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By the way, this shit was normal in the 19th Century, maybe not at the Fed level but definitely the State levels.

The difference is, today the Republicans don't fight back as dirty. They just act as a "Heel" when it comes time to cut taxes or start a war to the Democrats' Happy World Love "babyface".

He didn't need CO anyway. Still could get it as a write in, long shot though.

As long as he's on the East Coast swing state ballots, this is likely all but over. I really don't get what Dems are trying to do. Every race will get nasty, but the R's have people in waiting after Trump. The Democrats are literally looking to destroy their party. They have no talent or potential future candidates. Literally none. No one can even contest Biden. Newsom is dead in the water nationally. The midwest swing states he'd get trashed.

They're gonna dump Biden. If it's Newsom it will be a blood bath. I like the people I've met in CA. I like CA. The rest of the country doesn't really like CA. Newsom is a clown. I don't think Biden is the nominee. He drops out. We'll see. 2024 is gonna be a shit show.

WookieMan says

He didn't need CO anyway. Still could get it as a write in, long shot though.

What makes you think they are gonna stop at CO?

What makes you think they are gonna stop even if SCOTUS bitchslaps this?

WookieMan says

I really don't get what Dems are trying to do

Seriously?

Once again:

Seems true:

https://thefederalist.com/2023/11/03/knowing-they-will-lose-at-the-ballot-box-soros-funded-leftists-turn-to-lawfare-to-defeat-trump/

Got it in one:

Patrick says

Is RFK even on the CO ballot? They will probably keep him off too.

https://twitter.com/VivekGRamaswamy/status/1737260590798671982

@VivekGRamaswamy

This is what an actual attack on democracy looks like: in an un-American, unconstitutional, and unprecedented decision, a cabal of Democrat judges are barring Trump from the ballot in Colorado. Having tried every trick in the book to eliminate President Trump from running in this election, the bipartisan Establishment is now deploying a new tactic to bar him from ever holding office again: the 14th Amendment. I pledge to withdraw from the Colorado GOP primary unless Trump is also allowed to be on the state’s ballot, and I demand that Ron DeSantis, Chris Christie, and Nikki Haley to do the same immediately - or else they are tacitly endorsing this illegal maneuver which will have disastrous consequences for our country.

Today’s decision is the latest election interference tactic to silence political opponents and swing the election for whatever puppet the Democrats put up this time by depriving Americans of the right to vote for their candidate of choice.

The 14th Amendment was part of the “Reconstruction Amendments” that were ratified following the Civil War. It was passed to prohibit former Confederate military and political leaders from holding high federal or state office. These men had clearly taken part in a rebellion against the United States: the Civil War. That makes it all the more absurd that a left-wing group in Colorado is asking a federal court to disqualify the 45th President on the same grounds, equating his speech to rebellion against the United States.

And there’s another legal problem: Trump is not a former “officer of the United States,” as that term is used in the Constitution, meaning Section 3 does not apply. As the Supreme Court explained in Free Enterprise Fund v. Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (2010), an “officer of the United States” is someone appointed by the President to aid him in his duties under Article II, Section 2. The term does not apply to elected officials, and certainly not to the President himself.

The Framers of the 14th Amendment would be appalled to see this narrow provision—intended to bar former U.S. officials who switched to the Confederacy from seeking public office—being weaponized by a sitting President and his political allies to prevent a former President from seeking reelection. Our country is becoming unrecognizable to our Founding Fathers.

3:56 PM · Dec 19, 2023

Holy Fuck. RINO consultant and Trump hater Frank Luntz just jumped on board.

https://twitter.com/thevivafrei/status/1737265773712748574



The order is actually stayed until Jan 4th by themselves, the day before the state decides who is on the Republican primary ballot.

My asks whether those judges in Colorado are elected. Maybe this is also a bid to get re-elected on their part.

Patrick says

My asks whether those judges in Colorado are elected. Maybe this is also a bid to get re-elected on their part.

Way ahead of you.

I looked it up. When they are first nominated, they serve on a probationary basis for two years and then face an election. They win that, they serve for life.

So the weird thing is the ones who are oldest on the court are the ones who went with this bullshit. It was the newest ones who dissented.

This just became the GOP's abortion issue. Only Dems who think it 'ok' are much more clueless about the ramifications than GOPers are about abortion restrictions.

Primary ballot only.

RWSGFY says

Primary ballot only.

So?

WookieMan says

He didn't need CO anyway. Still could get it as a write in, long shot though.

It amazes me how fucking stupid people can be.

This isn't about whether he needed Colorado or not.

This is about whether someone's rights can be taken away w/o due process.

Unbelievable

@Patrick check this out. Seems we have our answer.

If they are trying to remove Trump from a ballot, it must be because Trump has a lead in the polls.

https://babylonbee.com/cleanArticle/colorado-saves-democracy-by-not-allowing-people-to-vote-for-preferred-candidate

https://babylonbee.com/cleanArticle/citizens-being-able-to-vote-the-ruling-party-out-of-power-is-the-end-of-democracy---op-ed-by-garth-struddelfudd

PumpingRedheads says

Patrick check this out. Seems we have our answer.

This is true.

I actually lived in a Harvard dorm for most of a semester when I had a girlfriend who went there. I was 23 and she was 21. She kept me as kind of a pet, and I was OK with that. The lesson was that Harvard and other Ivy League students do feel better than everyone else, and entitled to rule because of their superiority. I proposed direct democracy to my girlfriend once, and she was horrified at the idea of letting the hoi polloi directly vote on laws that she would be subject to.

Patrick says

I proposed direct democracy to my girlfriend once, and she was horrified at the idea of letting the hoi polloi directly vote on laws that she would be subject to.

Well, that is why the Founding Fathers set up a Republic and not a democracy.

How you can tell that things are really going to hell...

Judging from my oligarch ex in laws, they will let you borrow their grandiosities in a fleeting manner as a courtesy, but will also let you know in so many little gestures that you are not part of the Bohemian Grove happening. If you are lucky, you are granted a kind of quasi servant status to keep hanging around.
Stanford has entered full on disgrace mode, being integral with Silicon Valley and its designated DOD/DARPA/MKUltra/Tavistock spy and AI apparatus, and inoculating its pleb student layer relentlessly with the vaxicides. David Rothschild appears to be their world bankster executive officer, also in charge of CGI and Hollywood name stealing type theatrical effects for the tech operative fronts. He likes to portray as usual usual as hippy free spirit philanthropist.

https://themessenger.com/opinion/colorado-supreme-court-bars-trump-from-ballot-14th-amendment-january-6-disqualification

Now even Bolton is chiming in.

Bolton!