Republicans fear Speaker battle means they "can't certify the election"

It's a power struggle within the party that signifies a split between the business wing and the purely ideological wing.

You don't see this on the Dem side of the aisle because there's no split. The party is dominated by the business wing of the party and votes in lockstep for the benefit of its financial interests.

Republicans used to be like this, too. But the miserable economic conditions of red states combined with the more flagrant fascist propaganda in alt-right media has produced a core of Congresspeople who are more invested in white nationalist theory than simply profiting off their constituents.

Neither of these situations is particularly good. No matter who wins, we lose.

I just can't believe that January 6th 2021 ended up meaning absolutely nothing. Zero! Unreal.

It does have precedent though. That's how Reagan won in a landslide. Very similar circumstances - inflation, small military disaster, uninspiring president. Of course Reagan wasn't as depraved and dumb as Trump so he won by a lot more.

However inflation definitely has a history of short circuiting voters' brains. Maybe it has something to do with how the media doesn't really understand it and does a terrible job explaining it to people. I'd guess at most 5% of voters know that there are multiple inflation measures - some of which were already rising during Trump's term - and that the typically-reported number is over the last 12 months, not right now (meaning the "record low inflation" at the end of Trump's term included the whole start of the pandemic when there was deflation). Republicans are great at filling an information vacuum with their narrative, so they said it was Biden's fault and people fell for that easy explanation.

Here's a big part of the problem right here:

I keep telling people, it's not the darkest timeline we ended up in, but the dumbest one. Reality is always much dumber than you'd expect.

There's a word for it: Kakistocracy

Yeah this is the kind of bs that terrifies me.

So. 20 Jan; Biden is no longer president. It would pass to the Speaker to be acting President. — and yeah I could see a few yahoos thinking that would be awesome. Ffs

Please tell me you're not a writer for this coming season of Orange Turd in the White House.

Because I couldn't take the stress from the last season.

If the certification of Trump's election is delayed past January 20th, what happens? Would his accession to power be delayed? Could he use this delay to justify postponing the next election?

Trumpiest regime ever. Some say it's not Trumpy enough but they are losers.

More like they created a legal theory that if you're not certified on Jan 6, then there's no process to handle the transition and so it's all up in the air

Then, they assumed every president would use this "loophole" if only they could

Everything is projection with them

Start naming MoH recipients, astronauts, and other non-partisan "American Hero" candidates outside the house. There is no requirement that the Speaker be a congressperson.

The Republicans have been so focused on grabbing power for themselves that they can't even figure out who should have power when it has to be centralized.

This is also why Project 2025 will only be half implemented. Too many people working at cross purposes while trying to change an unfathomably complex system. They aren't united in purpose; they only look that way on the surface.

Mind you, the bits that do get rammed through will be terrible enough.

Dis guise in dis array.

If you expect any of them to hold to tradition you'll be disappointed

If they don't certify on time, it's supposed to go to a contingent election, where the House votes for the President (with 1 vote per State delegation) and the Senate votes for VP. Presumably, the Senate would vote for Vance in short order. But if the House still can't get it's shit together, and there is no contingent election for President, what happens? Would Vance get directly inaugurated as President?

I am convinced that this was the loophole that Trump was talking about to deny the Presidency to Harris if she won the election. It would be poetic justice if the GOP establishment uses it to screw Trump over.

I mean, the senate could just remove him as senate pres pro-temp on Jan 19, and pick some republican maga loyalist, so he won't ever become acting president.

Yeah how dare we worry about the futures of the people we care about.

I bet you didn't even read it.