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Marjorie Taylor Greene Frets Over Massive Winter Storm Delaying Trump’s Election Certification

An enormous winter storm is bearing down on a large part of the Eastern United States and is expected to bring snow and bitter temperatures across the region.

According to NBC News, “Kansas, Arkansas, Kentucky and Virginia have declared states of emergency as the storm, driven by a polar vortex, moved east after striking the central United States. Southern states like Mississippi and Florida also warned of dangerous cold and treacherous conditions, according to the National Weather Service.”

“A polar vortex is an area of low pressure and cold air that swirls like a wheel around each of Earth’s two polar regions. Sometimes the Arctic polar vortex wobbles and a lobe surges south, blanketing parts of North America with bitter temperatures.”

“As the storm moved east, around 60 million people, across 30 states from the Plains to the mid-Atlantic, were under weather alerts as a developing low-pressure system threatened heavy snow and crippling ice over the next three days.”

However, according to Georgia Republican Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene, the biggest threat from the storm isn’t the human and economic impact that will be felt for weeks to come. Instead, she’s worried that Donald Trump’s certification as the winner of the 2024 presidential election could be delayed.

Greene expressed her fear and paranoia on social media.

“Jan 6th at 1:00 pm Congress must certify President Trump’s historic election.”

“Washington has a winter storm warning for Jan 5-7th expecting possibly a foot of snow,” Greene added. “Many members of congress left town this weekend even though they were told to stay. I’m here and will walk to the Capitol if I have to.”

In a later posting, Greene wrote,  “Jan 6th we certify President Trump’s election!”

“I’ll be here no matter how much it snows and so should every single Republican!!”

Of course, it should come as no surprise that Greene is eager to certify the results of the last election. After all, she’s had her head buried in Trump’s fat ass since he ran for president in 2016. She loves his blatant bigotry, hatred for minorities, and dedication to cutting taxes for the wealthy at the expense of hardworking Americans.

Green’s fretting led to a torrent of online mockery.

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Nervous Republicans Fear Internal Fighting Will Delay Trump’s 2024 Election Certification Beyond Inauguration Day

Next week, Congress is set to convene and certify the results of the 2024 presidential election, officially making Donald Trump the 47th president of the United States.

But there’s a very real chance the House of Representatives will be busy trying to determine who will be the next speaker of the House, which could take weeks and indefinitely delay election certification, a scenario that would humiliate Trump and leave the GOP in total disarray.

According to CNN, Republicans are terrified about what could be on the horizon.

But this time, there’s a huge shadow over the race: Congress has never before tried to certify a presidential election without a House speaker in place. Even senior Republicans say it’s unclear what would happen if there is no speaker on January 6 — when Congress is scheduled to certify Trump’s win — and they’re not eager not to find out.

“To oppose Johnson now weakens the GOP and strengthens Hakeem Jeffries. It also puts at risk the Electoral College Certification scheduled for 6 Jan. These guys serve as a ‘fifth column’ for the Dems,” Rep. Don Bacon of Nebraska told CNN.

Here’s the conundrum facing Republicans: They can’t conduct official business in the House if they don’t have a speaker, which would leave them with two options that have never been tried before: Electing a temporary speaker or doing without one completely.

“Some Republicans are privately discussing ways to push the procedural limits so that Congress could certify Trump’s win without a leader. One person described an “emergency break glass option” that would involve allowing the House to vote to go into a special session. But that would be a tough sell for many institutionalist Republicans.”

Another possibility is to move up the date of Trump’s certification, making sure it takes place sometime before he’s inaugurated on Jan. 20. But what if that fails, too? In that case, it would likely trigger a constitutional crisis that the country has never experienced before.

Would Biden remain as president? The country has to have a president, right?

January is going to be an interesting month. And it could well end with Trump still waiting to be officially named as head of state. That’s certain to enrage him and make Republicans look incompetent.

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Evangelical Republican Whines: Trump Has Tossed Us ‘Under The Bus’ For Elon Musk

Now that he has Twitter/Tesla CEO Elon Musk as his sugar daddy, Donald Trump is turning his back on many of the core voting blocs that helped him get elected in both 2016 and 2024.

For example, evangelical Christians aren’t exactly happy that Trump has embraced Musk and other controversial figures according to David Siders of Politico, who has been traveling the United States since the November election and talking to Americans about what they expect during the next four years.

One of the people Siders sat down with was Republican Party leader Timothy Bachleitner of Wisconsin.

“He’s gained so much support from different groups of people he no longer needs the conservative Christians to do what he needs to do, so they’ve been thrown under the bus,” he worried.

Consider some of the people Trump is now making part of his inner circle, Bachleitner added.

“He’s got the RFK, and he’s got the Tulsi Gabbard and Elon Musk and Joe Rogan — and that whole kind of independent individual has become full steam to allow him to say I no longer need to cater to a big part of my base, and I happen to be in that portion. So that breaks my heart.”

Many evangelicals have also expressed disappointment with Trump’s refusal to back a national abortion ban, which he said he would not seek in a second term, suggesting such matters should be left to the states.

Trump has also reversed his position on H1-B work visas, which he once said needed to be restricted.

The work visa issue has come back to the forefront of discussion after Musk called for an increase in the number of work visas for foreign engineers, a move that would greatly benefit high-tech companies such as Twitter, Facebook, and other internet startups.

Shortly after Musk made his statements on the H1-B issue, Trump said he agreed, telling reporters, “I have many H-1B visas on my properties. I’ve been a believer in H-1B. I have used it many times. It’s a great program.”

Guess the evangelicals need to pray that Musk will board one of his rockets and get lost somewhere in outer space. That’s about the only way they’ll ever have any influence in the GOP as long as Trump (and Musk) are leading the Republican Party.

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Here’s How Democrats Can Legally Refuse To Certify Trump’s 2024 Victory

If Democrats in Congress want to make sure that Donald Trump isn’t sworn in as the 47th president of the United States on January 20 of next year, there’s a way they can block his taking office, but they’ll have to act now and invoke a section of the Constitution that was added shortly after the Civil War in 1868 and has never been used before.

That, according to former Ivy League law review editors Evan Davis and David Schulte, is a viable option, and they lay out the process in a fascinating article published by The Hill.

The Insurrection Clause of the U.S. Constitution states, “No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice-President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability.”

As Davis and Schulte explain, that one clause would delay Trump from becoming president until the matter could make its way through the federal courts, which could take months.

“Disqualification is based on insurrection against the Constitution and not the government. The evidence of Donald Trump’s engaging in such insurrection is overwhelming. The matter has been decided in three separate forums, two of which were fully contested with the active participation of Trump’s counsel,” they note, citing Trump’s second impeachment trial and the bipartisan House January 6 Committee.

Even though the Supreme Court has ruled on efforts to disqualify Trump for insurrection, all they decided was the proper venue hadn’t been chosen to keep a candidate off the presidential ticket. Federal legislation was necessary, the justices explained.

Federal legislation now exists in the form of the Electoral Count Act, which was updated in 2022. The updated Electoral Count Act says electors cannot be counted if one or more of them was not “regularly given,” which leads the authors to explain, “A vote for a candidate disqualified by the Constitution is plainly in accordance with the normal use of words ‘not regularly given.’ Disqualification for engaging in insurrection is no different from disqualification based on other constitutional requirements such as age, citizenship from birth and 14 years residency in the United States.”

Granted, Congressional Republicans will never agree to go along with their Democratic colleagues and disqualify Trump, but that doesn’t mean Democrats should refuse to issue a challenge.

“Democrats need to take a stand against Electoral College votes for a person disqualified by the Constitution from holding office unless and until this disability is removed. No less is required by their oath to support and defend the Constitution.”

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Trump Is Charging Supporters $100K To Attend A Church Service With Him

Just 24 hours before he’s to be inaugurated as the 47th president of the United States, known grifter and serial sexual predator Donald Trump will attend a church service in Washington, DC.

However, if you think Trump will be attending church because of some newfound spirituality, think again, because he’s charging his supporters $100,000 for the honor of being in his presence while God looks down and likely frowns.

According to Religion News Service, “But those who want to join need to weigh the price of prayer: Tickets to the service will be awarded only to those who donate at least $100,000 to Trump’s inaugural ceremonies, or who raise $200,000.”

“Earlier this month, Axios cited a seven-page prospectus that listed the service alongside several other donor-only events, such as a ‘cabinet reception’ with Trump’s nominees and ‘candlelight dinner’ with Trump and Melania.

In other words, it seems Donnie is now a high priest in the Church of Grift.

The location for the church event had originally been planned at St. Joseph’s, a historic Catholic Church on Capitol Hill, but the priest at St. Joseph’s, Rev. William H. Gurnee, made it clear he hadn’t granted permission.

“While I was asked to host the event, I informed the organizer that I needed more information and it was mistakenly reported that final permission was granted,” Gurnee noted in an email.

Gurnee added, “It is my feeling that this event would be better hosted at another location.”

This isn’t the first time Trump has pretended to be a spiritual person.

At Trump’s 2017 inauguration, Donald attended a service at St. John’s Episcopal Church, the same location where he sent law enforcement to forcibly remove Black Lives Matter protesters.

The Church of Trump has a nice ring to it, doesn’t it? Their motto can be, Let us fleece.