Posted on 01/05/2021 4:31:12 PM PST by RandFan
On Tuesday morning, Representative Thomas Massie (R-Ky.), a longtime ally of President Donald Trump and his administration, took to Twitter to impart what he calls some “hard truths” to the American people, especially supporters of the president currently in high anticipation of the objection by at least 100 Republican members and like-minded senators in the House of Representatives on January 6 to the electoral college votes for last November’s presidential election.
Massie began by saying that these facts are something “few want to acknowledge publicly”:
@RepThomasMassie
Some hard truths that few want to acknowledge publicly:
(1) If every Republican votes to disallow every Biden elector on January 6th, Biden will still be declared the winner by Congress. This is simple math, Democrats are in the majority and will vote to keep the Biden electors.
(2) No state has sent a competing set of electors. Each state has sent only one slate of electors. No state legislature has asked Congress to reject its state’s electors.
(3) Trump’s new AG, the replacement for Bill Barr, took office on December 24th and (as far as we can tell) has done nothing to investigate this election. I don’t know him, he might be a great person and very qualified, but Trump hired him and he doesn’t seem to be investigating.
One thing that’s important to note in Massie’s statement: there’s no admonishment for GOP senators and congressmen leading the fight against potential election fraud, just facts. That’s in stark contrast to other Republicans, like Sen. Tom Cotton, or Sen. Mitt Romney, whom I wrote about taking to, of all places, CNN to rip up his own party’s members as a “danger” to democracy. Which is, obviously, ridiculous on its face.
In the same vein as Massie, another ally of Pres. Trump, Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) had this to say Tuesday about the steep hill facing the completely earnest, but ultimately doomed efforts of his Conservative colleagues:
Voter fraud, whether done by individuals or corrupt government officials, is not okay. It needs to be rooted out, and the administrators and other elected officials who implicitly or explicitly allow it should be voted out. But those on our side leading the base to hope against hope that something radical will change tomorrow to usher Pres. Trump back into the White House for four more years are doing everyone a disservice.
Here’s another hard truth: People say they want politicians to tell them the truth, to be transparent, but sometimes, that truth isn’t what we want to hear. There’s also this truth, which Jon Gabriel, the editor of Ricochet, wrote in his new op-ed piece published in USA Today over the weekend titled, “We went through hell in 2020 and came out stronger. Why 2021 will be better.”
Jon wrote that “false hope is worse than steely-eyed realism.”
You can’t say it any better than that.
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“Due to numerous unlawful violations taken by Pennsylvania Governor, Tom Wolf; Secretary of State, Kathy Boockvar; and the rogue State Supreme Court, the balance of power was taken from the State Legislature, who by the U.S. and PA Constitutions, set the time, place and manner of holding elections,” the January 4th request noted.
The memo points to unconstitutional actions taken by the state’s Supreme Court, specifically how it axed the requirement for signature verification and postmarks on ballots along with extending deadlines for when mail-in ballots could be counted. The Secretary of State is also accused of enabling the partisan “curing” of ballots and “proliferating unsecured ballot drop boxes in key Democratic areas.”
“Members, we ask for more time given the fact that the U.S. Supreme Court is to hear Trump vs. Boockvar in the coming days. We ask that you delay certification of the Electoral College to allow due process as we pursue election integrity in our Commonwealth,” the letter concludes.
Pennsylvania legislatures is raising questions
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is there time???
The Pennsylvania Senate sent the following letter we will make sure @VP and @realDonaldTrump receive. @RepScottPerry pic.twitter.com/12HPmAEE6L
— Paul Gosar (@DrPaulGosar) January 5, 2021
Someone please tell this bozo, Representative Thomas Massie (R-KY), that if they can disqualify a horse in the Kentucky Derby for cheating, then certainly Congress can disqualify electors who were the beneficiaries of cheating.
ML/NJ
Are we past the tipping point?
LOL
Someone in my other thread said the date is set by law and cant be postponed?
He needs a few hard truths. Stay away from windows. Two on a match is bad luck. Have someone watch your backs at night.
They are really pushing this “accept it” narrative.
Out of 80 million Trump votes, some are going to take the overthrow of the government very seriously.
Very very seriously. He and others should lose the idea that this too shall pass. They need to look at those guys in Ukraine and other places fleeing out the back door of the legislative chamber as angry people pour into the front.
Yes, it CAN happen here, to them. They need to grok that concept.
He does not seem to quite grasp the moment he finds himself in. This is the hill we die on. God be with us all.
IMO, seems lots of people hope Biden is President just so that they can be “proven right” regardless of the damage it does to the country and the voting process.
The top officials in Pennsylvania have just written to McConnell and McCarthy that the certification of Pennsylvania votes should not be accepted, that the Secretary of State of Pennsylvania exceeded her authority and violated the Constitution.
Massie is a grandstanding too conservative for school jackwagon. He’s popped up periodically over the past few years in a similar vein. He relishes moments like this where he can pose as a “Constitutionalist” while not actually doing anything of substance.
Hardcore psywar going on now. Who are we going to believe? The coupists or President Trump?
What a dumbass. If he would take roughly 15 minutes to read the constitution, he would find that Democrats aren’t in the majority as far as state delegations. Each state would get one vote. In that regard, Republicans have a comfortable majority in the number of state delegations.
The session must start on January 6th by law but could be adjourned to a later date if warranted by a strong suspicion of some elector slates being improperly certified.
“No state has sent a competing set of electors. Each state has sent only one slate of electors.”
Isn’t that incorrect? Didn’t GOP in swing states send its own list of electors?
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