Nine days ago Bernie Sanders predicted exactly how the election would play out

[frauenfelder]

Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2020/11/04/nine-days-ago-bernie-sanders-predicted-exactly-how-the-election-would-play-out.html

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[Brainspore]

FAKE NEWS. Bernie predicted Trump would claim premature victory at 10pm Tuesday evening when that actually happened around 2am Wednesday morning.

[Melizmatic]

[anon48584343]

It’s not like trump hasn’t been projecting exactly what was going to happen for months now.

[jandrese]

So much of America will be to so happy to never have to look at his stupid Twitter feed ever again.

[Wanderfound]

Early 2019:

@Wanderfound

General prognostications:

1. GOP control of redstate electoral administration renders the majority of states extremely resistant to democratic reform.
2. The only possible way to overcome that is via a turnout surge of sufficient magnitude that it overwhelms GOP efforts at voter suppression. “Likely” voters won’t cut it; unlikely voters are required.
3. None of the establishment candidates have the slightest chance of generating the required turnout surge. The working class simply will not come out in sufficient numbers for yet another neoliberal imperialist.

2017:

Trump approval rating "in the toilet"

Nope. As during the campaign, Trump isn’t going to pivot or moderate himself; he’ll continue to play purely to the GOP fascist base. The only opinion that matters to them is that of their base, because those are the only votes that are going to count. Accelerated voter suppression across the red states will see to that.

[Jerry_Vandesic]

In some quarters this is just another piece of evidence the Bernie traffics in the dark arts

[LurkingGrue]

Honestly that was not a hard prediction, I was suspecting that was going to be the case.

[Franko]

basically, Bernie was paying attention, and thus was right. AGAIN.

[Mister44]

It’s almost like Bernie was a time traveler

Or, you know, he read or heard the dozens of articles and commentators saying the same thing.

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This doesn’t even get into the fear that Electorates could cast ballots against their wishes of their state’s voters. 100% legal to do, and has happened in the past, but never has it had an effect on the election.

I doubt the Legislature will have either the desire or the gumption to formally get rid of the electoral college. However, there is a state’s pact to cast their Electorate ballots based on the popular vote. It isn’t that far away from being adopted by enough states to the point that it would prevent a president from being elected who did not win the popular vote.

National Popular Vote Interstate Compact

[TheChineseWatch]

@frauenfelder

It’s almost like Bernie was a time traveler when he told Jimmy Fallon how the election results would roll in, including Trump’s fake victory speech followed by Trump claiming the mail-in ballots are fraudulent.

I think you meant:

It’s almost like Bernie Had been paying attention to the DTs’ behavior.

[theodore604]

Bernie should be our president.

[some_guy]

I love Bernie, but the fact that Trump is so predictable does not make Bernie clairvoyant.

[anon47741163]

Bernie Sanders doesn’t have to be a fortune teller here, it’s not like Trump hasn’t been loudly signalling his intention to raid the cookie jar for quite a while now!

[bobtato]

As peeps have mentioned above, this is exactly what the consensus has been saying would happen (unless Biden won Florida). That’s the entire reason the GOP has been trying to get courts to agree that Pennsylvania should throw out its mail-in ballots. You know, like the US would sanction and/or bomb any other country for doing.

It’s slightly disturbing if a large segment of the public has been paying little enough attention to be surprised by this possibility

[Professor59]

I would have been stunned if Trump hadn’t declared victory immediately. This was never in doubt.
Trump is now in the process of suing every state where he is behind. Are you starting to see what the Supreme Court rush was all about? Yup.

Well, Democracy had a good run in the USA. Now, if you don’t mind, I have to go over those plans for my Purge fortifications again.

[blissinfinite67]

@Brainspore

Bernie predicted Trump would claim premature victory at 10pm Tuesday evening when that actually happened around 2am Wednesday morning.

Plus Trump pretty much vomited this all in a single breath instead of over 2 days: “I won the election! The votes were fraudulent!”

[joemcmahon]

You know he won’t be able to stop.

[llazy8]

Seeing Bernie with combed hair is giving me the sads yugely.

[kawidosa]

As usual, Bernie is neither radical nor prescient. It’s just common sense, but America’s politics are so far gone that he’s treated as such