We have zero proof that Trump actually won PA in 2016. There are no paper trails. Maybe he did, maybe he didn’t.
The trick Republicans try to use every time is heads, we win, tails, you lose. Sure, they can have the PA state legislature overturn the election with the massive paper trail. Sure, they can say that a vote doesn’t need to be counted in order to certify a slate of electors. They could do all of these things.
It will give the mouth foaming Trump base immediate satisfaction. But once you cross that line, you can never go back.
Ever.
Meanwhile, happy days are here again on the NYSE and Pfizer announced that it has very good news on the vaccine front all without being in Trump’s Warp Speed initiative.
In other words, the money is moving on without Trump.
Give it a few days and get back to us. We’ll know whether patriotism really motivates the Trump base.
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The Confluence 
Well, since we’re posting Cyndi, here’s one of my favorite AMVs. 😀
The scary part is that whatever the various motivations of Trump supporters–wealthy oligarchs, Evangelists, low-information people–the overall effect is that of a a fanatical group which sees themselves as the blessed, and their enemies, namely Democrats, as evil. This gives them what they truly believe is a right to win at any cost, and to destroy their enemies. No other consideration enters their psyches.
Once we perceive it in that way, that the Republican Party is now essentially a cult of fanatics, everything they do makes some kind of horrific sense. Biden and the Democrats could not have won fairly, it must all be a cheat and a steal. The actual facts and data are not part of this, it is simply their belief, akin to medieval fanaticism which led to torture and burning of hundreds of thousands of people for various types of alleged heresies. How could the Democrats have fixed the election? How could they win Georgia and Arizona, both run by Republicans? Why did the Democrats lose key Senate races, if they could fix the Presidential contest? There is no rational answer, but they do not deal in rationality, but in some kind of insane leaps of their perverted faith. It reminds me of dramatizations of trials in medieval times, or even the play “The Crucible,’ where every appeal to reason and decency is met with responses like,”the devil can quote scripture to his purpose.” Thus you cannot win, you cannot make cogent arguments, they are all countered by cultism and zealotry.
Republicans never lose, they either win or are cheated. They are always on a crusade for vengeance. They do it for money, and for power. They wouldn’t let Clinton govern, nor Obama, they did everything possible to prevent them from doing what presidents had always done as far as making laws and appointing jurists. And the Republicans are worse, more rigidly fanatic, now. And they have so many enablers in the media and propaganda sources, to convince tens of millions of people that Biden, like Obama and Clinton before him, is an illegitimate president. Not only will they never say he has a mandate, they will say and believe that he actually lost, and that everything he does as President is illegal, and must be thrown out by the Supreme Court, as is going to happen with Obama’s ACA. And they will wage a holy war against the infidels, and this is the rationale for more gerrymandering, which their Supreme Court has already said it will not interfere with, more vote suppression, more hearings. The idea of working with Republicans for some honorable goals, is a nice one, but it is hopelessly illusory. Because their only goal is to destroy the Democrats and make them completely politically subservient or maybe wipe them out altogether, like some modern-day Albigensian Heresy. Any words to the contrary from Republicans are just lies to obscure it. If one had the stomach for it, one could track the devolution of Lindsey Graham from a right-wing politician who occasionally did a decent thing, to a fascist, to a lying fanatic. That is where the Republican Party is now in American history.
The Confederate culture has metastasized beyond its original geographic and ethnic boundaries.