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10 Nov, 13 tweets, 3 min read

If you waste these next two months nervously fretting over Trump’s laughable fantasy about magically overturning the election, instead of spending these next two months fighting to win the Georgia Senate runoffs, then you’re a very stupid person and I will never forgive you.

Some of you still haven’t figured out that when you run around yelling “we’re gonna lose,” you’re handing the other side leverage that it didn’t already have. You make Trump more powerful when you say that stupid shit.

Trump won’t be able to use that leverage to magically overturn the election, because this isn’t kindergarten fantasyland and nothing works that way in the real world. But you are absolutely handing Trump leverage to get away with other bad things on his way out the door.

When you keep yelling “we’re gonna lose,” you’re not just being annoying. You’re not just demotivating the rest of us. You’re handing Trump LEVERAGE over us. If you still can’t understand this concept after four years, please don’t speak another word until after Trump is out.

If Trump sees that we’re actually gullible enough to believe he can magically remain in power, he’s going to be able to extract all kinds of concessions from us in exchange for agreeing to leave office – even though he was going to leave anyway, because he has zero choice.

Put another way: Trump sits around all day and laughs his ass off about how fucking gullible we are, how we idiotically fall for every impossible threat he makes. He gets off on how gullible you are. He brags about it behind the scenes. Stop giving him the satisfaction.

Now if your brain is wired in such a way that you’re inclined to fret instead of fight, then at least kindly keep that extremely harmful bullshit to yourself. When you run around yelling “we’re gonna lose,” you’re working full-time for Donald Trump. Don’t be that asshole.

I get that there are a lot of bad faith pundits on our side who are trying to get attention for themselves right now by insisting Trump is somehow magically going to overturn the election. But those are the same pundits who insisted Trump would win the 2020 election – and he lost

Many bad things have happened in the past four years. But the doomsday pundits who always yell around about how the sky is falling? They haven’t accurately predicted any of those bad things. That’s because they’re too busy making shit up and hyping scenarios that are impossible.

These doomsday pundits are trying to take advantage of your gullibility just like Trump is trying to take advantage of your gullibility. This is all too important for you to indulge your gullibility. It’s time to part ways with it. Or do you enjoy being taken advantage of?

Anyway, if you’re running around yelling “we’re gonna lose,” then you’re the biggest ally that Donald Trump has ever had. I’ve been right about everything. I was the guy who knew at 11pm on election night that we were mathematically a lock to win. I’m right about this too.

There’s just something so selfish about fretting when the rest of us are fighting. Would you get in the faces of firefighters at a burning building and yell “it’s gonna burn down”? Of course not. So stop trying to sabotage us with that shit. You really are a bad person if you do.

Do you want to help us? Ignore Trump’s laughable fantasies, and get involved in the Georgia runoffs.

Or do you want to hurt us with your gullible fatalism? Because you’re a fucking traitor if you do. You’re no different than any Trump fan. Fuck your fatalism. Grow the fuck up.

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11 Nov

Once again a reminder that the current mass hysteria over Trump somehow magically overturning the election result literally does not exist outside of Twitter. Everyone in the real world understands this isn’t a thing. Stay calm, fight hard. We won. We’ll keep on winning.

Even MSNBC, which never met a scary doomsday narrative it didn’t want to exploit for ratings, keeps making clear that there is a 100% chance Biden will take office. Twitter has become a paranoid delusionsl fantasy land today, to the point of doing real harm to people’s minds.

Surveys show that the vast majority of Americans, including a majority of Trump’s voters, agree that Biden won and it’s over. This hallucination about Trump magically taking over, largely doesn’t even exist among his own voters. It’s just us going clinically insane for no reason.

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We're not on the verge of a "civil war." Give me a break. Polls show 80% of Americans agree Biden won. That includes a majority of Trump's own voters. The only place this election is being "contested" is on Twitter and cable news. In the real world, this discussion doesn't exist.

It's not being contested in the streets; there were zero violent skirmishes when the winner was called. It's not (really) being contested in court; Trump is 0-for-12 in his frivolous suits, all of which had literally zero chance of going anywhere.

It's not being "contested" in the Pennsylvania state legislature; that's not a thing, no matter how many conspiracy theorists (on both sides) keep insisting it's a thing.

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11 Nov

Not sure why anyone thought transition would go well. Trump spent years gutting the executive branch; there's not that much left to transition. Also, we didn't win an election; we won a war. Trump is now a prisoner of war, threatening not to give up his secrets. Good luck to him.

These outcomes are always determined by who has leverage. Trump is headed for prison and bankruptcy, and the only asset he has left is his 73 remaining days in office. He'll use that asset to try to give himself a softer landing with regard to prison and bankruptcy.

Trump has two approaches: one is to go nicely, and hope it softens how the jury pool views him. The other, which he's trying on for size right now but won't get him very far, is to threaten to go out ugly and see if he can leverage it into some kind of immunity deal.

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Now that Joe Biden has won the election, it's worth examining the almost fictional manner in which the media covered Biden during the democratic primary race, in an attempt at generating higher TV ratings.

Based on the numbers and demographics, Biden was the primary frontrunner the entire time. There was never much doubt he'd be the nominee. The other candidates simply had very poor numbers with Black voters. The race was always going to turn for Biden in South Carolina.

Biden was never in trouble during Iowa or New Hampshire. Those lily white states don't determine who's going to be the nominee anyway. But "frontrunner wins as expected" doesn't make for good TV ratings, so they made up a fictional version of it instead.

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10 Nov

The final month before the election was a dark time for me. My timeline was flooded with fatalist hysteria about how Trump would win "no matter what" or how he'd magically stop the election from even happening. We were obviously going to win, but there wasn't much for me to do.

My role is to inform, organize, mobilize. But when that many people on our side have their heads that far up their fatalist asses, there's not much for me to work with. I had to waste that month trying to shout down the dummies who were insisting the election was doomed for us.

Now that the fatalists have been proven overwhelmingly wrong, and the election wasn't even close, we got to have like 48 productive hours before these damn fatalists managed to hijack our agenda again with this hysterical nonsense about Trump magically staying in office.

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10 Nov

The more l dig into it, the more these House and Senate results don't make sense, based on not just polls but also demographics. Makes me think the pandemic, post office, etc, really did have a big impact. This suggests Biden's win over Trump was even bigger than what we've seen.

What can be done? Probably nothing. If people didn't vote because they were afraid of getting sick, or if mail-in ballots vanished, then what's done is done; we'd never be able to prove it. We'll just have to make sure it doesn't happen next time.

But the irony is that if even Trump did keep us sick to keep us from voting, and even if his post office stunt did have a major impact, then Trump still didn't do anything to help himself. All he did was unwittingly save some down ballot republicans. Trump's life is still over.

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