Elections; 2024
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Betting odds on Trump just keep going up.
What about the 14th Amendment?
Hmmmmmmm...
A Google search for "14th Amendment" today doesn't have a single mention of Trump on the front page. That's a far cry from a few weeks ago. Google trying to hide the past, as per usual.
Now... Put "14th Amendment" "Trump", and you see all the hits from September. The only assholes who have even wrote anything on this after NPR's article on September 25th is, of course, Vox, who wrote an article about it only 4 days ago.
And amazingly (boy, I didn't see this coming), Vox is actually the source that tells you fucking idiots why it's not going to save you.
https://www.vox.com/politics/23880607/trump-14th-amendment-lawsuits-fe
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Should Donald Trump even be allowed on the ballot in 2024?
Some of the country’s most prominent legal experts, and a small number of activists and politicians, argue he shouldn’t — and some have filed lawsuits trying to strike Trump’s name from ballots.
Yet most in the Democratic Party are keeping a wary distance from the effort. And other experts argue that such actions, intended to save American democracy, might in fact imperil it even further.
The argument for disqualifying Trump hinges on Section 3 of the 14th Amendment to the US Constitution, and its proponents argue that its plain language disqualifies Trump, who they say engaged in “insurrection or rebellion” against the Constitution, from holding office again.
Some go so far as to argue that secretaries of state should simply declare Trump ineligible and take him off their ballots — but so far, none have been willing to do so. Instead, then, the hunt is on to find a judge who will do it.
To be clear: It seems extremely unlikely that Trump actually will be disqualified, since the Supreme Court will get the final say over any challenge, and they’ll likely nix this whole endeavor.
Read that underlined part, you dumb shits. Over and over again until it sinks in.
How is it that the morons at Vox finally figured this out months after I told you two goons that is what would happen and you still think that any of the shit Democrats have been pulling is going to go anywhere?
Nah bitch. If Democrats are going to win, they're going to have to win by actually serving the American Public. And for 3 years now, they've done an increasingly shit job at that.
Vox even goes on to further impress by showing just the tiniest bit of foresight...
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A Trump win in 2024 would be deeply dangerous for American democracy. Yet taking away voters’ option to choose him would pose its own perils. It would inevitably be seen as blatant election theft by much of the country — which would trigger responses, both from Republicans in office and Trump supporters on the ground, that could degrade democracy even more severely.
Now you're getting it, bitches.
You think that you can just pull whatever bullshit you want to win elections or destroy political opponents over and over and over and over and over again because you think that you're always right?
Well that's going to fuck you in the asses proper when the tables are turned, innit?
You goons at Vox must be pissing in your boots right now about that inevitable future being much closer around the corner than you thought just a few weeks ago to be putting an article like this out there.
Tough shit for you. You were warned. And it's already too late for that. The tables are already turning, and the destruction of Democracy that you've engaged in so far in order to "save Democracy" is about to be turned on you, full force.
And the first item on the docket going forward is to weaponize the very en masse mail-in/drop-box ballot fraud you enacted during Covid and never bothered closing up. Because you lack any critical thinking skills or the ability of foresight.
2024 is going to be a Democrat bloodbath.
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Why Trump and the GOP are burning the entire system down
By Thom Hartmann | Oct 11, 2023
https://www.rawstory.com/raw-investigates/why-trump-and-the-gop-are-bu
rning-the-entire-system-down/
Today’s Republican Party is dedicated to destroying what they call the “deep state” and the rest of us call the American government. From Trump followers in MAGA hats at rallies to Republican US Senators, they’ll all tell you this without a moment’s hesitation.
Steve Bannon even proclaimed it as the main goal of the Trump presidency in their first months in the White House, saying Trump’s goal was the “deconstruction of the administrative state.”
Talking about government regulations that protect the environment, punish companies and con men who rip off consumers, and provide for a safe workplace, Bannon said in March, 2017:
“That’s all gonna be deconstructed and I think that that’s why this regulatory thing is so important.”
In this, the GOP, Putin, and fossil fuel billionaires are all working toward the same goal: to do away with or at least fatally weaken the institutions of our government that prevent the morbidly rich and wannabee strongman autocrats from taking over America.
They’re doing this because they don’t believe democracy is a good or even viable idea. Seven thousand years of the history of civilization, they’ll tell you, show that the one constant has been autocracy and strongman rule. Democracy is merely an experiment to protect the weak and “average” people from predation by the “supermen” among us, and that, they argue, violates the basic laws of nature.
For democracy to work in human societies isn’t some magic or organic thing; it depends on institutions and systems to function and remain free of corruption.
Without those administrative state functions, countries and states devolve into Third World status with corrupt leaders who steal everything that’s not nailed down, hand government and business functions off to their cronies, and suppress dissent or calls for democracy with violence and prisons.
The transformation of America from a modern “social democracy” with strong protections for the environment and the working class into strongman rule is exactly what Trump, Putin, and some of the billionaires who own the GOP want. Being answerable to the people is bothersome and inconvenient for them.
Conservative thinkers from Plato to William F. Buckley to Russell Kirk have denigrated democracy, claiming that it’s merely “mob rule.” Rightwing billionaires look over their shoulders at the teeming masses and shudder, remembering a time in America when the top income tax bracket was 90 percent for the morbidly rich and 50 percent for the most profitable corporations.
It was also a time of the greatest prosperity for the American middle-class, the highest levels of social mobility, and the strongest social cohesion.
Rather than submit to such “onerous” taxation, regardless of the social benefits it conferred, they’d rather burn the entire system down.
Special Prosecutor Jack Smith recently said of Trump:
“Like his previous public disinformation campaign regarding the 2020 presidential election, the defendant’s recent extrajudicial statements are intended to undermine public confidence in an institution — the judicial system — and to undermine confidence in and intimidate individuals — the court, the jury pool, witnesses and prosecutors.”
While most people believe Trump is ranting about our justice system to deflect attention from his many crimes, in fact he’s all-in on the program to Putin-ize America.
He knows — from his own experience in the White House — that the main barriers to a president declaring himself the king of America with rule-by-decree are the systems of checks-and-balances built into every modern democracy.
It was exactly those systems — legislative, judicial, and administrative — that Putin in Russia and Orbán in Hungary corrupted and then seized control over to achieve and maintain their iron-fisted rule.
Similarly, the next steps in the GOP’s
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Ain't nobody buying it anymore, buddy.
Sleepy Joe* woke up all the normies with his economy. Democrats are finished.
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Political correctness is just tyranny, with a smiley face.
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Steve Scalise is a veteran of House GOP leadership. Now he hopes to be speaker
https://www.cnn.com/2023/10/06/politics/steve-scalise-profile-house-sp
eaker-race/index.html
Scalise over Jordan 113 to 99. Pretty close. There is one more vote bc Scalise needs to be approved with 217 votes.
Scalise represents everything wrong with establishment Republicans: an anti-human, big business suck up and warhawk who never met a Pentagon request he didn't like.
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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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Trump tells court he had no duty to 'support' the Constitution as president
Trump's lawyers are arguing that the specific language of the Constitution only applies to people in offices who are bound to "support" the Constitution — and the presidency is not one of those offices.
"The Presidential oath, which the framers of the Fourteenth Amendment surely knew, requires the President to swear to 'preserve, protect and defend' the Constitution — not to 'support' the Constitution," said the filing by Trump's attorneys. "Because the framers chose to define the group of people subject to Section Three by an oath to 'support' the Constitution of the United States, and not by an oath to 'preserve, protect and defend' the Constitution, the framers of the Fourteenth Amendment never intended for it to apply to the President."
The former president has already tried to remove the 14th Amendment case to federal court, but this motion was denied.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/10/11/2198852/-Previous-Guy-the-
framers-of-the-14th-Amendment-never-intended-for-it-to-apply-to-the-President
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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At least there's this ...
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Scalise Faces Uphill Battle For Speaker Amid Divided Republican Caucus
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/scalise-faces-uphill-battle-speake
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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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Scalise drops out.
Also...
Cenk from The Young Turks is running in the primary against Biden* because he knows that Joe Biden* can't win.
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/politics-government/article280424689.ht
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Bypass Paywall: https://archive.ph/7O6hp
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"[Biden] is not going to win," Uygur said during the announcement. "It should not have been me, it should have been somebody else, but unfortunately it was not anyone else. There's only four months left. We must change course. He has at best a 10 percent chance of winning. I'm running as a proxy. I am running to win. But I am also running as a proxy for any other candidate."
The Democrat party is falling apart at the seams.
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Quote:Cenk Uygur knows nothing, nothing at all: Born in Istanbul, Turkey, Cenk Uygur immigrated to the U.S. at 8 years old. He believes that the Constitution's "Natural Born Citizen" clause will not prevent him in his effort, believing that he can win the battle in the Supreme Court.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Cenk from The Young Turks is running in the primary against Biden* because he knows that Joe Biden* can't win.
Does anyone remember Ralph Nader? When Cenk Uygur decides the Green Party needs him more than the Democrats, he will be Nader Redux.
The Nader Effect. Feb 23, 2004 — In the 2000 presidential election in Florida, Nader won 97,488 votes, while Al Gore lost the state (and, therefore, the presidency) by 537 votes.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/the-nader-effect/
Ralph Nader Still Refuses to Admit He Elected Bush
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2016/06/ralph-nader-still-wont-admit-h
e-elected-bush.html
After 23 years, Nader still can't admit he made Bush the President. Nader absolutely has faith in what he did. Cenk Uygur already is psychologically positioned perfectly to not understand what he is doing. I love it when people devise clever explanations for why nothing can be their fault, which is why the man-made world runs so very smoothly.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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Originally posted by second:Quote:Cenk Uygur knows nothing
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Cenk from The Young Turks is running in the primary against Biden* because he knows that Joe Biden* can't win.
You won't get any argument about that from me.
I love seeing him say Fuck Joe Biden* like the rest of us though.
The Democrat party is done. Watching it finally fracture and crumble to the ground while they eat each other over the next 13 months is going to be priceless.
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