Thursday, September 03, 2020

The Child Who Murdered His Parents Now Pleads That He's an Orphan

Trump always denies reality and at the same time blames someone else for his failures.  So he's going to blame China when he loses in November:

This is all bloody obvious:  Trump will blame China when he loses in November.  But let us remember Trump still says voters were bussed into New Hampshire (to vote twice?  And without being registered?  Sure, why not?) in 2016, and "millions of illegal votes" were cast in California by non-citizens because sure, why not?  He also said Obama wasn't born in America, which somehow never caused the Republic to fall or Obama's election or re-election to be (seriously) questioned.

And by "seriously" I mean in a court of law.  The "Brooks Brothers riot" in Florida may have influenced the Supreme Court (Lord knows what they were thinking in Bush v. Gore, aside from installing Bush), but it didn't lead to violence in the streets.  In fact, we have violence in the streets now:  Portland, Kenosha, D.C.  And yet the Republic stands.  I don't see anyone burning police buildings or looting stores in Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, California, Florida....I could list 48 states not seeing any civil unrest at all.  I don't count BLM marches as "violence," and from what I read, the violence at some of them is backlash (police or counterprotesters), not protesters burning down cities.  So, frankly, the violence Trump might prompt, if he could, would be fewer people on the streets than in his "boat parades".  Let's all remember the people with guns who garnered so much attention demanding economies "re-open."  All the pictures I could find showed a dozen people, maybe two dozen; and they got attention because they carried guns.  But what effect did they have?  Who marched with them demanding their rights to get a haircut?

The bars in Texas are still closed.

So if Trump screams that "Millions of ballots!" were sent here from China, where will his proof come from?  And what will happen?  Rioters storm statehouses demanding Trump be installed as POTUS? Attacking the meeting places of the electoral college in their states, demanding the appointment of Trump loyalists to be sent to D.C.?  Surrounding the Capitol and insisting the Congress appoint Trump despite the final vote count?

Yeah, I don't see it.

The election is governed by laws and the Constitution.  It would require a massive, systemic, breakdown of that system to override the vote count that is finally achieved.  Despite fears of Trump claiming victory on November 3, only to be proven wrong by mail-in ballot counts later, we really don't have to know the outcome of the race before midnight, and AP is not really the official counter of votes and projector of winners, any more than Wall Street is a leading economic indicator.  Trump may scream about vote fraud, but he can't do anything about it.  The laws will tell us how to tabulate the votes, and without something more than "Logic" as an argument, AG Barr can't get into a courtroom and pull a Bush v. Gore victory out of his....well, posterior.  Bush at least had some facts (the recount in Florida, upon which the whole determination turned).  If all Barr has is rank speculation and unfounded conspiracy theories, he can't even get a TRO.

Trump will scream, Trump will yell, and a few people will take him seriously.  But unless he wins the electoral college on the final vote count, he won't be raising his hand again to take the oath of office he has so thoroughly violated already.  And nothing he screams about will affect the outcome of the Congressional races.  If the House and Senate are placed in Democratic hands, and Biden wins the electoral college tally, Trump's screams will be of interest to the audience for FoxNews and OAN; and nobody else.
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