Calling it “one on a huge list of priorities,” Rep. Jamie Raskin (D., Md.) announced that he will be reintroducing a prior bill with Reps. Debbie Wasserman Schultz and Eric Swalwell to disqualify not just Trump but a large number of Republicans from taking office.
The alternative, it appears, is unthinkable: allowing the public to choose their next president and representatives in Congress. It appears that the last thing Democrats want is for the unanimous decision to actually lead to an outbreak of democracy. Where the Court expressly warned of “chaos” in elections, Raskin and others appear eager to be agents of chaos in Congress.
Soon after the decision, Raskin went on the air at CNN to assure people that he and his colleagues would not stand by and allow the right to vote be restored to citizens in the upcoming election. He pledged to offer a prior bill that would declare Jan. 6 an “insurrection” and that those involved “engaged in insurrection.”
I previously wrote about these “ballot cleansing” efforts because it would not just disqualify Trump but potentially dozens of sitting Republican members of Congress. Rep. Bill Pascrell (D-NJ) sought to bar 126 members of Congress under the same theory. Similar legislation offered by Rep. Cori Bush (D-Mo.) to disqualify members got 63 co-sponsors, all Democrats.
Raskin’s participation in this effort is crushingly ironic. In 2016, he sought to block certification of the 2016 election under the very same law as violent protests were occurring before the inauguration.
The prior bills were sweeping and included members who did not engage in any violent acts (no member has been charged with such violence or even incitement) but merely opposed certification.
Raskin recently offered a particularly Orwellian argument for the disqualification of Trump and his colleagues in Congress: “If you think about it, of all of the forms of disqualification that we have, the one that disqualifies people for engaging in insurrection is the most democratic because it’s the one where people choose themselves to be disqualified.”
In other words, preventing voters from voting is “the most democratic” because these people choose to oppose certification . . . as he did in 2016.
After the ruling, Raskin added the curious claim that the justices “didn’t exactly disagree with [the disqualification theory]. They just said that they’re not the ones to figure it out. It’s not going to be a matter for judicial resolution under Section 3 of the 14th Amendment, but it’s up to Congress to enforce it.”
That was sharply different from the pre-decision Raskin who insisted that there was no real question legally and that the case before the justices was “their opportunity to behave like real Supreme Court justices.”
Well, they did act as “real Supreme Court justices” by unanimously opposing what the Court described as the “chaos” that would unfold with such state disqualification efforts. Raskin, however, is seeking a new avenue for chaos through Congress.
Raskin’s statement is also bizarre in claiming that somehow the justices agreed with him and the others pushing disqualification. No one, not even the Trump team, questioned that Congress could act to bar people from office. It is expressly stated in the Constitution. It is not an “argument” but a fact.
Of course, the Democrats would need to craft the legislation correctly to satisfy the standard and secure the support of both houses. Neither appears likely at this point.
However, Raskin is succeeding in one respect. He and his colleagues have bulldozed any moral high ground after January 6th. Most of us condemned the riot on that day as a desecration of our constitutional process. Yet, the Democrats have responded with the most anti-democratic efforts to prevent voters from exercising their rights in the upcoming election.
For these members, citizens cannot be trusted with this power as Trump tops national polls as the leading choice for the presidency. It is the political version of the Big Gulp law, voters like consumers have to be protected against their own unhealthy choices.
Raskin has continued to accuse the nine justices of being cowards in not supporting ballot cleansing. He told CNN that the court “doesn’t like the ultimate and inescapable implications of just enforcing the Constitution, as written.” In other words, all nine justices, including the three liberals justices, are disregarding clear constitutional mandates to protect Trump.
It is the same delusional view echoed by other liberals who were enraged by the decision. Former MSNBC host Keith Olbermann declared that “the Supreme Court has betrayed democracy. Its members including Jackson, Kagan and Sotomayor have proved themselves inept at reading comprehension. And collectively the ‘court’ has shown itself to be corrupt and illegitimate. It must be dissolved.”
After all, nothing says democracy like ballot cleansing and dissolving courts before a national election.
With the resumption of efforts to disqualify Republicans from running on ballots, Raskin and his colleagues seem to be channeling the spirit of former Mayor Dick Daley in the 1968 Democratic convention in Chicago.
With allegations of abuse by the police in cracking down on protests, Daley declared “the policeman isn’t there to create disorder; the policeman is there to preserve disorder.” With Democrats preparing to return to Chicago for their convention this year, Raskin and others appear to be responding to the Court that “the party isn’t there to create chaos, the party is there to preserve chaos.”
This column also ran on Fox.com.
Some explain to me how Trump telling protestors to make their voices heard peacefully is insurrection, but Joe Biden and Kamala Harris actively encouraging riots, arson, and looting, even going so far as to bail rioters out of jail, was not.
How is it treason for Republicans to complain about stolen elections and election interference, but not when Democrats do the same for every election they lost?
How were Jan 6 rioters supposed to take over the entire US? With blue face paint and selfies? We’re actually to believe that protesting election interference is tantamount to trying to overthrow the government, but burning major cities is not.
Democrats are already positioning themselves to try to overthrow Trump if he wins in 2024, so I suppose “election denying” will no longer be treason if Trump wins?
This is irrational politicking.
1.”fight like hell or you’re not going to have a country anymore.” 2. Planning meetings at the Willard Hotel. 3. Reconnaissance trips by the Proud Boys, witnessed by an embedded reporter. 4. Stash of weapons in a Virginia hotel room across the Potomac, waiting for the call from Trump. 5. “Frankly. We did win by a lot “—a proven big fat lie. 6. “Stop the Steal” tours, lying to fans and telling them to come to Washington on Jan 6, promising “it will be wild”. 7. Neither Joe nor Kamala encouraged anyone to riot.
Democrats do NOT steal elections. The insurrection was about stealing power from the rightfully elected President, based on a big fat lie, wrongfully trying to seize power against the will of the American people. “Protesting election interference“? WTF are you talking about? Trump isn’t going to “win “ in 2024, just like he didn’t win in 2020, and lost the popular vote in 2016.
I left out the falsified Electoral College ballots. Democrats never did any of these things.
Except they have.
Yes, the alternate slate of electors in Hawaii in 1960.
Essentially, all of the arguments that Trump incited tHe Insurrection®™ boil down to this.
Trump promoted Badthink®™, and because some people rioted on the basis of Badthink®™, that was an insurrection and Trump incited it.
Some may argue this applies to Patrice Cullors, Nikole Hannah-Jones, Charles M. Blow, and many others. After all, they chanted, “Hands Up, Don’t Shoot”. They claimed that the police habitually hunt down and gun down unarmed Black men. They claimed the criminal justice system is systemically racist. And some people rioted on this basis.
It would apply if this principle was enforced in an even-handed manner. But the same side that says that Trump was promoting Badthink®™ also believe that Cullors, Jones, and Blow were promoting Goodthink®™, and those who rioted based on this Goodthink®™ were not engaging in Insurrection®™, but fighting White Supremacy®™
”fight like hell or you’re not going to have a country anymore.”
So ? Have you listened to the comments of democrats ?
Regardless, There is plenty of SCOTUS 1Q decisions to tell us what speech is not protected –
Fight like hell is protected – most every football cause says it about 20 times ever fall.
“Planning meetings at the Willard Hotel.”
First no one trust you – please pprovide sources.
Regardless – meeting with people and planning is not illegal.
“Reconnaissance trips by the Proud Boys”
Again irrelevant and further debunked long ago.
“Stash of weapons in a Virginia hotel room across the Potomac, waiting for the call from Trump.”
By stash – you mean 1 or two.
There were not enough firearms brought to DC by Trump supporters to take over a Starbucks, much less the US Capitol.
Also – do you actually think about these claims ?
If you are looking to stage a coup – you go in hard and fast with as much as possible at the start.
You Do not send in a bunch of guys to break windows, engage in a shoving match for an hour and only then “send in the troops”
This is a common left wing nut problem – you propose these alleged right wing conspiracies – that only an idiot left wing nut would seriously think about.
“Frankly. We did win by a lot “
Sounds fine to me.
“Stop the Steal”
Can I buy a “Stop the Steal” t shirt ?
“Neither Joe nor Kamala encouraged anyone to riot.”
Actually yes they did – but Trump did NOT.
“Democrats do NOT steal elections.”
ROFL
Look at the mess you have in Georgia – not only is Fanni trying to steal the 20204 election – she was trying to personally profit from it.
“against the will of the American people”
Certainly Biden is president against the will of about 75M voters.
“WTF are you talking about? Trump isn’t going to “win “ in 2024”
Trump is winning the popular vote by about 8M votes right now.
He is winning all 6 swing states COMMANDINGLY.
That lead has been GROWING slowly.
Currently the polling is showing a Trump win that is beyond the margin of Fraud.
It is highly unlikely that Democrats can pull off the election rigging they did in 2020.
While you can successfully censor those living in the blue bubble – those numbers are way down from 2020.
Further Voters get to compare Trump and Biden head to head – and despite your constant idiotic claims about the economy
Voters know the economy sucks and it did not under Trump.
Please do not trot out your stupid lies about Trump and Biden’s economy – we have heard them all before, they are factually false
but more importantly – Voters have rejected them.
Right. So we are to believe that Republicans represent a threat to Democracy, while Democrats actively interfere with elections.
-Removing Trump and various Republicans from ballots
-Calling Jan 6 riot an “insurrection” to overthrow the government, while Democrat nationwide riots, arson, and bombings of federal buildings was freedom fighting
-Abuse of positions of authority to protect Joe Biden during 2016 and after from the Hunter Biden laptop scandal, that revealed Biden’s corruption
-Lawfare against Trump in which the ultimate example was nearly a half billion fine for Trump submitting his valuation of banks, which then had the ability to do their own due diligence to agree or disagree, and in which they lost no money
-the media actively running PR for the Democrat Party
-Democrats actively fighting voter ID, voter roll audits, and any attempt to secure elections
Sure, Democrats are in favor of free and fair elections, as long as you vote Democrat.
You on it karen -0but I’m waiting for ratskins co sponsors who willing to throw vets aforti vets under the bus -0this is war okay
Karen S: help me, please. Did I miss Dr. Christine Blasey Ford’s book tours and speaking engagements, which is what you claimed was the motivation for her to allegedly lie about what Brett Kavanaugh did to her back in high school? Democrats do not “actively interfere with elections”–Trump started an insurrection–the proof is out there. The 14th Amendment to the Constitution says that those who engage in insurrection may not serve in federal office. By deciding to lie about losing, lie to his followers that his “glorious victory” was “stolen by fraud” and encouraging them to invade the Capitol, while he sat and watched them beat police officers, smash windows and doors and break in, chanting “hang Mike Pence” for over 3 hours–Trump disqualified himself. This conduct must be addressed.
Where are the “Democrat riots” taking place-or, has mainstream media covered those up, too? Uh, Karen, have you kept up with Comer’s committee–aren’t you aware that they haven’t come up with even a shred of evidence proving Joe Biden did anything wrong, and that their star witness was indicted for lying to the FBI? I see you’ve kept up with the pro-Trump media’s little catch-phrase: “lawfare”. Trying to excuse Trump’s perjury by claiming that lenders should do their own research is lame–it’s no defense to deliberately lying on financial statements. Whether he actually paid back the money is irrelevant–he lied to get more money on better terms, and he has a history of defaulting on loans–6 bankruptcies. “Media” are not “actively running PR for the Democrat Party”–that’s what your pro-Trump media does, along with lying constantly. OAN, NewsMax, InfoWars and Fox are devoted to attacking Biden and Democrats and ignoring Trump, his lies and his crimes. No, Democrats are not “actively fighting” anythjing other than efforts of Republicans to make it harder for people to vote. The manure you shovel isn’t just from your horse.
Jonathan: Moving on. Seeing that you are a big proponent of “free speech” you will love the decision just out of the 11th Circuit. The Court struck down FL Gov. DeSantis’s 2022 “Stop WOKE Act” as an unconstitutional violation of the 1st Amendment.
The case stems from a challenge to the SWA by two employers who had instituted a D&I training program for staff. Under the SWA that would be prohibited. The Court ruled: “By limiting its restrictions to a list of ideas designated as offensive the Act targets speech based on content. And by barring only speech that endorses any of those ideas, it penalizes certain viewpoints–the greatest First Amendment sin…Banning speech on a wide variety of political topics is bad; banning speech on a variety of political viewpoints is worse”.
So, finally, the 11th court of Appeals has slapped down DeSantis attack on free speech. He can’t censor businesses simply because he doesn’t agree with what’s being expressed. What’s up next? Challenges to SWA by school teachers? You can take that to the bank!
So this is a big win for those in FL who take “free speech” seriously. No doubt you will want to cover the 11th Circuit opinion in one of your next columns–maybe not. Now some of us on this blog think “free speech” is a fundamental constitutional right that people like Gov. DeSantis can infringe upon with his crazy laws. Free speech is also important for another reason–without it we wouldn’t know who the idiots are on you blog!
I wonder if Dennis is tired of losing yet.
Now he looks forward to the 11th Circuit getting smacked down.
While I do not trust you or your representations or the Federal courts and judges.
If FL actually passed a law that restricted what Private businesses could say – that is unconstitutional.
Juyst as the FBI or DHS or Biden WH telling SM companies what posts to take down.
God forbid I should trust you.
The SWA does nopt apply to private employers – your post is a LIE.
The case in question is about the application of SWA to Florida Public colleges.
Whether you like it or not the State of Florida – as an employer gets to decide the employment policies of the State.
It is free to decide that Entitites that are part of State government must adhere to State policies – includinjg rejecting DEI.
The 11th Circuit opinion you cite is merely the temporary extension of a Stay.
It is not an opinion on the merits.
Free speech is important – and employers are free to decided their own policies regarding Free speech.
They are free to censor their employees at work. Whether they can censor their customers is a different issue.
The State of Florida as an employer has much the same rights as any other employer.
Regardless, this is a typical left wing nut lunatic decstion that is almost certain to be shot down by SCOTUS.
The decision you cite is an ANTI-Free Speech decision – not a free speech one.
No State Government employees do not have the right to take over branches of the state govenrment,
Impliment their own DEI policies – in violation of state law.
Thi is absurd – the 11th ct as well as you are Claiming that once you are able to impliment some ideolgoical policy anywhere within govenrment – you can not get rid of it.
You really think that SCOTUS is going to see FORCED speech as Free Speech ?
I should have known better than to Trust that you could accurately represent anything.
Your a LIAR Dennis.
“The Court ruled . . .”
In an opinion written by Judge Grant — a Trump appointee.
That fact is an odd omission.
If you’re so blind you don’t know it’s a MIHOP by now you shouldn’t be commenting at all.
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200 embedded fbi agents, 100 dressed up as MAGA inside the capitol BEFOREHAND to tour guide the people coming in who otherwise would be lost in the maze. NATIONAL GUARD DENIED. 2x fake j6 bombs, video of the non chalant SS and capitol police guarding kamala just inside, after being informed it was feet from them, kamala lying about where she was for a YEAR afterwards, the cellphone records of the bomb placer said to be scrambled by the FBI LATER, after they were analyzed and traced to FBI and SS by the largest IP provider to government, etc etc etc the list is endless
https://twitter.com/TonySeruga/status/1724856698052239537
The bubble the DC heads live in is near impermeable.
https://twitter.com/bennyjohnson/status/1724812702118187441
https://twitter.com/TuckerCarlson/status/1748117563228483869
more info
https://twitter.com/TuckerCarlson/status/1744488617404203415
If you’re still so stupid you don’t know it’s a MIHOP you are my enemy.
https://cis.org/Bensman/Government-Admission-Biden-Parole-Flights-Create-Security-Vulnerabilities-US-Airports
320,000 illegals flown in on jets by the biden admin from foreign nations with a phone app – 320,000 new votes and census counts
demoncrats, full blown criminals
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13155765/biden-illegal-migrant-flying-program-national-security-vulnerability.html
Biden administration ADMITS flying 320,000 migrants secretly into the U.S. in a FOIA lawsuit
Nuland is out at State. Sure sign Ukraine is collapsing and we might just avoid WW3. Too bad, Vicky, we hardly knew ye!
Is she sent to the ukraine front line meat grinder as she should be. Let’s hope so.
She responsible for the needless deaths of thousands upon thousands of Ukrainians.
I agree, she has some personal vendetta with her grandparents or ggp’s that were oppressed in the recent past so a huge chip on her shoulder so murder death kill full steam ahead. I don’t recall exactly what it was but it has been reported – her direct ancestors in the region.
That’s how stupid the USA is nowadays, or devious, yes, let’s go with planned diabolical evil.
Nuland’s Deep Deep State “Swamp” Regime “House of cards,” eh?
Incidentally, what staff would allow any man, sane or Bidenesque, to start WWIII for any reason, even a good one?
At some point, you gotta say, “What the heck!”
she admits her overthrow and gov control intercepted and leaked F the EU, is correct
Luttig Calls Opinion A “Stunning Overreach”
J. Michael Luttig, a conservative former U.S. Court of Appeals judge who co-wrote with Laurence H. Tribe a piece for the Atlantic in August that helped to galvanize interest in the 14th Amendment as a means to disqualify Trump, cited the language of the three liberal justices in their concurring opinion, which critiqued elements of the majority’s decision. The liberals agreed with the conservatives that states should be prohibited from kicking candidates off the presidential ballot under Section 3, while disagreeing with the majority specifying Congress’s role in any disqualification. The standard, Luttig argued, makes it functionally impossible to disqualify insurrectionists from holding federal office.
“The court today decided that no person in the future will ever be disqualified under Section 3 of the 14th Amendment regardless of whether he or she has engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the Constitution of the United States,” Luttig said. “The decision is stunning in its overreach.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/03/04/trump-supreme-court-ballot-voters/
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The court’s Federalists went beyond the immediate issue to say Congress needs to define ‘insurrection’, knowing damn well that Congress can’t even pass a budget. In this regard the court has essentially bucked the matter to a ‘functional’ Congress that doesn’t exist; the perfect strawman for a disingenuous court.
Like, “Yeah, we passed it on to Congress. Whether they act or not is none of our business.”
Meanwhile, those of us who watched January 6th unfold in real time are left to wonder if the Federalists were visiting the moon that day. Terribly unconcerned are they; as though riots at the Capitol happen all the time.
You fundamentally misunderstand the Court’s role. It has nothing to do with expediency of anticipated legislation. The court engages in Constitutional interpretation – that is, discerning the meaning of the text, as the framers intended it. Your starting assumption is that it’s yet another political branch of government, which it is not. It is highly improper to judge the quality of the Court’s work by whether the present political atmosphere is conducive to political compromise; that is totally irrelevant to the Court’s interpretive exercise of the Constitution’s text.
In terms of relying on Judge Luttig as a supposed source of wisdom . . . sigh. He’s a never-Trumper, Trump-hater in the extreme, and sadly he has lost his marbles as a result. He used to be a highly intelligent, very reasonable federal appellate judge. That was 30 years ago. His utterances in the ear of Trump have become ever more unhinged.
As for J6, your description is so overblown as to be laughable!
J Michael Luttig is a Bushie Man! Appointed by Old Man Bush. Luttig owes everything to the Bush Family for his Judgeship, wealth and Board Seats. Dick Cheney is involved. Luttig is an owned man.
Tribe, Luttig and other anti-Trump legal “scholars” once again discredited themselves here. Many of us had said from the day this happened that the only real question was which rationale the Court would choose to reverse.
J. Michael Luttig, a conservative former U.S. Court of Appeals judge who co-wrote with Laurence H. Tribe a piece for the Atlantic
Still an idiot that has zero knowledge of politics. Still ignoring the existance of the GOPe
Littig really shit the bed with his “understanding” of the 14th amendment.
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While they have their 1st Amendment right… both should be barred from practicing law.
Or at least sanctioned by the bar assoc.
Now that will never happen, and I think at least Tribe is not practicing or teaching due to his age and senility…
and that the Bar Assoc is heavily Democrats…
It amazes me how wrong these people are.
All one has to do is ask these maroons two questions…
1) Do you believe innocent until proven guilty?
2) If Trump was never charged with the crime of insurrection, how can you apply the 14th Amendment which first requires one to have been guilty of insurrection before 2/3rds of Congress could block him?
-G
Where are you getting this nonsense? Have you even read the 14th amendment? It does not require a charge, let alone a conviction, and nowhere does it even mention 2/3 of Congress.
So who decides who is and is not an insurrectionist?
Can we get past this nonsense.
All 9 justices on the supreme cort said – absolutely NOT to the claim that the 14th amendment was self executing and that a constitutional amendment whose entire purpose was to RESTRICT the power of the state actually enhanced it.
The dissagreement between the 3 women on the left and the rest of the court is TINY.
Further YOU and the media and the left are mischaracterizing that disagreement.
The justices on the left said – the issue of whether the 14th amendment is “self executing” with respect to the federal courts is not currently infront of us.
They did NOT say the majority was wrong. Which infact they are NOT.
AGAIN constitutional delegations of powers to government are NOT self executing.
Constitutional specifications of individual rights ARE.
What the majority said was that A14S5 empowers congress to make laws that put A14S3 into effect.
Those laws do not exist. Therefore A14S3 remains inoperative with respect to the Federal govenrment TOO.
Meaning we can not have a left wing nut judge like Chutkan or Howell working arround the Colorado decision and barring Trump from a lawfare shopped left wing nut federal judge.
The majority are correct in that analysis. The 3 judges concurring did NOT disagree.
The next thing the Majority found was that if congress were to act to legislate A14S3 into effect – that legislation would still have to meet the requirements of due process (also in the 14th amendment) as well as get past a high bar to constitutionality.
A14S3 did not repeal the rest of the constitution.
The Court did decide it would be difficult to disqualify someone using the 14th amendment.
That has been true for 150 years, it is not something new.
It has ALWAYS been hard to disqualify candidates for office.
The next thing the Majority found was that if congress were to act to legislate A14S3 into effect – that legislation would still have to meet the requirements of due process (also in the 14th amendment) as well as get past a high bar to constitutionality.
I can’t see anything in the decision that says that. Due process is only required to deprive someone of life, liberty, or property. Disqualifying someone from office does none of these things.
“Due process is only required to deprive someone of life, liberty, or property. Disqualifying someone from office does none of these things.”
Really?
Disqualifying someone from being a doctor “does none of these things?” Or from being a lawyer?
What on earth is the difference between those two, and disqualifying a person from pursuing his chosen profession in politics?
The right to liberty includes the right to pursue your goals, values, ends (e.g., elected office). If such disqualification *without* due process is not an abrogation of liberty, then there is no such thing.
BTW, if due process is *not* the process for disqualification, then what is? Leftist decree? Seance? A bureaucrat’s pen?
You must have missed the Kavanaugh riots and the riots during Trumps Inauguration, and the riots that almost destroyed an historic church and forced the President to retreat to his bunker for safety. Go back to sleep.
Selected Babylon Bee headlines:
– In major blow to democracy, Scotus rules voters can vote for favorite candidate
– Dems quietly ask Scotus if they can ban Biden from ballot
– MSM warn if Trump elected he might indict his political enemies, imprison detractors, and rig elections in his favor
– In 9-0 decision Scotus rules the eagles could not have carried the fellowship to Mount Doom
– Study finds 99% of men pretend to use the force when opening, closing automatic doors
– Cast of ‘The View’ unanimously overturns Scotus decision
– Man in critical condition after hearing slightly different viewpoint
– CDC officially changes Covid guidelines to whatever your Uncle Frank said about it years ago
– To cover rising costs, Hunter now charging 15% for the big guy
– Bible pulled from shelves for outdated idea that all humans are of one race and made in the image of God
– Biden apologizes for racist gaffe: ‘I like all races, even the bad ones’
– Nation’s wealthy, privileged gather to lecture nation on evils of wealth, privilege
– History made as Unitarian Church ordains first openly heterosexual minister
– Ballot drop boxes installed along border wall
– Biden visits border to cut ribbon for official border grand opening
– Little girl dreams of one day being fat and ugly enough to be target model
– Atheist patiently waits for Ikea coffee table to assemble itself
“Raskin and the Agents of Chaos: Democrats Prepare to Resume Disqualification Efforts in Congress”
– Professor Turley
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The communists (liberals, progressives, socialists, democrats, RINOs, AINOs) in America are committing insurrection and attempting to misapply, abuse, and overturn fundamental law and impose the principles of communism as direct and mortal enemies of the American thesis of freedom and self-reliance, the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, actual Americans, and America.
Abortion, per Roe v. Wade, was unconstitutional – Abortion is a legal issue reserved to the States.
Removal by States of a presidential candidate from the ballot is unconstitutional – Congress has the power, exclusively, to remove a presidential candidate from the ballot.
The Supreme Court has “…declared all acts contrary to the manifest tenor of the Constitution void.”
The Supreme Court has and must place America squarely under the Constitution and Bill of Rights.
The Supreme Court must now strike down every aspect and facet of the communist welfare state as unconstitutional violations of Article 1, Section 8, the enumerated powers to tax and regulate, and it must strike down all infringements of the 5th Amendment right to private property.
The Supreme Court must now strike down the immediate and follow-on effects of Lincoln’s unconstitutional denial of not-prohibited and fully constitutional secession, beginning with the unconstitutionally obtained and improperly ratified “Reconstruction Amendments,” passed, not one but virtually impossibly three, in a national condition of violence and intimidation and under the duress of brutal post-war military occupation and oppression, and concluding with the mass illegal immigration of non-citizens and random stateless individuals who were precluded by law from becoming citizens on January 1, 1863, constituting the criminal installation of a potentially inimical and distinctly adverse foreign, four-million-man standing army.
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“…courts…must…declare all acts contrary to the manifest tenor of the Constitution void.”
“…men…do…what their powers do not authorize, [and] what they forbid.”
“[A] limited Constitution … can be preserved in practice no other way than through the medium of courts of justice, whose duty it must be to declare all acts contrary to the manifest tenor of the Constitution void. Without this, all the reservations of particular rights or privileges would amount to nothing … To deny this would be to affirm … that men acting by virtue of powers may do not only what their powers do not authorize, but what they forbid.”
– Alexander Hamilton
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“[Private property is] that dominion which one man claims and exercises over the external things of the world, in exclusion of every other individual.”
– James Madison
Turley apparently doesn’t like the fact that the Constitution provides that those who engage in insurrection cannot serve in the federal government. Good grief, Turley, t’s part of the CONSTITUTION. Turley also ignores the fact that the SCOTUS steered clear of holding, one way or another, whether Trump and his Republican enablers are guilty of insurrection for their participation in January 6th. The only thing decided by the SCOTUS is that a state cannot kick someone off of the ballot who is running for a federal office–that there must be enabling federal legislation. Trump was NOT exonerated at all, so the ruling was NO victory for him, despite his pathetic victory lap and the tropes on pro-Trump media. And, the women on the Court, including Barrett, found that the men went too far by deciding things that didn’t need to be addressed. So, pursuant to the SCOTUS’s directive, Rep. Raskin is proposing legislation to address the issue of the process for kicking insurrectionists off of the ballot.
Turley is paid to have a problem with this, too, apparently claiming it would cause “chaos”. The “chaos” was Jan 6th–a malignant narcissit who refused to accept the will of the people who voted him out of office tried to find a way to circumvent the outcome of the election–all based on LIES–not just lying to his fans, but getting fake electors to falsify Electoral College documents and trying to bully SOSs into “finding” votes that he didn’t receive. He CONTINUES to lie about losing, claiming fraud, even though there is not, nor has there ever been, any widespread fraud shown, despite dozens of investigations and over 60 lawsuits that failed for lack of evidence. This loser and his enablers falsely claimed that “suitcases of fake ballots” were brought into vote counting places, that dead people, underage and illegals voted, that vote tabulation machines were being manipulated remotely, and all sorts of other lies that, sadly, a significant number of people still believe, despite all proof to the contrary. So, the loser’s fans invaded the Capitol, hunting for the VP to lynch him when he couldn’t be bullied into refusing certified vote results, smashing doors and windows, assaulting police officers, defecating and urinating in our Capitol, defacing the John Lewis Memorial, invading offices of members of Congress, rifling their possessions and stealing some. Trump sat and watched unfold the chaos he created with his massive ego for over 3 hours, during which one of his fans got killed by proceeding through a broken window into the Speaker’s Lobby, after being warned to stop. According to Turley, this conduct, which he downplays as “merely opposing certification”, all based on THE BIG LIE, should just be ignored so that Trump can run for office again. Well, Turley, THAT’S NOT WHAT THE CONSTITUTION SAYS. And, the conduct of several Republicans wasn’t justs “merely opposing certification”–it was an effort to thwart the will of the American people, based on LIES. They violated their oath to the Constitution–they don’t deserve to be members of Congress.
This case is further proof of just how fast the SCOTUS can act to help Trump–they made sure their ruling went out in time for Super Tuesday. As to the simple matter of whether presidential immunity exists, it took them 2 weeks to even decide whether to accept certiorari, and they set a briefing schedule out for several weeks, even though the issue was already thoroughly briefed.
“This loser and his enablers falsely claimed that “suitcases of fake ballots” were brought into vote counting places, that dead people, underage and illegals voted, that vote tabulation machines were being manipulated remotely, and all sorts of other lies that, sadly, a significant number of people still believe,” says Gigi.
But in fact, all of those things are true. What Gigi seems to forget is that the issue was whether the above could be proven IN THE AMOUNTS NECESSARY to affect the outcome of the election.
Gigi loves to call others “disciples,” –pure projection from one who exhales confirmation bias everyday from whatever god or leader or propagandist is found in left-wing media that she follows, then paraphrases it to make it look like it is her own thoughts. Give it up , girl.
Dear Anonymous: maybe the rock you live under doesn’t have television, so let me help you out here. Fox claimed repeatedly that Dominion voting machines could be manipulated remotely and changed Trump votes to Biden votes–the company sued Fox and won a nearly one billion dollar verdict. Rudy Giuliani said that 2 Georgia poll workers, named Ruby Freeman and her daughter Shay Moss, brought in suitcases of fake ballots, and was sued for defamation–he lost. The containers were state-issued ballot transport containers. These 2 court decisions are not based on “confirmation bias’–they are valid court judgments, based on evidence–something you Trump fans are incapable of absorbing. There has never been anything resembling proof that significant numbers of dead, underage or illegals voted. The only dead person proven to have voted had a mail ballot cast by his son after his death–he voted for Trump. Your claim that “all of these things are true” is a LIE–they have been disproven, and, at the time Trump went around the country on “Stop the Steal” tours, he KNEW he lost, but he refuses to honor the will of the American people. That massive ego needs power, attention and adulation.
Gigi – there has never been a thorough examination of what happened in 2020. We can all hope that when Trump is re-elected, he will appoint a bipartisan commission to conduct an examination of the conduct of that election, including such issues as: changes in election laws before the election; genuineness of absentee ballots; effect of loosened criteria for accepting absentee ballots; legality and conduct of ballot-harvesting; effect of monetary contributions to election officials in Democratic cities; security of the election machines; opaqueness of the handling of ballots; actual fraud; and the effect of the suppression of the Hunter laptop story.
This kind of thorough examination is long overdue. It should have happened after the 1960 Presidential election.
You can probably think of some other issues that need looking at. As a well-known blog commentator, you might be able to get on the Commission and report to us as it’s going along.
A substantial portion of the 2020 election issues can not be investigated any more.
Election material from the 2020 election was destroyed just before the 2022 election.
Gigi,
Fox, did NOT claim “that Dominion voting machines could be manipulated remotely”
Though that has been established as TRUE.
The DVS equipment is trivialy hackable,
Fox GUESTS did claim that.
Fox should have fought the Defamation lawsuit as DVS was going to lose.
It might have had to go to SCOTUS, but they were going to lose.
I would suggest reading New Your Times Vs. Sullivan.
It’s been proven in amounts ten times over.
I guess most people are blind idiots, they can’t even read a simple chart.
https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/b2472ed25a36ccf4c3e0444be0cdc50ad71eaeaf/0_13_634_792/master/634.jpg?width=1140&dpr=2&s=none
So very thrilled that SCOTUS doesn’t care what you believe.
The SCOTUS doesn’t care what the Constitution says, and that’s why most Americans have a low opinion of it. Four of them were put onto the Court, after lying about their stance on Roe v. Wade, specifically to reverse a 50 year holding–which is something that has never before happened in our history. They are duty-bound to give effect to the Constitution that clearly says insurrectionists cannot serve in the federal government. They never said Trump was NOT an insurrectionist, but the dissent did say so–multiple times.
Can you post a link to show where Trump was convicted of, or let alone charged with insurrection?
Hey, I know you heard on your pro-Trump media–it’s one of their standard arguments–a pathetic argument to excuse the Big Lie and sitting idly by watching chaos he caused unfold while his fans hunted down Pence, intending to lynch him. Regardless of the title given to his conduct, it WAS insurrection-an effort to prevent the peaceful transfer of power based on a LIE.
Oh Giggly,
Its people like you that make me want to demand an IQ test for voter eligibility.
Free clue.
Was Trump charged under 18 USC 2383?
(Was anyone over the J6 riot?)
Now lets do a bonus round…
1) Who can declare something to be an Insurrection?
A) POTUS
B) Speaker of House
C) Any judge or politician?
D) Only A or B
So you can’t be guilty of insurrection if there was no insurrection.
You are innocent until proven guilty and if you’re not charged, you clearly aren’t guilty of a crime.
I’d say you’re a good example of why your lineage shouldn’t be linear.
We all know what Trump did after he LOST to Joe Biden–this is just some of the nonsensical arguments you Trump fans listen to believe that you got from pro-Trump media. What he did was to lie to fans about losing, knowing there wasn’t any evidence or proof to back up his lies–all to try to force Congress to refuse certified votes from the states, so that the falsified Electoral College documents could be counted–giving him the win he didn’t earn. If this isn’t an effort to overturn the government chosen by the American people–then what was it? The invasion of the Capitol was planned–it was not a spontaneous protest that got out of hand. There were meetings at the Willard Hotel. Then, you have the efforts to bully SOSs to award Trump votes he didn’t get, and the falsified Electoral College documents. How about trying to bully Pence into refusing the certified votes and sitting by for over 3 hours while his fans hunted for Pence, chanting “hang Mike Pence”? They had a noose and gallows. AND, what was all of this based on–the fact that the creature you worship cannot handle rejection because he has a mental illness called “narcissism” that causes him to lie constantly. Over the weekend, he lied about passing the Veterans Relief Act–Obama signed that bill into law. He repeatedly claimed that he “beat” Obama in 2016.
It was stolen dimbulb
” This report studies 8,954 individual updates to the vote totals in all 50 states and finds that four individual updates — two of which were widely noticed on the internet, including by the President — are profoundly anomalous; they deviate from a pattern which is otherwise found in the vast majority of the remaining 8,950 vote updates. The findings presented by this report [28]suggest that four vote count updates — which collectively were decisive in Michigan, Wisconsin, and Georgia, and thus decisive of a critical forty-two electoral votes — are especially anomalous and merit further investigation.
In particular, the finding that the broader data follows general patterns and our ability to measure just how much any individual vote update does — or doesn’t — follow this pattern allows us to make concrete claims about both how extreme any given vote update is and about what any particular vote update might have looked like, had it been less extreme one one axis or another.
We further find that if these updates were only more extreme than 99% of all updates nationally in terms of their deviation from this generally-observed pattern, that, holding all else equal, Joe Biden may very well have lost the states of Michigan, Wisconsin, and Georgia, and that he would have 42 fewer Electoral votes — putting Biden below the number required to win the Presidency. Either way, it is indisputable that his margin of victory in these three states relies on four most anomalous vote updates identified by the metric developed in this report.”
That’s just the pumped in lies overnight, not including the millions of unverified signatures in the ballot stuffing by demoncrats.
Flat uncreased stacks of “mailed in, in trifold envelopes” 100% biden votes no down ballot marks… SURE THANG GRETCHEN ~!
https://votepatternanalysis.substack.com/p/voting-anomalies-2020
Poor Giggly.
You respond w a non-answer and deflecting to 2020 where the election was stolen.
Its become apparent now how that happened.
The sad thing is that Barr let it happen.
The only ensurection you know about is when your Grampy pulled a woody after his special milkshake!
Essentially, all of the arguments that Trump incited tHe Insurrection®™ boil down to this.
Trump promoted Badthink®™, and because some people rioted on the basis of Badthink®™, that was an insurrection and Trump incited it.
Some may argue this applies to Patrice Cullors, Nikole Hannah-Jones, Charles M. Blow, and many others. After all, they chanted, “Hands Up, Don’t Shoot”. They claimed that the police habitually hunt down and gun down unarmed Black men. They claimed the criminal justice system is systemically racist. And some people rioted on this basis.
It would apply if this principle was enforced in an even-handed manner. But the same side that says that Trump was promoting Badthink®™ also believe that Cullors, Jones, and Blow were promoting Goodthink®™, and those who rioted based on this Goodthink®™ were not engaging in Insurrection®™, but fighting White Supremacy®™
Trump was NOT exonerated at all, so the ruling was NO victory for him,
Exonerated!?.. Trump has not been accused or investigated. Slow your roll gigi. find a crime 1st.
The ruling was vacated.
Gigi,
Actually read the decision. It is surprisingly well written given how that it was done blazingly fast for the Supreme court.
Regardless, It amplifies a message that was in the Moore ISL decision that the left – and many on the right missed.
In Moore SCOTUS said – no elections are NOT solely the domain of state legislatures.
But they also said – there is a clear problem with state executives and state courts improperly intefering in federal elections and if they do not stop, the federal courts will have to remedy that.
This decision AMPLIFIES that message.
The message of the court to those on the left – was to go out and win elections at the ballot box – not by using lawfare to rig the outcome.
https://rumble.com/v4hg20x-democrats-keep-making-this-freudian-slip-and-its-hilarious-every-time.html?mref=epjwd&mc=c8itf
Just another distraction. There will be no 2024 Presidential election. The Chinese are going to create a horrendous national security incident that will manifest both in east Asia and within the American homeland. Biden will declare Marshall law, both the congress and Supreme Court will be effectively nullified. The fascists behind this will have us submit to CCP authority. The Chinese will take nearly all our farm produce and industrial output for repayment of the treasury notes they are holding, putting Americans in unprecedented degradation. Chinese governors shall administer the country. American LGBQ+ people will be handed over to Chinese biologicals research facilities where they will be vivisected as part of experiments…we will be slaves
One pathetic aspect of this likely scenario is that we will have been compromised by the ignorant, emotional leftists of this country, who have been duped by these fascists so they don’t know which side is up and which side is down, their talking all sorts of nonsense that indicate their being exceedingly broken, from reality. They are mesmerizedlike the rats of Hamlin. Unfortunately, they are dragging us all down with them
Turns out leftism really is a mental disorder.
https://12ft.io/proxy
Make that:
https://www.wnd.com/2024/03/new-research-psych-experts-call-left-wing-leaders-psychopathic/
“Martial” law. Not to be confused with anyone named Marshall, nor with marital law.
Thank you!
And in the USA, martial law can only exist during an emergency so severe that the civilian courts are unable to function. The moment a courtroom opens its doors, martial law is automatically over. Which means the claim that “Biden will declare Marshall Law” is nonsense.
Heres hoping that your 2024 creative forecast is only a good premise for a Hollywood Horror Film…but it does have a loose link to sounding possible , God help us all!
@ Robert Whitney:
Heres hoping that your 2024 creative forecast is only a good premise for a Hollywood Horror Film…but it does have a sense of loose possibility , God help us all!
From Jan 1, 2023 to Dec 31, 2023
Biden has flown into 43 US airports 320,000 illegal aliens. In an effort to reduce the emergency at the southern border.
Included in details of a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit first reported by Todd Bensman, the Center for Immigration Studies found Biden’s CBP approved the latest secretive flights that transported hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants from foreign countries into at least 43 different American airports from January through December 2023.
https://notthebee.com/article/biden-admin-admits-in-lawsuit-that-they-have-flown-hundreds-of-thousands-of-illegal-aliens-into-the-us-to-reduce-numbers-at-border
Iowan2,
Watch and see to what degree the Democrats go to to get these illegals the right to vote in the coming elections.
On page 11 of the Per Curiam opinion (linked below), it states that “Any congressional legislation enforcing Section 3 must, like the Enforcement Act of 1870 and section 2383, reflect “congruence and proportionality” between preventing or remedying that conduct “and the means adopted to that end” (citing City of Boerne). Any Section 3 legislation that Raskin proposes now will need to meet that standard. Professor Turley may want to update his post/column to make that point. https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/23pdf/23-719_19m2.pdf
The Houthis have interfered with the primal forces of nature* and they will atone! Am I getting through to you Mr. Beale?
*They’ve cut 4 of the 15 cables in the Red Sea, knocking out 25% of communications capacity between Europe and Asia.
They’ve also interfered with international shipping.
Unrelated: Kyrsten Sinema isn’t running for re-election:
https://twitter.com/SenatorSinema/status/1765094840214127068
Nothing will improve if Trump is elected but either or both houses of congress remain in a democrat death grip. We must remove the prog/left infestation in DC or we gain nothing by electing Trump or an other republican, for that matter. We have to dig deep and clean out the bureaucratic cesspool that is the swamp for things to change. Now how many keyboard warriors are up for a real tussle with the evil that has enveloped the left?
@whimsicalmama
Exactly. We are in quite a predicament. Even now with a minority, the dems in the house are not even hiding their intentions. This is bad – very bad, for the future of our country. In the 80s, at least we all agreed that a communist takeover was a bad thing. Generationally, and none of us will live forever – that is no longer guaranteed. I am so glad my elders that fought for us did not live to see what is happening today. This is indeed likely one of the most important elections of our lifetimes. As an example, anyone that thinks opposing pornography in elementary school is the same as hating people different from you – sigh. The causes are myriad and varied over the past 40 years, but we are at a real turning point, and there is no way to know which way we’ll go. Let us hope that reason prevails.
And as an aside: clearly everyone voted against removing Trump from the ballot. That makes me think certain people’s previous examples of idiocy (I can’t define a woman) were an act, following a literal script, and if that is the case, we now have justices very clearly lying for the democratic party, on the bench. That is beyond the pale, and do not tell me that this is not coordinated. Tow the party line – or else. This is insane, and it is absurd. That the dems are removing other dems from ballots to bolster Biden. Good grief. In America, the internment camps will not go the way they did in Germany, I can tell you that. These people are picking a fight they do not want and are not prepared for.
“Tow the party line – or else.” this sounds like something directly out of the old USSR playbook. Tail Gunner Joe (the first iteration of Trump in many ways) was correct when he screamed that commies were infiltrating our government and society. You witnessed how quickly the media/education industries shut him down – but he was right and if we had paid attention to his warnings way back then we might not be in this predicament. I blamed the boomers (disclaimer – I am a 73 year old boomer but never a hippie) who were spoiled brats who were given the best this nation ever offered and they bloated themselves on self-gratification and the “be yourself, man” ideology of those spoiled brats allowed an opening for the would-be communists to indoctrinate them in the new age of “let it all hang out” nonsense that began the destruction of our western-based society. We were asleep at the wheel and have allowed this and now I doubt if there are enough sensible, legal, patriotic Americans remaining to turn this corrupted leviathan around. We can only blame the republicans for this because they have never, truly, fought against it.
You blame the republicans. That’s amazing. No wonder you people lose over and over again.
The houses of congress have been split near 50 50 since the 40 year democrat reign under ted kennedy
I do not think any people can ever get rid of a bureaucratic cesspool. It s just a natural part of any government. Wherever money is present and power, there will be grift, graft, make-work incompetence, theft, bribery, influence-peddling, and the more money there is, the more of a swamp it becomes. Even Trump can not clean that big of a swamp up.
Not to mention, that many of the swamp critters are government employees, and basically not people who can be fired. A free and independent press could be of great help, but forget that. Most of our press is rolling around mud-wrestling with the crooks. Throwing out the Democrats would be a good first step, but budgetary constraints would probably work better, and those restraints are coming, whether we like it or not. I hope the financial stress will be great enough to cut government in half or more.
whimsical: when you speak of “we”, you prove your discipleship, because this is how issues are presented on pro-Trump propaganda media. You Trump disciples are in the minority–you lost the popular vote in 2016, 2020, 2021 2022, 2023 and will lose again in 2024–so stop trying to pretend that the Cult of Trump represents “we”–meaning the American people, because you don’t. There is no “bureaucratic cesspool”, but rather, dedicated public servants who know that they are beholden to the American people, not a would-be dictator. And, there’s no evil “left”, either.
Natasha,
What about Peter Strzok and Lisa Page?
Lois Lerner?
The CIA working with the Five Eyes to spy on Trump and his associates?
None of them were serving the American people.
They were working against a popular presidential candidate or the Republican party.
If anyone has proven their discipleship to the Democrat party, the deep state, the swamp, it is you. Keep up your cult like thinking. We all see it.
And yes, there is a evil let too. They endorse lawlessness, rule without law, pornography in elementary schools, pro-terrorists Hamas supporters, the dumbing down the public education system, promote hate and division in public education, and give groomers a pass to allow them to exploit children.
You are sick.
There is no “deep state” or “swamp”. The orange loser you worship never understood that federal employees work on behalf of America–they don’t exist to make him look good–so when he tried to get them to do his bidding and they refused–well, this must be proof of a “deep state”. Examples–Chris Krebs, head of Cybersecurity–appointed by Trump and fired when he wouldn’t go along with the Big Lie–he said publicly that 2020 was the most-secure in US history. How about lifelong Republican and former member of Congress, Dan Coats, head of US Intelligence Agencies–Trump contradicted him publicly in Helsinki by siding with Putin over Coats, when Coats affirmed that Russians did work with Trump’s campaign to smear Hillary Clinton. How about Bill Barr, who finally had enough of Trump, and suddenly went on the sh(t list when he refused to prosecute people upon Trump’s demands? Then, there’s Dr. Fauci and other physicians at the CDC, who wouldn’t go along with Trump’s lies about the seriousness of COVID and the quack cures, like Hydroxychloroquine? Trump is actually threatening criminal prosecution of these dedicated public servants. And, no, Democrats do not support any of the other things you claim. If you believe this crap, you are the sick one.
denies the deep state then names the deep state actors
only libturds think they know when they know nothing
You are right GiGi! It is kind and caring people who want to kill babies coming out in the delivery room, and it is kind and caring people who want to castrate and perform double-mastectomies on screwed up kids! It is a thoughtful people, who recharacterize looting and shoplifting as legitimate forms of redress!
Watch this, a fellow Democrat, who will keep voting for Democrats, no matter what:
It has never been the case that Democrats or “the Left” propose killing full-term infants in the delivery room. There is no such thing as gender affirming surgery on anyone who is under the age of 18. These are lies. Why do you believe this garbage?
Ken Alltucker USA TODAY
Show Caption
The number of people seeking gender-affirming surgeries such as breast and chest operations or genital reconstruction nearly tripled during the three years before the coronavirus pandemic, a new study shows.
The study tracked more than 48,000 patients who had operations in hospitals and same-day surgery centers from 2016 through 2020, the most recent data available. The number of patients getting these operations nearly tripled from 4,552 in 2016 to 13,011 in 2019, before decreasing slightly in 2020 amid the coronavirus restrictions that postponed or halted many types of non-emergency operations, according to the study published Wednesday in JAMA Network Open.
Gender-affirming surgeries were most popular with young adults; more than 25,000 people ages 19 to 30 received these procedures. Fewer than 8% of patients − a total of 3,678 − were 12- to 18-year-olds, a group scrutinized by lawmakers pursuing restrictions mainly in conservative states.
YOU’RE WRONG AGAIN GIGI, JUST AS WRONG AS WRONG CAN BE, TOTALLY INCORRECT, TOTALLY IGNORANT, A LIAR
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/health/2023/08/23/gender-affirming-care-restrictions-for-minors-grow/70652104007/
Whimsicalmama,
For the most part I agree with you.
But I also think no matter who is in the WH, controls both houses, somethings have been set into motion, have too much momentum to be turned or righted. All the illegals is an example. Just saying “We will round them all up!” is not the same as putting into practical application.
De-dollarization is another.
I expect as the election to grow closer, as Biden’s polling numbers continue to fail, all the DNC narratives are failing or have failed, the Democrats will become more and more desperate. They are already in panic mode. Just look at the desperation of our leftist friends comments here on the good professor’s blog. They cling to the insurrection and attempt coup narrative like a talisman. But as the good professor points out, it was a protest turned into low level riot and their talisman falls apart like a paper tiger in front of a cat 5 hurricane.
As I have said many a times here on the good professor’s blog, a civil war must be avoided at all costs. Millions would die hundreds of miles from a shot taken in anger. We are now in a cold, civil war. I think it started during the Obama admin, the SJW/BLM/Antifa/defund the police movement that then gave birth to wokeism. Without a doubt, wokeism is the real threat to democracy as it mirrors the horrors of the Third Reich, Stalin, and Mao. To a lesser degree Pol Pot.
I mentioned the Democrat party seems to be willing to push the bounds of un-Constitutional laws, disregard the rule of law, previous norms, civility, ignoring facts and truth when it is a inconvenience to them but feed into fear, uncertainty and doubt to feed into the age of rage they promote. They are highly emotional, giving into their emotions rather than common sense, logic and critical thinking.
If we were to get to the point a hot civil war, no doubt they will start it. As it is, they are pushing for one, blatantly shoving it in our faces, daring us to do something about it.
If we were to do something about it, it will not go well.
If the Left does start something, I suspect it will be in blue states, and large blue urban areas. I don’t see it happening in small town Oklahoma, for example, not unless there is a woke college in town. Note the problems Antifa-types had even in Atlanta, over the Cop City protests. If they do start it, I hope they do a good job! Those areas might finally wake up.
Colorado tried to bluff the rest of America with a “pair of threes” by selecting parts of A14 that met their novel, yet unconstitutional, goal. SCOTUS called their bluff and showed their hand, “NINE OF A KIND”.
FWIW, I ordered a copy of Inside the Whale, by George Orwell, where you got the quote “So much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don’t even know that fire is hot.” Book just came in! Thanks for the tip!
Excellent
Raskin is clearly a danger to the democratic process; Swallowell is just a clown.
This shows us just how dangerous the Democrat party is to our Republic and in my mind is a terroist organization.
No.
The Democrat party is not a terrorist organization.
They have more in common with the Nazis, Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot and many other totalitarians then they do with democracy, the Constitution, or individual rights.
What they truly are, are fascists.
Can the United States become a dual state wherein the judicial system is made to coexist with the arbitrary power of an illiberal political party? Might the American system of justice, along with all professional associations involved with the administration of justice, undergo alignment and coordination with a myriad of illiberal goals? Surely, such a thing has never happened.
https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/asset/5dd10ca9-904d-4801-88bc-c7e4379dd03f.mp4
Man, this is freaking *unbelievable* on the part of the dems in the face of a perfectly legitimate SCOTUS decision. I hope this doesn’t unleash the beast in a fashion that can only be fought. Accept it: our modern dems are part of a globalist regime, one that does not have your freedom or best interests in mind, and they will stop at nothing to make their power permanent. Absolutely nothing, and that is crystal clear now. we used to call the Nazis the ‘Armies of Evil’, well, here they are again, but on our own shores, under the guise of a political party in a Constitutional Republic where everyone who is not them still wants to be free.
I am literally just in awe; I am fully cognizant that the gears on all of this have been turning for some time, but Obama (I am beginning to think a greater liar and/or sociopath, or at the very least, a clinical narcissist, has not graced our government in quite a long time) was the lynchpin, they would love for Trump and the rights of the people to be merely an inconvenience on their march to totalitarianism. This is literally medieval stuff, the serfs against the lords, and yes, the echoes of the 30s are glaring. Just unbelievable. Put on the armband, already, dems.
The thing that strikes me is that this a BIG country. For this to have been fomented so thoroughly is no mean feat, and this proposal is disgusting in the extreme. anyone that can’t see it for what it is at this point – I just do not know what to say. We have come this close to being fully captured. Please do not let them go the rest of the way; that’s on us. And they will not go gently into the night, no; we will have to keep standing up long after the votes are cast, and you’d better believe the same nonsense we saw in the past two election cycles will be in full force, and possibly on steroids. It is going to be ugly, it is going to be frustrating, it is going to be drawn out as long as possible, and it is going to be full of chicanery from the left. That is absolutely, 100%, already guaranteed.
If you are a real liberal democrat, then insist that your party evolve instead of demonizing those of us who still possess our sanity, and stop supporting them until they do. Yes, that means stop sending them money. Do any of you have the courage? Because I know in your hearts you think it’s madness, too.
“If you are a real liberal democrat, then insist that your party evolve instead of demonizing those of us who still possess our sanity, and stop supporting them until they do.”
x 100!