Friends, leftist efforts to exclude prominent Republicans from the ballot in 2022 (and 2024) continue, and, so far, no judge has ruled on the merits of their central argument: that any Republican who questioned the outcome of the 2020 election and supported efforts to overturn the certified results was implicitly engaging in "insurrection", and is therefore ineligible to run for federal office ever again. In Georgia, it looks like Brad Raffensperger, Trump-hater extraordinaire, may get to decide Marjorie Taylor Greene's fate -- unless the federal courts intervene. This story is still developing, folks. Don't lose sight of it!
https://www.newsmax.com/us/greene-election-challenge-georgia/2022/04/22/id/1066819/
In New York State, an appeals court has found that the Democrats' redistricting plan is indeed gerrymandered and illegal. That gives Republicans some hope that they may get a fair shake this Fall. Some hope, but not much.
Trump's Truth Social app has been struggling to accommodate all the people who want to use it, but it now looks as though its capacity is about to surge, thanks to Rumble. That's great news. If and when the app starts working like clockwork, I look forward to "joining the revolution" myself.
https://justthenews.com/nation/free-speech/truth-social-migrates-rumble-cloud-ready-onboard-millions
Twitter recently censored a British professor who made a joking reference to Shakespeare's line about "killing all the lawyers". Twitter promptly backed down, but then the professor called for more censorship on the platform. What would Shakespeare make of all this? Would he call for us to "kill all the professors"? Hopefully not, since I'm one of them.
Questioning the validity of an election is INSURRECTION, dontcha know? Except that it decidedly isn't when Democrats and leftists do it. We all know about the Stacey Abrams saga, but, as this poll reveals, most Democrats continue to question the results of the 2016 election too. Originally, most of them believed that the Russians interfered directly with the counting of ballots. This poll doesn't specify how the Russians "interfered" with the election and changed the outcome, but the details hardly matter to the Bolshies anyway. Flash forward to November 8th, 2022, and I'm not exactly going out on a limb when I predict that the Dems will propound a myth that Republican victories this Fall will also be the result of Russian "interference" (plus "voter suppression", naturally). Some lefties will try to learn the lessons of 2022 and tack to the center, sure, but the true believers will double down on neo-Marxism and Russophobia and "fascist"-baiting and maintain a steady course.
I can't stand either Greene or Gaetz. I don't give a shit if they are reelected either. Both of them are mediocre political types, and the fate of none hangs in the balance because of those two assholes. Sorry, but both of them are trouble makers.
ReplyDeleteRay, since I don't watch tv, I've never seen either one of them speak. I tend to believe your analysis, nevertheless. To me, though, that's not the point. Congress is full of buffoons. The point is that the American people should decide which buffoons get to represent them -- not judges or activists.
ReplyDeleteDr.Waddy from Jack: Misapplication ofthe 14th Amendment's sanction against office holding by those adjudged guilty of insurrection can afford the dems only temporary advantage if any. It is bound to end up before this insolently lawful Scotus,where,despite the wailing of the court's far left bloc, it will be construed according to the rule of law,notthat of whimsical fiat.
ReplyDeleteDr.Waddy from Jack: If I remember correctly, Abrams lost by 60,000 votes in a STATE and not even the most populace. But then, why should the "American" left "feel" free to reflexively call foul!? Because they have long since dismissed free democratic election and regard it now as common ritual confirming candidates already blessed with their irrefutable imprimature, derived of their elite wisdom. Should it perversely miscarry(eg.Gore, Hillary or Abrams) it must be summarily condemned and appropriate action, justified only by favorable results, which by definition cannot be but just, must commence and with a vengeance!
ReplyDeleteDr.Waddy from Jack: Ah but that appeal was endorsed by a Court seated in relatively common sense, NYC removed, Western New York. Now it faces the tender gracesnof the consumately NYC governed final NY Court of Appeals. I wish the appeal unlikely good fare in that latter day Court of Star Chamber!
ReplyDeleteJack, yes, the question of banning insurrectionists from the ballot may well end up before the Supreme Court, but on the other hand elections are run at the state level and I'm not totally confident that SCOTUS will prevent state authorities from acting as they see fit. We're not out of the woods yet.
ReplyDeleteJack, lefties believe that Brian Kemp, who was Georgia's Secretary of State at the time, somehow rigged the election by excluding minorities from voting. Of course, the election was run as per usual, and record numbers of minorities voted...but the narrative of voter suppression is accepted as gospel on the Left. Of course, if Abrams was "cheated", then so was every Democrat who's lost an election since...well, the beginning of time. Expect a lot more of this nonsense in future, and expect social media companies to stop reminding us how much "election integrity" we've got coming out of our ears around about, oh, November 9th.
Dr.Waddy from Jack: I cannot resist an allusion to Shakespeare; I do love him so. The quote is from one of his three Henry VI plays. Its spoken by "Dick, the butcher" a base follower of the historical insolent revolutionary Jack Cade . Shakespeare was no leveller and he could hardly afford to be. He needed high born support for his theatrical endeavors and, I think, did think well of the nobilty.He almost got in very deep dutch with Elizabeth I for his royal deposition scene in Richard II and was redeemed by noble sponsors (thank God! - so much of his trancendent work was yet ahead). "Dick the Butcher''s"words were meant to discredit those of his class when they stepped out of their place. Lawyers no doubt occupied a higher level in Elizabethan England.
ReplyDeleteJack, I would love to see a poll as follows:
ReplyDeleteHow would you complete the following sentence?
"First, let's kill all the_______."
Can you imagine the responses???
Dr.Waddy from Jack: Let us kill all termites and carpenter ants since emotional reaction to this outrage would bring all mindless environmentalists out into the open, ripe for discreditation!
ReplyDeleteEh. I'm not so sure. The environmentalists generally only get exercised about animals that are cute...
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