Not a popular title, I’m aware.
But the decision in Colorado to ban Trump from the ballot has to be some “deep state” conspiracy to guarantee that Trump wins the Republican nomination because all they have to run on is “Trump Bad.” We saw how well that worked in 2016.
In 2020, he lost Colorado by a wide margin, and the only other states that will temporarily get away with this idiocy will be safe Democratic strongholds. It’s fucking political theater is what it is, and it’s gonna to backfire like an overheated Mustang.
First of all, Trump has not been convicted of insurrection, which is the basis of this moronic ballot ban . . . and he never will. None of the outstanding prosecutions say the word “insurrection,” because it’s fabulously hard to prove in court. Don’t misinterpret me: Trump is a criminal, he’s always been a criminal, and he belongs in prison. I’m not feeling optimistic, because the gutless prosecutors so far have refused to jail his wrinkled ass after serial violations of perfectly legitimate gag orders.
Speaking of courts, which is where these asinine ballot ban efforts will end up, any court worth its salt will throw this shit straight in the dumpster. Meanwhile, Trump gets the bump, surviving yet another librul persecution and buttressing the myth of his invincibility among his cult. He’ll probably survive these prosecutions, too, because—like all rich people who seldom pay for their crimes—he can delay these cases until the Democrats manage to get him elected again, whereupon he may wield unlimited executive power.
That’s what is as stake in the DOJ/Smith prosecution, the one Jack Smith just leapfrogged to the Supreme Court. In waiting behind all the bewildering legalese about “immunity” and “peripheral activites” is a stacked Supreme Court with masterminds like Clarence “Loan Me a Quarter-Mil” Thomas, Brett “I Like Beer” Kavanaugh, and Amy Coney “I Will Not Answer” Barrett. If Trump’s immunity claim (or the peripheral activity claim) prevails with the Supremes, we’ll get a lot more than “Baby Love” and “Bad Weather.” The President will then be able, as the saying goes, to “shoot an innocent person dead in view of a hundred witnesses,” and not be prosecuted . . . ever.
Either party could misuse this dictatorial power, but Trump has a record. He really did use ICE as a Gestapo that could rampage across everyplace in the US that was within a hundred miles of the border; and in his recent speech, he went hog wild on the xenophobia thing, promising to throw out all the immigrants and not just those pestiferous “rapist Mexicans.” His base feasted on this steak tartare, cheering like chimps on Adderal. And Trump really did engineer the January 6 insurrection. That’s why it’s important to beat Republicans. The party belongs to him now, and he wants to finish what he started.
This perennial hostage situation we find ourselves in with the Democratic Party sucks, but reality does that sometimes. The only dark horse right now might be Kennedy with a write-in movement, and I’m not holding my breath.
Democrats are doing their level best to give us a second, and far more dangerous, Trump presidency.
Not what I said. Read the piece without a patellar reflex. Carrying guns around in public as a threat display is not responsible. It's dangerous cosplaying idiocy.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/22/us/politics/trump-supreme-court-immunity.html?campaign_id=190&emc=edit_ufn_20231222&instance_id=110838&nl=from-the-times®i_id=33619074&segment_id=153290&te=1&user_id=970d81a968e4a8a1e2f6df3626c1e7d1