Texas governor is WEF. He says one thing & does the opposite. Until we all realize that red team blue team IS the problem... Republicans involved in Colorado & other states re Trump
we do! we do! and it isn't just intellectuals, it is real people who sense just like rats on a sinking ship that we are up shit's creek without a paddle.
So maybe "we" should get together and start confronting the systematic, ideological destruction of the principles on which this country was built. Our "leaders" certainly aren't going to do anything.
Or we can keep posting about it on social media instead. 🤷♀️
I did something with my HOA and think the steps could be followed locally, regionally and nationally.
The first thing I did was gather contact information for everyone who thought the way I do.
We got together and went over our governing documents with a fine-tooth comb and found out where our HOA was violating our rights.
We raised funds by holding garage sales and used those funds to hire an attorney.
The attorney sent letters. We contacted the paper and got in the news.
We showed up for every meeting and held their feet to the fire. It took years.
I may be a bit of a dreamer, but I'm pretty sure these steps could be modified and used to achieve similar results at the local, regional and national level. Personally, I believe we should be starting at the local level, all across the US.
Someone much smarter than I could then unite all those disparate groups across each region, state, and then the country.
It would be a lot of work, but at least people would be working toward something.
I want a job to do! Put me to work. I can't stand sitting here, waiting for things to get better. That's almost more frustrating than seeing all the destruction.
I'm truly curious how the HOA was violating your rights. I, too, live in an HOA and the problem I see is that people move in and expect everything to be done for them and not to contribute time to help manage things. So, please, what were the issues?
opposition in the country is very amorphous still; it is rumbling and discontent on all sides. voices are not being heard or are decried as somehow criminal. but there is nothing like the 60s. nowhere yet in the world. but I feel it coming.
The big difference is that the 60s happened and they're far more prepared this time with far more tools. What most people have yet to grapple with is that for these well funded think tanks, security state acronyms, and the ever-growing Censorship Industrial Complex the Worldwide Web is one big lab. They are studying us, learning about us, learning how minds work, what types of personalities veer this way or that way. Inevitably how to control us.
They have far more ways to distract, divide, confuse, repress, suppress and smear people today. It's downright terrifying. But we have to accept that it's happening, unsettling as it is.
my heavens, don't I know it. Every morning when I'm discussing (generally indignantly) the current events in the Failing Empire, eventually I work in a "are you listening FBI? Fuck you." It's my childish entertainment, but the fucking computers do listen to us, no matter what. We've all seen the way you say, "wow, my back is killing me," and instants later your sites are inundated with ads for back remedies. Yeah, So, I send messages to all the persecutorial USG agencies every day and hope their computers gobble it up.
I really should have been more precise; when I said "no one" I was specifically referring to the so-called "representatives of the people", our self-serving "elected" officials, on both sides of the political aisle.
The four branches of government (I'm including the unelected alphabet agencies) have become so blatantly ideologically rabid and corrupt in neutering the public's power they are clearly pressing for a true insurrection to let them finish the job. Although one might argue the insurrection has already occurred, courtesy of a complete disregard for the Constitution and the rights codified therein by those in power.
I'm sitting in wait for when the time come when we all converge and rise out of the ashes of this despair. Side note; the movie Civil War is an attempt to fear us into capitulation..
I told my dad you can’t eat moral superiority and self righteousness, or fuel your vehicles with it. California Ds haven’t come to this basic realization yet.
but it is the charmed circle that has the bulk of the international criminals, the thieves of national assets, the occupiers of oil-rich areas of other countries, the maws into which the crumbs from the MIC flow -- who own us, control us, lie to us, imprison us, and threaten us and US is the entire world, "us" not U.S. We en masse recognize this dreadful thing that fell over the fat happy world, but nobody knows what to do. I think plugging up the air vents in their bunkers would be a good start.
McMullin, B.J. (2023). "The Early Editions of Rob Roy." The Library: Transaction of the Bibliographical Society. Seventh Series. 24: 487-495. (December).
Trump's disqualification is not just for the ballot but for holding office at all. So his Electors will likely be the next target when they seek ballot access.
this one is going straight up the line, where we will see if the Supreme Court is still in the frightened mode, where it thinks it is the duty of the justices never to decide any critical issues in this country lest people be angered.
Yep the Co Supreme Court is basically just a smaller senate of specialist political shills, waiting to have their votes overturned by the superior political shills in appellate courts, and then a final word from the HNIC political shills at the US Supreme Court
good thing you already know everything, that means you'll already have read this court's decision before just jumping to a bunch of dumb conclusions because Taibbi (who has no particular expertise in constitutional law or any of this shit) sent out a stupid substack post that he knew his gay-for-Trump fanboys would eat up like desert.
Sorta begs the question why you even follow people like Taibbi, when you're already so fucking smart
I guess you don’t like blacks or Hispanics, they were doing too well under Trump, and you like inflation and high taxes and sexual perverts in every office of government and your daughters, grand daughters being sexually assaulted in the school bathroom. You like driving cars that take hours to recharge and that ultimately run on coal, and like being beholden to the Mullahs in Iran.
Not me buddy & in a clean election nor most Americans.
Not a leap, just a few steps: Does your vote reflect your values or not? Do you disclaim responsibility for the actions of the individuals and party positions that you voted for. A vote for Joe Biden and the Democrats is a vote for unfettered unvetted illegal immigration including numerous sexual predators, for biologic males in girls and Womens bathrooms where rapes have already been documented by boys posing as girls under color of the fiction of transgenderism, blacks and legal Hispanics have been particularly hard hit by Slo China Joes's policies, which are the root cause of inflation, is pushing higher taxes and is attempting to force purchase of electronic vehicles.
Didn’t Colorado pass a law thst says the votes of Coloradans in Presidential elections are to be ignored, and the State’s electoral votes granted to whoever got his name counted by election authorities on the most ballots nationwide?
This is sometimes called the “national popular vote” but the Democrats understand Stalin’s point that it doesn’t matter how people vote if you control the ballot count.
You're talking about the National Popular Vote Compact, and not describing it correctly. This effort has been underway for decades, and it has been passed by quite a few states; I support it as the only realistic way to circumvent the winner-take-all Electoral College vote allocation, since a constitutional amendment is generally considered impossible.
The compact would not even take affect until enough states have passed it to control the majority of EC votes. Once that happens, the participating states would allocate their EC votes to the nationwide winner of the popular vote—which is how a lot of Americans think their president is elected anyway.
NPV has support among both conservatives and liberals. Around 10 years ago it was very near to the goal, and I haven't checked lately, but I fear the increasing polarization of the political landscape has had more and more states reversing their potential membership.
Nevertheless, while admittedly, imperfect, it still seems like it would be better than what we've got now; all but two states allocate their EC votes as winner-take-all. You can read more about it at NationalPopularVote.Com, which has extensive discussion both pro and con.
Because Ukraine doesn’t have an Electoral College, Russians in its eastern provinces, where they controlled election systems, were able to grind out enough ballots to swamp the rest of the country and elect a Russian puppet as President.
The purpose of National Popular Vote is to permit the Democrats to use their control of California to dominate the other 49 states. Currently, the Democrats can grind out as many ballots in California as they want, but it wouldn’t do them any good: they would still get the same number of electoral votes. This is exactly what happened in 2016.
If that law is templated like the one proposed in a number of states, it isn't effective until enacted in some number of other states, a threshold some distance from being reached..
I don’t care if both Biden and Trump drop dead today..can't fathom why anyone with a brain would vote for either. However, since Thump arrived on the scene, the courts are doing things that shouldn't happen in our country just to prevent him being president again. We've never been at democracy, but have pretended to be. That's over. My question is why aren't the war mongers in jail...Biden, Clintons, Nuland, Bushes, Obama for starters. They've murdered literally millions upon millions of innocent people in sovereign countries, NONE of which threatened us. Now we want to take down Putin and Xi Jinping who are also not threatening us. God, I hate my own cointry. It stands for war. (P.S. Ukraine and Israel are both corrupt at their core, and we give them billions when we have people with no healthcare and living on the street). No one should be given ugly choices from the DNC and RNC, two truly stupid groups. Go OUTSIDE of both and vote for a decent person.
I'm old enough to remember perennial joke candidate Pat Paulsen. Pretty sure I remember some elections where he another write-in candidates showed up. Of course there needs to be a certain minimum to be listed. And you probably have to look pretty hard, it certainly won't show up in USA Today or whatever. Maybe only some official stats buried on each state website or state records or whatever.
I also worked as an election judge in Wyoming, which is what they call polling place workers. We were not allowed to throw away any ballots. Those are all recorded somewhere.
I do not doubt you. Paulsen rings a memory bell; long ago.
What is a ballot these days? At best, a circle filled in with pen ink or pencil graphite, scanned by a programmable machine, but programmed by whom?
Until we once again have paper ballots, counted by human beings overseen by other human beings looking for fraud, we will never have elections that have the confidence of the populace.
Caveat here: there can be different state requirements for write-in votes to be counted. So just writing in Mickey Mouse or Jon Stewart won't work, except as a tiny point of personal protest satisfaction. https://www.usa.gov/write-in-candidates
Rob, you cannot get enough people to take the trouble to make a difference. We can barely get enough people to even show up to vote. Not to mention the fact that many states already have taken steps to achieve this illegal means.
Who is traitor and who is loyal depends on who wins, Martin.
Perhaps making death the stakes isn’t a good idea? “The full penalty.”
Now your faction is good at working the system and with staged, police protected riots.
However some grandmothers and various assorted working class sorts going to see their elected representatives on January 6th frightened you out of your wits, and you’re still witless,
Are you sure this path of power and possibly civil war is for you?
I think you missed my point, which is my fault because I was trying to be oblique as i did not want to create a debate down a new rabbit hole. My apologies. But my response was about your point of making death the stakes. i think Hamas did just that to maneuver Israel into such a fight. I believe they were successful in their strategy and were counting on the street, Egypt/Jordan and the gulf states, and their fellow travelers in the west to pressure Israel into withdrawing in defeat. It didn't work, I thought it would, and now death are the stakes and they are in the game. Whatever your opinion of the morality of that.
Impeachment, conviction, removal from office, charged and tried for treason, convicted then punished to the fullest extent of the law = execution. Trouble is the real criminals are the ones pulling his strings: BHO et al.
I just called for initiation of a series of constitutional and legal remedies for cause of illegal and unconstitutional actions by a POTUS who was fraudulently installed in 2021 after the real insurrection; each step is legal and contingent because, you know, laws.
Thanks. But you worry about you and I will worry about me. I did amend my comment thought based on the criminal excuse for law enforcement we now live under.
The United States of South America is what we are now.
They do have one redeeming characteristic. By virtue of the Texas Constitution the Legislature meets for just 114 days every other year. So legislators have to have some other meaningful job. And there isn't much time in the session for crazy.
What's to stop Biden from utterly wrecking everything 247 years of freedom and sacrifice brought to Western civilization?
Or Barry & Mike? Bill & Hill? Kamala & Gavin?
I'm 74 years old, never in my wildest nightmares ever conceived things could go so wrong so fast in so many ways. Remarkably I'm still glad I never fathered a child. Must be awful for parents these days having to watch as their's are led astray from what is true, right, and wholesome.
Not the point. Neither Trump nor Biden are close at all. Neither were either Bush, or Obama, certainly not Bill Clinton.
Reagan and Carter were the closest in the last 50 years.
Nixon & Johnson I wouldn't have bought a used car from.
Kennedy and Eisenhower's flaws were hidden from us yet they did a great deal to secure our borders and keep the dogs of war from our shores.
Biden can't keep his dogs from biting his Secret Service detail let alone live up to the oath of office to defend the Constitution and the safety of the United States from enemies both without and within.
No. I noticed that some CO partisans had shaky legal basis to kick Trump off the ballot. Then I read a claim about what the other partisan group would do with absolutely no legal basis.
That's all I noticed other than lots of braying . . .
14th Amendment. This is some hard core, high stakes lawfare right here. Dang! These guys are good! Question is whether SCOTUS will get a chance to Rule on the Appeal before the primaries?
It’s actually going to take dropping the pretenses - this isn’t a fucking intellectual parlor game - it’s the future of our nation and hence our entire species.
Be prepared to kill without mercy those who would tear down the safeguards of western civilization.
The Supreme Court ruled that the US government could not remove fencing erected by Texas, and within a week the Feds used front-loaders to list up portions of the fence to allow invaders in.
That is defiance of the constitutional order, and it is a clear failure to uphold the law of the land.
And FWIW, I seriously doubt you could properly define "insurrection" and follow it up with a valid example.
Actually there is probably more of a basis to do that (violation of his oath of office) but again, there's been no process to convict or find that in any way, so, again inappropriate. Great concept, but due process is a core belief.
Due process is who's core believe? Have you followed the DC case against Trump. Banana republic totalitarian tactics. It's happening to less known people in multiple states. Politically motivated prosecution and perversion of laws to achieve it.
Isn't this effectively an impeachment at the state level? The Colorado Constitution reads like the US Constitution - impeachment by the Lower House, trial by the Upper House, two-thirds majority required to convict.
Colorado courts don't have this authority on their own. This is, at best, a stunt. Mostly it undermines the authority of the Colorado Supreme Court, now seen as pointlessly partisan.
You make a good point. In the 14th century the Roman Catholic Church split, with rival Papacies being set up in Rome and France. The claim was that the rival was illegitimately elected. We are surely divided enough in this country that the Union, that is those who intend to continue the nation conceived in 1789, really cannot sustain the chaos imposed on it by the corrupt demons who have hypnotized the crazies. I no longer desire to ride the cataclysm to digital slavery and chaos like so many apparently do. Let them. But sane people who would like to survive can no longer swim with their millstone around our collective necks.
Seriously - we've heard a constant drumbeat over the past several years that our rights and democracy are under attack from Trump and radical judges. Does the DNC, Resistance, Establishment elite crowd really not see the irony in taking away the rights of Coloradans to vote for their preferred candidate (1.36 million of them cast their ballot for Trump in 2020) on the basis of a 4-3 split Colorado Supreme Court vote? This is such alarmingly bad optics, it almost seems planned to be a Trump campaign ad.
They are blinded by ginned up fear of something even they can't name. They can't even actually think or speak about what is the worst that could actually happen in a second Trump administration, because they are too busy imagining big scary things with no shape to them that are much worse.
Another corollary of this observation is that they have spent decades worrying about faith in institutions, like the DoJ and the judiciary, but it turns out that was only important so that they could get their way. As soon as they aren't getting their way, the Supreme Court must be antiquated and in need of reform...
Eureka... that is really it, but I think most of them aren't self-aware of it. But that fits with the known literature of what drives this kind of serious civil conflict leading to potential revolution. elites competing for limited power positions is always one potential contributing cause to a revolution; in this case the rebellion would be elites versus a secpnd trump election
If I was trying to not re-elect Trump I would be doing my utmost not to give him any publicity especially something that looks remotely politically motivated.
Interpretation of the 14th Amendment is the job of the supremes. Can’t use the 14th Amendment to do this. One hopes that Roberts will get over his #TDS and fear of not being invited to the best cocktail parties.
It's the pedo porn that Roberts is likely scared of, not missing out on the cocktail party invites. Like so many in DC, he is compromised and therefore controlled.
Part of the plan is to de-legitimize the Supreme Court. Even some of the Dems wouldn't vote for the the "judicial reformation" efforts people like Rep. Bowman were pushing a couple of years ago. But since that failed legislative effort, the strategy has been to personally smear conservative justices and attack as "anti-democratic" decisions made by the Court. And --- to just ignore other decisions.
The Democratic Party is manufacturing Constitutional crises throughout the land. However the Court rules on this and other issues, those rulings will just be inserted into the Resistance framework at the most useful point.
Saw reporting tonight that the CO Supremes were split 4/3 on whether to keep a Federal Election procedure-qualified Presidential candidate off of a ballot. The Chief of that Court dissented, and they are all Dems. And they STAYED the decision, because of course we need more uncertainty going into 2024. And because of course let's vomit it up to the Supreme Court so the Dem Party can make use of it there.
We are so far away from when Gerald Ford pardoned Richard Nixon so the country could heal. At ultimate political/personal risk to Gerald Ford. Do law schools produce anybody anymore with any knowledge, brains, ethics?
I'm not sure if they can. Elections are largely a function of the States, and in particular, the State Legislatures. But I haven't actually read the CO decision yet.
Banning the presumptive nominee for the Republican ticket, the candidate who polls higher than any other person running for office including the sitting president, and who hasn't been convicted of a single offense, doesn't count as disenfranchisement? Are you employed by the Lincoln Project or something? Do you have a collection of Liz Cheney bikini photos? Twisted logic comes from a twisted mind....
Hardly, and it reflects the same autocratic position adopted by the democrats during his presidency, but unfortunately too many, if not most on the left, went along and are equally complicit in creating a country less democratic, less evenhanded then ever before.
They are trying get him to win the primary and then lose the election. That is the obvious strategy. This has been their strategy since 2018. The Democrats even gave money to proTrump candidates during the midterm primaries. The problem is that the strategy is cynical and so anti democratic that it is hard to see how the US recovers as a liberal democracy.
I know but I'm not sure it's going to plan. The other problem is the possibility of it backfiring on them. I mean they just assumed that Biden was going to cruise to reelection and Trump was going to be easy to destroy. All the talk from the National Review crowd is how the Democrats are just going to replace Biden with another candidate and laugh all the way to the White House. I'm not sure even they are crazy enough to go with Newsom (destructive with Hillary lovability) or Harris (unfit in every way). On the Republican side of things DeSantis (make up your mind on where you stand) could probably bring in enough votes to win simply because he is the first second choice but his campaign has been an embarrassment. Haley (Romney in heels) is only really popular in Republican donor fever dreams. Finally, Ramaswamy (still can't figure him out) is less running for the Presidency than a cabinet position. It's like none of these people learned anything and somehow they are way more out of touch than a loudmouth sleazy real estate broker from New York who really needs to stop tweeting all the damn time.
Nah, America is not that big of deal to them. They are globalists. They could just go somewhere else. The only way they would be in trouble is if they fucked up the whole world enough to the point where they were hated everywhe... Oh, so that's the problem! Never mind then.
Honestly, as someone who’s washed their hands of the Democrats and Republicans, the voting process… what astonishes me is that the Progressives are totally unaware that they’re the authoritarians.
I'm sitting at my desk in Colorado while I type this and am torn between seething rage and utter despondency over this dipshit f*cking state and this idiot ruling. I look at my kids though and think, I don't care what I have to do, even if I have to die, I can't let their future be the one the Democrats have planned for them.
They are showing their hand Danial and 2024 is not going to be the end just the beginning of a new kind of Boston Tea Party and we need to stay focused. We got this Bro. Stay Strong Patriot !!
I have been going there on vacation the last two years, and what has amazed me is that any actual work gets done. Seems like EVERYONE is high. They must fly in Mormons to do surgery because nobody else in the state isn't high all the time.
Only in Denver maybe. There's a huge state outside of that metastatic cancer of a metropolitan area with a lot of people who are productive and are not high all the time. Many of us are still productive citizens.
Better than a MAGA World full of Guilianis and Jenna Ellis lawyers who just lie lie lie, then cry and recant. First they lie. Then they meet in secret to start a riot. Then the claim, “we have the evidence.” Then they lie some more. And women and minorities, even in your State, become subject to the mob. Good luck.
I’m delusional? Republicans have for decades shouted “state’s rights.” Now the highest court in a State finds against the orange insurrectionist and I’m the delusional one?
A court of *Democrats* (and if you've been around upper class Democrats in this state, they are the most ideologically rabid people alive) and interestingly, there were three dissenters including the chief justice, also a Democrat.
There has been no trial. Trump has been convicted of nothing. This is therefore completely preemptive and nothing but a massive virtue signal to other upper class, Ivy League educated liberals in our society.
The Constitution and our Republic DEPENDS on rule of law, which by definition does not have tiered outcomes for the same behaviors, and which also by definition requires following ALL of the Constitution in determining guilt. Ever heard of "right to a speedy trial?" Well, this clown car court didn't even have the trial, much less a speedy one.
Explain the parts where they followed all the amendments related to trial to reach this "verdict?"
It's a political statement of opinion, not a rule of law outcome.
Wehelll then mister, you must be a constitutional scholar or just really really knowledgeable about the law in Colorado. I confess, I'm neither. I read the post that we're all commenting on. That's all. Oh yeah, I presumed that the Supreme Court of Colorado knows more than I do about the, um, law in Colorado. As for your assertion that I need to "'splain the parts where they followed all the amendments..." maybe you need to 'splain why it is you're so sure a Supreme Court made a 'political' statement and you know better than they do what the 'rule of law outcome' actually means.
Someday, if there is any justice left in this world, you'll be on the wrong side of the awesome power of government, and when they tell you we're going to charge you with 93 counts of nonsense, and even if you're proven innocent after a multi-year ordeal, you'll be bankrupted defending yourself. But if you just sign this teensy-weensie little confession here, all of that goes away.
If they lose power they no longer completely control how justice gets meted out. That risks a swing back in their direction and that is a risk they cannot afford to take.
As an optimist, I really do think their house of cards is collapsing. If the Republicans keep pulling the thread Michelle Steele did in that hearing when she asked the University Presidents about Qatar funding, things could get very interesting. I think a subcommittee dedicated to a forensic accounting of all money coming in from Qatar in the last 10 years would be eye-opening for a lot of people.
Great point. The longer they hold on, the more brazen and public their crimes, the more extreme lengths they are willing to go to stay in power. They recognize this battle as getting existential for themselves. The fate of the country is irrelevant.
The country, "democracy" and everything else is merely collateral damage and they never cared about that illusion anyway. You have decades of dirty deeds that have been stashed away in dark corners by the uniparty, establishment, deep state, whatever you want to call the blob that has run our nation for the past sixty plus years.
The best part is, I don't believe Trump would ultimately be the guy to shine light in those corners, but they can't even take the risk as they have no control mechanism to ensure his silence leaving so much hanging out in the wind.
“The best part is, I don't believe Trump would ultimately be the guy to shine light in those corners”
Bingo.
Trump didn’t even threaten to rip open the CIA archives like RFK has, he didn’t even really do anything to the Deep State, and yet, just the possibility that he COULD do something, and once questioned NATO in an interview, they’ve gone on a Jihad against him with such ridiculous ferocity that they destroyed the post-WW2 order they were trying to stop him from destroying.
As a good Jester, I do find this darkly hilarious. I just wish the stakes weren’t so high. I don’t like the perception of reality itself hanging in the balance.
Yes I don’t exactly see why the operatives didn’t just use the containment strategy they use on everyone else. Maybe Trump has better kompromat on them than they could use on him. So far all the shit they’ve pulled out of the hat has been lame. Stormy Daniels anyone?
Because the only thing more dangerous than someone with too much power is someone with too much power who fears losing any, if not all, of that power. They know their grasp is slipping, and the coming acts of desperation will be cut throat. They will not go gently into that good night.
They have blm/ antifa on ready for this summer. Dems won’t stop the fire or the civil war. The intensity will be determined by trumps lead mid year.
Dems get behind, riots start. Martial law declared. Election cancelled.
Maga hits the streets for a true insurrection. Military/ cia controls the firepower and we end up in a military coup. Biden drops, Michelle takes over. Trump gets assassinated. We move from 1984 to 1968.
Are there odds on who will actually lead this shithole after it comes down?
Taking the under on Trump/ Biden making to November
An interesting side note on the coming violence of summer (and it's coming) is that in 2020 the rioting was allegedly to protest some mythical "structural racism" which no one ever really defined, and triggered by the overdose of a life long felon which was spun into a wild hoax. All on top of the plandemic insanity.
Today we have the virulently Anti-Semitic pro-terrorist demonstrations/riots which seem to be surprising everyone in their level hatred and intensity. But the whole of the Left is not behind the "movement". If this violence spills over into the summer and collides with the growing partisan tensions, you could very likely see martial law imposed before November.
Laugh now if you wish, but mark my words. Someone here mentioned 1968.
It’s not a long putt to see these professional protesters recruited to any left wing talking point. Of course they are all about “protecting democracy “ and something tells me they are well funded with dark money. Witness the riches of the BLM leadership.
Anything Trump says going forward will be declared insurrection proof points justifying the radical left martial response. Not thinking Maga boys will sit this one out. I mentioned 1968 for good reason as I lived it.
The ultimate tipping point would be a draft to send our boys into a NATO or Israel quagmire. I wouldn’t put it past Biden’s deep staters to mount that horse but not before the election.
Apologies for dropping off, I had a Christmas (no, not "Holiday") party to attend...
As a wee lad of 5 in '68 I didn't really comprehend its impact until much later. One camp likes to say, "we lived though it", and they would be correct. The other camp believes it was the very core of our nation being ripped apart at the seams and that we barely made it through. Perspective is a difficult thing to achieve no matter how much you strive for it -- even with decades of hindsight.
My gut just tells me that 2024 will be one of the most explosive years in our two-and-a-half centuries, the outcome of which is impossible to predict at this point. However it ends, one way or another, it will be a different America that is is even today.
Oh my god. "Maga boys"? Who won't "sit this one out"? How pathetic. Your "Maga boys" are a bunch of losers, halfwits and cowards. They already shot their shot. Already tried to do their dumbass violence in support of their cult leader, on Jan 6th. And lost. Badly.
"Maga boys" are WAY too busy these days trying to evade responsibility for their vile and pathetic actions. Or, they are already, rightfully, rotting in prison, and unable to "not sit this one out", you miserable sissy. No one is doing jack shit. All of you are just like the dimwits in, say, the comments on Breitbart. Making stupid predictions that never even come close to true, talking big about all your plans and actions. Nothing but the lowest form of internet babbler.
About that-- look at who has moved since covid and where. The big coastal cities are all losers, big losers. If there is another summer of fiery but peaceful protests and rapey utopian anarchist encampments it will only accelerate the flight out of large urban areas. This isn't 2020 and nobody is going to vote for defunding the police again.
The grand plan was written in the 60s, and don’t exclude elections as a necessary assurance the goal is attainable. The people have never, but once, picked the presidential primary candidates for either party. They were all place before us at the voting booth, accept in 2016.
Well the type of Moves b et oh my god made by the various aspects of the Judiciary are telling, there is a feeling of urgency. Watch their favored news channels? Oh my god.......
The Real Life Green Zone in DC in 2021 is the “Tell.” The proof.
This is what they do (they being the Department of State and unsavory minions).
I saw the GZ in Iraq, I saw the one in DC, after decades and deployments I know what I am looking at. They’re Carpet Baggers who start wars and destroy countries as a business vehicle to loot the American taxpayers. It’s similar to control fraud or the disaster Capitalism that shows up after natural disasters.
Or what was done in Haiti.
We’re 🇺🇸 pretty much on plan Haiti 🇭🇹 in America 🇺🇸 now.
See also Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan, Libya, Ukraine, et al.
This is what they do, it’s all they know how to do... and they’re doing it again here 🇺🇸.
- though yes you have a point, they will usually do a movie and write papers and do “planning exercises” and scenarios, like the Democracy Integrity Project that published the Color Revolution playbook in summer 2020.
Movie? Wag the Dog.
In their minds it’ “West Wing.”
BTW as criminals go they are NOT top shelf. This is the same people since the 90s. The first case was the Rape of Russia money laundering, and they never looked back.
Now how they expect to do this here unless the American military guards their Green Zone is... problematic. It’s very dodgy and really a gamble. Throwing the Dice and betting it all on discipline and inertia. It’s working so far...
Look, DC are criminals with college degrees and that’s it.
They aren’t tough or smart, it’s just the Americans are so weak and dumb they get away with it... so far. Criminals don’t really do long term, they live in the moment. Certainly these ones do... not masterminds, just looting the WALMART at a higher level. We’re so civilized and law abiding it’s too easy.
funny....it's weird I know, but I just had a person, a seer of sorts, a spiritual black woman, who gave me the future run down of what's to come...it's not going to be pretty I guess...she warned me not to be in Wash DC in 2024 at all - stay away...
My heart grieves for the people of Chicago already. Thinking about the horrors they will go thru in the case of left wing mob violence and civil breakdown/economic fracturing is harrowing
No. Chicago. Where the voters in the year's Democratic primaries will be advised that Pres Joey isn't up to it anymore, for some reason, and the Party Leaders in their wisdom have selected his replacement. Paraphrasing, "It was a real nice clam -- bake; they're mighty glad you came andparticipatedinDEMOCRACY."
General Strike? That’s done, people just stop working. Not many left. I’m one.
The General strike is “the machine stops” EM Forster 1909.
He foresaw much, including social media and “likes” . Such as likes ❤️ here.
He didn’t foresee Karen and her feral fetching crew of quota idiots being given jobs they can’t do.
You’d have to work as a practical and technical person to understand, but the machine is slowing down and grinding to a halt. Too much of what we know, what I do is in my hands to explain. But it’s slowly grinding to a halt. The gears are usually electronic so you’d have to do the work to understand.
Finance for instance has been handed over to the liquor store and nail salons of Edison NJ, aka Mumbai West. 👳🏾 has no idea what they are doing, looking at, nor are they capable of making a decision. 👳🏾 they’re kids did their ethnic mafia thing and now dominate Risk Management.
🤣 “I’m not technical “ she said.
I know, I thought. Thanks for candor. Her firm is THE Clearing Firm , $1T daily. So your retirement is all set: ☠️💀🪦.
When the last white guy walks, she has no one to pass the job to... which is how that call ended.
How the world you knew is ending too.
And goodbye.
No, you don’t get the world we built without us, you lack the capacity to enslave us, so say hello to the paragliders, which means nothing to you, and say hello to penury which does.
As for those of you who run, don’t expect help from the locals you locusts have alighted on, not the sensible ones. The “helpful” ones will seem friendly and familiar... they want something from you; hence the familiarity.
The trajectory of this country is really sad. I just learned from MartyrMade's substack that the Pentagon is removing the monument to the reconciliation of North & South post-Civil War from Arlington National Cemetery.
The inscription on the monument: "They have beat their swords into plough-shares and their spears into pruning hooks."
In divided times like these, why would anyone want to remove a monument that celebrates peacefully overcoming the blood-soaked division of our nation's worst moment?
As of yesterday afternoon that takedown was halted, at least temporarily. And the money shot? The injunction to save a Confederate monument was issues by a Black justice. That's gotta burn.
I understand removing relatively meaningless statues in parks that were erected by segregationists in the 1950s. These are essentially decorations.
But this, if you see my extended comment below, was an important national symbol of the times and to remove it is an affront to the "united heart of a great people" that President Wilson spoke of at the dedication.
Nope! The removal of this shitty monument to slaving traitors is back on. Hopefully, they melt it down like that fucking Lee statue. Putting anything pro-Confederacy in Arlington was always blasphemous. What part of "fuck your murderous, slaving, insurrection forever" do you not understand? Clearly, you must also be in favor of monuments to the Third Reich, since the Confederacy was of a similar moral character.
Who makes these decisions?! About the hallowed ground of Arlington?! Pretty outrageous -- but it was probably some intern somewhere. Maybe they we need to dedicate ground at Arlington to the Unknown Intern or the Unknown Bureaucrat? Notice, I DID NOT use the word "tomb." 'Don't want to make any algorithm uncomfortable.
They were going to take it down not because it honors traitors to our nation (actual insurrection, not Jan 6th!) with a statue in our national cemetery but because of some racist imagery that your news source opted not to share. Subservient black people comforting CSA soldiers! It's now not being removed but under review.
Your CNN link doesn't state what you said it does, but I'm aware that some, including members of the artist's family, have made the subjective claim that it glorifies slavery and the Confederacy.
My subjective claim is it depicts scenes of the soldiers going to war. In the South, for the few soldiers that were wealthy enough to own slaves, it was common for them to follow their masters to war - as is depicted on the monument. I think it would be more racist to erase from history the fact that they existed and were caught up in the whole bloody conflict.
A year before the monument was erected, Union and Confederate war veterans gathered at Gettysburg, as President Wilson said, "as brothers and comrades in arms, enemies no longer, generous friends rather, our battles long past, the quarrel forgotten":
These Union soldiers had been shot at by the Confederacy and many of them had lost family members and friends in battle - yet they were able to reconcile.
This monument to reconciliation was erected and unveiled by President Wilson in that spirit.
Unlike many "confederate statues", this marks an incredibly important part of our nation's history. The ability to make peace with one another.
I encourage all to read President Wilson's address to see how far our nation has fallen from these spirits of brotherly love:
"My privilege is this, ladies and gentlemen: To declare this chapter in the history of the United States closed and ended, and I bid you turn with me with your faces to the future, quickened by the memories of the past, but with nothing to do with the contests of the past, knowing, as we have shed our blood upon opposite sides, we now face and admire one another."
Apparently the chapter isn't as "closed and ended" as President Wilson had believed, as 100 years later we are opening it right back up.
Your term "monument to reconciliation" is, for me, really the crux. The monument, like most, is intended to preserve a snapshot in history. An eternal remembrance of what was fought and what was lost, in hope that the same mistakes may not be repeated. Destruction of such monuments in an ephemeral expression of instantaneous emotional tantrum -- driven by manufactured rage bred from the contrived lies and false histories taught by academia and perpetuated through social media -- fully intends to eradicate the history, suffering, and legacy of the past.
The monument is intended to whitewash the true, vile, history of the Confederacy. It shows no history, but valorizes the filth. If it is history you want, then there are plenty of books. But no monuments to the US's version of the 3rd Reich.
Yeah, because "reconciliation" with the trash that had Jim Crow in full swing at the time is, what, desirable to your fevered mind? You don't make "peace" or "reconciliation" with slavers. You kill them and desecrate their memory. And no, commemorating how whites from the South loved owning and torturing black people is not less racist than leaving the "mammy" figure off of your shit-headed monument to "reconciliation" with bloodthirsty, treasonous, slavers.
Yeah good point, maybe it wasn't about reconciliation at all. Maybe Democrats like Wilson really were still on the side of the slavers. Hell, maybe they still are.
You don't reconcile with Confederates any more than you would "reconcile" with the Third Reich. And, I mean, Wilson was definitely on the slaver side. And no no, we know who is still on the side of evil. It's the people who defend monuments to the Confederacy and Southerners who vote Republican.
"The Solid South" was the term, in case you forgot. The former Confederate states full of white conservatives who voted Democrat no matter what, because they wouldn't vote for the party of Lincoln. Until, of course, 1964. Now, what was it that happened in 1964, that caused all these pro-slavery racist monsters to switch, en masse, to the Republican party? What made the former Confederacy, previously "solid" for Democrats, to become equally as solid for Republicans? Oh yeah, it was the Civil Rights Act of 1964, followed by Barry Goldwater's presidential run, which he predicated on opposition to the CRA.
And so, boom. There you have it. Conservatives have been pro-Confederacy and pro-slavery since forever. And continue to be on the side of the mass-murdering, slaving traitors to this day. As evidenced by both your comment and others.
I’ve been hoping for a way to avoid voting for Trump just because he’s an ass. But, the Dem elites make it clear that the Dem-Deep State is the real threat to our Republic. I can no longer afford to consider 3rd party candidates over Trump and Biden. Trump gets my “F**k-them” vote.
I avoided voting for him twice. I voted Libertarian in 2016 and 2020. But I can’t wait to vote for him in 2024. If he picks Vivek as his VP I’ll canvass.
He's an ass? Seriously? I'm sorry; but what was it about his unprecedented, practically single-handed dragging this country back from the Obama abyss leads to that assessment?
He's a problem solver and always has been. He needs to defend this nation and protect its citizens. Providing a war-free Presidency, an historic level of prosperity for the marginalized were just a couple of the bonuses.
There are a lot of us who have lately come to the revelation that we no longer have the luxury of rejecting a candidate because we don’t want to invite him to Christmas dinner.
Dude you're wasting your fucking time trifling with this nonsense.
Extremely-Online Trump fans are basically Elizabeth Warren supporters with a pathological fear of pussy.
Trump isn't a threat to anything. He is literally a person who only lives and breathes today because of how much money in this system is tied up in his bull shit. A bunch of lawsuits and an ozempic prescription stacks up in a trenchcoat.
These people have turned their personality cult into a delusion of some higher personal calling and all we can do is laugh
I think the entire United States is going to find out what has been common knowledge in lightly populated states for decades: co-ordinated write-in campaigns are possible, and they are extremely disrupting to the powers-that-be. It doesn’t even need to be a write-in; Colorado cannot prevent a primary candidate from running on the platform that he will release his delegates on the first ballot to vote for Trump.
These jackasses want to get cute with the rules? Fine. I’m not even a Trump fan, but now I’m pissed.
I heard a comedian say that when the NY judge said he wouldn't listen to anything Trump said, Trump became the "third Black president" behind Clinton and Obama. This probably cinches the deal
Cue the revenge... I suspect Wyoming, Idaho and several other states will now cite corruption and influence peddling in China and Ukraine to file motions to get Biden removed from their ballots. Remember, the important thing is that Donald Trump is "such an existential threat to our norms" that we need to shatter them all ourselves to stop him!
The next logical step is a giant pissing contest. If the Supreme Court does not put a stop to this, then surely New York, California and Illinois will follow suit and remove Trump from their ballots. And right on cue surely Texas, Florida and the entire SEC will remove Biden from theirs. This may actually be great for us. Just solidify all those states and only leave the recognized 'swing states' in play. Makes it much easier for the candidates to campaign in a handful of places, and you'd like to hope it makes it easier for the votes to be counted. Also makes the likelihood of fraud go absolutely through the roof. It also probably encourages Kennedy, West, Manchin and others to run and get on ballots that Biden and Trump are missing from. I like where we're going with this! And then once that is over, we can simply split the country up into these pieces, which is clearly where this is all headed.
GC: Problem is, not a chance in hell the Corpse-in-Chief will be the Dem candidate, more likely our idiot governor Gavin Gruesome, maybe even Big Mike.
Yes, I already moved away from Chief Lizard Person, suicide cultist Newsome once. I guess when he replaces Biden on the ballot and becomes President, I will have to move out of the country to get away from him again...
Matt--This was always the issue we tried to explain to you early on when you started this substack journey. This is NOT about Trump--it's about the over-reach of government, something Trump never came close to. I hope if he's re-elected he remembers what constitutes freedom. But at least half of us supporting Trump are not doing it because we love his personality--we are doing it because we can't let these people get away with what they've been doing--or we are lost. Thanks for writing this, Matt, and for all you do. For standing up for what's right even if it meant you had to move outside your comfort zone some. It's some effing country--banana republic.
Even if this backfires on the Democrats and Trump wins, the precedent it sets is the real damage. We’ve lost the ability to believe that the US is a functioning republic, much less a democracy.
Unless people are actually held accountable for their crimes. If Alejandro Mayorkas (for example) is actually out in a prison cell, it will release a optimism and patriotic exuberance we havent seen in decades. You underestimate just how much people want to love believe in their country. If it seemed like justice was restored to the Republic, even just a modicum of justice for all the treason thats been perpetrated against We the People, there would be joy and brotherly love like never before.
I saw that in the news, and i thought i must have missed the part where Trump was actually tried and convicted. This is scary, i'd expect it to be overturned on appeal. But stranger things have happened.
I must admit that i am enjoying the stench of desperation from the Dems though. You know it's bad when some of the rare smart Dems on the NYT comment boards are saying that Biden is toast and Trump will win. Not that i'm cheering that either, i think we're fucked no matter what.
You know what though? If the Colorado court is basing this on the dubious impeachment for Jan 6, I'd welcome an appeal that does a forensic examination of that, based on the tapes. Of the security guard waving the shaman into the chambers, of the FBI involvement, Pelosi's daughter just happening to be there filming a bogus "documnetary" of our hero Democrats. I, for one, have questions.
Unfortunately, the lies of 1/6 have become fixed in the minds of much of the public. No amount of incontrovertible evidence will ever change this. Most of them still believe the Russia hoax was real, FFS.
They believe because they want to believe. It's much easier than thinking it through.
Have they, though? I know for the D half of the country they have, but I am doubtful they have in the rest of the country. Much like Hunters laptop, some 60% know it too be his, and not Russian Disinfo.
All of that to say that the narrative isn't working as well anymore.
And that's the problem -- the D half of the country. Even if you could convince them of all the wholesale corruption, scheming, and purely anti-democratic actions and policies of their party, they will still vote for whatever crook whose name ends with a (D) long, long before ever voting for an (R).
The only hope lies in the movable middle, the relatively tiny portion of voters -- in an tiny portion of States -- who ultimately decide elections. And while they lack the passion of hard-core partisans, they often lack the will to even get off the sofa to go and vote.
Honestly, i didn't pay much attention to the whole shitshow at the time, i just thought it was a bunch of posturing kabuki. But when i saw the clips of them being waved into the capital, Pelosi's daughter filming, and the DOJ hemming and hawing about exactly how many FBI were in the crowd, i absolutely had my doubts.
We know MPD had undercovers in the crowd because we can read the manual they got about the weekend.
We strongly suspect that "partner agencies" of the FBI had undercovers in the crowd based on emails on 1/6.
The idea these agencies had people in place but the FBI didn't doesn't even pass the smell test. -- remember the official narrative is that everybody was surprised by 1/6.
"The FBI did not have paid informants/agitators at the Capital in 1/9"
Both lies were spit out before they were swallowed.
As more and more of the embargoed video footage is released, the more impossible it becomes to deny how this was a pure psyop. Only the truly delusional are still all in.
My favorite is the strategically edited clip of MS Senator Josh Hawley running from the Senate chamber, played on a loop while suggesting he was the first Senator to flee. Tucker Carlson thankfully played us the full, unedited clip, which showed that actually Josh Hawley was the *last* Senator to flee and the that Democrat coalition were the first.
No matter what footage or other evidence is released, even the entire trove, would ever convince those who have bought into the Big Lie. It's an exact Venn circle overlap of the TDS crowd. They are immune to facts while captivated by logically and physically impossible narrative yarns.
What the left and their media allies have failed to realize, over and over, is the degree to which people identify with Trump as a victim of "the man." Every half-assed attempt to smear him, or deploy some novel legal theory against him, just makes him stronger. I loathe and despise Trump, but he's the most put upon politician, ever. And his harshest critics can't find their way from their heads to their asses with their hands.
They were so stupid that they somehow thought that the more prosecutions the better instead of picking one to go all in on narrative wise. Instead the average joe is looking at a party that is not even bothering to campaign except for excessive abuse of lawfare. I mean one legal matter might look to be serious. Six or more (I've lost count) looks like nothing more than a weaponized legal system.
Trump had more than six legal matters before he ever announced running for president.
This is what rich people do man. They fuck around in the courts. Trump had like thousands of lawsuits (either being sued or suing someone else or counter suing someone for suing him) before the year 2016 even started. This kind of shit is second-nature to people like him
I think Trump was a good President, best since Reagan, with excellent foreign policy clearly aimed at limiting the worst offenders against human rights: Russia, Iran, and China, no new wars, an excellent tax reform, that lowered taxes on all but the highest earners (usually those earning more than $500,000 a year in a high tax state), and a good economy.
However, I respect your view of Trump and appreciate your posting on this website.
I think every Trump hater knows how good a president Trump was (those who buy their own groceries, in any case). But they don't care. That is indeed the sad part in all this. Smart people still saying they won't vote for Trump. I don't pretend to understand it other than the corporate lobby, especially the MIC. But the average person saying these things, like Matt, are not defense contractors or politicans at those lobbyist's teats. So puzzling. There is far more sleeze in Biden's past than Trump's.
To say “I like Trump” gives up all your respectability cards. Therefore for those trying to be diplomatic towards center-left and maintain credibility when exposing deep state crimes, journalists must say “I dont like Trump but look at how bad the Dems are, they arent even real liberals anymore”. So I understand why the chattering class has to say they dont like Trump so they have purchase from which to attack the Deep State Left
That is the strategy. Rile up his base so much that he wins the primary and tarnish him so badly that he loses among the swing voters in the general. But the Democrat strategists may misjudge how much they can push the Trump victimization routine before the swing voters start voting for him.
Relying on voters, per se (the ostensible mechanism of a democracy), is certainly not the strategy the Democratic Party's power players are relying upon. It didn't work, already, in 2016. Relying on voters to properly absorb the propaganda against Trump was a major screw-up, and it will never happen again.
They made their 2020 strategies far more robust, and that is an understatement. It worked. Well, the bottom line did, anyway. To take just one example (never mind the November election), look at what happened to the slate of candidates in the days before Super Tuesday, just hanging out there in the open, for us deer in the headlights.
So that's what they'll be doing again, as and however, and wherever necessary; voters are beside the point, they're just annoying cockroaches to be "exterminated", but without it looking like that's what's happening. "We’re history’s actors . . . and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do."
Just one more reason I can’t vote Democrat anymore. They make it easier and easier. I guess they don’t think they can beat him in a straight up election fight. Perhaps they are on to something. Of course this is just the beginning. Lawfare is now part of Democrat politics, which means it will become part of everyone’s politics. What a sad third world mess we are leaving our children. Between the debt that is our legacy and this new nuetron bomb style of
politics we aren’t leaving them much at all. I’m ashamed of the Democrat party. They used to stand for something noble and the leadership was at the very least level headed. Now they don’t give a shit - it’s burn it all down. Destroy your political enemies, trample on everyone’s rights, control everyone’s speech. Take away their freedom while screaming “ we must save democracy!” It’s like a bad dream.
To back this proposition up, the one reliable poll in Colorado (CO Polling Institute) on Nov. 26-27 had Biden at 45% in a two-way against Trump's 36. If the anti-Biden 55% coalesces around Kennedy, there go 10 Electoral Votes that Biden has to win -- off we go to an Electoral College deadlock and an even bigger meltdown in January 2025!
I'm a Coloradoan. The state has changed so dramatically since I was a kid I hardly know what to think. This decision...who are these people? This isn't the Colorado I used to know. I'm not even a Trump supporter, but to have the state decide I don't have that choice? What?
I see a couple other Colorado folks on here who sound as angry as I think I will feel once I get past the shock.
It’s a country governed by sick people. Remember I said this: they will do “anything” to keep Trump out. Anything!! They’re running out of options, and if the legal games don’t stop him I fear the final option in the flow chart will happen.
I wish I didn’t believe my government would do such, but I believe they’re as corrupt as any government in the world. Maybe the most corrupt!
I love my country but I despise my government. They are destroying America.
What's to stop Texas from removing Biden over failure to enforce immigration laws?
Because Biden is The Establishment Candidate, silly.
You could have waited for more than a few minutes to post that reply and let the rest of us enjoy the idea for a while longer.
I'm still enjoying it.
Sorry bout that.
No catnip for you tonight.
Was it the pee tapes that got Bobby Reich panties all bunched? He's a silly little man. Can I say that? Only if I work for Harvard's fuhrer, Zen Gay?
you mean mr. Dolts Reich? LOL
I think "silly little man" is considered a compliment in some quarters.
only if they're wearing a mask and speaking Spanish.
😂
It might depend on the prevailing political outlook in the Texas Supreme Court.
Texas governor is WEF. He says one thing & does the opposite. Until we all realize that red team blue team IS the problem... Republicans involved in Colorado & other states re Trump
but they still don't own Texas, nukes or no steenkin' nukes.
Cowardice.
No one wants to confront the systematic, ideological destruction of the principles on which this country was built.
we do! we do! and it isn't just intellectuals, it is real people who sense just like rats on a sinking ship that we are up shit's creek without a paddle.
So maybe "we" should get together and start confronting the systematic, ideological destruction of the principles on which this country was built. Our "leaders" certainly aren't going to do anything.
Or we can keep posting about it on social media instead. 🤷♀️
What do you suggest?
I did something with my HOA and think the steps could be followed locally, regionally and nationally.
The first thing I did was gather contact information for everyone who thought the way I do.
We got together and went over our governing documents with a fine-tooth comb and found out where our HOA was violating our rights.
We raised funds by holding garage sales and used those funds to hire an attorney.
The attorney sent letters. We contacted the paper and got in the news.
We showed up for every meeting and held their feet to the fire. It took years.
I may be a bit of a dreamer, but I'm pretty sure these steps could be modified and used to achieve similar results at the local, regional and national level. Personally, I believe we should be starting at the local level, all across the US.
Someone much smarter than I could then unite all those disparate groups across each region, state, and then the country.
It would be a lot of work, but at least people would be working toward something.
I want a job to do! Put me to work. I can't stand sitting here, waiting for things to get better. That's almost more frustrating than seeing all the destruction.
If the people get too organized they'll just hit them with overwrought charges for whatever.
https://www.aclu.org/news/free-speech/rico-and-domestic-terrorism-charges-against-cop-city-activists-send-a-chilling-message
I'm truly curious how the HOA was violating your rights. I, too, live in an HOA and the problem I see is that people move in and expect everything to be done for them and not to contribute time to help manage things. So, please, what were the issues?
opposition in the country is very amorphous still; it is rumbling and discontent on all sides. voices are not being heard or are decried as somehow criminal. but there is nothing like the 60s. nowhere yet in the world. but I feel it coming.
The big difference is that the 60s happened and they're far more prepared this time with far more tools. What most people have yet to grapple with is that for these well funded think tanks, security state acronyms, and the ever-growing Censorship Industrial Complex the Worldwide Web is one big lab. They are studying us, learning about us, learning how minds work, what types of personalities veer this way or that way. Inevitably how to control us.
They have far more ways to distract, divide, confuse, repress, suppress and smear people today. It's downright terrifying. But we have to accept that it's happening, unsettling as it is.
my heavens, don't I know it. Every morning when I'm discussing (generally indignantly) the current events in the Failing Empire, eventually I work in a "are you listening FBI? Fuck you." It's my childish entertainment, but the fucking computers do listen to us, no matter what. We've all seen the way you say, "wow, my back is killing me," and instants later your sites are inundated with ads for back remedies. Yeah, So, I send messages to all the persecutorial USG agencies every day and hope their computers gobble it up.
I really should have been more precise; when I said "no one" I was specifically referring to the so-called "representatives of the people", our self-serving "elected" officials, on both sides of the political aisle.
The four branches of government (I'm including the unelected alphabet agencies) have become so blatantly ideologically rabid and corrupt in neutering the public's power they are clearly pressing for a true insurrection to let them finish the job. Although one might argue the insurrection has already occurred, courtesy of a complete disregard for the Constitution and the rights codified therein by those in power.
I'm sitting in wait for when the time come when we all converge and rise out of the ashes of this despair. Side note; the movie Civil War is an attempt to fear us into capitulation..
I told my dad you can’t eat moral superiority and self righteousness, or fuel your vehicles with it. California Ds haven’t come to this basic realization yet.
Yes you can. Rather, if you are in the charmed circle you’re fine
but it is the charmed circle that has the bulk of the international criminals, the thieves of national assets, the occupiers of oil-rich areas of other countries, the maws into which the crumbs from the MIC flow -- who own us, control us, lie to us, imprison us, and threaten us and US is the entire world, "us" not U.S. We en masse recognize this dreadful thing that fell over the fat happy world, but nobody knows what to do. I think plugging up the air vents in their bunkers would be a good start.
It doesn't matter if he's on the ballot or not. A voter can write in any one s/he wants. I always do...just write in the person I think is best.
I just read an article you might like:
McMullin, B.J. (2023). "The Early Editions of Rob Roy." The Library: Transaction of the Bibliographical Society. Seventh Series. 24: 487-495. (December).
Per Colorado law, as Trump has been disqualified, any write in votes will not be counted.
I'd like to write a law dumping California and Colorado from the USA.
Revolution! Revolution! Heads on spikes! Burn down the houses of the enemy! It will be fun!
This sounds like a democracy to me!
There is nothing stopping the GOP from making the primary a 49-state nominating contest.
how can Colorado law count for anything if the Constitution upon which that law rests is trashed by Colorado "law"?
Are these four Colorado judges going to file with the FEC. Sure seems like an in-kind donation to me. For Trump.
Gets it to SCOTUS early.
In the case of Smith’s persecution of Trump, the left wants it now. in this case, they pray the judicial system will slow it down.
Pretty sure this is just for the Primary vote.
Yes. In the general election the voters actually vote for a group of Electors listed as for their party's candidate.
Trump's disqualification is not just for the ballot but for holding office at all. So his Electors will likely be the next target when they seek ballot access.
Nope, their decision says you cannot do write ins for Trumpster
this one is going straight up the line, where we will see if the Supreme Court is still in the frightened mode, where it thinks it is the duty of the justices never to decide any critical issues in this country lest people be angered.
100% that's the real, where's scotus. fortunately, there are no women justices since most women justices do not know what a woman is. ;-)
the Colorado court stayed its decision pending appeal
aren't they smart? nothing worse than being reversed.
Yep the Co Supreme Court is basically just a smaller senate of specialist political shills, waiting to have their votes overturned by the superior political shills in appellate courts, and then a final word from the HNIC political shills at the US Supreme Court
good thing you already know everything, that means you'll already have read this court's decision before just jumping to a bunch of dumb conclusions because Taibbi (who has no particular expertise in constitutional law or any of this shit) sent out a stupid substack post that he knew his gay-for-Trump fanboys would eat up like desert.
Sorta begs the question why you even follow people like Taibbi, when you're already so fucking smart
Source please
Expect those ballots not to be counted, subject to court order if necessary.
Be a LOT of ballots that won't be counted come November '24 I suspect.
Lots more that WILL be that shouldn't be as well, in all too many states.
Just like what went on in 2020.
So? As long as the establishment candidate wins, Muh Democracy Is Saved!(R)
The means are secondary. What matters is winning and the sweet sweet goodies that come with it.
I would never write in Trump. Let's say a majority of Coloradians wrote in, say, Jill Stein, she would win.
I guess you don’t like blacks or Hispanics, they were doing too well under Trump, and you like inflation and high taxes and sexual perverts in every office of government and your daughters, grand daughters being sexually assaulted in the school bathroom. You like driving cars that take hours to recharge and that ultimately run on coal, and like being beholden to the Mullahs in Iran.
Not me buddy & in a clean election nor most Americans.
I think you stumbled on Matt Taibbi's piece by accident. Your folks are over at The Free Press.
That's kind of a leap.
Not a leap, just a few steps: Does your vote reflect your values or not? Do you disclaim responsibility for the actions of the individuals and party positions that you voted for. A vote for Joe Biden and the Democrats is a vote for unfettered unvetted illegal immigration including numerous sexual predators, for biologic males in girls and Womens bathrooms where rapes have already been documented by boys posing as girls under color of the fiction of transgenderism, blacks and legal Hispanics have been particularly hard hit by Slo China Joes's policies, which are the root cause of inflation, is pushing higher taxes and is attempting to force purchase of electronic vehicles.
Didn’t Colorado pass a law thst says the votes of Coloradans in Presidential elections are to be ignored, and the State’s electoral votes granted to whoever got his name counted by election authorities on the most ballots nationwide?
This is sometimes called the “national popular vote” but the Democrats understand Stalin’s point that it doesn’t matter how people vote if you control the ballot count.
You're talking about the National Popular Vote Compact, and not describing it correctly. This effort has been underway for decades, and it has been passed by quite a few states; I support it as the only realistic way to circumvent the winner-take-all Electoral College vote allocation, since a constitutional amendment is generally considered impossible.
The compact would not even take affect until enough states have passed it to control the majority of EC votes. Once that happens, the participating states would allocate their EC votes to the nationwide winner of the popular vote—which is how a lot of Americans think their president is elected anyway.
NPV has support among both conservatives and liberals. Around 10 years ago it was very near to the goal, and I haven't checked lately, but I fear the increasing polarization of the political landscape has had more and more states reversing their potential membership.
Nevertheless, while admittedly, imperfect, it still seems like it would be better than what we've got now; all but two states allocate their EC votes as winner-take-all. You can read more about it at NationalPopularVote.Com, which has extensive discussion both pro and con.
Because Ukraine doesn’t have an Electoral College, Russians in its eastern provinces, where they controlled election systems, were able to grind out enough ballots to swamp the rest of the country and elect a Russian puppet as President.
The purpose of National Popular Vote is to permit the Democrats to use their control of California to dominate the other 49 states. Currently, the Democrats can grind out as many ballots in California as they want, but it wouldn’t do them any good: they would still get the same number of electoral votes. This is exactly what happened in 2016.
If that law is templated like the one proposed in a number of states, it isn't effective until enacted in some number of other states, a threshold some distance from being reached..
15 years ago it was getting pretty close. But I think the Trump years raised everybody's paranoia levels so high, some states backpedaled on it.
The ruling says that ant write in ballot for Trump will NOT be counted.
Colorado ruling includes that Trump as a write in candidate, those ballots will NOT be counted.
I don’t care if both Biden and Trump drop dead today..can't fathom why anyone with a brain would vote for either. However, since Thump arrived on the scene, the courts are doing things that shouldn't happen in our country just to prevent him being president again. We've never been at democracy, but have pretended to be. That's over. My question is why aren't the war mongers in jail...Biden, Clintons, Nuland, Bushes, Obama for starters. They've murdered literally millions upon millions of innocent people in sovereign countries, NONE of which threatened us. Now we want to take down Putin and Xi Jinping who are also not threatening us. God, I hate my own cointry. It stands for war. (P.S. Ukraine and Israel are both corrupt at their core, and we give them billions when we have people with no healthcare and living on the street). No one should be given ugly choices from the DNC and RNC, two truly stupid groups. Go OUTSIDE of both and vote for a decent person.
Write-in votes are never counted. Have you not noticed this?
If a name became the majority, the votes would have to be counted. (Besides, I am never voting for the "lesser evil.")
I've seen them tallied in many elections. There just have never been enough to matter.
Honestly, I've never seen them in any newspaper or news site. Ever. In five states.
I'm old enough to remember perennial joke candidate Pat Paulsen. Pretty sure I remember some elections where he another write-in candidates showed up. Of course there needs to be a certain minimum to be listed. And you probably have to look pretty hard, it certainly won't show up in USA Today or whatever. Maybe only some official stats buried on each state website or state records or whatever.
I also worked as an election judge in Wyoming, which is what they call polling place workers. We were not allowed to throw away any ballots. Those are all recorded somewhere.
I do not doubt you. Paulsen rings a memory bell; long ago.
What is a ballot these days? At best, a circle filled in with pen ink or pencil graphite, scanned by a programmable machine, but programmed by whom?
Until we once again have paper ballots, counted by human beings overseen by other human beings looking for fraud, we will never have elections that have the confidence of the populace.
Gotta love Internet searches. Here are the 2020 presidential election results, 12 pages worth. A note on the very last page indicates that italics represent write-in votes. https://www.fec.gov/resources/cms-content/documents/2020presgeresults.pdf
Caveat here: there can be different state requirements for write-in votes to be counted. So just writing in Mickey Mouse or Jon Stewart won't work, except as a tiny point of personal protest satisfaction. https://www.usa.gov/write-in-candidates
OK. Point taken and I surrender. It still doesn't mean a write-in vote is worth any more than not voting in the first place.
Rob, you cannot get enough people to take the trouble to make a difference. We can barely get enough people to even show up to vote. Not to mention the fact that many states already have taken steps to achieve this illegal means.
Removal by the full punishment for treason would be nice.
Biden seems the best fit for that charge.
Based on the available evidence.
You should call Jim Comey immediately! He's desperate for evidence for his Biden impeachment.
Who is traitor and who is loyal depends on who wins, Martin.
Perhaps making death the stakes isn’t a good idea? “The full penalty.”
Now your faction is good at working the system and with staged, police protected riots.
However some grandmothers and various assorted working class sorts going to see their elected representatives on January 6th frightened you out of your wits, and you’re still witless,
Are you sure this path of power and possibly civil war is for you?
Not to mention “the full penalty “.
It may not be grandmothers next time...
Well said. These perps are not equipped to deal with an angry citizenry. Nor are the Police etc
Was it Lincoln who said: "Random, isolated militias of gun-toting MAGA chuds does not an angry citizenry make?"
When the shit hits the fan, we'll see who's angry and who's demoralized.
I think there are some people in the ME who made that miscalculation
What miscalculation?
They won.
Most of their war goals via USA achieved.
Sure most of them died, but that was for a cause they believed worth dying for, and they’re mostly victorious.
AND it’s unlikely the US Military will be enforcing the will and whims of the Democratic Party.
I think you missed my point, which is my fault because I was trying to be oblique as i did not want to create a debate down a new rabbit hole. My apologies. But my response was about your point of making death the stakes. i think Hamas did just that to maneuver Israel into such a fight. I believe they were successful in their strategy and were counting on the street, Egypt/Jordan and the gulf states, and their fellow travelers in the west to pressure Israel into withdrawing in defeat. It didn't work, I thought it would, and now death are the stakes and they are in the game. Whatever your opinion of the morality of that.
"They don't represent us. They need to pay the ultimate price for their crimes." - some grandmother
https://imgur.com/a/9EIeq3q
https://youtu.be/L5hksM_R59M?si=aEZ6PAZY84uGSUeq
Don't even joke about it. Seriously. It is a crime to make threats involving the president.
Impeachment, conviction, removal from office, charged and tried for treason, convicted then punished to the fullest extent of the law = execution. Trouble is the real criminals are the ones pulling his strings: BHO et al.
Did you just call for the President's execution? Be careful saying that shit out loud. You know, because laws.
I just called for initiation of a series of constitutional and legal remedies for cause of illegal and unconstitutional actions by a POTUS who was fraudulently installed in 2021 after the real insurrection; each step is legal and contingent because, you know, laws.
Yeah, every president in American history I don’t like was fraudulently installed by shadowy powers that be, too. It’s a bummer.
Thanks. But you worry about you and I will worry about me. I did amend my comment thought based on the criminal excuse for law enforcement we now live under.
The United States of South America is what we are now.
Oh no, I got there first! We are the BRA, The Banana Republic of America :)
You are correct. The Biden/Garland DOJ has become the enforcement arm of the Democrat Party.
You’re a foolish old nobody Ass.. My gawd
Been called far worse by far better mate!
Texas is not the strong red state they purport to be. Its legislature is purple mess full of cowards.
They do have one redeeming characteristic. By virtue of the Texas Constitution the Legislature meets for just 114 days every other year. So legislators have to have some other meaningful job. And there isn't much time in the session for crazy.
The Red chuds tend to win the day down there, though.
What's to stop Biden from utterly wrecking everything 247 years of freedom and sacrifice brought to Western civilization?
Or Barry & Mike? Bill & Hill? Kamala & Gavin?
I'm 74 years old, never in my wildest nightmares ever conceived things could go so wrong so fast in so many ways. Remarkably I'm still glad I never fathered a child. Must be awful for parents these days having to watch as their's are led astray from what is true, right, and wholesome.
A history first where Donald Trump is described as "true, right, and wholesome?"
Not the point. Neither Trump nor Biden are close at all. Neither were either Bush, or Obama, certainly not Bill Clinton.
Reagan and Carter were the closest in the last 50 years.
Nixon & Johnson I wouldn't have bought a used car from.
Kennedy and Eisenhower's flaws were hidden from us yet they did a great deal to secure our borders and keep the dogs of war from our shores.
Biden can't keep his dogs from biting his Secret Service detail let alone live up to the oath of office to defend the Constitution and the safety of the United States from enemies both without and within.
It's the point to me.
I.
Don’t.
Care.
If the shoe doesn’t fit, go barefoot.
On what legal basis?
We're way beyond legal basis at this point, haven't you noticed?
I laugh when some stupid poli allows "rule of law" to pass their corrupt evil lips.
No. I noticed that some CO partisans had shaky legal basis to kick Trump off the ballot. Then I read a claim about what the other partisan group would do with absolutely no legal basis.
That's all I noticed other than lots of braying . . .
Totalitarian comes to mind.
This is Calvinball now. There are no rules.
14th Amendment. This is some hard core, high stakes lawfare right here. Dang! These guys are good! Question is whether SCOTUS will get a chance to Rule on the Appeal before the primaries?
And now the Lt Governor of Texas is speculating on doing exactly that:
"Texas Lt. Guv Threatens to Take Biden Off State’s Ballot After Colorado Ruling
‘Maybe we should take Joe Biden off the ballot in Texas for allowing 8 million people to cross the border,’ Patrick told Fox News.
Chaya Tong
Updated Dec. 19, 2023 9:31PM EST / Published Dec. 19, 2023 9:30PM EST "
https://www.thedailybeast.com/texas-lt-guv-threatens-to-take-biden-off-states-ballot-after-colorado-ruling
Actually I would love it if the LT Guv did this. After all this IS out and out warfare. Let’s stop pretending it’s not. Let it roll.
It’s actually going to take dropping the pretenses - this isn’t a fucking intellectual parlor game - it’s the future of our nation and hence our entire species.
Be prepared to kill without mercy those who would tear down the safeguards of western civilization.
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes
What specific failure(s) to enforce immigration law are you citing, and do any of them amount to insurrection?
OK, I'll bite.
The Supreme Court ruled that the US government could not remove fencing erected by Texas, and within a week the Feds used front-loaders to list up portions of the fence to allow invaders in.
That is defiance of the constitutional order, and it is a clear failure to uphold the law of the land.
And FWIW, I seriously doubt you could properly define "insurrection" and follow it up with a valid example.
Perhaps not, but a Constitutional lawyer sure as hell could.
Well I'm certainly not going to be bothered so there's your win buddy
Confirmed.
... your bachelorhood?
Your idiocy
holy shit dude
Actually there is probably more of a basis to do that (violation of his oath of office) but again, there's been no process to convict or find that in any way, so, again inappropriate. Great concept, but due process is a core belief.
Why stand on principle? The left doesn't.
If the opposing pitcher drills your best hitter in the head, do you throw at their guy or let it go because throwing at a batter is against the rules?
We shouldn't abandon that lightly. It would get brutal.
That ship has sailed.
It is like the old saying, "you may not be interested in war, but war is interested in you."
Bring on the brutal.
Due process is who's core believe? Have you followed the DC case against Trump. Banana republic totalitarian tactics. It's happening to less known people in multiple states. Politically motivated prosecution and perversion of laws to achieve it.
Isn't this effectively an impeachment at the state level? The Colorado Constitution reads like the US Constitution - impeachment by the Lower House, trial by the Upper House, two-thirds majority required to convict.
Colorado courts don't have this authority on their own. This is, at best, a stunt. Mostly it undermines the authority of the Colorado Supreme Court, now seen as pointlessly partisan.
Actually I believe that the eye-4-an-eye principle would be effective if such a copycat stance were taken.
The fact that Republicans have failed to enforce the very same immigration laws?
It's about "degrees."
I tell you what, maybe then we would get some decent choices. Oh wait, that would make too much sense. Never mind.
You make a good point. In the 14th century the Roman Catholic Church split, with rival Papacies being set up in Rome and France. The claim was that the rival was illegitimately elected. We are surely divided enough in this country that the Union, that is those who intend to continue the nation conceived in 1789, really cannot sustain the chaos imposed on it by the corrupt demons who have hypnotized the crazies. I no longer desire to ride the cataclysm to digital slavery and chaos like so many apparently do. Let them. But sane people who would like to survive can no longer swim with their millstone around our collective necks.
The Republicans relying on 14th century Roman Catholic legal doctrine certainly aligns with the modern Republican Party.
Do it!
Good idea
Sometimes I cannot tell whether they are trying to get him re-elected or not.
Seriously - we've heard a constant drumbeat over the past several years that our rights and democracy are under attack from Trump and radical judges. Does the DNC, Resistance, Establishment elite crowd really not see the irony in taking away the rights of Coloradans to vote for their preferred candidate (1.36 million of them cast their ballot for Trump in 2020) on the basis of a 4-3 split Colorado Supreme Court vote? This is such alarmingly bad optics, it almost seems planned to be a Trump campaign ad.
No, they don't. That's the scary part.
They are blinded by ginned up fear of something even they can't name. They can't even actually think or speak about what is the worst that could actually happen in a second Trump administration, because they are too busy imagining big scary things with no shape to them that are much worse.
They can, but they don’t dare name it. It’s the loss of power and status that scares the shit out of them.
Another corollary of this observation is that they have spent decades worrying about faith in institutions, like the DoJ and the judiciary, but it turns out that was only important so that they could get their way. As soon as they aren't getting their way, the Supreme Court must be antiquated and in need of reform...
Eureka... that is really it, but I think most of them aren't self-aware of it. But that fits with the known literature of what drives this kind of serious civil conflict leading to potential revolution. elites competing for limited power positions is always one potential contributing cause to a revolution; in this case the rebellion would be elites versus a secpnd trump election
It’s not Irony it’s the Iron Law of Progressive politics- every accusation is a confession.
Aka Projection.
Turmoil and chaos are what these people desire and thrive on.
Very dangerous sorts.
They’re wayyyy behind caring about optics
Apparently so. They're throwing every turd they can find at the Trump wall hoping something will stick.
Thx well said
If I was trying to not re-elect Trump I would be doing my utmost not to give him any publicity especially something that looks remotely politically motivated.
CO hasn't elected a Republican in 20 years, so this is largely just ceremonial. A big middle finger from "the adults in the room".
The Supreme court must fix this. Once and for all.
Interpretation of the 14th Amendment is the job of the supremes. Can’t use the 14th Amendment to do this. One hopes that Roberts will get over his #TDS and fear of not being invited to the best cocktail parties.
For safety's sake, it's probably best not to rely on Roberts for anything. He is the lingering toxin from Bush II.
Looking forward to following the legal arguments though (but I'm no lawyer).
Don't count on Roberts. Those parties must be great.
Well, Epstein used to provide the coke and, uh, other party favors.
Not sure who is doing it now.
It's the pedo porn that Roberts is likely scared of, not missing out on the cocktail party invites. Like so many in DC, he is compromised and therefore controlled.
Part of the plan is to de-legitimize the Supreme Court. Even some of the Dems wouldn't vote for the the "judicial reformation" efforts people like Rep. Bowman were pushing a couple of years ago. But since that failed legislative effort, the strategy has been to personally smear conservative justices and attack as "anti-democratic" decisions made by the Court. And --- to just ignore other decisions.
The Democratic Party is manufacturing Constitutional crises throughout the land. However the Court rules on this and other issues, those rulings will just be inserted into the Resistance framework at the most useful point.
Mary: Does the Supreme Court have jurisdiction, this being a state issue?
The state court doesn't even have jurisdiction in a primary -- they've ALWAYS been considered private events held by private parties.
Saw reporting tonight that the CO Supremes were split 4/3 on whether to keep a Federal Election procedure-qualified Presidential candidate off of a ballot. The Chief of that Court dissented, and they are all Dems. And they STAYED the decision, because of course we need more uncertainty going into 2024. And because of course let's vomit it up to the Supreme Court so the Dem Party can make use of it there.
We are so far away from when Gerald Ford pardoned Richard Nixon so the country could heal. At ultimate political/personal risk to Gerald Ford. Do law schools produce anybody anymore with any knowledge, brains, ethics?
There are no words.
Er, no, freedom isn’t free.
If you won’t chip in your buck-o-five, who will?
I'm not sure if they can. Elections are largely a function of the States, and in particular, the State Legislatures. But I haven't actually read the CO decision yet.
Pretty sure states aren't allowed to disenfranchise entire political parties on a whim.
The ruling was about Trump, not all Republicans.
Banning the presumptive nominee for the Republican ticket, the candidate who polls higher than any other person running for office including the sitting president, and who hasn't been convicted of a single offense, doesn't count as disenfranchisement? Are you employed by the Lincoln Project or something? Do you have a collection of Liz Cheney bikini photos? Twisted logic comes from a twisted mind....
If the CO Republican party did not bothered to intervene in the case, they already picked their candidate.
It's not a middle finger, it's a nose.
Like the camel's nose.
And that camel's nose has long been under the tent.
That just means that for 20 years voter counters are selecting the winners.
I think that the plan is to get him disqualified in enough states that he cannot run as the candidate
God gave us all a middle finger. And he shall be named TRUMP.
Nope
Seriously conceived by adolescent Dems to create chaos and confusion. Anti American Authoritarians at work.
Hardly, and it reflects the same autocratic position adopted by the democrats during his presidency, but unfortunately too many, if not most on the left, went along and are equally complicit in creating a country less democratic, less evenhanded then ever before.
Yes, well said. Thx
They are trying get him to win the primary and then lose the election. That is the obvious strategy. This has been their strategy since 2018. The Democrats even gave money to proTrump candidates during the midterm primaries. The problem is that the strategy is cynical and so anti democratic that it is hard to see how the US recovers as a liberal democracy.
I know but I'm not sure it's going to plan. The other problem is the possibility of it backfiring on them. I mean they just assumed that Biden was going to cruise to reelection and Trump was going to be easy to destroy. All the talk from the National Review crowd is how the Democrats are just going to replace Biden with another candidate and laugh all the way to the White House. I'm not sure even they are crazy enough to go with Newsom (destructive with Hillary lovability) or Harris (unfit in every way). On the Republican side of things DeSantis (make up your mind on where you stand) could probably bring in enough votes to win simply because he is the first second choice but his campaign has been an embarrassment. Haley (Romney in heels) is only really popular in Republican donor fever dreams. Finally, Ramaswamy (still can't figure him out) is less running for the Presidency than a cabinet position. It's like none of these people learned anything and somehow they are way more out of touch than a loudmouth sleazy real estate broker from New York who really needs to stop tweeting all the damn time.
Already gone
They are far over their heads, and fearful of losing theirs.
They like to set things in motion and if it blows up they’ve always been able to retreat to America.
It’s dawned on them that this is America... they live here, and we’re as strange to them as the Afghans or Iraqi were.
Nah, America is not that big of deal to them. They are globalists. They could just go somewhere else. The only way they would be in trouble is if they fucked up the whole world enough to the point where they were hated everywhe... Oh, so that's the problem! Never mind then.
Honestly, as someone who’s washed their hands of the Democrats and Republicans, the voting process… what astonishes me is that the Progressives are totally unaware that they’re the authoritarians.
Finally, a second response that was not responding to another response. Bravo for moving the discussion along Matt.
Clever.
I'm sitting at my desk in Colorado while I type this and am torn between seething rage and utter despondency over this dipshit f*cking state and this idiot ruling. I look at my kids though and think, I don't care what I have to do, even if I have to die, I can't let their future be the one the Democrats have planned for them.
They are showing their hand Danial and 2024 is not going to be the end just the beginning of a new kind of Boston Tea Party and we need to stay focused. We got this Bro. Stay Strong Patriot !!
Let's hope more folks realize the shark has been jumped.
And let's get WI on board!
I have been going there on vacation the last two years, and what has amazed me is that any actual work gets done. Seems like EVERYONE is high. They must fly in Mormons to do surgery because nobody else in the state isn't high all the time.
Only in Denver maybe. There's a huge state outside of that metastatic cancer of a metropolitan area with a lot of people who are productive and are not high all the time. Many of us are still productive citizens.
Better than a MAGA World full of Guilianis and Jenna Ellis lawyers who just lie lie lie, then cry and recant. First they lie. Then they meet in secret to start a riot. Then the claim, “we have the evidence.” Then they lie some more. And women and minorities, even in your State, become subject to the mob. Good luck.
I don't think you understand what's happening around you. Good luck to you.
Sadly delusional sir. Try again?
I’m delusional? Republicans have for decades shouted “state’s rights.” Now the highest court in a State finds against the orange insurrectionist and I’m the delusional one?
"Finds" without even giving a reason for their conclusion. It's like a tautology opinion
A court of *Democrats* (and if you've been around upper class Democrats in this state, they are the most ideologically rabid people alive) and interestingly, there were three dissenters including the chief justice, also a Democrat.
There has been no trial. Trump has been convicted of nothing. This is therefore completely preemptive and nothing but a massive virtue signal to other upper class, Ivy League educated liberals in our society.
The Constitution and our Republic DEPENDS on rule of law, which by definition does not have tiered outcomes for the same behaviors, and which also by definition requires following ALL of the Constitution in determining guilt. Ever heard of "right to a speedy trial?" Well, this clown car court didn't even have the trial, much less a speedy one.
Explain the parts where they followed all the amendments related to trial to reach this "verdict?"
It's a political statement of opinion, not a rule of law outcome.
Wehelll then mister, you must be a constitutional scholar or just really really knowledgeable about the law in Colorado. I confess, I'm neither. I read the post that we're all commenting on. That's all. Oh yeah, I presumed that the Supreme Court of Colorado knows more than I do about the, um, law in Colorado. As for your assertion that I need to "'splain the parts where they followed all the amendments..." maybe you need to 'splain why it is you're so sure a Supreme Court made a 'political' statement and you know better than they do what the 'rule of law outcome' actually means.
Mostly bc they removed him from the ballot over a crime he was never charged with much less convicted of. Ya know “insuwekshun”?
Someday, if there is any justice left in this world, you'll be on the wrong side of the awesome power of government, and when they tell you we're going to charge you with 93 counts of nonsense, and even if you're proven innocent after a multi-year ordeal, you'll be bankrupted defending yourself. But if you just sign this teensy-weensie little confession here, all of that goes away.
Then we'll see how you respond.
🤔.
You do, yes, lots of us do.
Yes, that.
Then you’d better get your kids out of there. I’m know, no always so easy to do.
don’t give up the ship
Thx!
They’re willing to destroy the entire country rather than risk losing power. Psychopaths.
If they lose power they no longer completely control how justice gets meted out. That risks a swing back in their direction and that is a risk they cannot afford to take.
They have backed themselves into a corner and are shocked at their predicament. Then lash out like any cornered beast, blaming anyone but themselves.
As an optimist, I really do think their house of cards is collapsing. If the Republicans keep pulling the thread Michelle Steele did in that hearing when she asked the University Presidents about Qatar funding, things could get very interesting. I think a subcommittee dedicated to a forensic accounting of all money coming in from Qatar in the last 10 years would be eye-opening for a lot of people.
We will see cornered wild animal stage next year and when the talk no longer sells hands start getting dirty.
Great point. The longer they hold on, the more brazen and public their crimes, the more extreme lengths they are willing to go to stay in power. They recognize this battle as getting existential for themselves. The fate of the country is irrelevant.
Not willing to, have to
The country, "democracy" and everything else is merely collateral damage and they never cared about that illusion anyway. You have decades of dirty deeds that have been stashed away in dark corners by the uniparty, establishment, deep state, whatever you want to call the blob that has run our nation for the past sixty plus years.
The best part is, I don't believe Trump would ultimately be the guy to shine light in those corners, but they can't even take the risk as they have no control mechanism to ensure his silence leaving so much hanging out in the wind.
“The best part is, I don't believe Trump would ultimately be the guy to shine light in those corners”
Bingo.
Trump didn’t even threaten to rip open the CIA archives like RFK has, he didn’t even really do anything to the Deep State, and yet, just the possibility that he COULD do something, and once questioned NATO in an interview, they’ve gone on a Jihad against him with such ridiculous ferocity that they destroyed the post-WW2 order they were trying to stop him from destroying.
As a good Jester, I do find this darkly hilarious. I just wish the stakes weren’t so high. I don’t like the perception of reality itself hanging in the balance.
Yes I don’t exactly see why the operatives didn’t just use the containment strategy they use on everyone else. Maybe Trump has better kompromat on them than they could use on him. So far all the shit they’ve pulled out of the hat has been lame. Stormy Daniels anyone?
Hardly existential. It just diminishes their big guy cuts a bit.
Good points
yup , the imagine a true internal audit from wmds in iraq , ukraine to our defeat i. afghanistan.
Desperate pathology revealed.
Did you just feel that rumbling? That was our nation collectively moving one step closer to open revolution.
Just like they want.
Why do you assume it’s what they want? This could just as easily be considered a move by an insecure elite. Insecure and afraid.
Because the only thing more dangerous than someone with too much power is someone with too much power who fears losing any, if not all, of that power. They know their grasp is slipping, and the coming acts of desperation will be cut throat. They will not go gently into that good night.
Their hope is to trigger another 1/6.
They have blm/ antifa on ready for this summer. Dems won’t stop the fire or the civil war. The intensity will be determined by trumps lead mid year.
Dems get behind, riots start. Martial law declared. Election cancelled.
Maga hits the streets for a true insurrection. Military/ cia controls the firepower and we end up in a military coup. Biden drops, Michelle takes over. Trump gets assassinated. We move from 1984 to 1968.
Are there odds on who will actually lead this shithole after it comes down?
Taking the under on Trump/ Biden making to November
An interesting side note on the coming violence of summer (and it's coming) is that in 2020 the rioting was allegedly to protest some mythical "structural racism" which no one ever really defined, and triggered by the overdose of a life long felon which was spun into a wild hoax. All on top of the plandemic insanity.
Today we have the virulently Anti-Semitic pro-terrorist demonstrations/riots which seem to be surprising everyone in their level hatred and intensity. But the whole of the Left is not behind the "movement". If this violence spills over into the summer and collides with the growing partisan tensions, you could very likely see martial law imposed before November.
Laugh now if you wish, but mark my words. Someone here mentioned 1968.
It’s not a long putt to see these professional protesters recruited to any left wing talking point. Of course they are all about “protecting democracy “ and something tells me they are well funded with dark money. Witness the riches of the BLM leadership.
Anything Trump says going forward will be declared insurrection proof points justifying the radical left martial response. Not thinking Maga boys will sit this one out. I mentioned 1968 for good reason as I lived it.
The ultimate tipping point would be a draft to send our boys into a NATO or Israel quagmire. I wouldn’t put it past Biden’s deep staters to mount that horse but not before the election.
Apologies for dropping off, I had a Christmas (no, not "Holiday") party to attend...
As a wee lad of 5 in '68 I didn't really comprehend its impact until much later. One camp likes to say, "we lived though it", and they would be correct. The other camp believes it was the very core of our nation being ripped apart at the seams and that we barely made it through. Perspective is a difficult thing to achieve no matter how much you strive for it -- even with decades of hindsight.
My gut just tells me that 2024 will be one of the most explosive years in our two-and-a-half centuries, the outcome of which is impossible to predict at this point. However it ends, one way or another, it will be a different America that is is even today.
God help us.
Oh my god. "Maga boys"? Who won't "sit this one out"? How pathetic. Your "Maga boys" are a bunch of losers, halfwits and cowards. They already shot their shot. Already tried to do their dumbass violence in support of their cult leader, on Jan 6th. And lost. Badly.
"Maga boys" are WAY too busy these days trying to evade responsibility for their vile and pathetic actions. Or, they are already, rightfully, rotting in prison, and unable to "not sit this one out", you miserable sissy. No one is doing jack shit. All of you are just like the dimwits in, say, the comments on Breitbart. Making stupid predictions that never even come close to true, talking big about all your plans and actions. Nothing but the lowest form of internet babbler.
Yes
Whoever it is, they'll just be the sock puppet of the deep state, like all the rest. My bet is gruesome Newsome.
With the Deep State being a sock puppet of the donor classes and the globalist cabals.
About that-- look at who has moved since covid and where. The big coastal cities are all losers, big losers. If there is another summer of fiery but peaceful protests and rapey utopian anarchist encampments it will only accelerate the flight out of large urban areas. This isn't 2020 and nobody is going to vote for defunding the police again.
Burnt: that’s the real doomsday scenario
100%. The country is being provoked into uprising so they can take away whatever liberties we have left.
Oh is agree with this. I just don’t think they have this grand plan. They are afraid. They have a lot of power and are unified however. Dangerous.
The grand plan was written in the 60s, and don’t exclude elections as a necessary assurance the goal is attainable. The people have never, but once, picked the presidential primary candidates for either party. They were all place before us at the voting booth, accept in 2016.
BradK: And a far worse one.
That is my view as well but it is cold comfort. Insecure and afraid often translates into destructive and stupid.
Oh I agree. Very dangerous, probably more so. Let’s not pretend these are the best and brightest though with a well thought out plan.
Unfortunately, they think they are.
Because they frikking want to lock everybody up who might threaten their power even by voting against them
Well the type of Moves b et oh my god made by the various aspects of the Judiciary are telling, there is a feeling of urgency. Watch their favored news channels? Oh my god.......
Because they already made a movie about it?
The Real Life Green Zone in DC in 2021 is the “Tell.” The proof.
This is what they do (they being the Department of State and unsavory minions).
I saw the GZ in Iraq, I saw the one in DC, after decades and deployments I know what I am looking at. They’re Carpet Baggers who start wars and destroy countries as a business vehicle to loot the American taxpayers. It’s similar to control fraud or the disaster Capitalism that shows up after natural disasters.
Or what was done in Haiti.
We’re 🇺🇸 pretty much on plan Haiti 🇭🇹 in America 🇺🇸 now.
See also Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan, Libya, Ukraine, et al.
This is what they do, it’s all they know how to do... and they’re doing it again here 🇺🇸.
- though yes you have a point, they will usually do a movie and write papers and do “planning exercises” and scenarios, like the Democracy Integrity Project that published the Color Revolution playbook in summer 2020.
Movie? Wag the Dog.
In their minds it’ “West Wing.”
BTW as criminals go they are NOT top shelf. This is the same people since the 90s. The first case was the Rape of Russia money laundering, and they never looked back.
Now how they expect to do this here unless the American military guards their Green Zone is... problematic. It’s very dodgy and really a gamble. Throwing the Dice and betting it all on discipline and inertia. It’s working so far...
Look, DC are criminals with college degrees and that’s it.
They aren’t tough or smart, it’s just the Americans are so weak and dumb they get away with it... so far. Criminals don’t really do long term, they live in the moment. Certainly these ones do... not masterminds, just looting the WALMART at a higher level. We’re so civilized and law abiding it’s too easy.
That’s all. Nothing special.
Yes and war too.
Really, do have a look at the last 20 some years. What do they do? What did they do?
The bright side is it never works out for them.
They do.
That’s why it’s going to happen.
Because they want it.
We are simply a recoiling mass at this point, that could change.
But yes if they want war it happens, the rest of us have no agency in the matter. Really.
Sadly.
The trick of course when DC insists on war is to not give them the war they want, but the war they deserve.
The Iraqi, Afghans, and others have shown us the way.
funny....it's weird I know, but I just had a person, a seer of sorts, a spiritual black woman, who gave me the future run down of what's to come...it's not going to be pretty I guess...she warned me not to be in Wash DC in 2024 at all - stay away...
Yea, stay out of DC, NYC, California, Washington/Seattle, or just say east coast and west coast and really big cities. Chicago…
My heart grieves for the people of Chicago already. Thinking about the horrors they will go thru in the case of left wing mob violence and civil breakdown/economic fracturing is harrowing
Isn’t Milwaukee where the DNC convention is going to be?
No. Chicago. Where the voters in the year's Democratic primaries will be advised that Pres Joey isn't up to it anymore, for some reason, and the Party Leaders in their wisdom have selected his replacement. Paraphrasing, "It was a real nice clam -- bake; they're mighty glad you came andparticipatedinDEMOCRACY."
She warned of stunning violence…
Please have a go bag ready if you are on the east coast.
One of the reasons we left Maryland and moved to Texas. Miss a few people, crab cakes, Berger cookies, but as we get older we want a bit of safety.
it wasn't Priestess Miriam, was it?
it was Miss Cleo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkwoVlO3DaU
No
Do you hear the people sing? Singing the song of angry men....-Les Miz
If it comes to that, hopefully things will turn out better this time than it did for the French.
No need to go there. I would like to explore general strikes.
General Strike? That’s done, people just stop working. Not many left. I’m one.
The General strike is “the machine stops” EM Forster 1909.
He foresaw much, including social media and “likes” . Such as likes ❤️ here.
He didn’t foresee Karen and her feral fetching crew of quota idiots being given jobs they can’t do.
You’d have to work as a practical and technical person to understand, but the machine is slowing down and grinding to a halt. Too much of what we know, what I do is in my hands to explain. But it’s slowly grinding to a halt. The gears are usually electronic so you’d have to do the work to understand.
Finance for instance has been handed over to the liquor store and nail salons of Edison NJ, aka Mumbai West. 👳🏾 has no idea what they are doing, looking at, nor are they capable of making a decision. 👳🏾 they’re kids did their ethnic mafia thing and now dominate Risk Management.
🤣 “I’m not technical “ she said.
I know, I thought. Thanks for candor. Her firm is THE Clearing Firm , $1T daily. So your retirement is all set: ☠️💀🪦.
When the last white guy walks, she has no one to pass the job to... which is how that call ended.
How the world you knew is ending too.
And goodbye.
No, you don’t get the world we built without us, you lack the capacity to enslave us, so say hello to the paragliders, which means nothing to you, and say hello to penury which does.
As for those of you who run, don’t expect help from the locals you locusts have alighted on, not the sensible ones. The “helpful” ones will seem friendly and familiar... they want something from you; hence the familiarity.
Ta.
Who are they and how do you know? Are you in cahoots with them?
The trajectory of this country is really sad. I just learned from MartyrMade's substack that the Pentagon is removing the monument to the reconciliation of North & South post-Civil War from Arlington National Cemetery.
The inscription on the monument: "They have beat their swords into plough-shares and their spears into pruning hooks."
In divided times like these, why would anyone want to remove a monument that celebrates peacefully overcoming the blood-soaked division of our nation's worst moment?
As of yesterday afternoon that takedown was halted, at least temporarily. And the money shot? The injunction to save a Confederate monument was issues by a Black justice. That's gotta burn.
I saw that. Hopefully they are able to stop it.
I understand removing relatively meaningless statues in parks that were erected by segregationists in the 1950s. These are essentially decorations.
But this, if you see my extended comment below, was an important national symbol of the times and to remove it is an affront to the "united heart of a great people" that President Wilson spoke of at the dedication.
I'm with you on the 1950's spiteful monuments.
Nope! The removal of this shitty monument to slaving traitors is back on. Hopefully, they melt it down like that fucking Lee statue. Putting anything pro-Confederacy in Arlington was always blasphemous. What part of "fuck your murderous, slaving, insurrection forever" do you not understand? Clearly, you must also be in favor of monuments to the Third Reich, since the Confederacy was of a similar moral character.
Amazing how you know better than the men that actually lived through it.
You’re so fucking woke bro. I hope I can get like you one day.
Good
yes, apparently the "right-thinkers" no longer believe in any type of peaceful reconciliation with people who disagree
Who makes these decisions?! About the hallowed ground of Arlington?! Pretty outrageous -- but it was probably some intern somewhere. Maybe they we need to dedicate ground at Arlington to the Unknown Intern or the Unknown Bureaucrat? Notice, I DID NOT use the word "tomb." 'Don't want to make any algorithm uncomfortable.
Lmfao martyrmade
They were going to take it down not because it honors traitors to our nation (actual insurrection, not Jan 6th!) with a statue in our national cemetery but because of some racist imagery that your news source opted not to share. Subservient black people comforting CSA soldiers! It's now not being removed but under review.
https://www.cnn.com/2023/12/17/us/confederate-memorial-removed-arlington-cemetery/index.html
Your CNN link doesn't state what you said it does, but I'm aware that some, including members of the artist's family, have made the subjective claim that it glorifies slavery and the Confederacy.
My subjective claim is it depicts scenes of the soldiers going to war. In the South, for the few soldiers that were wealthy enough to own slaves, it was common for them to follow their masters to war - as is depicted on the monument. I think it would be more racist to erase from history the fact that they existed and were caught up in the whole bloody conflict.
A year before the monument was erected, Union and Confederate war veterans gathered at Gettysburg, as President Wilson said, "as brothers and comrades in arms, enemies no longer, generous friends rather, our battles long past, the quarrel forgotten":
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1913_Gettysburg_reunion
These Union soldiers had been shot at by the Confederacy and many of them had lost family members and friends in battle - yet they were able to reconcile.
This monument to reconciliation was erected and unveiled by President Wilson in that spirit.
Unlike many "confederate statues", this marks an incredibly important part of our nation's history. The ability to make peace with one another.
I encourage all to read President Wilson's address to see how far our nation has fallen from these spirits of brotherly love:
https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/address-arlington-national-cemetary-closing-chapter
One quote from it to leave you on:
"My privilege is this, ladies and gentlemen: To declare this chapter in the history of the United States closed and ended, and I bid you turn with me with your faces to the future, quickened by the memories of the past, but with nothing to do with the contests of the past, knowing, as we have shed our blood upon opposite sides, we now face and admire one another."
Apparently the chapter isn't as "closed and ended" as President Wilson had believed, as 100 years later we are opening it right back up.
Thank you, Mark, for such an elucidation.
Your term "monument to reconciliation" is, for me, really the crux. The monument, like most, is intended to preserve a snapshot in history. An eternal remembrance of what was fought and what was lost, in hope that the same mistakes may not be repeated. Destruction of such monuments in an ephemeral expression of instantaneous emotional tantrum -- driven by manufactured rage bred from the contrived lies and false histories taught by academia and perpetuated through social media -- fully intends to eradicate the history, suffering, and legacy of the past.
It is Orwell realized.
The monument is intended to whitewash the true, vile, history of the Confederacy. It shows no history, but valorizes the filth. If it is history you want, then there are plenty of books. But no monuments to the US's version of the 3rd Reich.
Yeah, because "reconciliation" with the trash that had Jim Crow in full swing at the time is, what, desirable to your fevered mind? You don't make "peace" or "reconciliation" with slavers. You kill them and desecrate their memory. And no, commemorating how whites from the South loved owning and torturing black people is not less racist than leaving the "mammy" figure off of your shit-headed monument to "reconciliation" with bloodthirsty, treasonous, slavers.
We wouldn't even have this country today if people like you ruled the day.
Yeah good point, maybe it wasn't about reconciliation at all. Maybe Democrats like Wilson really were still on the side of the slavers. Hell, maybe they still are.
You don't reconcile with Confederates any more than you would "reconcile" with the Third Reich. And, I mean, Wilson was definitely on the slaver side. And no no, we know who is still on the side of evil. It's the people who defend monuments to the Confederacy and Southerners who vote Republican.
"The Solid South" was the term, in case you forgot. The former Confederate states full of white conservatives who voted Democrat no matter what, because they wouldn't vote for the party of Lincoln. Until, of course, 1964. Now, what was it that happened in 1964, that caused all these pro-slavery racist monsters to switch, en masse, to the Republican party? What made the former Confederacy, previously "solid" for Democrats, to become equally as solid for Republicans? Oh yeah, it was the Civil Rights Act of 1964, followed by Barry Goldwater's presidential run, which he predicated on opposition to the CRA.
And so, boom. There you have it. Conservatives have been pro-Confederacy and pro-slavery since forever. And continue to be on the side of the mass-murdering, slaving traitors to this day. As evidenced by both your comment and others.
Yeah, screw those guys... some of those scumbags went so far as to eulogize Robert Byrd.
The South was not solid for Republicans since 1964.
Please look up the electoral map for 1976, for example:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1976_United_States_presidential_election
Then look at 1992:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1992_United_States_presidential_election
Reality is much more complicated than in your world of absolutes.
I’ve been hoping for a way to avoid voting for Trump just because he’s an ass. But, the Dem elites make it clear that the Dem-Deep State is the real threat to our Republic. I can no longer afford to consider 3rd party candidates over Trump and Biden. Trump gets my “F**k-them” vote.
I avoided voting for him twice. I voted Libertarian in 2016 and 2020. But I can’t wait to vote for him in 2024. If he picks Vivek as his VP I’ll canvass.
He's an ass? Seriously? I'm sorry; but what was it about his unprecedented, practically single-handed dragging this country back from the Obama abyss leads to that assessment?
He's a problem solver and always has been. He needs to defend this nation and protect its citizens. Providing a war-free Presidency, an historic level of prosperity for the marginalized were just a couple of the bonuses.
You don't have to invite him to dinner.
There are a lot of us who have lately come to the revelation that we no longer have the luxury of rejecting a candidate because we don’t want to invite him to Christmas dinner.
Well said
Love this, exactly my thoughts
Dude you're wasting your fucking time trifling with this nonsense.
Extremely-Online Trump fans are basically Elizabeth Warren supporters with a pathological fear of pussy.
Trump isn't a threat to anything. He is literally a person who only lives and breathes today because of how much money in this system is tied up in his bull shit. A bunch of lawsuits and an ozempic prescription stacks up in a trenchcoat.
These people have turned their personality cult into a delusion of some higher personal calling and all we can do is laugh
Approximately how many joints have you smoked today?
I think the entire United States is going to find out what has been common knowledge in lightly populated states for decades: co-ordinated write-in campaigns are possible, and they are extremely disrupting to the powers-that-be. It doesn’t even need to be a write-in; Colorado cannot prevent a primary candidate from running on the platform that he will release his delegates on the first ballot to vote for Trump.
These jackasses want to get cute with the rules? Fine. I’m not even a Trump fan, but now I’m pissed.
I think a lot of your reaction is occurring. Basically everybody who has ever believed they got a raw deal in court is on the Trump train.
I heard a comedian say that when the NY judge said he wouldn't listen to anything Trump said, Trump became the "third Black president" behind Clinton and Obama. This probably cinches the deal
That is real humor. Another thing in short supply.
Cue the revenge... I suspect Wyoming, Idaho and several other states will now cite corruption and influence peddling in China and Ukraine to file motions to get Biden removed from their ballots. Remember, the important thing is that Donald Trump is "such an existential threat to our norms" that we need to shatter them all ourselves to stop him!
We must destroy the norms in order to save them!
Hunter just defied a Congressional subpoena. Let's see what happens with more investigation/impeachments. Sigh. Sad that this is our country now!
Yes, but those will all be safe Team R states.
The next logical step is a giant pissing contest. If the Supreme Court does not put a stop to this, then surely New York, California and Illinois will follow suit and remove Trump from their ballots. And right on cue surely Texas, Florida and the entire SEC will remove Biden from theirs. This may actually be great for us. Just solidify all those states and only leave the recognized 'swing states' in play. Makes it much easier for the candidates to campaign in a handful of places, and you'd like to hope it makes it easier for the votes to be counted. Also makes the likelihood of fraud go absolutely through the roof. It also probably encourages Kennedy, West, Manchin and others to run and get on ballots that Biden and Trump are missing from. I like where we're going with this! And then once that is over, we can simply split the country up into these pieces, which is clearly where this is all headed.
Bring on the “ Hunger Games” 2024/2025!
Yes. Indeed.
If Buffalo wins the Superbowl, I’ll take it as a divine omen of peaceful separation.
For the record, this all started when the Cubs won the World Series.
1960’s. Take your pick.
Love the SEC reference.
Co is pretty safe for Biden.
Of course, but this sets a rather banana republic-ish precedent.
Sets?
The court wasn't so much municipal as it was marsupial.
You can never have enough safety.
Or enough bananas.
It didn’t used to be, until all the Californians, Chicagoans and New Yorkers migrated there over the last 20-30 years.
GC: Problem is, not a chance in hell the Corpse-in-Chief will be the Dem candidate, more likely our idiot governor Gavin Gruesome, maybe even Big Mike.
Yes, I already moved away from Chief Lizard Person, suicide cultist Newsome once. I guess when he replaces Biden on the ballot and becomes President, I will have to move out of the country to get away from him again...
Fetterman is rallying.
Right on cue.... And here we go, it begins!
https://www.nationalreview.com/news/california-lieutenant-governor-calls-for-trump-to-be-removed-from-state-ballot/
Matt--This was always the issue we tried to explain to you early on when you started this substack journey. This is NOT about Trump--it's about the over-reach of government, something Trump never came close to. I hope if he's re-elected he remembers what constitutes freedom. But at least half of us supporting Trump are not doing it because we love his personality--we are doing it because we can't let these people get away with what they've been doing--or we are lost. Thanks for writing this, Matt, and for all you do. For standing up for what's right even if it meant you had to move outside your comfort zone some. It's some effing country--banana republic.
Even if this backfires on the Democrats and Trump wins, the precedent it sets is the real damage. We’ve lost the ability to believe that the US is a functioning republic, much less a democracy.
Unless people are actually held accountable for their crimes. If Alejandro Mayorkas (for example) is actually out in a prison cell, it will release a optimism and patriotic exuberance we havent seen in decades. You underestimate just how much people want to love believe in their country. If it seemed like justice was restored to the Republic, even just a modicum of justice for all the treason thats been perpetrated against We the People, there would be joy and brotherly love like never before.
I saw that in the news, and i thought i must have missed the part where Trump was actually tried and convicted. This is scary, i'd expect it to be overturned on appeal. But stranger things have happened.
I must admit that i am enjoying the stench of desperation from the Dems though. You know it's bad when some of the rare smart Dems on the NYT comment boards are saying that Biden is toast and Trump will win. Not that i'm cheering that either, i think we're fucked no matter what.
The stronger Trump becomes the stronger that stench of desperation. Like wounded, caged animals, they will strike out at anything moving.
You know what though? If the Colorado court is basing this on the dubious impeachment for Jan 6, I'd welcome an appeal that does a forensic examination of that, based on the tapes. Of the security guard waving the shaman into the chambers, of the FBI involvement, Pelosi's daughter just happening to be there filming a bogus "documnetary" of our hero Democrats. I, for one, have questions.
Unfortunately, the lies of 1/6 have become fixed in the minds of much of the public. No amount of incontrovertible evidence will ever change this. Most of them still believe the Russia hoax was real, FFS.
They believe because they want to believe. It's much easier than thinking it through.
Have they, though? I know for the D half of the country they have, but I am doubtful they have in the rest of the country. Much like Hunters laptop, some 60% know it too be his, and not Russian Disinfo.
All of that to say that the narrative isn't working as well anymore.
And that's the problem -- the D half of the country. Even if you could convince them of all the wholesale corruption, scheming, and purely anti-democratic actions and policies of their party, they will still vote for whatever crook whose name ends with a (D) long, long before ever voting for an (R).
The only hope lies in the movable middle, the relatively tiny portion of voters -- in an tiny portion of States -- who ultimately decide elections. And while they lack the passion of hard-core partisans, they often lack the will to even get off the sofa to go and vote.
That's all we've been asking for this whole time -- which makes me think I know exactly what's on the tapes (and what isn't).
Honestly, i didn't pay much attention to the whole shitshow at the time, i just thought it was a bunch of posturing kabuki. But when i saw the clips of them being waved into the capital, Pelosi's daughter filming, and the DOJ hemming and hawing about exactly how many FBI were in the crowd, i absolutely had my doubts.
We know MPD had undercovers in the crowd because we can read the manual they got about the weekend.
We strongly suspect that "partner agencies" of the FBI had undercovers in the crowd based on emails on 1/6.
The idea these agencies had people in place but the FBI didn't doesn't even pass the smell test. -- remember the official narrative is that everybody was surprised by 1/6.
"I did not have sex with that woman"
"The FBI did not have paid informants/agitators at the Capital in 1/9"
Both lies were spit out before they were swallowed.
As more and more of the embargoed video footage is released, the more impossible it becomes to deny how this was a pure psyop. Only the truly delusional are still all in.
My favorite is the strategically edited clip of MS Senator Josh Hawley running from the Senate chamber, played on a loop while suggesting he was the first Senator to flee. Tucker Carlson thankfully played us the full, unedited clip, which showed that actually Josh Hawley was the *last* Senator to flee and the that Democrat coalition were the first.
Hiya. Commander!
No matter what footage or other evidence is released, even the entire trove, would ever convince those who have bought into the Big Lie. It's an exact Venn circle overlap of the TDS crowd. They are immune to facts while captivated by logically and physically impossible narrative yarns.
Reportedly the Supreme Court has accepted a J6 case that affects 200 or so "insurrectionists" and has ramifications for Trump himself.
Thanks. Still not buying the ruling though.
The Colorado one? Me either. It is stunningly bad.
What is this craving for evidence and wanting more?
To what end?
Fetishism.
rtj: Correct (that we're fucked). DC is nothing but theater.
What the left and their media allies have failed to realize, over and over, is the degree to which people identify with Trump as a victim of "the man." Every half-assed attempt to smear him, or deploy some novel legal theory against him, just makes him stronger. I loathe and despise Trump, but he's the most put upon politician, ever. And his harshest critics can't find their way from their heads to their asses with their hands.
They were so stupid that they somehow thought that the more prosecutions the better instead of picking one to go all in on narrative wise. Instead the average joe is looking at a party that is not even bothering to campaign except for excessive abuse of lawfare. I mean one legal matter might look to be serious. Six or more (I've lost count) looks like nothing more than a weaponized legal system.
"witch-hunt" is a term that comes to mind!
Trump had more than six legal matters before he ever announced running for president.
This is what rich people do man. They fuck around in the courts. Trump had like thousands of lawsuits (either being sued or suing someone else or counter suing someone for suing him) before the year 2016 even started. This kind of shit is second-nature to people like him
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_and_business_legal_affairs_of_Donald_Trump
I think Trump was a good President, best since Reagan, with excellent foreign policy clearly aimed at limiting the worst offenders against human rights: Russia, Iran, and China, no new wars, an excellent tax reform, that lowered taxes on all but the highest earners (usually those earning more than $500,000 a year in a high tax state), and a good economy.
However, I respect your view of Trump and appreciate your posting on this website.
I think every Trump hater knows how good a president Trump was (those who buy their own groceries, in any case). But they don't care. That is indeed the sad part in all this. Smart people still saying they won't vote for Trump. I don't pretend to understand it other than the corporate lobby, especially the MIC. But the average person saying these things, like Matt, are not defense contractors or politicans at those lobbyist's teats. So puzzling. There is far more sleeze in Biden's past than Trump's.
To say “I like Trump” gives up all your respectability cards. Therefore for those trying to be diplomatic towards center-left and maintain credibility when exposing deep state crimes, journalists must say “I dont like Trump but look at how bad the Dems are, they arent even real liberals anymore”. So I understand why the chattering class has to say they dont like Trump so they have purchase from which to attack the Deep State Left
Excellent and important points.
That is the strategy. Rile up his base so much that he wins the primary and tarnish him so badly that he loses among the swing voters in the general. But the Democrat strategists may misjudge how much they can push the Trump victimization routine before the swing voters start voting for him.
Relying on voters, per se (the ostensible mechanism of a democracy), is certainly not the strategy the Democratic Party's power players are relying upon. It didn't work, already, in 2016. Relying on voters to properly absorb the propaganda against Trump was a major screw-up, and it will never happen again.
They made their 2020 strategies far more robust, and that is an understatement. It worked. Well, the bottom line did, anyway. To take just one example (never mind the November election), look at what happened to the slate of candidates in the days before Super Tuesday, just hanging out there in the open, for us deer in the headlights.
So that's what they'll be doing again, as and however, and wherever necessary; voters are beside the point, they're just annoying cockroaches to be "exterminated", but without it looking like that's what's happening. "We’re history’s actors . . . and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do."
Just one more reason I can’t vote Democrat anymore. They make it easier and easier. I guess they don’t think they can beat him in a straight up election fight. Perhaps they are on to something. Of course this is just the beginning. Lawfare is now part of Democrat politics, which means it will become part of everyone’s politics. What a sad third world mess we are leaving our children. Between the debt that is our legacy and this new nuetron bomb style of
politics we aren’t leaving them much at all. I’m ashamed of the Democrat party. They used to stand for something noble and the leadership was at the very least level headed. Now they don’t give a shit - it’s burn it all down. Destroy your political enemies, trample on everyone’s rights, control everyone’s speech. Take away their freedom while screaming “ we must save democracy!” It’s like a bad dream.
Looking forward to RFK carrying Colorado, in that case...
Just a friendly reminder that the Biden admin STILL refuses to give RFK secret service protection. Real Heroes of Democracy these Democrats are.
I haven't been following the CO polls, but if that happens the schadenfreude will be overwhelming. Just desserts.
To back this proposition up, the one reliable poll in Colorado (CO Polling Institute) on Nov. 26-27 had Biden at 45% in a two-way against Trump's 36. If the anti-Biden 55% coalesces around Kennedy, there go 10 Electoral Votes that Biden has to win -- off we go to an Electoral College deadlock and an even bigger meltdown in January 2025!
I'm a Coloradoan. The state has changed so dramatically since I was a kid I hardly know what to think. This decision...who are these people? This isn't the Colorado I used to know. I'm not even a Trump supporter, but to have the state decide I don't have that choice? What?
I see a couple other Colorado folks on here who sound as angry as I think I will feel once I get past the shock.
Shoehornhands . Agree. I lived in Colorado for 32 years!
It’s a country governed by sick people. Remember I said this: they will do “anything” to keep Trump out. Anything!! They’re running out of options, and if the legal games don’t stop him I fear the final option in the flow chart will happen.
I wish I didn’t believe my government would do such, but I believe they’re as corrupt as any government in the world. Maybe the most corrupt!
I love my country but I despise my government. They are destroying America.