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Cake day: June 26th, 2023

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  • He can investigate crimes as President, but he cannot attempt to circumvent the counting of the vote.

    Certifying the vote is the duty of the legislative branch (Pence was acting as President of the Senate - a legislative role), and if it needs to be stopped due to legal reasons that’s the jurisdiction of the judicial branch.

    Separation of Powers requires that the President cannot officially act in that situation.

    Furthermore, he didn’t investigate any allegations that people had voted for Trump illegally.

    But the biggest smoking gun on whether it was the President or Candidate Donald Trump is that Trump specifically excluded the official White House counsel from his meetings but did include his personal and campaign lawyers. That says that not only was he acting outside his official duties, but that he knew he was acting as a candidate.





  • Everyone looks at extremes.

    Yeah, a populace armed with AR-15s and Glocks can’t fight bombers, but when a government reaches the point where bombers are being used against the population you’ll also have a military split, so there will be heavy equipment on both sides.

    Imagine something smaller in scale, like if the governor of Texas decided to start execution of liberals while Trump was President. Trump probably wouldn’t directly take part, but also wouldn’t send in the military to stop the governor.

    That’s where small arms for civilians becomes relevant.

    They’re also relevant because they’re distributed. With 100 million+ armed households, there’s no safe way to be a tyrant.

    Trump was almost killed by 1 person who planned poorly. If there were millions of armed people moved to that level of violence it would be impossible to govern without committing the kind of atrocity that would cause a military split/coup.





  • The downside is it probably won’t significantly increase voter turnout. People hate voting negative of long lines. Giving everyone the same day off to vote would just make it that much worse.

    Very few people can honestly say that the lack of a voter holiday is the reason they don’t vote.

    I live in Texas, where voting is famously difficult, but even I have 5 separate locations whets I can vote 7 days a week during early voting. The 21st through the 27th available times are Monday through Friday 8-5, Saturday 7-7, and Sunday is 9-3. The 28th thriving the first is 7-7.

    During those time periods it’s rare to have a line at all, and there’s a ton of groups that will take you to the polling station if you don’t have transportation.

    If someone is too lazy to take 10 minutes to vote during early voting, giving them a day off on election day won’t change their behavior.

    If the goal is to just give people another day off, that’s fine. Just say that. If the goal is to get people to vote, you should tie the benefit to voting.