Let me get this straight. The outgoing president of United States is challenging my right to vote with a mail in ballot in Allegheny county. Have I got that right?
He’s not challenging ballots in Seattle or Portland or Boulder. No, for some reason, he is SPECIFICALLY targeting Allegheny county’s mail in ballots. Mine included.
Becauuuuuuse why, exactly?? I legally applied for my ballot in April 2020, legally received my ballot on October 2, 2020, legally filled it out with a black ink pen, legally put it in the secrecy envelope, legally signed the outer envelope, legally presented my driver’s license to the elections services person at North Park Ice Rink and my legal vote was legally recorded on October 12, 2020. I was legally able to do all these things because the state legislature of PA legally passed a bill in 2019 to vote by mail and my governor legally signed that bill into law.
Now, this asshole loser is taking his losing ass out on the rest of us because he’s not man enough to concede graciously like Hillary Clinton did in 2016. The only legal ballots he recognizes are the ones his whip kissers cast. And he’s vindictive enough to want to take the whole country down so he’s never held accountable for his shitty performance.
Jeezus tap dancing Christ. He’s pathetic.
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On topic: Maybe he still thinks he can steal Pennsylvania?
Somewhat off topic: 31 years ago today, the government of East Germany gave up, and allowed its citizens to travel freely to West Berlin and West Germany. “Somewhat”, because it signaled the defeat of another authoritarian regime, so it somewhat relates to the fall of Benedict Donald.
Ugh…and I so enjoyed your vote casting post that went something like “well, that was easy!”
I should’ve known better…nothing could possibly be allowed to be simple and easy this year!
This is a very cold and calculated strategy that involves the Attorney General of the U.S. It’s not just PA, it’s every state that cost them the election. Especially Georgia, right now.
We’ve gotten too used to outrage. Using the head of a separate branch of government as though he were just another White House toady should cross some line, trigger some effective response, but so many have been crossed already without, the impeachment excepted, any.
So now Barr and McConnell and their masters are pushing these pieces forward, not too misplaced in their confidence that they will lose nothing in the attempt and gain everything if they win.
What the U.S. needs now is the attorney equivalent of the giant world wide connected brain that created the Internet, Linux and so much of today’s technology that was beyond reach twenty years ago.
But lawyers are by nature cautious and motivated by something other than altruism. It’s really too bad, because this could be one time they might shine.
Keep the faith. It’s almost over.
He had filed 50 lawsuits by late last week, and every one was thrown out, dismissed. I’m sure there are over 100 now. There’s no basis or reason, except FUNDRAISING from his closed-eyed base! And he’s going to pay his debts off with all this. Making a fortune.
I agree, it’s a scam. The Trump campaign’s “legal team” has only one attorney on it. The rest are political hacks like David Bossie.
There ARE a couple of law firms representing Trump in election lawsuits but they are reportedly “uncomfortable” doing so.
Geez, “uncomfortable” lawyers? What do they look like? Itchy? Pants too tight? I don’t know.
😂😅🤣😅😂
Nothing would surprise me.
I’m hearing a lot of silly pundits asking Trump’s advisors to make him concede “for the good of the country”.
Has Trump EVER done anything for the good of the country?
The goal and effect is to call into question the entire election system. The 70 million who wanted Trump elected, are told that they were cheated, which will lead to all sorts of acts on their part. The idea is to create a world in which their side is never wrong, never loses an election, except that it is stolen from them.
Another goal is to game the refs, whoever they are, so that the Republicans can win the next time and the time after that. Think back to your childhood on the playground at school. Let’s say you are playing a two-person game with someone, and he or she keeps complaining to the teacher that you are cheating. Eventually, the teacher will step in, act as referee, and give all the advantages to the person who has been complaining and accusing. It is almost guaranteed. “Democrats win, amid complaints that they cheated and stole votes.” Republicans thus have an excuse to not follow any of their policies. Republican voters feel legitimized i their sense of outrage. And the media reflexively feels guilty that the Democrats won, so will try to help the Republicans do better next time. That is human psychology, and it is why totalitarians hold power, and why the Republican Party, which has complained for 50 years about a liberal media, gets most of the calls in their favor, and the bending over backward to put out their propaganda and framing. Democrats must always immediately concede and never complain about any of it. Right now, as always, Democrats must be on the defensive, somehow having to prove that there were no voting irregularities, and that every single vote they got was legitimate. Republicans stole the 2016 election through vote suppression, Cambridge Analytics data shared with Russia, millions of lies spread on Facebook, and very likely tampering with the ballots, but the Democrats accepted the result, as they are always supposed to. Republicans never accept any result now.
Many Republicans have been playing dirty for a long time, not just President Trump. I want the Democratic Party to fight fair, but I also want the party to respond effectively when Republicans try to cheat. They need to shut it down.
I agree we have to count all the votes and that the President may in some cases call for a recount. That would be proper procedure, but that’s not what is going on here. The sooner we, the independents and the small percentage of Republicans that respect the Constitution see and understand that the President may be attempting a coup, the better. No harm in being prepared, if that turns out not to be true.