To risk using a word that just this year alone has become a huge cliche, the 2020 presidential election is truly an existential event. Why? Because the outcome will determine whether this still fledgling republic will survive beyond this year. Never before in the history of this country has its very survival so depended upon the outcome of a single election, as is the case this year. Thanks to President Trump, we have at last seen the other side of the Democrat Party’s face, and neither Medusa nor Lena the Hyena 1 could in any way compare with the ugliness of the face of the Marxist Democrat Party that has become revealed for the entire world to see.
If the Democrat Party wins the election, it will destroy this country, root and branch, so that no recognizable vestiges of what the Founders gave us will remain, PERIOD! That is proven and unarguable.
So, what could possibly be more dangerous than that? Risk is always a function of two variables: the potential severity of the event and the probability that it would occur. In a nutshell, an event with a high potential severity and low probability of occurrence may be less risky than one with a much lower potential severity but much higher probability of occurrence.
An event more dangerous than a Democrat win?
To apply that principle to the 2020 presidential election, if there were a potential event that would be nearly as catastrophic to the survival of the nation as a Democrat win, yet had a much higher probability of happening, then that event would theoretically be more dangerous to the nation than if Democrats were to win the election. So the question becomes, could there possibly exist such an event, and the answer is, unfortunately, yes.
Long live CV19!
We know that Democrats and some Republicans, actually RINOs, want for the people to continue to be afraid of CV19 through the election, because that will give them the excuse that they need to continue to push mail-in voting. Of course, they want mail-in voting because it will give them the opportunity to cheat and thereby steal the election in one way or another. That goes without saying, but what is not so clear is how they think mail-in voting will help them to do that? Naturally, the obvious answer is that they believe it will help them to win the election outright. Unfortunately, however, that is not the only way that it could help them to destroy the country.
A second way that is arguably just as potentially catastrophic but may carry a considerably higher probability of occurrence is this: Mail-in voting could possibly create such an election mess that we may not actually know which candidates won for weeks, months, or even years. How would that be bad? In this way…
The Twentieth Amendment to the United States Constitution makes two provisions for the case wherein there is no clear president and vice president to serve:
Section 1. The terms of the President and Vice President shall end at noon on the 20th day of January, and the terms of Senators and Representatives at noon on the 3d day of January, of the years in which such terms would have ended if this article had not been ratified; and the terms of their successors shall then begin.
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This means, that if by noon on January 20th following a presidential election, there are no clear winners for president and vice-president, then the country will effectively be without a president. Naturally, that cannot be allowed to happen, so there is this provision:
Section 3. … If a President shall not have been chosen before the time fixed for the beginning of his term, or if the President elect shall have failed to qualify, then the Vice President elect shall act as President until a President shall have qualified; and the Congress may by law provide for the case wherein neither a President elect nor a Vice President elect shall have qualified, declaring who shall then act as President, or the manner in which one who is to act shall be selected, and such person shall act accordingly until a President or Vice President shall have qualified.
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Leave it to Congress? What a comforting thought.
Would it then go to Congress to decide who would be president until at such time as the election becomes decided? If that were to happen, then we know that the entire House would vote for Nancy Pelosi. Are you confident that there are enough real Republicans in the Senate to prevent that body from going along with the House? And what if the House votes one way and the Senate votes another? What then?
Plus, we know that every two years, every member of the House of Representatives and one-third of Senate members must stand for reelection. So in 2020, 470 out of 535 members of congress will be up for reelection. 3 Certainly, many of those candidates are unopposed, who knows how many, but the fact is that the fates of a large number of their colleagues must be decided in this very important election. What if their predicaments wind up being the same as for the president and vice-president?
President Nancy Pelosi?
Keep in mind that, as Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi is second in line in order of succession to the presidency, so is it possible that she might then, given the uncertain status of the offices of president, vice-president, and a majority of Congress-members, assume the office of president and serve until the Supreme Court said that she couldn’t? And with John Roberts as Chief Justice and lately a reliable liberal vote, do you have confidence that she would ever be deposed?
If this is the real plan to remove Trump from the presidency, then that may explain Pelosi’s recent seemingly weird reminder of her status as second in line to the presidency. Maybe her statement wasn’t so weird after all.
Jere Moore has been blogging about political matters since 2008. His posts include commentary about current news items, conservative opinion pieces, satirical articles, stories that illustrate conservative principles, and posts about history, rights, and economics.
Article Footnotes
- https://library.osu.edu/site/40stories/2020/01/13/lena-the-hyena/[↩]
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twentieth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution[↩][↩]
- https://ballotpedia.org/United_States_Congress_elections,_2020[↩]