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Thursday, December 21, 2023

Visage à trois #1962

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We have never seen anything like this before in American history

Trump Derangement Syndrome became Orwellian with the recent ruling of the Colorado Supreme Court.

It approved the erasure of Trump from the Republican primary ballot in Colorado, by invoking Section 3 of the 14th Amendment.

That ossified clause was intended to bar any ante-bellum federal officials who joined the Confederacy from again holding federal offices after 1865.

In no way is Trump’s conduct on January 6 comparable to calling for secession, much less prompting a Civil War that cost the country 700,000 lives.

An “insurrectionist” president does not address unarmed protestors with qualifiers like, “I know that everyone here will soon be marching over to the Capitol building to peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard.”

How also can one be guilty of insurrection without ever being indicted for such a supposed crime, much less convicted of it?

And the more we learn about January 6, all the more it appears to have been a spontaneous riot, more buffoonish in nature than conspiratorial.

No one has explained the mysterious, politicized January 6 refusal of the Speaker of the House to order a reinforcement of the Capitol police.

Or the FBI stonewalling about its informants in the crowd.

Or the revealing admissions of New York Times reporter Matthew Rosenberg (“a ton of FBI informants among the people who attacked the Capitol”).

Or the warped composition and conduct of the January 6 congressional committee.

Or the months-long official disinformation surrounding the number and circumstances of those who died that day.

That day’s illegality in terms of violence and death paled in comparison to the largely excused and exempted 120 days of summer violence in 2020, when Antifa and BLM engineered riots, arson, and death.

Their planned violence accounted for 35 or so killed, and more than 1,500 injured police officers.

Some $1-2 billion in property was destroyed.

A police precinct, federal courthouse, and iconic Washington, D.C. church were torched.

Mobs attempted to storm the White House grounds and sent the president into a secure underground bunker.

But if one really wishes to imagine genuine “insurrectionary “and actionable language, then recall current Vice President Kamala Harris’s 2020 de facto encouragement to...

Visage à trois #1962

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Quick Hits Of Wisdom, Knowledge And Snark #1510

Visage à trois #1961

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Quick Hits Of Wisdom, Knowledge And Snark #1510

Four Fascist Colorado Judges Tell Voters Who to Vote For

“The Colorado Supreme Court ruled Tuesday in a 4-3 opinion that the Constitution’s ‘Insurrection Clause’ prohibits former President Donald Trump from appearing on the ballot for the presidency in 2024,” reports my colleague Bradley Jaye.

Okay, this is what the death of democracy looks like.

Let’s remove the fact that this insurrection accusation against Trump is objectively laughable…

Former President Donald Trump has not been convicted of anything, much less insurrection. Insurrection is a crime. You cannot be guilty of insurrection until a jury finds you guilty. Nevertheless, these four black-robed fascists ruled against a former American president as though he were a convicted criminal. These fascists punished a man who, according to our sacred Constitution, is presumed innocent.

Whether we are talking about a former president or a convicted three-time felon who now stands accused of a fourth felony, before a jury rules, it is un-American for anyone to punish either as though they are guilty. Four State Supreme Court judges blithely ignoring that basic Constitutional protection is nothing less than the stuff of banana republics.

What’s more, in this particular case, Trump is not the only one suffering at the hands of four belligerents with no respect for the Constitution and Rule of Law. We The People are being punished.

On no planet is it legal or moral to tell We The People whom we can and cannot vote for, which is exactly what these judges have done. Although Donald Trump has not been convicted of anything, much less insurrection, we are still not allowed to select him to represent us.

Don’t you see what’s going on here? These judges are telling some six million people that they can no longer vote for the candidate of their choice. With the stroke of a pen, millions of Americans have been disenfranchised and have lost the right to vote for the candidate of their choice.

You know — until gay marriage suddenly turned into mutilating psychologically delicate kids going through the normal process of deciding who they want to be; until transvestites started parading around little kids in public libraries; until the FBI started framing Americans, including sitting presidents — I used to laugh at the slippery slope concept. I’m done laughing. If this Colorado precedent is allowed to stand, the left and corporate media have already dumbed “insurrection” down to any right-leaning human being who protests against his government. Antifa and Black Lives Matter are allowed to burn down entire cities, take over police stations, and ravage state capitols. But if even one normal person raises his voice in a school board meeting, he is guilty of insurrection.

Here are the left’s rules: Our speech is violence and insurrection. Their violence and insurrection are speech.

Imagine how easy it would be to pick off our candidates and make them ineligible for public office by accusing them of insurrection because they used the word “fight” in a public speech where they also asked that a protest remain peaceful. That is exactly what happened to...