Well, so much for this one. What's next?
(media.conspiracies.win)
You're viewing a single comment thread. View all comments, or full comment thread.
Comments (16)
sorted by:
The word of choice here is unilateral. Again, democracy works because losers lose and winners win. If any outgoing administration can just choose to stay in power by rejecting electors, don't you think this would have happened already in American history?
If you have unilateral power, you don't need contested results or dueling electors (which is silly, because there aren't dueling electors... there are electors and people who said they deserved to be but weren't) to use your unilateral authority.
State electors can only be tossed after a simple majority passes both chambers of Congress. Pence has nothing to do with that process other than opening the mail.
Your knowledge of American history is very, very limited. It's like all you know is what happened since you started paying attention to politics a few years ago when you started getting a paycheck from Media Matters.
Jefferson, in a somewhat disputed election, as VP and and president of the Senate, and the candidate choosing the electors, put himself in power over Adams. It's happened before.
Look into other disputed and stolen elections and come back to us here a bit more informed. 1824, where Jackson was robbed, 1876, which led to the Compromise of 1876, and 1960, where nobody denies rampant voter fraud in IL and TX stole the election from Nixon.
Hey, I'm fairly astute when it comes to history! And, what you're saying isn't entirely accurate. Jefferson did not put himself into power, as is claimed above.
Hamilton had as much to do with the election victory as anyone as the results were determined in the House and not the Senate, where Jefferson was President of the Senate.
Yes, you are surely historically astute, just as you didn't know that Taft was the fattest president in American history.
In the election of 1800, surely a unique case prior to the 12th Amendment, a major candidate, Jefferson, was also the sitting VP and diametrically opposed to the current president, Adams. There was some funny stuff with the electors, particularly NY with Burr, but Adams being principled didn't want to play and put country ahead of self. Jefferson used his unilateral power to accept, and not dispute, electors from states where there were troubling questions about the election..not unlike today.
Hamilton had nothing to do with it.
Umph. Read a book, friend. You can write out all the falsehood you'd like, but that does not make it true. The House decided that election, not the Senate. And yeah, Hamilton had quite a bit to do with the results as he advocated for Jefferson and convinced several of his fellow Federalists in the House to vote Jefferson.
As far as the fat thing, here's a definition for you:
Joke. Noun.
a thing that someone says to cause amusement or laughter, especially a story with a funny punchline.