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Post by Least censored on the planet! on Nov 5, 2020 6:34:59 GMT -5
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Post by Disciple of Fate on Nov 5, 2020 10:24:36 GMT -5
The Count has just gone into witness protection.
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Post by hatoflords on Nov 5, 2020 10:49:21 GMT -5
Go ahead and stop the count lmao.
Count stops. Biden wins. Bye Trumpard.
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Post by steelmage99 on Nov 5, 2020 10:50:00 GMT -5
Does he have any rational and/or reasonable arguments, as to why the count should be stopped?
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Post by Disciple of Fate on Nov 5, 2020 11:01:46 GMT -5
Technically "I might lose" is a rational argument from his point of view. That he is yelling it as he is losing, as HatofLords says, is the irrational part.
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Post by hatoflords on Nov 5, 2020 11:25:42 GMT -5
Does he have any rational and/or reasonable arguments, as to why the count should be stopped? Not really. The Trumptards are inventing inane conspiracy theories about how the election is supposed to be decided on election day and counting past that is cheating, that mail in ballots that arrive after election day should never be counted even though several of the still outstanding states allowed ballots to arrive for as much as a week after Nov. 3, and other absurdities. There's been a heavy overestimation of what Trump can do legally for a long time now. At best he could maybe litigate away a few thousand ballots here and there. None of the margins are enough thus far that litigating some ballots will change anything.
Biden only needs one more state. Nevada won't be done today but might be called. Georgia is supposed to be done today (Biden and Trump are separated by 18,000 votes) and we'll probably know by the end of Today who is going to win PA.
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Post by semipotentwalrus on Nov 5, 2020 11:35:12 GMT -5
I eagerly await the GOF deciding Biden doesn't deserve a SCOTUS pick for 2 years. Why stop there? What consequence have McConnell and others faced for their refusal to govern so far? Why not just go "no laws or cabinet members either" Acting AG Barack Obama has a nice ring to it...
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Post by hatoflords on Nov 5, 2020 11:37:49 GMT -5
Yeah, what are they going to do? Complain that Biden is doing what Trump did?
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Post by semipotentwalrus on Nov 5, 2020 11:41:26 GMT -5
Of course they are. They have the Senate, and as whembly's last reply to me proved they have no morals beyond might makes right.
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Post by adurot on Nov 5, 2020 11:45:14 GMT -5
Yeah, what are they going to do? Complain that Biden is doing what Trump did? You think they won’t?
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Post by Disciple of Fate on Nov 5, 2020 11:47:52 GMT -5
So many investigations to open! I heard an aunt of a friend of Biden's dog has a laptop with the Russian peepee tape on it! Certainly worthy of a grand FBI investigation.
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Post by semipotentwalrus on Nov 5, 2020 12:02:12 GMT -5
Well, that whole unitary executive theory stuff surely won't come back to haunt anyone, right? They can always impeach Biden if he's being naughty.
Oh, what's that? Impeachment starts in the House? Pity...
The system is broken. The Republican party took it behind a shed, raped it, shot it to death and then raped it again. When the only options for a government that won a majority of the vote is to either do nothing or play dirty the system is fucked.
And before whembly shows up to claim that "see, the Democrats WOULD do the same thing when in power!", the Democrats have a mandate from the people. The Republicans have a mandate, if you can call it that, from a technicality. Democracy is non-negotiable. Either you accept that or you will be made to accept it the same way Germany was. Democracy is, to a certain extent, built on the majority's capacity for violence. The people give up violence as a legitimate political tool in return for a guarantee of certain rights, chief of which is the understanding that the will of the majority is what should guide the nation (with certain limitations such as protections for minorities to prevent the system from killing itself). When that contract is broken, the violence of the public becomes unshackled. If the Republicans had any glimmer of understanding of the theoretical underpinning of the Second Amendment they would understand this.
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Post by Least censored on the planet! on Nov 5, 2020 12:08:45 GMT -5
Democracy is, to a certain extent, built on the majority's capacity for violence. Republicans are just convinced that they are just stronger and more efficient at inflicting violence on others, and therefore able to counter the small numerical disadvantage ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.
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Post by Disciple of Fate on Nov 5, 2020 12:10:24 GMT -5
The system is on life support, at some point it needs a serious overhaul from tyranny of the minority to protection of it. Biden winning feels like prolonging the inevitable, we will have to see how willing they are to play the same games. The Republican party took it behind a shed, raped it, shot it to death and then raped it again. Or slightly less wordy: went to Westworld.
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Post by semipotentwalrus on Nov 5, 2020 12:47:30 GMT -5
In some delicious irony of the selfawarewolves kind, the rejection of Bork really WAS one of the first clashes in this conflict. Of course, you'd have to be some kind of special nutcase to think Bork belonged anywhere near SCOTUS after the Saturday Night Massacre.
You're so close, whembly. Just one step to connect "the South flipped because of economic issues!" to "You start out in 1955 saying n***er...", just one step connecting "Nixon ordered Bork to fire Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox" to "Democrats denied Bork a SCOTUS seat". You've got almost the entire chain of logic, and you're drawing the completely opposite conclusion to reality.
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