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Or somehow forces his way into 1600 Pennsylvania?
So much depends on which party controls the House and Senate, and there's no telling what happens there until after the votes are counted, and potentially interfered with by the various courts, up to and including the unjudicial SCOTUS.
But my expectation is this. The weird guy runs rampant for about three months. We all get to see how thoroughly he's lost it for that timeframe.
Then they roll out the 25th Amendment and start demanding he be removed from office. And we get Prez J.D. The alleged sofa banger who wears too much eye-liner. Peter Thiel's acolyte.
And they start rolling Project 2025 on us. And this is after the weird guy has had a few months to try and force through his Agenda 47, which is a whole different kettle of fish from Project 2025. Lots can be accomplished by Presidential orders, outside of Congressional bills. Of course, they can also be reversed by the next occupant of the Oval Office the exact same way.
My personal hope is that President Biden employs some of that Presidential Immunity For Official Acts that the SCOTUS has vetted. He has absolutely nothing to lose. Regardless, starting Tuesday night and probably continuing for several days, it's going to be chaotic.
This election is a referendum on democracy. Either you want democracy, or you want chaos. It doesn't matter if you don't like the idea of a woman leading the country, it doesn't matter if you feel you don't know what her policies or plans are, or you don't know enough about her. It doesn't matter if you think the President was turfed and no one voted for her in the primaries. If you want democracy to continue, vote blue all the way down the ticket. And continue to do so until the RNC gets the message and gets rid of the MAGA influences and starts showing some sanity and returns to being a party of conservative ideas. I'm not saying the Dems are perfect, far from it. But they're not trying to institute a narcissistic fascist to lead the country.
So much depends on which party controls the House and Senate, and there's no telling what happens there until after the votes are counted, and potentially interfered with by the various courts, up to and including the unjudicial SCOTUS.
But my expectation is this. The weird guy runs rampant for about three months. We all get to see how thoroughly he's lost it for that timeframe.
Then they roll out the 25th Amendment and start demanding he be removed from office. And we get Prez J.D. The alleged sofa banger who wears too much eye-liner. Peter Thiel's acolyte.
And they start rolling Project 2025 on us. And this is after the weird guy has had a few months to try and force through his Agenda 47, which is a whole different kettle of fish from Project 2025. Lots can be accomplished by Presidential orders, outside of Congressional bills. Of course, they can also be reversed by the next occupant of the Oval Office the exact same way.
My personal hope is that President Biden employs some of that Presidential Immunity For Official Acts that the SCOTUS has vetted. He has absolutely nothing to lose. Regardless, starting Tuesday night and probably continuing for several days, it's going to be chaotic.
This election is a referendum on democracy. Either you want democracy, or you want chaos. It doesn't matter if you don't like the idea of a woman leading the country, it doesn't matter if you feel you don't know what her policies or plans are, or you don't know enough about her. It doesn't matter if you think the President was turfed and no one voted for her in the primaries. If you want democracy to continue, vote blue all the way down the ticket. And continue to do so until the RNC gets the message and gets rid of the MAGA influences and starts showing some sanity and returns to being a party of conservative ideas. I'm not saying the Dems are perfect, far from it. But they're not trying to institute a narcissistic fascist to lead the country.
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Date: 2024-11-01 03:53 pm (UTC)He may get appointed by the Electoral College, but he won't be elected. :o
I have also been telling people about this possible situation with Vance.
I think he is much more scary then Orange.
Eyeliner is politically scary and Orange is mentally scary.
If that makes sense.
Hugs, Jon
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Date: 2024-11-01 06:08 pm (UTC)An overwhelming defeat across the country could preclude an EC appointment. We'll have to wait and see. Of course they'll scream that the election was "crooked" and "rigged" if he doesn't win.
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Date: 2024-11-01 06:15 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2024-11-02 05:46 pm (UTC)I think it was Elanor Roosevelt that said, "There has never been a civil war and there never will be one."
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Date: 2024-11-01 10:03 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2024-11-02 02:33 am (UTC)Of course they are! Setting the stage/expectations for their base.
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Date: 2024-11-02 06:14 am (UTC)I can't imagine living a life nothing but conspiracy thoughts.
There really is a reality out here folks. :o
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Date: 2024-11-02 07:02 am (UTC)The problem is that watching Faux Newts and nothing else literally reprograms your brain, and blind obedience becomes your norm. It's very hard to get someone to stop watching it once the addiction sets in.
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Date: 2024-11-02 07:22 am (UTC)Too many people believe all the craziness that's out there. :o :o :o
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Date: 2024-11-02 03:18 pm (UTC)"If it's on the internet, it must be true!" I remember there's a page out there that says "Warning! The next page has YOUR CREDIT CARD PIN NUMBER ON IT!" You click on the link and it has every four digit number starting with 0000, 0001, 0002 going to 9999 on it.
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Date: 2024-11-02 03:50 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2024-11-01 07:27 pm (UTC)And they'll make sure that they can all retire and put the young ones in charge as well. They want generational control and don't particularly care how they get it.
So, yeah, it's a "lesser of two evils" situation, which rarely produces good candidates or good policies.
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Date: 2024-11-01 11:43 pm (UTC)Well said. Have nothing to add, except that I'm a bit scared that the Felon will win, and possibly bring the House and Senate with him. Regardless, the next time I vote for Republican, is when every current, cowardly one of them is out of office, and dead, and buried.
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Date: 2024-11-02 02:04 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2024-11-02 02:17 pm (UTC)In my case, it was my father’s generation. Agreed.
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Date: 2024-11-02 03:23 pm (UTC)My dad's only brother died in the Pacific Theater on Guadalcanal, he was a Marine. The sad thing is that my cousins who fought in Vietnam are quite likely to vote for fascism.
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Date: 2024-11-02 03:22 pm (UTC)Personally, I would really like to see ranked choice voting and more than two viable political parties across the nation. Greens and Libertarians don't count.
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