The electoral college brouhaha – what a waste of time. The hope resides not in fantasies of redoing the election but in the growing irrelevance of national governments. What’s done is done. The future, not the past, is what we can impact.
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Governments have never shown much interest in anything other than keeping their “systems” going and being kept “alive”.
The world still has the exact same problems and issues its been having for centuries, if not millenniums.
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Oh, it was always an absurd hail mary anyways.
In the unlikely event the electoral college turned to not give Trump at least 270 votes, it would go to the House, where each state delegation has one vote. The Republicans have control of the outgoing House. The votes for Vice President elect go to the Senate where each delegation has one vote. The Republicans have control of the outgoing Senate. If this shit goes past Inauguration day, the VP elect serves as the acting president until a President is selected. If neither a PEOTUS nor a VPEOTUS is selected then the Speaker of the House is the acting president. The Speaker of the House is Paul Ryan.
Any candidate other than Trump would be so weakened, I don’t know if they’d be able to govern.
The media is absolutely slobbering over this, this is like extra innings of insider baseball with some reality tv nonsense. Boring shit like the crap that the outgoing NC governor just pulled or the fact the voting machines in Detroit were broken is not covered.
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Well the system is rigged, just as Trump himself declared (before winning the election, of course).
Of course Trump himself is also part of that rigged system, are the Clintons and everyone else in charge.
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“In the unlikely event the electoral college turned to not give Trump at least 270 votes, it would go to the House, where each state delegation has one vote. The Republicans have control of the outgoing House. The votes for Vice President elect go to the Senate where each delegation has one vote. The Republicans have control of the outgoing Senate. If this shit goes past Inauguration day, the VP elect serves as the acting president until a President is selected. If neither a PEOTUS nor a VPEOTUS is selected then the Speaker of the House is the acting president. The Speaker of the House is Paul Ryan.”
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Of course I’m foreclosing the idea that enough electors would switch to Clinton giving her 270. Don’t think for a moment one member each from the Senate and the House could not be found to object to those state’s electoral counts on January 6th, and then have those objections accepted by both Houses of Congress, leading to that state’s votes being ignored… in the newly elected House.
There’s a reason HRC is chilling in the woods in Chappaqua and not frantically and loudly lawyering the electoral college.
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“There’s a reason HRC is chilling in the woods in Chappaqua and not frantically and loudly lawyering the electoral college.”
Absolutely. At her age, there is zero motivation to get into this kind of hopeless effort.
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Still, the real election day is the day the electors vote, since the popular vote is to some extent just advisory. That means this day is the day, and was the present not the past even though it was easy to see what would happen & why.
Many nations aren’t really sovereign or haven’t been for a long time but who is in power in large countries still does make a difference. The Trump win does have implications
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