Some folk on facebook are raving about how awesome the new press secretary is and how she destroys the Lefty reporters. I’ve not viewed this, but I’m sure I’ll get the straight dope here.
The stupid fuck wouldn’t be able to handle a flat tire in his driveway. Or a burnt out light bulb for that matter. Poor guy has to deal with a bad hair day every second of his life, so I guess we should give him a break.
Individual 1 brought nurses in to tongue bathe him today on Nurses’ Appreciation Day, and when one of them said that the availability of PPEs has been sporadic, he told her, “Sporadic for you, not for other people.”
How dare one of his idolizers not follow the talking points.
Trump contradicts nurse he's honoring over PPE availability | CNN Politics?
With a baseball bat?
You’re wrong; it can.
It cannot be cancelled, but state elections can be postponed, and chaos could ensue.
Not without amending the Constitution.
What’s required is that a slate of electors be submitted by the Constitutionally-required deadline.
The states can determine the dates of elections, but Congress can override that. In 1845, Congress set the day of election of electors for President and Vice President as the Tuesday after the first Monday in November. That could in theory be changed, but it would take an Act passed by both houses of Congress. The states can’t change or postpone the election day for Presidential electors on their own.
Apparently the singer guy for Guns n Roses was displeased with the administration’s management of the pandemic relief funds, tweeting that it is official, Mnuchin is an asshole. Mnuchin responded by asking Rose the dangerous question “What have you done for the country lately?” which he decorated by adding a pretty red white and blue flag at the bottom.
Unfortunately for him, some people noticed what flag it was (one star on the blue canton field), prompting Mnuchin to delete and repost with a correction.
Only the best people.
(As far as “What have you done for the country lately?” goes, I think most of us could proudly state, “Well, you know, not actively tried to fuck it over hard.”)
For my country, I’ve sat on my couch.
National Emergency! National Emergency! Build the wall! Divert funds from DoD. Withhold defense aid packages to allies. Divert state purchases of PPE. Fail to distribute needed supplies to states from the emergency stockpile. Bypass security classification procedures. Withhold witnesses. Fail to respond to congressional supoenas. Withhold evidence/documents when legally required. Run roughshod over the emoulments clauses. I’m sure there are dozens of other complaints.
What makes you think this administration will suddenly revert to a principled position on separation of powers?
Not attacking you specifically, just the idea that the constitution is suddenly relevant to the current executive.
The executive doesn’t carry out the elections.
Another nifty bit of trivia about Liberia’s flag is it has eleven stripes, not thirteen. Given how much those Republican clowns (pretend to) worship the American flag, one would think they could at least get that right.
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“Ha,ha, other people are getting the equipment you need”
You’re quite correct, Colibri. That’s what the statute may say, but if, say, a state wanted to delay its elections, what would be the legal consequence? The Constitution clearly gives states, not Congress, the latitude over its elections. I agree with you that courts would be less sympathetic to states that just arbitrarily move the election day around for kicks and giggles, but let’s suppose they claim corona might make elections dangerous (never mind the fact that republicans are living in a parallel universe now).
Not that I would expect any kind of consistency out of the Roberts court, but it just ruled that worries about a pandemic aren’t even a good enough reason to allow late mail-in ballots to be counted. In a rational world (not ours, obvs), that would mean that postponing an entire election would be right out.
IIRC, the courts in that case effectively made up requirements that mail-in ballots must be postmarked, which don’t even exist in the state’s election law. So that confirms your suspicions that they can’t be trusted to act impartially. But more than that, let’s suppose that a republican machine attempts a more coordinated attempt at legal justification for postponing an election on the basis of some established emergency - anything from coronavirus to early reports of electronic intrusions by Russia or China. I find it hard to believe that the Team Kavanaugh would object.
I guess the real question now is, in which states is something like this even remotely possible? Which states have pro-Trump election boards, governors, secretaries of state, and how does the process work in each state. That’s a deeper dive I’ve not yet had time to make but it would be interesting to see the processes in the states that are potentially in play. Off the top of my head, I’d think that this great conspiracy wouldn’t go anywhere in a state like Pennsylvania, but what about Wisconsin, Florida, North Carolina, and other states? Would the political equivalent of a great train robbery be possible, or are we simply concerned with the potential to cast doubt over Biden’s political legitimacy and the prospects of civil unrest as a result?
Is there any particular reason that it is worded that way and not just “the first Tuesday in November”?
Because they didn’t want Election Day to fall on All Saints Day.
the month could start on a tuesday…