Should that be the case, the speaker of the house assumes the presidency until an election can be held. President Pelosi anyone? Sounds like a vast improvement over the current pile of shite.
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Thank you.
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Except with the people who agree with her, and feel like any risk is worth getting the economy rolling again. Probably the same people who voted for her in the first place.
When her stupidity (hopefully) isn’t enacted, and the businesses continue to suffer or collapse, her people will spin it to, “If only she had been listened to, things would be different right now,” omitting the part where the businesses would still be closed and there would be thousands of more dead.
She will be “the candidate capable of making the tough decisions,” and those remaining will vote for her again.
Or, she may be stoned to death in the streets. It could go either way. When is she up for reelection?
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One could hope.
That can’t happen. The president is elected by the electoral college in some extremely convoluted rules.
If any state appoints electoral votes then “the person having the greatest number of votes for President, shall be the President, if such number be a majority of the whole number of Electors appointed.” So if only one state casts electoral votes, they pick the president, and at least one state would presumably vote then.
If there are electoral votes cast without a majority candidate, then “the House of Representatives shall choose immediately, by ballot, the President. But in choosing the President, the votes shall be taken by states, the representation from each state having one vote; a quorum for this purpose shall consist of a member or members from two-thirds of the states, and a majority of all the states shall be necessary to a choice.”
One vote per state leans republican. Oh and they can only vote for people that recieved at least 1 electoral vote
If there were no election at all (no state appoints electoral votes), then normal succession rules would be in play. But if there is no election then there are no representatives in the house (as of Jan. 3) because their terms end before the president’s (Jan. 20). Which means that the acting president would have to come from the Senate. But there are no clear rules for who exactly would be in the senate without an election (some states let governors appoint, some don’t), so the short answer is no one fucking knows what would happen without an election
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That’s a short study, because it leads right back to the GOP. Voter suppression is their game, and the only reason they have a snowball’s chance in hell of staying in power. Even in contested blue states and battleground purple states (like Nevada) high voter turnout hands the race to the Democrat every time. So it’s not so much that we get the government that we deserve - our voice has been stifled to keep one party even in the running.
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So you’re saying the reason only 55% of eligible voters turn out the polls in America is the fault of the GOP? That doesn’t hold water.
The mayor of LV seems to have missed the memo:
Somehow, I don’t think she’s the only one…
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And plenty of people didn’t vote because they see no difference living in a safe district.
This is about GB, but applies to the US a good deal:
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I’m not speaking for anyone else, but the answer is, in part, yes. Lower overall voter turnout tends to benefit the GOP, and they have for some time made it their business to try and limit and/or suppress voter participation in any way possible. This is neither a secret nor controversial at this point.
Let me ask you this: can you name a GOP policy re: our elections in living memory that didn’t in some way limit or discourage people from voting, or otherwise make voting more difficult than it was?
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Yes, it does. Why doesn’t every state have motor voter and vote-by-mail? Why is Election Day on a Tuesday, when most working folks can’t just go to the polls when they want to? Why do dense urban areas have one polling location per 500,000 people and exurban ares have a polling place per 500 people? Voter ID laws? Purging voter registrations in only urban areas of states that are gerrymandered into having 60% GOP legislatures when the population voted 60% for Democrats?
I mean, one would have to be truly clueless to not draw a direct line between voter suppression and the GOP. Their own internal documents have been exposed showing it is the primary activity of the national party.
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Their OWN words… no… we need more evidence… shit be complicated… /s
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Lives being sacrificed for profit is nothing new, it’s just slightly more obvious now. Neoliberalism ain’t pretty.
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Since you brought up Neoliberalism, I suppose this is also a good place to post this. The more views it gets, the better, imo.
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I just want to point out that the mayor of Las Vegas just admitted, on national television to pushing for what is considered a crime against humanity. If this were any where else in the world, especially a place in the global south, many of you seemingly brushing this off and noting how complicated things are would call it what it is. An attempt at a crime against humanity.
The GOP is a death cult. They will kill populations that won’t vote for them because they see through their racist dog whistling.
This is a very dangerous situation that we need to take seriously. These people are not acting normally. They are out for control by ANY means. The death of you or a loved one is irrelevant to them. If you think you’re safe, because you live in a blue state or whatever, those of us who don’t aren’t YOURS to sacrifice for YOUR safety. We need to be in this together, not assume that it won’t impact you.
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Might as well have been a televangelist preacher, right? That’s not a coincidence. That’s a coordinated propaganda campaign that has been going on for decades. When did Jerry Falwell and Jim Bakker rise to prominence and wealth? Right in lockstep with Reagan and hedge funds. The conservative politician/billionaire business/mass-market religion carousel is not an accident.
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Yes. It is.
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She’s just one more member of Susan Collins of Maine’s Stepford Wives’ Club. How dare she offer up the people of Las Vegas as some sort of obscene science experiment!
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The GOP base is indeed made up of old people, evangelicals, militant whites, that those who are easily duped in to voting for GOP “issues”. The constants the GOP actually serves are profit-at-all-cost corporations and others who will pay off the GOP candidates to serve those narrow interests.
