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it's cute that people are still talking about how trump couldn't possibly overturn the vote! i mean, of course he can't, the math is stacked impossibly against him.
but that's not the point. he has no incentive to concede or back down. here's what i fear the most.
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but that's not the point. he has no incentive to concede or back down. here's what i fear the most.
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trump's strategy appears to be the legal equivalent of a ddos: to make such a huge mess of the courts and recounts in five or six 'contested' states that it'll be essentially impossible to find resolution by january 20 – he's running out the clock.
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he is so goddamn insufferable that a lot of witless republicans are playing along – but meanwhile, he's replacing careerists with loyalists at the pentagon, the gsa, and elsewhere across the vast apparatus of government. the courts, clearly, are already pretty good for him.
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remember that he was a joke when he first announced in 2015, but obviously people got on board – the same is happening now. trump will hold rallies, and as the timeline gets tighter, there will be counter-demonstrations – as there should be – but he needs these too.
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trump's evil superpower is the projection of inevitibility: he doesn't allow anyone to not live in his reality. and his genius lies in destroying norms, rules, laws, guardrails: there have been no meaningful consequences for his criminality the last four years. none.
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at some point, trump will cross yet another rubicon – perhaps he'll invoke the insurrection act to quell protests that he's essentially willed himself, by destroying yet another precedent or two. a state of emergency on, say, jan 15 sounds pretty convenient, right?
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last week @sarahkendzior wrote: "[the democrats] cannot go by the book when the book is burning.' but so far, we're running the same playbook as 2018... the one that stuck us with neil goresuch in the scotus seat meant for merrick garland.
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what's the endgame exactly? i'm not sure. but a narcissist sociopath like trump has zero incentive – none! – to willingly choose humility: he is the ultimate edgelord. he will do the heretofore unimagined, unthinkable. he might very well destroy the country because he can.
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at worst – we have an acute, genuine, five-alarm constitutional crisis, come jan 20.
at best – somehow he leaves, or is forced out of office, and biden becomes president –
– and we have to endure years of benghazi-style 'stolen election' investigations in the senate.
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at best – somehow he leaves, or is forced out of office, and biden becomes president –
– and we have to endure years of benghazi-style 'stolen election' investigations in the senate.
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i desperately hope i'm wrong. but trump knows that the democrats are fundamentally allergic to hard, dirty fighting – and he is deeply embarrassed, and enraged, at the perception of his loss. that's a bad pairing and i am having a hard time seeing how it ends well.
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