Politics Thread

[GoMuskies]

Candace Owens showed up in my Twitter timeline, and I was wondering what that was all about. Sure enough.....it was a Snipe retweet! So he lives.

[paulxu]

For comic relief next year, 2 QAnon nut jobs will be roaming the halls of Congress next year.
We'll be treated with stuff like this:

“I’m very excited about that now there’s a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to take this global cabal of Satan-worshipping pedophiles out, and I think we have the president to do it,” Greene said while campaigning.

Should be exciting.

[Strange Brew]

Hold on to your hats people. Massive ballot dumps in MI and WI (all for Biden) miraculously showed up overnight.

[Xville]

For comic relief next year, 2 QAnon nut jobs will be roaming the halls of Congress next year.
We'll be treated with stuff like this:


Should be exciting.

Maybe they can hang out with the tween tantrum squad and they can all stand in a circle, yell and whine at each other.

[xubrew]

For comic relief next year, 2 QAnon nut jobs will be roaming the halls of Congress next year.
We'll be treated with stuff like this:


Should be exciting.

Does anyone else think that QAnon was manifested in the world of Anonymous?? One of the things Anonymous likes to do is to make stupid people do stupid things basically so they can just laugh at them. Is that what all this is?? I mean, it's QAnon ANON!!

[xubrew]

This is fascinating. After a 2 AM announcement that he might be cheated out of victory if states kept counting ballots after Tuesday, with thousands of mail in ballots left to be counted...he's now going to Wisconsin to get a re-count.
The Dems ought to pull a Bush, and ask the Supreme Court to stop the recount.
It worked before.

If they counted them right the first time then there shouldn't be a problem if they count them again.

[GoMuskies]

Hold on to your hats people. Massive ballot dumps in MI and WI (all for Biden) miraculously showed up overnight.

I'm not saying this is fraud (because there's a 99.9% chance it's not), but even if it was blatant fraud right out in the open most mainstream media outlets wouldn't touch it with a ten foot pole. None of that crew want anything to do with getting blamed for four more years of Trump.

[paulxu]

I'm having deja vu to 2000.
Trump now asking Supreme Court to stop counting ballots in Pennsylvania.
Blows me away of how crazy that sounds in a democracy. Stop counting votes.
When state law doesn't allow them to be counted until after the polls close.

[xubrew]

I'm not saying this is fraud (because there's a 99.9% chance it's not), but even if it was blatant fraud right out in the open most mainstream media outlets wouldn't touch it with a ten foot pole. None of that crew want anything to do with getting blamed for four more years of Trump.

I don't think it's fraud either, but I also agree that the optics of it are questionable. When you guy is ahead, and then they count the mail-in ballots and he's behind, conspiracists are gonna say "well they just waited until they knew how many votes they needed!!" Conspiracists are also gonna go nuts if their guy is ahead after most of the state is counted, then all of a sudden there is a late surge of votes from a city that's usually Democratically controlled.

Two things...

1) They should start counting mail in ballots as they arrive, or at least start opening the envelopes and assuring the validity of the ballots so they can get them all ready to run through the machines. I understand not wanting to make those results known prior to Election Day because it may influence how people behave and vote on Election Day, but they should have most of those counted and included as they initially begin to release the results of the counting process right as the polls close. There is no reason to argue against this unless one side is trying to complicate the counting process just so they can make it easier to question.

2) If you've ever lived and tried to vote in a densely populated area such as an inner city, you know that voting sucks. The equipment is typically older and outdated, the lines are much longer, there is way less staff, and there are way fewer physical voting booths to vote at. It's going to take people in these places longer to vote, and it's going to take the counters longer to count them. Most of these people vote Democratic, which is why you sometimes see these late surges that can be head scratching. My suggestion? Try and give them the same staffing and resources as those who are able to be in and out in less than twenty minutes. If you feel that people shouldn't vote by mail, I guarantee you that you wouldn't feel that way if you routinely had to wait over four hours to vote. You'd want to vote by mail too. Don't close a bunch of polling places making it even harder for people to vote than what it already is, and then cry foul when so many people opt to vote by mail instead.

[paulxu]

It's Republican state legislatures that have restricted counting mail in ballots until election day or after.
You should speak to them.
(and nobody saw a pandemic increasing the mail-in vote by so much)