Posted on 12/19/2016 12:34:06 AM PST by Trump20162020
Dear Republican Electors:
Ok, if you've read this far, knowing that it's me, Michael Moore, writing to you -- well, thank you for having an open mind and the willingness to listen to someone you don't agree with.
I am writing you not as a card-carrying Democrat (I'm not) who voted for Hillary (I did), but simply because I am an American who, like you, deeply loves this country and its people.
Tomorrow is the day you are supposed to gather with your fellow electors and choose the next President of the United States. I am not going to ask you to vote for the person who got the most votes (although I will not be upset should you chose to side with the majority of your fellow Americans and do so!).
No, I'm simply asking you to vote your conscience and PLEASE do not put our nation in danger by choosing Donald J. Trump.
I know you HAVE to be full of worry and consternation over the way Russia hacked into our election in order to help Trump. Shouldn't we all wait until the investigation ordered by the president is finished before the Electoral College votes? If Trump did know or was involved in this unprecedented assault on our electoral process, wouldn't that be enough for you to exercise your constitutional power to stop a man like this from taking office?
Or just the fact that he has refused to attend nearly all the daily national security briefings -- doesn't this give you some pause? Do we want a Commander-in-Chief who is too busy or too disinterested to protect us on a daily basis?
Or how about the fact that Donald Trump bragged and admitted during the campaign that his people were in touch with the Russians? How much more do you need before you get a sick feeling about all of this?
I think you know something is wrong with this man. He just doesn't seem "right." One crazy comment or action after another. He may not be well. Don't you have a responsibility to protect us from someone who might be mentally unstable?
You have more power than you realize -- and you have an American conscience I hope you will follow. Please consider there four points:
1. Although it may ultimately have to be decided by the courts, right now you have the duty to do what you feel is right. One reason the founders set up the Electoral College was to make sure there was one final protection should someone who is a danger to the country slip through. We've established the national security danger that is Donald Trump and the possibility he had knowledge of the Russians hacking our election while it was taking place. If I were an elector for Hillary and learned she MIGHT have received helped from the Russians or the North Koreans or the Saudis, how do you think I'd be voting tomorrow? I assure you, it would not be for Hillary. You need to do the same thing.
2. But some states have made it "illegal" for you to vote any other way than for Trump. If you don't vote for him, your state will fine you $1,000. So here's my offer to you: I obviously can't and won't give you money to vote tomorrow, but if you do vote your conscience and you are punished for it, I will personally step up pay your fine which is my legal right to do.
3. If you are still worried about the legality of you voting your conscience and would like free legal advice and help, Harvard law professor Lawrence Lessig has offered to be your lawyer.
4. Trump, as I'm sure deep down in your heart you know, is never going to last the four years. He doesn't care about the law or following the rules and this will eventually trip him up. You know how dangerous it is when any politician, Democrat or Republican, who's a super narcissist is elected to office, they start making decisions that personally benefit themselves -- and before you know it, they're being hauled off to jail. Why not vote tomorrow for someone who's going to finish her/his term? Why risk the volatile presence of Donald Trump in the White House -- and help to guarantee another generation of Dems in the Oval Office?!
Republican electors, you have a chance tomorrow to fix this, to make it right, for yourselves as Republicans and for the country. Please find the courage to seize this historic moment where you put country over party. Set an example to our young people that conscience supersedes politics, and that morality -- yes, answering the quite legitimate question, "what would Jesus do?" -- is still the most important consideration. You are bound to God and not to Vladimir Putin. Your loyalty is to your fellow Americans, the vast majority of whom didn't vote for Donald J. Trump. But you won the Electoral College and so you get to decide. You can vote for the actual winner as decided by the American people, or you can pick another Republican who isn't Trump.
Why not choose a president who won't try to please Moscow, someone who believes the threat of terrorism is real and demands to be briefed on it daily? Why not let history record your moment of true courage and patriotism? Only 38 of you have to stand up and say, "I love my country and I cannot in good conscience vote for a man who, whether he means to or not, may put our nation in jeopardy. I love my country more than I love this job as an elector."
Thank you for listening to my plea. I promise to return the favor someday. A lot more listening to each other, regardless of our political positions, could go a long way to truly making America great again.
Most sincerely,
Michael Moore
Dear Michael Moore,
The opportunity for we electors to change course and stop someone from becoming President hinges on us agreeing that the man needs to be stopped. We dont. I don’t believe that Russians hacked our elections, nor that Trump will be removed, nor that he is mental. In fact, I believe that you are mental. Have a nice four years.
Yeah, like we are really to believe if the shoe were on the other foot, they would be willing to do the same. Lol.
This is why Michael Moore is terrified by Trump. Trump will actually fix his own town Flint, Michigan which the Dems never cared about
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLB1CoBgXd4
HAHAHAHAHAhaha...oh..... He’s series?
Quite an epistle.
From a disgusting tub of lard know-it-all.
You can really start to understand history and how conflict, wars and civilian atrocities appear again-and-again throughout the history of civilization.
There is a brain disorder that pops up in some people that once allowed to fester and multiply results in people like Hitler and Stalin, Mao, Kim Jong-Un and Castro...and their useful idiots (the democrat voters).
A little less than 50% of populations are not content to live in peace, harmony, respecting others and the greater good.
They look for ways to control others, impose their will - even if eventually people are put in mass graves.
We are seeing this played out today with Soros, Obama and the evil Democrat party. The biggest mistake Obama made was not killing his opposition as most successful dictators eventually do. They tried their best to take away our guns as a starter, which they must have known would have lead to civil war anyway.
Now they are testing the walls...
SUCKITUP, PIGFAT!!!
The time and effort being spent on this doomed effort against Trump is incredible. Rush was right again, liberalism is a mental disease.
I am glad Moore is all about satire!
I assure you, it would not be for Hillary. You need to do the same thing”
hahahahahaahhhahaaa!
I thought we conservatives were mean and delusional for suggesting that Barry was not qualified to be president.
To say this so public could mean violations of Federal law on vote tampering.
Well, I read the whole thing with an open mind, trying to see both sides of the issue (which I tend to do more often than not). Moore obviously feels strongly about the issue and indulges in appeal to emotion throughout. One thing that strikes me is that he asks the electors to vote their conscience and reject Trump. But how could they do that if they are obliged, if not by law then by conscience, to vote for the candidate chosen by the voters of their state? Moore undermines his own appeal by asking them to be conscientious.
On his point #1: OF COURSE, he’d vote for Hillary. Does anyone on this board doubt it?
Hillary would have to be caught naked sacrificing babies to Satan by the light of the full moon for him to forsake her. Or maybe even that wouldn’t do it.
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