11/08/2022, The Midterms, aka build on 2020 aka The Election Thread

[versusreality]

that's exactly what's happening.

"it's a rigged election" Trump claims in regards to mail in voting.

but no, it's just a rigged election because of what he is and will continue to do.

Biden needs to say: "if Trump wins, isn't it still considered rigged? " and have some sort of action to be able to back it up. I don't know what it could be. But we are in serious trouble. Trump will do whatever it takes to get away with stealing the election, just like he continues to get away with all the other bullshit he does.

[allegate]

Which is really strange considering how hard he's trying to not be president.

[Jinsai]

OH NO! Whatever will we DO if it takes TWO WEEKS to decide who rules the country for the next FOUR FUCKING YEARS.

(yes, "rule" was an intentional thing... I know the president isn't supposed to be a king... I know... I get it... but...)

[elevenism]

I remember this episode, and the moment she bites into it and then runs away screaming "that's exactly what I thought a testicle would taste like..."

Something like that. That's basically what I've been screaming inside my head silently for the past 3 and a half years. Just some kind of horrified understanding of something that you want to forget experiencing, and you know you can't.

man, you consistently express the same sense of existential dread and endless dull horror that I feel every day about all this shit.
I don't have the words for it, but you do. It actually helps me deal with it.

[ltrandazzo]

Especially b/c we might not have a clear winner for a few weeks.

Fixed that for ya.

[BRoswell]

Trumpy just plans on doing what he did for years before he became president. He's going to tangle everything up in legal proceedings to wear everyone out and hope that he get what he wants.

[allegate]

[GulDukat]

Just read that. Appalling. Steal two seats on the Supreme Court and the presidency.

[allegro]

Just read that. Appalling. Steal two seats on the Supreme Court and the presidency.

Yeah this is some scary bullshit:

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2020...pass-biden-win

[sweeterthan]

fuck any republican who goes along with this "plan". it's disgusting and un-American. what happens after that? do we even get to vote or...?

why???? why would anyone go along with this? he's a terrible president.

[Erneuert]

Which is really strange considering how hard he's trying to not be president.

[versusreality]

fuck any republican who goes along with this "plan". it's disgusting and un-American. what happens after that? do we even get to vote or...?

why???? why would anyone go along with this? he's a terrible president.

sadly and horribly, I fully expect this to happen.

[versusreality]

[allegro]

fuck any republican who goes along with this "plan". it's disgusting and un-American. what happens after that? do we even get to vote or...?

why???? why would anyone go along with this? he's a terrible president.

We would go full-blown Authoritarianism at that point.

I never thought I’d be living in something akin to 1930s Germany in my lifetime, but here we are.

[allegate]

and so quickly too. I was talking to my wife and it's something like this that you see happening and it almost has to have years of preparation behind it and it makes you want to side with conspiracy theorists on the whole "global cabal running things" idea.

Mostly joking. mostly. I mean I know it's just bad faith actors on the Republican side and Fox News but still, think about that guy who died and his daughter got his hard drives and the shit he was up to that we didn't even have a clue about.

[Wretchedest]

Anyone seen the Fox news theatrics about the hunter Biden report? Real fucking rich

[allegate]

thread from Arnold.

I can't wait to see the gymnastics from the states who say "it's complicated".

[allegro]

He says "get rid of the ballots" then there will be a "continuation of power."

We've been warned.

[versusreality]

he will do whatever it takes. we need an answer though, and I'm having a hard time finding one. what do we do in response? what CAN we do? everyone can get out and vote, but it seems like he has a way around it.

[allegate]

imagine the amount of research and chutzpah needed for these end-arounds. that's what we're up against.

[allegro]

Listen to Bernie. This is us vs. Fascism.

Here is Bernie’s full speech, it’s excellent:
https://www.c-span.org/video/?476214...power-comments

[allegro]

[allegate]

[allegro]

That isn’t funny. As awful as McConnell is, he had polio as a child and suffers from polio paralysis. I don’t laugh at stuff like that.

[allegate]

This year - and that man - have made me a more horrible person. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[allegro]

[Wretchedest]

Why didn't Hilary do it

[cdm]

That isn’t funny. As awful as McConnell is, he had polio as a child and suffers from polio paralysis. I don’t laugh at stuff like that.

Counterpoint: He's an evil person doing absolutely nothing other than pack the judicial to further "conservative values", which is to say "make lives, specifically the lives of women and minorities, appreciably worse and more difficult". Eight year old Mitch gets all my sympathy. Nearly 80 year old Mitch? Fuck him.

Edit: to take this a bit further...the GOP platform, in part, has been to invent physical ailments in order to cast the opponent as unqualified. Hillary was a cyborg. Joe's brain is rotted and oozing out of his ears. Trump says it, Fox News runs with it, and the party either says nothing or something in the form of "well I haven't seen proof that it isn't true so..." Fuck them and fuck him.

[allegro]

Early voting started in all counties except Cook in Illinois, yesterday. Lines were HUGE.

[allegro]