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Donald Trump's lawyers doing a press conference in Philadelphia at 11:30am EST
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Trump's team thought Jared Kushner had assembled a legal team ready to go on election day. Kushner thought Trump's team was doing it. They assembled a legal team on Weds. Like, this past Weds.
At some point is there not a risk (hope) that there are counter suits by either individuals or states against the republicans for obstruction of due process/justice - something like that?
There is also the matter of putting an incompetent donator at the helm of the postal services and slow down the mails processing, even refusing to follow court order to speed up processing and delivery for discovered stashes of ballots.
Slow down processing so you can ask to stop counting the mail arriving too late... if that's not a plan i don't know what it is.
Damn, those pieces of fraud are very weak.
To trumpet what Trump did so quickly was an incredible mistake. There is and was no way they had anything and to double down with hotlines asking for it?
Worst part is that 'it' doesn't likely mean shit. As an Election Worker I can tell you it's HARD to get through this process without a mistake but NONE of the mistakes affect voters. 'The Vote' is sacrosanct and it has to make it through so many people to get counted.
To trumpet what Trump did so quickly was an incredible mistake. There is and was no way they had anything and to double down with hotlines asking for it?
Worst part is that 'it' doesn't likely mean shit. As an Election Worker I can tell you it's HARD to get through this process without a mistake but NONE of the mistakes affect voters. 'The Vote' is sacrosanct and it has to make it through so many people to get counted.
Iannucci wrote this, didn't he?
I can just hear Malcolm screaming at people about this glorious fuckup.
I can just hear Malcolm screaming at people about this glorious fuckup.
Wait a sec, how is that case, even hypothetically speaking, "fraud"? Assuming the ballot in question was send via mail, then it's just important whether the person was alive and eligible to vote at the moment the ballot was sent.
If the ballot in question was actually handed into a polling station, then it's the same story, it has to count if the person was alive and eligible at the moment of casting their vote.
How is it fraudulent if a person happens to die after early voting? Or did you mean "after dying" there?
He's been a victim of this entire four years. There are no scripts left for him to write but he would have written this one exactly like it turned out.
His plan in PA was to ask the state legislature, which is controlled by a GOP majority, to throw out the popular vote altogether on allegations of fraud and have the legislature itself pick the electors without a popular vote. He tried to get that ball rolling a couple of days ago and the PA GOP basically told him to go fuck himself.
Outside a few on fox news, everyone in the press his ripping him a new one for this shit. They are fucking done with him.
This is a weird street. Next to the crematorium is a small event center:
Surprised they didn't try to pretend they were using the event center as some kind of base of operations.
It's easy to laugh this off, but the fucker cou
I am hoping that when the dust has settled this plan will be investigated. People are busy celebrating Trumps loss at the moment, but I suspect that he very almost successfully stole an election. Without his fuckery, Biden may have been WAY out in front, not this near miss. Also, Trump is a complete dumb ass, and the plan is quite cunning. This is why I'm convinced that Russia has been advising all along. Time will tell.
Aside from the USPS shenanigans this paints a pretty good picture.
The role of Fox News in the plan's failure is incredible, especially since they were fully aware of the implications and honestly the plan itself, seeing that they have worked with GOP staff to plan out TV interviews.
The unsung heroes of the election: USPS, Gritty...and Fox News. You couldn't pay someone a million dollars to believe that if you told them back in January.
Lololol could it possibly be true that they booked this by mistake thinking it was the hotel??
The best part of that Fox News AZ call was that it really was premature and wrong to make. Trump's batshit "stop the count"narrative got completely derailed because Fox News (and AP) actually did kinda fuck up that one call. It's some poetic shit.
Well I can't think of another explanation. Should have gone with a Four Seasons pizza.
Edit: ok, I thought of an alternate explanation:
The original Trump Tweet simply said
Lawyers Press Conference at Four Seasons, Philadelphia. 11:00 A.M.
It could be that they planned to host it at the hotel but were turned down.
Because Trump had already tweeted the name and is incapable of being wrong, his team were forced to find another Four Seasons, so they went with the landscaping company. This is potentially a better sit-com setup than the alternative.
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Someone explained earlier here that not every state as a law about situations like these and these laws can go either way (yes some state void votes if death happens after cast)
Those that don't could be argued in court which would then be case by case and judgement could go either way.
Not only that, but it's literally counter weighting his dumbshit "how do you just randomly climb back with votes" rhetoric. So it works in multiple ways.
The bestest bit is the exact same scenario happened in a 2015 episode of Veep where Selina's reelection campaign finds missing votes, demands the vote count keeps going, get the stay and when they find they're trending to her oppenent flips and demands the count then stop.
This is normal for them. This is a final reminder of how they've been running the country for 4 fucking years.
4 seasons total landscaping?
what a fantastic way to end his presidency.
4 seasons total landscaping?
what a fantastic way to end his presidency.
Seriously. Trump made (and is technically still flailing around to make) an attempt to overturn election results and stage a coup to force himself as continued president. This cannot be ignored and should have some damn consequences. He needs to be made an example of so no future GOP candidates try again.
I got to imagine that every major journalist is trying to be the one that gets the scoop on this story given how popular it's going to be.
Imagine the dude who got the phone call by a random Trump official.
"Well, sure, you can hold a press conference here, if you want to. Let me just move the truck..."
The New York Magazine is already working on it:
JFC. I can't believe this really happened. It's like a plot arc in a Zach Galifianakis movie.
Just utter flailing nonsense from the president's crack legal team.
Unbelievable.
This is going to be some priceless journalism. lmao
Just utter flailing nonsense from the president's crack legal team.
Unbelievable.
This is going to be some priceless journalism. lmao
You guys just made me watch that garbage presser again. He was saying her request to vote was received the day after the one listed on her obituary. The ballot was mailed to her a day later, and her vote was received about two weeks later.
Even if that did happen, it's not that surprising. I remember the same situation from four years ago where a Trump voter died and a family member filled in the absentee for them because it was that person's wish that if they died their vote still make it. Probably the same thing here. Not legal, but I can understand why it happens, and it's not something that's happening widespread.
Now, if this were a situation where people who had been dead for years were voting, yeah, we'd have an issue.
You know, I really don't care about anything else Trump related at this point, but I really, really, need to know WTF happened here that they ended up having this press conference in a parking lot next to an adult bookstore/sex shop. I really need to know this.
To be fair, there are a couple of houses and an auto body shop between the lot and the sex shop. Next door in the other direction is a ministry and across the street next to the crematorium is an event center for hosting events. Pretty busy place. Still funny.
This is hilarious. This place actually looks nice. They could have done it here and it would have been a lot less weird.This is a weird street. Next to the crematorium is a small event center:
Surprised they didn't try to pretend they were using the event center as some kind of base of operations.
So ruled out that the business was owned by a 'fraud witness' or 'trump supporter'?
The only explanation left is the booking mistake...
The only explanation left is the booking mistake...
Those Tweets are just from someone who changed their display name.
Luke Barnett | Actor, Writer, Producer
Known for: For All Mankind, Faith Based, Your Lucky Day
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Those Tweets are just from someone who changed their display name.
Luke Barnett | Actor, Writer, Producer
Known for: For All Mankind, Faith Based, Your Lucky Day
I don't even know anymore...
I was wondering more about the specific word "fraud" which suggests some sort of malice on the person doing it.
Now that I think about this, I'm not sure how those states that allow early voting (not by mail, but in actual polling stations) determine whether the person has died before election day. You'd need to be able to assign their ballot to their name, but that would mean you could also reconstruct how every single person voted, which seems to go against a big principle in democratic elections (that votes are cast anonymously) .
Ah. Ok that makes sense.Those Tweets are just from someone who changed their display name.
Luke Barnett | Actor, Writer, Producer
Known for: For All Mankind, Faith Based, Your Lucky Day
It's also all useless unless it was won by a single vote.
Even an entire graveyard's worth wouldn't change the result here.