BREAKING: Presidential Transition Office refusing to recognize Biden win...

[brooklynite]

Link to tweet

[secondwind]

1. I kind of read this differently..................... but no biggie.

[obamanut2012]

2. Same, it is a good thing, not a bad thing

[JennyMominFL]

3. Um

Thats totally not what it says.

[getagrip_already]

4. the headline does not match the content....

I don't get it? Where does it say fuck off?

[jeffreyi]

6. ???

[enough]

7. Is there some sarcasm in your thread title or something?

The letter doesn’t appear to say anything like that.

[Hyper_Eye]

8. It says that the transition process should begin.

Are we missing something? That title of this thread doesn't match the contents of that letter.

[malaise]

9. Deleted my response

Fuck Trump

[doc03]

10. Doesn't read that way to me at all? Second paragraph says the outcome is sufficiently clear the

transition process must now begin.

[Bonhomme Richard]

11. The headline is not what I read. n/t

[Karadeniz]

12. I've read this closely and I don't see where the writers are calling on the GSA to ascertain that

Biden won.

[Bleacher Creature]

13. The letter is pretty clear, and that's not what it says. NT

[OhNo-Really]

14. It's in Emily Murphy's GSA hands.

Murphy, the administrator of the General Services Administration (GSA), must make an “ascertainment” that Biden has won the presidency before the transition can contact federal agencies or access the millions of dollars set aside for the team

Murphy could play it safe and wait until December 14, when the Electoral College is set to cast their ballots for the president. But doing so could also significantly hamper the Biden transition effort and leave them scrambling amid dueling public health and economic crises.
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/transition-playbook/2020/11/07/meet-washingtons-most-powerful-woman-temporarily-791464

[sarcasmo]

15. Trump will be evicted on January 20th.

[LanternWaste]

16. Bourbon is not the drink of choice for afternoons.

[Codeine]

17. "the outcome is sufficiently clear

that transition must begin.”

That’s doesn’t say what you imply it says.

[Spazito]

18. That's a pro forma letter, imo...

and not at all what the OP title implies.

[onetexan]

19. MSNBC briefly touched on this earlier this morning. They're just stalling but it's inevitable.

Biden was legally elected and it's incontrovertible.

[marked50]

20. Title is a little confusing. -n/t

[Goodheart]

21. I doubt that organization has any real legal power.

[Statistical]

23. You have it exactly backwards.

The GSA has not yet granted the Biden team access. The PTO is calling on the GSA to give them access.

[Hoyt]

24. Biden already knows more about being President than trump and

Biden knows the world and domestic leaders.

He doesn’t need trump Admin’s help.

[brooklynite]

25. The letter is from the ADVISORY COMMITTEE to the Transition Office...

THEY think the transition should begin. The Transition Office hasn't started.

[Fiendish Thingy]

26. GSA can't act unless Trump concedes. Barring that, they must wait

Until enough SOS’s certify results to reach 270, or worst case, until electoral college votes on December 14.

[Chainfire]

27. The transition organization is saying get on with it.

Trump is holding out for his legal challenges, like Hitler held out for armies, that did not exist, to come to the rescue of Berlin in '45. Perhaps someone will slap some sense into him next week and he can get his head out of his ass and do the right thing for once in his life. You lost, Donnie. Suck it up, buttercup. Trump is an infected pustule on the ass of humanity, the quicker it is lanced, the quicker it will heal.