American Shitshow: It's Happening Edition

I told you what was going to happen, and lo: here it is. A hundred thousand votes here and there, and suddenly Joe Biden is a hairsbreadth from becoming president for the few months it takes for his brain to gracelessly complete its shutdown procedures.

The fraud is obvious, and detailing it ad nauseum would take longer than this rush to press allots. If you set up your electoral system to deliver batches of several hundred thousand ballots in your blue hives, homogeneously Biden, not even bothering to vote in downstream races, conveniently after the hated flyovers have told you the margin by which they are winning, and to have 106% turnout as a result, your system is a priori illegitimate. This holds regardless of the degree to which this capability is used - it was set up not as a means of coming to a good faith consensus, but as a weapon. It has now been fired.

Biden himself is a walking fraud, a skinsuit draped over the lizard creatures who drafted him without even time for the facelift scars to heal and installed Kamala as the (transformative! brown! female! Canadian!) face-hugger waiting to burst from his decrepit lungs and into the Oval Office at first opportunity. This despite her own sound rejection by voters when they had the chance in the primaries.

The question is what is to be done. The answer in extremis reduces to "whatever Trump wants to do". I agree with Revolver's analysis in broad strokes, but I will get more specific.

There is currently the pretense that the system is in some sense working - sure, the counting itself is a disaster from a pure competency point of view, but the disputes can always be Taken To Court. The problem is that there is not necessarily much the courts can do about it. This is always the first question in these cases - what is the relief being sought? No court is going to unilaterally award the office, nor can they while maintaining the fig leaf of separation of powers. If ballots are segregated (as was ordered for, eg, ballots arriving after a potential deadline in Pennsylvania), they can be discarded after the fact.

But ballots are not going to be segregated, that's the whole point of the fraud. Is a court going to unilaterally toss a 4AM bucket-o-ballots if they are physically valid and at least some of them theoretically correspond to a warm body somewhere? Some of them can be voided, potentially, based on signature matches, postmarks, double-votes on election day and absentee, and other minutiae. This is worth doing, and may be sufficient - or it may not.

Even after the courts have their final say on procedures, the state legislatures have explicit authority to choose electors by fiat. The reason that those fraudulent ballots were largely for Biden only, and not marked for any down-ballot race, was to lessen the incentives for state and federal legislatures to exercise this power, or to probe too hard at the fraud in general. Many of those legislators have no affection for Trump to begin with.

Thus, they may not act purely on a reasonable request. And thus, my prediction is that Trump's final resort would be to ask his supporters to pressure state legislatures, where a plausible Republican majority exists (Georgia, North Carolina, Wisconsin, Michigan, Arizona...), to punish the fraud and support the legitimate President of the United States.

You can imagine the forms this pressure may take.

If this is necessary, and Trump puts it to the people, it is worthwhile, and I think ultimately a winning scenario. If he does not, it is impossible to save him from himself. Regardless, now is the time to estimate what will happen in your particular area in response and what your response will be.