Thread by @AmoneyResists

There seems to be a lot of confusion about who has the power to do what when it comes to the results of a Presidential election. There’s so much misinformation flying around and people freaking out about the GOP’s seditious plans for tomorrow, it’s nuts. Allow me to clarify:

The GOP’s pitiful, futile, and embarrassingly (not to mention criminally) treasonous plot to publicly perjure their oaths by objecting to the certification of @JoeBiden as the next President of the United States has absolutely ZERO chance of changing the outcome of the election.

The Constitution clearly limits the role of Congress re: presidential elections to the counting of electoral votes certified by the states. The states, consistent with federalism and a limited national government, possess the sole authority to determine and submit their electors.

This has already occurred. Electors met on December 14th—after weeks of failed attempts to discredit the results of the election by Trump surrogates; issue false allegations of fraud with no evidence and nearly 5 DOZEN court defeats—and Joe Biden received 306 votes to Trump’s 232

This made @JoeBiden the 46th President and @KamalaHarris the 46th Vice President of the United States. There were no rogue or faithless electors. 270 electoral votes were required to win. @JoeBiden won 36 MORE than that AND trounced Trump by over 7 MILLION in the popular vote.

All that happens tomorrow is the COUNTING of votes that have been submitted. Pence reads what the numbers are and Biden is certified the winner. The #SeditiousGOP objecting to this process (which they have no basis to do) can do nothing but DELAY the certification by 2 hours.

So basically the GOP is planning a public coup that they know has no chance to change the outcome of the election as Dems still control the House and the majority of even senate Republicans aren’t supporting this blatant act of sedition and violation of the Constitution

Why are they doing this? Take your pick of terrible reasons. My best guess is to appease Trump’s base who they know is all that’s left of their dwindling party that the overwhelming majority of Americans rejected because it stands for nothing and is fundamentally anti-American.

Tomorrow will be nothing more than a sad political spectacle from a party that sold its soul & abandoned any principles it ever had; a defenestration of any legitimacy of the GOP; and a solidification of its demise at the hands of a failed reality TV host & serial sexual predator

Now let’s keep our fingers crossed for good news from GA and stop torturing ourselves over scenarios that can do nothing but further degrade a political party that has dragged itself into the earth’s core in terms of both its integrity and capacity to govern or uphold their oaths