CD226: The 116th Lame Duck

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Jennifer Briney

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🗓️ 25 January 2021

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We just lived through the craziest lame duck period - the time between when the President and members of Congress keep their power after being fired in an election - in United States history. In this episode, we look at everything that happened, from start to finish. That was literally one Hell of a ride. Please Support Congressional Dish – Quick Links to contribute monthly or a lump sum via to support Congressional Dish via Patreon (donations per episode) Send payments to: Send payments to: @Jennifer-Briney Send payments to: $CongressionalDish or Use your bank’s online bill pay function to mail contributions to: Please make checks payable to Congressional Dish Thank you for supporting truly independent media! 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0:00.0	And when those non-legislative entities changed the laws without getting the general assemblies to change the law, in my opinion, the resulting ballots cast either by mail or in person, those ballots were illegal under the law.
0:14.0	Illegal ballot should not be counted, therefore the resulting electoral votes should
0:18.2	be considered invalid.
0:20.1	The focus of these Republicans over and over and over again was on how the rules were changed.
0:25.8	Who changed the rules? And honestly, I don't even trust that the stories that they told were true.
0:31.1	But I'm not going to waste my time or yours on a debunking spree here because the
0:34.5	bottom line is that they wanted our votes to be thrown out. People who registered to vote but just not fast
0:40.0	enough, they wanted those votes thrown in the trash. People whose ballot got held up in the mail, they
0:45.4	wanted those ballots thrown in the trash. People who put their ballots in new dropboxes, they
0:50.4	wanted those ballots thrown in the trash.
0:53.0	Time and time again, they wanted to disenfranchise us to take our ballots and throw them in the trash. I am so damn tired of being like to.
1:08.0	I don't think I can't deny it anymore.
1:15.0	You can stick to your story if you think it flies.
1:20.0	But I'm not going to flies.
1:24.0	But I'm not going to buy it anymore.
1:30.0	Hello and thank you for listening to the 226th episode of Congressional dish I'm your host Jennifer Briny
1:36.7	and if this is your first time listening to this podcast I do a podcast about Congress
1:44.0	That's pretty much all you need to know. And this episode is being recorded on Friday of inauguration week,
1:48.0	which means that the lame duck is officially over.
1:52.0	The lame duck is officially over. The lame duck is a weird American phenomenon in which the people
1:57.9	that get fired in Congress and in the presidency get to keep their power for an extra two and a half months.
2:04.4	It's a weird thing that we allowed to happen and we just lived through probably the weirdest
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