DL Fave/Stefoknee Wolscht cosplayer Emily Murphy is having a BREAKDOWN!

She is well on her way to being completely unemployable in the new year.

What a gal!!!!

How is she in a difficult position? All she has to do is follow democracy, that shouldn't be difficult to do especially for someone in her position.

R3 is right. This is clearly someone with a lower-than-average level of intelligence. The writing is on the wall. She needs to act accordingly.

Profiles in cowardice.

She can do the right thing, probably get fires by Trump, but she will be employable after Jan 20th. Or she can remain Trump's loyal stooge , stay employed until Jan 20th, then be shit out of luck.,

This is what Piggy from Lord of the Flies would have looked like if he’d lived long enough to have gender confirmation surgery.

Pathetic lack of executive ability. Can't even decide? Really? Who are world leaders calling? Who won the fucking election? That hard to read a paper?

Fatty is already job hunting

The article IS correct that for the moment, this Bitch is fucked no matter what she chooses. *For the moment*. But she could have easily chosen to save whatever reputation she had for being a professional of integrity and moral character, and wait-out the transition process like everyone else in the Country- salvaging whatever career choices she might have in the future. By choosing the Un-Democratic, frankly Pussy-assed choice, she is well and truly Fucked forever. I see a long and torturous future asking customers, "Would you like fries with that order sir?"

NO. Do not let her send out fluff pieces that try to paint her as being in a sympathetic situation. She’s a corrupt PIG who is risking the lives of thousands of Americans and our national security because she is refusing to do her job because she’s afraid of Trump. She’s a PIG who should be run out of DC by an angry mob on January 20th.

The self-inflicted agony of Emily Murphy

Trump’s head of the General Services Administration is in the throes of a faux dilemma.

November 18, 2020 at 2:33 p.m. EST

Emily Murphy, the administrator of the General Services Administration, is having a hard month. It would engender more sympathy if she were not bringing it on herself.

Murphy’s role during the presidential transition was little known before Election Day, but it has come into focus since then. It is her job to produce the “ascertainment” of the election, which is a fancy way of saying who is the “apparent successful candidate” in the general election. At that point, the president-elect (if not the incumbent) can access executive branch agencies and be briefed by intelligence officials.

On the Saturday after Election Day, the Associated Press and the four major networks called the presidential race for Joe Biden. Nonetheless, 36 hours later Murphy had not ascertained the result. GSA spokesperson Pamela Pennington emailed The Washington Post to say, “An ascertainment has not yet been made, and its Administrator will continue to abide by, and fulfill, all requirements under the law.”

That was a weekend, so perhaps one could forgive Murphy for not moving immediately. Ten days later, however, she has still not ascertained the results. According to CNN’s Kristen Holmes and Jeremy Herb, the pressure is starting to get to her: “Emily Murphy is struggling with the weight of the presidential election being dropped on her shoulders, feeling like she’s been put in a no-win situation, according to people who have spoken to her recently.”

At first glance one can sympathize with Murphy’s predicament. It was a close election in a highly polarized moment, and ordinary Americans seem awfully eager to scold people on social media without doing their due diligence. Murphy clearly did anticipate the perils of a close election, consulting with her predecessors to see how controversies were handled in the past. Most of Murphy’s friends and colleagues who talked to CNN attempted to paint her in a positive light, describing her as “a technocrat and policy wonk.”

When we get to Murphy’s agonizing decision, however, CNN’s report raises a whole bunch of red flags: “It’s not clear what specific actions Murphy is waiting on before granting ascertainment. Sources tell CNN she is basing her decision on what she sees as the precedent set by the 2000 election, where there was not a clear winner for more than a month.”

The hard-working staff here at Spoiler Alerts has stared at that last sentence for a while now, and has come to the conclusion that it makes zero sense. Because let’s be clear: There is no comparison between 2000 and 2020.

In the 2000 contest between Al Gore and George W. Bush, the contest hinged on the results of a single state. The margin between the two candidates in Florida was roughly 500 votes, a margin that a recount could have altered. As time passed and recounts proceeded, the margin between Bush and Gore narrowed. And the litigation between Gore and Bush was a legitimately seesaw affair, with the Florida Supreme Court siding with Gore and the U.S. Supreme Court eventually siding with Bush.

In 2020, Joe Biden is the clear winner. For Trump to win he would need to overturn the results not of one state, but three. The margin between the two candidates in those states is in the tens of thousands; no recount has ever overturned a U.S. election result in which the margin was that large. As time has passed, Biden’s lead in every swing state except Arizona has widened considerably. And as for the ongoing litigation, Trump’s campaign has won only one of the dozens of cases it has brought and subsequently lost that case on appeal. Rudy Giuliani has been put in charge, which is all you need to know.

cnt'd

The better comparison to 2020 is 2016. Trump won a couple of states by a narrow margin, and there was some push for recounts, but the outcome was not really in doubt after Election Day. The only difference between 2016 and 2020 is that the losing candidate in 2016 acted like a mature grown-up.

To use the language of ascertainment, in 2020 Biden is the apparent successful candidate and it’s not close. If Murphy is looking for guidance about how to handle a mercurial boss who does not want to admit defeat, might I suggest this clip from “Michael Clayton":

I want to take Murphy at her word. In my experience folks who work in government, whether as political appointees or civil service employees, try to do the right thing. I want to take Murphy’s word when she said in her 2017 confirmation hearing that, “I am not here to garner headlines or make a name for myself. … My goal is to do my part in making the federal government more efficient, effective and responsive to the American people,” and not cynically presume she’s seeking a private-sector parachute.

Each day Murphy abstains from her responsibilities, however, it becomes harder to see her in that light. Without her ascertainment, Trump can continue to block Biden’s landing teams from engaging with their departments, deny Biden access to intelligence briefings that would allow a seamless transfer of power, and sabotage any effort to bring an end to the pandemic.

Right now, without any apparent logic, Murphy is guaranteeing to make the federal government less efficient, less effective and much less responsive to the American people. I feel her pain. But she seems oddly unaware that it is self-inflicted.

Fuck this bitch.

Leave it to Gen X white women to make the fate of Democracy in America all about themselves.

“Struggling with the weight...” hahaha, I’ll say!!!

[quote]“Emily Murphy is struggling with the weight

The sentence should have ended with that.

GOPig.

Maybe if Emily Webster Murphy struggled with the weight on her ass instead, she could ignore the weight on her shoulders. Just sayin'.

She has broken the law and she needs to be tried and imprisoned.

No sympathy whatsoever for this coward when fellow Rs like Raffensperger and Krebs refusing to tow deniers' line

She's HAM-lette!

(Laurence Tribe said last night on MSNBC that she isn't in any kind of dilemma--the law is crystal clear (1963 Act) on what she is supposed to do).

Guys, she's oppressed! As a well off, white, blonde, overweight woman in America she has dealt with men turning her down and name calling, so you have no idea the life pain she has lived, not the blacks, gays, trans, immigrants! We must all feel sorry for this victim of society and let her off with attempting to subvert democracy. White woman are heroes!

Somebody needs to aim a gun at a package of Twinkies and tell Emily if she doesn't release the funds the Twinkies get it

What a joke this turd woman is. There’s no struggle. There’s no dilemma. Sign the damn papers and save your ass, because Dump won’t have anything to do with her past next week. What does she think is going to happen? That he’ll offer her a project manager job at Trump Kasakhstan? Please.

When one lies with dogs, one often gets fleas.

You wanted the job when you thought it was good for your resume, now you have to suck it up.

Shades of Linda Tripp! Such moral dilemma in betraying one's non-existent better nature!

She's pulling a Kim Davis. Playing victim for what she caused and expects sympathy and accolades for her defiance.

Bitch, close that Lane Bryant catalog and do your fucking job, already.

Is Trump going to pardon her for breaking the law? Why should he? He doesn’t give a shit about her. She’s nobody to him.

He isn’t going to give her a job. Look at her. He only likes skinny, good looking women. If she looked like Hope Hicks and was willing to blow him every day, maybe. He has no use for a woman that looks like her.

Why don’t those Trumpers ever learn, he throws everyone under the bus? He’d throw his own kids under the bus to save himself. He doesn’t even know who she is.

Why ruin yourself in your chosen field, for a boss that’s on his way out the door? If she gets charged with anything, she loss her security clearance. There goes her ability to work in Washington. She knows better than any person in America that he lost. She’s doing all this for absolutely nothing.

R29, you have to understand that this is the most attention this sow has ever had, and after this, it’s back to the bacon eclairs she wolfs down every morning.

She is LOVING this, trust.

She butt-tweeted earlier today

The only way this bitch is going to get attention after Jan 20th if she live streams her suicide

She may need to go full-on Stefoknee, have a dressmaker whip up a few frilly jumpers, score a Mrs. Beasley doll on eBay, and disappear into a middle-American family as the youngest daughter, in pigtails..

R31 It's no Covfefe.... but it's okay.

I get a strong Ken Bone energy from this blob. She’s definitely looking to cash in on something. A book deal or something as she’s on her way out the door.

Book deal? For not doing her stupid job?

Why did she go full R2-D2 on Twitter?

She gives fat broads a bad name...

This uber Karen is gonna shit herself when the manager asks to see Her!

R36, yup. A book about doing Jack shit. If Ken Bone made money off doing fuck all, so can this lard ass. Especially if they sue her.

[quote] Won’t somebody from the Hostess Bakery please send her a care package?

Sorry, we do not make care packages that big.

[quote] Why did she go full [R2]-D2 on Twitter?

It was her fat @ss tweeting "HELP ME!!! This bitch is deep-frying a whole turkey for breakfast!"

We do, r41!

She should take the easy way out and off herself. And leave a note specifying cremation so no one has to haul that concert grand piano into the church and out again.

It sounds like she's in one of those situations where a leader has to set the precedent, not rely on it.

That's hard, but that can happen. You can't entertain that possibility and see yourself acting, don't take the job. Or resign. But incapacity is not an option.

She seems unable to make a decision. She should step down, be replaced, or act. Sometimes you have to test the waters to set the precedent.

Congress establishes much of this by statute, even though is a dotted line to the executive branch. Congress pass a framework for chicken little to follow., although that will go nowhere because of Moscow Mitch.

The law should be more specific and state that ascertainment occurs when sufficient states with enough electoral votes for the apparent winner have certified their results. Then it wouldn’t require a bureaucrat’s decision.

Someone just outed her on Twitter as a hardcore Trumpsucker. She’s going down. They’re going to crucify her and now she’ll back down.

Then she’ll do the Christofacist circuit like those fat lawyers from St. Louis.

R46, that is exactly what the Trump administration, through Emily Murphy, is arguing. It's a standard that would build maximum delay into the transition, with endless challenges to certifications, etc. The transition is the sort of thing that needs to be done as quickly as possible.

R47, so her delay WASN'T principled, she's just a cultist? That's such a surprise.

Link please.

She just LOOKS like one of the Qanon loonies. Can’t put it into words, but they just have a certain *look* about them; their eyes are kind of glazed. Totally divorced from reality, and a danger to themselves and others.

Fat fuck frau.

I know it was obvious r48, but now it’s gone wide, is all I am saying. People are going to bay for her blood even more now, which will get her an even bigger book deal.

I hate her porky little face so much.

I get a strong Ken Bone energy from this blob. She’s definitely looking to cash in on something. A book deal or something as she’s on her way out the door.

I agree; she'll land at the Cato Institute or some place like that. There's a reason she's holding out - there's a reward for her (not just a box of donuts) the longer she fucks with/undermines the Biden administration. Moreover, once this is over, she'll be all over right wing media crying about how she was targeted, harassed, harangued by the angry left.

R45 is correct. If this little piggy can't do her job, she should step down.

She's not indecisive. She made a decision. She made a decision not to sign the authorization papers.

She deserves zero accommodation and must be accountable for the fallout.

Friendly reminder that Republicans made Susan McDougal serve 18 months in prison for ignoring a subpoena to testify against the Clintons.

So, what the hell are we waiting for?

Subpoena @GSAEmilyMurphy immediately and have the House Sergeant of Arms take her into custody.

Dear @GSAEmily: With the certification by Michigan, there continues to be no excuse for you to obstruct the transition to President-elect @JoeBiden & Vice President-elect @KamalaHarris. Stop being a partisan hack who believes in dead Hugo Chavez conspiracy theories. Do your job.

She’s just green lighted transition, sez CNN.

Her pizza must have arrived.

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^^^ “Greenlighted transition?”

R56, I would like to see her do hard time as well. Democrats need to stop treating these law-breaking Republicans with kid gloves and start being a little more ruthless with them.

Jail the evil cow!

On day one of his administration Joe Biden needs to fire this partisan hack.

On day one of his administration Joe Biden needs to fire this partisan hack.

She'll likely be hired by some right wing organization, rewarding her for loyalty, but it would be fitting if she becomes toxic & unemployable in WDC with no one wanting her to represent them.

R74 That's fine, because that is where she belongs, and not running a government agency.