I feel like I'm just asking to have my accounts locked one of these days. I've been using Yahoo Mail since 1999 and Gmail since 2010 or so. In that time a LOT of conservative and, later, pro-Trump messages have been sent from those accounts.
Does anyone know of a private alternative I can trust?
since the Constitutional oath calls on the President to "PRESERVE" protect and defend the Constitution. You can't preserve something and progress from it at the same time!
You know what they say about kidnappers: "Don't let them take you to a secondary location. Stay where you are by any means necessary."
Whatever you have to do, up to and including dying, you do. Do not let them put you in their car and drive you off, because if they do the odds of you being rescued drop to near-zero.
Trump is in the White House. They want him out. I'm sure he has many good people around him telling him "fight through the legal process till the end and if, in the end, they all betray you, then hold your head high, bow out, and come back and fight in four years."
No.
Once you leave the white house, you are turning over the keys to the army, the dpt. of justice, the spy apparatus, and the full power of the executive branch. You leave the white house and you are just a private citizen. If Trump thinks he will be treated like Obama or Clinton or W. Bush, he's already lost.
He is in the most powerful office on planet earth. If I had one piece of advice I could give him it would be this:
"DO NOT LET THEM TAKE YOU TO A SECONDARY LOCATION! STAY WHERE YOU ARE BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY!"
GOP State Houses are just hoping people forget they have all the power here.
A couple of them signed on to a lawsuit asking SCOTUS to compel them to do their jobs which they are free to do right now. All because they lack the courage to act without cover.
I hope people aren't giving up on calling them. We are the cover they seek!
They need to be more afraid of us than the liberals in their state.
Let's all remember that the real “ruler” of the USA is not the President, or the Congress, or the Supreme Court, whose office-holders are elected and appointed and change over the years.
The true ruler of our republic is the Constitution. Now, you might say “we the people” are the rulers, but this being a republic, we the people elect people to lead, and we do so (and they lead us) through the framework and limitations provided by the Constitution.
The Constitution is the good cop to the Declaration of Independence’s bad cop.
Basically, the Constitution is the government’s promise to the people, written by the people* that the government (not the people) will behave and follow the rules. So long as it does, the scary old bad cop doesn’t have to come back out, guns a’blazing, watering the tree of liberty with blood as Jefferson warned.
That’s what so amazing about the founders of this country: They created a system of government that legally subjugates government to the will of the people.
*The founding fathers could have made themselves a conglomeration of tyrants ruling over the colonies. Instead, those enlightened idealists and dreamers decided simply to be people the same as the rest, and really and truly to let the people govern themselves. Then they wrote a document that was designed to be the absolute law of the land, whose purpose was not to list the rules and prohibitions imposed upon the people to ensure obedience to government, but rather the rules and prohibitions imposed on the government to ensure freedom of the people.
That’s amazing.
Yet as Adams said, the Constitution is only good if the government and people are God-fearing. Godless people can’t make use of such a Constitution. They will abuse it and ruin it, and the republic with it.
SCOTUS has a chance to look a the big picture and see that we are at a crossroads the likes of which we have not been since 1860. They can either drop the ball, ala Dred Scott, or they can rise to the moment and avert catastrophe.
Most of Trump's rally was predictable but he made two very telling statements.
As I say, most of the speech was a rehash of his pre election stump, as well as his "we won, it was stolen, we can't let them get away with it" stuff he said in the call in to the PA and AZ hearings. That, plus his tacked on statements of support for the GA Senators and the need to vote. That was it.
Except for two things.
Both were off hand remarks, one of those obviously not on the teleprompter. He said he had expected to win on election night and then take a couple days off. But instead he's worked harder than ever since then.
The other was when he said he's gotten to know so many representatives and senators during all this, and he wasn't talking about federal. He then mentioned one and then commented on how young he looked, as though this person he's gotten to know was someone he'd never seen before.
Putting the two together: Trump has been working the phones like crazy talking to state house members. He's not just leaving this to the lawyers.
It reminds me of Lincoln working over the federal reps to ensure enough votes to pass the 13th Ammendment.
Just something I thought I'd share
First of all, Justice Alito has ordered the PA Supreme Court to respond to Trump's arguments regarding election malfeasance in the state. The PA Court had previously dismissed Trump's lawsuit without considering the merits. Alito says "you will consider them, and you have until the 9th to respond with your judgment."
Here's what this could mean:
If PA Court gets back on the 9th and says "okay, Trump is right" then he'll end up winning the state. There'll be some hoops to jump through but it'll be a formality at that point. Don't count on this, though. PA's supreme court is hyper liberal.
So PA's court says "okay we considered it and here are our (bullsh*t) reasons why we rule against him." Trump will then appeal to SCOTUS and they will decide if PA's court had good or bad reasoning. If good, then Trump loses and all the other dominos fall with him. If bad, then Trump wins after the hoops are jumped through. That's just one state though.
BUT
There's some talk about how the 9th is "too late" because the 8th is the "safe harbor" date, wherein the state has to decide who the electors are going vote for (Biden or Trump).
This doesn't matter, imo.
PA's state legislature might very well chose Biden electors on the 8th, but they could also decline to chose on the 8th on the grounds that their election is in an ongoing legal dispute. The safe harbor date is not a constitutional mandate and has no legal bearing on the matter at hand. Even if they chose Biden electors on the 8th it can be reversed with a SCOTUS or State House order if needed.
Alito and the conservatives on the SCOTUS might also say "PA so royally screwed up their election, with the judicial and executive branch interfering with what is supposed to be a solely-legislative matter, that we have no choice but to void the entire election and deny PA the right to send any electors." That's not outside of the realm of possibility, and if that happens, you can expect a similar ruling in Georgia, where the Gov and Sec of State made an illegal "consent decree" that changed how elections were run without the approval of the state legislature.
If those two states are denied electors, then Biden still wins with exactly 270 votes. One more state needs to fall.
Enter Wisconsin.
Wisconsin had strict rules about mail-in ballots and signature checks. Those rules were explicitly not followed. So far, a Wisconsin Judge is holding up Trump's lawsuit, but if SCOTUS starts ruling on these things, Trump can ask SCOTUS to take the case without them having to go through the lower court channels. If they strike down PA and GA they'll deny WI too, just on precedent.
In which case, Joe falls below 270 and the election is sent to the House of Representatives, where each state delegation votes for the President and the Senate votes for the Vice.
the GOP leads the House delegations something like 26-24, and in the Senate, even if both runoffs go to the Dems, that's a 50-50 vote, with Pence casting the tie breaker.
BUT WAIT, THERE'S MORE!
If it goes to the Senate to vote for the VICE, and if the Dems win the GA senate races, then it's entirely possible that Mitt Romney votes against Trump, and elects Kamala as VP, effectively giving the democrats control of the senate, 50-50 plus her as the tiebreaker. He can then change parties and make it a clear majority.
Because Mitt Romney has nothing else to live for but to stick it to Donald Trump.
BUT WAIT THERE IS STILL MORE
If Mitt Romney turns traitor, you might see Joe Manchin flip to vote for Pence, which would be the perfect ending: Exposing Mitt and still giving Trump/Pence the win.
