Joe Biden is now POTUS

The Supreme Court was *never* going to hand the election to Donald Trump
Analysis by Chris Cillizza, CNN Editor-at-large 1 hr ago

In a single sentence, the Supreme Court on Tuesday unraveled Donald Trump's grand plan to overthrow the 2020 election.
© Anna Moneymaker/Pool/Getty Images WASHINGTON, DC - OCTOBER 1: Judge Amy Coney Barrett, President Donald Trump's nominee for Supreme Court, poses for a photo before a meeting with Senator Steve Daines, R-Mont., at the United States Capitol Building on October 1, 2020 in Washington, DC. Barrett is meeting with senators ahead of her confirmation hearing which is scheduled to begin on October 12, less than a month before Election Day. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker - Pool/Getty Images)
"The application for injunctive relief presented to Justice Alito and by him referred to the Court is denied," wrote the Court in rejecting an attempt by Pennsylvania Republicans -- with the President's blessing -- to block the certification of the 2020 election results in the commonwealth. President-elect Joe Biden beat President Donald Trump in Pennsylvania by just more than 81,000 votes.

Thus ends a month-long effort by Trump and his legal team to find some complaint -- any election complaint -- that the Supreme Court would consider and, in so doing, pry open the door to him somehow winning an election he quite clearly lost.
"Beginning Monday, our campaign will start prosecuting our case in court to ensure election laws are fully upheld and the rightful winner is seated," Trump said in a statement on November 7, the same day CNN and most other major news outlets projected Biden would be the 46th president of the United States.
From that moment onward, the Trump team filed a slew of lawsuits in states as far flung as Arizona, Georgia and, yes, Pennsylvania, designed to lean on judges that he had appointed over his first term to deliver a delay or a redo of the election.
The ultimate goal for Trump was to get one of those cases of alleged election fraud in front of the Supreme Court, a court where he had appointed three conservative justices -- most recently Justice Amy Coney Barrett -- and where the President clearly believed he could expect a favorable ruling
That plan, it quickly became clear, was deeply flawed.
In late November, a federal appeals court flatly rejected the campaign's efforts to challenge the results in the state.

"Free, fair elections are the lifeblood of our democracy," wrote Stephanos Bibas, a Trump-appointed federal judge, in the appellate court decision. "Charges of unfairness are serious. But calling an election unfair does not make it so. Charges require specific allegations and then proof. We have neither here."
The Trump strategy utterly failed before the Supreme Court on Tuesday, failing to even convince a single justice to write a word of explanation (or dissent) for why the case would not be considered.
How did Trump (and his legal team) miscalculate so badly? Simple. Trump believed that the Supreme Court operates the same way he does: Purely transactionally.
See, in Trump's mind, he had GIVEN Supreme Court seats to Barrett as well as Justice Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh. They wouldn't have been on the court without him (true!) and, therefore, they owed him.
That is, of course, not how the Supreme Court works. The justices are appointed by presidents who identify with one or the other of the major parties in the country, yes. And Republican presidents tend to pick justices who will offer conservative opinions from the bench while Democratic president choose judges with more liberal track records.
But, the Supreme Court isn't an elected body. The nine members are purposely meant to be kept at a remove from the day-to-day political considerations that elected officials -- from the President on down -- have to calculate.
And, we know that the justices take that above-politics mission very, very seriously.
"When you live in a polarized political environment, people tend to see everything in those terms," Chief Justice John Roberts said in 2019. "That's not how we at the court function and the results in our cases do not suggest otherwise."
Unless forced to consider political matters -- as the court was in Bush v. Gore in 2000 -- the justices want to stay as far away from politics as possible.
Then there is the fact that the case Pennsylvania Republicans had appealed to the Supreme Court had already been dismissed by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court.
The only thing the Supreme Court may dislike more than getting in the middle of a political squabble is injecting itself unnecessarily into a matter that has already been considered and dismissed by a lower court.
Add it up and you can see that Trump's strategy of simply getting a case to the Supreme Court was always doomed to fail. Three of the nine justices may have been appointed by Trump and six of the nine may align with the conservative bloc on the high court.
But they were never going to get in the middle of overturning the clearly stated will of the people because of those facts. That Trump couldn't understand that speaks to how incapable he is of understanding anyone who doesn't operate from a purely transactional place.
 
Unless Biden knows something we don't know, I don't quite get his calmness to all the shenanigans that Trump and GOP are perpetuating to steal the election. I'm starting to think Dems for have a fighting bone in them. I'll be making just as much noise as Trump and his allies are making to maintain my win. Fuck all that unity shit. They didn't think about unity when they planned to attack Michigan dem leaders. Just because Dems won squarely doesn't mean it still can't be stolen. I mean Texas is now fighting for all the swing state altogether.....WTF
 
Unless Biden knows something we don't know, I don't quite get his calmness to all the shenanigans that Trump and GOP are perpetuating to steal the election. I'm starting to think Dems for have a fighting bone in them. I'll be making just as much noise as Trump and his allies are making to maintain my win. Fuck all that unity shit. They didn't think about unity when they planned to attack Michigan dem leaders. Just because Dems won squarely doesn't mean it still can't be stolen. I mean Texas is now fighting for all the swing state altogether.....WTF
Why would they be wasting thier time on that BS... Trump got laughed out of court like 30 40 times

turn off the OAN.. they lying to you
 
Why would they be wasting thier time on that BS... Trump got laughed out of court like 30 40 times

turn off the OAN.. they lying to you
Starting today, all of Trump's objections become moot. He will first
have to challenge the Safe Harbor law in court, which stipulates that
no challenges are allowed to certified state vote tallies after yesterday,
December 8. Every court Trump goes into will tell him it cannot hear his
petitions, and he will have to take the issue to the Supreme Court, to see
if it is willing to overturn that law.

The prospects do not look good as the Supreme Court summarily threw
out a petition from Trump's Pennsylvania supporters with a one sentence
rebuke yesterday, Safe Harbor Day. Given the timing, it seems that the
Supreme Court was signalling that it would no longer hear an of these law
suits now that Safe Habor Day has finally arrived.
 






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Unless Biden knows something we don't know, I don't quite get his calmness to all the shenanigans that Trump and GOP are perpetuating to steal the election. I'm starting to think Dems for have a fighting bone in them. I'll be making just as much noise as Trump and his allies are making to maintain my win. Fuck all that unity shit. They didn't think about unity when they planned to attack Michigan dem leaders. Just because Dems won squarely doesn't mean it still can't be stolen. I mean Texas is now fighting for all the swing state altogether.....WTF

It's over now. If they were going to fight, it needed to be early. There is no need to fight now. These court cases are all just posturing right now to say they fought for Trump
 
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Here is my take of how the 2020 election went down.

Trump and the Republicans was hoping to steal the election with the voting machines like they did in 2016. But the Dems said fuck that and said if you want Trump out of office mail in your vote. Trump and the Republicans was like... "oh shit. we don't have a plan to rig mail in ballots. Hmmmm, lets sabotage them by fucking with the postal service". They didn't have enough time to fully effectively fuck with the postal service so the end result..... Biden won. Trump was like "FUUUCCCKKKK, what are we going to do?" Some genius said "Fuck it, just say you won, the election was rigged and the Dems stole the election".



2020 has truly been a bizarre year.
 
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Here is my take of how the 2020 election went down.

Trump and the Republicans was hoping to steal the election with the voting machines like they did in 2016. But the Dems said fuck that and said if you want Trump out of office mail in your vote. Trump and the Republicans was like... "oh shit. we don't have a plan to rig mail in ballots. Hmmmm, lets sabotage them by fucking with the postal service". They didn't have enough time to put fully effectively fuck with the postal service so the end result..... Biden won. Trump was like "FUUUCCCKKKK, what are we going to do?" Some genius said "Fuck it, just say you won the election was rigged and the Dems stole the election".



2020 has truly been a bizarre year.

Oh. That's what happened. The dead giveaway was when Barr went on CNN and completely lost his shit over mail-in ballots. This dude was getting grilled by all of Congress and would just shrug and smirk.. always condescending. Nothing could shake him. However, he's losing his fucking mind, turning red, and yelling at Wolf Blitzer over mail-in ballots.

 
THE VIRUS
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  • President-elect Joe Biden pledged to get “at least 100 million Covid vaccine shots into the arms of the American people” during his first 100 days in office. He also said he would make mask-wearing mandatory on planes, trains and buses that cross state lines, as well as in federal buildings.
 
Oh. That's what happened. The dead giveaway was when Barr went on CNN and completely lost his shit over mail-in ballots. This dude was getting grilled by all of Congress and would just shrug and smirk.. always condescending. Nothing could shake him. However, he's losing his fucking mind, turning red, and yelling at Wolf Blitzer over mail-in ballots.


#indict this fat fuck :thefinger:
 
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