# Election Day \[Week\]\[Month\[s\]\] \[Year\] 2020 follow-along thread **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [November 3, 2020, 5:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618 "2020-11-03T05:36:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 355
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2020, 6:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/7095 "2020-11-28T06:10:36Z")
[![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/4gG6BJSX4jw/maxresdefault.jpg "Donald Trump Leaves The White House | Spitting Image") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gG6BJSX4jw) On the 21st. ---
**Author:** ![Leaper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4bbf92/32.png) [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2020, 7:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/7096 "2020-11-28T07:47:53Z")
Wow, I haven’t thought of the Kroftt puppets in ages… ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2020, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/7097 "2020-11-28T13:27:25Z")
> [@kenobi\_65](#): > > The recount in Milwaukee County in Wisconsin was completed today, with Biden increasing his net lead over Trump by 132 votes; Three million dollars well spent, Donnie. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2020, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/7098 "2020-11-28T15:44:49Z")
> [@Mike\_Mabes](#): > > I think the question is moot, isn’t a 5-4 vote needed just to hear the case? Trump: “I bought those judges and they did a terrible job. I’m going to sue them!” ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2020, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/7099 "2020-11-28T15:46:30Z")
Not his money, so he doesn’t care. ---
**Author:** ![thorny\_locust](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thorny_locust/32/431_2.png) [@thorny\_locust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thorny_locust)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2020, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/7100 "2020-11-28T16:10:29Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > At this point I would be very surprised if the Supremes do anything other than let all the lower courts’ rulings, mercilessly smacking around Rudy, Sidney & Co., stand. Yeah. The only sense I can make of all this flailing around is that Trump really thinks that all he has to do is to somehow get a case, any case, doesn’t matter if it’s a no-evidence case, up to the Supreme Court: and that the Supremes will then hand him the election. Overturning, on no grounds whatsoever, not only the state he brought the case about, but at least two other states, in order to do so. Again: those are lifetime appointments. Even if five of them can be bought (which I doubt), Trump no longer has anything to buy them with. – well, that’s not quite the only sense I can make of it. He might just think this is a great fundraiser. ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2020, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/7101 "2020-11-28T16:23:54Z")
> [@thorny\_locust](#): > > – well, that’s not quite the only sense I can make of it. He might just think this is a great fundraiser. His binkie is gone, and he wants his binkie. No fair. NO FAAAAIRRRR! \< throws tantrum \> That’s the only thing that his toddler mind can grasp. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2020, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/7102 "2020-11-28T16:29:10Z")
Found it! [![Google Photos](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/byruqkz02-HfFQeowoZV2ldhiSx2iS3lscRu-toExcngdwsTMutOIUXuMJjr0Mz68Lure9VSlKIAL07dgQsT691bZKbhiuOi5-F1tu22-MK_lM6SS3boSh3yh8XPFRQ2MIFXwgLIfg=w600-h315-p-k "New item by John Thornton") ](https://photos.app.goo.gl/z3cuyThw7tqzxXQg8) ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2020, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/7103 "2020-11-28T16:29:24Z")
Yup. Trumps entire life has been trying to ‘win’ at any cost. If bullying doesn’t work, and bribing doesn’t work, then threaten years in court with a dozen lawyers on his ‘side’. People just give up, so it’s a win for Trump. That’s his entire business plan. His entire life plan. He has never had to pay consequences for his actions. I truly believe that he has no concept of losing. He can’t grasp the idea. His entire life is nothing more than excuses. In his mind, he has never lost. In his mind he can’t lose. It’s impossible. I hope to read Mary Trumps book about how this man was created. But I think I already have a pretty good idea. He may find that the judges that he has appointed, while they are conservative, actually have some ethics. And he doesn’t have any control over them. I sure hope so. ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2020, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/7104 "2020-11-28T16:36:01Z")
I wonder when trump is going to throw Gouliani under the bus. He’ll make a good scapegoat for the court losses. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2020, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/7105 "2020-11-28T16:47:21Z")
> [@Tamerlane](#): > > …crazed pulled-from-the-rectum lawsuits… Hmmm… this calls to mind the tag line associated with the _Law & Order_ TV franchise, “snatched from the headlines!” 😆 ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Bravo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_bravo/32/493_2.png) [@Johnny\_Bravo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Bravo)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2020, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/7106 "2020-11-28T17:21:13Z")
I think the newly conservative SCOTUS has a very clear agenda that they intend to pursue over the next couple of decades, and they don’t need Trump in office to do so. He’s been the most useful idiot in American history, but his job is done. They don’t gain anything by handing him the election. ---
**Author:** ![Aspenglow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspenglow/32/76_2.png) [@Aspenglow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspenglow)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2020, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/7107 "2020-11-28T17:22:09Z")
> [@Johnny\_Bravo](#): > > I think the newly conservative SCOTUS has a very clear agenda that they intend to pursue over the next couple of decades, and they don’t need Trump in office to do so. He’s been the most useful idiot in American history, but his job is done. They don’t gain anything by handing him the election. - Perfectly said. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2020, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/7108 "2020-11-28T17:41:02Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > I wonder when trump is going to throw Gouliani under the bus. He’ll make a good scapegoat for the court losses. I know behind the scenes, he has been told Rudy is making him look like a fool(“no need any help from me”). It’s been embarrassing and the thing is, Rudy’s obituary will now be a lot less favorable towards him. ---
**Author:** ![drad\_dog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@drad\_dog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drad_dog)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2020, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/7109 "2020-11-28T17:57:57Z")
No one should miss the emoji on the seal. ---
**Author:** ![Skypist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skypist/32/169_2.png) [@Skypist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skypist)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2020, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/7110 "2020-11-28T18:32:50Z")
What is the difference, again, between the scenario where the House votes for president and each state only gets one vote so “trump wins” versus the one where the House and the Senate could be at odds over the results and Nancy Pelosi is president while the two houses are at an impasse? I mean, what problem with the electoral college produces one situation versus the other? ---
**Author:** ![thorny\_locust](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thorny_locust/32/431_2.png) [@thorny\_locust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thorny_locust)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2020, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/7111 "2020-11-28T19:23:51Z")
> [@Johnny\_Bravo](#): > > They don’t gain anything by handing him the election. Indeed. And they could lose a great deal, because he has no case. If they upend an election over that, disenfranchising large numbers of people in multiple states – all of their power rests on the Constitution and on the reasonably orderly processes of the US government; and they’d be saying, the Constitution doesn’t matter, and the processes of the US government can be upturned or ignored at any time. (That also applies to Congress, while we’re at it. If the Senate refused to accept votes that by all reasonable signs are validly arrived at, they’d be undercutting their own power.) ---
**Author:** ![ctnguy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6de8d8/32.png) [@ctnguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ctnguy)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2020, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/7112 "2020-11-28T23:41:13Z")
And… it’s been dismissed with prejudice by the PA Supreme Court. > ---
**Author:** ![Ann\_Hedonia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ann_hedonia/32/319_2.png) [@Ann\_Hedonia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ann_Hedonia)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2020, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/7113 "2020-11-29T00:28:21Z")
The opinion is pretty harsh, calling the attempts to reverse the election “a fool’s errand, and an arguably unconstitutional one at that”. They also compare the petitioner to a gambler that flips over the table after a losing hand. I think judges are getting really tired of this crap. ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2020, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/7114 "2020-11-29T00:34:39Z")
I’m starting to enjoy Trump losing again and again and again and again and… Every day, he loses again. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618.md?page=354) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618.md?page=356)