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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(107,922 posts)
Fri Jul 3, 2020, 09:09 PM Jul 2020

Barr Says Presidents Can Ignore Election Results They Don't Agree With

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Attorney General William Barr, in an interview with Slimebag Fascist Enabling Toady Fucksticks Quarterly, intimated that he believes his operating principle of “unitary presidential power” gives a sitting president the legal authority to ignore any election results they don’t personally agree with.

“I’m not saying the Constitution says this is the case, mind you,” Barr told the magazine, “I’m just saying this is a feeling I have. And that’ll gladly make in a legal brief before one of the judges that Mitch McConnell helped get rammed through into a lifetime appointment.”

Barr theorizes that “the founders surely would have wanted presidents to have kingly, universal powers,” and that those powers would “logically extend to elections.”

“If he’s the chief executive of our country, who is in a better position to judge if an election is valid, but him? He has a duty to make sure elections go the way he wants and needs them to,” Barr explained.

https://www.politicalgarbagechute.com/barr-presidents-can-ignore-elections/

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Barr Says Presidents Can Ignore Election Results They Don't Agree With (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jul 2020 OP
Barr's dad was a sexual predator JI7 Jul 2020 #1
Barr is the enemy of America. spanone Jul 2020 #2
so it's satire? eShirl Jul 2020 #3
Is this site like The Onion? oregonjen Jul 2020 #4
You almost got me...had to go to the site and look around. cayugafalls Jul 2020 #5
Ain't that the truth......... MyOwnPeace Jul 2020 #7
newyorker? uponit7771 Jul 2020 #6
They need to drug test this delusional dumbass. Devilsun Jul 2020 #8
Satire fleur-de-lisa Jul 2020 #14
Yes, and we can imprison Attorney Generals who break the law. milestogo Jul 2020 #9
I wish people wouldn't give Barr new ideas.... Chainfire Jul 2020 #10
It's currently satire. krispos42 Jul 2020 #11
Yes, currently. Warpy Jul 2020 #15
Jesus! & yes I know it's garbage. Cha Jul 2020 #12
Almost had me, because he is that farking crazy. nt Ferrets are Cool Jul 2020 #13
You say it is satire, but I think Barr believes exactly that... Thomas Hurt Jul 2020 #16

cayugafalls

(5,640 posts)
5. You almost got me...had to go to the site and look around.
Fri Jul 3, 2020, 09:18 PM
Jul 2020

But with this administration you just never know.

So close to real, it is not funny.

MyOwnPeace

(16,925 posts)
7. Ain't that the truth.........
Fri Jul 3, 2020, 09:21 PM
Jul 2020

(and "truth" is something that you don't even know if you can believe anymore........).

Warpy

(111,249 posts)
15. Yes, currently.
Fri Jul 3, 2020, 09:45 PM
Jul 2020

The strategy is to tie vote by mail up in the courts so that in person votes in red states will be the only ones that count.

It's not going to work. I can't see a majority on the USSC going for that one. Absentee ballots have a long history in this country, from overseas military to expats to the diplomatic corps, not to mention the elderly and shut in voters. They haven't got a legal leg to stand on, they just want to drag it out as long as they can.

But yes, this site is staire, the article about somebody's penile discharge looking like Stephen Miller should be a dead giveaway.

Thomas Hurt

(13,903 posts)
16. You say it is satire, but I think Barr believes exactly that...
Fri Jul 3, 2020, 11:02 PM
Jul 2020

an imperial Presidency...as long as the President is a christofascist like him.

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