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Electors around the country are being harassed with a barrage of emails, phone calls, letters and even death threats, in an effort to block Donald Trump from being voted in as president by the Electoral College on Monday. Of course, with the mainstream media and democrats pushing the dangerous narrative that Putin basically usurped our democracy, it’s no wonder that disaffected Hillary snowflakes are growing more “triggered” with each passing day.
According to a report from the New York Post, one Republican elector in Michigan has even received death threats after he refused to change his vote.
For Michael Banerian, a senior at Oakland University in Michigan and a Republican elector, the harassment comes with a dark side.He said he’s been getting death threats via email, snail mail, Twitter and Facebook.
“Somebody threatened to put a bullet in the back of my mouth,” Banerian, 22, told The Post on Wednesday.
Republican electors from all over the country are being inundated with emails, phone calls and letters on a daily basis, from angry democrats, urging them to switch their votes. One Republican elector in Arizona estimated that she had received 50,000 emails since election day.
The bullying is overwhelming Sharon Geise’s tech devices, but not her resolve to support Trump.The Mesa, Arizona, grandmother woke up Wednesday morning to more than 1,500 emails demanding she not carry out her legal duty to vote for the president-elect.
“They just keep coming and coming,” Geise told The Post, estimating she’s received more than 50,000 emails since the election. “They’re overpowering my iPad.”
Her answer: mass delete.
Despite the avalanche, she said, her decision to back Trump is stronger than ever.
“Obviously their minds are made up and they’re not going to change. I’m not either,” the soft-spoken Geise said.
Like Geise, Republican Patricia Allen of Tennessee told The Post she’s been bombarded with 2,000 emails, 120 letters and five phone calls all urging her to switch and vote against Trump. But Allen, 74, said that despite the “siege,” she’s not budging.“This has never happened before … Do you know how long it takes to delete all those emails every day?” she asked.
She’s also been solicited by a Harvard University group backed by constitutional law Prof. Lawrence Lessig, who has offered free legal aid to electors who change their vote.
“That borders on bribery,” said Allen. “Carried to this extreme, the day might come when an elector could be sold to the highest bidder.”
It’s simply amazing that more than a month has passed since election day and disaffected Hillary supporters still can’t come to terms with the fact that, to quote Joe Scarborough, “Hillary Clinton lost Hillary Clinton the election.”
Submitted by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog,
The Democratic Party has become everything it once was against.
Let’s get one thing straight right at the start: criticizing the Democratic Party and its ruling elites is not the same as “supporting Trump.”
The either-or accusation is a classic propaganda technique to silence dissent. During the Vietnam War, for example, anyone dissenting against the official narratives supporting the war was accused of “supporting the Communists.” In other words, criticizing the Powers That Be or their narrative is treason.
This either-or choice was designed to silence dissent by eliminating the possibility that domestic critics had valid reasons to disagree with the war that had nothing to do with Communism and everything to do with America.
Now we hear the same propaganda technique being wielded by Democrats: any criticism of the Democratic Party is “supporting Trump.”
Hogwash. Any institution that can’t accept achingly obvious critiques is doomed. Resilient, confident people and organizations welcome fair criticism, as honest criticism (i.e. intended to improve performance and understanding) is essential to the process of successful adaptation to changing conditions.
So now that we’ve got that straightened out–criticism isn’t necessarily support for “the other side,” it stands or falls on its own merits–let’s nail down why the Democratic Party didn’t live up to expectations in the election.
And we’re not talking about the presidential race, in which the Democrats scored a substantial advantage in the popular vote–we’re talking to the entire election results: state legislatures, the House of Representatives and the Senate.
The Democrats picked up two senate seats and eight in the House, three of which were vacant. Democrats lost the majority in the Senate in 2014 and in the House in 2010, so the the 2016 election was a continuation of a trend begun six years ago.
United States Congress elections, 2016
Why has the nation turned away from the Democratic Party? Perhaps one reason is that the Democratic Party has become everything it once was against.
George McGovern’s 1972 campaign slogan was Come home, America. The current version of the Democratic Party never met a globalist treaty or agenda that it didn’t approve.
The Democratic Party turned anti-war after Lyndon Johnson’s withdrawal from the 1968 race; the current version of the Democratic Party has embraced endless war via proxies, drones and Special Forces–they support interventions and unlimited violence in other nations, as long as American combat deaths are few and far between.
In years past, the Democratic Party presented itself as the party of “the working people” against the business interests of banks and corporations. The current version of the Democratic Party has embraced big banks, financiers, billionaires and corporations, cozying up to Big Money for hundreds of millions in campaign contributions and Super-PAC funding.
Former President Bill Clinton and his wife Hillary earned $230 million between 2001 (when they left the White House) and 2015. How The Clintons Have Made $230 Million Since Leaving The White House (Forbes). Their foundation has collected some $2 billion, and the foundation’s track record of large donations from non-U.S. players and its modest charitable effectiveness has opened questions about pay-for-play.
As for supporting “the working people”–Hillary’s comment about “deplorables” summed up the unspoken view of the Democratic Party elites.
The Democratic Party has become everything that it once loathed: elitist, globalist, interventionist, self-serving, warmongering and overflowing with hubris.
To avoid looking at their reflection honestly, humans project their own failures and destructive traits onto others, blaming others for their own faults. They justify their self-serving actions, and deny responsibility for their clearly self-destructive behaviors.
This describes the Democratic Party elites to a T. It’s all Trump’s fault, or the Russian hackers, or the “deplorables”–anyone but themselves.
Not that long ago, the Republican Party was being dragged toward a shallow grave — a party drained of ideas and ideals. Trump’s campaign bypassed the Republican Party’s self-serving, hubris-soaked elites, and whether the party will survive the internecine warfare between the Trump camp and the Old Guard remains an open question.
If the Democratic Party clings to elitism, indignation, denial and self-justification, it will be digging its own shallow grave beside the one awaiting the Republican Party should it fail to embrace practical, affordable solutions to the stagnation of opportunity and rising inequality.
With the nation gripped by the thoroughly unsubstantiated “Russian hacking” scandal, which last night escalated to include Putin himself according to an NBC report which provided nothing new, Trump threw himself in the fray on Thursday morning when he raised more questions on Twitter about Russia’s reported role in cyber attacks on U.S. political parties and individuals as well as the timing of the White House’s response under President Barack Obama.
“If Russia, or some other entity, was hacking, why did the White House wait so long to act? Why did they only complain after Hillary lost?” Trump wrote in a post on Twitter.
If Russia, or some other entity, was hacking, why did the White House wait so long to act? Why did they only complain after Hillary lost?
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 15, 2016
Trump has repeatedly dismissed reports over the Russian hacking as “ridiculous,” and accused Democrats are upset that Trump won the Nov. 8 presidential election over their candidate, Hillary Clinton. In October, the U.S. government formally accused Russia of a campaign of cyber attacks against U.S. political organizations ahead of the election. Obama said he warned Russian President Vladimir Putin about consequences and last week ordered a review by the U.S. intelligence agencies.
Meanwhile NBC News reported late Thursday that U.S. intelligence officials have “a high level of confidence” that Putin was personally involved in the Russian cyber campaign against the United States.
The CIA has assessed that the attacks were aimed at helping Trump win the 2016 election, a position not endorsed by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) or the FBI, according to a senior U.S. official, due to lack of creible evidence, which suggests that Trump is correct in questioning the narrative being spun by the White House.
Meanwhile, the push to overturn the will of the people continues, with a full court press on the country’s 538 electors, in a desperate attempt by the administration, democrats and now, celebrities, to get at least 37 republican Electors to change their vote from Trump to “someone else.”
We anticipate this story won’t end until Monday’s vo
All i can say is it will be an interesting 4 years!
I have never seen in my lifetime the deep hatred that is emerging in politics. Obama is clearly getting his CIA cronies to stir the pot claiming that Putin hacked the DNC to seek revenge on Hillary. But exposing the corruption inside the Democrats is not justification to overturn the election. Nancy Pelosi’s (D-CA) daughter and Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta are backing the effort to get electors to ignore the election and vote for Hillary. They are claiming they have now 30+ people to turn and that means if neither candidate gets 270, it goes to the House or Representatives. Yet we are talking about really turning up the civil unrest. The Democrats refuse to accept any loss and they are intent on trying to really force Marxism down everyone’s throats. We are talking about real bloodshed on the streets if this were to take place. It will be civil war.
Any way I look at this, the model has beaten my personal view every single time. I really fear that this up cycle will be far worse than I personally had hoped. Even if this latest effort to steal the election fails, the left will not accept Trump no matter what. Whoopi Goldberg and Joy Behar on “The View” will not let unity take place. They refuse to preach peace but prefer to inspire hatred and to refuse to accept Trump as President. Behar is preaching revolution and is telling the electors if they are patriotic they should vote for Hillary. How is that patriotic? The press will not support Trump and see this as their way or no way – real democratic.
This is really getting out of hand and it all comes to a head on Monday the 19th. Looks like the Supreme Court will be called in on this one as well if the electors are bribed to overrule the people. This is really the ultimate peak in corruption. Hillary is hiding out to pretend she has nothing to do with this. She will stop at nothing.
Everyone going in to the election new the rules and only trump understood them so he one! Hillary lost mostly because she never campaigned and has no personality — when you pick a loser as your candidate you get to lose so quit complaining and blaming the Russians; just look in the mirror and you will see why you lost!.
Originally posted on Desert Musings: On Monday, December 19th, the Electoral College will meet to elect Donald Trump as president. Oh, I know…you THOUGHT we did that a month and a half ago, right? Well, not so fast, Skippy. We really don’t elect anybody president. If we did, there’d be a bimbo in the White…
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It is time for the Electoral College to do their job or resign. Never have seen so many whinny people. Don’t they know how to do their job by following what the rules of the road are and shut up? Be glad when December 19 arrives so they can piss and then get off the pot. With all of the years we have voted, we have never seen so much noise over nothing. Time to put out and then shut up.
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The Federal Government contains two factions, one the globalists and the other the nationalists; the nationalists are the ones that leaked the Podesta and DNC emails to Wikileaks to stop Hillary. The battles continues over the real news fake news and the fake link to Russia.
It’s been more than a few months since we first began discussing the obvious internal conflict between White Hats and Black Hats within the Obama intelligence and national security agencies. …
Source: Obama Intelligence Officials Refuse To Brief Congress on Promoted “Russian Hacking Conspiracy”…
Harvard University law professor Larry Lessig, who has been providing free legal counsel to “faithless electors” from the GOP considering voting against Trump, claims that 20 GOP Electoral College voters have contacted him and are seriously considering flipping their vote. Of course, with 306 Electoral College votes assigned to Trump, it would only take 37 faithless GOP electors to block his presidency and push the election to Congress to decide. Per Politico:
Lessig’s anti-Trump group, “Electors Trust,” has been offering pro bono legal counsel to Republican presidential electors considering ditching Trump and has been acting as a clearinghouse for electors to privately communicate their intentions.“Obviously, whether an elector ultimately votes his or her conscience will depend in part upon whether there are enough doing the same. We now believe there are more than half the number needed to change the result seriously considering making that vote,” Lessig said.
Meanwhile, the list of Democrat electors demanding an intelligence briefing on Russian interference in the election prior to casting their vote continues to grow. As of last night we noted that 40 democrats had signed the petition and, as of this morning, the list has grown to 55. Not surprisingly, the list is loaded with disaffected Hillary supporters from Democratic strongholds like California and Virginia.
Original 10:
- Christine Pelosi (CA)
- Micheal Baca (CO)
- Anita Bonds (DC)
- Courtney Watson (MD)
- Dudley Dudley (NH)
- Bev Hollingworth (NH)
- Terie Norelli (NH)
- Carol Shea-Porter (NH)
- Clay Pell (RI)
- Chris Suprun (TX)
Newly Added Electors:
- Sandra Aduna (CA)
- Edward Buck (CA)
- Donna Ireland (CA)
- Vinz Koller (CA)
- Katherine Lyon (CA)
- John P. MacMurray (CA)
- Stephen J. Natoli (CA)
- Andres Ramos (CA)
- Shawn Terris (CA)
- Gail Teton-Landis (CA)
- Olivia Reyes-Becerra (CA)
- David Scott Warmuth (CA)
- Shirley Weber (CA)
- Denise Wells (CA)
- Gregory H. Willenborg (CA)
- Laurence Zakson (CA)
- Jerad Sutton (CO)
- Robert Nemenich (CO)
- William Marovitz (IL)
- Nancy Shepherdson (IL)
- Nazda Alam (MA)
- Dori Dean (MA)
- Jason Palitsch (MA)
- Parwez Wahid (MA)
- Paul G. Yorkis (MA)
- Lillian Holmes (MD)
- Lesley Israel (MD)
- Robert Leonard (MD)
- Salome T. Peters (MD)
- Noyola Archibeque (NM)
- Melissa Mark-Viverito (NY)
- Stuart Appelbaum (NY)
- Hazel Ingram (NY)
- Stephanie Miner (NY)
- Melissa Sklarz (NY)
- Andrea Stewart-Cousins (NY)
- Timothy Norman Powers Rowan (OR)
- Brad Martin (OR)
- Sam H.W. Sappington (OR)
- Beth Caldwell (WA)
- Bret Chiafalo (WA)
- Deb Fitzgerald (VA)
- Terry C. Frye (VA)
- Jeanette Sarver (VA)
- Martha Allen (VT)
Of course, as we concluded yesterday, this effort to block Trump will almost certainly be a complete failure. That said, the point isn’t really to block Trump, but rather to do as much as possible to undermine the legitimacy of his presidency as possible before he takes office.
For those who missed it, below is our full update from last night:
Update: Forty members (up from 29 earlier) of the Electoral College on Tuesday signed a letter demanding an intelligence briefing on Russian interference in the election ahead of their Dec. 19 vote.
As The Hill reports, ten electors originally signed the letter when it was published Monday, and 30 more have since added their names.
Original 10:
- Christine Pelosi (CA)
- Micheal Baca (CO)
- Anita Bonds (DC)
- Courtney Watson (MD)
- Dudley Dudley (NH)
- Bev Hollingworth (NH)
- Terie Norelli (NH)
- Carol Shea-Porter (NH)
- Clay Pell (RI)
- Chris Suprun (TX)
Newly Added Electors:
- Edward Buck (CA)
- Donna Ireland (CA)
- Vinz Koller (CA)
- Katherine Lyon (CA)
- John P. MacMurray (CA)
- Andres Ramos (CA)
- Gail Teton-Landis (CA)
- Olivia Reyes-Becerra (CA)
- David Scott Warmuth (CA)
- Gregory H. Willenborg (CA)
- Jerad Sutton (CO)
- Robert Nemenich (CO)
- Nancy Shepherdson (IL)
- Dori Dean (MA)
- Jason Palitsch (MA)
- Parwez Wahid (MA)
- Paul G. Yorkis (MA)
- Robert Leonard (MD)
- Salome T. Peters (MD)
- Melissa Mark-Viverito (NY)
- Stuart Appelbaum (NY)
- Stephanie Miner (NY)
- Melissa Sklarz (NY)
- Andrea Stewart-Cousins (NY)
- Sam H.W. Sappington (OR)
- Beth Caldwell (WA)
- Bret Chiafalo (WA)
- Deb Fitzgerald (VA)
- Terry C. Frye (VA)
- Jeanette Sarver (VA)
The open letter — led by Christine Pelosi, the daughter of House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi (Calif.) — urged Director of National Intelligence James Clapper to give a detailed briefing on President-elect Donald Trump’s ties to Russia.
“We further require a briefing on all investigative findings, as these matters directly impact the core factors in our deliberations of whether Mr. Trump is fit to serve as President of the United States,” the letter read.
The Clinton campaign applauded the effort Monday, saying it had repeatedly warned about Russian interference aimed at swaying the election in Trump’s favor.
However, while 40 electors would be enough to turn the election in Hillary Clinton’s favor, the so-called “Hamilton Electors” are almost uniformly Democratic voters anyway and so with Ashley-Madison fan Chris Suprun the only Trump turncoat, for now the ‘soft coup’ remains a long shot.
“I am not looking to be satisfied with just the vote on Dec. 19 or 20, but on January of 2030, when Mr. Trump has either served no time, one term or two terms,” Suprun told The Hill. “History is going to judge my actions on whether he turned out to be Ronald Reagan, Herbert Hoover or Richard Nixon.”
But, as The Hill adds, Republican electors are coming under intense pressure to change their votes:
Bob Muller, a GOP county chairman in North Carolina and a Trump elector, said he’s gotten correspondence from “everywhere from Maine to California” asking him to vote differently.“I just ignore them,” Muller said.
So far, only a few Electoral College voters have publicly declared that they will not back the candidates that their states supported — including just one of the 37 Trump voters that the self-styled Hamilton Electors, a group of mostly Democrats, need to make any noise on Monday.
And even if the rogue electors achieve their aims, they would only succeed in sending the election to a Republican-majority House, which would almost certainly certify Trump’s victory.
Virtually all Republican electors reached by The Hill said they will vote enthusiastically for Trump.
“I’m voting how the people of Florida have told me to vote,” said Brian Ballard, a Florida elector who raised money for Jeb Bush and Marco Rubio during the GOP primary. “I don’t know anyone who isn’t. I appreciate people using First Amendment rights to reach out and try to convince me otherwise, but I’m obligated to support Trump because he won Florida.
“Also, I love the guy and want him to be president.”
Faithless electors are rare but not unheard of in American history.
At this point, the effort appears to be more about undermining Trump, complicating his ability to govern and following personal convictions — and less about actually winning the Electoral College for another candidate.
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As we detailed earlier, Donald Trump could have the election legally stolen from him on either December 19th when the Electoral College casts their votes or on January 6th when a joint session of Congress gathers to count those votes. As The Economic Collapse blog’s Michael Snyder notes, the establishment is in full-blown panic mode at this point, and they seem to have settled on “Russian interference in the election” as the angle that they will use to unleash this ‘soft coup’ as today, the Hill reports more Democratic electors are joining the call for an intelligence briefing before they cast their votes for president on Monday.
Twenty-nine electors now are pressuring Director of National Intelligence James Clapper to disclose more information about the CIA’s conclusion that Russian interference helped sway the election in President-elect Donald Trump’s favor.
On Monday, 10 electors — spearheaded by Christine Pelosi, the daughter of House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi (Calif.) — wrote an open letter to Clapper, demanding more information ahead of next week’s vote.
“The Electors require to know from the intelligence community whether there are ongoing investigations into ties between Donald Trump, his campaign or associates, and Russian government interference in the election, the scope of those investigations, how far those investigations may have reached, and who was involved in those investigations,” the letter reads.
“We further require a briefing on all investigative findings, as these matters directly impact the core factors in our deliberations of whether Mr. Trump is fit to serve as President of the United States.”
Twenty-eight Democrats and one Republican have now signed the letter.
On Monday, the Clinton campaign voiced support for the effort.
“Each day that month, our campaign decried the interference of Russia in our campaign and its evident goal of hurting our campaign to aid Donald Trump,” said John Podesta, Hillary Clinton’s campaign chairman, in a statement.
“Despite our protestations, this matter did not receive the attention it deserved by the media in the campaign. We now know that the CIA has determined Russia’s interference in our elections was for the purpose of electing Donald Trump. This should distress every American.”
But ultimately, as The Economic Collapse blog’s Michael Snyder warns, this is not about Russian interference in our election.
Rather, this is all about the elite doing whatever is necessary to stop Donald Trump. The elite are going to fight against him every step of the way, and they are never, ever going to give up. This is a point that I made during an interview with Alex Jones on Monday…
The next key date that we need to be watching for is December 19th.
On Monday, members of the Electoral College will gather in Washington D.C. and in all 50 state capitols to cast their votes. We know that at least one Republican elector that is supposed to be pledged to Trump will not be voting for him, and that elector claims that there are others that also will not be voting for Trump.
If 37 Republican electors can be persuaded to cast their votes for someone other than Trump, that would throw the election into the House of Representatives, and it is unclear what the House would do in that scenario.
If Trump is not stopped at the Electoral College, there is also the possibility that he could be derailed when a joint session of Congress gathers to count the Electoral votes on January 6th.
As I discussed yesterday, all it takes to force a vote on the validity of Electoral College votes is an objection in writing that is signed by at least one member of the House and one member of the Senate. As the official House.gov website explains, if both the House and the Senate vote to approve the objection, the votes covered by the objection are not counted…
Since 1887, 3 U.S.C. 15 sets the method for objections to electoral votes. During the Joint Session, Members of Congress may object to individual electoral votes or to state returns as a whole. An objection must be declared in writing and signed by at least one Representative and one Senator. In the case of an objection, the Joint Session recesses and each chamber considers the objection separately in a session which cannot last more than two hours with each Member speaking for no more than five minutes. After each house votes on whether or not to accept the objection, the Joint Session reconvenes and both chambers disclose their decisions. If they agree to the objection, the votes in question are not counted. If either chamber does not agree with the objection, the votes are counted.
In both the Senate and the House, there are anti-Trump Republicans that would absolutely cherish the opportunity to deny him the presidency.
I don’t know if it will happen, but this Russian interference issue is the kind of thing that could be used to justify taking this kind of action.
Of course if the election was stolen from Donald Trump that would likely throw the entire nation into a state of chaos, but I think tha
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