Tag: 2020 election

Our Long National Nightmare

“I Never Imagined Leopards Would Obstruct MY Face,” sobs leader of the Leopards Obstructing People’s Faces Party.

In six rounds of carefully managed balloting, Republicans made their dividing line extremely clear. The 200-or-so members of the party who advocate conspiracy theories are on one side and the roughly two dozen members of the party who believe those conspiracy theories are on the other. They have to unite if they’re going to name a Speaker of the House. They have not yet done … Continue reading “I Never Imagined Leopards Would Obstruct MY Face,” sobs leader of the Leopards Obstructing People’s Faces Party.

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Quickie

30% of Republican voters are insane

As reported by The Hill, a new Hill-HarrisX poll finds that 30% of Republican voters say it’s likely that former President Donald Trump will be “reinstated” as president later this year. You might recall that we’ve talked about this very concept at Pyramid specifically because it’s literally impossible without a coup d’etat, although admittedly it’s not like Republicans are necessarily opposed to that. If something … Continue reading 30% of Republican voters are insane

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Politics

It’s been a while since we checked in on former president Donald – oh, no

George W. Bush, a fan of famed British politician Winston Churchill, was inspired by Churchill’s essay “Painting as a Pastime” to take up the art of painting himself. Painting has given him something to do since leaving the White House in 2009; Bush is now 74 years old, younger than the current president and his immediate predecessor and although ARTnews described him as “inelegant” and … Continue reading It’s been a while since we checked in on former president Donald – oh, no

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Feature

GOP efforts to stymie voting demonstrate that they know they lost in 2020

Republican candidates, by and large, did not have a great 2020. Georgia ousted its Republican senators, Trump-backed Republicans struggled in moderate Congressional districts, and Trump himself lost the White House. For the months that followed – and as recently as this week, at CPAC – Trump and his cronies have maintained that wide-scale election fraud was behind their defeats. But in state legislatures around the … Continue reading GOP efforts to stymie voting demonstrate that they know they lost in 2020

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Feature

Deqification

In the aftermath of World War II, the victorious Allies faced a daunting task. Not only had the war had a devastating impact on Germany’s industrial and economic might – since mangling the German industrial machine was essential to defeating its military – but the Allies were faced with a territory that had undergone years of intense propagandizing. Stationed for many years in Berlin, CBS … Continue reading Deqification

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Feature

Here are all the times previously that Congress has gotten involved in a presidential election

Congressional Republicans are trying to stop the body from certifying Joe Biden as the winner of the presidential election. Congress makes this certification on January 6 and by all accounts is expected to do so but with a bit of a delay while Republicans make their case that something about the November 2020 presidential election was suspect. A group of Republican senators is trying to … Continue reading Here are all the times previously that Congress has gotten involved in a presidential election

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Our Long National Nightmare

Surprise: Trump supporters are threatening acts of terrorism to overthrow American democracy, who saw that coming?

On Friday, the Supreme Court soundly rejected an attempt by the State of Texas to challenge the election results in four states. The whole thing was blatantly unconstitutional, as the U.S. Constitution lets the states run their own elections, and also hypocritical, since Texas’ position was that it has a vested interest in how other states run their elections despite the fact that the state … Continue reading Surprise: Trump supporters are threatening acts of terrorism to overthrow American democracy, who saw that coming?

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Our Long National Nightmare

We now enter the “attempt to overturn Bush v. Gore” phase of the election

Way back in 2000, before coronavirus pandemics and September 11 and The Real Housewives, the Supreme Court of the United States was asked a key question in the now-famous Bush v. Gore case. That question was simply: when does the presidential election end? The court’s narrow ruling was that 3 U.S. Code § 5 sets a hard deadline for the conclusion of the presidential election. Known … Continue reading We now enter the “attempt to overturn Bush v. Gore” phase of the election

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Feature, Politics

Trump doesn’t care about other Republicans. Why do they care about him?

There’s a possibility that Rev. Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff can change the balance of power in the U.S. Senate towards Democrats. The pair are popular, they’re running in the same Georgia that recently tilted ever-so-slightly for Joe Biden, and there’s a real national effort to support their bids. It would put the Senate in 50-50 control with the deciding vote cast by Vice President … Continue reading Trump doesn’t care about other Republicans. Why do they care about him?

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Who The Fuck Are All These Fucks

President Kamala Harris

Back in 2019, a rumor began circulating. First, it flowed through prominent Democratic officials and donors, then through the outer ring of politicos, and finally through the press. The rumor: Joe Biden, the 77-year-old seeking the presidency for the third time in his life, was also seeking it for the last time. He did not plan to run in 2024, whether he won in 2020 … Continue reading President Kamala Harris

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