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Biden/Harris 2020
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Because it's in God forsaken New York, the land of commie Bill De Blasio's lawlessness
I wonder why?
There's going to come a time when we're not going to be able to tell political real from political deepfake when it's really important that we know the difference.
They've given up trying to sell their corrupt values to America, and now hope they might win by deceit. But as in the "Hunter Biden laptop" scam, people are a lot better at exposing them. And it seems that Trump realizes it, having cancelled his victory party, and planning to be in the WH bunker election night.
Both the democrats and the republicans are trying to show that the other guy is senile. But the republicans have to make up fake stories about Biden, and the democrats only have to quote things that Trump actually said.
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Rick Wilson has a final plan to keep Trump from stealing the election
With Donald Trump reportedly planning on declaring victory in a national address before all the votes have been counted on Election Day, Republican campaign strategist Rick Wilson had some simple advice for Democrats and election officials at the state level: ignore the president and count all the votes because Trump will lose.
In a blunt column for the Daily Beast, Wilson — one of the principals in the anti-Trump Lincoln Project — explained one of the lessons he learned while working in the trenches over multiple campaigns, “Never, ever, ever, ever, ever concede defeat until the last dog in the fight dies. Never.”
As Wilson explained, “This is the moment of maximum stress for America, and nerves are frayed well beyond the breaking point. No one will sleep much in the next 48 hours,” before adding, “Early, mail, and absentee votes have come in a torrent, blowing past all prior records. Election day in-person turnout is modeled to also be at levels unimaginable in prior years.”
Writing he truly believes Trump doesn’t have the votes to win — based upon the massive influx of early voters standing for hours to cast their ballots — Wilson said the states, with the support of the Democrats, should just keep their heads down and do their jobs no matter what the president says.
Posing the rhetorical question, “What happens if Trump, declares victory early?” Wilson said the response should be simple.
“Fox follows his lead at once. The Trump-right media’s propaganda organs kick into high gear, blasting the joyous news to the eager horde. On Facebook, pro-Trump amplifier system of a million bad ideas, the message will be shared by everyone’s crazy uncle, and the madhouse conspiracy machines of QAnon, Alex Jones, Breitbart, Gateway Pundit, et al. will begin their work of re-educating the Republican masses,” he wrote, before adding,
“If votes are still out when Trump declares himself the false winner, the answer is simple:
‘[Redacted] you. Keep counting.'”
“It’s going to be a long day, a long night, and a long fight ahead. Trump must go, and in the years to follow, so must the pernicious doctrines of nationalist statism and authoritarianism that rest at Trumpism’s rotten core. That fight will stretch for years, as it is part of a global rescission of democratic values around the world,” he wrote. “The day will stretch as you wait, but the wait will be worth more than you can imagine. For every moment you’re tempted to say it’s too much and head home, I hope you’ll be strengthened by the knowledge that Trump is on the verge of either a humiliating defeat or a victory that will destroy this nation.”
“If your spirit flags in the last 48 hours of this march, I want you to remember a mantra that has given me comfort these many months: ‘We will vote. He will lose. He will leave,'” he added before concluding, “Make it happen. The stakes are too high to do anything less.”
With Donald Trump reportedly planning on declaring victory in a national address before all the votes have been counted on Election Day, Republican campaign strategist Rick Wilson had some simple advice for Democrats and election officials at the state level: ignore the president and count all the votes because Trump will lose.
In a blunt column for the Daily Beast, Wilson — one of the principals in the anti-Trump Lincoln Project — explained one of the lessons he learned while working in the trenches over multiple campaigns, “Never, ever, ever, ever, ever concede defeat until the last dog in the fight dies. Never.”
As Wilson explained, “This is the moment of maximum stress for America, and nerves are frayed well beyond the breaking point. No one will sleep much in the next 48 hours,” before adding, “Early, mail, and absentee votes have come in a torrent, blowing past all prior records. Election day in-person turnout is modeled to also be at levels unimaginable in prior years.”
Writing he truly believes Trump doesn’t have the votes to win — based upon the massive influx of early voters standing for hours to cast their ballots — Wilson said the states, with the support of the Democrats, should just keep their heads down and do their jobs no matter what the president says.
Posing the rhetorical question, “What happens if Trump, declares victory early?” Wilson said the response should be simple.
“Fox follows his lead at once. The Trump-right media’s propaganda organs kick into high gear, blasting the joyous news to the eager horde. On Facebook, pro-Trump amplifier system of a million bad ideas, the message will be shared by everyone’s crazy uncle, and the madhouse conspiracy machines of QAnon, Alex Jones, Breitbart, Gateway Pundit, et al. will begin their work of re-educating the Republican masses,” he wrote, before adding,
“If votes are still out when Trump declares himself the false winner, the answer is simple:
‘[Redacted] you. Keep counting.'”
“It’s going to be a long day, a long night, and a long fight ahead. Trump must go, and in the years to follow, so must the pernicious doctrines of nationalist statism and authoritarianism that rest at Trumpism’s rotten core. That fight will stretch for years, as it is part of a global rescission of democratic values around the world,” he wrote. “The day will stretch as you wait, but the wait will be worth more than you can imagine. For every moment you’re tempted to say it’s too much and head home, I hope you’ll be strengthened by the knowledge that Trump is on the verge of either a humiliating defeat or a victory that will destroy this nation.”
“If your spirit flags in the last 48 hours of this march, I want you to remember a mantra that has given me comfort these many months: ‘We will vote. He will lose. He will leave,'” he added before concluding, “Make it happen. The stakes are too high to do anything less.”
Bunker Boy defiles everyone and everything around him.
The picture is an apt metaphor for the Trump presidency.
Someone once pointed out that a dictatorship is where people fear the government, and a democracy is where the government fears the people. But few would-be dictators have feared the people the way Trump does.
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It's all going down, President Biden will take down the barricades and start the process of repairing the damage.
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Close to 1 a.m. on the West Coast...
And...
With millions of votes yet to be counted, Trump falsely asserts fraud and makes a claim of victory
And...
With millions of votes yet to be counted, Trump falsely asserts fraud and makes a claim of victory
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Robert Reich:
Trump's strategy to delegitimize the election:
1) Declare victory on partial results.
2) Sue to stop a full count.
3) Accuse Democrats of fraud.
4) Foment violence and division.
5) Rely on the Supreme Court to rule in his favor.
Trump's strategy to delegitimize the election:
1) Declare victory on partial results.
2) Sue to stop a full count.
3) Accuse Democrats of fraud.
4) Foment violence and division.
5) Rely on the Supreme Court to rule in his favor.
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Close to 1 a.m. on the West Coast...
And...
With millions of votes yet to be counted, Trump falsely asserts fraud and makes a claim of victory
AP's called Texas, Florida, etc etc
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Drudge:
Nevada says no more results until Thursday...
PA OUTCOME FRIDAY?
Software issue delaying Georgia votes...
Just keep counting the votes.
Nevada says no more results until Thursday...
PA OUTCOME FRIDAY?
Software issue delaying Georgia votes...
Just keep counting the votes.
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The Uncanniness of Watching Donald Trump Claim Premature Victory
In the early hours of Wednesday morning, President Donald Trump addressed a group of supporters in the White House to declare that he had won an election in which the votes were still being counted.* Over the weekend, Axios had reported on “Trump’s plan to declare premature victory,” so to many, this did not come as a surprise. And yet it was still something to watch a speech from a sitting president declaring that an election in the United States was over before all of the votes had been counted.
I'd say surreal, but hey.
Due to the pandemic, many Democratic voters in the potentially decisive states of Georgia, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, and Michigan cast their ballots by mail. And thanks to gerrymandered Republican state legislatures in those last three states, no accommodations were made to count those votes early. It was always expected that a big block of pro-Biden ballots would be counted in the hours and days after election night. These votes might be enough to allow Biden to claim victory, and they might not. Counting those ballots is normal procedure. It is called holding a democratic election.
In the early hours of Wednesday morning, President Donald Trump addressed a group of supporters in the White House to declare that he had won an election in which the votes were still being counted.* Over the weekend, Axios had reported on “Trump’s plan to declare premature victory,” so to many, this did not come as a surprise. And yet it was still something to watch a speech from a sitting president declaring that an election in the United States was over before all of the votes had been counted.
I'd say surreal, but hey.
Due to the pandemic, many Democratic voters in the potentially decisive states of Georgia, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, and Michigan cast their ballots by mail. And thanks to gerrymandered Republican state legislatures in those last three states, no accommodations were made to count those votes early. It was always expected that a big block of pro-Biden ballots would be counted in the hours and days after election night. These votes might be enough to allow Biden to claim victory, and they might not. Counting those ballots is normal procedure. It is called holding a democratic election.
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A number of prominent conservatives have been pushing back against President Donald Trump as he attempts to undermine the legitimacy of the election by falsely declaring victory before the ballots were counted and pledging to shut down vote tallying through the courts.
Several GOP lawmakers on Wednesday morning took aim at Trump’s evidence-free claim that there was “major fraud” in the voting process.
“Taking days to count legally cast votes is NOT fraud,” Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) tweeted.
Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) told the Salt Lake Tribune that “it’s best for everyone to step back from the spin and allow the vote counters to do their job.”
Then Sen. Rob Portman (R-OH) became the third Republican senator to speak out.
“Under our Constitution, state legislatures set the rules & states administer our elections. We should respect that process and ensure that all ballots cast in accordance with state laws are counted,” he said in a statement. “It’s that simple.”
“Stop. Full stop,” Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-IL) tweeted in response to Trump’s post. “The votes will be counted and you will either win or lose. And America will accept that.”
Ex-New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R), one of Trump’s top allies, said during an appearance on ABC News on election night, “I speak as a former U.S. Attorney, there is no basis to make the argument tonight.”
“There just isn’t,” he continued. “I disagree with what he did tonight.”
GOP strategist Karl Rove asserted on Fox News that Trump “has the bigger hand to play here, and the bigger hand to play is to have confidence in the system.”
“Nobody’s going to be able to create large numbers of fake votes and somehow submit them into the system,” he said.
Former Sen. Rick Santorum (R-PA) told CNN anchor Jake Tapper that he was “very distressed” by the President’s remarks.
“The idea of using the word ‘fraud,’ that there’s fraud being committed by people counting votes, I think is wrong,” Santorum said.
Benjamin Ginsberg, a top elections attorney for Republicans, similarly described it as a “distressing moment” for him during a CNN interview.
“What the President said tonight is not only unprecedented and it not only lacks any basis in the law, it really is a disservice to all the other men and women who are on the ballot as Republicans today,” the lawyer stated.
Several GOP lawmakers on Wednesday morning took aim at Trump’s evidence-free claim that there was “major fraud” in the voting process.
“Taking days to count legally cast votes is NOT fraud,” Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) tweeted.
Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) told the Salt Lake Tribune that “it’s best for everyone to step back from the spin and allow the vote counters to do their job.”
Then Sen. Rob Portman (R-OH) became the third Republican senator to speak out.
“Under our Constitution, state legislatures set the rules & states administer our elections. We should respect that process and ensure that all ballots cast in accordance with state laws are counted,” he said in a statement. “It’s that simple.”
“Stop. Full stop,” Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-IL) tweeted in response to Trump’s post. “The votes will be counted and you will either win or lose. And America will accept that.”
Ex-New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R), one of Trump’s top allies, said during an appearance on ABC News on election night, “I speak as a former U.S. Attorney, there is no basis to make the argument tonight.”
“There just isn’t,” he continued. “I disagree with what he did tonight.”
GOP strategist Karl Rove asserted on Fox News that Trump “has the bigger hand to play here, and the bigger hand to play is to have confidence in the system.”
“Nobody’s going to be able to create large numbers of fake votes and somehow submit them into the system,” he said.
Former Sen. Rick Santorum (R-PA) told CNN anchor Jake Tapper that he was “very distressed” by the President’s remarks.
“The idea of using the word ‘fraud,’ that there’s fraud being committed by people counting votes, I think is wrong,” Santorum said.
Benjamin Ginsberg, a top elections attorney for Republicans, similarly described it as a “distressing moment” for him during a CNN interview.
“What the President said tonight is not only unprecedented and it not only lacks any basis in the law, it really is a disservice to all the other men and women who are on the ballot as Republicans today,” the lawyer stated.
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