Millions of Americans will vote this fall – but six Republican justices might have the final say, in a Bush v Gore redux
It’s frighteningly easy to imagine. Kamala Harris wins Georgia. The state elections board, under the sway of its new Trump-aligned commissioners, grinds the certification process to a slow halt to investigate unfounded fraud allegations, spurring the state’s Republican legislature to select its own slate of electors.
Perhaps long lines in Philadelphia lead to the state supreme court holding polls open until everyone has a chance to vote. Before anyone knows the results, Republicans appeal to the US supreme court using the “independent state legislature” (ISL) theory, insisting that the state court overstepped its bounds and the late votes not be counted.
Or maybe an election evening fire at a vote counting center in Milwaukee disrupts balloting. The progressive majority on the state supreme court attempts to establish a new location, but Republicans ask the US supreme court to shut it down.
Maybe that last example was inspired by HBO’s Succession. But in this crazy year, who’s to say it couldn’t happen? The real concern is this: if you think a repeat of Bush v Gore can’t happen this year, think again.
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Bush V Gore?
Yes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2000_United_States_presidential_election#Effects_on_future_elections_and_Supreme_Court
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bush_v._Gore
Also, fuckery, including the Brooke’s Brothers Riot, which forced Miami Dade recounts to stop early and likely gave the election to Bush.
Everyone thought it quaintly humerous that the bankers rioted to flip the election.
In retrospect…
Y’know. Y2K.
The first stolen election in my lifetime
People will whine the Gore conceded, but that was only after the supreme court interjected where it didn’t belong making a ruling that wasn’t consistent with common sense.
Oh buddy. The fuckery afoot in DC is NOT new. This modern variety has been going on since Eisenhower left the office. The fuckwats that made up the Nixon administration (geniuses behind the drug war, Vietnam) became the Bush Administration (Bush, ex head of the CIA, nothing scetchy about that place anirite?), both senior, then Jr. All the same fucktards. They went to college together, read some Ayn Rand, drank some blood at an alter of Baphesmet and emerged with social darwinism - last seen during the Nazi party, put masks on and fucked each other wives (did you think Eyes Wide Shut was fiction? Sweet summer child …), took lessons from Edward Bernays and then began social engineering, or coordinated propaganda campaigns. It was around 1971 that the fuckwits at the helm abandoned the idea of reasoning with the masses, or that any amount of truth was owed to the public. The 70s they laid the foundation, the 80s they implemented neoliberalism and started the great capital strike - no longer will society reinvest in itself like they had - that ladder is gone now. It’s been suck all value from the people, usurp the democracy (Citizens United), dismantle it and entrench their wealth all the way to a new techno-fuedal fascist corporate caste system brought to you by the World Economic Forum in Davos.
It’s almost comically evil. Cartoonish. But here we are, living it, the dumbest of timelines.