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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
36 electors would have to go faithless in order to flip this for Trump. That might not sound like a lot, but given that the electors were selected by the parties and some states actually forbid faithless electing, 36 faithless electors is kind of inconceivable. I wouldn't worry.
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.Aye, after 2016's faithless electors and attempts to subvert the result, I expect that this year the parties have made damn sure that only 100% loyal electors are chosen.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
They ruled that Electors have to follow State Laws. If States don't have laws that force Faithful Electing, then they can have Faithless Electors. However, in 2016, the only States with Faithless Electors were Texas, Washington State and Hawaii. Maybe Biden can win 307 Electors by swiping one from Texas?
Edited by DingoWalley1 on Dec 14th 2020 at 12:02:56 PM
Pastor Mark Burns is claiming Trump will pardon Julian Assange.
Trump is throwing pardons around like candy in hopes it can make people avoid testifying against him and just general spite. Assange sold any dignity he had a hacktivist to help Trump because he wanted out of that embassy. I hope it was fucking worth it.
Author of The Rules of Supervillainy, Cthulhu Armageddon, and United States of Monsters.Assange didn't have any dignity to begin with. He was a Russian intelligence patsy left to flounder in an Ecuadorian embassy because he didn't make it to Russia before the noose closed around his neck.
The Russians wanted Assange to destabilize the U.S., and the Russians wanted Trump to destabilize the U.S. Assange and Trump play for the same team. Why wouldn't Assange have helped Trump?
Edited by TobiasDrake on Dec 14th 2020 at 10:44:12 AM
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.Russian hackers breached the Departments of Treasury, Commerce, and Homeland Security.
Security agencies in the UK and elsewhere were also scrambling to assess the impact on their systems – while the revelation was deemed so grave it led to a national security council meeting at the White House over the weekend.
Reminder that Homeland Security is in charge of preventing this from happening in the first place.
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I've always thought that too. As an activist, it's important to know that not everyone that's trying to stick it to The Man is actually on your side. Some people just want to watch the country burn - and many of those are on the payroll of a different country. It's a special kind of Americentric worldview that forgets that the U.S. has foreign enemies who are very interested in sticking it to our The Man.
Assange isn't a whistleblower. He's the owner and operator for an all-purposes leaking website, dedicated to revealing to the world as many American state secrets as physically possible. That's not whistleblowing. That's espionage. Assange does espionage. So I was super not surprised when we found out that he does espionage for Russia specifically.
Edited by TobiasDrake on Dec 14th 2020 at 11:32:52 AM
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.It's hard to call someone who exposed treacherous double dealing, murder of journalists, and propping up of dictatorships as the bad guy. The Arab Spring was partially because of the revelations about Assad and other Middle Eastern regimes.
The people who kept those secrets were terrorists and should be treated as terrorists. They did monstrous evil on a nearly unimaginable scale. Assange's actions with Private Manning did more good than a thousand smaller leakers in exposing those documents.
Mind you, its complete bullshit to pretend Assange was notable in this as well. Assange published first but the Guardian and others fuly intended to do as well.
Edited by CharlesPhipps on Dec 14th 2020 at 11:50:15 AM
Author of The Rules of Supervillainy, Cthulhu Armageddon, and United States of Monsters.Even if they were, they weren't done in good faith. Assange was not a hero of the people. He was not a friend to Americans. He was a foreign actor engaging in espionage.
Sometimes foreign actors engaging in espionage hit things that are good for them to have hit. Because our government is genuinely up to some shady shit. But when you clap the foreign agent on the back and celebrate his espionage, you don't get to be surprised when he continues engaging in espionage and starts revealing shit you didn't want revealed. He was never on your side. He was just a foreign agent doing espionage.
Julian Assange was a hungry raccoon who burrowed into the house and devoured a rat that was causing problems. And while some people were busy celebrating the raccoon and calling him Mr. Pickles, the raccoon proceeded to help himself to the contents of the fridge, and then shit on the floor. Because he wasn't a pet. He'd never been a pet. He was just a hungry raccoon.
Edited by TobiasDrake on Dec 14th 2020 at 11:59:23 AM
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.Just because some of the info he leaked was good, doesn't mean State Secrets being given to the entire world is a good thing.
As was mentioned previously, Assange is a spy. He's actually guilty of treason. And was paid for it.
Also, I think "Morality" goes out the window when people can die because of it.
Semper Fi. Semper Paratus. Vigilo Confido.

He will rant and lie and rant and lie as usual through the whole thing.