I just saw it pop up in my feed. Got hit with the same "oh fuck" light headed panic attack I had when I woke up Nov 9, 2016 and saw the red graph proclaiming Trump had won.

What’s your over/under on McFuckface ramming through a conservative psycho before the election, which then appoints trump president no matter the outcome of the election.:

First attempt will be the usual disenfranchising. Purging voter rolls of disproportionately minority last names. Mail-in voting sabotage. Getting another electoral victory this way would be the most hassle free outcome for them.

There will also be pyscho armed militia "poll watchers" trying to turn minorities away from stations in Democratic areas. I honestly think we're going to see violence on election day. The same retarded militia panic triggered by "ANTIFA buses" social media posts will spring up again, claiming hordes of ANTIFA and anarchists are rigging the polling stations in blue districts. Anything from scuffles to riots to outright burning down the stations, even post offices processing ballots.

I'm not sure even they could get away with something as blatant as outright declaring Trump the victor in the face of a legit Biden electoral victory. But the scary thing is they don't have to. They don't even have to rig it to give Trump an electoral victory. All they have to do is cause enough sabotage and chaos in a couple swing states to declare the results inconclusive there and have both candidates fall under 270 electoral votes. It then goes to a contingent election where every state gets one vote in the House which Trump will win, legally and neatly.

Any questioning of it will not only be brushed off to a much greater degree than 2000's outcome, but Barr will finally roll out those "sedition" charges against any protestors, possibly going so far as to arrest blue state governors like his toady suggested on FOX.

Only hopes now:

-Democrats somehow winning 19 senate seats
-Dems win presidency and both houses, manage to push through court stacking
-Military intervention :(

...and the first conspiracy theory drops.

And I'm not saying that your conspiracy theories aren't valid. What I'm saying is that conspiracy theories are inevitable.

Are you seriously claiming a republican supreme court has never dubiously swung a presidential candidate for their party?

First you're gonna have to get past this Covid thing. Good luck with that.

The Republicans have no problem burning America to the ground as long as they get to be the ones with the matches.

Forget voter fraud. Trump is going to win because we're in a top-down civil war where the ruling class and the bourgeoisie are teaming up against white proletariats who stubbornly refuse to insert the neoliberal dildo. That they've been driven to supporting someone like Trump says far more about the piss-poor state of the Democrat Party than it does about them.

The darky ruling class billionaire elite, stripping away everything away from white pickup truck drivers for failing to report to mandatory gay conversion therapy camps.

This is void we’re talking about, so more likely he was thinking hook-nosed elite ruling class.

>>>Are you seriously claiming a republican supreme court has never dubiously swung a presidential candidate for their party?

You must be talking to me, and of course not.

>>>That they've been driven to supporting someone like Trump says far more about the piss-poor state of the Democrat Party than it does about them.

The Piss-Poor State of the Democratic Party has a lot to do with Democratic voters not showing up for the midterms. If Bernie Sanders is elected, and he has to deal with a Republican congress, the Bernie Bronies will be just as dissapointed as they were with Clinton and Obama.

Well and the Democrats interpreting a lack of support from their voters to mean they need to move farther to the right.

But they're not anybody's voters if THEY DON'T VOTE.

Hey I agree with John on something! Vote Green so that you can show the Democrats votes that they could have had, if only they would move left.

https://spectator.us/green-party-rigging-presidential-primary/

Ginsberg (and Breyer) should have retired in '14/'15, and not put our country in this situation.

No healthcare. No civil rights. No progress decarbonizing. This is a big step towards becoming a "developing nation". Every last person who didn't vote in 2016, or voted Stein, bears some blame. Even Ginsberg.

On the bright side, I'm not worried about coronary disease or cancer any more. I expect my end will come from a Christian Nationalist Nazi.

Most of those hipster socialist larpers work at tech companies that bow to the woke brigade while being the most ruthlessly capitalistic corporations the world has ever seen. I have no idea how they drown out the cognitive dissonance they should be experiencing, but it probably involves craft beer and marathon sessions of The Jimmy Dore Show.

Meanwhile, blue-collar workers are correct to view Donald fucking Trump as a true defender of the proletariat. Oooh, those avocado-eating meanies! POETV gives us another disillusioned populist shithead-in-waiting.

Who said they weren't being misled?

Okay, so maybe you think that they are! And maybe there are a lot of woke-Twitter college socialist types who you don't think should be so judgmental about how actually disenfranchised people protest and how they feel about shit like trans rights, gay rights, and banning plastic drinking straws.

But this shit runs both ways. The problem is that you aren't going to win any elections or effect any lasting legislative change if you can't form a coalition with people you disagree with or don't like. To go back to a comment you made the other day, I can see why you hate obnoxious bourgeois college kids who claim to be all "woke" and "socialist." You'd rather, you know, an authentic proletarian uprising which is unlikely to happen in any context in the United States but is probably demographically impossible without the votes of internet-enabled young people and a liberal professional class whose attitudes you find distastefully inauthentic.

Which is more or less what your political posts boil down to: Twitter politics hair-splitting, just running in the other direction. Who's a dilettante and who's "real" enough to be serious about their lefty politics? I don't care, frankly, as long as they vote. The sort of ideological purity you both decry and practice has a price, and that price is not winning elections. But then you've said you're "anti-authoritarian and anti-American." It probably sounds super-cool when you tell yourself that, but let's just say that that platform isn't going to take you anywhere near any sort of electoral victory. Maybe it's time to admit to yourself that you're a crank and think electoral politics is just about hopeless. Focus on some other ways of effecting change. I mean, if you do more than just complain on seldom-visited video-aggregator sites.

Full disclosure: am a former annoying bourgeois college kid, but I never called myself anything like a socialist.

TONIGHT AT CBGB's
BENVOLIO VOID
opening act: Void71 and the Void-Noids

You're the first person on this site to correctly grasp my worldview. Nothing you said is inaccurate.

Aw, that makes me feel kind of soft and mushy inside! But maybe we shouldn't discuss politics anymore. And look, I'm not going to order you to this or that, but maybe discussing politics with other people is just not a thin you can do in a constructive manner. Politics is usually the art of the possible, so compromises are more or less necessary. Maybe that's not your thing.

Also, JHM: have you been drinking tonight?

Not yet.

I don't mind that you cracked my code. I'm always leaving hints because I want people to figure out what I'm doing.

Basically, what I like to do is nudge people in the direction of total political nihilism by subverting their ideas in the language they speak. This makes me a lightning rod wherever I choose to post (leftists tend to call me a Nazi and Nazis call me weird shit like 'Duginist Nazbol'), but I think it's a useful thing to do because it might snap a person or two out of the soul-destroying cycle of non-stop political gaslighting.

I also really enjoy doing to white leftist hipsters what they've done to my people (working-class white southerners) for years: dismiss their concerns and poke their soft spots. I saw some pretty horrific poverty growing up in Eastern Tennessee so I'll always be a fierce defender of my people, many of whom tragically support Trump out of sheer desperation.

The issue is that you're too fucking dumb to understand that you, and the poor right-wingers even dumber than you, are both being manipulated by the republican party to oppose leftists that might improve your position in life.

you think you're nudging people, but in-fact your making right wingers more rabid and making left wingers not vote. in sum total you're supporting right-wing fascism.

Also, unlike some of you dumb/poor idiots, I am too drunk to make grammatically accurate statements and I have to go to work tomorrow morning. I hope none of you take your Audi to a southern California dealer tomorrow.

Christ, this is just pathetic. I'm "socially engineering" you guys! Don't you get it? You're a resentful basement-dwelling asshole who'll probably vote for someone on the far-right eventually. This post made me think less of you as a person. Fuck off, kiddo.

>>>Basically, what I like to do is nudge people in the direction of total political nihilism by subverting their ideas in the language they speak. This makes me a lightning rod wherever I choose to post (leftists tend to call me a Nazi and Nazis call me weird shit like 'Duginist Nazbol'), but I think it's a useful thing to do because it might snap a person or two out of the soul-destroying cycle of non-stop political gaslighting.

Imagine you're at a party, and this drunk guy is trying to fuck you.

"Basically, what I like to do is nudge people in the direction of total political nihilism by subverting their ideas in the language they speak. This makes me a lightning rod wherever I choose to post (leftists tend to call me a Nazi and Nazis call me weird shit like 'Duginist Nazbol'), but I think it's a useful thing to do because it might snap a person or two out of the soul-destroying cycle of non-stop political gaslighting."

wow maybe pull yourself down off the cross there for a minute, guy

Ah yes, the cultural heroism of the online troll. Folksongs will be sung for generations to come of the self-proclaimed lightning rod whose disingenuous political arguments tested the patience of some redditors.

Don't even know what that is, must be something I tried to post somewhere else.

Possible.

Sad reality from a my brief research ; it’s a lot easier and faster to buy a shit ton of guns than getting a Canadian work visa.

I've got a foreign passport and a permanent residency somewhere else! And I haven't set foot on American soil -- not counting the consulate -- in nine years. I'll be voting absentee. Hope it works out for you guys over there, I really fuckin' do.

I still have my Russian citizenship, but for all my love of the historical/idealized motherland, I can’t imagine myself living there as an adult in reality.

That was supposed to be "Killing me is not going to be as much fun as you think."

When they think killing you is fun is the start

When they think killing you is another Monday is the endpoint.

You're a depressing drunk.

I’d have a much better sexlife if I could turn off my depressed brain when drunk

No, it's probably something else.

Okay, I’d have a much better sex life if I ever left my room other than to work or buy necessities

She said something to the effect that she wanted her replacement to be selected by a woman. lol

https://youtu.be/RfvLkCa5sJU

You DO know how Scalia's vacancy worked out, right? How many seats do you want Merrick Garland to not fill anyway?

If Reid had fixed the filibuster correctly in 2011 or 2013, then perhaps RBG should have stepped down. Or if he'd gone nuclear option as early as 2009, then maybe.

The Scalia vacancy, when Republicans controlled the senate.

She was smart to not retire in '09, when Democrats controlled both the senate and white house? On the crest of one of the biggest blue wave surges in modern American history?

What was the genius plan there, hang in there long enough for Democrats to hold the presidency AND a guaranteed filibuster proof majority? Wait until Doc Brown invents a time machine to travel back to 1977 when that was last true?

You suck horse cock for purely artistic reasons

Sol I'm sorry that your racist icon is dead. David Duke is still alive tho, maybe that's some comfort.

Affordable Healthcare?
no

Green New Deal?
no

Living wage?
no

Ban corporate money?
no

Ban fracking?
no

Police reform?
no

Abolish ICE?
no

Pardon Assange?
no

Student debt relief?
no

RBG died! Vote for us!
Hell no

How do I block this idiot?

Uh, pillager, I hate to say this, but while I agree that you're not going to get everything on that list from a Biden administration, you might get a few things. I know, not enough, but.

Also, I don't care about Julian Assange. That guy belongs in jail.

https://youtu.be/3HAiKX97AZI

Wow. Trumpees really love copy+pasting that Roe v Wade comment that they got off their racist uncle's Facebook wall. It takes all of two seconds to realize she's referring to what she thought an influencing public opinion behind RvW was, and not the reason she personally supported it.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/ruth-bader-ginsburg-and-roe- v-wade/#:~:text=The%20statement%20was%20taken%20from%20a%20July%20 2009,we%20don%E2%80%99t%20want%20to%20have%20too%20many%20of.%E2%8 0%9D

It'll be cool when she gets confirmed in like three weeks with votes from like Manchin and Synema.

https://youtu.be/RfvLkCa5sJU

They would need to flip 19 of the 23 seats in order to oust any of Trump's appointees. The only other option would be to stack the court by adding more judges, something even FDR in his prime couldn't manage.

The even unlikelier option is that enough Republican senators are actually shamed into not acting like hypocrites and refusing to hold hearings until after the election.

We're completely fucked barring any of those 3 outcomes.

Nobody is talking preventing 6-3. That's here for now. It's happening. The point is to first take Senate and White House. Then exercise the levers of power.

If you want to talk court packing? Do it after a Senate and White House win; but talking that now will ensure a Senate and White House loss. Center Left is the winning position (Clinton, Obama). The issue is losing ACA and its impact on people with Covid. That'll win the Senate and WH.

Also, Trump can do a recess appointment during the October Senate recess if he wants. 6-3 is here. No fighting it. Only moves are to push and fight hard for Senate and White House and hope there's enough on our side to counter any contested election. That's the only goal that matters right now.

Not much Trump damage that can be undone with a 6-3 court where Neil fucking Gorsuch is the 2nd most moderate conservative. How much longer would the ACA remain intact in that situation, even with Democrats controlling the other two branches?

It gets worse when you realize that justice Breyer is 82. Maybe he'll croak too!

It gets EVEN worse! Republicans intentionally ram through justices in their 40s, early 50s max. Holding on to power for as long as possible is more important than qualifications or experience.

The idea of a supreme court justice with TWO YEARS total experience as a judge should be a fucking joke.

Although for perspective: There was a 26 year gap between Dems putting someone on the supreme court between Thurgood Marshall and RBG.

The good news is that the Dems are looking ever more likely to take the WH and Senate, which means DC and PR becoming states. Then you might actually see SCOTUS go to 11 justices, balancing out the court. Then when Thomas retires/dies, a swing left.

I'm really not sure about the white house anymore. Barring election night voting (not delayed mail ins) showing Biden winning, there's an excellent chance we'll see Republican state legislator fuckery.

Not sure if you'll read this by now, but only two states (?) count mail in votes after election night: PA and Wisconsin, IIRC. Most states count on election day or start counter before hand.

God fucking dammit. Had JHM's link in my clipboard.

Here's the correct one. Nothing but Trumpettes and anti-choice fanatics in comments.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KiU0u8Bja_s

Ha, and Cracker parrots the exact same Roe v Wade quote they are.

Imagine a life where copy pasting that stuff here for lulz was a valuable way to spend time. Is this what happens when you run out of Tim & Eric videos to submit?

I am the only fun one on this whole site.

if by "fun" you mean insufferable, sure, you're a boatload of yuks

I thought it was clever.