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Useful_Mistake said:
"By the early 20th century, citizens in most States voted for the presidential candidate himself; ballots increasingly did not even list the electors" -CHIAFALO v. WASHINGTON 91 U. S. ____ (2020)
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I'm pretty sure they're still listed on the ballot in my state. Regardless you're voting for the slate of electors, not the candidate directly. Always been that way and they used to teach that in like the 3rd grade,
 
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grocerygoblin said:
I am not checking a box saying I'm voting for SOME RANDOM NAMELESS ELECTOR to vote for DONALD TRUMP.. Still pretty sure that isn't even a thing and the people going on about faithless electors are schizos.
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Yes, you are. How are you unaware of this? I mean, the Electoral College is literally taught in 5th grade and probably every year after that. Usually with mock elections even.
 
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Useful_Mistake said:
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>cast fake votes in 2022
>get criminally charged
>still cast votes in 2024
>its legit this time
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This is a lot funnier when you remember the "Hamilton elector" copium after the 2016 election, where the good and the great were basically demanding that electors break faith so that Hillary Could Still Win.
 
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Not sure if this got posted already, but here goes:

"GOP report recommends Liz Cheney be criminally investigated over Jan. 6 work" (archive)
(tl;dr: the report alleges that Liz Cheney tampered with witnesses)
Republicans released a report Tuesday reviewing the “failures and politicization” of the now-disbanded House Jan. 6 committee, capping their investigation by recommending a criminal investigation into former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.).

The 128-page interim report forwards many of the claims circulated by the GOP since the committee was organized, complaining the Jan. 6 select committee was improperly constituted and unfairly pinned blame on President-elect Trump.

“Speaker [Nancy] Pelosi’s multimillion-dollar Select Committee was a political weapon with a singular focus to deceive the public into blaming President Trump for the violence on January 6 and to tarnish the legacy of his first Presidency,” the report states.

The report’s conclusion also calls for an FBI investigation into Cheney, accusing her of witness tampering by being in touch with star witness Cassidy Hutchinson, a former White House aide.

It’s a claim that if pursued would likely face significant roadblocks but that nonetheless comes as Trump has suggested members of the Jan. 6 panel should “go to jail” for their work.

The suggestion and the panel’s report at large was excoriated by Cheney.

“January 6th showed Donald Trump for who is really is – a cruel and vindictive man who allowed violent attacks to continue against our Capitol and law enforcement officers while he watched television and refused for hours to instruct his supporters to stand down and leave,” Cheney said in a statement noting the numerous Republican witnesses who testified before the panel.

“Chairman [Barry] Loudermilk’s (R-Ga.) ‘Interim Report’ intentionally disregards the truth and the Select Committee’s tremendous weight of evidence, and instead fabricates lies and defamatory allegations in an attempt to cover up what Donald Trump did. Their allegations do not reflect a review of the actual evidence, and are a malicious and cowardly assault on the truth. No reputable lawyer, legislator or judge would take this seriously.”

At the core of the report’s assertions are Cheney’s contacts with Hutchinson, who was previously represented by another lawyer before changing representation and ultimately agreeing to testify before the panel in a blockbuster hearing.

Hutchinson’s initial lawyer, Stefan Passantino, was accused of encouraging her to say she remembered little about the day and said she would be able to get a good job in Trump World.

The interim report shows texts between Hutchinson and Alyssa Farah Griffin, another former White House aide, and accuses Farah Griffin of acting as a backchannel between the two women.

It later notes that Hutchinson reached out to Cheney, with the lawmaker in her own book noting she advised the aide to seek an attorney as “every witness deserves an attorney who will represent their interests exclusively.”

Any such inquiry into Cheney would raise a litany of other legal questions.

Cheney would likely assert that any actions she took through her work on the panel are protected by the Speech or Debate Clause, which protects lawmakers from court action related to their work.

Witness tampering could also prove a difficult route in court, as such charges typically relate to encouraging a witness to lie or shift their story — allegations Hutchinson originally leveled at Passantino.

While the report likewise suggests some aspects of Hutchinson’s testimony were inaccurate — including her relaying a story told to her by others claiming to have witnessed Trump lunge at his driver — it does not make any recommendations regarding her.

“It is unusual—and potentially unethical—for a Member of Congress conducting an investigation to contact a witness if the Member knows that the individual is represented by legal counsel,” the interim report states.

Loudermilk, chair of the subcommittee that assembled the report, was previously scrutinized by the disbanded House panel after he gave tours of the Capitol to two men who later participated in the march to the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.

He’s also accused the panel of deleting evidence it collected, a claim countered by members of the panel who say they retained everything they were legally required to, which has since been publicly posted on a government website.

“The January 6th Committee’s hearings and report featured scores of Republican witnesses, including many of the most senior officials from Trump’s own White House, campaign and Administration,” Cheney said.

“All of this testimony was painstakingly set out in thousands of pages of transcripts, made public along with a highly detailed and meticulously sourced 800 page report.”

Loudermilk told The Hill last week that he is hopeful leadership will create a new select committee in the next Congress to evaluate Capitol security.

“I’m not confident we’re any more secure than we were back then,” he said.
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George Lucas said:
I get a lot of DMs asking essentially ‘hey George Lucas, why aren’t you posting funny shitposts anymore?’

I don’t see liberals talking about Trump. I’m not talking about pundits on MSNBC, I’m talking about real people: Redditfags, Aunt Carol, my black neighbors, that guy who works a union job: all of those classic typical libshits who I mock with my libshit bits. They aren’t talking about Trump.

They are still in denial about the election. They have put their heads in the sand. Many of them will only talk about local issues, turning on a lot of Democrats because they view the current Democratic party as causing the loss.

This is also why they are getting into the UHC and drone stories so much. They want to become part of a narrative where they are on the winning side again.

The left is really deflated and Trump has the best opportunity to make a big tent party since Reagan, in my opinion.
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Go to r/all on reddit if you want to see leftists having a shit-fit about Trump.

Literally every single post is about him being Hitler 2.0
 
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okyt said:
Yeah he needs to blanket pardon everyone, if he starts to handpick certain people then it will be an endless discussion where no one is happy.
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I get this and agree mostly but what if certain individuals committed a violent crime against another person there? Surely it needs to be reviewed to some degree.
 
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I was a Teenage “JA”-man said:
Michael jordan was an icon back in the 80s & 90s for young black men. They’d buy orginally for high quality basketball shoes but as all consoooomerisim goes nike would keep making new ones, so they started to try and one up eachother resulting in the sneaker craze we see today.
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Today I wore a pair of Reebok's with the pump in the tongue. The tech is based on how air casts works. Pretty cool, if not a bit gimmiky. The tongue bladders are actually tough enough that if they ever leak it's usually due to the pump itself failing, as you literally can't over pressurize them with the pump on the tongue. I have an old pair from 2005 that have aged out, with the only functional part of the shoes left being the tongues.

I had a couple of pairs of them as a kid in the '90s, so I jumped at the chance for a new pair now that I'm a Millennial with the disposable income to buy them. Other than the toungs, they're not as well built as the original pairs that I remember, just like every Nike retro currently on the shelves.

As a collector of other things, I understand collecting sneakers, too. I draw the line at paying multiples of retail for a special version of a $150 dollar shoe that originally sold for... $150, for a shoe made in the 10's of thousands (not all that rare).
 
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Hey Johnny Bravo said:
I agree with you.

I also agree with this. I'm not surprised the CEO got a dose of lead and it is indicative of where things have gotten in this country that he did. Some people think it's great and revolutionary while I think it's bad because history tells us that revolutionary environments are the ones where arbitrary murder is constant. We need to go back to basics and stop this fucking two-tier, pay-for-play, identity politics nonsense or else we will turn into a Third World Shithole.
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America is already a third world shit hole. I love in the UK and the first thing my nurse said to me when I saw her was "free Luigi" lol. Some people like to pretend normies are against this or don't care but almost every other person I've spoken to recently has a positive opinion of Luigi because they're so sick of this shit, living in a world where the rich and powerful aren't held to the same standards as we are. How many people are shot every day in American cities, how many of those victims are given this much attention and effort by the police? How many people who are murdered get rewards that high out on their killers head? How many people are exploited by a corrupt health care system that works in tandem with doctors, hospitals and the government to overprice health care to the point where it's impossible to pay for it unless you have insurance which is denied more often than not? Charging the patient $30 for a days worth of ibuprofen?

If we didn't live in this corrupt globohomo shithole maybe people wouldn't feel like their only resort is violence, because there is no real mechanism to get these companies to pay for their crimes, maybe they get a fine which is the equivalent of a working class person paying $75 and getting off with no criminal record for the crime of denying lifesaving health care that directly results in deaths.
 
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America is already a third world shit hole.
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Is it? Then move to somewhere like The Gambia since it's the same thing. Oh, wait - it's not, and you are an idiot.
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I love in the UK and the first thing my nurse said to me when I saw her was "free Luigi" lol.
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Ah, you're British. That explains why you are so stupid. Have another pint, you inbred, fetal-alcohol troglodyte.
 
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