steve always creeped out my SWIMBO for 15years. In the past 5 he’s gone from being someone who creeps her out, to someone she actually likes.
She saw what he did in raising his kids to being exceptional young people.
She got to learn a lot more how he was raised.
Steve is just one of those people who’s heart and mind don’t coordinate well with the words that come out of his mouth, but he’s a solid dude. SWIMBO suddenly realized that the only move that Steve didn’t show up for, was the Covid one, and that’s because our bubble is just me and her, and the cats.
Another Scott
@Jeffro: Dunno who’s going to do what or when, but I would hope that the SCOTUS does not get involved. (Presumably any challenges would have to start in the state courts, and I’m sure those state courts would look very carefully at what happened in Florida in 2000 and what’s going on now…)
Just for fun, I looked at the Wikipedia entry on Contingent Elections:
Man, wouldn’t be fun, in an alternative universe kinda way, for Donnie’s minions to pull all this stuff and it causes a huge wave election that flips red states to blue (as far as state delegations go) so that it ultimately ends up in the new House and they vote for Biden anyway?
Muahaahaaha…
Build the wave. Don’t worry about all these hypotheticals.
Cheers,
Scott.
Jeffro
I am, as the kids say, totes down with this.
Go Blue!
WaterGirl
@MisterForkbeard: I’m sorry. Maybe (for him) that will be the rock bottom that gets his attention.
Interesting that he has always creeped out your wife.
Martin
I told you guys 4 years ago that he’d be carried out of the WH. Still standing by that.
Jay
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Martin:
Jay
Matt McIrvin
@debbie: Just that he’s historically the most partisan Justice, as opposed to ideological. A really consistent vote for whatever will benefit the Republican Party.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Martin:
trussed up like Hannibal Lecter?
Jay
Jay
Jay
@Jay:
BTW, it was only for the bullets that entered white neighbours apartments, not the ones that entered black neighbours apartments, less than half the bullets, not including the ones that killed Brianna Taylor.
Jay
Jay
Chris Johnson
Really strange to not see the phrase ‘GET RID OF THE BALLOTS’ all over Balloon Juice.
Trump actually said that. Man said, on camera:
Chris Johnson
That’s literal. I saw the video of it. His answer to ‘how will you guarantee a peaceful transfer of power’ is ‘come and get me, coppers!’
Ask him that again. Feed him more rope. He is NOT supposed to say shit like that, his tyrant license will be fuckin’ revoked, the dumbshit.
You’re not supposed to say ‘get rid of the ballots, and then there will not BE a transfer of power, there’ll be a continuation’. Like fucking hell there will be. Anyone asked the military, who swear to the Constitution, what they think about that? Just because shit-for-brains cares about nobody and nothing doesn’t mean every other fucking person in the country is as brain-damaged as he is.