“Don’t bang up the place too much, I’m coming back in ‘24.”
How to start an Insurrection:
Step 1: wish the incoming President Well
Step 2: Leave the Whitehouse on January 21
Step 3: Start a Presidential Campaign...
Dear Pen Pal,
A lot has happened since summer vacation. I’m still sorry I tore your shirt and gave you a split lip and a black eye. But you didn’t have to retaliate by slashing my bike tires and putting Log Cabin syrup on the seat.
I’m trying to forgive you so we can drop the blood vendetta. For starters, let’s push back the date on our faceoff in the alley behind the closed Blockbuster place. And maybe agree on bo sticks instead of pairs of sai swords.
Your Acquaintance,
Don
The double backstop of 1.) having the Electoral College as the true means of electing the POTUS, then, 2.) the VP certifying the EC votes, means that Pence, by caving, made Biden POTUS. Undoing this is nigh unto impossible, as we are now seeing.
In fact, I believe the Constitution allows us to do away entirely with the people voting for POTUS on election day, and just have the electors do their thing.
Of course work on eliminating fraud in the popular vote.
But likewise cleanse the selection process for Electors.
And job ONE is getting a VPOTUS with spine enough to throw a stinky election back to the statehouses in the event of another 2020.
THAT is the mechanism that saves the republic.
Hopefully on a piece of used toilet paper.