There was a movie that was titled Olympus has fallen. A highly expensive movie depicting a siege on America’s most revered residential building, the White House, the presidential abode by some Asian terrorists. We watched, nodded in approval of such wonderful screen production, then flipped the switch to another channel or simply waited for the next movie. For that is exactly what it is, a movie, knocked up strictly for entertainment.
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Then yesterday, the worst that the world could imagine happened. Olympus was really besieged. This time not by an outside terrorist group but by home grown, government permitted terrorists. The entire world watched with fear and trepidation as the monitor of the free world buckled under the weight of its own over blown power. The epitome of democracy rubbished the concept and turned into a political joke.
On Wednesday, a gang of white supremacists breached any thing that could be claimed to be the highest of America’s security, being the protection of the abode of the president and in that same stride, the president. This was in full glare and presence of the security officials detailed to guard the white house. President Donald Trump who had brazenly addressed the group, had told them outside the White House that he would never concede that he lost the election. This sadly is as Congress readied to certify Joe Biden’s victory.
“I will never give up. We will never concede,” Trump had boasted to the cheering crowd. “We will stop the steal.”
Pence his vice who had walked the stretch of fire since the election which is the bases of all this shenanigan finds himself in the most precarious position of his tenure as he prepares to preside over Wednesday’s congressional tally of Electoral College votes, bearing witness to the formalization of Trump’s election defeat. By American constitution it is the vice president of the out going government that announces to the nation and the world the next American president.
It is said that Vice President Mike Pence on Tuesday had told President Donald Trump that the President does not have the authority to decertify President-elect Joe Biden’s win when the Congress meets to count electoral votes. defeat. 
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At the end of the count, seated on the House of Representatives’ rostrum, Pence has the task of announcing who has won the majority of votes for both president and vice president.
Despite the pro forma nature of Pence’s role, he is under intense pressure from the president and legions of supporters to overturn Biden’s win.
New York Times reported that Mr. Pence has spent the past several days in a delicate dance, seeking at once to convey to the president that he does not have the authority to overturn the results of the election, while also placating the president to avoid a rift that could torpedo any hope of him running in 2024 as Trump’s loyal heir.
Even as he sought to make clear that he does not have the power, Trump seems to think he does. Pence also reportedly told the president that he would keep studying the issue up until the final hours before the joint session of Congress begins at 1 pm on Wednesday, January 6.
Despite this, Trump tweeted, “If Vice President @Mike_Pence comes through for us, we will win the Presidency. Many states want to decertify the mistake they made in certifying incorrect & even fraudulent numbers in a process not approved by their state legislatures (which it must be).
“Mike can send it back.”
CNN reported that while Trump said it would be politically “damaging” for Pence to refuse to block certification, Pence gently informed Trump during the meeting that the power doesn’t exist for him to derail the process.
The vice president went on to tell Trump there are outliers saying that the authority exists, but Pence has been told by the White House Counsel’s Office he doesn’t have that authority, according to a source who was briefed on the conversation.
The meeting at the White House came after Pence met with the Senate parliamentarian earlier this week to go over his role in the proceedings. In a statement released through his campaign, the President disputed the story.
Trump said, “The New York Times report regarding comments Vice President Pence supposedly made to me today is fake news. He never said that. The Vice President and I are in total agreement that the Vice President has the power to act.”
It was also reported that the President is now angry with Pence following their meeting, a source close to the White House said.
AP reported that neither the Constitution nor congressional statute grants the vice president any such powers.
It is up to the House and Senate to voice objections, and states’ electors were chosen in accordance with state law, not fraudulently.
Trump’s renewed pressure on Pence comes as he has repeatedly charged for two months that the presidential election was “rigged” and has claimed that there was “massive voter fraud” in a handful of battleground states where Biden narrowly edged the president, to score a 306-232 Electoral College victory over the GOP incumbent.
The Trump campaign has launched a number of legal challenges, while Trump himself has urged states with Republican governors and legislatures to overturn Joe Biden’s victories.
More Republican senators came out on Tuesday against attempts to undermine the results, including Tim Scott of South Carolina and James M. Inhofe of Oklahoma, who said he viewed challenging any state’s certification as “a violation of my oath of office.”
One follower of the scope News had submitted this as Romney describes as about the only sane Republican in the ongoing imbliglo had to say,
“We gather today due to a selfish man’s injured pride and the outrage of his
supporters whom he has deliberately misinformed for the past two months and
stirred to action this very morning. What happened here today was an
insurrection, incited by the President of the United States. Those who
choose to continue to support his dangerous gambit by objecting to the
results of a legitimate, democratic election will forever be seen as being
complicit in an unprecedented attack against our democracy. They will be
remembered for their role in this shameful episode in American history. That will be their legacy,”
Another, adopting a typical African approach wrote this
Na gara gara. There is that saying about when the Tortise was being manhandled and lifted from where he was standing, he asked his oppressors to please drop him to the ground, the tortise then used his hands and foot to dig up sand to indicate a struggle, the tortise then said he was now ready to be taken away, he said it will look improper for him to be moved without seeming to have put up a struggle.
So the crux of the story is that DJT is stirring up trouble just to show he has a lot of thugs under his influence.
