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Post by Michael Downing on Dec 12, 2016 18:48:50 GMT -5
globalguerrillas.typepad.com/globalguerrillas/2016/12/warning-the-electoral-coup-.htmlWARNING: An Electoral Coup is UnderwayOn December 19, 2016 the electoral college will vote. Based on the vote, Trump should receive 306 votes and Clinton will have 232. However, it is possible for many electors to change their vote. They aren't bound by it. There's currently a very well funded attempt to influence electors to flip their votes on December 19th to change the outcome of the election. Despite expectations that it is far fetched, it has a high chance of success. As of today, there are enough electoral votes in play to flip the outcome. The three outcomes in discussion right now: 1.Trump falls short of the electoral count (270) to become President and the election is sent to Congress for a decision. 2.Clinton gets more than 270 electoral votes and becomes the President. 3.A dark horse candidate (Kaisitch, etc.) would get the votes to become President. In my view: all of these outcomes would end in a disaster. Why? Most of the country sees this election as already decided.
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Post by Michael Downing on Dec 14, 2016 8:21:52 GMT -5
Two via WRSA "If Donald Trump (love him or hate him) is not inaugurated on Jan 20 2017, the ballot box is dead. No debate, no excuses, no wishful thinking, no more Constitutional Republic." Sorry to have to be the one to inform you of this but that boat sailed a long time ago. The republic is but a very distant memory. There are no united States of America starvingthemonkeys.com/2016/12/13/faithless-elector-update-13-dec-2016/Faithless Elector Update, 13 Dec 2016Another week, and more breaking news in the faithless elector astroturf campaign. To keep this one short, we won’t repeat the background thus far, you can catch up here, here, here, here and here. The latest: Clinton campaign backs intelligence briefing for Electoral College electors (CNN), an attempt to paint the election as having been tainted by those damned Rooskies. This is yet another step in the plan to sway enough electors (or to provide cover to electors compromised by extortion and bribes); this time the justification is patriotism. This unfolding saga, while once a remote intellectual exercise, is now gaining traction with each passing week, even gaining the attention of some fairly staid and conservative types, although many of them are still falling for the Hillary head-fake. Remember, this isn’t about putting Hillary into the White House, that ship has sunk; it is about throwing the election into chaos and putting in a dark-horse ringer. We’ve seen this effort make an appeal to conscience, and now the puppet masters are pulling out all the stops with this latest smokescreen. So, who is the ringer? Kasich has now clearly pulled ahead of Cruz here in the war-room. It appears that Kasich is being presented a classic loyalty test by the Marxists: Ohio passes 2nd bill restricting abortions; both await Kasich’s signature (CNN). Will Kasich show he is a company man by acting appropriately, and thus get the nod as the ringer? Time will tell. www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-12-13/soft-coup-builds-more-electors-demand-russian-interference-briefing-they-vote40 Electors Demand Russian Interference Briefing Before They VoteUpdate: Forty members (up from 29 earlier) of the Electoral College on Tuesday signed a letter demanding an intelligence briefing on Russian interference in the election ahead of their Dec. 19 vote. As The Hill reports, ten electors originally signed the letter when it was published Monday, and 30 more have since added their names. Original 10: ◦Christine Pelosi (CA) ◦Micheal Baca (CO) ◦Anita Bonds (DC) ◦Courtney Watson (MD) ◦Dudley Dudley (NH) ◦Bev Hollingworth (NH) ◦Terie Norelli (NH) ◦Carol Shea-Porter (NH) ◦Clay Pell (RI) ◦Chris Suprun (TX) Newly Added Electors: ◦Edward Buck (CA) ◦Donna Ireland (CA) ◦Vinz Koller (CA) ◦Katherine Lyon (CA) ◦John P. MacMurray (CA) ◦Andres Ramos (CA) ◦Gail Teton-Landis (CA) ◦Olivia Reyes-Becerra (CA) ◦David Scott Warmuth (CA) ◦Gregory H. Willenborg (CA) ◦Jerad Sutton (CO) ◦Robert Nemenich (CO) ◦Nancy Shepherdson (IL) ◦Dori Dean (MA) ◦Jason Palitsch (MA) ◦Parwez Wahid (MA) ◦Paul G. Yorkis (MA) ◦Robert Leonard (MD) ◦Salome T. Peters (MD) ◦Melissa Mark-Viverito (NY) ◦Stuart Appelbaum (NY) ◦Stephanie Miner (NY) ◦Melissa Sklarz (NY) ◦Andrea Stewart-Cousins (NY) ◦Sam H.W. Sappington (OR) ◦Beth Caldwell (WA) ◦Bret Chiafalo (WA) ◦Deb Fitzgerald (VA) ◦Terry C. Frye (VA) ◦Jeanette Sarver (VA) The open letter — led by Christine Pelosi, the daughter of House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi (Calif.) — urged Director of National Intelligence James Clapper to give a detailed briefing on President-elect Donald Trump's ties to Russia. “We further require a briefing on all investigative findings, as these matters directly impact the core factors in our deliberations of whether Mr. Trump is fit to serve as President of the United States,” the letter read. The Clinton campaign applauded the effort Monday, saying it had repeatedly warned about Russian interference aimed at swaying the election in Trump’s favor. However, while 40 electors would be enough to turn the election in Hillary Clinton's favor, the so-called "Hamilton Electors" are almost uniformly Democratic voters anyway and so with Ashley-Madison fan Chris Suprun the only Trump turncoat, for now the 'soft coup' remains a long shot.
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Post by Michael Downing on Dec 14, 2016 8:32:03 GMT -5
givemeliberty01.com/2016/12/14/clinton-campaign-to-support-the-electoral-colleges-request-for-intel-brief-on-russian-hack/Clinton Campaign to Support the Electoral College’s Request for Intel Brief on Russian Hack The Intel Briefings are none of any of people on the Electoral College’s business. Hillary would support this fake news story in hopes the election results would be voided and she might win the revote. The Clinton campaign is keeping the supposed Russian hack of the 2016 election in the news after announcing its support of an intelligence briefing before the Electoral College vote. John Podesta, who served as Hillary Clinton’s campaign chair and whose email was the target of a WikiLeaks hack during the election, urged the electoral college to continue its pursuit for information. “The bipartisan electors’ letter raises very grave issues involving our national security,” Podesta said in a statement Monday. “Electors have a solemn responsibility under the Constitution and we support their efforts to have their questions addressed.” The hacking, Podesta said, should “distress any American.”
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Post by Michael Downing on Dec 14, 2016 16:36:40 GMT -5
virginiafreemen.com/2016/12/14/hamilton-delegates-the-lefts-misplaced-confidence-and-its-potentially-deadly-consequences/Hamilton Electors: The Left’s misplaced confidence and its potentially deadly consequencesMessrs. & Mesdames, I know you feel righteously indignant about the election results. A lot of people in the media and political apparatchik are advocating for an electoral college revolt, wherein the electors vote against the popular vote of their respective states out of allegiance to New York and California voters and deny their own state’s wishes. However, many among you seem to vastly misunderstand the dynamics and stark realities of the situation. Let me game out the very real, very possible reaction to this by all those deplorables that might, just might, not take it very well being told voting was for naught and to get back in line. Assuming enough of the electorates overturn the popular vote in their states, it makes the enormous brick thrown through the window of the establishment by a majority of states all for naught. To say many would be displeased is an understatement of rather epic proportions. Let us frame it in a different light. The people you just told to go pound sand on average purchase enough firearms in three months to outfit the Russian and Chinese frontline troops. Every. Three. Months. Those guys who were entrusted to go become experts at fighting insurgents and came home to better quality small arms in the private sector than they were issued, carved an entire market out of teaching what they learned from Uncle Sam to people with the coin and and the desire. You just told all of those guys to go pound sand. Not all are pipe hitters with steely eyes and camo. Many are farmers, utility workers, work in the oil fields, drive the big trucks that bend and go tshhh, tshhh when they brake, and produce thousands of things you never give a second glance to. The people who work 50-60 hours a week to feed, heat, and transport the nation. To really make sure we all got the point, it has been made abundantly clear that there is a desire to strip us of any voice online and silence those who do not conform to the appropriate level of ‘tolerance.’ I’m an eternal optimist, but I don’t believe silencing and stripping the votes of the opposition, who own the vast majority of the 400-600M firearms in the US, bodes well for anyone. You may think it untoward and hyperbole that people would react so…dramatically. I am not a violent man, nor are the vast majority of people I referenced above. Quite the opposite in fact, the people I think most likely to be absolutely intractable if you continue to pursue this road are those rooted in ideals greater than a case of political poor sportsmanship. Many of you have absolutely no concept of our culture, our values and where our sense of identity is derived. The reason I am willing to die defending my home is not because of any tangible goods inside it, the person inside it and the trust she has in me to keep her safe means that I have no other choice. The idea is what overrides any thought of self-preservation and makes me unwilling to live with the consequences of failure, demanding I either prevail or die in the process. It is my responsibility, not the cops, not the government’s, mine. Simply put, on this present course you are setting yourself at war, not with a political movement, not with a people group or any box you can check on the census, but with a set of ideals…a culture. Usurping the established electoral process, the last vestige of legitimacy amongst the decades of broken promises, lies, and betrayals, leaves a whole lot of people with simply no recourse left. You strip a man of his voice, politically and socially…demand nearly half of what he earns, and what would you have him do? Grin and bear it? A man may bear many things for his family and friends, but there comes a time when his core ideals are so violated that his conscience demands he either correct the situation or die in the pursuit. To continue is not to live, but to merely exist and is death of the soul rather than just the body. Another said it best, it is better to die on your feet than live on your knees. I hope by now you have a sense of why this road leads to something far worse than anything Trump could ever accomplish in four years. I can empathize with you, and do not mistake my plea for sanity as tacit approval of him. I don’t care about the person, I care about the office, and the process. A government who demands my taxes and obedience whilst stripping me of my duly elected representation is the casus belli enshrined in our Founding Documents. Work to repeal the electoral college if you must, and hold the Trump administration accountable. However, do not resort to leaving the bounds of lawful governance in the vain hope of salvaging political setbacks. Because should you do so, it frees any and all obligations I posses to the government and becomes a nation of occupation. I don’t bear hatred toward those of different political persuasions than myself, and I want those marching towards the conflagration to do so with open eyes. Millions of Americans are either cowards or forbearing. I do not wish to find out, and neither should you. I’ve made peace with dying for my principles, are you willing to do the same for Hillary Clinton? If that question makes you uncomfortable then perhaps you should consider exactly what is at stake here. It certainly isn’t just a presidency. –Jesse James
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Post by Michael Downing on Dec 19, 2016 10:21:47 GMT -5
www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-12-18/Coup Or No Coup: What To Watch For As The Electoral College Votes On MondayWith even Harvard's Larry Lessig admitting that his efforts to flip the Electoral College against Trump have failed miserably (see "Harvard Professor Admits His Efforts To Turn Electoral College Against Trump Have Failed Miserably"), it's a near certainty that Trump will, in fact, be elected President when the Electoral College casts their votes tomorrow. That said, there could always be surprises and, as such, The Hill has published a list of five things you should keep an eye on as electors get set to cast their ballots. First, here is how the 538 electors should cast their ballots if they all strictly follow the will of the voters in their respective states. That said, we know that at least one Texas elector, Chris Suprun, has vowed to go rogue tomorrow and anxious eyes will be waiting to see if anyone decides to join him. As The Hill points out, there hasn't been an election since 1836 in which more than 1 elector changed his vote, so even 2 defectors would make history.
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Post by Michael Downing on Dec 19, 2016 14:55:53 GMT -5
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