Meadmaker
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What do you think the outcome will be when SCOTUS kicks it to congress for the final reckoning?
Won't happen.
I wonder how you will react when it doesn't happen. Will it cause you to reexamine your assumptions to see where you made a mistake? That certainly wouldn't be Donald Trump's style, and I suspect it isn't your style, either.
Now, if I am wrong, it will cause me to reexamine my assumptions, but there is only two ways it could happen. Both would be very bad. Either a court will examine the evidence and find that there was indeed strong evidence of fraud. That would shake me up pretty badly. I don't think it's possible to commit fraud on that level. I don't think 100,000 phony votes can be manufactured in Pennsylvania, or 100,000 real votes disposed of without counting in Pennsylvania. To learn that it actually happened would really be a blow to what I think America is really like. Of course, much as it pains me, if that evidence were presented, I would have to support returning Trump to office. Far more important to me than who sits in the oval office, is knowing that, whoever it is, he was elected fair and square.
The other way it could happen is if the Supreme Court and Congress are both so corrupt that they throw the presidency back to Trump despite the votes. In other words, Biden won the election, and they know it, but the people at the top decided to do a coup. That would be very, very, bad, and the response would have to involve guns. However, that is the stuff of fantasies. Yes, I can imagine myself in some Walter Middy-esque fantasy manning the barricades to overthrow a tyrant, but it isn't going to happen, and it isn't going to be necessary. The reality is that I trust even Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett to follow the law as they see it, and there is no interpretation of the law that ends up with the court "kicking it to Congress".
Oh, and if massive vote fraud were discovered, and it was clear that forces loyal to Joe Biden stole the election, and the courts let them get away with it, I would feel the same way about the armed revolution. We can't allow an unelected usurper into power. However, I know that such talk is fantasy. My greatest fear is that there are people in western Michigan who might not realize it's fantasy, and that crazy people will really believe the vote fraud nonsense, and they will decide that they are just the militia to do something about it. Those folks are nuts.
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