Indecision 2020 continued
Nov. 5th, 2020 04:28 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
plutherusGuess I'm doing another entry about the election.
I'm watching trump whine about how he was winning and now he's not and it must be because of the corruption.
Not that he can cite any evidence of corruption.
He thinks they should have stopped counting ballots as soon as it looked like he was winning.
Let's review a bit, here, though.
For months he's been urging his followers not to vote by mail.
Now he says "In all cases these mail in ballots are one sided. It's amazing how they're all so one sided."
Seriously? After telling your flock not to vote by mail, you're really that surprised that most of them didn't vote by mail?
OK, let's review a bit here:
1. Democrats (mostly) expand voting choices so people don't have to crowd together at the polls during a pandemic
2. Republicans try to block them, knowing that the easier it is to vote, the more votes the Democrats would get. They know the majority doesn't want them, so their only recourse is voter suppression. It's been their tactic for a few decades now.
3. Attempts to block mail in voting (mostly) fail. DeJoy begins sabotaging the post office - removing sorting machines, banning overtime, etc., in a move widely called out as an attempt to slow down mail to interfere with the election. He is ordered to restore sorting machines but the damage had already been done.
4. Republicans pass laws in many states forbidding counting of mail-in ballots before the polls close.
5. Republicans sue Pennsylvania, who, along with several other states, have stated they will consider a ballot postmarked by november 3rd to be valid, even if, in the now slowed down post office, it takes several days to get to the election office. They lose their case, as even the packed supreme court can't find any reason why that would be unconstitutional.
6. November 3rd, as polls close, and votes begin to be counted. In-person votes were mostly counted first. Then, they began counting the mailed in votes. Two days later, ballots are still arriving, and being counted. The trump administration tries to get the supreme court to stop the counting, but so far they are not doing so.
7. Trump declares himself victor, and his followers don't understand why that doesn't work. Early results (from in-person voting) seem to indicate he'll win. Many people - myself included, a few posts ago - accept that this is likely the case.
8. But, as the voting continues, they get to all the mailed ballots. Starting with the ones that arrived by election day. As these ballots are counted, the votes begin to swing the other way, indicating Biden has a chance at winning. Many pundits had already warned that this would happen and, it seems obvious in hindsight.
9. These are the ballots that trump is pretending to not understand where they came from or why they would heavily favor Biden (maybe he really doesn't understand. It's possible that he's just stupid, not lying.) His followers eat it up of course.
And that brings us to today's press briefing, which I'm gonna go finish watching now that I've got that out of my system.
I'm watching trump whine about how he was winning and now he's not and it must be because of the corruption.
Not that he can cite any evidence of corruption.
He thinks they should have stopped counting ballots as soon as it looked like he was winning.
Let's review a bit, here, though.
For months he's been urging his followers not to vote by mail.
Now he says "In all cases these mail in ballots are one sided. It's amazing how they're all so one sided."
Seriously? After telling your flock not to vote by mail, you're really that surprised that most of them didn't vote by mail?
OK, let's review a bit here:
1. Democrats (mostly) expand voting choices so people don't have to crowd together at the polls during a pandemic
2. Republicans try to block them, knowing that the easier it is to vote, the more votes the Democrats would get. They know the majority doesn't want them, so their only recourse is voter suppression. It's been their tactic for a few decades now.
3. Attempts to block mail in voting (mostly) fail. DeJoy begins sabotaging the post office - removing sorting machines, banning overtime, etc., in a move widely called out as an attempt to slow down mail to interfere with the election. He is ordered to restore sorting machines but the damage had already been done.
4. Republicans pass laws in many states forbidding counting of mail-in ballots before the polls close.
5. Republicans sue Pennsylvania, who, along with several other states, have stated they will consider a ballot postmarked by november 3rd to be valid, even if, in the now slowed down post office, it takes several days to get to the election office. They lose their case, as even the packed supreme court can't find any reason why that would be unconstitutional.
6. November 3rd, as polls close, and votes begin to be counted. In-person votes were mostly counted first. Then, they began counting the mailed in votes. Two days later, ballots are still arriving, and being counted. The trump administration tries to get the supreme court to stop the counting, but so far they are not doing so.
7. Trump declares himself victor, and his followers don't understand why that doesn't work. Early results (from in-person voting) seem to indicate he'll win. Many people - myself included, a few posts ago - accept that this is likely the case.
8. But, as the voting continues, they get to all the mailed ballots. Starting with the ones that arrived by election day. As these ballots are counted, the votes begin to swing the other way, indicating Biden has a chance at winning. Many pundits had already warned that this would happen and, it seems obvious in hindsight.
9. These are the ballots that trump is pretending to not understand where they came from or why they would heavily favor Biden (maybe he really doesn't understand. It's possible that he's just stupid, not lying.) His followers eat it up of course.
And that brings us to today's press briefing, which I'm gonna go finish watching now that I've got that out of my system.
