Never mind the threat of undermining democracy.
Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) was swiftly roasted by Twitter users on Monday after his statement the day before, which opposes the GOP pressure campaign led by Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) to delegitimize President-elect Joe Biden’s Electoral College victory, offered a frank admission of his party’s worst fears: slimmer odds of another GOP presidency.
Massie cited that Republican presidential candidates have won the national popular vote only once in the last 32 years, and that the party has had to rely on the Electoral College for nearly all presidential victories in the last generation
From the mouths of massholes…
Hey!
As a proud Masshole (born in Massachusetts), this guy is no Masshole. I bet he even uses his turn signal… F-that!
Ixnay on the uthtray, dude.
There is also this: “Of the six states as to which questions have been raised, five have legislatures that are controlled by Republicans, and they all have the power to send a new slate of electoral votes to Congress if they deem such action appropriate under state law.”
Is this him espousing the Alito view that the state legislatures in, for example, PA and MI, can just appoint their own slates of Trump electors without regard for the fact that doing so would require changing state laws, and thus the assent of both state’s Democratic governors?
“strengthen the efforts of those on the left who are determined to eliminate it or render it irrelevant.”
What effort, lately the Republicans are doing all the work.
Massie is quietly serving the eulogy at the interment of the Republican party while letting them think it is just a coma and the corpse will have a miraculous recovery. Sure, sure, that electoral college thing will be the ace card every time.
What Massie said is absolutely true. That sort of explains why Rethugliklans would hate it. There’s nothing the Guardians Of Pandemics hate more than facts. They’re so … inconvenient, you know.
I watched a documentary about self-sustainability that prominently featured Massie. I didn’t know who he was at the time and he sounded very reasonable and smart.
So, he can seem that way sometimes out of context of the whole of his deeds.
Race, not ace card.
This sort of completes the picture of the future of the Republican party. Absurd, but completely factual.
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I’d be fine retaining the Electoral college when we get back to the framers’ intent that the Senate be where small states are overrepresented and the house where proportionately states are weighted by population.
As it is, the cap on House members of 435 makes that the house too is overrepresented by small states.
“strengthen the efforts of those on the left who are determined to eliminate it (Electoral College) or render it irrelevant.”
Too late.
Gotta reply …
I’m a Masshole (Jamaica Plain) too.
This guy doesn’t belong to us.
Heh. All Americans need to hear this Republican defense of the Electoral College, repeatedly. The EC, like the Senate, perpetuates the powers of the minority. It has greatly diminished the likelihood that Americans will get the President they wanted.
And it draws out the determination of who won by making it a state-by-state determination.
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In the statement, Massie and other GOP lawmakers lamented that objecting to the Electoral College certification would “strengthen the efforts of those on the left who are determined to eliminate it or render it irrelevant.”
He built an off the grid house for himself, but consistently votes against Green anything. “All for me and none for thee” type. Libertarian asshole of assholes also too.
Huge gerrymandered district also too, too.
Democracy is optional in GOP land.
“If we perpetuate the notion that Congress may disregard certified electoral votes—based solely on its own assessment that one or more states mishandled the presidential election—we will be delegitimizing the very system that led Donald Trump to victory in 2016, and that could provide the only path to victory in 2024,” Massie said.
v.o: “Previously on ‘The Donald Trump Show’.”
The Lodge-Gossett Amendment was 1950. The GOP of today would consider Senator Lodge to be a RINO at best.
It has become clear that the GOP can no longer consistently win free and fair elections so instead of adapting their party to better represent the will of the people, they’d rather simply take the will of the people away entirely.