Some go where angels fear to tread:
Ok, from now on, everyone needs to take elementary logic and learn how to do a simple truth table.
Let’s start with the argument that mail in ballots are “unconstitutional”. Not sure you’re going to be able to pull that off. The last part of the argument is “therefore the mail in ballots are unconstitutional”. What are the premises on which this conclusion depends? You got to think this through.
Do you say, mail in ballot voting is not in the constitution? If that’s the case, votes cast by electronic voting machines are also not in the constitution.
But the postal service is in the constitution.
I mean, how deep in the weeds do you have to go? How convoluted does this need to get?
As someone pointed out today, this is how Republicans argue. Find your desired conclusion first and work your way back. You’d get an F for confirmation bias in class.
Why not just say the mail in ballots are unconstitutional because “there are no bones in ice cream”? It will make about as much sense. The underlying argument probably is something to the effect that Donald Trump was a duly elected president in 2016 (prove that without a paper trail. You can’t. But you can absolutely prove that he is NOT a duly elected president in 2020 precisely because there is a paper trail now. That’s gotta hurt.) And because he was a first term incumbent, he is therefore entitled to a second term. That’s not a constitutional guarantee. If that were the case, then he wouldn’t have to stand for re-election after 4 years. We’d just let him roll over to the next four years. This is getting closer, isn’t it?
It’s still non-sensical but if Trump has his stubby little tentacles in your brain and is terrifying you about the big mean Democrats who are going to throw you into a communist re-educationu camp and take away all your guns, then maybe “there are no bones in ice cream therefore mail in ballots are unconstitutional” is enough for you.
But getting out of the Land of Make Believe on the planet of Wishful Thinking and back into the real world, you can’t even argue that it’s the state legislature, not the state Supreme Court, that makes the rules that we vote with because in Pennsylvania, the state legislature *did* make the rule that allowed us to vote by mail in ballots. Not only that but in spite of the slow down of the postal service, in spite of the limitations on drop boxes, in spite of the prohibition against early tabulation or pre-canvassing of the mail in ballots, in spite of segregation of all late ballots postmarked in time but received after 11/3, TRUMP. STILL. LOST. PENNSYLVANIA.
Yes, we played by Republican Calvin Ball rules, jumped over hoops, beat the the racing clock.
TRUMP. STILL. LOST.
HE. LOST.
ON 1/20/21 HE WILL BE A DULY UN-RE-ELECTED EX-PRESIDENT AND NOT PINING FOR THE FJORDS.
{{insert gif of John Cleese banging befeathered Trump doll on counter}}
Not that this will sway even one single Trump nugget. This part of their brain has been high jacked by anger and rage.
It’s not a solvable problem. It takes some sophisticated tactics to get Trump nuggets to let down their guard.
But we don’t negotiate with hostage takers.
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This is really dangerous.
Do MAGA voters really want to take this so far that someone gets hurt just because Donald Trump can’t act like a man and accept that he has lost?
Because if that shit hits the fan, they will be forever dirtied with Trump. No one will ever let them get over it. It will be a divide so wide and an act so unamerican that there will be no redemption for anyone who harms a person who is tasked with counting votes in a democracy.
And none of us will be interested or receptive to any argument you have on the matter because there isn’t one that justifies it. So save your breath.
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