https://www.news.com.au/world/north-america/us-politics/sneaky-and-entirely-legal-way-donald-trump-could-stay-in-power/news-story/af6f2f252ddac6f7919e78febfe8ddd8Trump's still at it, canvassing GOP-majority legislatures in states Biden won to override the votes and vote for Trump.
But I just had another thought. What if those specific legislatures just retroactively switch to issuing their EC votes
proportionally citing how this is fundamentally more fair. If enough of those states did that they might have enough votes to push Trump over the line, but I'd have to check on that. Then they can just switch back to winner takes all next time a Republican is ahead and just say "what you gonna do about it?"
EDIT: attention on ex-GOP congressman Denver Riggleman. Great name btw. Sounds like someone from an old sci-fi or Ayn Rand novel.
This is a Republican who was an expert on conspiracy theories, he co-sponsored a bipartisan anti-QAnon bill, he was the only person in his party who had the balls to actually say anything about QAnon in the House. They did back the bill in votes, however they also got rid of Riggleman before the election. So they're scared of QAnon, don't necessarily back it, but they won't oppose it and will quietly get rid of vocal anti-QAnon Republicans. That's where this is actually at. So, consider this. While high level Republicans might not all be QAnons, they're too scared to speak out against it, and if you do speak out, they get rid of you. For some of the more QAnon candidates, other Republicans have condemned them as people, however, the reporting I've seen they noted that they avoided mentoning QAnon or attacking them for being QAnon, rather they focused on other stuff, since as anti-semitism/racism. This is pretty interesting stuff, the Republicans know they're sitting on a tinder-box, don't know what to do about it, and anyone who too loudly points out there's a problem must be gotten rid of. I guess if you come out against QAnon, that means you're one of the cannibal pedos and they've seen colleague's careers destroyed for doing that - even if they themselves jumped on the bandwagon to destroy said careers.
https://www.wired.com/story/republican-lawmaker-denounced-qanon-denver-riggleman/Q: When did you first realize that other Republican elected officials were afraid to criticize this thing that struck you as so ridiculous?
Right after I came out against QAnon, I thought this was sort of a no-brainer, but boy did I underestimate the violent pushback that I would get, not only on social media but also vitriol even from people that were close to me. As soon as I identified QAnon as a threat, those who had completely subsumed themselves in this belief system looked at me as a threat. Because QAnon has evolved well beyond a simple conspiracy theory. It's almost religious; it's cultlike. And so, when you poke a cult, it's going to poke back pretty hard.
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Sorry to bring this stuff up again, but this is not really about fringe beliefs anymore (if it's harmless kooky stuff I'll put that in the conspiracy thread), this is about the 2nd major party basically going to the dogs here. I can't even imagine what the Republicans would look like by 2024. I'm thinking back to the Obama Derangement stuff post 2008. That's going to happen again, but ... 100 times worse now, because the Republican party is entirely permeated by this stuff now, and they know it. When you consider this in terms of game theory, Nash equilibrium etc, the stable point
isn't that they push back on conspiracies, because any individual candidate realizes that their career will be destroyed. It only works if all of them push back at the same time, but that's not how the game theory works out. So they'll do ineffective push-back against incoming conspiracy candidates which continues to avoid mention the conspiracy theories, which will just cement in the radical's mindset that they're "over the target" and the mainstream are all covering up for the evil globalist conspiracy.
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