I think they need to try and keep their little “Yes, you will win, we are on your side” masque going until …Jan 5th? Whenever the GA Senate runoffs are held.
Because they know that if they don’t, Trump can kill the their Senate chances with one tweet.
That’s going to be a hard lift, and clowns like Guiliani make it even harder for them. And more fun for us.
I’ve been losing sleep, but not because I’m scared. What happens is I’ll be drifting off, and my mind will go to the Four Seasons press conference, and I’ll start laughing so hard I wake myself up.
They absolutely would. Soldiers follow orders. The idea the US military would refuse this sort of order is a fantasy.
The history of these things is very, very clear. Armies follow orders, even to do the most horrific things, unless they themselves plan on taking over.
It’s a little more than that. Voting discrepancies would usually be handled at the local, county, or state level, or by the elections crimes section if it reached the federal level… The typical DOJ prosecutor wouldn’t typically be investigating the kinds of things that are being (non-)alleged. If Barr’s memo were really a non-event, you wouldn’t have a prosecutor resigning in protest.
Asking an American soldier to shoot at the Taliban is far, far different from telling that same soldier to shoot an American citizen who is not attacking them.
I think American soldiers are supposed to refuse illegal orders.
Armies refusing to fire on their own citizens is actually quite common. It’s why countries very, very rarely use their regular militaries to quell civil disobedience. Look at Cairo in 2011: hundreds of thousands of people congregated in Tahrir Square, and the Egyptian army just stood by and did nothing - until it decided to side with the protestors and bring down Mubarak.
Remind me again. Are these the same Republicans who believe virtually everything should be handled at the state level and the Feds shouldn’t go butting into local shit?
Re armies: Is Erik Prince’s private army still available?
They have mentioned that Biden has more votes than any other candidate. But, we also have a largest population. I was curious and came up with percentage of the population that voted for a candidate. The population numbers I came up with are estimates, so it’s not exact. As if now Biden is just below first place. With votes still being counted he probably will move to the top. The top 5 according to my calculations are:
Reagan 1984 - 23.13
Biden 2020 - 23.11 (and counting)
Obama 2008 - 22.92
Johnson 1964 - 22.83 (and voting age was 21)
Nixon 1972 - 22.69
Here’s a video of that-- Pompeo is smiling and laughing while he says it. Nervous laughter? Not being able to say it with a straight face? It’s a weird moment to watch:
I hope you are right, but I think it’s wishful thinking. Pence is going to back Trump all the way. While he may realize that Trump’s chances of staying in office are slim, he may think 2024 is a possibility - hopefully (from Pence’s perspective) with Pence still as VP. In either case, he might hope for Trump to die/become incapacitated and the Pence theocracy to begin.
I just took estimated US population. It’s better than overall votes, but could be improved on. I took the easy way out. So, the top 26 are those after women could vote. And the bottom two of those were the first two elections where they could vote. I guess it took a few years before the number of women voters grew.
Oh, and last place was George Washington.
Yeah, the nervous laughter makes me think of that old Twilight Zone episode where there is a little kid who is omnipotent and he holds the town hostage to his childish whims.
Maybe, or perhaps it’s similar to when a guest host on SNL breaks character and starts laughing during a skit. Check out how he breaks up when he says the word “Constitution”. You almost expect him to go “…according to the Const…(snicker)…you know what, I can’t say this shit with a straight face anymore”