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The Absurd GOP
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RE: The Absurd GOP
January 4, 2025 at 4:34 pm
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RE: The Absurd GOP
January 4, 2025 at 4:41 pm
(January 4, 2025 at 4:34 pm)Ravenshire Wrote:
(January 4, 2025 at 5:44 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: His levels of maturity and emotional stability are truly underwhelming.

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Despite the millions of votes cast, if 44 men of integrity could be found among the red state electors, Trump could be stopped. It's a shame that there aren't 44 men of integrity left in the Republican party's officials.

If those electors didn’t vote for Trump, they wouldn’t be ‘men of integrity’. Precisely the opposite, in fact.

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RE: The Absurd GOP
January 4, 2025 at 4:50 pm (This post was last modified: January 4, 2025 at 4:51 pm by Ravenshire.)
(January 4, 2025 at 4:41 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:
(January 4, 2025 at 4:34 pm)Ravenshire Wrote: Despite the millions of votes cast, if 44 men of integrity could be found among the red state electors, Trump could be stopped. It's a shame that there aren't 44 men of integrity left in the Republican party's officials.

If those electors didn’t vote for Trump, they wouldn’t be ‘men of integrity’. Precisely the opposite, in fact.

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Considering one of the reasons for the electoral college was precisely to stop a demagogue like Trump from taking power, it would take men of integrity to do so.

Our founders put these things in place for a reason, despite them not being used to the intended purpose, or indeed misused.
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RE: The Absurd GOP
January 4, 2025 at 4:55 pm
(January 4, 2025 at 4:50 pm)Ravenshire Wrote:
(January 4, 2025 at 4:41 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: If those electors didn’t vote for Trump, they wouldn’t be ‘men of integrity’. Precisely the opposite, in fact.

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Considering one of the reasons for the electoral college was precisely to stop a demagogue like Trump from taking power, it would take men of integrity to do so.

Our founders put these things in place for a reason, despite them not being used to the intended purpose, or indeed misused.

Electors take a pledge to vote for their party’s candidate. Voting for a candidate from another party, or voting for a non-candidate from their party, or even abstaining from voting, breaks that pledge and makes them a faithless elector. 

So much for ‘integrity’.

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RE: The Absurd GOP
January 4, 2025 at 5:00 pm
Not to mention that many states have laws against electors voting otherwise.
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RE: The Absurd GOP
January 4, 2025 at 5:21 pm
(January 4, 2025 at 4:55 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:
(January 4, 2025 at 4:50 pm)Ravenshire Wrote: Considering one of the reasons for the electoral college was precisely to stop a demagogue like Trump from taking power, it would take men of integrity to do so.

Our founders put these things in place for a reason, despite them not being used to the intended purpose, or indeed misused.

Electors take a pledge to vote for their party’s candidate. Voting for a candidate from another party, or voting for a non-candidate from their party, or even abstaining from voting, breaks that pledge and makes them a faithless elector. 

So much for ‘integrity’.

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(January 4, 2025 at 4:55 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:
(January 4, 2025 at 4:50 pm)Ravenshire Wrote: Considering one of the reasons for the electoral college was precisely to stop a demagogue like Trump from taking power, it would take men of integrity to do so.

Our founders put these things in place for a reason, despite them not being used to the intended purpose, or indeed misused.

Electors take a pledge to vote for their party’s candidate. Voting for a candidate from another party, or voting for a non-candidate from their party, or even abstaining from voting, breaks that pledge and makes them a faithless elector. 

So much for ‘integrity’.

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Acting to preserve democracy at the national level would be a greater act of integrity.

(January 4, 2025 at 5:00 pm)Angrboda Wrote: Not to mention that many states have laws against electors voting otherwise.

And few of those states have any method of enforcement for those laws.


Faithless ballots are cast nearly every election cycle, though they have never changed an election. To describe those who would defend democracy as men without integrity would be akin to claiming the founders of the country had no integrity since they committed treason to attain their goals.

Would that 44 men would put the good of the nation above the petty squabbling of politics.
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RE: The Absurd GOP
January 4, 2025 at 5:27 pm
The founding fathers couldn't have possibly accounted for the conservative idiocy we're stuck with today.
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RE: The Absurd GOP
January 4, 2025 at 5:46 pm
@Ravenshire

Quote:Acting to preserve democracy at the national level would be a greater act of integrity.

The risk of democracy being destroyed is ever-present, and I’m not at all sure that illegal elections are the best way to preserve it.

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RE: The Absurd GOP
January 7, 2025 at 1:17 pm
Well, DUH...


'We need a plan': GOP gets 'early reality check' on Trump's erratic decision making

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RE: The Absurd GOP
January 7, 2025 at 1:33 pm (This post was last modified: January 7, 2025 at 1:36 pm by Nanny.)
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