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Can we just move on from the US 2024 election? (lemmy.zip)

submitted 1 week ago by possiblylinux127 to c/[email protected]

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[+] possiblylinux127 -14 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Until 4 years from now

We have a system of checks and balances for a reason

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago

...between the branches of government, which the R's just swept. Add in the fact that the supreme Court just gave the president criminal immunity if it's "official" (a term they define), and who exactly is going to check and balance?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yeah and the ONLY check and balance that stopped Trump from taking over on Jan 6th was MIKE PENCE and he is no longer an obstacle

[+] possiblylinux127 -17 points 1 week ago (2 children)

He didn't try to take over on Jan 6. He made some dumb remarks that a group took as attack the capital.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago

Thank you for finally outing yourself. Treasonous moron.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

https://www.factcheck.org/2023/08/what-trump-asked-of-pence/

“I think it’s important that the American people know what happened in the days before January 6,” Pence said. “President Trump demanded that I use my authority as vice president presiding over the count of the Electoral College to essentially overturn the election by returning or literally rejecting votes. I had no authority to do that.”

For those who might doubt him, Pence urged them to “read the indictment.”

Pence is featured prominently throughout the 45-page indictment, but there are seven and a half pages that specifically deal with “The Defendant’s [Trump’s] Attempts to Enlist the Vice President to Fraudulently Alter the Election Results at the January 6 Certification Proceeding.”

Dec. 23, 2020: Trump retweeted (and later deleted) a memo titled “Operation ‘PENCE’ CARD,” which, the indictment states, “falsely asserted that the Vice President could, among other things, unilaterally disqualify legitimate electors from six targeted states.”

“Pence then gavels President Trump as re-elected.”

Dec. 25, 2020: When Pence called Trump to wish him a Merry Christmas, Trump requested that Pence reject electoral votes on Jan. 6. Pence responded, as he had in previous conversations, “You know I don’t think I have the authority to change the outcome.”

There's more, see the link. Go ahead, learn something. It won't hurt ya