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| credit KAL, Counterpoint.com |
So, from now until January 20th when the US Marshalls and Secret Service escort him from the Room Without Corners, we all live in Trumplandia, a sickening carnival ride of mendacity, reality-TV, and authoritarian ineptitude* while a quarter million fellow citizens are laid to rest. Starring, who else, 'Killer Trumpillini' and his legion of pettifoggers headed by his favorite flying monkey, Rudy 'Gouly'--neither of whom has any shame, or respect for democratic process. US Person feels for Joe, tasked with herding cats in an attempt to bring some unity and civility back to our beleaguered political process. The best thing we can do is help Joe by taking back control of the Senate, otherwise his administration will be a four year exercise in frustration. The other to-do item is prosecution of the Antichrist, otherwise he will be back in 2024, like another re-run of "I love Lucy". All caps for Killer: YOU LOST THE ELECTION!--time to get out of Dodge.
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| credit: J. Danzinger, Rutland Herald; Wackydoodle sez: It was a lot easier going down! |
*The latest wing-nuttery to emerge from the fevered legal brains on the extreme right, is an unsupported conspiracy allegation rivaling Hillary's "vast right-wing conspiracy" claim she made in defense of her husband. Roughly it argues the electronic voting machines made by Dominion Voting Systems were rigged using a secret algorithm controlled remotely by Democrats from Germany and Venezuela that caused votes to be switched. This incomprehensible story features leading roles by George Soros, Antifa, the media, and the dead Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chávez, and is especially favored by the current delusional White House occupant and Q ANON. US does not mean to be RUDE, but why not throw in Pope Francis and the Illuminati, Sydney, since you covered everybody else? Absurd--you bet! Election officials all over the country have publicly stated there is no evidence of electronic vote switching. The facts keep getting in the way of Killer's attempted coup.
Has it happened before that a state legislature sends its own slate of electors to Congress for counting? Yes, 1876, when Republican Rutherford B. Hayes won a contested election in Congress over Democrat Tilden by one electoral vote. It took a Congressional commission and a political deal to end Reconstruction to decide the election. All of this mess led to the Electoral Count Act of 1887, which provides that when a state certifies an alternative slate of electors, Congress decides which votes to count. As US Person recalls, Oregon was one of three states in which two slates of Electors were sent to Congress. Under Section Two of the title governing failed elections, state legislators may choose a slate of Electors when the election "fails to make a choice.", originally meant to apply to a specific situation. electors must win with a majority, not a mere plurality. However, It could be argued that massive vote fraud could be a reason for invalidating an election outcome. But here Trump is out of luck; in the case of the 2020 election the results are unequivocal and fair by all rational accounts. Biden won swing states handily, and these states have previously decided by law to chose their Electors according to the state's popular vote. The close Florida vote in 2000, is simply a factually different case.
The last nail in this sorry saga many have been driven home when Michigan GOP legislators invited to the VWH on Friday, told the Antichrist that they had to follow the law, not his wishes. The best way to prevent this psycho-drama from happening repeatedly is to get rid of the anachronistic Electoral College. Full stop.
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| His loss is finally sinking in.... |