Trump's Coup Attempt

[JazzGal]

Any “made for TV” exit by Trump would not work if the damn networks simply refused to cover it at all. Just once, once already, ignore the clown. We’ll all live!

Trump is reportedly planning a made-for-TV exit on Air Force One from the White House to a rally on Inauguration Day, hoping to pull viewers from Biden

Trump is reportedly considering breaking democratic tradition by boycotting Joe Biden's inauguration and staging a rally instead.

www.businessinsider.com

I wish they would ignore him for the next four years. The media adds oxygen to his insanity.

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[leftyjace]

I wish they would ignore him for the next four years. The media adds oxygen to his insanity.

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I think Father Time may take care of things for us.
The dude doesn't live a very healthy lifestyle.
I'm surprised he survived his presidency.

 

[Red]

In an effort to get a handle on the “methods to the madness” that is the behavior of Donald Trump in recent weeks, and, really, his entire 4 years, I found these thoughts very helpful.....

Trump’s Most Malicious Legacy

The outgoing president leaves behind a tribalistic, distrustful, and sometimes delusional political culture.

www.theatlantic.com

Trump, as the master of the “firehose of falsehood”:

 

[Red]

Paying the delusional alternative reality forward:

House conservatives urge Trump not to concede and press for floor fight over election loss

President Donald Trump's staunchest defenders on Capitol Hill are urging him not to concede even after President-elect Joe Biden wins the Electoral College vote next week, calling on their party's leader to battle it out all the way to the House floor in January as he makes unsubstantiated...

www.cnn.com

 

[LogGrad98]

Holy hell, texas might as well secede and take Trump as their dear leader. What a bunch of dumb ****s.

Texas asks U.S. Supreme Court to help Trump upend election in long-shot lawsuit

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The state of Texas on Tuesday asked the U.S. Supreme Court to throw out the voting results in four other states in a long-shot legal gambit intended to help President Donald Trump upend his election loss to President-elect Joe Biden. Officials from the four states -...

news.yahoo.com

 

[cowhide]

You know, I'm fine with this. I don't expect they'll find anything because I think it is well established that there was probable cause every step of they way that justified an investigation into Trump's links to Russian propaganda and investigation into just how far Russia had gone to influence our election.

If there was any fabrication of evidence to kick start the investigation then I'd like to know that. If there wasn't I'd like Trumpers to know that. Not that they will believe anything other than what the Trumpiverse tells them to believe, but facts and reality are valuable in and of their self.

Trump has problems with the state of New York and his money laundering business. The tax man always get the big fish if they want to do so.

 

[cowhide]

Holy hell, texas might as well secede and take Trump as their dear leader. What a bunch of dumb ****s.

Texas asks U.S. Supreme Court to help Trump upend election in long-shot lawsuit

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The state of Texas on Tuesday asked the U.S. Supreme Court to throw out the voting results in four other states in a long-shot legal gambit intended to help President Donald Trump upend his election loss to President-elect Joe Biden. Officials from the four states -...

news.yahoo.com

They can take a few of those southern states with them too.

 

[Avery]

I guess Democrats should immediately contest North Carolina, Florida and Texas and proclaim Biden won those states - you know, because of all the fraudulent Trump voters they shipped in from southern states by the hundreds of thousands.

Republicans are a bunch of snowflakes when their feelings get hurt as well apparently.

 

[Avery]

And this is why the SC isn't going to swing anything this election. No dissents.

Supreme Court dismisses Trump allies' challenge to Pennsylvania election

The court's action represented the latest in a string of stinging judicial opinions that have left the president defeated politically and legally.

www.usatoday.com

 

[JazzGal]

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/poli...-to-the-supreme-court/ar-BB1bNndV?li=BB141NW3

On Wednesday afternoon, 17 states endorsed Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s doomed lawsuit asking the Supreme Court to nullify millions of votes and hand Donald Trump a second term. Trump himself then intervened in a brief riddled with debunked conspiracy theories and at least one outright factual error. The odds that the Supreme Court will take this case, let alone rule for the plaintiffs, remain at right around zero. But the dispute remains noteworthy as a preview of the conservative legal movement’s direction after Trump leaves office. The president will leave the White House on Jan. 20. The conservative attorneys who have become radicalized under his influence, however, will remain in power across the country.

This case, Texas v. Pennsylvania, is so ridiculous that it is not worth exploring its legal claims in any depth. Paxton’s suit asks the Supreme Court to throw out every vote in four states won by Joe Biden—Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin—then direct each state’s legislature to declare Trump the winner. This act would constitute the single biggest incident of voter nullification in American history. Paxton alleges that all four states illegally expanded mail voting, permitted egregious fraud, then concealed evidence that Democrats stole the election. There is no basis in truth for his factual claims and no basis in law for his legal theories. Indeed, it seems likely that Paxton, who is reportedly under FBI investigation for corruption, is more interested in obtaining a preemptive pardon from Trump than presenting a coherent legal argument.

What’s not as clear is why 17 state attorneys general, all Republican, decided to join Paxton’s humiliating crusade. Their brief, spearheaded by Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt, parrots Paxton’s false assertions about widespread fraud, urging SCOTUS to take up the case. They accuse the four defendant states of repeatedly violating the Constitution by allowing more people to vote by mail during the pandemic. And they claim that, by allowing voters to cure faulty absentee ballots, the states violated the equal protection clause. To remedy this alleged problem, they suggest, the Supreme Court must wipe out every vote cast in all four states, clearing the way for each state legislature to assign their electors to Trump.

Why did a third of the nation’s attorneys general decide to use the power of their offices to aid an overt assault on democracy? Obviously, they are Republican politicians who would like to see Trump remain in the White House. But I suspect few, if any, have fallen prey to the delusion that Trump actually won the election. These lawyers run large agencies that deal with complex legal disputes every day; the job requires a level of competency that could not be met by someone suffering a complete break with reality. We should assume that these attorneys general are rational actors, politicians looking out for their own best interest. Like most Republican politicians, these attorneys general understand that they need the support of Trump voters to keep their jobs. Their brief is thus best seen as performative loyalty: GOP voters in these 17 states can rest assured that their attorneys general fought for Trump till the bitter end. Indeed, rejecting the reality of the presidential election results, which as of Wednesday have been certified by all 50 states and the District of Columbia, has fast become a litmus test for members of the Republican Party.

I just looked up which states have joined the Texas lawsuit, and I was so relieved (and actually surprised) that Utah wasn't one of them.

In case you don't know, the states are: Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, Virginia and Wisconsin. What an embarrassment.

EDIT: Apparently my list is "fake news." Good, some of these made no sense. But yeah, now I get to be embarrassed for Utah's attorney general. Won't be the first time. I see that the Governor and Governor-Elect have swiftly distanced themselves from this debacle.

 

[leftyjace]

Look again. Utah is on the list.

 

[Getting Traded]

Look again. Utah is on the list.

Forbes Article

Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt led the brief, which was also joined by Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Indiana, Kansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Utah and West Virginia, and Arizona filed a separate, more limited amicus brief “respecting” Texas’ complaint.