I guess it’s like a mitigating factor when the bank hold up guy does not actually shoot the teller… “Well, he didn’t actually murder anyone, so I guess he’s a good guy”
I think Barr is just giving the big baby a pacifier. He said inquiries could be conducted if there is credible allegations of fraud that could change the results. I have no problem with that, let them invistigate. He also said the DOJ has no evidence of it, and urged neutrality.
There is not going to be any evidence of fraud, other maybe finding 27 ballots in a trash can somewhere.
I want to see two things in the next 70 days. First would be Dr. Anthony Fauci winning Time magazines’ Person of the Year. The second, and I would sign up for Twitter to witness, would be for Trump to be permanently banned.
For a few minutes today I was wondering if they’d actually be bold enough to try to use the court system to delay the inauguration past January 20th - then I remembered that if they did that —It’s President Pelosi time.
So just ignore them and keep celebrating as loudly as you can. They’ve telegraphed today that this is just petty revenge for Russia. It’s more of the same massive trolling.
I was wondering what would happen if everyone named in those lawsuits just ignored them completely. Maybe they are. Play chicken with this bullshit. If they try to delay the inauguration because Rudy files some bogus lawsuit alleging that the guy delivering pizza to the vote center had a fake bottom in the pizza box with ballots underneath, don’t show up. Give them a long leash with the Banana Republic stuff. Get some good campaign footage for Georgia.
When CNN was criticized for not calling states where Biden had a clear and growing lead, their explanation was that they don’t make calls until they estimate about a 99.5% certainty. Maybe I’m being naive, but I assume that their analysts and statisticians felt that degree of certainty when they called Pennsylvania for Biden, and hence the election. I believe (but not sure) that Nevada was called just slightly later, cementing Biden’s win. So I’m pretty confident about the outcome. Less confident about Trump legal chicanery, but we all knew he would likely not concede, so really nothing new or surprising there.
It’s also apparent that Fox and AP were less rigorous when they called Arizona for Biden and were just trying to get a jump on the competition. He’ll probably still win it, but the odds didn’t justify such an early call. But CNN and other networks were much more methodical.
Is it junior modding to say stop talking about noodles? I love noodles, and it’s making me hungry!
There are still some people of integrity left, even in the Trump swamp:
ETA: Maybe “integrity” is too strong a word. Maybe it’s just that there are some boundaries that are just so outlandish that no reasonable person would tolerate their breach.