Edit: he’s already back in the game…

Meh. See my earlier comment. A legal challenge along the lines of Bush v. Gore may have been viable were the election to come down to just one or two states. That’s looking increasingly unlikely with him now trailing in WI & MI well beyond the margin of error and him in danger of losing one or more of the half dozen others that were solidly red in 2016,

Greg Palast, whose diligent work on Republican electoral fraud dates back to 2000, makes the point that Trump doesn’t need win all these battleground states to make a farce out of the election so long as there is mayhem on Election Day. What he needs to do is make sure that the Republican dominated legislatures in FL, WI, and MI argue before the Supreme Court that they can’t certify the results of their elections in time for the electoral colleges to alot the requisite 270 votes for appointing anyone to the presidency. In that case, Trump can invoke the 12th amendment and have the House of Representatives, voting on a per state basis and with the same quorum requirements as under the original procedure, choose the President from the three highest receivers of electoral votes.

Again, this explains why Trump is making overt signals to right-wing goon squads like the Proud Boys to stand by on November 3rd. He’s looking for his own version of the Reichstag Fire that will allow him to consolidate political power in the face of a dwindling electoral base of support.

Yon NBA Finals Prediction thread. http://knickerblogger.net/nba-finals-predictions-thread/

Enjoyed this on Lebron. I have long said that who you play with shouldn’t matter that much. But then there is JJ Hickson.

Ntilakilla: he can create a legal pretext to have a conservative dominated Supreme Court (3 of whose justices he will have nominated himself) determine what votes do and don’t get counted

Meh. See my earlier comment. A legal challenge along the lines of Bush v. Gore may have been viable were the election to come down to just one or two states. That’s looking increasingly unlikely with him now trailing in WI & MI well beyond the margin of error and him in danger of losing one or more of the half dozen others that were solidly red in 2016,

The post election legal battle that you fear may well take place on a number of fronts. Each contested state would require its own separate court challenge. Trump’s campaign is effectively broke and he is personally facing nearly a half billion in loans coming due in the next few years so it’s hard to imagine how he will pay for the high-priced legal firepower he’ll need to challenge the results in so many jurisdictions.

As noted earlier, Trump has no one to blame but himself. His repeated efforts to sow doubt in the integrity of the election is not just intended for his supporters. It was also intended to have a chilling effect on Democrats by creating the impression that four more years of Trump is a fait accompli regardless of the final vote totals. It seems to be having the opposite effect, though, with increasing numbers of voters realizing that the best antidote for his gambit is to turn out en masse in as many places as possible. Again, had Trump gone through the motions of running a semi-normal campaign rather than loudly telegraphing his play, he might have been able to keep the vote close enough in a small enough number of states to make legal challenges workable. Now, with too many states in play along with the slow but steady bleeding of his support, Trump’s paths to victory keep dwindling.

Kill the filibuster on day one. Then statehood for DC and PR, and throw in Guam and the US Virgin Islands while you’re at it. Eight new blue senators, sounds about right. Gonna need at least four more SCOTUS seats as well. Pass lots of legislation to undo all of the vote-fucking schemes that were designed by Republicans to keep people of color from voting. Do all of this while holding a giant middle finger aloft for all to see.

jk for office…

Deal with the consequences later.

start impeachment???

other than that – this seems to be about it:

They could force repeated roll call votes on the Senate floor on items that are usually dispensed with by unanimous consent without a vote, she said. Or they could deny committees the ability to meet after the Senate has been in session for two hours, under a convoluted “two-hour rule.”

that’s not much…

And yet, here the democrats are, encouraging people to vote by mail.

It's like watching the road runner paint the picture of a tunnel into the side of a mountain while wile e. coyote runs straight for the tunnel.

It could just be my own personal cohorts, but I know way too many people who think it's ok to stand on line to get groceries from trader joe's but voting at a polling station is a public safety bridge they can't cross.

Other than deeply at-risk people, it's really not going to be that hard to safely vote at a polling station. Wear a mask. Stand far away from the person in front of you. Wash your hands before you go in and after. Voila!

Four more years of trump are far worse for our public health than voting in person. Just fucking go to the polls like you always do.

When he steals this election because his voters went to the polls and ours used the USPS, I'm going to feel like I did that time I was 12 and my bike got stolen because I didn't lock it up outside the music store.

geo:
looks like the ratings were way down for this debate, as opposed to 2016…i am a little perplexed by the folks claiming to be “undecided”, that just seems really difficult to achieve at this point…

Yeah, I’d really like to see the demographics of the current undecided voters. I mean, it’s like, are you rooting for Luke Skywalker or Darth Vader in the big light saber duel? Wait, you’re undecided?
🙂

If Biden manages to pull this out despite the rather large thumb on the scale, I’m all for some power grabs to restore some sort of parity. Kill the filibuster on day one. Then statehood for DC and PR, and throw in Guam and the US Virgin Islands while you’re at it. Eight new blue senators, sounds about right. Gonna need at least four more SCOTUS seats as well. Pass lots of legislation to undo all of the vote-fucking schemes that were designed by Republicans to keep people of color from voting. Do all of this while holding a giant middle finger aloft for all to see.

We’re in the post-McConnell age, so the only thing that really matters is grabbing onto as much power as you can while you have the chance. Deal with the consequences later.