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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
I’m not sure that particular platitude has any relevance here. Trump already has won once, and now he’s losing. Not to mention it would take way more than one court victory to swing the election.
Edited by archonspeaks on Nov 16th 2020 at 11:27:51 AM
They should have sent a poet.Edited by MorningStar1337 on Nov 16th 2020 at 11:29:50 AM
Lobbyists dig in harder than ticks. I mean, up here in Canada we've had longstanding American-installed Lobbyists who always fight like hell if the NDP ever gains any ground federally, because "OMG Socialism!"
They had a rather massive freakout when Jack Layton was still alive due him actually having a decent shot at becoming PM at the time.
Semper Fi. Semper Paratus. Vigilo Confido.Obama addresses one of the biggest political issues of our age, aka the disinformation wave.
He told NPR that consumers must also take some responsibility in thinking critically about what they see on the internet.
When “you look at these information silos in Facebook and other social media and the rabbit holes that people are following, the denial of facts, the belief in wild conspiracy theories like Q Anon getting real traction, each of us have some responsibilities to start thinking carefully about not being so gullible and just accepting whatever it is that we’re seeing pop up on our phones,” he said in an interview published Monday.
Still, he pointed to social media in discussing the reasons for the political division that exists in 2020.
“But now partly because of social media and sort of the echo chamber, a lot of the people who voted for Donald Trump do not believe that in fact COVID was mishandled, contrary to the facts that now you or I might assert, those aren’t the facts that they accept,” he told NPR. “And I think that until we can start having a common baseline of facts from which to discuss the direction of the country, we’re going to continue to have some of these issues.”
Edited by ScubaWolf on Nov 16th 2020 at 4:02:10 AM
"In a move surprising absolutely no one"And judges could also report the lawyers' behavior to the state bar, which can then administer professional penalties that most lawyers do not want to deal with.
How many lawyers are out there who are willing to sacrifice their careers, if not their freedom, for a guy who is famous for stiffing contractors?
Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.Reporting them to the bar is one thing, but there’s nothing here any of these lawyers could be arrested for. They haven’t done anything that rises to the level of criminal contempt, and it would be difficult to articulate legally that these lawsuits are being brought on a purely frivolous basis.
Besides, there’s no need to start arresting lawyers. Dealing Trump a series of public defeats will be more damaging in the long run, and won’t make Democrats seem like sore winners.
They should have sent a poet.Repressing Trump's lawyers only helps his narrative, where everyone is trying to steal the election from him.
Him going to court will have the results of actually having to prove his claims.
His base will swallow everything he says, no matter what bullshit he shits down their throats. But, for everyone else, it is more evidence of how much full of shit he is, how despite all his claims he still got represented and how none of his claims had merit.
Him losing in the courts is only make him look like a bigger loser. He won't be able to reverse the results, he won't be able to change anything and he will look like the sore loser he is.
Edited by AngelusNox on Nov 16th 2020 at 7:07:29 AM
Inter arma enim silent legesThere's always a small chance that a judge will rule in favor of Orange Megatron, though. Especially if it was him who appointed him/her in the first place.
And I hope it doesn't happen, because if it does, Orange Megatron will feel vindicated and get closer to stealing this election. For now though I feel optimistic that he is failing for now.
"Wow, no Mega Togekiss in Legends Z-A. Or any non-Froslass new Sinnoh Mega Evolutions. Round of applause, everybody." - DawnBloomberg: Rep. Cedric Richmond (D, LA-2) will leave Congress to join Biden's administration.
No word yet on what his role is going to be. Good for him, but I'm worried about taking a crucial vote away from the House during the early months of Biden's term. (Democrats won't lose the seat, but it'll be open for a few months).
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The pressure on Raffensperger, who has bucked his party in defending the state’s voting process, comes as Georgia is in the midst of a laborious hand recount of roughly 5 million ballots. President-elect Joe Biden has a 14,000-vote lead in the initial count.
The normally mild-mannered Raffensperger saved his harshest language for U.S. Rep. Doug Collins (R-Ga.), who is leading the president's effort to prove fraud in Georgia and whom Raffensperger called a "liar" and a "charlatan."
He's even getting death threats (not from lawmakers but it's still got to be horrifying).
Edited by nova92 on Nov 16th 2020 at 2:53:43 AM

Would Biden be able to reinstate the arctic preserve's protected status?
That would then tie it up in lawsuits from companies.
Edited by tclittle on Nov 16th 2020 at 1:18:34 PM
"We're all paper, we're all scissors, we're all fightin' with our mirrors, scared we'll never find somebody to love."