The following is a letter to the editor by Rhino Times reader Austin Morris
The feeble senile old man who’s still occupying the White House has just okayed another $500 Million in aid to Ukraine – with ten days left in his Presidency.
It’s just one of the Democrats’ last minute moves to undermine the duly elected incoming President and his policy objectives. They’re even trying their best to prevent America becoming energy independent again, by prohibiting oil & gas drilling in huge areas. This is to spite Trump’s aim to “Drill baby, drill”, and to spite the American people who voted for it.
This custom of waiting ten weeks before allowing the new President to take office is antiquated and dangerous to democracy. It allows the losing party to get up to all kinds of mischief in order to sabotage the incoming administration. It is profoundly undemocratic, but that doesn’t trouble the Democrats.
In the UK, the moving vans are outside No. 10 Downing Street the day after the election, and the new Prime Minister takes power that day, as soon as he or she has met with the Monarch.
That might seem quaint and antiquated but it moves a lot more swiftly and seamlessly than our unnecessary and protracted interregnum.
The accession of the new President used to take place even later, in March of the following year.
It was to allow enough time for a horse & carriage to travel from the farthest part of the US to Washington, DC.
I respectfully suggest that those days are over.
It’s time to institute an immediate transfer of power following an election.
– Austin Morris
So now that a Republican is taking office are we ignoring election security? Are you assuming that we just accept media declaration of final results? It takes time to count, audit, and certify election results. For example, in 2024, the key dates are as follows:
Nov 4th – Election Day
Dec 11th – State issues Certificates of Ascertainment (results are certified)
Dec 17th – Electors vote in their state
Dec 25th – Electoral votes arrive to Congress
Jan 3rd – Congress archivist transfers Certificates to Congress
Jan 6th – Losers riot like a bunch of nutters or Congress counts the electoral votes
Jan 20th – Inauguration Day
So curious how you would suggest milliions of votes be counted, audited, certified, counted and sent to Congress to further certify? Especially when states are pushing to manually count votes or delay start of counting oversea votes etc….
Or is this just a conservative whining about what the conservatives do when the Dems win, i.e. politics as usual?
We could do some things the speed up the current process. Count and verify all mail in ballots as they arrive, and accept only those arriving on or before voting day. Sorry, if you can’t make it to the polls, you put yourself at the mercy of the USPS. That’s just how it works. Allow 30 days to resolve all the little issues and challenges. I have little sympathy for those who failed to register or show at the wrong precinct. Voting may be a right, but exercising some rights involves some effort. Pre-election PSAs to remind us all about keeping your registration current, knowing you precinct, etc…..sure. But we should stop all the effort arguing over invalid ballots when the voter didn’t help themselves.
But the big thing is the outdated mindset. We have a health insurance enrollment system that was designed for the entire nation to be able to login and securely select their health insurance. Perhaps for federal elections (and states if they choose), we can use that same, or better, technology (adapt it for whatever identity security, etc necessary) and enter the modern age and have vote tabulation done election day and allow a period of time for challenges, if any? For people who can get online, have other options. They can vote at precinct that allows them to access the same system. I worry about Chinese and Russian hackers, but can’t Silicon valley figure that out?
I think oat of those ideas have been rejected by conservstives who recently wanted paper ballots to be manually counted in the name of security as a result of all the false allegations made against voting machine tech.
The Trymp big lie about mass voter fraud has set back the US election process decades.
To address why UK is able to transition power more quickly…it is largely due to the UK being a parliamentary system where the majority party internally elects the PM. So, no national vote count and no need for the dual layer of checks and balances between state and Federal elections. Also let’s note that the UK had 32 million votes versus US 155 million votes to count from 50 states. This is all common sense, but we know Austin loves to ignore the obvious if it doesn’t fit his view of the world.
Also note that in the US the election process is defined by our Constitution so very rigid in nature versus the UK who’s constitution is largely unwritten and based on tradition and conversation and therefore more flexible.
I prefer we stick to our constitution versus listen to some immigrant whine about how great the country he abandoned is able to handle elections and transitions of power.
But you be you
“I prefer we stick to our constitution versus listen to some immigrant whine about how great the country he abandoned is able to handle elections and transitions of power.”
Someone please tell me this isn’t a disparaging ‘I’m holier then thou because I was BORN here so shut up foreigner’ comment from someone who throws insulting names at any and everybody that disagrees with him. We all know if somebody else made a comment like that he would be foaming at the mouth, screaming about how racist, homophobic, sexist, and every other tag he could come up with are.
I’m not disparaging our Constitution. I am a Constitutionalist myself. But if you’re going to bad-mouth legal immigrants while defending illegal immigrants please tell us you have no mirrors in your house because if you do, how do you look at yourself.
Thanks.
Austin thanks for your letter, I’ve said for years too much time passes before the transfer of power. The damage the senile ole dote in office in his last days is causing harm to all Americans. Nothing said it more than changing the sentence of the people on federal death row.
Austin comes by the personal attacks honestly based on our long history of exchanges. No apologies from me.
No, you always level some kind of nasty personal insult or baseless smear, revealing your prejudices against conservatives.
I just return fire.
Notice how disagreements with other people never get nasty – only with you.
And your paranoia and egotism are showing, Chrissy. You were never mentioned in my letter.
Lol only a conservative lile Austin could sling insults while complaining about being insulted. Lol
No one is more hypocritical than an angry conservative.
Best laugh all weeks. Thanks Austin
But – despite all your LOLs, and laughing at your own jokes – it’s the truth.
All of us here know it.
And you know it, asshole.
Never expected it, given what I’ve seen of your past posts and comments.
Chris may have been born here but somewhere back in time his ancestors were immigrants, most likely illegals
Yeah, Rice could be a mutation of Reiss (German) or Reese (Welsh). But now he’s practising oneupmanship for the geographic accident of being born here in the US.
I had to struggle to get here, and did it all legally.
As the bumper sticker says…
“I wasn’t born in Dixie, but I got here as quick as I could”.
LOL, I like that Austin…Bravo
Thanks, Alan! I really did see it on the back of a car once – in Cary!
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My family immigrated here from England in 1698 and landed in the great State of NH. We strongly support the constitution and believe the US is a great country even when led by a conservative president. I am a strong supporter of immigrants unlike Austin whi claims immigrants ruined the UK and claims immigrants of color are running the US.
But you be you
You like putting words in other people’s mouths (to smear them), don’t you?
You’re a nasty little creep. [ Yeah, I do insult you, because you’ve earned it, many times over ]
Now that Trump has been convicted and sentenced impeachment is right around the corner. No individual should be allowed to visit their legal problems upon the country. Article 2 Section 4 requires the immediate removal of this “convicted felon”. No major corporation would have hired him as CEO…
I am not a fan of Trump but enough of the courts and impeachment silliness. The wealthy and powerful will always have an advantage in the courts so the lawsuits won’t work and impeachments have become a political sideshow since the conservstives went after Clinton for sex with an intern.
Trump was fairly elected. Let’s best him at the next election and flip the house and senate. Until then let’s keep fact checking his lies and moronic ideas such as making Canada the 51st State or buy Greenland.
Acquiring Greenland is tactically a great idea.
It’s also not the first time this has been proposed, with ideas being tossed out as far back as the mid 1800s. Annexing Canada, not so much because of how many libs live there. It would skew most elections too far left.
I find it fascinating how liberals in the (National Socialist) Democrat Party start screaming about using Art 2. Sec. 4 of the Constitution against their political enemies but defend their Masters when the same is called for use against them.
You claiming the conservstive nationalist party doesn’t do the same thing?
You can’t impeachment someone if they’re not in office.
It does kind of make sense though
(Many) years ago, after the Nov elections, the losing Party would allow the new incoming President the courtesy of leaving important decisions to the New Man. “No mas amor, aqui.”
The Democrats are poor losers.
And that’s how it should be, as the losing party acknowledged that they had lost their mandate. But today’s Democrats crave control and power over all else, and prefer to spit in the face of the newly elected leadership.
They are indeed poor losers, and that’s putting it kindly.
How do conservatives make these statements given the actions of the conservative party last time they lost a free and fair election? false claims, riots, fake electors, etc.. Who wants to keep and control power? Or is this just more hypocrisy that we have become used to from conservatives?
Bahahahahahahaa……you do recall the actions of the last time conservatives lost the election? Babahahahahaba
Excellent observation Miller.