“All” the insults? There is NOT ONE insult in what I wrote unless you do not like my characterization of some of your positions.
The only thing I wrote that even remotely would look like an insult was this, “It does not make you look like a patriot, just the opposite.” Even that only refers to how it makes you look.
You just repeated your points without addressing mine. I will address yours although I doubt you will think that it is a courageous American approach to the unprecidented crisis we are having.
First, why do you think this had anything to do with us individual citizens going to court? I can’t easily get away with ignoring laws. This is concerning the executive branch of government, checks and balances, it CAN throw weight around in extraordinary situations.
The vice president and president of the senate in his dual role is able to consider a particular portion of US code to be bogus at a time in which higher laws and unalienable rights are being violated.
Pence could start by not miscontruing in public the protests and painting the entire body of protesters as having gone too far — most did not. He appeared as though he planned to do something creative and decided not to do it only because of those people who came into the capital. Wow, just an excuse.
And he could simply say that he cannot yet count the electoral votes when he is aware of such serious evidence that the people of several concerned states have been defrauded in their votes and therefore those people and states have not (yet) received their guaranteed republican form of government, and as such more investigations must be done before the votes can be counted. There may be a “constitutional crisis” as a result, but it is a doable approach. That would be the courage we expected. Or he could creatively handle it some other way. Instead he just went along with the steal.
I see no point in debating something that has already taken it’s place in history. Mr. Pence did what he felt he should and for him to be called a coward and a traitor is not very productive to solving problems but I can see how some people need to use those labels to vent their anger.
You did say that the US Code was bogus but you didn’t say what law you do recognize.
As far your as your answer to what Pence should have done, it appears to be nothing more than wishful thinking that would have really sparked a “constitutional crisis” and all I can say to that is good luck with that.
Perhaps you are waiting for a military intervention, dream on!