I believe this is the bargaining stage?
Nevertheless- he admits that Biden won and Trump lost.
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This analysis - not so sure.
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Cheat to Win!
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In answer to that question⌠the wise Masha Gessen (again), and spot-on:
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Part of what distinguishes our current situation is that the institutions of state have not been entirely corrupted, and the people who have suffered grave injury have not been rendered entirely voiceless. We donât need to invent an entirely new set of rituals, because some existing institutions provide them. A reckoning may include congressional hearings, special-counsel investigations, court proceedings, town halls, journalistic projects, truth-and-reconciliation commissions, and some yet-to-be-invented formats. All of these are ritualized ways to acknowledge and document the injury, to tell storiesâand to tell these stories not in the company of your closest friends and family, who have heard them before, but in public, before an audience of people, some of whom are very different from you. The act of speaking across differences is what makes such processes political. It is also what gives them their healing potential. The question is whether we, as a nation, opt for a reckoning with Trumpism, and whether a future Biden Administration assumes the responsibility of guiding the nation through it.Public rituals of telling the stories of the Trump era would be healing because they would insure that people are heard. They would create accountability and transparency, not necessarily by handing out criminal punishment but by exacting a reputational cost that might keep people who lied for Trump away from prestigious fellowships, and people who worked with Trump and broke the law out of government and think tanks. Most important, they would force us to ask the question of what made the Trump Presidency possible.
In a brief talk that was recorded this summer, the New York psychologist Jack Saul, who studies collective trauma, made what he called âa moral proposalâ for national healing. He proposed a sequence of rituals: the rituals of remembrance, the rituals of grieving, the ârituals of protest to assert our basic values, and rituals of envisioning the future that we would like to attain and what we must become in order to inhabit the new world.â Put more simply, we have to talk about what happened and about how we go on living in such a way that it doesnât happen again. Of course, this process canât succeed as long as nearly equal numbers of Americans live in two non-intersecting realities. But such a process is also our best hope for reclaiming a shared reality. When you have a deep, festering wound, you do not heal it by pretending there was no injury: you clean it out, and then you stitch it up.
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Which party was it that refused to take up HR 2722 in the Senate again?
Cool, cool. Same for Florida, right, Ron? Maybe apportion Floridaâs votes proportionally? How about Texas, too. Then NY, CA, MA, IL, NJ, NC, MS, AR, etc, etc. etc. How does that play out, Ron? Oh, yeah, Biden in a landslide. Again.
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â Trumpâs pared-down lawsuit now focuses on allegations that Republicans were illegally disadvantaged because some Democratic-leaning counties allowed voters to fix errors on their mail ballots. Counties have said this affected only a small number of votes.
Cliff Levine, an attorney representing the Democratic Party in the case, said on Sunday evening that Trumpâs move meant his lawsuit could not possibly change the result.
âNow youâre only talking about a handful of ballots,â Levine said. âThey would have absolutely no impact on the total count or on Joe Bidenâs win over Donald Trump.â
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What??? âI was disadvantaged because you let that personâs vote be counted!â
That doesnât even makes sense. Which, I guess, makes sense.
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As ever, itâs all projection.
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Speaking of whichâŚ
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And maybe they should take a look at those South Carolina ballots?
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Wisconsin recount would cost Trump campaign about $7.9 million, state officials say
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