{"id":8608,"date":"2020-11-01T23:18:26","date_gmt":"2020-11-02T07:18:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/?p=8608"},"modified":"2020-11-11T18:25:33","modified_gmt":"2020-11-12T02:25:33","slug":"to-help-avoid-the-troubles-of-a-lawful-insurrection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/2020\/11\/01\/to-help-avoid-the-troubles-of-a-lawful-insurrection\/","title":{"rendered":"To Help Avoid the Troubles of a Lawful Insurrection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To help avoid the troubles of a lawful insurrection, please remember that the election results won&#8217;t be fully tabulated until several days after November 3rd.<\/p>\n<p>To any presidential candidate that casts adamant derision on the election process, recall that he&#8217;s a lying shitbag. He lied about his VERY FIRST MOMENT as president. And will lie until the day he is out of office and beyond. Recall his words &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2018\/sep\/06\/donald-trump-inauguration-crowd-size-photos-edited\">This was the largest audience to ever witness an inauguration \u2014 period.<\/a>&#8221; How did we get to this horrible place?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Here is Trump casting adamant derision on the electoral process: &#8220;I think it\u2019s a terrible thing when states are allowed to tabulate ballots for a long period of time after the election is over&#8230;&#8221; (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2020\/11\/01\/930140373\/fact-check-trump-falsely-claims-that-votes-shouldnt-be-counted-after-election-da?fbclid=IwAR13QG540OePsSL0WkwgDtkHR8Ong-k0AS1YwHKBrdVqCXulwDIQiUt87uQ\">and<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"JUST IN: Trump ROASTS Supreme Court over 2020 presidential election ballot counting decision\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zauQI3anZSw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I made a transcript. Highlights are mine.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I think it&#8217;s a terrible thing when ballots can be collected after an election. <strong>I think it&#8217;s a terrible thing when states are allowed to tabulate ballots for a long period of time after the election is over<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>But it can only lead to one thing and it&#8217;s very bad. You know what that thing is. I think it&#8217;s a very dangerous thing. And I think it&#8217;s terrible that we can&#8217;t know the results of an election the night of the election in a modern day of computers. I think it&#8217;s a terrible thing. And I happen to think it was a terrible decision for our country made by the supreme court. I think it was a terrible decision for our country. And I think it&#8217;s a very dangerous decision. Because you&#8217;re going to have one or two or three states depending on how it ends up where they&#8217;re tabulating ballots and the rest of the world is waiting to find out. And I think there&#8217;s great danger to it and I think a lot of fraud and misuse can take place. I think it&#8217;s a terrible decision by the Supreme Court. A terrible decision.<\/p>\n<p>Now I don&#8217;t know if that&#8217;s going to be changed because <strong>we&#8217;re going to go in the night of, as soon as that election is over, we&#8217;re going in with our lawyers.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>But we don&#8217;t want to have Pennsylvania where you have a political governor, a very partisan guy, and we don&#8217;t want to have other states like Nevada where you have the head of the Democratic clubhouse as your governor. We don&#8217;t want to be in the position where he&#8217;s allowed to, every day watch ballots come in. See if we could only find 10,000 more ballots. Because we&#8217;re doing great in Nevada. We&#8217;re doing great in Arizona. We&#8217;re doing great all over. But if you take Nevada or you take Pennsylvania, and everyone knows what happened in Philadelphia, you don&#8217;t have to say it. And I&#8217;ve read about it for years. And <strong>I don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s fair that we have to wait a long period of time after the election. If people wanted to get their ballots in, they should have gotten their ballots in long before that, a long time. They don&#8217;t have to put their ballots in the day. They could have put their ballots in a month ago.<\/strong> I would think it&#8217;s a ridiculous decision.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Here&#8217;s what I&#8217;m sadly thinking is a possibility:<br \/>\n&#8211; Nov 3, 9pm EST Trump declares himself the winner before results are tabulated<br \/>\n&#8211; Nov 15 Results are in with Biden the winner but Trump contests it. Trump claims fraud and won&#8217;t back down: much gnashing of teeth and lawsuits<br \/>\n&#8211; Jan 18 Claiming fraud and a growing base of support, Trump [something something that keeps him as president after Jan 20]<br \/>\n&#8211; Feb 10 With factions formed, things get out of hand and talk of a lawful insurrection begins<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To help avoid the troubles of a lawful insurrection, please remember that the election results won&#8217;t be fully tabulated until several days after November 3rd. To any presidential candidate that casts adamant derision on the election process, recall that he&#8217;s a lying shitbag. He lied about his VERY FIRST MOMENT as president. And will lie [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8608"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8608\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8609,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8608\/revisions\/8609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}