Hey Second, I was right again you dumb shit
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Thread formerly titled "Hey Ted, I was right again you dumb shit" 
CBS News: Supreme Court says Trump can appear on 2024 ballot, overturning Colorado ruling
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/supreme-court-trump-ballot-eligibility-co
lorado/
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The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday said states cannot bar former President Donald Trump from the ballot using a rarely invoked provision of the 14th Amendment, overturning a decision from Colorado's top court and handing the GOP presidential front-runner a victory in an unprecedented case that threatened to derail his bid to return to the White House.
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Justices Amy Coney Barrett wrote separately to note that all nine justices agree on the outcome of the case, saying "that is the message Americans should take home." The three liberal justices, Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson, issued an opinion concurring with the judgment, but said the court went too far in dictating "novel rules" for federal enforcement of Section 3.
9-0, you stupid little bitch. So you whiny little unAmerican cunts can't even complain it was the Conservative stacked court that made this decision.
Maybe now you'll finally stop listening to all the lies the Legacy Media fills your head with everyday.
The 14th Amendment scam was never going to save you.
Get fucked.
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It has always been understood that one state cannot interfere with a federal election dummy. My point has always been that states are trying to hold Trump accountable for being an insurrectionist. If Trump tried to run for a state wide office in Colorado, they could definitely keep him off the ballet.
His first criminal trial is about to start so,
tick tock
T 
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It has always been understood that one state cannot interfere with a federal election dummy. My point has always been that states are trying to hold Trump accountable for being an insurrectionist. If Trump tried to run for a state wide office in Colorado, they could definitely keep him off the ballet.
His first criminal trial is about to start so,
tick tock
T
Okay... So digging through your post history it is.
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This you?
http://fireflyfans.net/mthread.aspx?bid=18&tid=65372&mid=11797
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Originally posted by THG:
Attorney Sues Trump, Claims He is Constitutionally Ineligible for Presidency
Lawrence Caplan argues that the 14th Amendment prevents Trump from holding office again as someone who violated his oath to uphold the Constitution
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/attorney-sues-trump-claims-he-
is-constitutionally-ineligible-for-presidency/ar-AA1fMSt9?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=f4320d950549416fa6c011339e706730&ei=16
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Attorney Sues Trump, Claims He is Constitutionally Ineligible for Presidency
Lawrence Caplan argues that the 14th Amendment prevents Trump from holding office again as someone who violated his oath to uphold the Constitution
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/attorney-sues-trump-claims-he-
is-constitutionally-ineligible-for-presidency/ar-AA1fMSt9?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=f4320d950549416fa6c011339e706730&ei=16
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Yeah... Good luck with that. I'm sure you got him this time bro.
Trump has been charged with 91 felonies. He's more than got. He is over.
T
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Boy... I really should have included Second in this thread, or made it directed entirely at him altogether.
I've found at least 20 post so far from Second claiming that the 14th Amendment was going to disqualify Trump while looking for Ted's.
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Go fuck yourself too, Second.
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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
This you?
http://fireflyfans.net/mthread.aspx?bid=18&tid=65372&mid=11797
33#1179733Quote:
Originally posted by THG:
Attorney Sues Trump, Claims He is Constitutionally Ineligible for Presidency
Lawrence Caplan argues that the 14th Amendment prevents Trump from holding office again as someone who violated his oath to uphold the Constitution
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/attorney-sues-trump-claims-he-
is-constitutionally-ineligible-for-presidency/ar-AA1fMSt9?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=f4320d950549416fa6c011339e706730&ei=16
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Originally posted by THG:
Attorney Sues Trump, Claims He is Constitutionally Ineligible for Presidency
Lawrence Caplan argues that the 14th Amendment prevents Trump from holding office again as someone who violated his oath to uphold the Constitution
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/attorney-sues-trump-claims-he-
is-constitutionally-ineligible-for-presidency/ar-AA1fMSt9?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=f4320d950549416fa6c011339e706730&ei=16
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Yeah... Good luck with that. I'm sure you got him this time bro.
Trump has been charged with 91 felonies. He's more than got. He is over.
T
You're a brainless twit. I posted a fact moron. No false claims here. And your other post with
links has nothing to do with anything I've said.
T
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The fact was that the idiot media reported on an idiot that was making a fruitless lawsuit.
You are constantly posting media lies such as this one.
The links in the 2nd post were all Second. I got bored of doing the work to compile all of them. There were a lot more.
But if that was actually your only post on the subject and you didn't push the issue beyond that, I owe you an apology. And since I'm not going to waste any further time sifting through either of your post history today, I'll take you on your word that you didn't and offer that apology to you now.
Sometimes it's pretty easy to get you and Second mixed up, but I really shouldn't do that since the only two things you really have in common is hating Trump and calling everybody who doesn't agree with you Nazis.
The thread title has been changed to throw it in the face that gets to eat crow today.
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Quote:I love Trump for being the epitome of all that is wrong with his Trumptards. Other Republicans running for President don't have even one of Trump's defects (tax cheating, adultery, rape, multiple divorces, felonies, business fraud, bankruptcy, Russian ally, Kim Jong Un's friend, blowhard, mental illness, obesity, body odor, ugly, etc.) which make Trump the weakest candidate.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Sometimes it's pretty easy to get you and Second mixed up, but I really shouldn't do that since the only two things you really have in common is hating Trump and calling everybody who doesn't agree with you Nazis.
The thread title has been changed to throw it in the face that gets to eat crow today.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
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Okay dude. Just pout then.
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Quote:I did NOT want Trump to be disqualified because his presence makes it perfectly clear that Trumptards are worthless assholes, as is Trump himself. The election will NOT be about Biden at all. The election will be about how many people think Trump is a complete asshole. America's assholes will indelibly identify themselves by voting for Trump. The Democrats on the Supreme Court wanted the same as I do. The Supreme Court made the right decision in their unanimous vote against removing former President Trump from the ballot in Colorado.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Okay dude. Just pout then.
Just in case someone forgot the defects making Trump a complete asshole: tax cheating, adultery, rape, multiple divorces, felonies, business fraud, bankruptcy, Putin's ally, Kim Jong Un's friend, blowhard, mental illness, obesity, body odor, ugly, etc.
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Originally posted by second:Quote:I did NOT want Trump to be disqualified
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Okay dude. Just pout then.
Your post history would indicate otherwise.
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Originally posted by second (Monday, August 21, 2023):
The Trumptards are angry that the 14th amendment bans Trump from political office. If you and Trump can't understand that amendment, and won't voluntarily comply with it, I guess there is nothing, nothing at all, that can be done about it other than hope Trump chokes to death while stuffing himself in an eating contest to become The Fattest ex-President in History.
I guess in the end it was you who didn't understand the 14th amendment, huh?
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Just in case someone forgot the defects making Trump a complete asshole: tax cheating, adultery, rape, multiple divorces, felonies, business fraud, bankruptcy, Putin's ally, Kim Jong Un's friend, blowhard, mental illness, obesity, body odor, ugly, etc.
With the exclusion of Divorces and Obesity, all of the above are lies told to you by the very same media outfits that assured you Trump would be disqualified by the 14th Amendment.
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All of those judges and prosecutors who engaged in this blatantly politicized persecution should be impeached and disbarred.
Make it real consequential for the assholes who are doing it.
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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal." - Henry Kissinger
Loving America is like loving an addicted spouse - SIGNYM
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Quote:6ix, pray to God for help understanding the obvious. Just in case someone forgot the defects making Trump a complete asshole: tax cheating, adultery, rape, multiple divorces, felonies, business fraud, bankruptcy, Putin's ally, Kim Jong Un's friend, blowhard, mental illness, obesity, body odor, ugly, etc.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Your post history would indicate otherwise.
These are also the reasons why I want Trump as the GOP's candidate. To make it simple for 6ix to understand, I want the GOP to lose. Trump is the candidate most likely to lose out of every candidate from the GOP. Trump is ALSO the candidate most likely to win all the votes from the worst people in America, the Trumptards.
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All of those judges and prosecutors who engaged in this blatantly politicized persecution should be impeached and disbarred.
Make it real consequential for the assholes who are doing it.
Oh, I fully agree and I've said quite a few times that it will happen.
I also said that is why the "leadership" in California and Illinois did not follow suit, since they're already so fucking corrupt that they knew better to push this one.
It's a shame that it probably won't happen until Trump is President, but with a 9-0 Supreme Court decision there is a very real possibility we see the proper actions taken before that.
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Originally posted by second:Quote:6ix, pray to God for help understanding the obvious.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Your post history would indicate otherwise.
I don't pray to any God.
But I do have your post history, however, and it speaks for itself.
Just be a man for once in your life, leave this thread now and take your well deserved lumps on this one, pussy.
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Quote:This right here is why Signym and 6ix are worthless assholes. Read the full ruling by Colorado’s Supreme Court removing Trump from the state ballot. Dec 20, 2023 https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/read-the-full-ruling-by-colorado
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:Quote:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
All of those judges and prosecutors who engaged in this blatantly politicized persecution should be impeached and disbarred.
Make it real consequential for the assholes who are doing it.
Oh, I fully agree and I've said quite a few times that it will happen.
I also said that is why the "leadership" in California and Illinois did not follow suit, since they're already so fucking corrupt that they knew better to push this one.
It's a shame that it probably won't happen until Trump is President, but with a 9-0 Supreme Court decision there is a very real possibility we see the proper actions taken before that.
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The Federal Supreme Court, not Colorado's Supreme Court, made a political decision, ignoring what the Federal Constitution actually says. I think the Federal Supreme Court made the right political decision, the decision most likely to cause the GOP to lose the 2024 elections. (There are many other 2024 elections besides the President.) I also think the opposite decision made by Colorado's Supreme Court is the right legal decision. The right legal decision can be completely backward from the right political decision, which is the GOP loses many elections it would have won if Trump was not on the ballot.
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Loser.
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New York Magazine (Opinion piece by Elie Honig): The 14th Amendment Effort to Get Trump Off the Ballot Was Dumb — and Doomed
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/the-14th-amendment-effort-to-ge
t-trump-off-the-ballot-was-dumb-and-doomed/ar-BB1jjvwo?cvid=83ee1d167a334ff5aa27adc57d0f0e25&ei=18
Of course, before I read this story I did a google history search on this guy and the 14th amendment to see if he was just saying this now that the result was in, or if he beleived this all along. It appears that he did. He's a Democrat Anti-Trumper, and he even got into an argument with Republican George Conway on this issue back in December of last year.
"That's just complete nonsense": George Conway clashes with CNN analyst on Trump ballot challenge
https://www.salon.com/2023/12/28/thats-just-complete-nonsense-george-c
onway-clashes-with-cnn-analyst-on-ballot-challenge/
In January he wrote another article for New York Magazine saying that it was going to fail...
The Supreme Court’s Silver-Bullet Solution to the 14th Amendment Problem
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2024/01/how-the-supreme-court-will-dec
ide-the-trump-ballot-problem.html
Okay... So good. We've established he's not like your regular media shill that just says whatever the hell they want to on any given day no matter how hypocritical it was to previous things they said just a week ago.
So what did he have to say?
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You’ll be forgiven if you expected a different result. After all, we’ve endured months of cocksure guarantees from leading constitutional scholars that Colorado’s application of the Fourteenth Amendment against Trump was legally “unassailable in every single respect” – this from a retired judge who assured us not to worry because “I’ve been studying this specific question in great detail for the past three years. So, you know, I consider myself — personally — an expert on the question.” Other thought leaders offered up an amen chorus, disparaging any argument that the Fourteenth Amendment might not work as “extremely weak” and “just complete nonsense.” Turns out, you can’t bludgeon the Constitution into the ground with hyperbolic, conclusory rhetoric.
Don't just blame it on the "leading Constitutional Scholars" buddy. That was the full goddamened force of the Media behind it as well. You're just the exception to the rule is all.
It's actually amazing that it looks like Ted wasn't posting constantly about the 14th Amendment and how it was going to be taking Trump down like Second was doing all the time. Maybe I've actually underestimated his intelligence. I'm genuinely interested in where he was getting his news on this topic and who was steering him right on this issue. He certainly wasn't listening to the likes of Rachel Maddow or Mika Brazinski on this particular topic.
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Prominent Democrats including Gavin Newsom, Jocelyn Benson, and Dean Phillips publicly recognized that the effort to remove Trump from the ballot through the courts under the Fourteenth Amendment was ill-conceived and would likely backfire. Other Democrats conspicuously dodged the issue, steering clear of the impending trainwreck. Even Republican Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger – the guy on the receiving end of Trump’s infamous “I just want to find 11,780 votes” phone call – opposed Trump’s disqualification.
Yeah. Absolutely. I've said probably half a dozen times now that even the most corrupt politicians in places like California and Illinois weren't going to dare try this one. They knew that they weren't going to get away with it and they weren't going to jeopardize their cushy lifestyles screwing over their citizens on a stunt like this. Let the no-name middle management idiots in Colorado go down in flames... and on the off-chance it actually worked out for them only then would they follow suit.
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Now the results are in, and Trump will reap the political windfall.
You're go
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Quote:The confrontation between Trumptards and the rest of Americans must not be delayed. For that matter, all Trump's court cases should go to trial immediately, without delays, but Trump is paying a million dollars per week to lawyers for their best delaying tactics. Trump wants to campaign forever and delay his many trials until death takes him.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
But the rest of us?
We will never forget.
Trump spent $76 million over the last two years on attorneys
Several of his most prominent lawyers have surpassed $5 million each in payments, all footed by the former president’s campaign donors, according to the FEC filings. Alina Habba, whose New Jersey-based law firm represented Trump in the sexual assault and defamation suit brought by advice columnist E. Jean Carroll, has earned the most, $6 million.
https://apnews.com/article/trump-spent-millions-legal-fees-2024-presid
ential-campaign-3384cbfc2df69d3e97ba9e47c2384312
How much are Trump's lawyers paid?
https://www.google.com/search?q=how+much+are+trump's+lawyers+paid
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The Constitution sets some limits on the people’s choices for president | March 4, 2024
Key restrictions
Section 3 of Article 1 of the Constitution is the most direct result of the debate between Morris and Mason. It says that people, including the president, who are impeached and convicted can be barred from office.
Section 1 of Article 2 of the Constitution imposes more limits. It declares that some people simply can’t be president – those not born U.S. citizens, those under age 35 and those who have lived less than 14 years of their lives in the U.S.
Eight decades later, Congress and the states agreed to add a new restriction: Section 3 of the 14th Amendment, ratified in 1868, says those seeking to hold federal and state offices who have previously taken an oath to support the Constitution may not have attemped to subvert or overthrow the Constitution.
And in 1951, the 22nd Amendment to the Constitution was ratified, declaring that nobody who had been president for two terms could become president again.
All of these rules stand in the way of simply “letting the people decide,” as Kavanaugh suggested. Strictly speaking, those rules are not democratic. But they are intended to protect democracy itself.
https://theconversation.com/the-constitution-sets-some-limits-on-the-p
eoples-choices-for-president-but-the-supreme-court-rules-its-unconstitutional-for-state-governments-to-decide-on-trumps-qualifications-224718
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Eight decades later, Congress and the states agreed to add a new restriction: Section 3 of the 14th Amendment, ratified in 1868, says those seeking to hold federal and state offices who have previously taken an oath to support the Constitution may not have attemped to subvert or overthrow the Constitution.
Well that would bar half of the Democratic party from ever running again after what they've done over the last 7 years.
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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
The media collective is going to whine like bitches about this for a week or two, then they're going to stop talking about it altogether and hope that everybody forgets about it by the election.
SPOILER ALERT: Their viewers, the Democrat cultists and the Pink Haired Potbelly Cancel Pig Troll Brigade on Twitter are going to forget all about it by the election. In fact, some of them a month from now would tell you that it never even happened if you asked them about it.
But the rest of us?
We will never forget.
Whoopie Goldberg and the View gals along with Rachel Maddow and Morning Joe are going to bitch and moan about this one for a while, but some Lefty shills are already trying to make people forget any of this happened... just as I predicted they would.
SLATE: It’s Past Time to Quit Hoping the Courts Are Going to Stop Trump
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/it-s-past-time-to-quit-hoping-
the-courts-are-going-to-stop-trump/ar-BB1jlx9b
SPOILER ALERT: They're still doing plenty of whining. 15 paragraphs full of it before they get to the last paragraph to tell YOU to move on, as if it's not all of them that need to move on.
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Quote:This topic has helped the Radical Libtard Propaganda Network (aka MSM) distance itself from NEWS outlets.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Thread formerly titled "Hey Ted, I was right again you dumb shit"
CBS News: Supreme Court says Trump can appear on 2024 ballot, overturning Colorado ruling
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/supreme-court-trump-ballot-eligibility-co
lorado/Quote:9-0, you stupid little bitch. So you whiny little unAmerican cunts can't even complain it was the Conservative stacked court that made this decision.
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday said states cannot bar former President Donald Trump from the ballot using a rarely invoked provision of the 14th Amendment, overturning a decision from Colorado's top court and handing the GOP presidential front-runner a victory in an unprecedented case that threatened to derail his bid to return to the White House.
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Justices Amy Coney Barrett wrote separately to note that all nine justices agree on the outcome of the case, saying "that is the message Americans should take home." The three liberal justices, Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson, issued an opinion concurring with the judgment, but said the court went too far in dictating "novel rules" for federal enforcement of Section 3.
Maybe now you'll finally stop listening to all the lies the Legacy Media fills your head with everyday.
The 14th Amendment scam was never going to save you.
This could be used as a bell weather subject to ascertain whether a source is A. News, or B. Radical Libtard Propaganda Network. Some other topics might be also suitable for this purpose, but this one seems to hit the nail on the head.
Reasonable folk already knew how these Unconstitutional Rules and Rulings would turn out, albeit not that the 3 Libtards would resort to upholding the Constitution, but Libtard heads are still exploding.
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Quote:Justices feared assassination if they disqualified Trump. Why risk your life for nothing? Trump will lose in 2024 but he'll be back in 2028, which is perfectly fine with me, a Democrat. When he loses in 2028, the GOP will self-destruct.
Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:
Reasonable folk already knew how this would turn out, albeit not that the 3 Libtards would resort to upholding the Constitution, but Libtard heads are still exploding.
The Court Made Its Colorado Decision Out of Fear
This case wasn’t decided on its merits, and the result is an utterly flimsy legal argument.
By George T. Conway III | March 5, 2024, 1:16 PM ET
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/03/supreme-court-colora
do-opinion-trump-disqualify/677646/
You can’t always get what you want. What Mick Jagger said about life applies with equal, perhaps even greater, force to litigation. Like life, litigation has its ups and downs. It reflects human fears and frailties—because judges, lawyers, and litigants are human. Law is never perfect, and never will be.
And so it is with the United States Supreme Court’s decision yesterday in Trump v. Anderson, which unanimously reversed the Supreme Court of Colorado’s decision barring Donald Trump from the state’s presidential-primary ballot.
Trump’s brazen effort to end constitutional democracy in America should have been the textbook example of the sort of behavior that would lead to someone being barred from holding public office under the Fourteenth Amendment. But it was not to be, and never was to be.
I talked with a lot of people about the Colorado case over the past three months, and I didn’t come across a single person who appeared willing to wager that the Supreme Court would uphold the Colorado decision; even the most fervent advocates for Trump’s disqualification, the ones who believed (as I was ultimately convinced) that the Colorado decision was unimpeachably correct, did not imagine that the Court was likely to agree. My guess is that none of these people thought they had any votes after the argument three weeks ago.
This private pessimism didn’t arise from legal reasoning. It came from an understanding that it was too much to expect this Court, at this time, in this political context, to apply the Constitution the way the Court normally should: by dispassionately looking at the constitutional text, and the historical context, and letting the chips fall where they may. It may be noble-minded for someone like me, sitting in the cheap seats, to incant my favorite Latin legal maxim, Fiat justitia ruat caelum—“Let justice be done though the heavens may fall.” But I don’t hold a lifetime appointment to decide how justice is to be done. And however much I’d like to think that judges really believe—as Justice Samuel Alito claimed in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization—that they “cannot allow [their] decisions to be affected by any extraneous influences such as concern about the public’s reaction to [their] work,” the fact is that judges are human. Their decisions are affected at times by their perception of what the public reaction may be.
Fewer better examples of that will ever arise than the Court’s decision yesterday. I confess that, going in, I gave the Court a lot more credit than the Court eventually showed itself to be due. I wrote that “the people who think the Court is going to reverse no matter what … may well be right.” I was understating things there, but I was convinced that the justices, in reversing, would come up with a stronger opinion than they ultimately did.
They didn’t, because, frankly, there wasn’t anything stronger. And the Supreme Court’s unsigned per curiam opinion—I can’t blame any of the justices for not wanting to put their name on it—makes that painfully, embarrassingly clear. To be sure, the Court deserves some credit. For instance, and with good reason, it didn’t even mention the Trump lawyers’ prin
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lol
I think Second's brain is finally imploding.
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Quote:I talked with a lot of people about the Colorado case over the past three months, and I didn’t come across a single person who appeared willing to wager that the Supreme Court would uphold the Colorado decision; even the most fervent advocates for Trump’s disqualification, the ones who believed (as I was ultimately convinced) that the Colorado decision was unimpeachably correct, did not imagine that the Court was likely to agree. My guess is that none of these people thought they had any votes after the argument three weeks ago.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
lol
I think Second's brain is finally imploding.
This private pessimism didn’t arise from legal reasoning. It came from an understanding that it was too much to expect this Court, at this time, in this political context, to apply the Constitution the way the Court normally should: by dispassionately looking at the constitutional text, and the historical context, and letting the chips fall where they may. It may be noble-minded for someone like me, sitting in the cheap seats, to incant my favorite Latin legal maxim, Fiat justitia ruat caelum—“Let justice be done though the heavens may fall.” But I don’t hold a lifetime appointment to decide how justice is to be done. And however much I’d like to think that judges really believe—as Justice Samuel Alito claimed in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization—that they “cannot allow [their] decisions to be affected by any extraneous influences such as concern about the public’s reaction to [their] work,” the fact is that judges are human. Their decisions are affected at times by their perception of what the public reaction may be. (Justices feared assassination if they disqualified Trump. Why risk your life for nothing?)
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Cry, cry, cry, bitch.
What have I ALWAYS told you?
Trump will be fine.
He will also be your next President.
Don't go and kill yourself or do anything stupid.
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Political correctness is just tyranny, with a smiley face.
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Quote:If Trump wins, I can start cheating on my taxes and pay as little as Trump pays in taxes. The Federal debt will then increase faster than the GDP because of other significant taxpayers taking cues from Trump's tax returns, which he will, once again, be keeping a secret from the public, as he did last time.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Cry, cry, cry, bitch.
What have I ALWAYS told you?
Trump will be fine.
He will also be your next President.
Don't go and kill yourself or do anything stupid.
From the following graph, notice that the Federal Debt leaped upward under Trump while he was attempting to buy his victory in the 2020 election by increasing spending while not collecting taxes.
Federal Debt: Total Public Debt in Red
Gross Domestic Product in Blue
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=1hTTC
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Originally posted by second:Quote:If Trump wins, I can start cheating on my taxes and pay as little as Trump pays in taxes.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Cry, cry, cry, bitch.
What have I ALWAYS told you?
Trump will be fine.
He will also be your next President.
Don't go and kill yourself or do anything stupid.
Good to know that the only thing keeping you from cheating is the law.
But we already know that because you're a pirate, a thief and a plagiarist.
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Quote:The only thing holding anybody in line is themselves. We hold ourselves to goals or, as in the case of you and EVERY OTHER TRUMPTARD I HAVE KNOWN, nobody is looking after their best interests or seeing that they achieve any goals at all. It is probably impossible for a Trumptard to understand, which is why they need Trump, so that somebody, certainly not themselves, is looking after them.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:Quote:
Originally posted by second:Quote:If Trump wins, I can start cheating on my taxes and pay as little as Trump pays in taxes.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Cry, cry, cry, bitch.
What have I ALWAYS told you?
Trump will be fine.
He will also be your next President.
Don't go and kill yourself or do anything stupid.
Good to know that the only thing keeping you from cheating is the law.
But we already know that because you're a pirate, a thief and a plagiarist.
For a real-life example, Trump doesn't pay taxes, and nobody can make him. The closest approximation to making Trump do something is by confiscating his property against his loud protests and selling it for back taxes. That has not happened, yet, because of his lawyers. The same thing happened with Trump's mentor, Roy Cohn. Roy didn't pay taxes even to the day he died. Only then did the IRS get paid. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Cohn#Reputation
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You need to stop dude.
You've got serious mental problems.
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Quote:You are the guy who flunked out of life, wasted years drinking, and now is certain that a rapist, Donald Trump, will be President. But then all Trumptards I know are certain their failures aren't their fault. A Trumptard's business goes bankrupt? It is the customers' fault, not the business owner's. A Trumptard's marriage ends acrimoniously? It's the wife's fault, not the husband's adultery. A Trumptard's brokerage account loses most of its value? It's the stockmarket's fault, not the options trading by a dopey fool miscalculating risks. A Trumptard bets that Trump wins but he loses? That cannot be Trump's fault or the Trumptard's because he fraudulently voted for Trump several times.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
You need to stop dude.
You've got serious mental problems.
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Quote:Maybe I'm cpnfused.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
lol
I think Second's brain is finally imploding.
Does Hickey Naily's affair - cheating on her husband while he was serving overseas - mean that Arthur is unaware of her candidacy? Or is that not adultery?
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