Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Paul S Person Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written Subject: Re: Nebula Finalists 2016 Date: Fri, 03 Jan 2025 08:20:00 -0800 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 86 Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Injection-Date: Fri, 03 Jan 2025 17:20:02 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="04edd556283b244a47d0d4b25dabfe7c"; logging-data="4185278"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+MQwmK2r/XpPSJPw8myNMReb8xZGPO5mQ=" User-Agent: ForteAgent/8.00.32.1272 Cancel-Lock: sha1:QRp+nyfj7G3+LhK2tZrWw8q/uRA= Bytes: 4846 On Thu, 2 Jan 2025 17:33:14 -0600, Lynn McGuire wrote: >On 1/1/2025 10:25 AM, Paul S Person wrote: >> On Tue, 31 Dec 2024 19:18:50 -0600, Lynn McGuire >> wrote: >>=20 >>> On 12/31/2024 10:21 AM, Paul S Person wrote: >>>> On Mon, 30 Dec 2024 20:57:50 -0600, Lynn McGuire >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>>> On 12/30/2024 9:54 AM, James Nicoll wrote: >>>>>> 2016: Juno reaches Jupiter, David Bowie dies, and American = democracy >>>>>> contracts a terminal illness. >>>>>> >>>>>> Which 2016 Nebula Finalist Novels Have You Read? >>>>>> Uprooted by Naomi Novik >>>>>> Ancillary Mercy by Ann Leckie >>>>>> Raising Caine by Charles E. Gannon >>>>>> The Elephants' Graveyard by Lawrence M. Schoen >>>>>> The Fifth Season by N. K. Jemisin >>>>>> The Grace of Kings by Ken Liu >>>>>> Updraft by Fran Wilde >>>>> >>>>> "Ancillary Mercy" and "Raising Caine". >>>>> >>>>> Trump Forever ! >>>> >>>> You mean "Musk Forever". He's running Trump now. >>> >>> Nobody runs Trump. Appearances can be quite deceiving. >>=20 >> Putin ran Trump last time. >>=20 >> Just as surely as -- 100 years from now -- Putin will be listed as >> President from 2017-early 2021, with a footnote clarifying that, since >> he could not actually hold the office, Trump held it for him, so also >> Musk will be listed as President from 2025-early 2029, with the same >> footnote. >>=20 >> The only real question is: how much did Musk pay Putin to acquire >> whatever it was Putin on Trump? What it was is much less important. >>=20 >> There is also some concern that, if the House takes as long to >> organize in 2025 as it did in 2023, particularly the second attempt >> (which produced last year's Speaker), the certification of the >> election will have to be postponed. >>=20 >> Now, I have no doubt that by, say, July, the House will have a Speaker >> again. But what happens if Trump is not certified by Jan 20? Will he >> still be able to be sworn in as the elected President? >>=20 >> My guess is not -- and when Biden/Harris' term ends, I would think the >> Presidential Succession Act would kick in. Since there would be no >> Speaker of the House (if there were, we would find just how quickly a >> Presidential election can be certified if everyone tries hard enough), >> next up would the President Pro Tempore of the Senate. >>=20 >> Since, apparently, the Constitution does not specify that the >> President Pro Tempore must be a Senator, perhaps it would be prudent, >> if the House is still in disarray and certification seems unlikely, to >> elect Trump President Pro Tempore. He did, after all, win the election >> -- and installing him in the Oval Office should help pacify his rabid >> followers (compared to what they are likely to get up to if anyone >> else is placed there). >>=20 >> If the Senate, due to long tradition, just can't make a non-Senator >> President Pro Tempore, then they should still change from the current >> holder of the office -- Patty Murray. She's a fine Senator (being from >> Washington State she could hardly be anthing else) but imagine MAGAs >> reaction if she were to be installed in the Oval Office! >>=20 >> Exciting times, indeed! > >Man, the TDS is strong with you ! Sorry, it is MAGA that is deranged by Trump. And, since you didn't notice, I clearly stated that Trump won the election. This is about Certification and Inauguration, and how to get Trump sworn in regardless of how messed up the House is. --=20 "Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino, Who evil spoke of everyone but God, Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"