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American History’s Most Rewarding Perp Walk
Straight from the White House to the Big House
For the past few years I’ve had this wonderful little fantasy where Trump gets impeached or charged with treason or — oh, I don’t know — refuses to leave office after being clearly democratically defeated at the polls and is therefore dragged from the White House in handcuffs. And my dudes, it is looking increasingly likely that we are going to get to see this play out.
Get your popcorn ready.
Until rather recently whilst I indulged in this fantasy I didn’t really think it would happen. I was rather entertained at Trump’s twitter meltdowns and his speech of great untruths given on the evening of November 5th was truly entertaining.
Certainly, I did expect Trump to try to prematurely announce victory the evening of November 3rd before he had even secured Texas. And I wasn’t terribly surprised — in fact, I wasn’t really surprised at all — when he started throwing about lawsuits and telling all who would listen to his ravings that he was going to take this to the Supreme Court so his precious Amy and Brett could fix it for him.
Karma, however, and as I think we all now fully appreciate is one helluva b*tch. After Donnie boy made that speech claiming he’d won before he’d even surpassed 200 Electoral College votes the election immediately started going downhill for him. And this was predictable. Republicans had tried to get states to not count ballots including mail-in ballots until election day meaning that not only was the typical dynamic where in person ballots are counted first and then the mail-in ballots added to that vote afterwards but states like Wisconsin and Pennsylvania which will both go blue couldn’t start until November 3rd and therefore had a long drawn out process of slowly but surely turning blue.
Tellingly, this whole foolishness was actually a plan they had. Per usual the Republicans were trying to keep people of colour away from the polls and do their usual vote suppression shenanigans that you can read ALL about at the Brennan Centre for Justice. But on top of…
