Trump's Coup d'état.

Status
Not open for further replies.
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1337479918054215682.html

64% is a staggering number. Consider: Who runs for office and who retires in the coming years? Who ascends into leadership or moves to higher office? Easy to imagine pro-democracy folks opting out and anti-democracy folks opting in to an extent that people are not grasping.

And how many of these are only mounting federalism objections? Not all 70 actually oppose contesting the election; some are just objecting to the means by which the suit attempts to do so

Only 25% of retirees are signing compared to 69% of those staying.

[IMGW=550]https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Eo-viDDWEAIXeIg.png[/IMGW]

Put another way, 21% of the House Republicans who haven't signed on are retiring. Now compound that over a few cycles if this continues.

The leopard face eating may already be starting. Horrific.

They only disown the results when they lose, which is exactly the problem. (Agree it's nonsensical.)
Click to expand...
 
turingtest said:
Including, presumably, the three he put there. I cannot wait to see how he reacts to this.
Click to expand...

Because Barrett is the new kid on the block, previous Order Lists have indicated cases where Barrett did not participate. No such designation on this List. So presumably all the Justices participated. I would be very surprised if they did not.
 
acbytesla said:
What does Donnie do now? The vote is Monday. Trump can get no relief from the courts. Any election challenges now will result in the courts declaring them moot.

SCOTUS just squashed his fantasy that just because he appointed 3 of the judges that it was going to save him.

Is he going to concede or continue this silly game?
Click to expand...

I think he'll see no personal advantage in conceding, so he won't do it. All he's got is his fantasy life, really, and it's still unrolling in his head. It's just a weird fluke that he got to play some of it out on the American political stage.
 
Last edited:
acbytesla said:
What does Donnie do now? The vote is Monday. Trump can get no relief from the courts. Any election challenges now will result in the courts declaring them moot.

SCOTUS just squashed his fantasy that just because he appointed 3 of the judges that it was going to save him.

Is he going to concede or continue this silly game?
Click to expand...
I can't even imagine how he will process this. It just doesn't compute, in his universe. But then, even he must have realized this was a very long shot.

To keep the money rolling in, he'll have to come up with some new patter.

I literally hang up on him every day.
 
Last edited:
slyjoe said:
That's exactly right. And once again, Thomas prefers to tag along with Alito and stay in the background, never voicing his own opinion.
Click to expand...

Thomas is really the most pathetic excuse for a Supreme Court Justice in the last 100 years. While I despised Alito, Rehnquist, Scalia and a few other judges, at least they made a few intelligible decisions or arguments. Thomas has asked maybe two questions during oral arguments since he was appointed and I'm unaware of any decisions he has authored.
 
Electors will vote monday. Then nothing, till Jan 6. Votes counted. Congress can take votes, but the Senate will not overturn the election. Romney, Sasse et al. will not go on the Trump side.
 
acbytesla said:
Thomas is really the most pathetic excuse for a Supreme Court Justice in the last 100 years. While I despised Alito, Rehnquist, Scalia and a few other judges, at least they made a few intelligible decisions or arguments. Thomas has asked maybe two questions during oral arguments since he was appointed and I'm unaware of any decisions he has authored.
Click to expand...

There are some... and one of particular note: ASHCROFT v. AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION. That's the one that struck down portions of the Communications Decency Act. He may be a blind squirrel, but it is also definitely a valuable nut.
 
eerok said:
I think he'll see no personal advantage in conceding, so he won't do it. All he's got is his fantasy life, really, and it's still unrolling in his head. It's just a weird fluke that he got to play some of it out on the American political stage.
Click to expand...

I don't see him conceding. It's not in his nature. Kinda hard to keep asking for money to mount legal challenges though. People are going to stop caring because his impotence is showing.

The EC cast their votes on Monday and I'm pretty sure it's not by secret ballot.

Still, I've seen on Twitter that Trump will say that China interfered in our election so the election is invalid and by Executive Order Trump will remain POTUS. Some his supporters are encouraging this and think this is what is going to happen.
 
acbytesla said:
Still, I've seen on Twitter that Trump will say that China interfered in our election so the election is invalid and by Executive Order Trump will remain POTUS. Some his supporters are encouraging this and think this is what is going to happen.
Click to expand...

That's hitting the dregs of the opium pipe, of course. Pure delusion on their part.

Trump will never manage to declare himself king.
 
Last edited:
gnome said:
There are some... and one of particular note: ASHCROFT v. AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION. That's the one that struck down portions of the Communications Decency Act. He may be a blind squirrel, but it is also definitely a valuable nut.
Click to expand...

Unless my information is wrong Thomas didn't write an opinion in that case although he did side with the more Liberal wing of the court.

Kennedy, J., delivered the opinion of the Court, in which Stevens, Souter, Thomas, and Ginsburg, JJ., joined. Stevens, J., filed a concurring opinion, in which Ginsburg, J., joined. Scalia, J., filed a dissenting opinion. Breyer, J., filed a dissenting opinion, in which Rehnquist, C. J., and O’Connor, J., joined.
 
eerok said:
That's hitting the dregs of the opium pipe, of course. Pure delusion on their part.

Trump will never manage to declare himself king.
Click to expand...

I don't think so either. Wishful thinking is more like it. Trump has run out of options. Now I don't see him ever acting dignified, but the writing is on the wall. The futility has to be dawning on him.

He is 56 and 1 in court rulings. I think there are two more outstanding cases out there, but they tooi are destined to lose like the rest of them. Any political wrangling is also pretty damn futile.
 
acbytesla said:
He is 56 and 1 in court rulings.
Click to expand...

And if I recall the "1" in that 56/1 was a fairly minor piece of procedural compliance with no real effect on anything.

(Wasn't it there one where got poll watchers to stand like foot closer or something to that effect?)
 
acbytesla said:
I don't think so either. Wishful thinking is more like it. Trump has run out of options. Now I don't see him ever acting dignified, but the writing is on the wall. The futility has to be dawning on him.

He is 56 and 1 in court rulings. I think there are two more outstanding cases out there, but they tooi are destined to lose like the rest of them. Any political wrangling is also pretty damn futile.
Click to expand...

Any idea how many of these court cases that Trump is on the financial hook for?
 
"He is 56 and 1 in court rulings." Has there ever been a judicial controversy that was so comprehensively lost as this? Anywhere in the world?

Trump may be the losingest loser who ever lost, as a matter of public record.
 
JoeMorgue said:
And if I recall the "1" in that 56/1 was a fairly minor piece of procedural compliance with no real effect on anything.

(Wasn't it there one where got poll watchers to stand like foot closer or something to that effect?)
Click to expand...

No, that was overturned by the PA State Supreme Court. The one he won involved the number of days that a ballot could be cured in PA. It was a 3 day difference. I think it amounted to just a few ballots.
 
JoeMorgue said:
And if I recall the "1" in that 56/1 was a fairly minor piece of procedural compliance with no real effect on anything.

(Wasn't it there one where got poll watchers to stand like foot closer or something to that effect?)
Click to expand...

Nppe, that got overturned by the appeals court.

The one win was in PA where they got the deadline for curing mail-in ballots with errors moved from Nov 12 to Nov 9.

It was a real win, that affected something like 65 ballots

Only those mail in ballots that had errors that weren't cured on or before Nov 9 that the voter wanted to fix.
 
acbytesla said:
No, that was overturned by the PA State Supreme Court. The one he won involved the number of days that a ballot could be cured in PA. It was a 3 day difference. I think it amounted to just a few ballots.
Click to expand...

I've heard 65, but I think that's "possible." The only solid number I heard was 0 in Alleghany County
 
Status
Not open for further replies.

Back
Top Bottom