While polls indicate that American voters will send Donald Trump back to the White House in November, recent reports suggest that Democrats are actively plotting to prevent that.
57% of Democrats and 35% of all US voters are insurrectionists (using FBI definition of the crime). Better get those Patriot Act taps started. Neat thing is President Trump (47) would be able to use the Biden precedent to wiretap basically the entirety of the Democrat registered public.
The 57% of Democrats that openly support an Unconstitutional Insurrection by Congress.... and everyone else via the "incidental" collection of communications involving registered Democrat insurrectionists. This is Huge.
Shades of 1877 as in how the Election of 1876 finally got settled 2 to 3 days before the March 5, 1877 inauguration. (March 4 was a SUNDAY in 1877 so they had an extra day.) Congress did its job in those days and that's what they're paid to do.
1876-7 was about WHOSE Electors were the proper ones. Oddly enough if Congress had decided to disallow the disputed Electors the choice would have devolved to the House and Tilden would have won on the first balloting! But Congress had Other Ideas--MAKING DEALS on everything from Ending Reconstruction in the South to Land Grants for the Texas & Pacific RR and they tussled with things until everyone was willing to settle and Hayes became President by ONE VOTE! A Black man named Wormley who owned Wormley's Hotel near the White House came out best as much of the negotiating was carried out in rooms at his hotel and he had them pay cash; at the time some were referring to the Election Settlement as the Wormley Compromise.
That Election may also have been finally settled by TWO WOMEN. I don't have time for the story, but the women were Kate Chase Sprague and the wife of SCOTUS Justice Joseph Philo Bradley.
If the House won't "certify", then the House has to chose a POTUS from the Top Three. Conceivably we could have a Rogue Elector or Bobby Jr. to deny Brandon "victory". (See the 1792, 1796, and 1800 Elections for how scheming can go wrong; yes there are on-line write-ups on them that make interesting reading!). A GOP-controlled Senate would choose from the Top Two Veep candidates meaning future. schemes to disqualify a feeble Brandon.
As is, I "worry" about an "Indira Gandhi" situation...
Regarding the House and the election: the vote is by states, not by members, and at the moment, the GOP controls 25 state delegations. Two are evenly divided, and there are four others that the Democrats control by a single vote (for purposes of this discussion I am counting the single-vote Vermont delegation as solidly Democrat, the odds of the GOP flipping it are essentially nil).
Assuming the GOP doesn't lose control of any of the state delegations in which it has a majority--and there's none I can see that meet that criterion--all they'd have to do is flip a single seat in any of the six states that are either evenly divided or Democrat-controlled by a single vote to have 26 delegations.
Worst-case scenario for the GOP--assuming they retain their 25 state delegations, which I think is likely--the House would be unable to elect a President and the choice of VP by the Senate would then control: on Inauguration Day, the VP-elect would take the oath and then immediately become President.
If you wonder how civil wars start, this is it…
Wow!
57% of Democrats and 35% of all US voters are insurrectionists (using FBI definition of the crime). Better get those Patriot Act taps started. Neat thing is President Trump (47) would be able to use the Biden precedent to wiretap basically the entirety of the Democrat registered public.
The 57% of Democrats that openly support an Unconstitutional Insurrection by Congress.... and everyone else via the "incidental" collection of communications involving registered Democrat insurrectionists. This is Huge.
Democrats cannot by definition be insurrectionists, sorta like non-whites cannot be racists. Please get with the program (progrom?)
Shades of 1877 as in how the Election of 1876 finally got settled 2 to 3 days before the March 5, 1877 inauguration. (March 4 was a SUNDAY in 1877 so they had an extra day.) Congress did its job in those days and that's what they're paid to do.
1876-7 was about WHOSE Electors were the proper ones. Oddly enough if Congress had decided to disallow the disputed Electors the choice would have devolved to the House and Tilden would have won on the first balloting! But Congress had Other Ideas--MAKING DEALS on everything from Ending Reconstruction in the South to Land Grants for the Texas & Pacific RR and they tussled with things until everyone was willing to settle and Hayes became President by ONE VOTE! A Black man named Wormley who owned Wormley's Hotel near the White House came out best as much of the negotiating was carried out in rooms at his hotel and he had them pay cash; at the time some were referring to the Election Settlement as the Wormley Compromise.
That Election may also have been finally settled by TWO WOMEN. I don't have time for the story, but the women were Kate Chase Sprague and the wife of SCOTUS Justice Joseph Philo Bradley.
If the House won't "certify", then the House has to chose a POTUS from the Top Three. Conceivably we could have a Rogue Elector or Bobby Jr. to deny Brandon "victory". (See the 1792, 1796, and 1800 Elections for how scheming can go wrong; yes there are on-line write-ups on them that make interesting reading!). A GOP-controlled Senate would choose from the Top Two Veep candidates meaning future. schemes to disqualify a feeble Brandon.
As is, I "worry" about an "Indira Gandhi" situation...
Regarding the House and the election: the vote is by states, not by members, and at the moment, the GOP controls 25 state delegations. Two are evenly divided, and there are four others that the Democrats control by a single vote (for purposes of this discussion I am counting the single-vote Vermont delegation as solidly Democrat, the odds of the GOP flipping it are essentially nil).
Assuming the GOP doesn't lose control of any of the state delegations in which it has a majority--and there's none I can see that meet that criterion--all they'd have to do is flip a single seat in any of the six states that are either evenly divided or Democrat-controlled by a single vote to have 26 delegations.
Worst-case scenario for the GOP--assuming they retain their 25 state delegations, which I think is likely--the House would be unable to elect a President and the choice of VP by the Senate would then control: on Inauguration Day, the VP-elect would take the oath and then immediately become President.