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You are placed in a position to decide the direction of the immediate future of the United(?) States of America.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is what has happened to Vice President Mike Pence<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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On January 6, a joint session of Congress will open with Vice President Pence presiding as president of the Senate.  His power will be plenary and unappealable.  You heard that right.  As president of the Senate, every objection comes directly to him, and he can rule any objection “out of order” or “denied.”  His task will be to fulfill his oath of office to protect and defend the Constitution of the United States and to ensure that the laws be faithfully executed.  This is a high standard of performance, and V.P. Pence will have two choices.  He can roll over on “certified” electors, or he can uphold the law.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Article II, Section 1 of the Constitution gives state legislatures “plenary authority” as enunciated in Bush v. Gore.  This is key, since the counting of votes is discussed in Article II, the 12th Amendment, and 3 USC 15.  To this we must add the history of counting and objections recounted by Alexander Macris (here<\/a> and here<\/a>).  Put bluntly, it’s as clear as mud.  Add to that the fact that the contested states of Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, New Mexico, Nevada, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin have sent dueling slates of electors to D.C.  This means that the V.P. has to decide how he will handle the situation when two sealed envelopes are handed to him from any of those states.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The next few days will be a tipping point for America. So many people that we had hopes for standing the kind of Conservative who would… “stand athwart history yelling Stop!” <\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many so-called conservatives have the spines of jellyfish. So many are to be part of the Deep State, giving only lip service to being any form of opposition. With some we had high hopes only to experience crushing disappointment. 160 years ago we fought a Civil War so that \u201cthat government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.\u201d<\/em><\/strong> . Sadly Mr. Lincoln I believe it already has perished. Today it’s government by the bureaucrats, and by the corporations over the people. If we have any chance of resurrecting the former from the dead like lazarus<\/a> politicians in critical positions must make monumental decisions that will affect Americas future for the next 100 years.<\/em><\/strong> And if he makes a certain decision he may put himself and worse his family in personal danger. This is going to take courage.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It’s the bottom of the ninth, bases loaded, two out, two strikes and we’re behind 3-0. There’s 1 second on the clock, were behind by 1 point and your at the free throw line shooting two. Time’s run out, time for a Hail Mary.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

One former Vice President said the the Vice Presidency “wasn’t worth a bucket of warm spit (piss)<\/a>” , and unless a Vice President becomes President via death most of them are little more the footnotes in history.<\/em><\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mike Pence may be the most consequential Vice President of the 21st century<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Those who believe pray for him that the Almighty grant him moral strenght, wisdom, and above all courage. America’s fate may be in his hands.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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