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LS: “1) Just finished a discussion with a pro-Trump congressional source on procedures. Very high....
Twitter ^ | 30 Dec 2020 | Larry Schweikart

Posted on 12/30/2020 8:24:18 PM PST by BlackFemaleArmyColonel

Larry Schweikart:

1) Just finished a discussion with a pro-Trump congressional source on procedures. Very high.

2) On Jan. 6, all that is needed is 1 senator (Hawley) and 1 Congressman (Brooks) to bring an objection to an elector slate (almost certainly AZ, since that will be the first contested.

3) The rules are made by the previous congress; the laws already in place bind the procedures.

4) Pence has no authority on his own to accept or reject any slate. According to source, he will turn to the Parliamentarian for a ruling on how to proceed.

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To: BlackFemaleArmyColonel

I cam B.S on any lawyer that suggest the VP is powerless. I just don’t think the founders created ceremonial roles. That seem like a new concept


41 posted on 12/30/2020 9:05:00 PM PST by wiseprince (Me,)
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To: jdirt

Each state in the House gets ONE vote. There are 30 Republican states.


42 posted on 12/30/2020 9:05:28 PM PST by DJ MacWoW (The Fed Gov is not one ring to rule them all)
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To: BlackFemaleArmyColonel

I have to ask. What about the EO regarding foreign interference ? Didn’t the report come out from DNI that there was, in fact, interference from China, Russia and Iran?


43 posted on 12/30/2020 9:07:24 PM PST by PhiloBedo (You gotta roll with the punches, and get with what's real.)
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To: BlackFemaleArmyColonel

Yes. Since Nov 4.


44 posted on 12/30/2020 9:08:12 PM PST by nwrep
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To: Rightwing Conspiratr1
Whether one is ridiculously optimistic or pessimistic has zero effect on what will happen.

Exactly correct.

My attitude has always been--do what you can to support the best outcome, and hope for the best but always....

Prepare for the worst.

In my case that meant maximizing taxable income in 2020 so I can minimize it in 2021 (since I had the flexibility to make that move).
45 posted on 12/30/2020 9:08:29 PM PST by cgbg ( Remember 1876--we _can_ do this!--Biden--Office of the Prisoner-Elect)
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To: DJ MacWoW

Yes. I think everyone should just calm down, and see how it pans out.

The last thing we need now is a lot of negative speculation, depressing the peoples’ hearts and minds. (What does it accomplish, anyway?)


46 posted on 12/30/2020 9:09:05 PM PST by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: Jamestown1630
The last thing we need now is a lot of negative speculation, depressing the peoples’ hearts and minds. (What does it accomplish, anyway?)

It accomplishes exactly that...

47 posted on 12/30/2020 9:12:07 PM PST by KJC1 (Soviet-style sh*t show)
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To: Jamestown1630

Exactly! And you don’t win a war by quitting in the middle of a battle. You fight to the end.


48 posted on 12/30/2020 9:12:32 PM PST by DJ MacWoW (The Fed Gov is not one ring to rule them all)
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To: ClearCase_guy

He doesn’t have a good track record on a lot of things (at least for the time I’ve been here), but “sources” and track records aside, people should prepare themselves for a Biden presidency.


49 posted on 12/30/2020 9:12:39 PM PST by Stravinsky (Politeness will not defeat the Marxist revolutionaries)
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To: Jane Long; Rusty0604; LS
LS, have you consulted with the ONLY SOURCE - ALMIGHTY GOD about what will come down on JANUARY 6?


50 posted on 12/30/2020 9:12:57 PM PST by stars & stripes forever (Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord. (Psalm 33:12))
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To: ClearCase_guy

Not at all.

Don’t get the worship.

Stopped paying attention through the years.


51 posted on 12/30/2020 9:13:07 PM PST by dp0622 (Tried a coup, a fake tax story, tramp slander, Russia nonsense, impeachment and a virus. They lost.)
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To: rintintin

Get prepared for violence and disaster like you have never seen in your life. The complete breakdown of everything.


52 posted on 12/30/2020 9:13:10 PM PST by DarthVader (Not by speeches & majority decisions will the great issues th the day be decided but by Blood & Iron)
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To: Stravinsky

The bottom line is that the Deep State is just as strong as ever, despite Trump’s best efforts.


53 posted on 12/30/2020 9:14:13 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: PhiloBedo
It no longer matters to the outcome. The deep state had a successful coup.

I think a better question would be "what happens now ?"

since we no longer get to vote in free and fair elections and the USA has two socialist parties. Peaceful transition of power and all that goes with it, and if history repeats, it means some people get lined up in front of trenches

54 posted on 12/30/2020 9:16:22 PM PST by KTM rider (No enforcement of election laws is an attractive nuisance for communists)
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To: datura

Remember this: A well organized defense defeats any well organized offense in city battle by an average ratio of 10:1. The ratio is higher without air support or artillery - this ratio is for infantry vs infantry only.

READ TM 31-210 and TM 31-200-1!!!! LEARN MOUT!!!! (Military Operation Urban Terrain) Teach your neighbors.

It may very well begin on 7 Jan 2021. Do not let their bullshit stimulus lull you into complacency!! Either the President wins, or my last two posts will come into reality.

Stay alert, stay alive.

And snowflakes, don’t delete these posts. Shit might get very real, very soon. If not, nothing lost. If so, get ready.


55 posted on 12/30/2020 9:16:33 PM PST by datura (If you have to cheat, you didn't’ win.ppppp)
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To: Jim Noble

“They WANTED this.” <———- this.


56 posted on 12/30/2020 9:18:45 PM PST by moehoward (.)
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To: moehoward

My army bud says be careful what you wish for.


57 posted on 12/30/2020 9:21:11 PM PST by going hot
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To: BlackFemaleArmyColonel

Larry Schweikart

LS Twitter thread

1) Just finished a discussion with a pro-Trump congressional source on procedures. Very high.

2) On Jan. 6, all that is needed is 1 senator (Hawley) and 1 Congressman (Brooks) to bring an objection to an elector slate (almost certainly AZ, since that will be the first contested. 

3) The rules are made by the previous congress; the laws already in place bind the procedures.

4) Pence has no authority on his own to accept or reject any slate. According to source, he will turn to the Parliamentarian for a ruling on how to proceed. 

5) This isn't speculation. This is how it was done LAST TIME there was an objection.

In 2016. By Sheila Jackson Lee against Trump electors.

6) The parliamentarian informed veep Joe Biteme (!) that because there was no senator, the objection could not be heard. 

7) With a senator and Congressman objecting, the Parliamentarian then will read the rule, wherein the Senate and House retire to separate chambers to debate the objection.

8) Note: Pence has not done anything except entertain the objection. That's all he is allowed to do. 

9) According to the source, the Trump goal was to get the fraud debated in session.

10) However, the House will not debate. It will toss the objection in 30 seconds.

11) The Senate "may" take up to 2 hours to debate.

12) In the end, the certified slates will be accepted. 

13) Source thinks very few would vote to throw out a certified slate. Even people the source knows personally, including Mike Lee & Ted Cruz, would be unlikely to vote to toss a certified slate.

14) Certainly there won't be 51. 

15) Remember, we very well may NOT have the to GA seats filled, so the final numbers might be 49 Ds (Kelly seated now, Hickenlooper on Jan. 3 ) & only 49 Rs with recounts holding up the 2 GA seats.

16) Pence will NOT be in the senate chamber to break a tie because he cannot --- he presides over the joint session.

17) But my guess is that this final senate vote on AZ will be 92 or 93- about 5. Maybe Blackburn, Cotton, Paul, Cruz, vote against the certified electors.

Doesn't matter: Ds only need 2 Rs. They'll get 30+. 

18) But say the senate miraculously comes up with 51 votes to toss the AZ certified slate.

The House has already voted to accept it. Tie goes to the runner. The House & Senate have to be in agreement to reject a certified slate. 

19) Some of you are saying, "But I read that the House votes by DELEGATION, not by member."

Not for this.

The delegation vote is employed if no one has 270 electoral votes. For the votes on objections, it's by simple majority. 

20) BTW, I asked source about who the Parliamentarian was---House or Senate. "Doesn't matter. They are rule nerds. Extremely impartial."

Sheila Jackson Lee's anti Trump objection went nowhere in 2016.

21) My guess (didn't confirm) is that these debates will be CLOSED. 

22) So don't count on the "media" seeing the fraud or having the uninformed American public see this either. My source said the best that could come was Yertle's election reform commission. . .to which I laughed.

He said "it's easy to get cynical. I have to find a way to keep trying, to not fall into hopelessness."

23) So, after the AZ vote comes back for the certified electors, I asked about the plan cooked up by Yertle & Botoxic to deny further objections.

Source didn't think that would fly because the rules were written. 

24) Again I laughed, and it was admitted that whoever has the votes can do whatever they want, but STRONGLY thought any pre-emptive attempt to stop objections (as is being discussed today) would go nowhere. 

25) This dynamic might change (my opinion, not source's) if GA is decertified and if at least one other state is decertified before 1/6. If Biteme is one de-cert away from not having 270, there is a shot, but it's a very, very long shot.

My sense is that GA is the easiest. 

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58 posted on 12/30/2020 9:24:12 PM PST by Bratch
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To: Responsibility2nd

“President Trump still has options. Nuclear options. Insurrection act and/or martial law.”

You think he actually might?


59 posted on 12/30/2020 9:24:44 PM PST by avenir
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To: Lakeshark

His history books are fine.

His ability to predict the future is shit.


60 posted on 12/30/2020 9:25:03 PM PST by bigbob (Trust Trump. Trust the Plan. )
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