Former President Donald Trump was removed from Maine's primary ballot under the Constitution’s insurrection clause on Thursday.
The decision was made by Secretary of State Shenna Bellows, whom Trump's legal team requested be disqualified from ruling whether or not Trump is eligible for the 2024 ballot.
In other states, plaintiffs have sued regarding Trump’s eligibility, but in Maine, the Secretary of State first weighs in and the decision can be challenged in court.
Maine has only four electoral votes but it’s one of two states to split them, and Trump won one of Maine's electors in 2020.
Remember this moment. It’s going to be the clearest example of the mass hysteria that consumed the Left in the Trump era.
All this does is make people like me want to fight harder for Trump to win, which I promise to do.
Sasha, check out this video from what I think is new resident of State of California. She shows her new voter registration card received in mail, in which you can ‘check a box’ (least effort) for all parties except Republican. For R, there are instead instructions to follow an online link (more effort)
If it did not look legitimate, it would not mislead people like yourself.
What we have here is a verifiable fake. As MLB Fan points out, you yourself can go out to any number of California state and county websites to confirm what the real California voter registration form looks like.
Also your snide remark about "Dem(wits)" shows why such fake news works, namely because it appeals to your political prejudices. You set yourself up to accept something without verifying whether it was true.
I sure hope it is fake. Only a trusted source sharing new voter registration card could disprove. With all the anti Trump activity afoot, this sort of thing gains currency like never before
I hope they are visible to folks that have been politically blinded and simply watch Ch 4 news... Dubya unmasked the 'republican party' in 2003 with the Iraq invasion to nowhere and Barry unmasked the 'democrat party' as those wishing to "fundamentally transform the United States" in 2009. Dubya gave us the police state with the Patriot Act and Barry weaponized it against you and I.
The good news is that we are still Normal Americans outside our metro areas. Happy New Year all!
They can do no wrong, I was informed on Reddit last week while trying to discuss the Colorado move. If a court decided it then it can't be wrong! Or in this case secretary of state. Only in third world countries or places like Russia can the law be turned to corrupt political ends.
Until Jan 6, "insurrection" was a synonym for "rebellion". It was certainly that at that the time the 14th Amendment was written. And "rebellion" means "denying the authority of the government", as in the Civil War. (What a coincidence.) If Trump had meant to deny the authority of the government, he might as well have acted on Jan 5 or Jan 7.
That is from 1948. What matters is the meaning of "insurrection" in 1868. Even the definition given in 1948 involves denying the authority of the government (as in the Civil War) whereas what Trump was trying to do was to re-direct the authority of the government, through the certification process, in order to achieve his desired result. If the idea had been to deny the authority of the government, storming the Capitol could have been done at any time..
A conservative should know that courts tend usually to stick with precedent in interpretation not invent new meanings. But go ahead, show us some evidence of your claims. Show us proof of the precedent that the framers and the courts considered insurrection and rebellion were actually synonymous, despite the evidence I provided you that directly implies that they were considered related but not synonymous.
I am not a conservative. And some judges have in effect invented a new meaning for "insurrection", just a convenient pretext for acting against Bad Orange Man.
Near synonymy is enough create what might be called "duplicative language". If the 14h Amendment had said either "insurrection" or "rebellion" but not both, some lawyer might have argued "That was insurrection, not a rebellion", or vice versa.
1828 (Webster.s): "a rising against civil or political authority" often used with such latitude as to comprehend either sedition or rebellion".
1965 (Webster's) : "a rising against political authority, rebellion".
1981 (American Heritage): "open revolt against authority".
Note that all definitions involve rejecting authority, as in the Civil War.
Note too that the Civil War had just ended.
Trump was attempting to use political authority to achieve his objective. If his intent had been to reject authority, he could have acted on Jan 5th or 7th, or for that matter sometime during November or December.
The first two definitions list "rebellion" as a synonym, and the third distinguishes "insurrection" as being "armed", which is to say *more* like the Civil War and *less* like the "mostly peaceful" mob riots that followed the death of George Floyd, which were closer in nature to what Jan 6 was. Since Trump did not call for an armed effort to deny the authority of the government, he did not commit insurrection.
The same way many States unilaterally switched to mail-in vote during Covid, 2020. At that time, SCOTUS, IMO, abdicated their responsibility by not ruling on Constitutionality of that Executive change (especially Pennsylvania). Now Supreme’s get a do-over starting w/ Colorado on 1/4. If Colorado is ruled unconstitutional to remove Trump from ballot, then it will apply the same, to Maine.
As a PA resident, I was incensed by this abdication in 2020. J Turley suggested that the court might rule the case challenging the Colorado decision moot as Trump will appear on the Colorado primary ballot unless the Colorado court is overruled by January 4 (or 5). I can see the Chief justice encouraging this. Hope I am wrong.
It's their job under the law. The same way they determine whether each potential candidate meets all of the other prerequisites for running for the office. Age, US citizenship, years of residency, etc.
Who did you think had the job of keeping the troll/clown candidates off the ballot? The dogcatcher?
Take a breath. It's the SoS's job in each state to determine whether each potential candidate meets the requirements for office - nomination/petition, age, citizenship, years of residency and 14th-amendment eligibility.
Otherwise all the local clowns/trolls/attention whores would be on every state's presidential ballot.
And now, the Democrats want far more work slaves and sex slave children to fulfill their evil desires. 9 million illegals and counting. All illegal with no background checks. How many teenager sex slaves work in the US today? Far more than you think. Slavery is common to all human beings for the last 5000 years. The first people to stop it were Christians. Look it up. You have no legs to stand on.
For anyone interested in truly understanding this accomplished classicist and military historian, see Peter Robinson's excellent hour-long video interview here on YouTube. Search for "A Classicist Farmer"
But MLB, do the timeline math. 10 Southern States removed Lincoln from the 1860 Presidential ballot. This at a time when there were 33 states in the Union, so that was ~30% of States barring Lincoln from the ballot. Lincoln won with other ~70% of State electoral college vote that did occur and Lincoln was inaugurated on Mar 4, 1861. Lots of fear of violence or assassination at that inauguration. US Civil War then begins about a month later, April 12, 1861 (Confederates fire on Fort Sumter, SC)
They didn't ban him. The states did not issue ballots in those days. The Republican party would have had to supply the Republican ballots. They didn't in those southern states. In plain fact, it would have been a waste of paper.
"Our democracy" = only Democrats allowed. Stalin, Mao, Hitler, Castro, Pot, Amin, Maduro, Mugabe, Biden. Same playback used. Every time. Democrats cannot lecture any other country, including their current most vilified target Russia, about fair elections when they themselves are employing the same tactics. They are not the "resistance". They are the Empire. Watch as our Western allies slowly, then rapidly, distance themselves from this tyrannical regime that is tightening its grip in the U.S. The next step is to just follow their puppet Zelensky in canceling elections due to some "threat".
The Russian elites are just like the American elites. The common Russian people are brutalized by their elites, as we are also brutalized by our elites. The common Russian, Ukrainian, and Belarusians are Orthodox Christians who wish only for peace, harmony , and a calm community with no violence at all. To be left alone from government harassment, and to worship Jesus Christ in their own traditions.
So is completely ignoring the 5th amendment's due process. Maybe you should try actually reading the Constitution once. Trump was never charged nor convicted of actual insurrection, but keep parroting those far-left talking points fed to you by your masters at the DNC.
Jefferson Davis and the rest of the Confederate leaders, who the 14th amendment was originally written for, weren't convicted either.
So by your reasoning, Davis was eligible to run for US President in 1868.
But, alas, he wasn't.
Trump was found by a court, after a trial, to have committed insurrection under the 14th Amendment. That's more than was done in the case of the Confederates. So the case against Trump is actually stronger.
The word "insurrection" is not defined in the 14th Amendment. The phrase "insurrection or rebellion" is a classic example of legal synonymy, as in "withut let or hindrance". At the time, the fact that "insurrection" and "rebellion" were synonyms was perfectly well understood.
Right you are on insurrection not being defined, corrected, thanks.
Re "insurrection" and "rebellion", eh, the Insurrection Act of 1807 does not equate them. They have always been understood in the law to be closely related and somewhat overlapping, similar to sedition or seditious conspiracy.
Here’s a simple exercise in reading comprehension:
The 14th Amendment to the United States Constitution primarily addresses issues related to citizenship, equal protection under the law, and due process. It was ratified on July 9, 1868, in the aftermath of the Civil War. The specific language related to insurrection is found in Section 3 of the 14th Amendment. Here is the relevant portion:
"No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any state, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any state legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any state, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof."
In essence, Section 3 of the 14th Amendment prohibits individuals from holding certain offices if they have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the United States, or if they have given aid or comfort to its enemies. This provision was included as part of the broader effort to address issues related to the Civil War and to prevent those who had actively participated in or supported the rebellion from holding positions of power in the federal or state governments.
A.)
Does this quotation from the 14th Amendment to the United States Constitution mean that a person accused of insurrection or accused of providing aid and comfort to the United States’ enemies is barred from holding office?
OR
B.)
Does this quotation from the 14th Amendment to the United States Constitution mean that a person must be convicted of insurrection or convicted of providing aid and comfort to the United States’ enemies to be barred from holding office?
So why can’t the Colorado Supreme Court or the Secretary of State for Maine pass this simple reading comprehension test?
We won’t even dignify the Colorado Supreme Court or the Secretary of State for the State of Maine by calling all of them fellow-travelers, socialists, communists, morons, and like, stuff. They are pure and simple garbage.
I’m not a lawyer, didn’t stay at Holiday Inn, and wasn’t the smartest in my class, but I can read, and this is a railroad job. When the Supreme Court of the United States finally rules on this, I hope every one of these mealy mouthed, lying, dog-faced pony soldiers is impeached and removed from office.
Till then, we must keep up the fight for truth and justice in the American way (sounds good, I’ll have to use that more).
Most officials and office holders swore an oath to support and defend that Constitution against all enemies foreign and domestic as well as to bear true faith and allegiance to its provisions. Violation of that oath of office is the just cause for immediate removal and prompt replacement of the offending official.
If they had meant convicted, they would have said convicted. You're trying to read into it.
Confederate President Jefferson Davis was never criminally convicted of insurrection or treason either. Nor were any other Confederate leaders. Yet it was understood by all at the time that the recent passage of the 14th Amendment barred him from seeking US Office:
The Confederates actively engaged in insurrection. It was the Confederate's overt actions that made them ineligible. Had the south won the war we wouldn't be having this conversation and I wouldn't be living the USA.
I believe the Confederates proceeded on their own volition, unlike many of the January 6 crowd. I don't remember any record of Union soldiers hiding in South Carolina and urging the citizens to secede from the Union, unlike the FBI and other DOJ assets on 1/6.
We're talking about Trump not the people on the ground on Jan 6.
If he had been successful at convincing Pence to refuse to certify the election, he had fake electors ready to go in key states, or the election would've been decided in the House with one state, one vote, he would've won since there are more red states than blue, and this country would be very different today.
Thank you for reminding everyone of the history of the Democrat party. They are also the party of slavery, Jim Crow, and segregation. Yet, the social justice warriors think it’s the Republicans who are the problem? 😂😂😂
I don’t disagree with your point about the Republican Party. Both parties have shown their willingness to come around to supporting the wealthy to the exclusion of the rest of the country. But no party has worked harder to destroy the American civic religion and western values than have the Democrats. Fascism appears to arise more easily out of liberalism than out of conservative politics. At least the Republican Party has an honorable past it can reach back to.
And you think that no court ever has political motivations? Sounds like it might be you who has "hands over your eyes." By the way, Trump has never been convicted of "insurrection".
Trump is not Jefferson Davis. Trump told his followers to peacefully protest. If you listened to accurate news instead of to the abundant leftist propaganda around, you would know that.
No it's actually her job to gatekeep the ballot, and make sure all candidates that get put on it are eligible for the office they're trying to run for.
Otherwise all the local trolls/attention whores would be on the ballot in every state.
I think they want him to get SCOTUS to rule against this and then they can play the SCOTUS is out of control card (just look at Roe v. Wade) and needs to be reformed. Right now they have nothing except abortion, and they need more fear porn for their platform.
She is a young woman who grew up on the coast among people who distain people in the hardscrabble second district, She is sure that she knows better than the deplorables who surround her in Downeast Maine, she thinks she is having a profile in courage moment when she is actually living in a bubble of leftists on the coast.
Sasha, thank-you for courageously continuing to cover the hypocrisy of the Democratic Party and RINOS. I appreciate that your journalism has cost you a significant amount to your career, friendships and life. We can especially see the hate that some of the commentators aim your way for being outspoken and true to thine self.
“ All this does is make people like me want to fight harder for Trump to win, which I promise to do.”
Right?! They keep shooting themselves in the foot time and time again!
When they finally come to the conclusion that even attempts at bastardising the laws to crush their opposition isn’t working, that’s when things are gonna get real ugly.
Well Ashby, I’ll say this. If R’s do remove Biden from a State ballot and Sasha doesn’t put a post up on it, I’ll unsubscribe at that point. That’s how strongly I feel about this subject.
I don’t know for sure. It has been suggested that his anti-Iraq war statement put the MIC against him. That would set a large and extremely powerful group against him.
Any idiot can see that Trump just reflexively disagreed with anything his predecessors did, because for him it's all about showing everyone he's the best and biggest.
The 14th amendment doesn't mention a requirement of being criminally convicted. No Confederate leaders were criminally convicted of insurrection or treason.
Trump was found by a court after a trial to have committed insurrection.
But thanks for your attempt to add language to the Constitution.
Women aren’t the problem. Affirmative action DEI hires are. When you lower the bar for one group of people and not others don’t be surprised when the quality and competency of that group of people plummets.
AA hiring to fulfill DEI objectives is A problem. Women, however, are THE problem. See the trend to sub-replacement TFRs in all Westernized countries (except Israel and that's due primarily to the ultra Orthodox). The theory of Homo Economicus decrees that the Global South will fill the void to keep our economies going. You'll want to think long and hard about that prospect.
So your solution is a literal handmaids tale? Taking the most hysterical over-the-top prediction of the goofy left and basically saying "hold my beer"? Are you a plant designed to keep Democrats in power forever? You know those women who blame the patriarchy for everything and think all masculinity is toxic. You're the male equivelent of that. We need a balance of feminine and masculine and to escape the longhouse for sure, but we need people to embrace their most nautral roles, which will be being providers for most men and being mothers for most women, but women can still be great engineers and should be able to vote! Just don't go lowering standards to get more women or minorities into places they normally wouldn't qualify. Retain merit based systems and you will naturally get fewer female leaders and more female nurses.
I've heard the idea that women are the problem and shouldn't be able to vote because they are more likely to vote for a nanny state. That makes about as much sense as barring men from owning firearms because they are more likely to be violent and commit the most gun homicides. Both are true but still no reason to remove constitutional rights. I guess the right has it's own version of "We need to destroy democracy to save it."
Dems certainly play dirty, and favorites are leaks and lies. They set their bs in place with the Hollywood Access leak of Trump’s private convo (sexist/rapist), the bogus Russia hoax funded by HC (corrupt), the misquoting of his Charlottesville comments (racist), and massive lies about J6 (insurrectionist). It’s the Party of Leaks, Lies, and BS.
Sasha, please promote the idea of reading the magnificent book by Alexzander Solzhenitsyn , the “Gulag Archipelago”. Every high school student should be required to study it in English class.
While I voted for President Trump twice, I did not like the decisions he made after the 2020 election. So, I was prepared to be ‘never again’ for him... until this horror show appeared! He will get my vote.
You've got to figure President Trump Redux will be presented a much more capable, more informed, and more motivated group of allied political operatives from which to choose his executive and legislative leaders than were available to him in his first term. Also, this time around, I'm guessing President Trump will know just how to rate the senior leadership of the American military establishment in terms of principled and effective management of this country's armed forces thereby ensuring actions solely in pursuit of the American national interest.
And can run his term as President without worrying about RINO support for re-election -- by working to remove McConnell and telling Lindsey Graham to STHU, along with others.
We're in a bad spot right now. Each party is not going to accept the results of the 2024 elections (including the Senate which the Dems are likely to lose control of) and that leaves us with a defacto state of Civil War.
And please remember that Jesus Christ is Lord of all. The Messaich. With one word from His mouth, all the crazy stops in one moment. And then the judgement.
I hope and pray that all our older cousins, the sons and daughters of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, will join us.
Shalom, Shalom, Shalom… to da… You gave us our faith. For that, we are eternally linked to your people.
I really don't understand the point here. Do they love looking like complete idiots. In January, the Supreme Court will overturn Colorado an thus any other State who tries this. The only thing I can think of is that both the crooked Dems and Republicans are out of options and are desperate
And that's why you are the perfect target for this psyop by the left. It's all about emotions - if they can get you to vote your emotions instead of logic and track record, by making him a martyr they can get more people to make Trump "our" candidate, and they will easily beat him with his own hubris. Do you think they don't know this? Further, in the big picture, this has no chance of surviving SCOTUS, so it's all hat & no cattle. And even in the unlikely event that they fail to beat Trump (not with Biden, that will change), they can easily manipulate him like they did last time, because Mr Warp Speed has learned nothing from his mistakes.
What a joke. What has slo joe learned from his ruination of the country and dishonest trickery from behind the scenes? I am voting with my head referencing the excellent job that President Trump did before we got into this quagmire of democrats.
Same here 👏👏👏. I wasn’t worried about inflation eating my savings nor worried about WWIII. I wasn’t concerned about 8 million illegals in just 3 years entering without being vetted and wondering what next national crisis would erupt. I wasn’t worried about pilots dying from forced jab mandates. I wasn’t worried about our military being consumed by woke ideals, or transgender military personnel with many dressing in uniform to drag and posting on Tik Tok. I wasn’t embarrassed every time our President was on world stage wondering what humiliation he would evoke or shake hands with a ghost. Under Biden it’s been nothing but destruction, disgrace, corruption and contempt.
Sweet Mama, us current Trump supporters are awaiting who Trump selects as his VP for 2024. Trump, like Biden, will continue to cognitively decline if/when inaugurated. As our Republic ages, sadly, so does our POTUS candidates. In this environment, the VP takes on greater importance.
Most of Trump’s staff couldn’t keep up with him. They were amazed how early he started and how long he kept at it daily. With age he will slow down eventually, but he can still outperform many much younger.
My only mention of "slo joe" in my comment was to point out that he will not be the D candidate. I was speaking of the left machine, which Joe clearly does not run. So your comment is irrelevant & Trump failed at most of his promises, and continues to promote his biggest failure as "father of the vaccine", which was the worst crime against humanity in world history. His other failures include slower deportations than Obama, failure to build the wall, making fun of people who believed his asinine promise to "make Mexico pay for it", rewarding that weasel Fauci & his wretched crew on his last day in office for wrecking our country, which he also enabled by appointing Pfizer lobbyists to head public health & ignoring the rational warnings of Scott Atlas, appointing MANY members of the "swamp" that he had vowed to destroy, signing the CARES Act, which provided everything needed to cheat in the 2020 election, threatening to destroy Thomas Massie for opposing it, failing to prosecute "poor Hillary" as he had promised in his campaign, signing the Bumpstock ban, which encouraged lots more overreach by the ATF, being a vocal supporter of red flag laws, failing to pardon Ed Snowden or Julian Assange, while pardoning major drug dealers, failing to open the JFK files when he had the power and had promised to do so, increasing the debt by a record $8Trillion, promoted lockdowns, and most recently refusing to debate (something he owes to US as a servant of the people), backing away from his pro-life position, proudly demonstrating his support of BLM after one of their lackeys stroked his ego, also boasting support from Louis Farrakhan, and spending $Millions in attack ads lying about DeSantis, who supposedly is no challenge to him. There's more, but I don't have hours to list all of his failings. He got a few things right, but clearly we can and should do better this time. For perhaps the first time in decades, we have a candidate with a clear track record of consistent, conservative leadership who keeps winning, and we should wise up and make sure to support him. If not, we will regret it.
Sweet, are you memory holing who was in charge at time that Covid vaccine (w/ hindsight better called therapeutics) mandates came down? It was not under Trump. It was under Biden. Get that straight in your head as step 1. Maybe you already fully realize this and I’m preaching to choir. If not… if Trump were elected in 2020 one cannot postulate (unless you are God) ‘how’ Trump the ‘father of the vaccine’ would have forced or not forced (with threat of job loss!) the mRNA vaccine on the General Population. Trump is/was a Populist. If you accept that, it is not a stretch to envision that he would have (from the Pulpit) pulled the plug on Covid mandates well before Biden did to help save small businesses from closure, kids from ongoing schooling over a Zoom screen. Now, would individual States follow that theoretical Trump lead to return to normal? Some blue States certainly would not. Which would have resulted perhaps in even greater migration out of these authoritarian States than we are already seeing today. People vote with their feet, in case that is news to you:
That is a theory without evidence. He insisted over & over again (you can find that on video if you don't remember) that he had the authority to lock everything down, so we can't assume anything from his mixed bag of nonsense. And he did appoint Pfizer lobbyists to head public health, a move I could have advised against when I was age 5. You don't hire the fox to guard the henhouse.
Interesting, I will check into some of them. The BLM "lackey"seems harsh and really enforces your hate thoughts. Now since you are on such a roll, let's hear your thoughts on the Joe/Kamala situation and their records in comparison. You seem to think one person can do a lot of things by himself and we know that just isn't so. The swamptown is horrific, I used to live there and friends are telling me and I"m reading about what the place is like today. So who do you see on the D/R ticket? Some young, new, intelligent blood would be nice but not more haters like we have now with an agenda to finish us off.
BLM lackeys is too harsh? How about BLM grifters, that's probably more accurate. Go ahead and call me a racist for that (even though you know NOTHING about me), and then tell me what BLM leaders ever did for the black community, excepting themselves and their use of the grift to buy mansions and increase their personal wealth? Do you know this? How about the riots they instigated, destroying $Billions in personal, business and government property during the summer of 2020? Who is footing the bill for that? Did Trump engage the National Guard to take control of the situation or just let them burn it? Maybe that explains his welcoming of their support. Of course, Joe is a mumbling disaster, and Kamala and the rest of the left are worse, that's not even a question. We may not survive the next year of open borders, reckless spending, political prisoners, unnecessary wars and the rest of it. But Trump made that possible with his horrible mismanagement in 2020. The only true conservative with a fantastic track record of picking the right people and making good on all of his promises is Ron DeSantis. If you are conservative there is no other candidate. He's made FL the #1 most prosperous & free state in the country with a surplus budget, got rid of two Soros prosecutors, eliminated all mandates, got a team of other experts around him during the 28 days of lockdown in FL and followed the actual science to lift all of it, got rid of DEI and CRT in schools, fought Disney on their woke BS & special privileges (which Trump criticized), signed laws preventing the sale of land to the Chinese, banning CBDC in FL, banning the sexual mutilation of children in FL, signed a parental rights bill, signed a bill limiting abortion, signed Constitutional Carry, and much more. If you don't know this, look into him. Seriously, he's got none of the drama, fulfills his promises and knows how to hire and lead. And he's out there every day having conversations with voters, answering questions and EARNING our votes, unlike the grandstanding entitled attitude of Trump.
" Mr Warp Speed has learned nothing from his mistakes." Bingo. And he will not "apologize", as some people have suggested, because an apology has consequences...
Helping to create a vaccine (Trump/Warp Speed) is different than how said vaccine is implemented. You are 100% projecting how Trump would have implemented vaccine over General Population. You are in fact ‘convicting’ him for helping create the vaccine. But ignoring the over the top propaganda to take said vaccine or else you’d kill Granny. Einstein & Oppenheimer helped create the atom bomb. Do you blame them for using it? That’s a straw-man, but is how I view creation of CV vaccine vs. how it was deployed.
Had he done so in a timely and appropriate fashion, he could have retrieved his reputation in that area. A year ago, after more data on injuries & deaths came out and lots of those Pfizer docs were forced to be made public by a court, which showed the extreme fraud of this criminal enterprise, Trump could have said "Look, I'm not a doctor or a scientist, and I was fooled by the so-called "experts" around me", and people would have forgiven him. In the context of his wretched failings to look into the backgrounds of the people he trusted, it would have at least been less tone deaf to acknowledge the dead & injured than to keep insisting without evidence that he "saved 100 million lives", an obvious lie at this point and pretty damned heartless. At this point, I'm convinced he was bought by Big Pharma and was always doing their bidding. Otherwise, why would any sane person appoint Pfizer lobbyists to head public health and then reward them on his last day in office? When asked about this a few months ago by Megyn Kelly, he feigned amnesia, pretending not to remember giving those awards, which are a matter of record. Crazy.
When it comes to voting with emotions, women are particularly susceptible, which is is convenient for politicians - particularly the left, who can paint creative pictures that are detached from reality and redefine language to fit a narrative which gets women to support horrific atrocities - like calling the sexual mutilation of children "gender affirming care". This is why voting standards need to be raised. A lot.
MLB, as previously commented, the last time a POTUS candidate was removed from State ballots (10 States in 1860, Lincoln), a US Civil War erupted shortly thereafter. Does that happen again? I sure hope not. But D’s are playing w/ historical fire 🔥 …and for what? Even if Civil War does not occur again, this is really bad for our Republic.
They are not "playing with fire", they are playing US! Take a step back and look at what happens every time they make some damned fool move like this that has no chance of surviving SCOTUS. It's the REAL 3D chess, a distraction designed to amplify his martyrdom & get more of us to support Trump the victim & make him "our" candidate, because they are holding all the aces against him to win. They've got nothing on DeSantis, and since he's a more thoughtful, rational candidate who has a great track record, he'll be harder for them to muddy. This is a psyop by the dems. If they manage to make anything stick, they still win. There's literally no downside for them with Trump.
All about "driving up the negatives" of the opposition candidate (and accepting they'll do the same to your candidate). The strategy is to make the prospect of voting for either candidate so distasteful to the uncommitted voter that they will stay home, thereby allowing the party best able to get its true-believer base to the polls to go on to victory. Politics ain't beanbag, as they say...
This is not the action of a single Secretary of State in Maine nor a few judges in Colorado. This the entire deep state mobilizing against Donald Trump and his entire movement which now represents more than half the electorate. I have no doubt they have contingency plans if SCOTUS rules against them. They will not be controlled by the Supreme Court. After all, they control the military, the federal bureaucracy, the business world, the media, Big Tech and the universities. J6 taught them that any protest can be turned into a sting operation. Their attitude is clear. If you don’t like it, what are you going to do about it?
This is the fruits of decades of Republican spinelessness or even hatred of their own voters. Remember that both Maine and CO are about the primary ballot. In other words, the Democrats are trying to manipulate the choices that Republican voters make as to who will represent them. They want the same old Chamber of Commerce Republicans like Haley and Ron! who will play along and change nothing important. If there is anyone celebrating this more than the Democrats, it is the GOPe.
One of the reasons the 2020 election needs be still in the crosshairs is exactly this... Here you have a state executive making rules about a federal election. This is in opposition to the elections clause: Article I
Section 4 Congress
Clause 1 Elections Clause
The Times, Places and Manner of holding Elections for Senators and Representatives, shall be prescribed in each State by the Legislature thereof; but the Congress may at any time by Law make or alter such Regulations, except as to the Places of chusing Senators.
So now we have a judiciary in Colorado and an executive in Maine, unconstitutionally using an unconstitutional application of very selective aspects of the 14th amendment while leaving out Section 1 and Section 5 of the 14th amendment and manipulating the race. If this stands, five people will have taken the vote away from seven million people.
The 2020 race was rife with this crap, especially where mail in ballots were concerned. It wasn't fraud per say - although there was plenty of that. It was the usurpation of constitutionally defined powers and this is why Biden received more "votes."
The Colorado decision and the Maine decision are both a direct attack on ALL Citizens. There is no right or left, only no rights left. There are only two questions regarding governance:- 1- Who Decides?. and 2- Who Decides Who Decides?' Look in a mirror and ask those two questions. If your answer is not 'I Decide', then both Freedom and Democracy are dead, and you are living in a failed state. I would respectfully ask you to consider this. Our continued insistence that the government is responsible for everything and we are responsible for nothing leads to polarized political paralysis, social stasis, and economic evisceration. It is time to slowly, methodically and peacefully take back the myriad functions of government at all levels and more importantly the bureaucracies that we have allowed to metastasize into the cancer culture we have today. We get what we let. It is time to develop just a tiny bit of Courage, and learn to Cure Rage. It is time to downsize governance, Piece by Peace.
Sharyl Attkisson is right the Elites are terrified of Trump, The question is why? he has ineffective in Term #1 and the RINO's in DC will not help him. They believe their own lies they have told themselves about him and now are unable to distinguish facts from lies that they themselves made up. Since its apparent that they will stop at nothing what will they do next? The ultimate power play has to be in the works, They have to do it why he is a candidate vs President (no way they get away with another JFK type hit in todays media environment). If the Swamp attempts this and it will we need to drain DC. Stop sending back your local representative and senators Fire them all. Cut off the lifeblood of our tax dollars.
“All this does is make people like me want to fight harder for Trump to win, which I promise to do. “
Exactly this! I’m not a fan of Trump. These antics make me want to vote for him just to poke these idiots in the eye and stop their blatant antidemocratic power play.
Thank you and hopefully many other previous Dem voters will as well. People need to realize this isn’t just about Trump. It’s about our choices in an election.
I am not a particular fan of Donald Trump . BUT ! I find it very disturbing, that some clowns in public office can have such a blatant disregard for the basic democratic principle of : Letting the people choose ! NOT, HAVE SOME SELF-APPOINTED CLOWNS PRE-DETERMINE , FOR WHOM THE PUBIC THEN GETS TO CAST THEIR VOTE !!!
THE SO-called “INSURECTION”, Trump in accused of, was fabricated and staged by the FBI and the Biden Gang.
Shameful tactics ! How can the public stand by idly ???
THOSE, WHO ARE ASLEEP, IN A DEMOCRACY, WILL WAKE UP IN A DICTATORSHIP !
SO HELP US ALL, WHEN PSYCHOPATHS WILL MADATE ,
WHEN YOU MAY BREATHE IN AND WHEN YOU CAN BREATHE OUT!!!
Gosh, the rules that restrict who can run for president sure seemed a lot more important to you back when it was Obama's eligibility that was being questioned. Pretty sure YOU were the "self-appointed clowns" in that case.
I firmly believe that this is all part of a larger plan. I think they are doing this knowing that it will all backfire on them, and that with each and every attempt to keep him off the 2024 ballot it only helps Trump gain more and more supporters. Then, when it's clear that Trump has a massive amount of voter support behind him.....they'll steal the election yet again.
These loons really thought this abusive manipulation would work to turn voters against Trump, and they are now doubling down on the notion they didn't go far enough. I've read a statement of that sentiment on the entire woke agenda. If the loons try the same attack on the voting again, they will have a civil war.
And that is exactly what they want. Either an all out civil war, or at the very least an environment that is ideal for the deep state (CIA, FBI) to commit a false flag, blame it on "right wing extremists", and call in the United Nations for "peace keeping."
What better way to "defend democracy" than by excluding disfavored candidates from the ballot? So stunning and brave.
Exactly. That's what's so funny about this. They are completely unmasked now.
Sasha, check out this video from what I think is new resident of State of California. She shows her new voter registration card received in mail, in which you can ‘check a box’ (least effort) for all parties except Republican. For R, there are instead instructions to follow an online link (more effort)
https://www.reddit.com/r/Conservative/s/oVNGkhVQ9F
Hmm, "looks" legit. The comments contest it but more than likely Dem(wit)s. But looks real to me.
Kay Morgan,
If it did not look legitimate, it would not mislead people like yourself.
What we have here is a verifiable fake. As MLB Fan points out, you yourself can go out to any number of California state and county websites to confirm what the real California voter registration form looks like.
Also your snide remark about "Dem(wits)" shows why such fake news works, namely because it appeals to your political prejudices. You set yourself up to accept something without verifying whether it was true.
Why, thank you...Will!
Facescum is a scam. Please try harder.
could be fake, according to some comments to that vid
I sure hope it is fake. Only a trusted source sharing new voter registration card could disprove. With all the anti Trump activity afoot, this sort of thing gains currency like never before
Facescum is a scam, try harder.
Thx MLB. The Facebook vid post you share of CA voter registration form is from 5 years ago (2018). Is that still the same form in 2023?
Thx MLB, looks to me like it was a fake to incite. Agree it’s hard to keep the truth straight these days.
I hope they are visible to folks that have been politically blinded and simply watch Ch 4 news... Dubya unmasked the 'republican party' in 2003 with the Iraq invasion to nowhere and Barry unmasked the 'democrat party' as those wishing to "fundamentally transform the United States" in 2009. Dubya gave us the police state with the Patriot Act and Barry weaponized it against you and I.
The good news is that we are still Normal Americans outside our metro areas. Happy New Year all!
100%!
They can do no wrong, I was informed on Reddit last week while trying to discuss the Colorado move. If a court decided it then it can't be wrong! Or in this case secretary of state. Only in third world countries or places like Russia can the law be turned to corrupt political ends.
This is "Their Democracy".
One must destroy democracy to save democracy. Orwellian “logic” is on display.
Almost as stunning and brave as opposing the 14th amendment.
Face it, your hero is an insurrectionist and he's going to jail.
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!!!! Get a life.
We'll all breathe easier when Trump is in prison.
Just think of all the rebranded Trump merch that'll no doubt come out for you to buy!
The weekly recorded phone calls from the man himself that you'll be able to listen to for the low low price of just $9.99 per minute!
The Free Trump funds you can donate the rest of your life savings to!
All the Escape Plans you can discuss with your friends online!
It'll be Awesome!
OMG, you're funny.
I guess you fantasy world is your safe space.
"For just $599.99, we'll give Trump a Big Mac delivered to his cell with your personal message to him attached!!!"
Someone buy the Birtha troll a dictionary.
Until Jan 6, "insurrection" was a synonym for "rebellion". It was certainly that at that the time the 14th Amendment was written. And "rebellion" means "denying the authority of the government", as in the Civil War. (What a coincidence.) If Trump had meant to deny the authority of the government, he might as well have acted on Jan 5 or Jan 7.
No, not really. Explained here. Closely related but not synonymous.
https://www.thefederalcriminalattorneys.com/rebellion-or-insurrection#:~:text=What%20Is%20Considered%20Insurrection%3F,the%20government%20or%20its%20regulations.
That is from 1948. What matters is the meaning of "insurrection" in 1868. Even the definition given in 1948 involves denying the authority of the government (as in the Civil War) whereas what Trump was trying to do was to re-direct the authority of the government, through the certification process, in order to achieve his desired result. If the idea had been to deny the authority of the government, storming the Capitol could have been done at any time..
A conservative should know that courts tend usually to stick with precedent in interpretation not invent new meanings. But go ahead, show us some evidence of your claims. Show us proof of the precedent that the framers and the courts considered insurrection and rebellion were actually synonymous, despite the evidence I provided you that directly implies that they were considered related but not synonymous.
I am not a conservative. And some judges have in effect invented a new meaning for "insurrection", just a convenient pretext for acting against Bad Orange Man.
Near synonymy is enough create what might be called "duplicative language". If the 14h Amendment had said either "insurrection" or "rebellion" but not both, some lawyer might have argued "That was insurrection, not a rebellion", or vice versa.
1828 (Webster.s): "a rising against civil or political authority" often used with such latitude as to comprehend either sedition or rebellion".
1965 (Webster's) : "a rising against political authority, rebellion".
1981 (American Heritage): "open revolt against authority".
Note that all definitions involve rejecting authority, as in the Civil War.
Note too that the Civil War had just ended.
Trump was attempting to use political authority to achieve his objective. If his intent had been to reject authority, he could have acted on Jan 5th or 7th, or for that matter sometime during November or December.
The first two definitions list "rebellion" as a synonym, and the third distinguishes "insurrection" as being "armed", which is to say *more* like the Civil War and *less* like the "mostly peaceful" mob riots that followed the death of George Floyd, which were closer in nature to what Jan 6 was. Since Trump did not call for an armed effort to deny the authority of the government, he did not commit insurrection.
How the hell does the Secretary of State unilaterally make the decision who the people get to vote for?
The same way many States unilaterally switched to mail-in vote during Covid, 2020. At that time, SCOTUS, IMO, abdicated their responsibility by not ruling on Constitutionality of that Executive change (especially Pennsylvania). Now Supreme’s get a do-over starting w/ Colorado on 1/4. If Colorado is ruled unconstitutional to remove Trump from ballot, then it will apply the same, to Maine.
As a PA resident, I was incensed by this abdication in 2020. J Turley suggested that the court might rule the case challenging the Colorado decision moot as Trump will appear on the Colorado primary ballot unless the Colorado court is overruled by January 4 (or 5). I can see the Chief justice encouraging this. Hope I am wrong.
They lost 63 out of 63 lawsuits, and the presidency. Time for the sore losers to get over it.
It's their job under the law. The same way they determine whether each potential candidate meets all of the other prerequisites for running for the office. Age, US citizenship, years of residency, etc.
Who did you think had the job of keeping the troll/clown candidates off the ballot? The dogcatcher?
It's also their job under the law to know the meaning of the word "insurrection". But hey, "by any means necessary". Orange Man Bad!
Yep, pretty sure she got it right in this case, "a violent uprising or organized resistance against the government or its regulations."
https://www.thefederalcriminalattorneys.com/rebellion-or-insurrection#:~:text=What%20Is%20Considered%20Insurrection%3F,the%20government%20or%20its%20regulations.
One Secretary of State can deny thousands of Maine citizens their constitutional right to vote for their candidate of choice.
This without any hearing/trial, questions to witnesses, attorney representing Mr. Trump etc.
The Left has a monopoly on bananas in the US.
Take a breath. It's the SoS's job in each state to determine whether each potential candidate meets the requirements for office - nomination/petition, age, citizenship, years of residency and 14th-amendment eligibility.
Otherwise all the local clowns/trolls/attention whores would be on every state's presidential ballot.
It's been pointed out that 10 Southern states wouldn't put Lincoln on the ballot. Maine and Colorado are not in good company.
It may not be good company, but it is their company.
Trump is no Lincoln, but I know that’s not the point.
They had a Civil War.
And 600,000 white men died, to free our slaves.
And now, the Democrats want far more work slaves and sex slave children to fulfill their evil desires. 9 million illegals and counting. All illegal with no background checks. How many teenager sex slaves work in the US today? Far more than you think. Slavery is common to all human beings for the last 5000 years. The first people to stop it were Christians. Look it up. You have no legs to stand on.
Victor Davis Hanson has been comparing silicon valley titans to plantation holders. https://newcriterion.com/issues/2022/9/the-old-south-shall-rise-again
For anyone interested in truly understanding this accomplished classicist and military historian, see Peter Robinson's excellent hour-long video interview here on YouTube. Search for "A Classicist Farmer"
Thank you for sharing this. VDH has a rare gift for analyzing current events in a historic light. He's one of my favorite authors.
But MLB, do the timeline math. 10 Southern States removed Lincoln from the 1860 Presidential ballot. This at a time when there were 33 states in the Union, so that was ~30% of States barring Lincoln from the ballot. Lincoln won with other ~70% of State electoral college vote that did occur and Lincoln was inaugurated on Mar 4, 1861. Lots of fear of violence or assassination at that inauguration. US Civil War then begins about a month later, April 12, 1861 (Confederates fire on Fort Sumter, SC)
They didn't ban him. The states did not issue ballots in those days. The Republican party would have had to supply the Republican ballots. They didn't in those southern states. In plain fact, it would have been a waste of paper.
It's also been debunked by fact-checkers: https://www.upworthy.com/abraham-lincoln-was-not-barred-from-the-ballot-by-10-southern-states-in-1860
I'm with you on this, Sasha.
So am I, Sasha.
I never voted Trump before, but can’t wait to cast my vote for him this time.
This Colorado bandwagon move will no doubt be followed by other states. You're right, Sasha -- it's a moment to remember.
"Our democracy" = only Democrats allowed. Stalin, Mao, Hitler, Castro, Pot, Amin, Maduro, Mugabe, Biden. Same playback used. Every time. Democrats cannot lecture any other country, including their current most vilified target Russia, about fair elections when they themselves are employing the same tactics. They are not the "resistance". They are the Empire. Watch as our Western allies slowly, then rapidly, distance themselves from this tyrannical regime that is tightening its grip in the U.S. The next step is to just follow their puppet Zelensky in canceling elections due to some "threat".
The Russian elites are just like the American elites. The common Russian people are brutalized by their elites, as we are also brutalized by our elites. The common Russian, Ukrainian, and Belarusians are Orthodox Christians who wish only for peace, harmony , and a calm community with no violence at all. To be left alone from government harassment, and to worship Jesus Christ in their own traditions.
Praise God from whom all blessings flow…..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVm25rO-Muc
Enjoy, or not. I am a Reformation Christian who loves Orthodox music that is sublime.
Equating the provisions of the 14th amendment to "Stalin, Mao, Hitler, Castro, Pot, Amin, Maduro, Mugabe".
Interesting take on the US Constitution.
So is completely ignoring the 5th amendment's due process. Maybe you should try actually reading the Constitution once. Trump was never charged nor convicted of actual insurrection, but keep parroting those far-left talking points fed to you by your masters at the DNC.
Jefferson Davis and the rest of the Confederate leaders, who the 14th amendment was originally written for, weren't convicted either.
So by your reasoning, Davis was eligible to run for US President in 1868.
But, alas, he wasn't.
Trump was found by a court, after a trial, to have committed insurrection under the 14th Amendment. That's more than was done in the case of the Confederates. So the case against Trump is actually stronger.
https://www.tennessean.com/story/opinion/contributors/2023/09/19/trump-defense-team-might-learn-lessons-from-the-prosecution-of-confederate-president-jefferson-davis/70877547007/
The word "insurrection" is not defined in the 14th Amendment. The phrase "insurrection or rebellion" is a classic example of legal synonymy, as in "withut let or hindrance". At the time, the fact that "insurrection" and "rebellion" were synonyms was perfectly well understood.
Right you are on insurrection not being defined, corrected, thanks.
Re "insurrection" and "rebellion", eh, the Insurrection Act of 1807 does not equate them. They have always been understood in the law to be closely related and somewhat overlapping, similar to sedition or seditious conspiracy.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insurrection_Act_of_1807
Here’s a simple exercise in reading comprehension:
The 14th Amendment to the United States Constitution primarily addresses issues related to citizenship, equal protection under the law, and due process. It was ratified on July 9, 1868, in the aftermath of the Civil War. The specific language related to insurrection is found in Section 3 of the 14th Amendment. Here is the relevant portion:
"No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any state, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any state legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any state, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof."
In essence, Section 3 of the 14th Amendment prohibits individuals from holding certain offices if they have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the United States, or if they have given aid or comfort to its enemies. This provision was included as part of the broader effort to address issues related to the Civil War and to prevent those who had actively participated in or supported the rebellion from holding positions of power in the federal or state governments.
A.)
Does this quotation from the 14th Amendment to the United States Constitution mean that a person accused of insurrection or accused of providing aid and comfort to the United States’ enemies is barred from holding office?
OR
B.)
Does this quotation from the 14th Amendment to the United States Constitution mean that a person must be convicted of insurrection or convicted of providing aid and comfort to the United States’ enemies to be barred from holding office?
So why can’t the Colorado Supreme Court or the Secretary of State for Maine pass this simple reading comprehension test?
We won’t even dignify the Colorado Supreme Court or the Secretary of State for the State of Maine by calling all of them fellow-travelers, socialists, communists, morons, and like, stuff. They are pure and simple garbage.
I’m not a lawyer, didn’t stay at Holiday Inn, and wasn’t the smartest in my class, but I can read, and this is a railroad job. When the Supreme Court of the United States finally rules on this, I hope every one of these mealy mouthed, lying, dog-faced pony soldiers is impeached and removed from office.
Till then, we must keep up the fight for truth and justice in the American way (sounds good, I’ll have to use that more).
Every person who does not perform their position according to our Constitution must be impeached and/or fired. That is how to get our country back.
Most officials and office holders swore an oath to support and defend that Constitution against all enemies foreign and domestic as well as to bear true faith and allegiance to its provisions. Violation of that oath of office is the just cause for immediate removal and prompt replacement of the offending official.
If only half of them had the integrity to be faithful to that oath.
The zeroth condition is that an insurrection occurred. It did not occur. The entire construction amounts to gaslighting by psychopaths.
If they had meant convicted, they would have said convicted. You're trying to read into it.
Confederate President Jefferson Davis was never criminally convicted of insurrection or treason either. Nor were any other Confederate leaders. Yet it was understood by all at the time that the recent passage of the 14th Amendment barred him from seeking US Office:
https://www.tennessean.com/story/opinion/contributors/2023/09/19/trump-defense-team-might-learn-lessons-from-the-prosecution-of-confederate-president-jefferson-davis/70877547007/
But if we went by your argument, Davis could have run for US President after the Civil War.
Trump was found by a court, after a trial, to have committed insurrection, which is more due process than what the Confederates got. Case closed.
The Confederates actively engaged in insurrection. It was the Confederate's overt actions that made them ineligible. Had the south won the war we wouldn't be having this conversation and I wouldn't be living the USA.
I believe the Confederates proceeded on their own volition, unlike many of the January 6 crowd. I don't remember any record of Union soldiers hiding in South Carolina and urging the citizens to secede from the Union, unlike the FBI and other DOJ assets on 1/6.
We're talking about Trump not the people on the ground on Jan 6.
If he had been successful at convincing Pence to refuse to certify the election, he had fake electors ready to go in key states, or the election would've been decided in the House with one state, one vote, he would've won since there are more red states than blue, and this country would be very different today.
Democrats are the party of sectionalism, nullification and secession. Always have been. Always will be.
Thank you for reminding everyone of the history of the Democrat party. They are also the party of slavery, Jim Crow, and segregation. Yet, the social justice warriors think it’s the Republicans who are the problem? 😂😂😂
Truthfully by the early twentieth century the Republicans had largely discarded their commitment to equality for black Americans.
By then they'd become the party of the rich and little else.
Which doesn't excuse what Democrats have done. Essentially this party of southern slave owners turned big cities into urban plantations.
I don’t disagree with your point about the Republican Party. Both parties have shown their willingness to come around to supporting the wealthy to the exclusion of the rest of the country. But no party has worked harder to destroy the American civic religion and western values than have the Democrats. Fascism appears to arise more easily out of liberalism than out of conservative politics. At least the Republican Party has an honorable past it can reach back to.
As the Dem's like to say, " vote early, vote often, and vote Dead!"🤪
Leftists are so afraid of the American people. Mustn't let them vote for who they want to vote for.
No they're afraid of the fact that Trump thinks he's bigger than the Constitution, and so do you.
I have never seen any evidence that is true of Trump, and I know that is not true of me. But dream on if you wish.
Really? Every court that has considered the question so far has determined that he committed insurrection.
If you haven't seen, then you have your hands over your eyes. Not a good look.
And you think that no court ever has political motivations? Sounds like it might be you who has "hands over your eyes." By the way, Trump has never been convicted of "insurrection".
Neither was Jefferson Davis, the Confederate president who the 14th was written for:
https://www.tennessean.com/story/opinion/contributors/2023/09/19/trump-defense-team-might-learn-lessons-from-the-prosecution-of-confederate-president-jefferson-davis/70877547007/
Trump is not Jefferson Davis. Trump told his followers to peacefully protest. If you listened to accurate news instead of to the abundant leftist propaganda around, you would know that.
You forgot "ignorantly and wrongly".
You misspelled "rightfully".
Another publicity seeking progressive looking foolish. She had her fifteen seconds of fame.
No it's actually her job to gatekeep the ballot, and make sure all candidates that get put on it are eligible for the office they're trying to run for.
Otherwise all the local trolls/attention whores would be on the ballot in every state.
I think they want him to get SCOTUS to rule against this and then they can play the SCOTUS is out of control card (just look at Roe v. Wade) and needs to be reformed. Right now they have nothing except abortion, and they need more fear porn for their platform.
Yeah. They’re gonna stack the court. Then we’re screwed.
She is a young woman who grew up on the coast among people who distain people in the hardscrabble second district, She is sure that she knows better than the deplorables who surround her in Downeast Maine, she thinks she is having a profile in courage moment when she is actually living in a bubble of leftists on the coast.
It’s not about courage, it’s about the law...and if she thinks her “courage” trumps the law, she’s in the wrong job!
She probably suffers from urban provincialism.
Hancock, Maine is a lot ways from being urban. However you are probably sadly correct.
Sasha, thank-you for courageously continuing to cover the hypocrisy of the Democratic Party and RINOS. I appreciate that your journalism has cost you a significant amount to your career, friendships and life. We can especially see the hate that some of the commentators aim your way for being outspoken and true to thine self.
The more the left does maneuvers like this the more popular they make Trump.
Well, this will certainly get SCOTUS off their asses.
Yes, they sat on their hands during 2020 POTUS (mail in vote change). No more hiding this time.
“ All this does is make people like me want to fight harder for Trump to win, which I promise to do.”
Right?! They keep shooting themselves in the foot time and time again!
When they finally come to the conclusion that even attempts at bastardising the laws to crush their opposition isn’t working, that’s when things are gonna get real ugly.
Ahh, yes. Democracy Dies In Darkness, indeed. Absolute psychopaths...
Yeah this could spiral out of control real quick. Which state will be the first to remove Biden from the ballot?
I sure hope R’s do not try to remove Biden or anyone from ballot. If they do, I personally would oppose it as vehemently as removing Trump
Of course YOU do - everyone on here hopes that doesn’t happen. But voices of reason have no place among this nationwide cacophony of nutjobs.
Well Ashby, I’ll say this. If R’s do remove Biden from a State ballot and Sasha doesn’t put a post up on it, I’ll unsubscribe at that point. That’s how strongly I feel about this subject.
Tit for tat is the winning strategy.
I may not want Trump to run again, but it is neither democratic nor Constitutional to try and ensure that he not even be allowed to run.
I've thought of this often...with varying degrees of conflict. The big question: why don't u want Trump to run? Do any of us REALLY know?
I don’t know for sure. It has been suggested that his anti-Iraq war statement put the MIC against him. That would set a large and extremely powerful group against him.
Any idiot can see that Trump just reflexively disagreed with anything his predecessors did, because for him it's all about showing everyone he's the best and biggest.
It's Constitutional to remove an insurrectionist from the ballot.
He has neither been charged as an insurrectionist nor found guilty as such by a jury of his peers. Two essential details.
The 14th amendment doesn't mention a requirement of being criminally convicted. No Confederate leaders were criminally convicted of insurrection or treason.
Trump was found by a court after a trial to have committed insurrection.
But thanks for your attempt to add language to the Constitution.
You do not understand our legal system.
When you can't refute your opponent's argument, just attack them.
Bravo!!
I do not care for Trump. I do care for jurisprudence.
I am losing faith in my belief that the country benefits from women holding public office.
Women aren’t the problem. Affirmative action DEI hires are. When you lower the bar for one group of people and not others don’t be surprised when the quality and competency of that group of people plummets.
AA hiring to fulfill DEI objectives is A problem. Women, however, are THE problem. See the trend to sub-replacement TFRs in all Westernized countries (except Israel and that's due primarily to the ultra Orthodox). The theory of Homo Economicus decrees that the Global South will fill the void to keep our economies going. You'll want to think long and hard about that prospect.
So your solution is a literal handmaids tale? Taking the most hysterical over-the-top prediction of the goofy left and basically saying "hold my beer"? Are you a plant designed to keep Democrats in power forever? You know those women who blame the patriarchy for everything and think all masculinity is toxic. You're the male equivelent of that. We need a balance of feminine and masculine and to escape the longhouse for sure, but we need people to embrace their most nautral roles, which will be being providers for most men and being mothers for most women, but women can still be great engineers and should be able to vote! Just don't go lowering standards to get more women or minorities into places they normally wouldn't qualify. Retain merit based systems and you will naturally get fewer female leaders and more female nurses.
I've heard the idea that women are the problem and shouldn't be able to vote because they are more likely to vote for a nanny state. That makes about as much sense as barring men from owning firearms because they are more likely to be violent and commit the most gun homicides. Both are true but still no reason to remove constitutional rights. I guess the right has it's own version of "We need to destroy democracy to save it."
That time of the month...?
LOL. You need to get laid dude.
Better to be a slow learner than one completely beyond the benefit of experience.
Dems certainly play dirty, and favorites are leaks and lies. They set their bs in place with the Hollywood Access leak of Trump’s private convo (sexist/rapist), the bogus Russia hoax funded by HC (corrupt), the misquoting of his Charlottesville comments (racist), and massive lies about J6 (insurrectionist). It’s the Party of Leaks, Lies, and BS.
Sasha, please promote the idea of reading the magnificent book by Alexzander Solzhenitsyn , the “Gulag Archipelago”. Every high school student should be required to study it in English class.
While I voted for President Trump twice, I did not like the decisions he made after the 2020 election. So, I was prepared to be ‘never again’ for him... until this horror show appeared! He will get my vote.
You've got to figure President Trump Redux will be presented a much more capable, more informed, and more motivated group of allied political operatives from which to choose his executive and legislative leaders than were available to him in his first term. Also, this time around, I'm guessing President Trump will know just how to rate the senior leadership of the American military establishment in terms of principled and effective management of this country's armed forces thereby ensuring actions solely in pursuit of the American national interest.
I hope President Trump has learned from his mistakes… I would like for him to have this opportunity!
And can run his term as President without worrying about RINO support for re-election -- by working to remove McConnell and telling Lindsey Graham to STHU, along with others.
Good points all.
TDS has hit a new high point. Perhaps because those with TDS are getting higher on whatever their drug of choice is than ever.
We're in a bad spot right now. Each party is not going to accept the results of the 2024 elections (including the Senate which the Dems are likely to lose control of) and that leaves us with a defacto state of Civil War.
Get ready.
And please remember that Jesus Christ is Lord of all. The Messaich. With one word from His mouth, all the crazy stops in one moment. And then the judgement.
I hope and pray that all our older cousins, the sons and daughters of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, will join us.
Shalom, Shalom, Shalom… to da… You gave us our faith. For that, we are eternally linked to your people.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lE6_yXFDNDc
I really don't understand the point here. Do they love looking like complete idiots. In January, the Supreme Court will overturn Colorado an thus any other State who tries this. The only thing I can think of is that both the crooked Dems and Republicans are out of options and are desperate
Same, girl, same. I kicked off 2016 not liking trump and now I am a UGE MAGA girl. ALL due to the way he and his followers have been demonized
And that's why you are the perfect target for this psyop by the left. It's all about emotions - if they can get you to vote your emotions instead of logic and track record, by making him a martyr they can get more people to make Trump "our" candidate, and they will easily beat him with his own hubris. Do you think they don't know this? Further, in the big picture, this has no chance of surviving SCOTUS, so it's all hat & no cattle. And even in the unlikely event that they fail to beat Trump (not with Biden, that will change), they can easily manipulate him like they did last time, because Mr Warp Speed has learned nothing from his mistakes.
What a joke. What has slo joe learned from his ruination of the country and dishonest trickery from behind the scenes? I am voting with my head referencing the excellent job that President Trump did before we got into this quagmire of democrats.
Same here 👏👏👏. I wasn’t worried about inflation eating my savings nor worried about WWIII. I wasn’t concerned about 8 million illegals in just 3 years entering without being vetted and wondering what next national crisis would erupt. I wasn’t worried about pilots dying from forced jab mandates. I wasn’t worried about our military being consumed by woke ideals, or transgender military personnel with many dressing in uniform to drag and posting on Tik Tok. I wasn’t embarrassed every time our President was on world stage wondering what humiliation he would evoke or shake hands with a ghost. Under Biden it’s been nothing but destruction, disgrace, corruption and contempt.
You failed to read my entire comment.
Sweet Mama, us current Trump supporters are awaiting who Trump selects as his VP for 2024. Trump, like Biden, will continue to cognitively decline if/when inaugurated. As our Republic ages, sadly, so does our POTUS candidates. In this environment, the VP takes on greater importance.
Most of Trump’s staff couldn’t keep up with him. They were amazed how early he started and how long he kept at it daily. With age he will slow down eventually, but he can still outperform many much younger.
Unlikely to matter.
I read your entire comment. What do you think I misunderstood?
My only mention of "slo joe" in my comment was to point out that he will not be the D candidate. I was speaking of the left machine, which Joe clearly does not run. So your comment is irrelevant & Trump failed at most of his promises, and continues to promote his biggest failure as "father of the vaccine", which was the worst crime against humanity in world history. His other failures include slower deportations than Obama, failure to build the wall, making fun of people who believed his asinine promise to "make Mexico pay for it", rewarding that weasel Fauci & his wretched crew on his last day in office for wrecking our country, which he also enabled by appointing Pfizer lobbyists to head public health & ignoring the rational warnings of Scott Atlas, appointing MANY members of the "swamp" that he had vowed to destroy, signing the CARES Act, which provided everything needed to cheat in the 2020 election, threatening to destroy Thomas Massie for opposing it, failing to prosecute "poor Hillary" as he had promised in his campaign, signing the Bumpstock ban, which encouraged lots more overreach by the ATF, being a vocal supporter of red flag laws, failing to pardon Ed Snowden or Julian Assange, while pardoning major drug dealers, failing to open the JFK files when he had the power and had promised to do so, increasing the debt by a record $8Trillion, promoted lockdowns, and most recently refusing to debate (something he owes to US as a servant of the people), backing away from his pro-life position, proudly demonstrating his support of BLM after one of their lackeys stroked his ego, also boasting support from Louis Farrakhan, and spending $Millions in attack ads lying about DeSantis, who supposedly is no challenge to him. There's more, but I don't have hours to list all of his failings. He got a few things right, but clearly we can and should do better this time. For perhaps the first time in decades, we have a candidate with a clear track record of consistent, conservative leadership who keeps winning, and we should wise up and make sure to support him. If not, we will regret it.
Sweet, are you memory holing who was in charge at time that Covid vaccine (w/ hindsight better called therapeutics) mandates came down? It was not under Trump. It was under Biden. Get that straight in your head as step 1. Maybe you already fully realize this and I’m preaching to choir. If not… if Trump were elected in 2020 one cannot postulate (unless you are God) ‘how’ Trump the ‘father of the vaccine’ would have forced or not forced (with threat of job loss!) the mRNA vaccine on the General Population. Trump is/was a Populist. If you accept that, it is not a stretch to envision that he would have (from the Pulpit) pulled the plug on Covid mandates well before Biden did to help save small businesses from closure, kids from ongoing schooling over a Zoom screen. Now, would individual States follow that theoretical Trump lead to return to normal? Some blue States certainly would not. Which would have resulted perhaps in even greater migration out of these authoritarian States than we are already seeing today. People vote with their feet, in case that is news to you:
https://www.census.gov/content/dam/Census/library/stories/2023/03/domestic-migration-trends-shifted-map-1.jpg
That is a theory without evidence. He insisted over & over again (you can find that on video if you don't remember) that he had the authority to lock everything down, so we can't assume anything from his mixed bag of nonsense. And he did appoint Pfizer lobbyists to head public health, a move I could have advised against when I was age 5. You don't hire the fox to guard the henhouse.
Interesting, I will check into some of them. The BLM "lackey"seems harsh and really enforces your hate thoughts. Now since you are on such a roll, let's hear your thoughts on the Joe/Kamala situation and their records in comparison. You seem to think one person can do a lot of things by himself and we know that just isn't so. The swamptown is horrific, I used to live there and friends are telling me and I"m reading about what the place is like today. So who do you see on the D/R ticket? Some young, new, intelligent blood would be nice but not more haters like we have now with an agenda to finish us off.
BLM lackeys is too harsh? How about BLM grifters, that's probably more accurate. Go ahead and call me a racist for that (even though you know NOTHING about me), and then tell me what BLM leaders ever did for the black community, excepting themselves and their use of the grift to buy mansions and increase their personal wealth? Do you know this? How about the riots they instigated, destroying $Billions in personal, business and government property during the summer of 2020? Who is footing the bill for that? Did Trump engage the National Guard to take control of the situation or just let them burn it? Maybe that explains his welcoming of their support. Of course, Joe is a mumbling disaster, and Kamala and the rest of the left are worse, that's not even a question. We may not survive the next year of open borders, reckless spending, political prisoners, unnecessary wars and the rest of it. But Trump made that possible with his horrible mismanagement in 2020. The only true conservative with a fantastic track record of picking the right people and making good on all of his promises is Ron DeSantis. If you are conservative there is no other candidate. He's made FL the #1 most prosperous & free state in the country with a surplus budget, got rid of two Soros prosecutors, eliminated all mandates, got a team of other experts around him during the 28 days of lockdown in FL and followed the actual science to lift all of it, got rid of DEI and CRT in schools, fought Disney on their woke BS & special privileges (which Trump criticized), signed laws preventing the sale of land to the Chinese, banning CBDC in FL, banning the sexual mutilation of children in FL, signed a parental rights bill, signed a bill limiting abortion, signed Constitutional Carry, and much more. If you don't know this, look into him. Seriously, he's got none of the drama, fulfills his promises and knows how to hire and lead. And he's out there every day having conversations with voters, answering questions and EARNING our votes, unlike the grandstanding entitled attitude of Trump.
" Mr Warp Speed has learned nothing from his mistakes." Bingo. And he will not "apologize", as some people have suggested, because an apology has consequences...
Helping to create a vaccine (Trump/Warp Speed) is different than how said vaccine is implemented. You are 100% projecting how Trump would have implemented vaccine over General Population. You are in fact ‘convicting’ him for helping create the vaccine. But ignoring the over the top propaganda to take said vaccine or else you’d kill Granny. Einstein & Oppenheimer helped create the atom bomb. Do you blame them for using it? That’s a straw-man, but is how I view creation of CV vaccine vs. how it was deployed.
Had he done so in a timely and appropriate fashion, he could have retrieved his reputation in that area. A year ago, after more data on injuries & deaths came out and lots of those Pfizer docs were forced to be made public by a court, which showed the extreme fraud of this criminal enterprise, Trump could have said "Look, I'm not a doctor or a scientist, and I was fooled by the so-called "experts" around me", and people would have forgiven him. In the context of his wretched failings to look into the backgrounds of the people he trusted, it would have at least been less tone deaf to acknowledge the dead & injured than to keep insisting without evidence that he "saved 100 million lives", an obvious lie at this point and pretty damned heartless. At this point, I'm convinced he was bought by Big Pharma and was always doing their bidding. Otherwise, why would any sane person appoint Pfizer lobbyists to head public health and then reward them on his last day in office? When asked about this a few months ago by Megyn Kelly, he feigned amnesia, pretending not to remember giving those awards, which are a matter of record. Crazy.
When it comes to voting with emotions, women are particularly susceptible, which is is convenient for politicians - particularly the left, who can paint creative pictures that are detached from reality and redefine language to fit a narrative which gets women to support horrific atrocities - like calling the sexual mutilation of children "gender affirming care". This is why voting standards need to be raised. A lot.
Seems Breitbart has been pretty prescient.
MLB, as previously commented, the last time a POTUS candidate was removed from State ballots (10 States in 1860, Lincoln), a US Civil War erupted shortly thereafter. Does that happen again? I sure hope not. But D’s are playing w/ historical fire 🔥 …and for what? Even if Civil War does not occur again, this is really bad for our Republic.
They are not "playing with fire", they are playing US! Take a step back and look at what happens every time they make some damned fool move like this that has no chance of surviving SCOTUS. It's the REAL 3D chess, a distraction designed to amplify his martyrdom & get more of us to support Trump the victim & make him "our" candidate, because they are holding all the aces against him to win. They've got nothing on DeSantis, and since he's a more thoughtful, rational candidate who has a great track record, he'll be harder for them to muddy. This is a psyop by the dems. If they manage to make anything stick, they still win. There's literally no downside for them with Trump.
If they had anything good to offer, they wouldn't have to spend all their energy screaming about how bad the other guy is.
All about "driving up the negatives" of the opposition candidate (and accepting they'll do the same to your candidate). The strategy is to make the prospect of voting for either candidate so distasteful to the uncommitted voter that they will stay home, thereby allowing the party best able to get its true-believer base to the polls to go on to victory. Politics ain't beanbag, as they say...
I wish Democrats would drop their war on democracy and get back to their war on appliances.
Does Maine's Secretary of State have the authority to interpret the U.S. Constitution? Her opinion is not a legal argument.
Shenna Bellows: "You're too stupid to be allowed to vote for the person you want to vote for"
This is really massive hysteria. Go Sacha. Amr Australia
That is just ridiculous and certainly not legal.
This is not the action of a single Secretary of State in Maine nor a few judges in Colorado. This the entire deep state mobilizing against Donald Trump and his entire movement which now represents more than half the electorate. I have no doubt they have contingency plans if SCOTUS rules against them. They will not be controlled by the Supreme Court. After all, they control the military, the federal bureaucracy, the business world, the media, Big Tech and the universities. J6 taught them that any protest can be turned into a sting operation. Their attitude is clear. If you don’t like it, what are you going to do about it?
LOOK OUT BEHIND YOU
Has anyone bothered looked up the definition of insurrection? An insurrection must have violent intentions. Trump always demanded PEACEFUL protest.
This is the fruits of decades of Republican spinelessness or even hatred of their own voters. Remember that both Maine and CO are about the primary ballot. In other words, the Democrats are trying to manipulate the choices that Republican voters make as to who will represent them. They want the same old Chamber of Commerce Republicans like Haley and Ron! who will play along and change nothing important. If there is anyone celebrating this more than the Democrats, it is the GOPe.
Democrats: you have to vote or us to save democracy. Then you will be free to do and believe what we tell you to, either voluntarily or by force.
One of the reasons the 2020 election needs be still in the crosshairs is exactly this... Here you have a state executive making rules about a federal election. This is in opposition to the elections clause: Article I
Section 4 Congress
Clause 1 Elections Clause
The Times, Places and Manner of holding Elections for Senators and Representatives, shall be prescribed in each State by the Legislature thereof; but the Congress may at any time by Law make or alter such Regulations, except as to the Places of chusing Senators.
So now we have a judiciary in Colorado and an executive in Maine, unconstitutionally using an unconstitutional application of very selective aspects of the 14th amendment while leaving out Section 1 and Section 5 of the 14th amendment and manipulating the race. If this stands, five people will have taken the vote away from seven million people.
The 2020 race was rife with this crap, especially where mail in ballots were concerned. It wasn't fraud per say - although there was plenty of that. It was the usurpation of constitutionally defined powers and this is why Biden received more "votes."
The Colorado decision and the Maine decision are both a direct attack on ALL Citizens. There is no right or left, only no rights left. There are only two questions regarding governance:- 1- Who Decides?. and 2- Who Decides Who Decides?' Look in a mirror and ask those two questions. If your answer is not 'I Decide', then both Freedom and Democracy are dead, and you are living in a failed state. I would respectfully ask you to consider this. Our continued insistence that the government is responsible for everything and we are responsible for nothing leads to polarized political paralysis, social stasis, and economic evisceration. It is time to slowly, methodically and peacefully take back the myriad functions of government at all levels and more importantly the bureaucracies that we have allowed to metastasize into the cancer culture we have today. We get what we let. It is time to develop just a tiny bit of Courage, and learn to Cure Rage. It is time to downsize governance, Piece by Peace.
Take a breath, dude. It's right there in the 14th amendment. The Constitution decides.
Sharyl Attkisson is right the Elites are terrified of Trump, The question is why? he has ineffective in Term #1 and the RINO's in DC will not help him. They believe their own lies they have told themselves about him and now are unable to distinguish facts from lies that they themselves made up. Since its apparent that they will stop at nothing what will they do next? The ultimate power play has to be in the works, They have to do it why he is a candidate vs President (no way they get away with another JFK type hit in todays media environment). If the Swamp attempts this and it will we need to drain DC. Stop sending back your local representative and senators Fire them all. Cut off the lifeblood of our tax dollars.
They are scared aof how close he game to subverting the peaceful transfer of power. He's a threat to the Constitution and our democracy.
“All this does is make people like me want to fight harder for Trump to win, which I promise to do. “
Exactly this! I’m not a fan of Trump. These antics make me want to vote for him just to poke these idiots in the eye and stop their blatant antidemocratic power play.
Thank you and hopefully many other previous Dem voters will as well. People need to realize this isn’t just about Trump. It’s about our choices in an election.
You Go Girl!🤪
Thanks Sasha. I’m with you!
The Democrats are terrified of Trump, and they have good reason to be.
I am not a particular fan of Donald Trump . BUT ! I find it very disturbing, that some clowns in public office can have such a blatant disregard for the basic democratic principle of : Letting the people choose ! NOT, HAVE SOME SELF-APPOINTED CLOWNS PRE-DETERMINE , FOR WHOM THE PUBIC THEN GETS TO CAST THEIR VOTE !!!
THE SO-called “INSURECTION”, Trump in accused of, was fabricated and staged by the FBI and the Biden Gang.
Shameful tactics ! How can the public stand by idly ???
THOSE, WHO ARE ASLEEP, IN A DEMOCRACY, WILL WAKE UP IN A DICTATORSHIP !
SO HELP US ALL, WHEN PSYCHOPATHS WILL MADATE ,
WHEN YOU MAY BREATHE IN AND WHEN YOU CAN BREATHE OUT!!!
Margot Jahn
Gosh, the rules that restrict who can run for president sure seemed a lot more important to you back when it was Obama's eligibility that was being questioned. Pretty sure YOU were the "self-appointed clowns" in that case.
Gee I wonder why that is.
Maine should be a colony, not a state, of the USA.
A. It's reverse psychology and they really want him to win, or B. They are insane (See A)
I firmly believe that this is all part of a larger plan. I think they are doing this knowing that it will all backfire on them, and that with each and every attempt to keep him off the 2024 ballot it only helps Trump gain more and more supporters. Then, when it's clear that Trump has a massive amount of voter support behind him.....they'll steal the election yet again.
These loons really thought this abusive manipulation would work to turn voters against Trump, and they are now doubling down on the notion they didn't go far enough. I've read a statement of that sentiment on the entire woke agenda. If the loons try the same attack on the voting again, they will have a civil war.
And that is exactly what they want. Either an all out civil war, or at the very least an environment that is ideal for the deep state (CIA, FBI) to commit a false flag, blame it on "right wing extremists", and call in the United Nations for "peace keeping."
The tidal wave of Trump votes is going to over overwhelm them.
And they will still commit election fraud, just as they did in 2020.....and nothing will be done about it this time either.
They won’t be able to print enough fake ballots this time. Have you looked at the numbers lately?
B