Refusing to certify the election results should immediately disqualify one from becoming Speaker. It should disqualify one from holding any elected office.
It won’t do either.
I hate Republicans with a fiery passion, but this kind of idea makes me think that if members of Congress aren’t free to choose not to certify an election without negative consequences, there really shouldn’t be a certification process at all. It has about as much meaning as Putin getting reelected with 120% of the vote.
There shouldn’t be imo, it’s entirely procedural by that point
It’s much more likely that 200 congress people attempt to pull a soft coup and overthrow the government (as many of them did in backing Donald Trump) than it is for the thousands of state level election workers and courts to do the same
Welp, there’s your two choices …
Really, if Democrats are going to vote for any Republican, that should be by far one of the most minimal criteria. No one on the far right should be entertained.
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A bunch of slave owning libertarians from England colonize a country and form a constitution to give themselves and nobody else rights. 250 years later, user ubermeisters on open source community platform Lemmy calls the governmental system a joke.
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wow, that must have been a big surprise to all the slaves.
it pretty obviously meant the rights of white male landowners, in context, historically
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They’re kinda right tho.
You’re not exactly bright, are you? Learn some history, chud
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Not that it makes any real difference, but I wonder how many of them are so stupid and/or blinded by ideological bias that they voted that way because they sincerely believed that the election was invalid and how many of them voted that way because they’re cowards with no principles or integrity who were trying to suck up to Trump and his army of violent morons.
At this point, that’s one of the only things that provides even a hint of interest about an American right-wing politician - wondering if they’re an actual delusional psychopath or if they’re just LARPing as one to get votes and/or not get death threats.
Again, not that it makes any real difference…
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I don’t really blame them, or at least not primarily.
They’re just desperate and frustrated and looking for someone or something to blame for the fact that what should be a great nation is instead a festering cesspool of greed, corruption, violence and stupidity. Like most, they won’t or can’t consider the part they play in that, so they look for some “other” to blame.
There is actually an “other” to be blamed - the wealthy and politically powerful few - but most of American history, and human history for that matter, has been built around establishing and protecting the privilege of those few, most often by manipulating public sentiment in such a way as to direct anger and frustration away from them and instead towards others of the common people.
So they’re really just the latest in a long line of people feeling wholly justifiable anger and frustration that’s been misdirected by self-serving shitheels. I guess they’re rightly faulted for failing to recognize that they’re mad at the wrong people, but really, that’s true of far too many people.
Now all that said, on a personal level there’s almost nobody that fills me with more rage and disgust than the bigoted right.
Still though…
I blame them. Being angry isn’t an excuse to hurt people, especially not people who have nothing to do with what you’re angry about. That kind of behavior is excusable in toddlers but not adults.
One of the two is now publicly stating they are pro coup.
Which one?
Tom Emmer
Can I get some context
That’s good, it splits the election denial vote.
