So, I saw this article, and although I don't like F0X news, the comments were quite interesting, and I thought you might enjoy it, unless you have already seen it? Thanks again for being a thought leader this year, Peter! Blessings in the New Year!
Although I would prefer either Ron or Vivek as the nominee, the more they mess with Trump, the more temped I become to vote for him in the primary, just to spite the illiberal leftists who are trying to prevent people from being able to do so.
I ha d high hopes for Ron at first. Vivek intrigued me at the first debate with his utter fearlessness and willingness to fire verbal broadsides at the whole damn establishment. I think he blew it in the second debate when he tried to be Mr. Party Unity--that told me it was all just an act.
The debates have shown everyone that the rest of the GOP field is an utter clownshow--it's not for nothing that Trump has won each debate simply by not being there.
I'm not wild about Trump, but unless something radical happens next month, Trump is going to be the GOP nominee, at which point the Democrats are going to have to decide if they want to risk stuffing the ballot box again come November.
Oh, I don't disagree that Trump will almost certainly be the nominee. I just don't agree that he's actually the best choice. Of course there are also worse choices.
And once he is the nominee, the question becomes just how far the deep state (which is mostly, but by no means exclusively Democrat) is willing to go to prevent him from serving another term. Stuffing the ballot boxes is by no means the only way of achieving that.
Funny how, LITERALLY, everything the vile, evil, filthy, arrogant fasco-Marxist accuse others of what they, themselves do, and are. E.g, this vile fraud SOS in Maine, "WE, your betters, will tell you WHOM you can vote for." Fact is, the vile, piece of $hit Maine SOS is the real traitor and insurrectionist, and no, Biden did not get more votes campaigning from his basement that Obama did even at the very height of his popularity. There WAS an insurrection. Part of it is sitting in a chair in the goverment of Maine. What a POS that vile woman is.
So I read the words Maine Secretary of State Removes Trump from the Ballot. Clear statement. But what I mis-read to myself is Secretary of War Removes Trump from the Ballot. Whoa. States don't have a War Secretary. And I don't misread words. But it is a mirror of deep down what I am thinking and feeling.
If this too gets walked back, like the recent Colorado nonsense, I would agree with James Woods recent tweet - "And just like that, everybody stopped talking about crooked Joe's bagman kid and the decades in prison he's facing. Nice play Colorado!" - that we're ALL being played.
The stability of the Republic relies on elections having credibility. People have to believe the process "works", that it is real and that it is substantive. That belief allows them to channel their political hopes, aspirations, and frustrations into this or that candidate.
Such an open reduction of the election process to Kabuki theater strips away that credibility.
When that happens, political hopes, aspirations, and frustrations are blocked, and will have to find another mode of expression--and the potential for that expression being violent is considerable.
The Democrats/Deep State are playing a very dangerous game here, Kabuki theater or no.
The bitter irony is that if this continues the Democrats will incite the very insurrection they claim to fear from Donald Trump.
They're using the courts to poison the ballots. When the jury box and the ballot box are denied the people as a protection of their liberty, the cartridge box is all that remains.
Very little that was done during the pandemic conformed to the strictures of the Constitution. The lockdowns, the business closures, the eviction moratoriums....all of it blatantly unconstitutional.
That's the real scary part of this--the government is no longer even pretending to give lip service to the Constitution, or what the concept "rule of law" actually is.
There's a passage in Shenna Bellows decision where she rejected Trump's motion for her to recuse herself because the motion wasn't "timely"--and then goes on to say that if the motion had been timely she would have denied it anyway. If the motion wasn't timely there was no reason for her to consider its merits, and if it was going to fail on the merits there was no reason to argue that it wasn't timely. She was just trash talking to Trump with that.
That's the sort of "f*** you" thinking that passes for governance these days.
The only good thing this POS SOS did - the person who is herself the insurrectionist - is piss off people even more.... all for ONE electoral college vote.
Pissing people off by delegitimizing the election process is never a good thing.
Using the jury box to nullify the ballot box leaves people with only the cartridge box to protect their civil liberties. Which means sooner or later that's exactly the box that will get opened.
So, I saw this article, and although I don't like F0X news, the comments were quite interesting, and I thought you might enjoy it, unless you have already seen it? Thanks again for being a thought leader this year, Peter! Blessings in the New Year!
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/maine-gop-state-lawmaker-moves-impeach-state-secretary-trump-ballot-removal
Although I would prefer either Ron or Vivek as the nominee, the more they mess with Trump, the more temped I become to vote for him in the primary, just to spite the illiberal leftists who are trying to prevent people from being able to do so.
I ha d high hopes for Ron at first. Vivek intrigued me at the first debate with his utter fearlessness and willingness to fire verbal broadsides at the whole damn establishment. I think he blew it in the second debate when he tried to be Mr. Party Unity--that told me it was all just an act.
The debates have shown everyone that the rest of the GOP field is an utter clownshow--it's not for nothing that Trump has won each debate simply by not being there.
I'm not wild about Trump, but unless something radical happens next month, Trump is going to be the GOP nominee, at which point the Democrats are going to have to decide if they want to risk stuffing the ballot box again come November.
Oh, I don't disagree that Trump will almost certainly be the nominee. I just don't agree that he's actually the best choice. Of course there are also worse choices.
And once he is the nominee, the question becomes just how far the deep state (which is mostly, but by no means exclusively Democrat) is willing to go to prevent him from serving another term. Stuffing the ballot boxes is by no means the only way of achieving that.
Funny how, LITERALLY, everything the vile, evil, filthy, arrogant fasco-Marxist accuse others of what they, themselves do, and are. E.g, this vile fraud SOS in Maine, "WE, your betters, will tell you WHOM you can vote for." Fact is, the vile, piece of $hit Maine SOS is the real traitor and insurrectionist, and no, Biden did not get more votes campaigning from his basement that Obama did even at the very height of his popularity. There WAS an insurrection. Part of it is sitting in a chair in the goverment of Maine. What a POS that vile woman is.
So I read the words Maine Secretary of State Removes Trump from the Ballot. Clear statement. But what I mis-read to myself is Secretary of War Removes Trump from the Ballot. Whoa. States don't have a War Secretary. And I don't misread words. But it is a mirror of deep down what I am thinking and feeling.
I doubt you are alone in those feelings.
If this too gets walked back, like the recent Colorado nonsense, I would agree with James Woods recent tweet - "And just like that, everybody stopped talking about crooked Joe's bagman kid and the decades in prison he's facing. Nice play Colorado!" - that we're ALL being played.
Kabuki theatre for the masses.
That is a possibility, but it's a dangerous one.
The stability of the Republic relies on elections having credibility. People have to believe the process "works", that it is real and that it is substantive. That belief allows them to channel their political hopes, aspirations, and frustrations into this or that candidate.
Such an open reduction of the election process to Kabuki theater strips away that credibility.
When that happens, political hopes, aspirations, and frustrations are blocked, and will have to find another mode of expression--and the potential for that expression being violent is considerable.
The Democrats/Deep State are playing a very dangerous game here, Kabuki theater or no.
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Rules?
What Rules?
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TDS has become extremely contagious among the radical left. Not to mention dangerous.
This is all just so plain nuts.
The bitter irony is that if this continues the Democrats will incite the very insurrection they claim to fear from Donald Trump.
They're using the courts to poison the ballots. When the jury box and the ballot box are denied the people as a protection of their liberty, the cartridge box is all that remains.
God help us all if it comes to that.
Very little that was done during the pandemic conformed to the strictures of the Constitution. The lockdowns, the business closures, the eviction moratoriums....all of it blatantly unconstitutional.
That's the real scary part of this--the government is no longer even pretending to give lip service to the Constitution, or what the concept "rule of law" actually is.
There's a passage in Shenna Bellows decision where she rejected Trump's motion for her to recuse herself because the motion wasn't "timely"--and then goes on to say that if the motion had been timely she would have denied it anyway. If the motion wasn't timely there was no reason for her to consider its merits, and if it was going to fail on the merits there was no reason to argue that it wasn't timely. She was just trash talking to Trump with that.
That's the sort of "f*** you" thinking that passes for governance these days.
The only good thing this POS SOS did - the person who is herself the insurrectionist - is piss off people even more.... all for ONE electoral college vote.
Not an Einstein, is she.
Pissing people off by delegitimizing the election process is never a good thing.
Using the jury box to nullify the ballot box leaves people with only the cartridge box to protect their civil liberties. Which means sooner or later that's exactly the box that will get opened.
God help us all when that happens.