The dems get crushed. Historians look back on the elections as the beginning of the end for the Democratic Party. They lose ~30 seats in the house and they lose ~2 senate seats. Meanwhile - the GOP gleefully pours salt in the dem wounds. The republicans demand recounts for 75% of the important races on a federal and state level. They do this even if they won by a lot. Pundits like MSNBC legal experts say "These frivolous lawsuits will - oops, I mean should - be thrown out of court."
But a surprisingly large number of cases are allowed to continue and the GOP gets its ridiculous recounts. Some GOP judges and justices issue surprising rulings. A few dem house winners who clearly won are told that they actually lost because some ballots were "stale" - whatever that means. One dem senate seat is contested in the same way and the case reaches the supreme court. In a shocker - the GOP justices void that dem win so the dems end up losing ~3 senate seats.
The GOP is ecstatic. The dems are crestfallen. It's clear that the GOP openly broke the law covertly and overtly to win some races. Not-so-secretly funded "private GOP patriots" acted as "poll watchers", "election monitors", and "real Americans" to crush and block dem voting. These guys in their Oakley wraparounds, their camo, carrying their loaded guns clearly broke the law. But the dems are shell-shocked by the political legal rulings and they already gave up. The dems tell people to vote harder in 2024.
Throughout all of this rank GOP criminality - Garland never charges anybody with anything. The new hot GOP merch is Stopped the Steal.
At r/politics one argument I've had endlessly there is that the dems do elaborate kabuki or misdirection. It's power cosplay and it's infuriating. They refuse to use their power and they refuse to fight GOP power. My favorite simple question in that sub is "Why didn't Biden fire Louis DeJoy in his first 100 days?" The convos go like this...
Them: "You don't understand how politics works - do you? Biden can't just pick up the phone and fire DeJoy. You understand that, right?"
"Okay, Biden fires the GOP people on the postal board, installs his own people, and they fire DeJoy."
"Oh my goodness. Postal Board? You don't understand the process at all. There is no 'postal board'. There's the USPS Board of Governors..."
"I'll be right back. I'll find an great article I read written by a journo who explains how the process of shitcanning DeJoy would work. And he uses all the right terms."
Of course - I get nowhere. They might stop talking. Or tell me the convo is pointless and then they leave. Or they claim they scanned the article and say they don't agree with it. But they refuse to explain why. The entire thing is ridiculous.
The dems think that their better arguments, their better ideas, their slavish devotion to process, their self-righteousness, and their unshakable belief in "better angels of our nature" will eventually win the day. How can that not be the case? They didn't learn a goddamned thing from 8 effing years of Obama.
It's going to be pretty funny to me if there's a highly mysterious number of ballots from only heavily dem zip codes that have errors in the postmarks. Then - of course - GOP judges and justice say "Sorry, we have no choice - the ballots must be rejected. They are in error." DeJoy is seen smiling every day - all day log. The rejected ballots come at a very high cost to the democrats and to our democracy. Oh, well.
Hell of Presidents
How is the podcast? I didn't even know the name until you mentioned it. For about the last 2 years - I haven't paid any attention at all to CTH - the pod had way too much filler for my taste. And I know almost nothing about the CTH extended universe.
didn’t biden specifically appoint new people to the board who were cozy with dejoy 💀
I don't remember the details because I intentionally didn't want to learn more. But I seem to remember Biden appointed some new people and - whoever they were - they weren't going to shitcan DeJoy by themselves.
As time went on - I started to mention DeJoy only in passing and without much enthusiasm. It's pretty funny when libs are in "vote" mode. They don't even pretend to listen so arguing with them about anything is pointless. Bull elephants in musth are best entirely avoided and the same goes for libs in "vote" mode.
if you’re an american it’s a must-listen.
I'll give it a try. I wish it had a transcript but Matt would never do that for anything.
The dems get crushed. Historians look back on the elections as the beginning of the end for the Democratic Party. They lose ~30 seats in the house and they lose ~2 senate seats. Meanwhile - the GOP gleefully pours salt in the dem wounds. The republicans demand recounts for 75% of the important races on a federal and state level. They do this even if they won by a lot. Pundits like MSNBC legal experts say "These frivolous lawsuits will - oops, I mean should - be thrown out of court."
But a surprisingly large number of cases are allowed to continue and the GOP gets its ridiculous recounts. Some GOP judges and justices issue surprising rulings. A few dem house winners who clearly won are told that they actually lost because some ballots were "stale" - whatever that means. One dem senate seat is contested in the same way and the case reaches the supreme court. In a shocker - the GOP justices void that dem win so the dems end up losing ~3 senate seats.
The GOP is ecstatic. The dems are crestfallen. It's clear that the GOP openly broke the law covertly and overtly to win some races. Not-so-secretly funded "private GOP patriots" acted as "poll watchers", "election monitors", and "real Americans" to crush and block dem voting. These guys in their Oakley wraparounds, their camo, carrying their loaded guns clearly broke the law. But the dems are shell-shocked by the political legal rulings and they already gave up. The dems tell people to vote harder in 2024.
Throughout all of this rank GOP criminality - Garland never charges anybody with anything. The new hot GOP merch is Stopped the Steal.
this isnt funny, this is just what will happen... :D
It becomes funny, let the jokerfication flow through you
i mean yeah sure it's funny but i thought this post was fishing for unrealistic weird funny predictions, not the 100% expected funny outcome
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Thanks!
At r/politics one argument I've had endlessly there is that the dems do elaborate kabuki or misdirection. It's power cosplay and it's infuriating. They refuse to use their power and they refuse to fight GOP power. My favorite simple question in that sub is "Why didn't Biden fire Louis DeJoy in his first 100 days?" The convos go like this...
Them: "You don't understand how politics works - do you? Biden can't just pick up the phone and fire DeJoy. You understand that, right?"
"Okay, Biden fires the GOP people on the postal board, installs his own people, and they fire DeJoy."
"Oh my goodness. Postal Board? You don't understand the process at all. There is no 'postal board'. There's the USPS Board of Governors..."
"I'll be right back. I'll find an great article I read written by a journo who explains how the process of shitcanning DeJoy would work. And he uses all the right terms."
Of course - I get nowhere. They might stop talking. Or tell me the convo is pointless and then they leave. Or they claim they scanned the article and say they don't agree with it. But they refuse to explain why. The entire thing is ridiculous.
The dems think that their better arguments, their better ideas, their slavish devotion to process, their self-righteousness, and their unshakable belief in "better angels of our nature" will eventually win the day. How can that not be the case? They didn't learn a goddamned thing from 8 effing years of Obama.
It's going to be pretty funny to me if there's a highly mysterious number of ballots from only heavily dem zip codes that have errors in the postmarks. Then - of course - GOP judges and justice say "Sorry, we have no choice - the ballots must be rejected. They are in error." DeJoy is seen smiling every day - all day log. The rejected ballots come at a very high cost to the democrats and to our democracy. Oh, well.
How is the podcast? I didn't even know the name until you mentioned it. For about the last 2 years - I haven't paid any attention at all to CTH - the pod had way too much filler for my taste. And I know almost nothing about the CTH extended universe.
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I don't remember the details because I intentionally didn't want to learn more. But I seem to remember Biden appointed some new people and - whoever they were - they weren't going to shitcan DeJoy by themselves.
As time went on - I started to mention DeJoy only in passing and without much enthusiasm. It's pretty funny when libs are in "vote" mode. They don't even pretend to listen so arguing with them about anything is pointless. Bull elephants in musth are best entirely avoided and the same goes for libs in "vote" mode.
I'll give it a try. I wish it had a transcript but Matt would never do that for anything.