He’s probably an honourary member of all the white supremacist prison gangs already. They’ll look after his protection.
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Man, Turmp may be a fucking idiot, but he sure extrapolated the “right” lessons from the old saw “It’s not the crime, ti’s the coverup” he’s just…pitching crimes out loud constantly. There is less and less shame by the day.
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It’s made me wonder if there isn’t some sort of method to the madness. Maybe some sort of statistical analysis of the effects to the stock market when he mentions this or that, or maybe a strategic, batshit crazy tweet timed to come out the same time as a story about him he’d rather people look away from.
It’s just so bizarre and overt now, it seems malignant in some way.
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Full report of the Transition Integrity Team is out. (This is the simulation group that gamed out scenarios for a disputed election.)
Headings in the recommendations:
- Plan for a contested election.
- Focus on readiness in the states, providing political support for a complete and accurate count. Get it right here to avoid a crisis.
- Name the elephant in the room: President Trump is not running a normal re-election campaign.
- Address the two biggest threats head on: lies about “vote fraud” and escalating violence.
- Anticipate a rocky administrative transition.
It ain’t pretty.
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For well over a year, Project Veritas has been secretly producing undercover stings designed to undermine the integrity of absentee and mail-in ballot counts—an endeavor codenamed “Diamond Dog,”
Fleas the size of rats sucked on rats the size of cats,
And ten thousand peoploids split into small tribes,
Coveting the highest of the sterile skyscrapers,
Like packs of dogs assaulting the glass fronts of Love-Me Avenue.
Ripping and rewrapping mink and shiny silver fox, now leg-warmers.
Family badge of sapphire and cracked emerald.
Any day now,
The year of the Diamond Dogs.“This ain’t Rock’n’Roll,
This is Genocide.”
When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.
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Yeah, it ain’t.
“Carl Bernstein reports White House chatter about throwing 2020 election to House” -WashExaminer
(I hate linking to that rag.)
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So - smaller states having more vote proportionally and each delegation getting only one vote?
It’s a stretch. It doesn’t look like it’ll get close to a candidate not getting a majority of electors.
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Yup. Wyoming’s one Congresscritter would have as much say as California’s 53. In the current House, the states break 26-22 in favor of the Republicans, with Michigan and Pennsylvania tied. Of course, it’s the incoming House that would be voting. If there are any electoral shenanigans, there will be an uncertain makeup, including an uncertain number of vacant seats. But that’s likely irrelevant because, as you say:
With no third-party candidate in the running, the only way it can happen is either a numerical tie or faithless electors. The Electoral College has no quorum requirement. A State that does not present a qualifying certificate of election simply has no vote.
Where the Congress could come into play - with the same Westphalian “one state, one vote” rules - is if one member of each house offers up a written challenge to a state’s certificate of election. Then each house retires separately to consider whether to accept the certificate; a majority of the states in both houses is required to reject. (The brokered 1878 election is the last time this process came seriously into play. Arguably, it would have been the constitutionally correct process to resolve Bush v Gore. The Constitution does not actually discuss any authority of the Supreme Court to address such a matter, and the Congress is the body that it authorizes to resolve electoral disputes, including the qualification of Presidential electors and of its own members.)
The reason behind the “one state, one vote” rule in those situations is that that’s how international diplomacy usually operates. In situations where the legality of the government itself is in question, the states’ delegations are diplomatic negotiators on behalf of the separate sovereign states rather than representatives to a lawfully constituted Federal government. The states were sovereign before 1789 and are presumed to retain sovereignty even in the event that the Constitution fails.
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Census Bureau to halt counting early
What are the odds that the final tally won’t show that the red states get more Congressional seats and the blue states fewer? Because of course we know that people have been moving out of those liberal Democratic cities in droves. (I’ve been saying since 2016 that having Trump’s minions count the census will lead inexorably to just that sort of miscount.)
“Oh my, who would have dreamt that half the population of New York would have moved to Florida and Texas in ten short years?”
(sound of impact of head upon desktop)
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Dems close to achieving a hard-earned loss in Kentucky:
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I remember in 2001 when the DHS was invented and we used to say things like “this is fascism”
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For a limited subset of “we”.
The post-9/11 security state has enjoyed solid bipartisan support for twenty years.
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I’m no great fan of the Democratic Party but the House caucus voted 120 to 88 against the Homeland Security Act of 2002. They were outvoted by the Republicans. It was bipartisan in the Senate though.
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Actually, ending the count early will probably mean major under-counting in Texas
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.texastribune.org/2020/08/04/texas-census-deadline-hispanic/amp/
ETA: not sure why that isn’t one boxing.
Nevermind!
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This is pretty amazing.
tl;dr: 100 huge lies fact checked in 37 minutes
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