[Lurking Libertarian]

So if I go sit in the White HOuse and start acting like I’m the POTUS I’m the de facto president?

Try it, and tell me what happens.

[butterdezillion]

Sounds like you’re issuing an open invitation to a coup - if you can get away with it, it’s yours for the taking.

Is that what you’re saying? Might makes right?

Seems like that flies in the face of everything this electoral process is about. Are you really saying that is what the de facto officer doctrine means - that it’s fair game for whoever is strong enough to get away with it?

[butterdezillion]

This also sounds like you’re saying that if somebody tries to wrongly claim the presidency it is up to the people to physically make sure he never gets away with it. Is that what you’re saying?

How would you propose the people stop him? Are you saying that the secret service ultimately determines who is the POTUS - because if I tried what Obama has tried they would stop me but they wouldn’t stop him?

How is that anything but a military/law enforcement coup, then, that put Obama in power?