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15 Dec, 17 tweets, 4 min read
Watching Trump supporters scream about all of the money they lost on betting sites today when the electoral college voted might by my new favorite thing about 2020.

These idiots went on #betfair and got rickrolled by professional gamblers who took their money with a smile...
Wait … they GENUINELY believe that the LARP electors today actually were something genuine, they don't know that the only way a state can be "contested" is if two CERTIFIED slates of electors are sent by the governor (Hawaii 1960), and that Powell lied about cases in SCOTUS.
some of these idiots bet 10s of thousands of dollars. And if that's not stupid enough, they did so from foreign countries AFTER Nov 3 (some as late as today!) and didn't bother to learn how US elections work. They THINK that what they learned from Q is real.
They THINK Trump is all of a sudden going to rise from the ashes with this brilliant legal strategy and snatch victory from the jaws of defeat. They THINK Powell's Kracken cases are being deliberated at SCOTUS. They THINK a military tribunal is going to occur. They NEED therapy.
So let's set some things straight.

None of Powell's cases are at SCOTUS in any form: docketed or otherwise. SCOTUS isn't PACER. Anyone can verify this.

supremecourt.gov/docket/docket.…
No, none of the cosplay you saw today amounts to anything since the only slate of electors that matter is the one certified by the state.

Yes, In Hawaii 1960 there was a contested state. They sent TWO certificates of ascertainment with two separate slates of electors.
No writing "we really really really want Trump to win!" and submitting it as a slate does not make you an elector. It makes you a felon for impersonating one.

No there is no decision for Pence to make on Jan 6th because he will only have 50 slates, 1 from each state.
Yes a couple of Republicans in the house and senate could slow down the process on Jan 6th by protesting, but that's only for 2 hours. They'll be overridden (since it must be a majority in BOTH houses) , and that'll be that.
No the military (who voted against Trump) will not stage a tribunal, execute Americans while you watch you on your televisions. The military supports and defends the Constitution, not the President. The transfer of power has begun on military installations weeks ago already.
Yes you were victims of fraud. By Trump. By Powell. And by everyone else who lied to you about there ever being any doubt in this election.

They stole your money in return for you becoming the public laughing stock that you are. Sue them.
But in regards to the betting websites, there is no avenue of recourse. You played adult games with money you apparently didn't have, and lost. Welcome to the real world. Hopefully you learn from this and grow from it.
I thought I'd add some factual information IRT to the "LARP electors" thing. See the argument is that if Pence has two sets of electors, he gets to choose. But there's a problem with that, and it's Art II Sect 1 of the Constitution and how "electors" are made. Let's take a peek
Uh oh...the "legislature thereof" so you're saying 2 retiring GOP legislators and 5 convicted felons signing their names to a post-it note claiming they're "electors" doesn't make it so? Well holy shit.
Well that's a problem, because per the 12th amendment, the only electors that can be considered are those sent by the state via their certificate of ascertainment when they certified their slates. And "contested" doesn't mean 5 butthurt people in a Capital Lawn and Garden.
It means, per the laws when a state sends more than slate of ELECTORS, per Art II Sect I. Such as what occurred in 1876, and again in 1960. The states sent multiple slates of electors.

That didn't happen here. The states sent 1 slate.
"STEM, so what happens to those other electors that were "sent"? " Well most likely since impersonating an elector is a crime, they get referred back to the state Attorney General for prosecution. They're not votes, they're evidence.
If you prefer a graphical representation of the value of the LARP electors in the 2020 election - I can't think of a better one than this

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So I decided there's enough information to put this into a thread. This pertains to those obscure codes on the disbursing form Tara Reade posted herself in 2019. They didn't get much attention, but I think I'm going to change that.

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I'm going to go through them all.

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Codes are the same though.

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