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Their strategy is always 'throw pathetic shit at the wall and hope something sticks' and if something doesn't stick they just move on and try something else. (You can do that when you're backed by the richest people in the world and have a well-organized army of amoral sycophants at your disposal.)

Isn't it ranked choice though? Wouldn't that also completely invalidate the argument?

it’s pathetic

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I agree, though I’ll note a consistent pattern: it’s always a sign of weakness until the Supreme Court shows up

My message to Dan Sullivan and Trump:

Of all the Trump 2 DOJ's insane bullshit I feel like this is the one that most deserves the James Bailey classic

Other Dan Sullivan has a right as an American to run for office and other Americans have the right to vote for him. And I fucking dare the GOP to set laws on who is allowed to be considered a "legitimate" candidate

Everyone is going to love waiting 10 days for our results lol

Looking at previous lawsuits post-election, yeah, it's pathetic bullshit all the way down.

The mechanisms he wants to use to stop this from happening don’t exist. This lawsuit shows it.

Yeah this shit won’t work. Im just wondering how stupid it gets

Doubly so because they're doing it *last-second*, if you wanted to truly cast doubt on the result and start laying the grounds for a drawn-out Florida-2000 style ratfucking, they should've filed a month ago! But they know it would've been tossed and forgotten weeks ago if they did!

January 6, Part Two: Electric Boogaloo

Specifically, SCOTUS will probably say it's non-justiciable, Constitution Art. 1 gives Congress itself the power to judge election controversies. SCOTUS would wash their hands of the matter and walk away.

People, GOP most of all, are also deeply underestimating how this is going to play in AK. You will get people coming in from the hills to vote Peltola because "lower 48 said we couldn't"

They have absolutely nothing. The only way to stop elections in a nation this size is troops everywhere. Even if they had the stupidity to do that, they have 11 days to mobilize millions and dispatch them. Oh, he’s going to nationalize the national guard? Good luck!

Yes, I think these are throw-stuff-at-the-wall delaying tactics, but I don't take much comfort in it. Trump's MO for 50+ years has been… 1. Do bad things, 2. Throw everything at the wall to delay consequences, 3. Rely on enough of it sticking for just long enough, 4. Fail upwards, repeat

We’ve been through this before. I have no doubt they will try again.

seems like they're fixing to lose even more court cases than they did in '20

Every Trump election interference attempt has been characterized by pathetic efforts with nonexistent evidence & it's why he didn't get hardly any sign-on in 2020

Didn’t Republicans run ‘ghost’ candidates in Florida with the same names as Democrat candidates to confuse voters?

There was a guy in the California gubernatorial race this year who legally changed his name to Barack Obama and his name was on the primary ballot. It didn’t work.

What imaginary law are they citing? That a person cannot run for an office if the incumbent for said office has the same legal name?

We are incredibly lucky they are so dumb and lazy If anything, this has a high chance of backfiring and costing them the House seat as well

This filing should be dismissed as its based on a possible outcome and contingent on that outcome. I don't believe a lawsuit can be filed on a possible future outcome.

yeah I’m like, oh this is the best you have so far? a half-baked lawsuit? I was prepared for far worse by now

I don't get it, with ranked choice voting isn't this a nearly moot issue?

To me it’s both a sign of weakness and also very very alarming. A declining power can do tremendous damage while flailing.

Look to Andrew Tate's trajectory if you're wondering whether they will get more or less pathetic

There's also RCV in Alaska.

See my problem with this is that if it will work or not. My problem with this is a good number of American voters who see this and shrug because their only focus is their pocket book. There’s no collective conscious of America anymore and that doesn’t bode well for the future.

it'll just be this again and again

This is just their desperation showing

Oh sure, but I mean they're challenging the ballot design pending a loss, which feels like putting the cart before the horse a bit. It's effectively announcing "if we lose here's our backup plan"

Accordingly, if the actual goal of this play was ratfucking the Republican candidate, Alaska is the stupidest state you could have done it in. I have no idea why the "fake" Dan Sullivan did this and other people giving signatures went along with it.

yeah. they don't have 5 supreme court votes that will side with "they got the guy's name wrong" argument.

It also seems like the more they do, the more they force Congress to go full on investigation mode. Jan 6 shows how members get highly motivated when their election is challenged.

(not that I agree with the lawsuit AND the ranked ballot would take care of it, but the "half" argument is a non-starter.

want me to pre-emptively take away their vote? DOJ: well, no, only the J voters are confused and would otherwise vote for S. COURT: so the S voters are not confused. DOJ: No. Court: show me the evidence for that assertion. DOJ: the evidence, your honor, will be the final vote

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They might think ICE can serve the role of gendarmes, but those window lickers couldn't figure out a coup if it was drawn in a picture book

I agree with everyone you're saying, but also, they've shown they're willing to do a coup. I don't think any of this nonsense is ultimately going to work for them, but it's going to be a chaotic couple of months.

To *really* do any of this they need goons and guns

Mexican here. We had that fear in the elections of 2018 but once you cross the threshold of 50% in both chambers of the legislature and get the power with trifectas in many of the states the coup game is over. Vested interests prefer a party they don’t like in power vs political inestability.

Gotta wonder too if generals and soldiers would even follow the order. He's made their lives meaningfully more difficult and they've seen Trump/Hegseth and their treatment of casaulties. It doesn't exactly inspire hope.

Well Not if I can help it

Its lucky for then that they haven't alienated the military at all

he will reserve the military coup option for preventing himself from being removed from office

Their (laughable, shitty) theory is that every Sullivan vote is for a be wrong Sullivan in their favor, and so unless we win the race by twice the Other Sullivan vote they will persist.

I think they bitch and moan and scream about FRAUD and get laughed out of court and spend the next two years getting in increasingly dangerous spats with congress where they just flatly ignore oversight and budget stuff, aided and abetted by the Court I don't think Jan 3 ends with gunfire

Basically, since 🍊💩 is going to remain in office after 1-3-2027, he will leaves this to all republicans in congress to fight it this out. They can learn in real time that the 🍊💩 is out for himself and only himself!

I think any Trump lawyer willing to put their name on this filing probably takes a: “That sign can’t stop me, because I can’t read” approach to the argument you’ve laid out here

It's probably a test run

I actually think more people will now vote for the other Dan Sullivan instead of Ohio Dan, the incumbent, because people will be pissed that Trump is trying to tell them what to do. That's the Alaskan way. F the feds and outsiders even if it's Trump. 2/2