Wishful thinking here. It's more than guys declaring themselves cool. When a candidate tries to claim victory it has a small but real effect on trust in the process. To declare victory before all votes are counted is to undermine the future of the process.https://twitter.com/platformpapi/status/1324083288361717760 …
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Venkatesh Rao Retweeted Jordan Acker
Ugh. Making the sausage in a democracy can get real ugly. Who the hell are all these people? I thought it would be more orderly "observing" by a few campaign reps from each side. This is a mosh pit.https://twitter.com/JordanAckerMI/status/1324072809283420160 …
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Jordan AckerVerified account @JordanAckerMIIn fact, the @MIGOP has so overwhelmed the Detroit vote counting room with “challengers” (most who are not lawyers), preventing actual Dem lawyers from actually getting in. Sure feels like a deliberate attempt to try to steal the election. pic.twitter.com/pIZCzUB6VH3 replies 1 retweet 8 likesShow this thread -
Trump campaign now has 3 legal filings going. 2 in PA, 1 in MI, plus a recount request in WI. Legal full-court press. Biden team seems to have burned veterans of 2000 Gore/Florida shitshow working on it, so looks evenly matched.
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One of them is a supreme court filing to basically take over from the PA supreme court... procedural crap but the eleventh-hour Barrett confirmation will make a difference here.
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Just because I’ve made my peace with all outcomes btw doesn’t mean I think they’re the same. If Florida endgame has gone differently in 2000, we might have been way ahead on climate action and possibly avoided Iraq war. 9/11, Katrina, and GFC would likely still have happened.
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Venkatesh Rao Retweeted 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙉𝙚𝙪𝙩𝙧𝙖𝙡 𝘼𝙢𝙗𝙖𝙨𝙨𝙖𝙙𝙤𝙧
DDoS is a good metaphor. Both Trump campaign and irregulars are trying to DDoS the process with legal actions and “citizen observer” intimidation.https://twitter.com/beckness/status/1324095054558990336?s=21 …
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One reason I’m livetweeting this election is I want to have an appropriately emotion-charged strong personal memory of it. Which is possible thanks to Twitter. If this is a big historical fork, I want to remember it well.
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Axios argues that win or lose the strong performance means Trump will retain control of the GOP and perhaps tease a rerun in 2024 if he loses. Well, the battered wife is choosing to stay in abusive marriage. No surprise there.
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Possibly future: Biden wins but never finds his feet. Trump runs and wins again in 2024 at age 78 and rules a full 2 terms. Kanye win in 2032 and rules till 2040. And in the meantime millennial and zoomer social media celebs fight for 2040+ as planet cooks. This is not a blip.
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He can't run for two more terms unless they change the Constitution.
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Does the 2 term limit apply with a gap?
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Thankfully yes. Relevant text: No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice,
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