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wildcat09

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  1. It's exactly the same sport: SCOTUS calvinball. The Dems need to make sure this SCOTUS understands that the American people won't let them get away with it again.
  2. They didn't have incumbency in 2000 either. Edit: And my point isn't to just tell people it's all doomed. It's to get them fucking talking about the risk with people they know. Because ultimately what will make Trump judges back down is the fear of what will happen to them if they don't, and making sure they feel that fear requires that shitloads of people start talking about this and it gets covered in the media.
  3. Those already exist for members of Congress, but sure we can probably tighten them up. The only problem is that this SCOTUS will say they're unconstitutional, so I guess Dems will also need to do something to fix that.
  4. He's trying to satirize Democratic claims about Project 2025. He just sucks ass at it and it comes across as extra-stupid from a guy who posts "Civil War!" every other month.
  5. Those of you who don't think there's any serious danger posed by the GOP's plans to contest the election because they failed last time don't actually remember what happened last time. Last time, Trump simply assumed that because Republican officials were involved in administering elections in swing states, they would rig the election for him. They had no legal strategy to speak of and had to scramble with Rudy and Sidney Powell and Lin Wood to try to come up with some shit they could throw at the wall after-the-fact. That is not what will happen this time. This time, they're much better prepared and have quite literally replaced all of those people who didn't rig the election for Trump last time with people they trust to do so this time. That doesn't mean they can definitely rig it (see Js1's post noting the differences between 2020 and 2024), but the legal arguments they will make will have a much greater appearance of legitimacy and may give Trump judges enough pretext to fuck with the election and try to prevent the timely certification of the correct electors and throw it to the House. It's very much within the realm of possibility that they could fabricate enough smoke for this SCOTUS to issue an order enjoining the governors of say, Arizona and Pennsylvania from submitting electors. Just because SCOTUS refused to accept the harebrained insanity that was filed late and often in the wrong fucking courts by Trump's dipshit crew last time doesn't mean they won't try to steal the election when they think they have a more acceptable pretext for doing so. And their recent behavior makes it clear that they're more desperate to install a permanent Republican dictator now than they were in 2020, so if anything their bar for what is an acceptable pretext is likely lower this year than it was in 2020. Dems need to not just sit around and wait for this to happen. They need to go on the offensive, both in terms of a public PR campaign making clear what the GOP intends to do and in terms of FBI investigations. Because an election official refusing to certify an election without a valid basis for doing so is almost certainly a federal crime and it needs to be made very fucking clear that anyone who does not faithfully carry out their duties will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. And Democratic elected officials at the state and federal level need to speak out in a unified voice that SCOTUS doesn't have the last or only say on this.
  6. Does anyone have any faith that Merrick Garland is on top of this shit?
  7. Man, I can pretty much guarantee you a twitter bluecheck account isn't far left. That's just some guy looking to stir shit up for attention.
  8. Beto generated his own grassroots energy with his campaign. Allred could do the same, but he'd rather just do nothing and apparently also support crypto? What a stupid asshole.
  9. It can and should be said in many different ways with the focus on different aspects of Trump's character and Project 2025, but the gist of Democratic messaging should be that every Republican is a weird little creep because they're all socially maladjusted and irresponsible, and they want to push women out of public life and back into the home because the men are incapable of taking care of themselves or their families and need to be able to force women to do that for them.
  10. "They're creeps" should be next.
  11. What he actually thinks is leftist extremism is shit like paying to feed poor kids at school, but he's got enough self awareness to know how that would come across so he sticks to bothsides abstractions.
  12. Wait until you read about Vance’s connections to Mencius Moldbug.
  13. At which point SCOTUS slow walks whether to grant cert and ultimately schedules arguments for next March, and after that Joe Biden has to decide whether to carry out some official acts to protect American democracy.
  14. What a beautiful little freak this guy is. Thank fucking God for the idiot Silicon Valley bros who foisted him on Trump and may have accidentally saved American democracy.
  15. *earnestness engaged* I'm excited about the possibility that electing a Democratic trifecta may actually lead to judicial reform/expansion and passage of a new and improved voting rights act, so that we can bring America closer to the democracy we have always loved to pretend she is.
  16. If they want to fly a traitor's flag, it has to be a white flag of surrender.
  17. We're in the middle of it so it's easy to get lost in the weeds, but this is a fucking incredible economic recovery in a very short amount of time that nobody else around the world has really come close to matching. To the limited extent that executives really have influence on their economies, the Biden administration's economic stewardship might be the best the planet has ever seen.
  18. He's talking about her as if she speaks like Corrine Brown (the "Go Gata" Congresswoman). It's not hard to figure out why.
  19. I mean, it's extremely clear that it's just racism and misogyny.
  20. Manchin being extremely stupid checks out. I’m sure that rumor is true.
  21. I move for a thread title change to add "at least," because we don't know how many couches he's actually fucked.
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