Karnal
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Frank wrote on Dec 21 st, 2023 at 6:16pm: Karnal wrote on Dec 21 st, 2023 at 6:10pm: greggerypeccary wrote on Dec 21 st, 2023 at 5:53pm: Frank wrote on Dec 21 st, 2023 at 5:48pm: The 14th is a post-Civil War amendment that forbids ‘insurrectionists’ from holding office. It was designed to keep unrepentant Confederates, men who had dragged the republic to war, away from seats of power. Trump’s supposed stirring-up of the boneheads and blowhards who stormed the Capitol on 6 January 2021 was an insurrection too, the justices decreed, and thus his name must be scrubbed from ballot papers across the state of Colorado.
First things first. The idea that the idiots who ran riot at the Capitol on 6 January are in any way comparable to a Confederacy of seven slave states that illegally broke from the American republic is unhinged. It is a testament to the historical illiteracy of the Democratic establishment that it would even hint at a likeness between men who caused a war that killed hundreds of thousands and Trumpists taking selfies in Congress during a conflagration that led to five deaths (three from natural causes). Not content with hysterically referring to 6 January as a domestic 9/11, now they’re implying it was a Civil War-level rupture. And this is leaving to one side the contested idea that Trump incited 6 January. ...
The ruling feels like a threat to the foundational principles of America. A man is branded an insurrectionist despite never having been found guilty of such a grave offence. Due process be damned. People in Colorado are denied a right enjoyed by people in all the other states: to vote for Trump as the GOP candidate. Equality be damned. And there might even be a situation where, in November next year, Coloradans are prevented from voting for one of the candidates in the presidential contest. Democracy be damned. I find the Colorado justices more menacing than that bloke in a horned headdress who wandered around the Capitol.
To see how sinister the ruling is, consider the following stipulation in the judgement. It says that not only should Trump’s name be absent from presidential primary ballots in the state, but also that the electoral authorities must not ‘count any write-in votes cast for him’. So officials would have to invalidate the votes of potentially tens of thousands of people who might decide to put Trump’s name on their ballots despite his unpersoning by the court. And thus the very scenario that Trump fantasised had taken place after the presidential election of 2020 – the industrial-scale destruction of votes for him – might actually occur in this breakaway state.
The ruling might collapse. There’s the distinct possibility the US Supreme Court will void it. Trump has until 4 January to appeal. And yet, even if it falls, the ruling reminds us of the tyrannical instincts of the anti-Trump elites. It reminds us there is almost nothing they won’t do to try to eliminate the threat posed by Trump and his followers to their political and cultural supremacy. From Russiagate to his arrest over the Stormy Daniels affair, from prosecuting him for holding on to secret documents to the desperate legal efforts to keep him off ballots, they’re hell-bent on depriving the American people of the fundamental democratic right to say: ‘We want Trump.’ We are destroying democracy to save it – that’s the doublethink cry of these despotic agitators against a second Trump presidency. Brendan O'Neill
Who the f**k is Brendan O'Neill? "Once a Trotskyist, O'Neill was formerly a member of the Revolutionary Communist Party and wrote for the party's journal Living Marxism. In 2019, O'Neill said he was a Marxist libertarian."Ah. I know, right? The old boy has a soft spot for them. Liber... Lib... Oh, you know. Sounds like you, wee paki. Sydney Push, libertarian marxist-Foucauldian, trouser sniffing and arse bandit thrown in. Anyway... Do you have ANY actual counter-argument, or as the 'Libertarian' you claim to be, you can only instantly switch AWAY from any actual points to grimacing idiocies? Don't bother, to ask was to answer you. Oh look, how cute. Fwank just said it. Him no speaka da English, no?
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