12/9/20: The big news these days would be the State of Texas’s ballsy challenge of the November election results. The Texas attorney general has filed a brief with the U.S. Supreme Court, in an effort to overturn the vote of four sister states, Georgia, Arizona, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania.
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Rush Limbaugh would rather have civil war than lose his orange hero. |
“Sister states?” Sounds sexist. But that’s common usage in the English language. Inanimate objects, ships for example, were once routinely referred to as feminine, and were assumed to be controlled by men.
As in “sister states.”
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“I actually think we’re trending toward secession.”
Rush Limbaugh
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Anyway! What “crime” did those quadruplets commit, which Texas begged the highest court in the land to punish? Voters, by varying margins, chose Joseph Biden to be the new president, rather than stick with the old – mostly because a majority of Americans had long since decided that Trump was an insufferable ass.
Also: a grave threat to democracy.
Trump, whose crack legal team had already challenged results in more than fifty state and federal courts, and lost almost every time, invested his last remnants of hope in this Texas gambit. He referred to it as “the big one” on Wednesday. That would be opposed to the previous “big one” on Tuesday, when the U.S. Supreme Court shot down an equally bizarre legal plea, after allies asked the justices to throw out Pennsylvania’s results on only slightly different grounds.
Put plainly: Trump and his team hated mail-in votes. Not all Pennsylvanians who voted by mail were treated exactly the same. Therefore, plaintiffs asked that all 2.5 million mail-in ballots recorded in Pennsylvania be thrown out and…viola...Trump would gobble up the state’s 20 electoral votes.
The nine justices made short work of that request. They disposed of it in one eighteen-word sentence. Forty minutes after it landed in the court’s in-box, it was in the out-box again. The only word that mattered: “Denied.”
Not a single member of the U.S.
Supreme Court believed there was valid reason to hear the case.
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ON TODAY’S SHOW, Rush Limbaugh makes it clear, he’s unhappy with the results of the last election. “I actually think we’re trending toward secession,” he tells his purportedly patriotic Dittoheads.
Equally upset: Lou Dobbs, Fox Business host most likely to have to get a prescription for anti-depressants.
Dobbs deflated today like a Trump baby balloon stabbed by an angry Trump supporter (yeah, that happened). He could hardly bring himself to admit that the U.S. Supreme Court had turned down Loser Donald’s court challenge to the Pennsylvania results. “Well, the Supreme Court demurred: courage lacking, and the will to stand up for the Constitution now very much in question,” he said, of the decision not to even hear the idiotic case. “I mean, it really looks awful for them not to have said anything, to have not been enlightening in any way,” he griped to Greg Teufel, an attorney representing the GOP in the case. “It’s downright frustrating, but it’s also very cowardly on the part, it seems to me, of the court.”
(Whereas it seems to this blogger that Lou and Don and Don’s desperate supporters would be only too happy to subvert the courts, and the U.S. Constitution, if only they could see a clear path.)
