Politics When trump is sworn in...

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  1. tirk

    tirk im the lyrical jessie james

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    why wouldnt you. pencil necked lying sob.

    the number of conservatives in dc jan 6th is gonna be staggering. Their pressure will be immense. Who trusts pence. it all comes down to him. i dont trust him.

    December 26, 2020
    It's for Mike Pence to Judge whether a Presidential Election Was Held at All
    By Ted Noel
    On January 6, a joint session of Congress will open with Vice President Pence presiding as president of the Senate. His power will be plenary and unappealable. You heard that right. As president of the Senate, every objection comes directly to him, and he can rule any objection "out of order" or "denied." His task will be to fulfill his oath of office to protect and defend the Constitution of the United States and to ensure that the laws be faithfully executed. This is a high standard of performance, and V.P. Pence will have two choices. He can roll over on "certified" electors, or he can uphold the law.

    Article II, Section 1 of the Constitution gives state legislatures "plenary authority" as enunciated in Bush v. Gore. This is key, since the counting of votes is discussed in Article II, the 12th Amendment, and 3 USC 15. To this we must add the history of counting and objections recounted by Alexander Macris (here and here). Put bluntly, it's as clear as mud. Add to that the fact that the contested states of Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, New Mexico, Nevada, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin have sent dueling slates of electors to D.C. This means that the V.P. has to decide how he will handle the situation when two sealed envelopes are handed to him from any of those states.

    Macris points out that in 1800, even with constitutional deficiencies in Georgia, Thomas Jefferson blithely counted defective electoral votes from Georgia, effectively voting himself into the presidency. This demonstrates that the president of the Senate is the final authority on any motions or objections during the vote-counting. There is no appeal. That doesn't mean there won't be any outrage. Whatever Pence does, people will be angry. But what does the law demand?

    Seven contested states clearly violated their own laws. Rather than list the facts, which have been detailed in multiple articles, we must consider the following:

    An election is a process of counting votes for candidates. Only valid, lawful votes may be counted. A valid lawful vote is:

    • Cast by an eligible, properly registered elector as prescribed by laws enacted by the state Legislature.
    • Cast in a timely manner, as prescribed by laws enacted by the state Legislature.
    • Cast in a proper form as prescribed by laws enacted by the state Legislature.
    Any process that does not follow these rules is not an election. Anything that proceeds from it cannot be regarded as having any lawful import.

    Most commentators suggest that a process of collecting pieces of paper with marks on them is an election regardless of errors, omissions, and even deliberate malfeasance. This is a mistake. Imagine a golf tournament where every bad shot by one player gets a do-over, but the competing player has to follow USGA rules in detail. One player gets to drop freely out of hazards, but the other has to tackle every embedded ball as it lies. The result is a travesty.

    The same thing applies to elections. If there are a handful of improper votes, we can suggest that there was in fact an election, perhaps tainted, but the election wasn't materially harmed. But when the people charged with managing the election decide to ignore the law, whatever process they supervise is not the process defined by the law. Therefore, it is not an election.

    This leaves V.P. Pence with a dilemma. He is a gentleman who regards our governmental traditions with a degree of reverence, so he will be reluctant to take any bold action. But as an honorable man, faced with massive illegality, he must act to protect the law. Consider how things might go down as the two closed envelopes from Georgia are handed to the V.P. Rather than opening them, he says:

    In my hand are envelopes purporting to contain electoral votes from Georgia. They are competing for consideration, so it is essential that I consider the law that governs this. That law, according to the Legislature of Georgia and Article II, Section 1 of the U.S. Constitution is the Georgia statute that includes procedures for signature-matching on absentee ballots, a requirement that all absentee ballots be first requested by a legitimate voter, and that election monitors be meaningfully present at all times while votes were counted.

    The Georgia secretary of state, who is not empowered by the U.S. Constitution to make changes to election law, entered into a Consent Decree that gutted these protections enacted by the Georgia Legislature. The processes that he prescribed and were ultimately followed were manifestly contrary to that law. Further, the State of Georgia, in unprecedented concert with other states, suspended counting of ballots in the middle of the night, covering its conspiracy with a false claim of a "water main break." We now know from surveillance video that many thousands of "ballots" were counted unlawfully in the absence of legally required observers.

    Finally, the State of Georgia, under the authority of secretary of state Brad Raffensperger, a non-legislative actor, used fatally flawed Dominion voting machines that have been demonstrated to be unreliable. In testing, the error rate of Dominion machines has exceeded 60%, far in excess of legal limits. They are designed to facilitate fraud without creating the legally required paper trail. This alone is far more than enough to swing an election.

    Since the state of Georgia has failed to follow the election law established by its legislature under Article II, Section 1 of the Constitution, it has not conducted a presidential election. Therefore, no "presidential electors" were appointed in Georgia. Further, "electors" "certified" by non-legislative actors pursuant to this process are in fact not "presidential electors." The competing slate of "electors" is similarly deficient, having not been elected through a presidential election.

    Therefore, the chair rules that Georgia has not transmitted the votes of any presidential electors to this body. Georgia presents zero votes for Donald Trump and zero votes for Joseph Biden.

    The central point is that the VP, as the presiding officer and final authority, has the unquestionable authority to declare that the states in question have not conducted presidential elections. There will be wailing and gnashing of teeth, but no one has the authority to override his decision.

    The statement says nothing about who might or might not have "won" the contested states. Rather, by not following their own laws, as enacted by their own legislatures, they have violated Article II, Section 1. Thus, they have not conducted an election, and their results are void.

    If the votes of all seven contested states are registered as zero, President Trump will have 232 votes, and Joe Biden will have 222. The 12th Amendment says, "[T]he votes shall then be counted[.] ... The person having the greatest number of votes for President, shall be the President[.]"

    In plain language, Donald Trump will be re-elected, since he has a majority of the actual electoral votes. There will be no need to involve the House of Representatives to resolve a contingent election.

    Richard Nixon chose not to contest the 1960 election because he felt that winning that way would lead to an ungovernable country. If V.P. Pence does this, that same argument might be made. But is the country governable even now? Blue states such as California, Oregon, Washington, New York, New Jersey, and Michigan are already operating in an openly lawless manner with their "emergency" "COVID-related" restrictions. Their denial of the civil rights of law-abiding citizens is horrific. Their refusal to do basic policing and law enforcement is a recipe for open war. How much worse would things be if the V.P. lived up to his oath and upheld the law?
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  2. GiantDuckFan

    GiantDuckFan be excellent to each other Staff Member

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    Mike Pence to confirm Biden then leave the country, says report
    https://news.yahoo.com/mike-pence-confirm-biden-then-140043170.html

    Mike Pence could confirm Joe Biden as president-elect when Congress meets in three weeks time, and then leave the country, his aides have said.

    “I suspect the timing is anything but coincidental,” one Pence ally said about the rumoured plans.

    Mr Pence has remained largely silent on such matters, while still supporting Mr Trump’s complaints - and thus has avoided backlash from the president’s supporters.

    According to a US government document seen by Politico, Mr Pence will travel to Bahrain, Israel and Poland, in the week between Congress’s vote and Mr Biden’s inauguration ceremony on January 20.

    Mr Pence, as vice-president, must announce Mr Biden’s win - and his own loss - in the session of Congress, in what will be an uncomfortable scene for both him and Mr Trump, who continues to deny defeat.

    Mr Pence will want to avoid the same criticism thrown at the Republican senate leader Mitch McConnell this week, after he congratulated Mr Biden and Kamala Harris on becoming president-elect and vice-president elect on Tuesday.

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  3. Winston1

    Winston1 Founding Member

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    I guess Pence has stock in Dominion and is a Deep State traitor too.
     
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  4. shane0911

    shane0911 Helping lost idiots find their village

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    To the contrary, it is you that is delusional because not only is it taking place right under your nose, you still refuse to even look much less see
     
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  5. USAFRet66.86

    USAFRet66.86 COTiger is cool

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    Be careful. You're going to bruise his feelings & he's going to resort to calling you a coward.
     
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  6. GiantDuckFan

    GiantDuckFan be excellent to each other Staff Member

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    see what?.. trump's, "massive election fraud", has all been explained and exposed as bullshit lies,..

    ... with the exception of the "dominion" voting machine issue,.. ... we'll see how that turns out, of course the chief proponent of that theory is the silly crazier than fuck, Sydney Powell, so I wouldn't get my hopes up, Shane,..

    how many times has trump or his people claimed an election fraud bombshell was about to blow up?.. and nothing has ever come of it,.. when the "dominion" issue is exposed as fallacy, as I expect, that means there was no election fraud,..

    no election fraud, only election blunders, those were caused by the state's supreme courts,.. no fraud there, just poor decisions in my opinion,..

    it's time you guys admit that trump's a lying fuck who hornswoggled you good people,.. you were taken in by a New York City yankee shyster, who played you guys like a fiddle
     
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  7. tirk

    tirk im the lyrical jessie james

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    tirk im the lyrical jessie james

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    man, this crazy lin wood has the best twitter going. hes crazy as hell but not a liar. heavy accusations on john roberts and many others. he also said epstein is alive which is true.
     
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  9. mancha

    mancha Alabama morghulis

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    covid had released mass tardedness unto the world. 2020 is the birth year of Idiocracy.

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  10. Jmg

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    i think epstein is maybe mossad. them dang jews are shifty.


    you loons keep saying trump is gonna do whatever and keep the white house. not sure about that one, podnuh. what do you thinka re the current odds trump is there in february? i say under 1%
     

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