2020 US Election Thread

[Trollheart]

Originally Posted by OccultHawk

No. Really. It’s killing us here all that ****. Let’s just hope I’m wrong and pretty soon we can put this nightmare era behind us. Not even kidding. It’s been ****ing awful here.

Yeah I know man. I feel for you guys, I really do. I'm following it on CNN since before the election. Almost a soap opera here, but I know you people are living with it, and I assume in fear and dread, and I can't even think what it must be like. I keep hoping he'll just drop dead. No such luck.

Originally Posted by OccultHawk

A federal judge issued a scathing order Saturday dismissing the Trump campaign’s futile effort to block the certification of votes in Pennsylvania, shooting down claims of widespread irregularities with mail-in ballots.





This article paints it like a huge loss for Trump... I’m telling you, if you trust our Supreme Court you’re out of your goddamn mind.

I think even the SCOTUS has to operate on the basis of evidence though, doesn't it? And there's about as much evidence as there are quiet reflective guitar passages on a Merzbow record. Yeah I said it Batty: wanna fight?

If they go to the SCOTUS I think they'll just be laughed out of it. Remember, even though an Obama appointee, the judge who threw out the PA case is a lifelong Republican. Even they can't fashion a case for Trump out of anger and fairy dust...

Hey hey hey! Trumped-up charges! Surely someone has used this already? If not, I claim copyright.

[OccultHawk]

I think even the SCOTUS has to operate on the basis of evidence though, doesn't it?

They ain’t has to do ****. That’s a norm. The law is whatever they say it is.

Even they can't fashion a case for Trump out of anger and fairy dust...

Actually they can. They don’t have to be just or follow precedent or follow any sort of norm at all. It’s 100% up to them how they rule. They can wipe their ass with the evidence. They don’t have overseers. They are the overseers.

America is post-truth, post-normal - no system works without decency, norms, and sanity.

Trump has had three appointees. Three.

[Lisnaholic]

I'm a little more optimistic than you, OH, especially as I see more and more judges throwing out Trump's legal challenges. I don't exactly trust the Supreme Court, but I think, as part of the judiciary, they are going to side with the lower-court opinions and the weight of evidence -or rather the lack of evidence - that the election result should stand as it is.
As I've argued before, once appointed, a Supreme Court judge doesn't have to do what their sponsor wants; they've got the lifetime appointment, so they can make decisions with an eye on legal issues and their historical legacy, not just partisan loyalties. I think they'll be too scared to go against so much evidence and precedent suggesting the Biden win is valid.

A case in point: Remember how we were worried that one week after the election, Nov 10, the Supreme Court was going to dismantle the Affordable Care Act: that never happened did it ? For whatever reason, perhaps fear of backlash from the public, SCOTUS didn't go along with the Republicans agenda.

None the less, these are certainly nail-biting days, as we see the various Republican machinations flounder, only to be replaced by some new scam they have dreamed up.

To me, the villain of the hour is this previously obscure woman at the GSA, Emily Murphy, who has yet to sign off on Biden as the apparent winner of the election. I read that she is a principalled and consciencious soul, put in a difficult position. She has to choose: either (i) placate her lame-duck boss, delay the transition process and jeopadize the lives of thousands of Americans, or (ii) do the right thing by rubber-stamping the clear Biden victory. What a dilemma for the poor woman!!

EDIT: tldr? My post is what Trollheart said in half as many words.

[OccultHawk]

I read it.

What you might not get is this court has six Catholics.

I’m going to go full non-nuance because I don’t need any here. Calling yourself a catholic at this point is an open endorsement of of pedophilia.

That’s not the point. That’s just to point out how sick they are as human beings.

The point is abortion. They gotta get these babies born or who else are their clergy going to ****. They will do ANYTHING to overturn Roe. The possibility of Dems stacking the court and saving Roe is untenable to those weird perverts. They’re obsessed with it.

And they are 100% a political branch of the evangelical right.

And still that’s just one of Trump’s avenues.

[OccultHawk]

Emily Murphy

I know about that ****ing mountain of worthless fat. Grind that repugnant bitch into pork sausage.

[Frownland]

Originally Posted by 'The New Situation,' Der Israelit, February 2, 1933 (translated)

Hitler’s cabinet, established on Monday at midday in Berlin, weighs heavily on the minds of all German Jewry and, in fact, all those circles that view the overheated rhetoric of today’s exaggerated nationalistic race fanaticism as an obstacle to human civilization and historical progress.

We do not subscribe to the view that Herr Hitler and his friends, now finally in possession of the power they have desired for so long, will enact the proposals circulating in the Angriff or the Völkischer Beobachter newspapers; they will not suddenly divest German Jews of their constitutional rights, lock them away in race ghettos, or subject them to the avaricious and murderous impulses of the mob. They not only cannot do this because many other crucial factors hold their powers in check, ranging from the Reich president to some of the political parties affiliated with them, but they also clearly do not want to go this route, for when one acts as a European world power, the whole atmosphere is more conducive to ethical reflection upon one’s better self than to revisiting one’s earlier oppositional role: operating as a European world power means that one seeks an enduring place in the harmonious exchange of peoples of culture. And beyond that, it is clear that the powers at Wilhelmstrasse no longer see demagogic appeals designed to heat up mass gatherings of the Volk as strictly necessary. The new Prussian Minister of the Interior [Hermann Göring] can perform a far greater service to the old comrades in arms and party friends by rejuvenating the huge, state civil service along National Socialist lines than by making open concessions to the brutal manifestations of hatred of Jews.

This isn't over until Donald Trump is dead.

[The Batlord]

Originally Posted by OccultHawk

I read it.

What you might not get is this court has six Catholics.

I’m going to go full non-nuance because I don’t need any here. Calling yourself a catholic at this point is an open endorsement of of pedophilia.

That’s not the point. That’s just to point out how sick they are as human beings.

The point is abortion. They gotta get these babies born or who else are their clergy going to ****. They will do ANYTHING to overturn Roe. The possibility of Dems stacking the court and saving Roe is untenable to those weird perverts. They’re obsessed with it.

And they are 100% a political branch of the evangelical right.

And still that’s just one of Trump’s avenues.

See I know you don't think you need nuance, but you conveniently always never need nuance, almost as if all you want are simple issues you can get mad at like a Rush Limbaugh listener.

[OccultHawk]

Originally Posted by Frownland

This isn't over until Donald Trump is dead.

That’s one of the most important historical documents ever written.

[OccultHawk]

Originally Posted by The Batlord

See I know you don't think you need nuance, but you conveniently always never need nuance, almost as if all you want are simple issues you can get mad at like a Rush Limbaugh listener.

I think it’s convenient how nuance is always used to water **** down.

[Lisnaholic]

Originally Posted by OccultHawk

I read it.

What you might not get is this court has six Catholics.

I’m going to go full non-nuance because I don’t need any here. Calling yourself a catholic at this point is an open endorsement of of pedophilia.

That’s not the point. That’s just to point out how sick they are as human beings.

The point is abortion. They gotta get these babies born or who else are their clergy going to ****. They will do ANYTHING to overturn Roe. The possibility of Dems stacking the court and saving Roe is untenable to those weird perverts. They’re obsessed with it.

And they are 100% a political branch of the evangelical right.

And still that’s just one of Trump’s avenues.

Roe v Wade is a different issue than the election, of course - and yes, esp with Amy Comey Barratt, I can see SCOTUS overturning that decision. Those evangelicals and Catholics really take a hard line on abortion. Completely unjustifiable that they want to impose their morality on all American women, robbing them of their right to choose for themselves. Plus of course, cranking up the population stats with unwanted children - just what the world needs right now.

Originally Posted by OccultHawk

I know about that ****ing mountain of worthless fat. Grind that repugnant bitch into pork sausage.

I hope you don't mind that I laughed out loud at this! I don't like her either, but was surprised (in a good way) at your graphic language !