cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/32178924
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/32178822
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/21547846
A potential plan by Republican leaders to steal the 2024 presidential election. The plan involves delaying the certification of election results in key battleground states, potentially decreasing the overall number of electors appointed and allowing Donald Trump to win the presidency through a contingent election, whereby the House of Representatives, not the Electoral College, determines the president.
Loss of life would be tragic, of course, awful. I think people could be put in the very real, very dangerous situation where they’ve been abandoned by the captured court, and the fascists are installing themselves on a perversion of the law, and the freedom of all Americans is at stake. Not just freedom, like we’ve seen with abortion bans, and increasingly violent rhetoric, it will be lives at stake.
When you’ve been put in that position what can you do? The courts won’t care, the republicans won’t care, and if they take over like this it will be permanent. Dark fucking days ahead.
And let’s not pretend a coup in America wouldn’t have ramifications abroad either.