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Because there is always hope

You look like a new person- hi there! Thanks for reading. This site is where I vent about having an invisible disability as well as cancer. Please consider sharing this post because it’s really helpful in my shift to a writing career. Welcome back! Please tell share this post or consider buying me a cup of coffee because it will help me continue to pay bills while I shift to a part time writing career.Why join the rebel alliance if the death star is already built?  via GIPHY These are strange days. Some of us have decided that we’re not going to take the results of the 2016 election lying down. It’s no longer an issue of what party you belong to for us. We have decided to join the rebel alliance, a movement that as yet has no clear leader or center, just ideas and actions. This uprising exists to take every single legal action we can to ensure one of the following outcomes: the incoming president-elect never takes office if he is sworn in, to see that for his crimes & misconduct, he is impeached (or tried and convicted for treason) within the first 100 days of office for his offenses if he is not impeached or tried within the first two years, that we elect a Congress that will thwart him if he still hasn’t been impeached, continue to take every legal action we can to uphold what we believe to be an imperfect democracy, but still the best

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Why the electoral college scenario is a long shot

In the weeks since the 2016 election, one thing has become painfully clear. The involvement of a foreign government in the tampering of the election results has made the desire to block the ascension of the Republican candidate a bipartisan issue. We are not a sovereign, free nation, if either Russia or a fascist faction gets to choose our president instead of clear, informed majority of the people. Some of us are hoping for this issue to be resolved by the flipping of enough Electoral College votes to the Democratic candidate. However, many of us who have been hoping for this outcome since November 8 realize this is a long shot. A lot of unlikely, unprecedented things must occur for the Electoral College to invalidate current the President-elect. Of course, one could argue that a lot of unlikely, unprecedented things happened to get us to where we are now. Let’s look at what has to happen for the electors to save us. Could the Electoral College save us? First at least 37 votes have to be cast for a person other than that state’s winner, causing a mutual loss, or 38 must go to the Democratic ticket, or to another Republican candidate of the electors choosing. In the case of a mutual loss, the House of Representatives chooses the president from among the top three candidates. A similar situation occurs if the electoral college results in a tie, but the House would be free Since the vote for the presidential candidate and

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