re: #186 Targetpractice

How do you figure Repubs have nothing to lose in this? If Trump fails to steal the election, the most he loses is the presidency and thus his immunity from criminal and civil prosecution. He’ll walk away insisting to his dying day that he was “robbed” of a second term and that the Dems were guilty of “fraud.”

For the Repubs, there is not easy exit from this runaway train. They’re risking legal and political consequences with their increasingly insane efforts to undermine Biden’s victory. Suppose PA Repubs go forward with their suggestions of just outright invalidating the election results and sending their own electors to give Trump their state’s electoral votes. There is no scenario where they get away with that without consequences.

To be blunt, if PA state legislators send a slate of GOP electors to the electoral college to try to help Trump, they are the ones who risk being disemboweled by an enraged mob, not Trump.

Sure, they would love to put Trump in office to piss off the libtards, but it would need to be risk-free, which it isn’t.

Ditto for the Supreme Court. Roberts and Gorsuch, at least, realize that literally making Trump a dictator would reduce their personal power. So what is in it for them? It’s not as if Trump can be trusted to make good on any bribes he promises.

What I’m seeing is ankle-biters like Graham, Gingrich, and the Fox talking heads cheering this shit on from their safe rear-echelon motherfucker perches. It’s nerve-wracking and these shitbirds all need to be fucked massively with flaming cactuses, but that by itself not a direct threat.

Of course one word from McConnell would have shut all this down — he could have said everyone in America can pursue their claims in court no matter how frivolous they are. But he didn’t. So the GOP establishment is deliberately not doing anything effective to discourage Trump’s madness, probably because they want to keep the base energized for the GA runoff.

And if something unexpected happens, the GOP has no real problem with Trump becoming a dictator — they just don’t want to take the risks on his behalf. So the entire GOP establishment also needs to be massively fucked with those flaming cactuses.