RBG’s dead and Mitch is gonna do it

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Why not just do away with the election?
I hope anyone who would be POTUS must have the color of legitimacy with the people in order to sustain power.
If Trump wins on election night, there are people that will be fine with that. Continued counting of new votes will be seen by a substantial amount of the electorate to be simply an effort to steal the election. Objection to stopping the counting will be seen by them (us) to be a coup.
There is an option for the Left, mentioned, I think, in an article in the Atlantic that predicts violence with a Trump win: Biden needs to win on election night. No further counting necessary.

And I think Biden's despondent base just may be energized by the passing of RBG. The stakes are very high now. This may actually happen now.

They may try to R&R her before the election but I think the Left can delay through procedures long enough that a replacement will not be in place before the next POTUS in place.
Oh yeah, just stop counting votes after NY, then the winner is declared. /s
 
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So I'm right and the Left and Right are no better than one another? Gotcha.
Well not really, because we are talking about random users thoughts on some random internet forum versus what actually already took place before our very eyes. I don't like the Democrats very much at all but lets face it, if we weighed up which party pulls the most shit like this to "win" the Republicans have them beat.

EDIT: @Specter Von Baren , as the forum photoshopper, could you take a frame of Alex Jones from that GIF up-top and give him a wig and phone for his duck face selfie?
 
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If anything, I worry that he will win on election night, the left will want to keep counting new votes until they can flip the election results to Biden, Trump will sue to stop the counting of new votes, his USSC will side with him and the Left won't be able to handle it.
So your concern is that Trump will lose fair and square, cheat to get by, and people are going to be angry that he cheated.
 

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The guys who usually okay all the murder and mayhem so they can make money. Quite a few of them pay money for ferment the choas.

That's a no from me
Quick question.

This your idea of what centrism is?

 

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Why not just do away with the election?
I hope anyone who would be POTUS must have the color of legitimacy with the people in order to sustain power.
If Trump wins on election night, there are people that will be fine with that. Continued counting of new votes will be seen by a substantial amount of the electorate to be simply an effort to steal the election. Objection to stopping the counting will be seen by them (us) to be a coup.
There is an option for the Left, mentioned, I think, in an article in the Atlantic that predicts violence with a Trump win: Biden needs to win on election night. No further counting necessary.

And I think Biden's despondent base just may be energized by the passing of RBG. The stakes are very high now. This may actually happen now.

They may try to R&R her before the election but I think the Left can delay through procedures long enough that a replacement will not be in place before the next POTUS in place.
Just making sure you know. I think get two weeks to count. If it's a close race, they aren't necessarily going to call it that night. Another two for any legal stuff (see Florida in 2000). It has to be done by vote in December

Call it on election night might not be possible
 

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Just making sure you know. I think get two weeks to count. If it's a close race, they aren't necessarily going to call it that night. Another two for any legal stuff (see Florida in 2000). It has to be done by vote in December

Call it on election night might not be possible
That's the old rules, the pre-Trump rules. You really think Trump won't declare victory on Election night, and call any continued voting rigged, or that Biden's victory doesn't count because it wasn't on election night? And who would stop him? Trump says he's won the election, even if election night shows a landslide for Biden, and refuses to leave. Then what?
 

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Quick question.

This your idea of what centrism is?

No. They would pay for these groups to fight so they seem reasonable and claim they are the comprimise. See Biden. He's over exaggerated Trump's incompency and deadliness. He's over exaggerated Sanders socialist side and claimed it would destroy America

He then sits in the middle and says, 'Im the compromise.' He gets to do whatever he wants because he sold everyone else as dangerous

He's the 'centrist' and how many people has he straight up murdered in the last administration. That's what centrists are... just as bad as everyone else
 

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I mean, historically speaking that's pretty accurate.
This is in no way a surprising response.
No. They would pay for these groups to fight so they seem reasonable and claim they are the comprimise. See Biden. He's over exaggerated Trump's incompency and deadliness. He's over exaggerated Sanders socialist side and claimed it would destroy America

He then sits in the middle and says, 'Im the compromise.' He gets to do whatever he wants because he sold everyone else as dangerous

He's the 'centrist' and how many people has he straight up murdered in the last administration. That's what centrists are... just as bad as everyone else
That legitimately just sounds like you're talking about neo-cons or neo-libs.
 

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Whatever, just wash your hands.
Why not just do away with the election?
I hope anyone who would be POTUS must have the color of legitimacy with the people in order to sustain power.
If Trump wins on election night, there are people that will be fine with that. Continued counting of new votes will be seen by a substantial amount of the electorate to be simply an effort to steal the election. Objection to stopping the counting will be seen by them (us) to be a coup.
There is an option for the Left, mentioned, I think, in an article in the Atlantic that predicts violence with a Trump win: Biden needs to win on election night. No further counting necessary.

And I think Biden's despondent base just may be energized by the passing of RBG. The stakes are very high now. This may actually happen now.

They may try to R&R her before the election but I think the Left can delay through procedures long enough that a replacement will not be in place before the next POTUS in place.
Even in obvious dictatorships they like to have 'elections' just to say they have the mandate from the people.

This is going to be the messiest election ever. If we get lucky then Biden wins in a landslide on election night. Other wise... its going to be super messy because of trump trying to sabotage the post office to impact voting, so there will be a lot of absentee ballots that not only will need to be counted but that will also probably be arriving really late. So we run into a situation where its entirely likely that he wins early on since republicans seem to care less about social distancing and are totally willing to catch a disease to get to the polls, but we end up with a ton of democrat ballots in the mail that take forever to count and end up with the supreme court just stopping the counting like they did in Bush v Gore. Not to mention that now trump has a big majority in the supreme court so... well, we shall see how many of them are constitutionalists or not.
 
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Youtube is another centrist. It bans people from left and right but has an algorithm that encourages radicalization. And monetize the choas.
 

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Another wrinkle in this while thing.


For those who can't/don't want to read the NYT, it basically says that due to the AZ Senate election being a little special, the winner would likely be seated before the rest of the senate, possibly Nov 30th because the current Occupant, McSally, was seated by appointment(to fill McCain's vacant seat) and not election. If Kelly wins(and that's looking likely right now), that's another democratic Senate vote meaning the turtle has a even smaller margin to push this through.
 
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For what it is worth, saw a post after RBG died, "To those saying 2020 couldn't get any worse? Please stop it."
 
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So...apparently my father is glad that she is dead, of course over the fact "she's from the wrong side" and the fact his favorite president gets to ram through another SC Justice, but to make it more ghoulish his own father (my grandfather) died the same way, by pancreatic cancer that literally stole the life out of him over a slow, painful period of months...
 

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So...apparently my father is glad that she is dead, of course over the fact "she's from the wrong side" and the fact his favorite president gets to ram through another SC Justice, but to make it more ghoulish his own father (my grandfather) died the same way, by pancreatic cancer that literally stole the life out of him over a slow, painful period of months...
Well, cancer aside, my dad is glad too, "another commie off of the Supreme Court."

So, yeah.

Edit: something that I'm not sure that American liberals understand is that conservatives are just as scared of them in control as they are of conservatives being in control, and that trying to rush a nuclear option (as advocated for in this thread) is only going to result in them rushing it as well. MAD, folks. The idea is that you don't push the button that's gonna break the system.

I mean, the revolutionary commies are one thing, but the folks in here who aren't and think that you can just get your side to do a totalitarian takeover of the government and think it's gonna go well, hoo boy. You've really drunk the blue-flavored Koolaid.