• 0 Posts
  • 262 Comments
Joined 2 years ago
Cake day: June 12th, 2023
  • Heresy_generator@kbin.socialtopolitics @lemmy.world•No Labels floats the possibility of a coalition government or Congress selecting the president in 2024
    381·
    1 year ago

    Every day the mask trying to hide the fact that No Labels are an anti-democracy group who don’t believe the American people should be empowered to choose their government and their whole reason for existing is to disrupt the democratic process to get a Republican in the White House slips a little more

    Former Republican U.S. Rep. Tom Davis, a co-founder of No Labels, expanded on the group’s view of this potential scenario in an interview with NBC News on Thursday, suggesting the No Labels ticket could “cut a deal” with one of the major parties’ tickets.

    Gee, I wonder which of the major parties former Republican U.S. Rep. Tom Davis is thinking of a cutting a deal with…

    Davis also said that the group is looking at another potential, if far-fetched, outcome: A contingent election in which the president is selected by the U.S. House.

    In the event that an effort to swing unbound electors fails and no candidate receives 270 Electoral College votes, the 12th Amendment of the Constitution stipulates that each state’s House delegation votes for one of the presidential candidates. In order to secure the presidency, one of the presidential candidates must receive the support of 26 state delegations. The Senate would select the vice president.

    Gee, I wonder which party is almost guaranteed to have a majority in more state delegations if every state is counted the same regardless of population.

    When asked if No Labels has looked at state delegations that could potentially side with the No Labels ticket in a contingent election, Davis responded, “Of course. Of course. Of course. We’ve mapped all this out.”

    He noted, as an example, that a state like Montana, which has one House member, could “hold out” on its initial support of a ticket.

    Gee, I wonder who it benefits to give Montana more power to decide the next president or stack the cabinet than California or New York has.

  • Heresy_generator@kbin.socialtoWorld News@lemmy.world•Xi warned Biden during summit that Beijing will reunify Taiwan with China
    142·
    1 year ago

    So, again, your original assertions are horseshit. The PRC is very explicitly trying to change the status quo of Taiwan having de facto independence. We know this from repeated, unequivocal official and unofficial statements about “reunification”. This article is, in fact, about exactly that.

    Your assertion that the US is trying to change the status quo by supporting the DPP might make sense in a world where the PRC wasn’t supporting the KMT to an ever greater extent; either they’re both equally trying to disrupt the status quo through political support or they’re both maintaining the status quo by supporting opposing parties. You can’t paint a “US guilty, PRC innocent” picture out of that no matter how hard you try.

    But then, of course, suggesting either major political party in Taiwan actually supports or is proposing a change to the status quo isn’t really true either, is it?

  • Heresy_generator@kbin.socialtoWorld News@lemmy.world•Xi warned Biden during summit that Beijing will reunify Taiwan with China
    326·
    1 year ago

    Horseshit. That status quo has always been a Taiwan free of CCP rule. The PRC has never controlled Taiwan and their stated goal is to make it part of their country by any means necessary; that’s disrupting that status quo. The US, on the other hand, supports the status quo of the ROC existing and the people of Taiwan being allowed to decide what they want for themselves.

    Even the most shameless CCP propagandist should realize that trying to convince people of the ridiculous lie that the country promising imperial conquest of land that’s never been theirs “wants to maintain the status quo” is foolish nonsense.