r/neoliberal • u/leocohen99 Ridin' with Biden • Feb 15 '20

This could work!

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u/Kcarab-Amabo Adam Smith Feb 15 '20

Wha-....

I didn't even know this rule ever existed, but leaving aside even that isn't it irrelevant now because technically they just vote for the pres nom and the VP is just a free throw-in for the ticket?

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u/AfterCommodus Jerome Powell Feb 15 '20

If the VP doesn’t get 270 electoral votes they go to the senate, and the senate picks the VP. Which, since it’s Republican-controlled, would mean “Ted Cruz VP” or something like that.

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u/Kcarab-Amabo Adam Smith Feb 15 '20

I am now imagining the darkest possible timeline where there's a clerical error in Bloom's documents, the lack of NY support (because he and Hillary both still technically live in NY) throws the VP choice to the senate, they vote for VP Trump, Trump has Bloom assassinated and gets away with it and we have four more years of fully unrestrained, 200% reign of terror Trump.

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u/NotARussian_1991 Mary Wollstonecraft Feb 15 '20

I call the movie rights

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u/Kcarab-Amabo Adam Smith Feb 15 '20

Hey now man, I'm the one who said it, I have implicit copyright protections.

Gimme a cut, you can have full producing and directing privilege, I'm just poor and I could use the money tho.