A potential plan by Republican leaders to steal the 2024 presidential election. The plan involves delaying the certification of election results in key battleground states, potentially decreasing the overall number of electors appointed and allowing Donald Trump to win the presidency through a contingent election, whereby the House of Representatives, not the Electoral College, determines the president.

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    14 days ago

    They’ve said it out loud. Heritage foundation guy has been saying we’re in the middle of a bloodless coup, bloodless if the left allows it.

    The historian, Heather Cox Richardson, can walk you though the legal channels for an election steal, provided the Speaker of the House is on board. I’m not going to dig to find it again. She’s on YouTube.

    This is going to be like Roe, isn’t it? Where people know exactly what’s about to happen then act surprised when it does.

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        13 days ago

        Please. We will sit at home and cry. Or go wave signs in a street somewhere. And neither of those things will change anything.

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          13 days ago

          Idk I seem to remember a lot of “cities burning” or something during some nationwide protests a few years ago after cops killed another person, I don’t think those people have gone anywhere.

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              12 days ago

              Rome wasn’t built in a day as the saying goes. Because we make incremental progress shouldn’t mean we stop fighting. Defeatism and apathy has never won anyone anything.

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                12 days ago

                I’m just pointing out that police violence increased, not decreased, after #BLM.

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                  12 days ago

                  Police violence has been an epidemic for decades, ask the nearest brown guy. What we’re seeing now isn’t necessarily the increase in violence itself, but a rise in reporting and accountability, people are becoming aware of it and how often it actually happens.

                  An increase in awareness doesn’t mean you lost or that it’s over.

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      13 days ago

      They didnt say it was a bloodless coup. They said if they get a Republican elected there will be sweeping changes, akin to another revolution. The statement about the left was a warning that the left might become violent if they try it.

      And you’re proving their point pushing for violence.

      When one lies about what another has said in an attempt to basically call for violence, it’s incredibly sus.