Someone Has To Do It: US Elections 2020

[Eggchaser]

She is going to give Mitch McConnell the heart attack he so richly deserves.

As Eddie Valiant said, "You need a heart before you can have an attack."

[WOM]

When are we expecting the call / final tally on AZ and GA?

[ursus arctos]

We won't have final tallies for a while, particularly in Georgia due to the recount. Arizona might be done this week.

We are more likely to have calls in the next couple of days, though there is much less pressure on the decision desks now that they have called the race.

[WOM]

I'm just wondering if a win in either / both will take the wind out of the Republican obstructionism. Not Trump's, but maybe his enablers.

[Amor de Cosmos]

Every incremental incoming result will cause the fantasy to fade a little more. Eventually Trump's Little Big Horn will arrive and he'll be surrounded only by family and a handful of utterly deranged Kool-Aid addicts. The rest will already have slunk silently into the night.

[Incandenza]

https://twitter.com/John_Hudson/status/1326225961738772491

[Eggchaser]

Rapture looney heard from.

[Hot Pepsi]

I'm letting this bother me more than it should.

[ursus arctos]

He is claiming it was a "joke"

They are all scum

[ursus arctos]

On that note

https://twitter.com/damianpaletta/status/1326247037348814850

[Ray de Galles]

Biden dealt with Pompeo's comment well, I thought :

https://twitter.com/keitholbermann/status/1326251348287950848?s=21

[Incandenza]

On that note

https://twitter.com/damianpaletta/status/1326247037348814850

This just seems like punishing their own staff while accomplishing nothing. It's the grunts who are going to have to do this work for no purpose.

[ursus arctos]

It's punishing career civil servants who they view as the enemy.

I would give the asshat making the request a binder full of promotional material from Four Seasons Total Landscaping.

[San Bernardhinault]

DDHQ has, unsurprisingly, called North Carolina for Trump and Tillis. There wasn't much suspense there...

[diggedy derek]

Biden seemed amazingly relaxed, much more than, say, me.

[Amor de Cosmos]

Trust me, the medication when you pass 70 is brilliant. It helps

[Hot Pepsi]

It's punishing career civil servants who they view as the enemy.

I would give the asshat making the request a binder full of promotional material from Four Seasons Total Landscaping.

Surely, we'll see a lot more people quit or get fired, perhaps only temporarily, for defying the orders.

[ursus arctos]

If this continues much longer, I expect to see career people essentially daring their political bosses to fire them for insubordination.

[Incandenza]

Sure starting to smell like an attempted coup

https://twitter.com/AaronMehta/status/1326282583613779968

[Lang Spoon]

If the chiefs of staff accept this I guess we are fucked so.

[ursus arctos]

These are all civilian positions without command authority

That said,

https://twitter.com/SenWarren/status/1326289552303140869

[San Bernardhinault]

I assume that these people are lasting in these positions for 2 months and 9 days and promptly getting sacked or reassigned to the War Graves Commission?

[Amor de Cosmos]

“I’m very confident that we will count — and we must count — every legal vote. We must make sure that any vote that wasn’t lawful ought not be counted. That dilutes your vote if it’s done improperly. We got to get that right. And when we get it right, we’ll get it right.” — Mike Pompeo.

The implication then is that the count in every previous US Federal election was deficient?

[ursus arctos]

https://twitter.com/AriBerman/status/1326308864174813185

[Incandenza]

Damn, I guess the deep state got to him