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I'll try, but some people have their head in the sand.

Banning Trump from the ballot is unconstitutional, illegal, and immoral. If they get away with it with Trump there is nothing to stop them from further tyranny.

Total shitshow. 30 states will ban Biden, including several swing states. 10-20 will ban Trump.

Doubtful that GOP will go into the breach like the DEMs. They don't really have a lock at the state level like DEMs do

RWSGFY says

PumpingRedheads says

RWSGFY says

Yes. 10 elec votes and blue state for the last 4 pres election cycles (which is basically forever).

That's not why I said that.

You're reaffirming right now why I said that, actually.

And you are totally clueless as to why.

Explain.

I'll try, but some people have their head in the sand.

Banning Trump from the ballot is unconstitutional, illegal, and immoral. If they get away with it with Trump there is nothing to stop them from further tyranny.

Right. But I don't see how is it beneficial for them. It's actually the opposite: gives no real electoral advantage to donkeys while giving the GOP something to rally around.

RWSGFY says

Right. But I don't see how is it beneficial for them. It's actually the opposite: gives no real electoral advantage to donkeys while giving the GOP something to rally around.

Alternate take: https://patrick.net/comment?comment_id=2018218

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

. I ain't teaching anyone tonight.

GNL says

HeadSet says

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.

Maybe? Why maybe?

Where do you see the word "maybe?"

WookieMan says

. I ain't teaching anyone tonight.

Don't you mean, "I ain't teaching no one tonight"?

Onvacation says

WookieMan says

. I ain't teaching anyone tonight.

Don't you mean, "I ain't teaching no one tonight"?

Nope.

Doubtful that GOP will go into the breach like the DEMs. They don't really have a lock at the state level like DEMs do - where in many states DEMs are super majority AND control the state supreme court. Sure -GOP control more state legislatures, but are weak in the courts.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/12/22/exclusive-republicans-drafting-bills-to-remove-joe-biden-from-ballots-in-georgia-arizona-pennsylvania/

And just like that — snap ! — the news about the Colorado Supreme Court’s droll action against candidate DJ Trump vanished from the front page (or top screens) of The New York Times. Do you know why? I’ll tell you: Because the political Left has finally managed to embarrass itself with a “lawfare” gambit so nakedly fatuous that it exposes the faction’s drive to destroy the election process, and with it our country.

This is what you get from a regime that faked its way to power and now must strain to cover up its long train of crimes, abuses, and effronteries to common sense, while running out of tricks to keep fooling even its own deranged followers. Somehow, the act of kicking a leading candidate off the ballot has finally registered as inconsistent with “defending our democracy.”

Of course, the reckless abuse of law — “lawfare” — proceeds from the Left’s disrespect for boundaries and limits, which is exactly what law in principle concerns itself with. And from there it’s a quick leap into totalizing bad faith, the operating system for government under an imposter president, “Joe Biden.” ...

In a sane world, the US Supreme Court would not just summarily strike down the Colorado ruling, but would issue a career-ending rebuke to the brain-damaged state justices who managed to not learn a basic principle of due process: innocent until proven guilty — that to brand someone a criminal, there must be a record of indictment and conviction for a particular crime, and that, in the case of Mr. Trump, a politically-motived fairy tale about an “insurrection” doesn’t cut it.

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“You know that weird, weird feeling when election day finally arrives, you go to your local polling place, only to find that the guy you wanted to vote for has been entirely removed from the ballot?

“And he was removed from that ballot by four local judges from the opposition political party.

“And so, you say, okay, well, that’s weird. Let me just write his name in. However, those same judges, they instructed the local election officials [not to] count any write-in votes for that particular candidate.

“Now, if all this sounds to you like an election somewhere in Russia, in Brazil, or maybe Venezuela, well, you [would] be wrong. This is an election taking place over in Colorado.”

Sure. Anyone can talk. They won't do it.

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