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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
Does anyone think Trump knows this, or cares? Trump will float this in one of his inane tweets and the GOP will back him up coz they're his party.
Rules, laws, constitutions are just words on paper unless people are willing to enforce them.
Edited by nightwyrm_zero on Jan 6th 2020 at 6:50:39 AM
"We're ending elections forever" would obviously be a bad way to go about it.
But if he went "we're postponing elections for a week coz we're investigating interference by whomever." How many ppl would be ok with it? If that week stretches to a month? A year?
If I went on about concentration camps for children 3 years ago, that would be doomsaying back then too.
Edited by nightwyrm_zero on Jan 6th 2020 at 7:09:21 AM
They’re not an honour thing, the federal government doesn’t run the elections, the states do.
Dem controlled states aren’t going to halt elections even if they could (they can’t), so even if Republican ones did you’d just see the Dems win a bunch of votes while a load of Republican states don’t vote.
The electors elected would then meet and elect the victorious democrat, even if Trump somehow got Roberts to refuse to swear in a new president (something Roberts would do) the new president would become president anyway and Trump would be removed from the White House by the secret service (and Roberts would be arrested).
Trump can’t suspend elections legally, to do it illegally he’d need the support of the secret service, the Chief Justice and multiple state governments, he doesn’t have even 1 of 3, never mind all 3.
That’s before we get to the fact that if Trump did manage to illegal suspend elections you’d see national guard regiments and the DC police marching on the White House to remove him by force.
For the love of god stop coming up with crazy conspiracy theories to panic about.
Edited by Silasw on Jan 6th 2020 at 6:34:57 PM
“And the Bunny nails it!” ~ Gabrael “If the UN can get through a day without everyone strangling everyone else so can we.” ~ Cyran> That’s before we get to the fact that if Trump did manage to illegal suspect elections you’d see national guard regiments and the DC police marching on the White House to remove him by force.
Sure then Trump deploys the actual military and you have a shoot out,or by that time Military have turned on him too
either way it's a scenario that's very difficult to predict outcome of
have a listen and have a link to my discord server

... Yes?
Edited by GoldenKaos on Jan 6th 2020 at 11:35:51 AM
"...in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach."