August J. Pollak @augustjpollak.bsky.social

5 hours ago

lol

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August J. Pollak @augustjpollak.bsky.social

5 hours ago

It was so perfectly and cosmically inevitable that they legitimately tried to find ways to deliberately make it not happen and it still happened because it was just that obvious it was going to. Legit Only In America stuff here

August J. Pollak @augustjpollak.bsky.social

5 hours ago

It was so perfectly and cosmically inevitable that they legitimately tried to find ways to deliberately make it not happen and it still happened because it was just that obvious it was going to. Legit Only In America stuff here

August J. Pollak @augustjpollak.bsky.social

5 hours ago

I honestly think one of the most pure and aspirational American success stories is how one guy became the single best person who ever lived at Jeopardy right at the only point in half a century when they needed a new host for Jeopardy and everyone just went “well, duh”

August J. Pollak @augustjpollak.bsky.social

6 hours ago

Aaaaaand as always, please consider referring to Ed for the far more condensed and readable version of the thing I needed to spend 17 posts getting out

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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social

6 hours ago

It's reasonable to fear that Trump will prevent fair elections in the future. He's certainly going to try. Why do we do him the favor of assuming his clumsy intimidation efforts will work?

We speak one fear to avoid thinking about a possibility that scares us even more, I argue.

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August J. Pollak @augustjpollak.bsky.social

6 hours ago

This is fundamentally why I find the constant churn of “Trump declares himself the physical husk of Ra upon the Earth, issues executive order on when sun rises in morning” stories problematic. It actually is okay every now and then to correctly frame that a thing he said is simply just insane.

August J. Pollak @augustjpollak.bsky.social

6 hours ago

Trump trying to ban mail in voting is not as interesting. A story because he simply can’t do it. I’m sorry, he just can’t. No court will say he can. No, it won’t. In contrast, it took less than a week for Brian Kemp to make it illegal to hand out water to people in three-hour voting lines.

August J. Pollak @augustjpollak.bsky.social

6 hours ago

Of course, Trump will want to do whatever he can to rig the elections. Realistically, there is very little he himself can do. I live in Georgia, where Trump’s attempts to disrupt the electoral process in 2020 failed laughably. The GOVERNOR’s attempts, however, is the more important story.

August J. Pollak @augustjpollak.bsky.social

6 hours ago

To be clear, I’m not criticizing Greg, but to the story itself, I disagree with it to the level of how much actual power Trump will have to rig elections to this capacity. To that, I find the “what will Trump do?” narrative to be very distracting from the far more dangerous state level disruptions.

Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social

6 hours ago

the point I tried to make in here is that whatever the legality of this, it's a broader signal that he will use presidential power in any way he can to rig the midterms

August J. Pollak @augustjpollak.bsky.social

6 hours ago

Trump is, of course, not actually implementing anything under the guise of “stopping fraud.” What he’s doing is establishing the argument for, after Republicans lose, whining for two years about the “legitimacy” of it. It will be up to Democrats to determine how effective that will be.