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| credit P. Guerra BC Idonwanna sez: That's his buddy, Reichminster Joe next to him |
That is what Don Olde's 'burner' phone registered on Michigan Majority Leader's cell phone when he called to influence the counting of Electoral College votes in that state. For those readers not familiar with organized criminal behavior, 'burner' phones are cheap, disposable cell phones favored by drug dealers and mobsters to thwart tracing by law enforcement. What we have here is not a "fayure to comuncate", but a call routed through servers located in Egypt. Ask yourself this question: why would a President of the United States be using a burner phone to conduct official business? NOT. The communication was not recorded in the daily presidential call log.
According to a deposition in the evidence appendix submitted by Jack Smith, All-American Prosecutor, the Repugnant House Speaker was informed that a call from Don Olde would be forthcoming identified as "Spam Risk--Egypt" on his phone. They discussed counting votes on the surreptitious call, and candidate Trump expressed concern that fraud may be affecting the vote count in Michigan. The Electoral College system makes such illegal interference possible. It should be abolished in favor of a popular vote. If the Democrats control Congress after this election, they are in a position to approve the Popular Vote Compact when it reaches 270 electoral votes, thus avoiding the necessity of the supermajorities required to pass a constitutional amendment*.
The Orange Menace and his fascist stooges are preparing the same "Big Lie" this time around. They plan to declare victory early in the tally when they might hold a temporary lead. The only way to counter this type of seditious agitprop is to vote in such numbers against the dictator-in-waiting that his repeated claims of fraud are not plausible in any way. America's democracy depends on putting this outrageous, criminal con-man in our rearview mirror. PLEASE VOTE for democracy by November 5th.
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*Apologists point to the Electoral College Reform Act of 2022 as the solution to the problem of gaming presidential elections. It does not solve the problem of giving undue voting weight to a few swing states that results in skewing campaigning to those states. The fact is that the scheme was born of a compromise with slavery in the southern states. 'Reforming' such an obsolete, morally suspect system is not a solution, but another patch on an already feeble scheme that is anti-democratic in nature since it operates agains the one person, one vote principle enshrined in constitutional law. Besides, another clever conservatie lawyer like John Eastman may come along and manipulate the reform to partisan advantage. The Electoral College has outlived its raison d'être and should be abolished, period.
On another issue, Trump's radical tariff proposal, besides being considered ruinous by many economists, has its roots deep in US history. Robert Morris, a wealthy Philadelphia merchant--an Elon Musk of the 18th century--became superintendent of finance during the Revolutionary War. He was the money man responsible for funding the conflict. He insisted that the Confederation pass an impost (tariff) on foreign imports as a means of funding bonds issued to pay for the war. Morris and his friends owned the top tier of these bonds. Naturally, they wanted to be paid. His proposal met with stiff resistance from the states as an infringement of their sovereign right to tax residents. Morris saw the impost as the beginning of a strong central government. An impost was not passed until the Confederation became a nation-state in 1789. A high tariff now would be inflationary by increasing the cost of living, and would lead to retaliation against U.S, exports that could set off a recession. Hardly a liberal periodical, The Economist has endorsed Kamala Harris. His claim that foreign nations would pay for the tariff is equivalent to his claim that Mexico would pay for his wall folly. Tarriff costs would be passed on to consumers. Elon Musk owns millions in federal government contracts. The more things change, the more they stay the same.