Friday, February 23, 2024
Saturday, January 20, 2024
Mediate's Jan 6 for dummies: When Pence ignored Trump’s plea, a mob stormed the Capitol lol
Here.
Yeah, if only Mike Pence had been at the center of this universe.
Pence issued his statement disavowing any unilateral authority over electoral votes just as he began to preside over the Joint Session of Congress, at about 1:02pm. He couldn't have cut it any closer, holding his cards close to his chest until the very last second. He had still been working on this letter at 9:00am.
A large mob had already gathered around the Capitol by 11:00am, with bad intent, and eventually succeeded in pushing back the Capitol police to the Capitol steps before the time Pence even began to perform his duties inside, at about 12:53pm, or issue his statement.
It took these rioters more than another hour to breach the Capitol, which subsequently brought proceedings in the Senate to a halt at 2:13pm, and in the House at 2:29pm.
Trump didn't finish speaking at the Ellipse 1.6 miles away until 1:10pm., a 30-minute walk from the Capitol, just after which the Joint Session had split up to debate separately the Arizona slate of electors.
Meanwhile Trump, Michael Moore's human Molotov Cocktail, was already having lunch by 1:25pm, enjoying the mayhem.
Sunday, October 29, 2023
Wednesday, August 16, 2023
LOL, the brains behind Trump's fake electoral scheme wasn't Eastman, it was liberal Democrat Ken Chesebro according to none other than Laurence Tribe
Trump is the biggest fool who ever hit the big time, and liberal Democrats have played him like a fiddle.
WaPo, here:
VEGA ALTA, Puerto Rico — The blinds were drawn at a handsome villa in an oceanfront gated community on the northern coast of this Caribbean island. Inside, a woman’s voice could be heard calling out “Ken” — but no one answered the door.
Records show this is the tropical refuge of Kenneth J. Chesebro, a lawyer who allegedly marshaled supporters of President Donald Trump to pose as electors in states won by Joe Biden in 2020, creating a pretext for Vice President Mike Pence to delay counting or disregard valid electoral college votes on Jan. 6, 2021. ...
The successful appellate lawyer studied at Harvard University under Laurence Tribe, the preeminent legal scholar who advised congressional Democrats on both of Trump’s impeachments. Chesebro continued working with Tribe for about 20 years, on wide-ranging litigation involving class-action claims and punitive damages. ...
Tuesday, May 9, 2023
Drudge relentlessly repeats the relentless lies of WaPo on a Tuesday in May, or any other day, that's how much the Republican victory in 2022 stung
Six months after midterm losses, election deniers mount new efforts...
As far as WaPo is concerned, all Republicans are election deniers and didn't win the House, dammit:
Tuesday, January 24, 2023
Wednesday, August 10, 2022
It's odd how this guy never mentions the post-election shenanigans which DEFINE the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact, which would REQUIRE faithless votes in the Electoral College
Time To Eliminate the Possibility of Faithless Electors :
In spite of the Supreme Court’s ruling in Chiafalo v. Washington that states can bind electors to the popular vote, only 14 states have laws in place to do so. This leaves open the possibility that as many as 420 electors across the country could still cast faithless votes with the only remedy being whether or not Congress would choose to count those votes in their Jan. 6 joint session. This is the type of scenario the ECRA is trying to avoid.
He doesn't say anything about the National Popular Vote Compact here, either, which would potentially nullify the will of the people of a state who voted for one candidate but whose electors were forced to vote for another under the compact. That would be done legally by state signatories, but it would still be wrong.
As of June 2022, [the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact] has been adopted by fifteen states and the District of Columbia. These states have 195 electoral votes, which is 36% of the Electoral College and 72% of the 270 votes needed to give the compact legal force.
More.
All 50 states certified their results in Election 2020, making Joe Biden the winner. Rogue electors weren't recognized by Vice President Pence, correctly, under already existing laws.
Electors would be no less rogue under the NPV.
It would be less ambiguous to these people if the Supreme Court had ruled "shall" instead of "may", but the whole opinion is clear:
A State may enforce an elector’s pledge to support his party’s nominee—and the state voters’ choice—for President.
The Supreme Court on July 6, 2020 concluded by saying that
electors are not free agents; they are to vote for the candidate whom the State’s voters have chosen
which ought to settle the matter, but apparently can't in some minds.
Odd.
Saturday, February 5, 2022
Former Democrat Donald Trump laughably calls Mike Pence a RINO and is now the mirror image of the 2016 Hillary Clinton who wouldn't accept the election results
It's obvious to anyone who has looked at this issue carefully that Trump's stance isn't a serious position.
Leave aside the question of the powers of the VP. The fact remains that 50 state legislatures certified their votes in Election 2020, making Trump the narrow looser, just as they certified their votes in Election 2016, making him the narrow winner.
Trying to overturn any of that, no matter how justified one may think it might be, is a fool's errand.
That ship has sailed and Popeye isn't going to turn it around. The inertia is simply too great. There is nothing any legislature will "figure out" at this point.
Trump's continued whining about his loss makes him nothing if not the mirror image of Hillary. They are unserious, self-absorbed people who can't accept what's happened to them. Richard Nixon, from whom the election in 1960 was stolen, was a better person than these two ever could hope to be.
They should both just go away.
Monday, January 7, 2019
Former House Freedom Caucus member Mick Mulvaney, now running OMB, finally outed as pro-amnesty
Along with Mike Pence.
Wake up and smell the coffee, people. There was only one Republican in the administration fighting the immigration fight, and Trump fired him. The rest of them have long, explicit histories of being on the wrong side of the issue, along with most everyone in so-called conservative talk radio.
Report: Trump ‘Regularly Asks’ Pro-Amnesty Mick Mulvaney for ‘His Thoughts’ on Immigration Issues
Tuesday, December 11, 2018
Thursday, November 29, 2018
VP Mike Pence overcomes Republican Jeff Flake alliance with Democrats to advance nomination of Thomas Farr to NC US District Court post vacant since 2005
Saturday, May 12, 2018
George Will, ineffectual against Trump, engages in ugly attack on Mike Pence, grouping him in with the lynch mob of old
Wednesday, February 28, 2018
Once again Trump demonstrates that he has no principles: Confiscate guns without due process
Thursday, July 27, 2017
Monday, July 17, 2017
Ted Cruz concluded Mitch McConnell is a liar in 2015, now Ron Johnson appears to be doing the same
Tuesday, May 2, 2017
Wednesday, March 1, 2017
President Trump sends Vice President Mike Pence to sell his speech to conservative talk radio
Sunday, December 4, 2016
VP-Elect Mike Pence discusses Trump agenda on Meet the Depressed, never mentions illegal immigration
Where's the "orange" setting on this thing? |
Sunday, November 20, 2016
Jessica Valenti, feminazi wife of Talking Points Memo publisher, has her work cut out for her shaming Trump voters
. . . Oh well, goodbye |