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Voting out Trump is not nothing. Good. But the end of the Trump presidency isn't the end of the story. What I just saw in the last few weeks since the election was a shocking acceleration in the normalization of autocracy in the U.S. On January 6th we may well have another shocking display...

Because it doesn't do that. That's not how it works. The base is following the leaders of the anti-democratic movement. They have been isolated and indoctrinated into a mindset which is highly resistant to any form of logic... or of human feeling. Again, that's why I am so passionately...

To be specific: Republican members of Congress have been forced into this choice: Support this effort - anti-democratic (but legal!) as it is - and face the consequences, or do not support it and face different consequences. They risk being "primary-ed." (A neologism which doesn't yet have a...

Let's put this in the proper perspective. This current maneuver - the subject of this thread - is a political struggle between Trump and Mitch McConnell and the factions they lead. And it's part of a larger struggle. The Trumpists - the leaders - have no belief that they can overturn this...

I disagree. I moved my reason for disagreeing over to the thread where it's on topic. Here: https://www.metabunk.org/threads/debunked-claim-that-the-electoral-college-count-on-jan-6-will-change-the-election.11494/page-2#post-243696

Thanks for adding my post to this thread. I didn't realize this thread existed. The authorities say it's a suicide bombing. https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/26/us/nashville-tn-explosion/index.html Investigators looking into the Christmas morning explosion in Nashville now believe the blast was...

Because of the political and social situation there's concern about acts of domestic terrorism. Was the Nashville Explosion the first? https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/25/us/nashville-explosion/index.html There's reason to suspect that this was an act of domestic terrorism; or the accidental...

I'm really struggling to understand what you're saying here. It almost seems you're saying that because the electoral college system causes problems, the problems should be fixed... as if everyone agrees that there is an objective problem or everyone agrees there is not a problem. Or as if the...

Because it gives Republicans an advantage that they will not give up. Demographic changes have made it virtually impossible for a Rep candidate to win the national popular vote. The last serious attempt to get rid of the Electoral College came in 1969, when President Richard Nixon and his...

The real reason we have an electoral college https://time.com/4558510/electoral-college-history-slavery/ At the Philadelphia convention, the visionary Pennsylvanian James Wilson proposed direct national election of the president. But the savvy Virginian James Madison responded that such a...

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/12/21/trump-house-overturn-election-449787 President Donald Trump huddled with a group of congressional Republicans at the White House on Monday, where they strategized over a last-ditch effort to overturn the election results next month, according to several...

https://www.governing.com/now/To-Fix-the-Electoral-College-Change-the-Way-Its-Votes-Are-Awarded.html Other countries [also] convey greater voting impact to less-populated regions. In the United Kingdom, for example, the smallest parliamentary district has one-fifth the number of voters — and...

I thought they were treating the vote as a purely random sequence - like a series of coin flips. Ridiculous. We've all been through election reporting before... waiting for various wards/districts/cities to report. This district is heavily Republican... this one traditionally votes...

Just catching up on the news... NYT WASHINGTON — Incensed by a Supreme Court ruling that further dashed President Trump’s hopes of invalidating his November electoral defeat, thousands of his supporters marched in Washington and several state capitals on Saturday to protest what they...

There's nothing wrong with the machines. The perception that there is comes from a disinformation campaign. Trump started the rigged election narrative last summer simply by inventing it out of nothing and repeating it relentlessly. After election day the disinformation campaign became a...

Let me explain something to our non-American friends. My ancestors, on three sides of my family, go way back (1600's). On the maternal, Southern side, of the family one branch is made up of French Creoles and Arcadians of Louisiana. The other branch is made up of English of Virginia. In fact...

Because it's politically impossible. He would have to be indicted by the House of Representatives (impeached) and then tried by the Senate. The Senate is controlled by the Republicans. Not only is it time consuming, it's futile. We already went through the process.

Mendel... Stop. You're being very excessively legalistic in this side argument, and I shouldn't have engaged on that level. https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/essential-american-english/ Essential American English Dictionary - language or behavior that is intended to persuade other...

I think it's time to stop going round and round. You've made your point. I disagree. This isn't going to go away by being understanding. It has to be exposed and met with moral firmness. The target is these elected officials who don't believe the election has been stolen.

See previous post. The word has a certain meaning in this country, and is being used by people who are lawyers; e.g the Attorney General of Pennsylvania. Trump was clearly hoping that the Supreme Court would immorally hand him the election by ignoring the law. He simply has no perception that...