66 posts from Friday, December 22, 2023

-The 2024 election, turning into a free-for-all, maybe. Well, a dozen states could follow Colorado in kicking Donald Trump off their ballots, or at least trying to. And now Republicans are vowing to retaliate against Joe Biden. -We should all be encouraged by any action that makes it less likely that he will return to the president. -It's just a question of law. It's like if a 14-year-old tried to run for president, would that person be kept off of the ballot because the Constitution says you have to be 35 years old to run for president? -What's the limiting principle for that? Why could we just say that Biden can't be on the ballot because he led in 8 million illegals into the country and violated the Constitution, which he has? -Maybe we should take Joe Biden off the ballot in Texas. -California now looking to copy Colorado's ballot ban, and that's the lieutenant governor who's trying to run for governor next year, so that's very political. And despite serious legal questions, the Golden State's lieutenant governor, she said she's exploring all options. Listen to her here. -We are in uncharted territory in our country, and the decision out of Colorado is a very significant fact. When the Supreme Court of Colorado determines in an examination of the facts that Donald Trump is an insurrectionist and therefore is disqualified from being on the ballot, certainly here in California, we have to look at that information and make the same determination here. -So all these developments putting pressure on the Supreme Court to intervene to allow Americans to vote for Donald Trump, legal experts argue it should be an easy case. -The core problem here is the denial of due process. It was a five-day hearing. There was no jury. It was before the judge. They were not able to subpoena witnesses and compel the attendance of witnesses. The process here was a procedural Frankenstein. And what Colorado did was wrong. It was wrong legally, but it was wrong in terms of our values. -Colorado tried to sort of take this state-level proceeding that's not really made for this type of insurrection determination and force a square peg into a round hole, and I think that violates Donald Trump's due process rights. -But some in the liberal media seem to be arguing that Trump doesn't even deserve a fair shake. -So many of these people are serving jail time and Donald Trump's not, for one simple reason, because unlike Donald Trump, they are not rich and powerful. So, please, spare me the anti-democratic lectures. -All right, Judge, I think people would be anxious and eager to hear from you and your thoughts on all of this. -Well, first of all, let me say I'm glad to be back at the table. It's a terrible house to be saying that. -I'm glad you're back, Amanda. -It's a pleasure to see you all. First of all, the 14th Amendment was never intended to be used the way the court in Colorado used it. First of all, the whole idea of an insurrection and the idea that's encompassed in Section 3 of Article 14 is that they would keep a Confederate off the ticket for president post-Civil War. That's number one. Number two, the question as to whether or not what happened on January 6th is an insurrection is still an open issue. The question is, did anybody go in with guns? Was there a plan to actually take over the government to seize control? And then the other thing is, whether Subdivision 3 applies to a president, it's not clear in the 14th Amendment. It talks about judicial officers of any state. It doesn't speak specifically about the president and insurrection. So, right on the face of the 14th Amendment, they lose. But let's talk about who made this decision. Just as judges on the Supreme Court in Colorado, from Harvard, University of Pennsylvania, UVA, and Penn. All those elite schools that are very anti-Trump to begin with. So then you say to yourself, well, now look at the results. A lieutenant governor in California is looking to follow Governor Newsom. This woman is so smart, she thinks the president, according to the Constitution, has to be 40. I mean, it's 35, number one. But number two, she said it creates a precedent. She doesn't understand the legal system. Colorado doesn't create a precedent for California. Higher courts declare precedents for lower courts. And finally, this is all about disqualifying a political foe. There is absolutely no basis for it. And I wanna know, what are the Democrats so afraid of? What are you so afraid of? You've tried criminal cases, civil cases. You've impeached them. Now you wanna throw 'em off the ballot. What next? Why are you so desperate to take this issue away from the American people? - And Greg, the media and the left seem to be conditioning the environment for any decision that comes from the Supreme Court to be political if it doesn't go the way that they want. - Exactly, I mean, it is so obvious why this has happened. The Dems are freaking out about the poll numbers. And rather than play fair, they're gonna take the player out. This is the equivalent of like drugging the opposing star player before the big game. You know, this is why they're doing the insurrection hoax. They Hitler hoax. The media's all in and it's hysterical. They've totally overplayed this. And the Dems are in a bind. They've normalized Hitler. I mean, everybody's a Nazi. You know, meanwhile, they made sure that young people in our education system aren't really sure what Hitler is anymore because they've been calling everybody Hitler. They use Hitler the way surfers use the phrase awesome. You know, that's so Hitler, man. Wow, Hitler's speech today. That's a Hitler jacket, dude. Why are they doing this? Here's why. Imagine if the election were a blind taste test. You got two products and you list the accomplishments on both sides, side by side. The policies, what was done. Well, one would taste like pure non-pulp orange juice and the other one would be horse piss. Trump is the orange juice, Biden's the horse piss in that blind taste test. 'Cause if you focus on what matters, everyone would favor Trump. So you have to label that brand as something bad. Hitler, right? And so people against their own needs and core concerns would end up voting for the horse pee pee. When you say someone is Hitler and the followers are Nazis, I said it before, you're telling people it would be immoral and even evil not to do everything possible to stop him. If you have a chance to kill Hitler before he enacted the Holocaust, who wouldn't do that? So that's why they're pushing these hoaxes in order to demonize it. So you can't, you can't support him. You would be just as bad. This is why millions of people didn't trust the election process of 2020. Because one side, you know, they use the government, the media and the tech basically to exploit every single avenue, illegal or not, lie, cheat, spy in order to get their way. They're doing it now, but now it's on meth. Colorado has really lit a match and the Supreme Court, I hope acts quickly because if all these other states are gonna try this, they need direction from the highest court to say yay or nay. - Well, I'm leaving for vacation tomorrow and usually I say something controversial before vacation. - Okay. - So I'm gonna pass. - Okay. (laughing) I'll give you a pass. - I'm kidding. We're gonna, so do you know who else got knocked off the ballot? Lincoln. The Southern Confederates knocked him off 10 state ballots. Another glaring similarity between Abraham Lincoln and Donald Trump. Excuse me? Also-- (laughing) Also-- - My colonizer. (laughing) - Donald Trump was acquitted in the Senate of insurrection and he was never charged criminally with insurrection. And the Democrats are always saying how it's vote suppression when they have to wait in line for an hour to vote for their candidate. Well, what if you never get to vote for your candidate? That is crazy. They are talking about stealing our votes and they're happy about that. Now, I don't know if you read Karl Rove in the Wall Street Journal. - I did, I did read that. - Did you read Karl Rove? - Yes, I did. - Okay. - I did. - He makes the point that there were 51 former Confederate soldiers and legit Confederates that ended up becoming federal officials. The Confederacy's former vice president became a federal official. One of the chief secessionists became an interior secretary and a Supreme Court justice. - You don't say. - Well, I don't. Karl said it. (laughing) And he mentions the fact that after the Civil War, the Republican Congress passed this great amnesty package where it kind of provided for a little bit more of reconciliation to allow some of these people to be brought back into the Union. So if there is more of a spirit of reconciliation and national unity after the Civil War than there is today in 2023, that is bananas. - We do hear a lot from people on both sides of the aisle that there's a concern about the crisis of confidence in our institutions. And this seems to actually, again, throw a match on a problem that the court, hopefully, that the Supreme Court can push forward. But if the Supreme Court rules and says this is ridiculous and it's not 9-0, do you think it will just turn into another political food fight? - I think we'll certainly analyze the makeup of the votes for pushing this back. I think, well, I said yesterday, I thought it'd be overruled. What I think will likely happen, and by the way, John F. Kennedy talked about that same guy and his profiles and courage, but he wrote about the fellow that Karl talked about. - Wrote? - And profiles and courage. So a couple things, our nation is not perfect. We strive every day to make it more perfect. And I believe that the engine that allows, the most important part of that engine that allows us to do that is the fact we're built on a rule of law. And the rule of law allows for steadiness, allows for fairness, allows for accountability and predictability. In this instance here, Democrats may be upset with me for saying this, but the record that they looked at in Colorado, it appears as I read the thing, they looked at the political hearing that took place in the January 6th hearing and viewed that as a tribunal and looked at those facts when the subject of that matter, the target of that matter, Mr. Trump, didn't have a chance for cross-examination. There were not witnesses that he was able to put forward. So there are a bunch of questions that the judge knows this better than anybody. I think that they're likely the court because they don't wanna deal with all the questions around, is he an officer? There's just so many, there's so many difficult questions. And Bill Barr said it best when he said it's just basically the denial of due process. So I think these questions will, to Dana's point, I think they're just gonna push it back to that court and say, look, answer all of these questions, allow witnesses to come before, because Barr said it best, you can't have a few days of a hearing, not allow someone who's gonna be disallowed to be on a ballot, to be elected to office, to be decided by, and I hear everybody says, I hope there's, the reason I hope there's a 9-0 vote, and Judge, you were making a point about some of the law schools, is that I think Americans need to see that judges are impartial agents of adjudicating the law. And when the law is clear, and I think in this case here, there's just not enough of a record here for this to be decided like it's been decided. And I was frustrated hearing the California Attorney General, I don't think you just look at another state because you like their politics or like the politics of the decision and say that we have to look at it. Well, you look at the law, and if the law allows you to do this, then you have to look at it whether you agree with it or not to determine whether or not your own laws are consistent with that. But I'm hopeful that the court will look at this quickly, and that we can find ourselves not talking about this like we have been.

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Five years after the Civil War, pro-slavery Democrats filled the halls of Congress. And 15 years later, pro-slavery Confederates actually flipped the House. 51 former Confederate soldiers or officials were elected into office. Even the Vice President of the Confederacy, Alexander Stephens, an arch secessionist, landed a seat in Congress. Another Confederate rebel, Lucius Lamar, great name, who literally drafted the Missouri Secession Plan, went on to serve as Interior Secretary, and was later appointed to the Supreme Court. But how is that possible? Because all week we've been hearing how the Constitution bans insurrectionists from office, the 14th Amendment. How would Confederate soldiers be allowed to serve in government but not Donald Trump? Well, it turns out Congress eviscerated the 14th Amendment 150 years ago. Because President Ulysses S. Grant believed national unity and reconciliation after the Civil War was more important than holding a grudge. This law has been hollowed out and has been sitting on the back burner for years. Well, that is until Donald Trump came along. And like every previous attack, lunatic liberal lawyers resuscitate an esoteric legal theory from another century to prosecute the former president with. Remember how Alvin Bragg, Frankenstein, the bookkeeping matter into 34 felonies? Or how special prosecutor Jack Smith's now having to beg the Supreme Court, are we allowed to charge the president? Because his case is so arcane. The ballot stripping is just another Hail Mary to steal your vote because Biden's shot. Here's constitutional scholar, Stephen Colbert. Removing the guy who tried to overthrow a democratic election is actually pro-democratic. That's like saying it's anti-hen to keep the fox out of the hen house. Let the chickens decide whether he finds them delicious. But did you actually kind of hear how casually Colbert says the phrase removing the guy? We're just removing the guy. You know, the guy who 74 million people voted for last time. You know, we're just going to remove them. Who cares what 74 million people want? It's pro-democratic. It's pro-democratic to ignore the will of the people. Democrats are treating this like the civil war, which they promised would happen if Trump got elected. Remember, they say if Trump selected, Colorado's gone. You got to give it up for Colorado. They're the first state to legalize weed and illegalize Trump. Yeah, they banned him from the ballot. If Trump ends up winning in 2024, don't be surprised if Colorado suddenly becomes East Utah. Are Democrats planning to start a second civil war? Because this is going to end the same way the last one did. Biden's basically demanding citizens grab their bayonets and fight. Listen to this. Ready? He says the greatest threat Donald Trump poses is to our democracy. If we lose that, we lose everything. The pro-slavery Democrats thought Lincoln was the greatest threat to them, too, which is why Democrats took Lincoln off the ballot in 10 states. Today, they're stripping Trump off the ballot in Colorado, and Democrats in 17 other states are trying to boot him, too. Or as Colbert says, remove the guy. California, a state you should never, ever emulate, is saying stealing your vote is the right thing to do. When the Supreme Court of Colorado determines in an examination of the facts that Donald Trump is an insurrectionist and therefore is disqualified from being on the ballot, certainly here in California, we have to look at that information and make the same determination here. Lady, Colorado didn't determine anything. Colorado didn't call witnesses, didn't present evidence, didn't allow the defendant due process. Four unelected Democrats state judges just said Trump's an insurrectionist. Biden's going to have to run against Vivek. That's how it's going to work. Here's an interesting idea. Why don't we ask what the voters think? Because they're the ones who decide elections in this country. I know recently the elections have been decided by Fauci and the FBI, but let's get back to our founding. Listen to voters in Colorado, for instance, a solid blue state. What do you think of the Supreme Court decision? I think it's unfair. Okay. Government shouldn't get in that position to control votes for certain candidates. If that was a legitimate thing that happened, if he was part of an insurrection, he would have been arrested. Outrage. Absolute outrage. Why were you outraged? They're going to take away our choice based on their personal beliefs because I don't believe they're speaking for the people. Tony Clonaris doesn't take this decision seriously. She thinks the Supreme Court taking Trump off the primary ballot is a result of game playing. Why do you think they're playing a game? And not doing their job. I think they're part of the game. And what's that game? Not being honest. Don't you think that Trump has been honest? For the most part, yeah. CNN just found out no one watches them. This is why we send Johnny out. We actually care what you think. We don't tell you what to think. But if Democrats want to play games with cobweb laws from a century ago, the only time section three of the 14th amendment was used was to remove a socialist who provided aid and comfort to the enemy. That's right. In 1919, socialist Congressman Victor Berger was caught helping the Germans in World War I. So we can strip Biden from the ballot for giving aid and comfort to Iran, China, Venezuela, right? Biden's paying these countries millions of dollars in letting thousands of their people sneak into our country. Texas should, as Stephen Colbert says, just remove him from the ballot. This election is already about a nine out of 10. And we're not even at 2024 yet. They've already raided, arrested, censored, and stripped Trump from the ballot. And there's 10 months to go. And none of it's worked. I have a bad feeling about this. I really should not have gotten that tarot card reading.

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Crooked Joe Biden and the Democrats, despite the lessons recently learned in Germany and numerous other places, want to shut down all U.S. coal plants. This as China is building one giant coal plant a week. The USA death wish is on the march. We can't let this happen. We have to get rid of the green new scam. It's a total scam and it's killing our country. Thank you.

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The Democrats' disinformation machine is hard at work trying to sell the American public that President Donald J. Trump is a threat to democracy. That reminds me of what they did with Russia, Russia, Russia, the same stuff, disinformation and misinformation. No, the only threat to democracy is the incompetence and ineptitude of Crooked Joe Biden. He's a very crooked individual. He's a horrible president, the worst president we've ever had. We are in a failing nation, thanks to him. We are living in a failing nation. We're going to turn it around. We're going to make America great again. Thank you.

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The most important poll released in the last 20 years came out stating that 20% of the mail-in ballots in the 2020 presidential election were rigged or defective. It was the Rasmussen poll, highly respected. That means that the election was a giant scam. You cannot have a fair and honest election as long as there are mail-in ballots involved. Cheating will always be prevalent. France and many other countries have stopped the madness. They got rid of their mail-in votes. The Republican Party must do something now. They have to work, they have to stick together, and they have to fight because the Democrats cheat. They cheat like nobody has ever cheated before. It's a disgrace.

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Look, it is what it is, but isn't it unfair that I can be running such a great and successful campaign for President, beating everybody, leading in every poll against a corrupt and incompetent President, working so hard in a historic fight to save our nation? And I have to go through the additional burden of, at the same time, fighting my political opponents, many DOJ, Attorney General and District Attorney inspired non-meritorious lawsuits against me. This is a barrage like nothing has ever happened in this country. Nobody's ever seen anything like it. It's a third world country. It's a banana republic. Joe Biden and the thugs that surround him should never be allowed to get away with his evil act of election interference, which is all it is. He can't campaign, he can't put two sentences together, and all they're doing is trying to interfere in the election. Even today's Wall Street Journal editorial stated that, quote, "As we warned Mr. Smith, that's Deranged Jack Smith and A.G. Merrick Garland indicting Mr. Trump would thrust him into the middle of an election campaign, this and all of these lawsuits would have unintentional and perhaps damaging consequences. The wiser decision would have been to let the voters decide. That's been the way it's been for many, many decades. With all they're doing, this election is already on its way to being another rigged election, and we don't want that to happen."

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