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2023-12-22 Home Front: Politix
Victor Davis Hanson: The Colorado Insurrection
[ZERO] Donald Trump is being erased from the Colorado primary (and general?) ballot, by warping the 14th Amendment, and in a way never envisioned by its creators.
Southern Democrats led the last ‎Succession. Northern Democrats will likely lead the next Succession.
So now can one be guilty by fiat of Confederacy-like "insurrection," when he has never been charged with, much less convicted of, such a crime?

How can a buffoonish January 6th riot become an "insurrection," when no one was armed, there was no plan to seize power, and protestors were advised by the purported insurrectionist leader "to peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard"?

As far as election insurrectionary interference, why did liberal journalist Molly Ball label the leftwing effort to defeat Donald Trump in the 2020 election a "cabal"

(e.g., "That’s why the participants want the secret history of the 2020 election told, even though it sounds like a paranoid fever dream—a well-funded cabal of powerful people, ranging across industries and ideologies, working together behind the scenes to influence perceptions, change rules and laws, steer media coverage and control the flow of information")?

And why did Ball double-down and further call it a "conspiracy"

("There was a conspiracy unfolding behind the scenes, one that both curtailed the protests and coordinated the resistance from CEOs. Both surprises were the result of an informal alliance between left-wing activists and business titans, of CEOs, Silicon Valley billionaires, street protestors...Their work touched every aspect of the election. They got states to change voting systems and laws and helped secure hundreds of millions in public and private funding. They fended off voter-suppression lawsuits, recruited armies of poll workers and got millions of people to vote by mail for the first time. They successfully pressured social media companies to take a harder line against disinformation and used data-driven strategies to fight viral smears.")?

As far as efforts to nullify the popular vote, do we remember the pathetic 2016 ensemble of C-list Hollywood celebrities?

(e.g., Martin Sheen, Debra Messing, James Cromwell, BD Wong, Noah Wyle, Freda Payne, Bob Odenkirk, J. Smith Cameron, Michael Urie, Moby, Mike Farrell, Loretta Swit, Christine Lahti, Steven Pasquale, Dominic Fumusa and Emily Tyra)

They were drafted by leftwing groups to cut commercials urging the electors to reject their constitutional duties of reflecting their states’ popular votes, and instead, as faithless electors, to vote instead for Hillary Clinton, the loser in their respective states’ popular votes.
A Trump win or a Trump loss, unless there is some drastic change, none of this is shaping up to end well.
Posted by Besoeker 2023-12-22 06:29|| || Front Page|| [20 views ]  Top

#1 Kamala Harris’s summer 2020 boasts about the protests that, she knew (contrary to “fact checkers”) had already a long history of violence:

“But they're not gonna stop. They're not gonna stop, and this is a movement, I'm telling you. They're not gonna stop, and everyone beware, because they're not gonna stop.

They're not gonna stop before Election Day in November, and they're not gonna stop after Election Day.
Posted by Besoeker 2023-12-22 06:33||   2023-12-22 06:33|| Front Page Top

#2 Any succession will be more like city-states vs suburban/rural. In this case Denver-Bolder metro complex.
Posted by Procopius2k 2023-12-22 08:23||   2023-12-22 08:23|| Front Page Top

#3 /\ Yes. Exactly how and where it will start.
Posted by Besoeker 2023-12-22 09:07||   2023-12-22 09:07|| Front Page Top

#4 The WaPo this morning came out against the Colorado opinion.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/12/20/colorado-14th-amendment-trump-insurrection/
Posted by lord garth 2023-12-22 09:22||   2023-12-22 09:22|| Front Page Top

#5 Signs From the Far Left That the Colorado Supremes Stepped in It
Posted by Grom the Reflective 2023-12-22 10:27||   2023-12-22 10:27|| Front Page Top

#6 Just repeat after me: "We hate Trump. We hate Trump. We hate Trump." Keep repeating until your mind is so numb that all of this makes sense.
Posted by Tom 2023-12-22 11:39||   2023-12-22 11:39|| Front Page Top

#7 #6: I'm almost 80 years old. My life is already too short to put up with enough of that nonsense for any of it to ever make "sense". The Democrats of 2023 remind me far too much of the Democrats of 1860. The words change, but the behavior is the same.
Posted by Old Patriot 2023-12-22 21:28||   2023-12-22 21:28|| Front Page Top

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