Boy, I’m glad you’re addressing this issue today, Peter. This morning I read this nonsense from Judge Porter, and was dumbfounded. Trump has not been charged with or convicted of insurrection, so how is she getting away with this? My thinking is that she is virtue-signaling and kissing up to the Chicago political powers for her own caree…
Boy, I’m glad you’re addressing this issue today, Peter. This morning I read this nonsense from Judge Porter, and was dumbfounded. Trump has not been charged with or convicted of insurrection, so how is she getting away with this? My thinking is that she is virtue-signaling and kissing up to the Chicago political powers for her own career advancement, knowing full well that her ruling will be overturned next week, AFTER the political damage is done to Trump in the public’s eye. At least, that’s the only plausible explanation I can come up with for such an obviously illegal ruling. What do you think, Peter - corrupt Chicago political maneuvering?
Their mistake is in believing the law can be weaponized without consequence.
With each new instance of lawfare, with each new example of weaponizing the criminal justice system against a political adversary, more and more people realize that if the criminal justice system can be deployed against Donald Trump, it can be deployed against anyone, including themselves.
More and more, Donald Trump's putative supporters are not so much hard core "MAGA" ideologues but people who are seeing the corruptions of the current regime and realize that a President Trump is not the worst thing that could happen to this country.
The constant demonization of anyone who supports Trump, the constant harangues for anyone not condemning Trump as the most evil person of all time, simply push more and more people away from the Democrats and into Trump's very big tent.
If Trump does win in the fall, it will be in large measure because the Democrats kept shooting themselves in the foot with these insane antics.
I could like this comment a hundred times, Peter. I am one of those old school democrats forced out of a party I do not recognize anymore. But at the moment I’m marooned politically. We have no saviors on any side. Maybe trump is the Dems scapegoat and distraction from their utterly empty and dangerous ideology and policies. My only grandchild is wrapped in the web of democrats evil transgender child sacrifice weapon. I fear for her/his very life. This alone disqualifies any democrat from my vote. Along with the heinous behavior during covid. Warmongering. So much. Trump is not evil. Dems should look in the mirror more.
As a longtime and extreme libertarian, I've never been "in" either party. Each election is its own moment, and I vote for who will do the most good--or more commonly who will do the least damage.
I was not a Trump fan in 2016, although I did respect his innovative and unbelievably energetic campaign strategy. As President pre-COVID he was a solid B/B+; in 2020 he was an abysmal failure, all due to the Pandemic Panic and to Operation Warp Speed--two sins for which he has yet to give good account.
Yet despite all that, at present if the choice is Biden (or the Democrat du jour) or Trump, Trump wins. After everything I've watched the Democrats do since 2021, there simply is no credible alternative.
this is true - and don't you believe even some on the derangement side know at some level it is a dangerous game - and yet they still encourage/facilitate it; is it like those who eat their young, they are so depraved it just doesn't occur to them?
One would think they would be able to extrapolate likely consequences from their actions.
The question is whether they believe those consequences represent a negative. Given the Trotskyite attitudes and ideologies we see among those with TDS, it is quite possible that the outcomes we predictably describe as "dangerous" they might even describe as "desirable."
Good point! He is damaged in the eyes of those who already rail against the J6 as ‘insurrectionists’. Those who know better - and our number is growing larger each time the legal system is weaponized against Trump - just dig in our heels deeper against all this travesty.
First, a somewhat snarky quibble: "corrupt Chicago" is redundant! :P
The part that is amazing is that, with two other states having already crossed this particular Rubicon, and with the matter now before the Supreme Court (and SCOTUS watchers who observed oral arguments noted that even the liberal wing of the Court seemed none too impressed with the "insurrectionist" argument), how it is that Judge Porter thinks this is even a proper ruling to make at this time.
Is this virtue-signaling or is it desperation? Frankly, I can't tell and I don't think it matters. It's lunacy either way.
If the case is so obvious against Trump then swear out an indictment and hold a trial.
If the case for insurrection is so obvious against the J6 protesters/rioters then charge them and try them and secure whatever convictions can be had.
Yet that is the one thing no Democrat is willing to do. They want to pass these unconstitutional bills of attainder--something explicitly forbidden by the text of the Constitution--but they do not want to honor Donald Trump's inalienable civil liberties and give him due process of law.
I do not, as many do, accuse Joe Biden of treason for his actions, for the simple reason that, according to the Constitution, Joe Biden's numerous malfeasances are corrupt and venal and vicious, but they are not treasonous.. I do not say that because I am a fan of Dementia Joe, but because I am a fan of the Constitution.
Boy, I’m glad you’re addressing this issue today, Peter. This morning I read this nonsense from Judge Porter, and was dumbfounded. Trump has not been charged with or convicted of insurrection, so how is she getting away with this? My thinking is that she is virtue-signaling and kissing up to the Chicago political powers for her own career advancement, knowing full well that her ruling will be overturned next week, AFTER the political damage is done to Trump in the public’s eye. At least, that’s the only plausible explanation I can come up with for such an obviously illegal ruling. What do you think, Peter - corrupt Chicago political maneuvering?
But IS "political damage [being] done to Trump in the public's eye" - ?
It seems like the more they try to hurt him, the more people wake up.
No?
Their mistake is in believing the law can be weaponized without consequence.
With each new instance of lawfare, with each new example of weaponizing the criminal justice system against a political adversary, more and more people realize that if the criminal justice system can be deployed against Donald Trump, it can be deployed against anyone, including themselves.
More and more, Donald Trump's putative supporters are not so much hard core "MAGA" ideologues but people who are seeing the corruptions of the current regime and realize that a President Trump is not the worst thing that could happen to this country.
The constant demonization of anyone who supports Trump, the constant harangues for anyone not condemning Trump as the most evil person of all time, simply push more and more people away from the Democrats and into Trump's very big tent.
If Trump does win in the fall, it will be in large measure because the Democrats kept shooting themselves in the foot with these insane antics.
I could like this comment a hundred times, Peter. I am one of those old school democrats forced out of a party I do not recognize anymore. But at the moment I’m marooned politically. We have no saviors on any side. Maybe trump is the Dems scapegoat and distraction from their utterly empty and dangerous ideology and policies. My only grandchild is wrapped in the web of democrats evil transgender child sacrifice weapon. I fear for her/his very life. This alone disqualifies any democrat from my vote. Along with the heinous behavior during covid. Warmongering. So much. Trump is not evil. Dems should look in the mirror more.
As a longtime and extreme libertarian, I've never been "in" either party. Each election is its own moment, and I vote for who will do the most good--or more commonly who will do the least damage.
I was not a Trump fan in 2016, although I did respect his innovative and unbelievably energetic campaign strategy. As President pre-COVID he was a solid B/B+; in 2020 he was an abysmal failure, all due to the Pandemic Panic and to Operation Warp Speed--two sins for which he has yet to give good account.
Yet despite all that, at present if the choice is Biden (or the Democrat du jour) or Trump, Trump wins. After everything I've watched the Democrats do since 2021, there simply is no credible alternative.
this is true - and don't you believe even some on the derangement side know at some level it is a dangerous game - and yet they still encourage/facilitate it; is it like those who eat their young, they are so depraved it just doesn't occur to them?
One would think they would be able to extrapolate likely consequences from their actions.
The question is whether they believe those consequences represent a negative. Given the Trotskyite attitudes and ideologies we see among those with TDS, it is quite possible that the outcomes we predictably describe as "dangerous" they might even describe as "desirable."
Good point! He is damaged in the eyes of those who already rail against the J6 as ‘insurrectionists’. Those who know better - and our number is growing larger each time the legal system is weaponized against Trump - just dig in our heels deeper against all this travesty.
First, a somewhat snarky quibble: "corrupt Chicago" is redundant! :P
The part that is amazing is that, with two other states having already crossed this particular Rubicon, and with the matter now before the Supreme Court (and SCOTUS watchers who observed oral arguments noted that even the liberal wing of the Court seemed none too impressed with the "insurrectionist" argument), how it is that Judge Porter thinks this is even a proper ruling to make at this time.
Is this virtue-signaling or is it desperation? Frankly, I can't tell and I don't think it matters. It's lunacy either way.
If the case is so obvious against Trump then swear out an indictment and hold a trial.
If the case for insurrection is so obvious against the J6 protesters/rioters then charge them and try them and secure whatever convictions can be had.
Yet that is the one thing no Democrat is willing to do. They want to pass these unconstitutional bills of attainder--something explicitly forbidden by the text of the Constitution--but they do not want to honor Donald Trump's inalienable civil liberties and give him due process of law.
I do not, as many do, accuse Joe Biden of treason for his actions, for the simple reason that, according to the Constitution, Joe Biden's numerous malfeasances are corrupt and venal and vicious, but they are not treasonous.. I do not say that because I am a fan of Dementia Joe, but because I am a fan of the Constitution.
You are magnificent, Peter.