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I hate to break this to you, but having Congress select the president in cases other than those clearly specified in the U.S. Constitution is hardly a “Republican form of government.”

The Constitution empowers the Congress to choose POTUS and VPOTUS when no candidate has a majority in the Electoral College. Either that is "Republican", or not regardless of the regular plan. In the regular plan, Congress certifies if a candidate has such a majority from lawfully elected, (or appointed) electors. How is that not a Republican form of government? That is not if the Congress itself wasn't democratically elected. The election fraud was so vast, it appears that several were not. That doesn't excuse the rest from addressing the fraud noted by many state legislators, affidavits, etc. That suggests that election fraud may be more prevalent than the public suspects. The Congress simply refused to open that can of worms, which means ignorance is bliss, hear no evil, see no evil, speak no evil. It does not mean we have a Republican form of government. "Denial" isn't a river in Egypt.

Most of the contested states in the 2020 election had REPUBLICAN legislatures. And among those states, not a single legislature took any steps to rectify the problems with the 2020 presidential election before the electoral votes were certified in mid-December.

Once those electoral votes were certified, Congress was powerless to do anything on January 6th other than accept them.

It would have been a different story if multiple slates of electors were sent from one state. THAT is the role of Congress at the early January joint session: to adjudicate disputes in the electoral votes when state electoral vote certifications are not clear.

That was absolutely not the case here.

The silly, partisan inconsistency of Freepers on this point is pathetic and comical. If the roles had been reversed and we had seen Hillary Clinton's supporters pushing for Congress and VP Joe Biden to overturn the 2016 electoral college results at the January 2017 joint session of Congress, the internet would have melted down with all the outrage here on FR.