Reckon those dirty Trumpers gave their spoiled bitch enablers a shock by getting too close. Oh, the stink of our plebs...

On the positive side the GOP is totally fucked now. :party: (Sorry @Hanover, you know I'm right).

Cockroach Kevin McCarthy on CBS just now, part of the election-denial crowd that gleefully made this happen, calling for bringing people together. :vomit:

"The officer in the House chamber just told lawmakers they may need to duck under their chairs, adding that there are protestors in the rotunda of the US Capitol.

Lawmakers have been told to "be prepared" to relocate to cloakroom."

https://edition.cnn.com/politics/live-news/congress-electoral-college-vote-count-2021/index.html

But, but, let's just humour Trump some more.

(Fascists? Haha, you crazy libs.)

MAGAt terrorists attacking Capitol. Bomb threats. Pence evacuated. Happy now, Republicans?

Think so? — ssu

Oh, no, that was sarcasm. :wink:

But Purdue is up by 100 votes! (Meanwhile almost all remaining 100,000 votes are in heavily democratic Atlanta counties where Ossoff is winning 85 to 15%).

All the sources I’m reading say ‘too close to call’. — Wayfarer

Wasserman called this hours ago, The NYT needle virtually called it hours ago. The obituaries are being written. Stop watching CNN who are trying to make it exciting for the plebs.

Oh my, Republican clown world is falling apart. What a surprise.

Trump's latest plan is to get Pence to just announce that he won instead of Biden tomorrow. Pretend he can't count. That'll work.

Yes, it's OK to piss on pond scum but not to swim in it. :vomit:

... Fuckwits even entertaining the idea of election fraud being an element in Biden's win, which is at best a figment of Trump's deranged imagination and at worst a deliberate web of lies aimed at subverting democracy (and probably some combination of both) should be treated with the contempt they deserve. I mean imagine the utter debasement of turning deluded just to satisfy someone else's sense of delusion or trying to destroy your own democracy just to feed someone else's ego. Turn your nose away from the stink. Don't even reply.

Don't read @NOS4A2 at all anymore. I just presume watching his way of coping with his master's downfall would be the equivalent of staring at fresh roadkill.

What struck me most was the pleading tone in Trump's voice. This was not a man confident at wielding power. This was a sore loser begging for help. It was pleading and pathetic. — StreetlightX

#Trumpbegged is trending. Cringeworthy.

Thing is if Trump approached one of his sycophant supporters and admitted straight out to their face "I am 100% totally and utterly corrupt", all they would hear is "MAGA!" and cheer him on.

The bad news is that simple honesty is an act of heroism. — Hanover

Let's hope he doesn't get shot.

The House won't vote to reject a state's electors. — Michael

The Senate won't either. Not a hope in hell Romney, Collins and Murkowski, for a start, will vote for a coup. Even McConnell won't.

This is not going to happen but I really hope enough Trump supporters believe it is as I will immediately bet large amounts of money against them and increase my net wealth significantly.

Unless you fuck kids and get caught — StreetlightX

There, fixed it for you.

Yes, the game is 'how can we not do the right thing and minimise the chances of us getting blamed for it'.

Dirty, dirty, play. No-one wants that law repealed. It would lead to chaos. But pretending he does is probably his only realistic option given the spot Trump put him in.

Worth the mention. Though I guess further evidence that Trump is a fucking idiot is kind of redundant now.

... Dublin — ssu

Yes, we'll take your jobs and money. Thanks, Nigel. :up:

Full capitulation imminent.

https://www.rte.ie/news/2020/1223/1186088-brexit-talks-latest/

Hey, it's Christmas. Maybe no one will notice!

By goading EU countries into taking strong measures against the UK and then painting them as trying to control, or punish us and creating the image of Johnson as our saviour. This works with either a deal, or a no deal. Also it creates a smoke screen of chaos, classic divide and rule tactics. — Punshhh

That's what I see too.

It’s very close, but this morning the British made a final offer and the EU rejected it and Johnson is vociferous that there is no compromise on fish — Punshhh

Johnson folded and the EU said, "Non! Foldez plus!". French are playing hardball.

I saw that. The Newsmax one was quite amusing. The newscaster looked like he wanted the ground to open up...

The election is over and it has been found free and fair. The fact that the Trump tinfoil-hat train lost 60 cases, including in front of the Supreme Court, underlines that they more than had their chance to demonstrate otherwise and failed miserably, so take your conspiracy-theorising elsewhere. It's embarrassingly foolish.

It's coming.

Fucking hell.

Don't know much about the internal dynamics of the ERG, but I suspect at least some of them are sick of this shit too and looking for a face-saving exit (and Johnson has close personal allies there like JRM, so there's that too).

Article outlines pretty much exactly how I see things. :up:

Yes, although I would point out that the climb down will have to come from the UK side, — Punshhh

Yes, the EU has that clown by the balls. Being a buffoon may work domestically but internationally it makes you roadkill.

We could keep proliferating categories, I guess. Some of it is like the kid who plays along with the Santa myth because he really wants to believe it as much as he knows it's not true. More of it is a kind of trolling recalcitrance, "I know but I'll be damned if I'll admit to you I know". Some of it is cynical political gameplaying, and yes, there are a few full on QAnon-type nutjobs who are rallying for a cause they truly believe is righteous.

And so I'm left with the truth, which is that there is no evidence of election rigging and so anyone who says there is or who attempts to invalidate a fair election should be thwarted. Why people might be motivated to argue one side of the other probably varies from person to person, but it's largely irrelevant at the end of the analysis. The question is who do you want in office moving forward: Those who side with the truth or those who don't. — Hanover

:up:

Ha, yes, exactly.

Yes, but, of course, there was never anything to the cases. They were, on the one hand, clownish attempts at pacifying Trump's ego and, on the other, a fundraising scheme to con his gullible supporters out of hundreds of millions, most of which will go straight into his pocket. So, who knows? This may continue regardless of where we are in the process and the continued futility of the cause.

The goon show is coming to an end.

Voter: Hi there, I'd like some representative democracy please.
System: So sorry, we don't have that this century. We do have plenty of other choices though. For example, you can have a corporate plutocracy or how about a nice cryptofascist oligarchy?
Voter:... Or?
System: Or you can fuck off and die. Have a nice day!