A potential plan by Republican leaders to steal the 2024 presidential election. The plan involves delaying the certification of election results in key battleground states, potentially decreasing the overall number of electors appointed and allowing Donald Trump to win the presidency through a contingent election, whereby the House of Representatives, not the Electoral College, determines the president.
I don’t understand. Isn’t it the VP who certifies the results, anyway? Or does it pass down to Speaker, since she’s running?
“Preventing this scenario requires Republicans to act in good faith and certify the results of elections that go against their guy.”
They’ve said it out loud. Heritage foundation guy has been saying we’re in the middle of a bloodless coup, bloodless if the left allows it.
The historian, Heather Cox Richardson, can walk you though the legal channels for an election steal, provided the Speaker of the House is on board. I’m not going to dig to find it again. She’s on YouTube.
This is going to be like Roe, isn’t it? Where people know exactly what’s about to happen then act surprised when it does.
bloodless if the left allows it.
The left should not allow a coup.
Arm yourself. Seriously.
I am on some of the mostly unregulated forums, regarding 3D printed guns. (Odysee, element, etc) People on there are literally advocating for killing liberals. They are bloodthirsty. These are the comments that you don’t see on Lemmy or Reddit because they are removed. There is a gigantic portion of our population that is willing to kill the other half over an election.
Regulated and censored forums like this are painting a picture that is completely false. It is not just a couple people.
You have a right to defend yourself with deadly force and I suggest you enable yourself to do so if needed
Why don’t we just force runoff elections when things are off. It costs a few million, yes. But isn’t it better for people to decide instead of one judge?
Because that would change the results. People would be able to change their votes. It could result in yet another things are off. It doesn’t resolve. It complicates.
I think the Republicans screwed themselves bit here. With the Supreme Court decision giving the president immunity for official Acts, Biden could just throw all those fuckers in jail as an official act for trying to stage a coup and that would give the presidency to Harris.
He won’t, though.
Yes, Biden’s mindset still hasn’t caught up with the present circumstances, and probably won’t.
It’s all Democrats in office. They’re a bunch of high road cowards that will ride the high road right off a cliff just so they can smell their own farts and exclaim how virtuous they are for not having taken extreme measures to protect us.
He never would though. Name the last time when Democrats even got close to the line in using all of their power.
You could literally have them killed by our military. If only
Throw the bent supremes in with them
Actually, they should start with removing the illegitimately installed SCROTUS.
It would be worth looking into which states have wording in their Constitutions that include “shall certify” which would make the stalling tactic a crime.
Also, anyone who voted in a state whose electors were not sent on time would have a valid civil rights case against that state’s officials and they would all have standing because they were personally harmed. The number of potential lawsuits would be overwhelming and perhaps ruinous to anyone found guilty. Not sure that fear of that would be enough to stop them, but also they have to worry about losing their next election (though if it worked they might hope to be rewarded by the winning administration).
The reason it didn’t happen line this last time is that the legislators and Governors whose job it is to certify the EC electors also get their job through elections. Some of them may have been re-elected on the very same ballot. If they start playing games and saying that now, despite a clear victory by one side, they can’t affirm that victory, it will call into question their own electoral legitimacy.
One yo-yo suggested this in NC a few weeks ago - that after the hurricane, voting would be such a difficult chore that they should just skip the Presidential election and give Trump all their EC votes, and that idea was quickly given the mocking it deserved.
State and local election officials, of every party, take pride in conducting their elections in a fair manner, and reporting results on time. The distributed nature of our elections is actually an asset here, because each state governs their own elections locally, necessitating schemes like this to be duplicated in each state theyare intended for. And the “safe harbor” provisions function to make sure that as long as certification is done on time, there is very little that Congress can do other than count them . At least, I hope…
I remember when I had first beer.
I was worried when there was one possibility, but now that there are two?
There’s also just full-blown civil war where states completely revolt against the US government. Nothing is off the table with these psychopaths in charge
We can short-circuit all that by saying “Hey, you jokers want to leave? Then go already, and please leave your US passports in that basket by the door on your way out. By the way, here is a bill for your share of the Federal Debt, apportioned by population like the Constitution you say you revere says it should be. We also added the cost of all the military bases you are buying from us.”
Seriously, let the fuckers go. I’d be sad to see Austin go. But, really, that’s about it.
This is getting out of hand!
Media companies: but think how many clicks we will get!
Scary shit
Quick! Vote!
Done! Now what?
In all seriousness, you can phone bank.
Ships and guns!
Definitely guns. Go to any of the unregulated forums and read what people are saying.
They want to kill you.If they try that with me and mine, they will find out that at least some liberals are armed, and damn good shots. Go .308 or go home.
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