A Trump/Rubio ticket could provoke a constitutional crisis!

This is fascinating!

The 12th Amendment specifies how electors are supposed to cast their ballots. And one stipulation is they cannot vote for a President AND Veep from their same state!

Trump and Rubio are both residents of Florida...

Now, when Bush and Cheney announced, they had both been residents of Texas. Cheney changed his residency to Wyoming, where he'd spent a lot of years and represented them in Congress. No problem there. In this case, I can't see The Trumpster moving back to NYC.

Rubio could resign from the Senate, but he's only two years into his third term. He could move back to Las Vegas where he spent some time in his childhood, but again, he's the elected senator from FLORIDA, not NEVADA. "Little Marco", as a certain orange shitgibbon likes to call him, seems eager for the position of Veep, and is rumored to be on the short list.

Here's how a possible election could turn out, from the article:

"So let’s say the Trump-Rubio 2024 ticket wins somewhere between 270 and 300 electoral votes (which is entirely plausible; Trump won 304 in 2016 and Biden won 306 in 2020). Trump would become president, but if Rubio is denied 30 electoral votes, the vice-presidency would be determined by a vote in the Senate (as also provided by the 12th Amendment). Senators would get to choose between the top two electoral-vote winners, i.e., the Democratic and Republican vice-presidential nominees. If the Senate is still controlled by Democrats at that point, you could have Donald Trump taking the oath of office on January 20, 2025, alongside his vice-president, Kamala Harris. The mind reels."

Wouldn't that be the greatest! Prez Trump and Veep Harris?! His red face as his BP soars would be such a wonderful compliment to his orange hair!

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/trump-rubio-2024-ticket-could-spark-a-constitutional-crisis.html

Plato's final night and burial place revealed!

I've written about using new imaging techniques plus computed tomography and AI has enabled the charcoal briquets that were formally scrolls at Vesuvius and Herculaneum to begin to be read. At Herculaneum, a library, of sorts, was discovered containing at least 600 intact scrolls. The University of Kentucky has developed a software system called Volume Cartography to help unroll these scrolls.

One such scroll describes Plato's last night and where he was buried! He was suffering from a high fever and was close to death, but still of somewhat sound mind. A young girl was brought in to play the flute for him, and he critiqued her lack of rhythm! I love it. 'I may be about to die, but your playing sucks! Work on it!'

As to his final resting place, "... the few surviving texts from that period indicate that the philosopher was buried somewhere in the garden of the Academy he founded in Athens. The garden was quite large, but archaeologists have now deciphered a charred ancient papyrus scroll recovered from the ruins of Herculaneum, indicating a more precise burial location: in a private area near a sacred shrine to the Muses..." There's one thing that I absolutely hate about this article - it doesn't say anything as to whether or not we know where the Academy and garden is/was located!

This is all part of the Vesuvius Challenge to read these scrolls, and it's making tremendous progress!

https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/04/deciphered-herculaneum-papyrus-reveals-precise-burial-place-of-plato/

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/apr/29/herculaneum-scroll-plato-final-hours-burial-site