2022 GQP Election Shithousery

[Jive Turkey 12568]

I feel like this needs its own thread because this is just the first we will see of this:  GQP refusing to certify election results that they don't like during this election season.  As has been stated, 2020 was just the test run.

big shocker.  the clown leading this charge, Couy Griffin, founder of Cowboys 4 Trump, was convicted for his role on January 6.

 

Edited June 16, 2022 by Jive Turkey

[Jive Turkey 12568]

oh, and 2024 could be the coup de grace, especially if shitheads like this guy are elected (which they will be in several key states):

 

[David Dennison 18660]

Relax, Democrats just need to move to the center and appeal to moderates, then everything will be OK.

[Fudge Nuggets 19151]

39 minutes ago, Jive Turkey said:

oh, and 2024 could be the coup de grace, especially if shitheads like this guy are elected (which they will be in several key states):

 

Like 3putt has said many times, this is why you hang the traitors ASAP.

[Blotto 23434]

"We just dont trust the machines" is not a valid reason for not certifying an election. If thats the GOP stance why even have the elections in the first place, as certification would be problematic no matter the results. And thats where we are heading. 

This is country is so fucked. 2022 will be a shitshow. 2024 will be the final nail in the coffin. Don't like the results....throw 'em out and install who you want. Aggressively countering this voter fraud bullshit should have been the top priority for democratic leadership. The entirety of your policy wish list becomes a useless circle jerk if you cant even ensure democracy continues. Yet here we are, coming up on two years since the 2020 elections, things are getting worse on that front, not better. MAGA lunatics are challenging results in their own primaries (GOP on GOP) so you know what coming in the general elections. 

 

[David Dennison 18660]

Sarcasm aside, it would be great if the left had a strategy in place for what everyone knows is coming. I have no idea what the plan is when the shit hits the fan.

[Pato del Muerto 52342]

Oddly, there doesn’t seem to be any fraud accusations or machine questioning when a Republican beats a democrat.  (Please don’t say Stacey Abrams, it’s well documented what her complaints are and neither are fraud or instrumentation)
 

yet. Fight fire with fire I guess. 

[DixonHur 11227]

Honest question, when one of these idiots refuses to certify the results, what happens next?  How is a winner determined?  

[henrygandorf 29177]

when the corrupt state-level officials inject their fuckery into the 2024 election and trump wins, there will be riots that make january 6th look like january 7th. 

because january 7th was fairly quiet and everyone had pretty much gone home.

[David Dennison 18660]

3 minutes ago, henrygandorf said:

when the corrupt state-level officials inject their fuckery into the 2024 election and trump wins, there will be riots that make january 6th look like january 7th. 

because january 7th was fairly quiet and everyone had pretty much gone home.

Seriously. We can't expect college-educated Democratic voters to miss work just because of a little ol' thing like fascism.

[Nice Guy Eddie 13414]

5 hours ago, Jive Turkey said:

I feel like this needs its own thread because this is just the first we will see of this:  GQP refusing to certify election results that they don't like during this election season.  Has as been stated, 2020 was just the test run.

big shocker.  the clown leading this charge, Couy Griffin, founder of Cowboys 4 Trump, was convicted for his role on January 6.

 

It shouldn't be forgotten that these actions can be traced back to GWB's presidency. Remember when he was yelling about voter fraud. Even went as far as to fire US Attorneys that failed to find fraud cases. Link. It was all in the name of passing laws that would discourage Dems from voting. Lie about voter fraud for 20+ years and people start to believe you.

[Satchel 6908]

Our current predicament underscores the calamity that was Trump’s elevation to the presidency. His naked thirst for power made manifest in his brilliant ability to get millions to believe a lie designed to destroy democracy, has resulted in the codification of near ubiquitous voter bills that all but ensure the end of the country as we know it.

[Blotto 23434]

4 hours ago, DixonHur said:

Honest question, when one of these idiots refuses to certify the results, what happens next?  How is a winner determined?  

The winner will be  the candidate who owns the largest number of firearms. I'm pretty sure thats already in the constitution. 

[atomheartbevo 89449]

8 hours ago, DixonHur said:

Honest question, when one of these idiots refuses to certify the results, what happens next?  How is a winner determined?  

NM Supreme Court told them to do their job.

 

[Neonmoon 38127]

Wait till they control the NM Supreme Court. 

[David Dennison 18660]

6 hours ago, Satchel said:

Our current predicament underscores the calamity that was Trump’s elevation to the presidency. His naked thirst for power made manifest in his brilliant ability to get millions to believe a lie designed to destroy democracy, has resulted in the codification of near ubiquitous voter bills that all but ensure the end of the country as we know it.

We had a pretty OK run. Could have been better. Could have been worse.

[tx 3 putt 76400]

it's amazing that it took one crooked con man to bring down this whole country 

 

 

[WhatTheBuck 28713]

8 hours ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:

It shouldn't be forgotten that these actions can be traced back to GWB's presidency. Remember when he was yelling about voter fraud. Even went as far as to fire US Attorneys that failed to find fraud cases. Link. It was all in the name of passing laws that would discourage Dems from voting. Lie about voter fraud for 20+ years and people start to believe you.

Another one of a thousand ways that Dubya foreshadowed Trump. 

[Zepol87 9171]

Man this shit is gonna get so much worse. Fuck

[CooterBrown 17913]

Honest question, when one of these idiots refuses to certify the results, what happens next?  How is a winner determined?  

IIRC, some states passed laws that allow the state leg to pick winners if a vote isn’t certified.

[Biff Tannen 45499]

16 hours ago, David Dennison said:

Relax, Democrats just need to move to the center and appeal to moderates, then everything will be OK.

My in-laws literally said this last night. They have no idea the rat fuckery that is happening. 

[Fudge Nuggets 19151]

13 hours ago, Satchel said:

Our current predicament underscores the calamity that was Trump’s elevation to the presidency. His naked thirst for power made manifest in his brilliant ability to get millions to believe a lie designed to destroy democracy, has resulted in the codification of near ubiquitous voter bills that all but ensure the end of the country as we know it.

Too many big words and won’t fit in a tweet. 

6/10.

[DigglerontheHoof 21065]

Hence the reason for the ledge.  

[Goredho 17349]

22 hours ago, David Dennison said:

Relax, Democrats just need to move to the center and appeal to moderates, then everything will be OK.

This shit doesn’t have anything to do with liberalism, conservatism or centricity.   Conservatism isn’t inherently bad, and sometimes has been in the majority of people’s best interests.  The inverse is also true for liberalism.  The problem is when either is applied as policy to people against their will.  Then the policy’s main characteristic becomes authoritarian and where it falls on the conservative/liberal spectrum becomes an irrelevant detail.
 

Free and fair elections are the only way we can ever ensure we have a government for, by and of the people without a violent revolution.  You don’t get that by moving left on a political spectrum.  You get it by shoring up the guardrails of democracy.  But where is the effort by Democrats to do this?  The GOP is busy passing laws in various states to undermine voters rights.  Where is the opposition effort to pass laws protecting voters rights?

More than anything, Trump was a gateway drug to authoritarianism.  He revealed that the strong democracy we thought existed was mostly a collection unenforced norms adhered to by better men.  It’s been a year and a half since a Presidential coup was attempted in the US, and we have not hardened our democracy in any meaningful way.  We are just now talking about it for what it was, and the vast majority of Americans are tuned out trying to keep their heads above the rising economic waters.  

On January 6th 2021, the lights of the shining city on a hill flickered.  Unless something changes our present course, those lights will go out forever on November 5th, 2024.  Future generations will look back at that period and wonder — why was nothing done to protect American democracy when there was still time?

Shit is fucking depressing.

Edited June 16, 2022 by Goredho

[henrygandorf 29177]

On 6/15/2022 at 8:23 AM, David Dennison said:

Relax, Democrats just need to move to the center

the center lol.

it's as if a bunch of mobster trumpers drove by and were like, "hey, that's a really nice center you got there.  would be a shame if something happened to it."