Mega-Thread: 2020 United States General Election

[Breccia]

Lack of evidence (not surprising)
Missed the deadline to file legal challenges by 7 days (not surprising)
Lacking standing as the woman behind the lawsuit isn't even registered to vote (...not surprising, either)

What's the courtroom equivalent of "being lapped"?

[Benggaul]

Man, I know we Americans have a reputation for being overly litigious but like, could these insane nutters not waste court time?

Until penalties start getting thrown around for frivolous lawsuits, expect it to continue.

[Zan15]

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/v...-biden-victory

More Republicans declaring Biden "not their president" and openly supporting Trump declaring martial law to remain in office.

When can we start removing these people from office for supporting sedition and unconstitutional action?

what is scarier her...or the way she is holding that gun....yikers

its amazing how far republicans have come since Hillary lost.....

[Edge-]

https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/...l-college-vote

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) is urging Republicans not to object during Congress’s count and certification of the Electoral College vote next month.

Alternate headline: Mitch McConnell tells Republicans to follow the fucking law.

[Benggaul]

For what crime? Elections are pretty much exclusively state-run. Trump is federal. At best he could call in the FEC to...oh wait.

Posted about it a while back but it was lost in the shuffle. The FEC quorum has finally been reinstated miraculously, so it's a functional agency again. After the fact.

[Breccia]

Nothing... but he may try.

That's the thing about arresting people. You need a charge. He can't "try" he needs a law that, as a member of the federal executive branch, they broke so he can have them arrested. We're in Yoda territory -- do or do not, there is no "try".

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Posted about it a while back but it was lost in the shuffle. The FEC quorum has finally been reinstated miraculously, so it's a functional agency again. After the fact.

Ah, you did. The walking pile of rancid feces known as the Trump Shitshow is a lot to wade through.

[Demolitia]

https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/...l-college-vote



Alternate headline: Mitch McConnell tells Republicans to follow the fucking law.

He must really be pissing his breeches then

[Breccia]

Mitch McConnell tells Republicans to follow the fucking law.

Mitch McConnell gets the same treatment as fellow intentional Trump enabler @YUPPIE including that he does not get credit for having second thoughts after Trump lost.

And, yes, the fact that he has to say this out loud in public is particularly telling. But..he didn't. I (and others) have cited enough GOP Senators...two or three...that said this was over. All Mitch had to do was join them and 51, bam, done. All he seems to be doing is trying not to lead a national embarrassment dressed like a political party.

But that ship sailed long ago. Between "very fine people" and "it's just one person coming over from China", maybe even earlier.

[Edge-]

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/w...-b1774590.html

A former Houston police captain has been arrested after running a man off the road and holding him at gunpoint in an attempt to prove his 2020 election conspiracy theories.

The incident occurred in Harris County, Texas on Tuesday when Mark Anthony Aguirre, 63, ran his SUV into the back of a truck he suspected of hiding hundreds of thousands of fraudulent ballots. When the technician pulled off the road and left his truck, Mr Aguirre allegedly pointed a handgun at the man, forced him to the ground, and put a knee on his back.

Another suspect who police have not identified took the truck to a nearby parking lot. Police arrived at the scene and arrested Mr Aguirre. The truck was filled with air conditioning parts, as the driver was a repairman.

Mr Aguirre told police he carried out the action on behalf of a group of private citizens called "Liberty Centre."

How long until these conspiracy theorists actually start killing people, because this seems like it got close between ramming a vehicle and forcing it off the road to holding a guy at gunpoint while an accomplice steals his truck and drives off.

So what are we looking at...

Reckless endangerment
Unlawful detention
Assault
Theft

Any other charges missing here?

[PhaelixWW]

Alternate headline: Mitch McConnell tells Republicans to follow the fucking law.

Alternate alternate headline: Leader of the party of law and order orders the party to follow the law.

[Breccia]

I don’t doubt he’ll try to make it happen.

At best, he can spend all day looking through laws and regulations that, somehow, they might have broken. We'll never see that part

[Omega10]

Mitch McConnell gets the same treatment as fellow intentional Trump enabler @YUPPIE including that he does not get credit for having second thoughts after Trump lost.

And, yes, the fact that he has to say this out loud in public is particularly telling. But..he didn't. I (and others) have cited enough GOP Senators...two or three...that said this was over. All Mitch had to do was join them and 51, bam, done. All he seems to be doing is trying not to lead a national embarrassment dressed like a political party.

But that ship sailed long ago. Between "very fine people" and "it's just one person coming over from China", maybe even earlier.

Mitch McConnell is starting to sound reasonable because he is in the firing line going forward. He is trying to keep himself from getting crushed by the crap that Trump supporters are throwing out. Barr, like Bolton before him, changed from Trump's trusted advisor to enemy number 1, Kemp is getting death threats, and McConnell knows he has a good chance of being targeted by the same people.

The US emphatically voted for him to be the leader of the republican party, and to co-lead the country with Biden. I suspect that he will not like this very much at all. He will age dramatically right along with Biden.

On a kind of related note, I stand by my earlier comment that Trump was muzzled. Well he was ATTEMPTED to being muzzled. It didn't take him long to double down and just add RINOs to his list of enemies. From what I can tell, McConnell is now on the RINO side.

Edit: New Article

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/polit...mX9?li=BBnb7Kz

Title: Stimulus Talks Reach Critical Moment as McConnell Says Senate is 'Not Leaving' Without COVID Deal

Excerpt:

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell warned Tuesday that there will be no Christmas vacation for lawmakers without some sort of stimulus agreement.

"As I've said repeatedly, we're not leaving here without a COVID package. Not gonna happen," the Kentucky Republican told reporters. "We're going to stay here until we get a COVID package, no matter how long it takes. We'll be here until we get a COVID package."

This is not the same McConnell from before the electoral college that did it's thing well just yesterday.

My theory is that McConnell, and others, told Trump to tone it down and concede yesterday after Biden officially got to over 270 electoral votes. Trump thought about it for a while. And now McConnell is just as much an enemy of Trump as Bolton or Barr. He has made 3 statements already that are different from what he would have done yesterday and before.

[Edge-]

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/w...-b1774627.html

And for the few pearl clutching that Democrats might not abide by all norms and that's just dreadful, McConnel just rammed through a lame-duck Federal judge appointment. You know, ignoring norms which have been that moves like voting on judges for the federal bench in the final month of soon to be ex-presidents term.

[DarkTZeratul]

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/w...-b1774627.html

And for the few pearl clutching that Democrats might not abide by all norms and that's just dreadful, McConnel just rammed through a lame-duck Federal judge appointment. You know, ignoring norms which have been that moves like voting on judges for the federal bench in the final month of soon to be ex-presidents term.

Mitch McConnell: "A president should not be allowed to nominate a Supreme Court Justice in an election year. The people should decide."
Also Mitch McConnell: "A president doesn't stop being president just because he's been voted out, so we should keep filling his nominations."

[Breccia]

, I stand by my earlier comment that Trump was muzzled. Well he was ATTEMPTED to being muzzled.

Trump tweeted twice more today, probably during lunch as they were both quick.

Tremendous evidence pouring in on voter fraud. There has never been anything like this in our Country!

"Which evidence?"

He didn't say and it was instantly flagged. This was was merely a retweet:

Mo Brooks: ‘Trump Won the Electoral College‘ --- I Can Be a Part of the ‘Surrender Caucus‘ or I Can Fight for Our Country

Brooks' tweet was also flagged. Probably because it's fake. Sadly for America, he is not alone.

"The president is still involved in ongoing litigation related to the election,” White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany said at a briefing on Tuesday, calling the Electoral College vote “one step in the constitutional process."

McEnany wouldn’t comment on Trump’s reaction to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Russian President Vladimir Putin congratulating Biden or whether Trump will invite Biden to the White House, and she said of the possibility of the Senate starting hearings for Biden’s nominees before the inauguration: "I think that's a hypothetical.”

Forbes reached out to every Republican in Congress after Biden clinched the Electoral College but got comment from just nine who had not previously acknowledged Biden as president-elect. Reps. Jeff Fortenberry (R-Neb.), Van Taylor (R-Tex.) and Bill Johnson (R-Ohio), and Sens. Mike Braun (R-Ind.), Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.), Rob Portman (R-Ohio), Roy Blunt (R-Mo.) and Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) all conceded the result, while Rep. Jodey Arrington (R-Tex.) refused to do so.

Tweeting that you have evidence, is not evidence. Tweeting that you don't have evidence, is admission that you're a spoiled child, a reality-denying insane person, a sore loser, or all three.

[Kathranis]

I was really hoping logical voices would prevail in the GOP after the EC vote, but I suppose there are precious few left.

Hopefully McConnell gets them in line, or at least further fractures the party in trying to do so. Moving the party as a whole in a moderate direction, or dividing it into moderates and Trumpists -- either outcome feels like a win for Democrats (violence notwithstanding).

[Edge-]

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/1...artment-445900

Education Secretary Betsy DeVos urged career employees at the Education Department on Tuesday to “be the resistance” when the Biden administration comes into power next month, according to a recording of her remarks obtained by POLITICO.

THE DEEP STATE CALL IS COMING FROM INSIDE THE WHITE HOUSE

[cubby]

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/1...artment-445900

Education Secretary Betsy DeVos urged career employees at the Education Department on Tuesday to “be the resistance” when the Biden administration comes into power next month, according to a recording of her remarks obtained by POLITICO.

THE DEEP STATE CALL IS COMING FROM INSIDE THE WHITE HOUSE

Holy deplorable batman! I'm sure they are all dying to follow a billionaire idiot who is only out to screw people and further enrich herself (reminder to all: Betsy DeVos, Secretary of Education, owns a student loan debt collection service).

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Traitor-in-Chief calling for his own party Governors and SecState to be jailed.

[Edge-]

FYI, this is Mark Anthony Aguirre, the former Houston police captain that rammed the vehicle of an air-conditioning repair guy and ran him off the road, and then held him at gunpoint while an accomplice drove the truck to a parking lot. Because they believed his truck was filled with ballots...and it was just filled with air conditioners and air conditioning equipment.

Aguirre is charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, and I assume with more charges pending.

https://news.yahoo.com/former-housto...230215098.html

[Breccia]

Betsy DeVos urged career employees at the Education Department on Tuesday to “be the resistance”

Well, that's an excuse to have them all fired.