US Election Week 2020

[Razgovory]

God, I hate this QAnon bullshit.  It's very hard to respect someone who goes on about it.  I react to people who espouse Qanon the same way I react to a person who told me that they would like to see me hanged

[Caliga]

I don't actually know anyone who is a QAnon devotee (though my wife has a friend who we think might be), but if someone told me they were, it'd be like "cool, thanks for letting me know you're mentally ill."  Kind of like a way to react to a Birther would have been "cool, thanks for letting me know you're racist".

[FunkMonk]

After seeing Powell dumped it still perplexes me why so many people are so willing to beclown themselves in front of the entire world just to touch power (or what they perceive as power).

I mean, there's mountains of evidence that everyone who has ever been in Trump's orbit has been covered in shit, either self-induced or by him. Why do people see that and say "Hell yes I too want to put my hand in a blender while shitting my pants!!"

[DGuller]

I think Trump has the power to hypnotize people.  That's his one and only exceptional skill.

[The Brain]

An enormous number of people ARE clowns.

[Richard Hakluyt]

Too looney for the Trump legal team....that is quite something 

[grumbler]

Too looney for the Trump legal team....that is quite something 

Yeah, that'll leave a mark.

I presume from the fact that she was fired that they don't have a witness who will testify that the witness was there when Zombie Chavez added seven million Democratic votes to the election using Dominion voting machines. 

Too bad.  I was looking forward to that court appearance.

[Sheilbh]

Too looney for the Trump legal team....that is quite something 

It's the hashtags in her statement that I particularly love

[celedhring]

Too looney for the Trump legal team....that is quite something 

It's the hashtags in her statement that I particularly love

I have a friend who's obsessed with social media and she has developed the ability to speak using hashtags. It's amazing. 

[Malthus]

After seeing Powell dumped it still perplexes me why so many people are so willing to beclown themselves in front of the entire world just to touch power (or what they perceive as power).

I mean, there's mountains of evidence that everyone who has ever been in Trump's orbit has been covered in shit, either self-induced or by him. Why do people see that and say "Hell yes I too want to put my hand in a blender while shitting my pants!!"

My view is that these people utterly lack any sense of shame.

They don't care that anyone who comes close to Trump ends up dipped in shit and will be badly considered by history - because they see in the Trump phenomenon a chance for people like themselves to seize a bit of power and do a bit of graft while the grafting is good. Even if Trumpites throws them under the bus, they will still have piles of cash gained from their roles - and chances are very few of them will ever be prosecuted. As far as fraud goes, this is pretty safe with a high reward to risk ratio ... assuming you don't give a shit about being publicly humiliated.

The events of the past four years have convinced me that a sense of shame is a very important thing to cultivate.

[The Minsky Moment]

Putting a kraken on steroids is extremely bad veterinary practice.

[The Minsky Moment]

Trump's lawyer asked for expedited briefing on the PA case appeal - but ONLY as the denial to their motion to amend their complaint.  If successful that would mean going back to square 1 with the district judge.  That move is an implicit recognition that an appeal on the merits will fail.

[crazy canuck]

What is an expedited briefing?

[OttoVonBismarck]

It appears that with his loss in Michigan Trump is approaching probably the closest we will see to a formal concession: he has allowed the GSA Administrator to issue ascertainment of Biden's victory and begin the formal transition process.

[FunkMonk]

The coup is dead.

Long live the coup.