2020 U.S. Presidential Election - Took place November 3, 2020. Former U.S. Vice President Joe Biden assumed office January 20, 2021.

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McConnell recognizing Biden's Victory does two things:

1. It might cost the GOP control of the Senate.
2. Challenges to the Election in Congress may not get support from any Senator.
 
2. Challenges to the Election in Congress may not get support from any Senator.
Depends. Objections to slates of electoral votes only need one congressman and one senator. Depending on whether that's one senator per objection or if one senator can object to multiple slates, we could see one Republican senator go rogue.
 
McConnell recognizing Biden's Victory does two things:

1. It might cost the GOP control of the Senate.
2. Challenges to the Election in Congress may not get support from any Senator.

Never trust a man who started off as an Archie's comic character.
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Depends. Objections to slates of electoral votes only need one congressman and one senator. Depending on whether that's one senator per objection or if one senator can object to multiple slates, we could see one Republican senator go rogue.
Republicans have stated in multiple interviews that going rogue (rather if it be this or voting with the Democrats on bills) could result in them getting primaried by McConnell and the GOP Establishment. They fear McConnell, and there's a 90 percent chance that they'll stay in line.
 
This means the only alternative is to boycott.
Naah, there's a perfectly American and indeed Republican way to deal with this. You need a grassroots movement like the Tea Party which primaries RINOs and helps candidates who pass the purity test into power.

It's true that the Tea Party was eventually co-opted by the Republican establishment but not before it had managed to pull that establishment significantly to the populist right.

Also, I think the current Republican establishment's chance of co-opting a grassroots movement is significantly less than it was back in the Tea Party days. Back then the argument was about ideological purity. Now it's about whether or not you should betray the party and put the Democrats in power after they ballot stuff. All the Republican establishment figures like Kemp and Raffensberger are screwed in the long term unless they can convince the Democrats to let them defect. And the Democrats don't want them, they want Stacey Abrams.

And then there's Lin Wood and Trump threatening to put them in prison for electoral fraud and/or plotting a coup with foreign backing.

If I were an American right-wing populist I'd organize primarying all the RINOs in the Republican party and replacing them with populists.

Incidentally one of the interesting things about some sort of RNC/DNC deal is that neither can admit to it. So if you're a Kemp or a Raffensberger and some populist runs against you on the grounds that you betrayed the party you can't just say 'Betraying the party is such an exoteric view. Insiders know the esoteric truth that there's a behind-the-scenes deal here. You rubes just don't understand that. I bet you think Pro Wrestling is real too' because they'd sound insane to most people and the people who believed them would still consider them traitors. This is the reason they've done everything they could to avoid having the GOP legislators, most of who take the exoteric view, from voting on it.

When your opponents have a position that is literally indefensible it seems likely you can unseat them in a primary.
 
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Republicans have stated in multiple interviews that going rogue (rather if it be this or voting with the Democrats on bills) could result in them getting primaried by McConnell and the GOP Establishment. They fear McConnell, and there's a 90 percent chance that they'll stay in line.
Not if McConnell piss off many of their base. We could see one go rogue and gets primary. Only to survive it becuase McConnell piss off more then he thought
 
The primarying is coming no matter what, and unlike the tea party when the media tries to shit on the new unpolished candidates or they're a witch or whatever bullshit they'll say, people will just tell them to fuck off.
 
Not if McConnell piss off many of their base. We could see one go rogue and gets primary. Only to survive it becuase McConnell piss off more then he thought
Recent Elections have shown that you don't need to have a lot of cash to advance to General, so I wouldn't rule out the possibility.
 
You need to dismantle hyper reality before you can build a cross coalition between factions.
Is that a way of saying "fundamentally left-wing ideals forming the basis of most people's morality thanks to the demographics of artists and teachers" or what?
 
Recent Elections have shown that you don't need to have a lot of cash to advance to General, so I wouldn't rule out the possibility.
We call that method Betoing; it's the same shit they tried this time to oust McConnell and Graham.

And delve in on Mitch more, remember the Texas suit? Was the Kentucky AG, Daniel Cameron (You'll remember this black guy from the RNC and the Breonna Taylor Grand Jury decision), even listed as backer during that effort despite the state, if I recall correctly, joining in? Cameron is also seen and deemed as an "apprentice" to McConnell. Jumps when he says jump and all the rest.
 
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We call that method Betoing; it's the same shit they tried this time to oust McConnell and Graham.

And delve in on Mitch more, remember the Texas suit? Was the Kentucky AG, Daniel Cameron (You'll remember this black guy from the RNC and the Breonna Taylor Grand Jury decision), even listed as backer during that effort despite the state, if I'm recall correctly, joining in? Cameron is also seen and deemed as an "apprentice" to McConnell. Jumps when he says jump and all the rest.
Considering that he's only 35 years old, I have a feeling we'll hear more from him in the coming years.
 
The primarying is coming no matter what, and unlike the tea party when the media tries to shit on the new unpolished candidates or they're a witch or whatever bullshit they'll say, people will just tell them to fuck off.
Yea the Trump voters have been run through the ringer so hard the last 4 years that the power of the finger wag has really waned. There's gonna be a lot of crazy people winning primaries on the sole merit of "I'll fuck those guys and I'll fuck them good!".
 
The primarying is coming no matter what, and unlike the tea party when the media tries to shit on the new unpolished candidates or they're a witch or whatever bullshit they'll say, people will just tell them to fuck off.
They could run gay ops to ensure that the replacement is incompetent. McConnell was pretty good at coralling his own party into stacking courts, which is no mean feat when judges in general are 68% democrat . Sure, they may be too chicken to contest this massive fraud scheme, but they can get away with ruling sanely on smaller matters.
 
The primarying is coming no matter what, and unlike the tea party when the media tries to shit on the new unpolished candidates or they're a witch or whatever bullshit they'll say, people will just tell them to fuck off.
That witch was a good witch. 10/10 would coven caucus with her.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKbFKZjvioE
 
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And another thing that will fuel the primarying is if the republicans cave and bail out the blue cities/states. I expect another 1,200 Trump Bux situation or PPP, but if they allow LA and NYC to get bailed out even more conservative but still establishment shills like Tim Scott will feel the heat.

I do hope Palin is seriously considering running and has a backup for Murkowski when she runs independent again and schemes a win via write-in bullshit.
 
Naah, there's a perfectly American and indeed Republican way to deal with this. You need a grassroots movement like the Tea Party which primaries RINOs and helps candidates who pass the purity test into power.

It's true that the Tea Party was eventually co-opted by the Republican establishment but not before it had managed to pull that establishment significantly to the populist right.

Also, I think the current Republican establishment's chance of co-opting a grassroots movement is significantly less than it was back in the Tea Party days. Back then the argument was about ideological purity. Now it's about whether or not you should betray the party and put the Democrats in power after they ballot stuff. All the Republican establishment figures like Kemp and Raffensberger are screwed in the long term unless they can convince the Democrats to let them defect. And the Democrats don't want them, they want Stacey Abrams.

And then there's Lin Wood and Trump threatening to put them in prison for electoral fraud and/or plotting a coup with foreign backing.

If I were an American right-wing populist I'd organize primarying all the RINOs in the Republican party and replacing them with populists.

Incidentally one of the interesting things about some sort of RNC/DNC deal is that neither can admit to it. So if you're a Kemp or a Raffensberger and some populist runs against you on the grounds that you betrayed the party you can't just say 'Betraying the party is such an exoteric view. Insiders know the esoteric truth that there's a behind-the-scenes deal here. You rubes just don't understand that. I bet you think Pro Wrestling is real too' because they'd sound insane to most people and the people who believed them would still consider them traitors. This is the reason they've done everything they could to avoid having the GOP legislators, most of who take the exoteric view, from voting on it.

When your opponents have a position that is literally indefensible it seems likely you can unseat them in a primary.
But if it gets a little too effective you'd get the Republican equivalent of Bernie Sanders and the Squad crashing their party with no survivors, which Uncle Joe's neolib handlers managed to just avert.
 
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