I really love the Babylon Bee...

https://babylonbee.com/news/man-accu...mself-in-again

winter of death is coming:

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I liked the "scary guns" video more than the article.

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There seems to be rumors going around that states could remove Trump from their ballots. Is this possible?

They can't remove Trump from their ballots, just like Georgia can't indict Trump prior to a Grand Jury even being seated and hearing the charges. Doh.....!

Make America Gangsta Again

Much ink has been spilled of late discussing this point within legal academia. The answer seems to be "likely yes, and we're about to find out for sure."

Here's an excellent paper on the subject, in the University of Pennsylvania Law Review: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....act_id=4532751 (click Open PDF in Browser at the bottom.)

In particular, their analysis spanning pages 17-34 outlines two key points:

A: Amendment 14 Section 3 is self-executing. It requires no action by any court in order to activate, and in fact many of the former Confederates who were barred from office under it had either been acquitted, pardoned, or never criminally tried in the first place.

B: The power to enforce Section 3 lies with pretty much everyone who possesses legal authority to determine the eligibility of candidates for office. Under this interpretation, individual Secretaries of State, or Governors, or State Legislatures, or State Elections Boards, could act independently to declare a potential candidate to be disqualified from appearing on a ballot in that state. EDIT: although, to be clear, any such action may (and most certainly would) be challenged before the Supreme Court of that state, and quite possibly before the US Supreme Court as well. This is my own commentary, not that of the authors of the paper.

Would this preclude "write in" ballots? I'm not even sure how that works but it would appear to be the ultimate will of the people.

Write in ballots effectively wipes out any chance for anyone, especially if the protagonist government will fail a ballot if you've managed to spell the name wrong, it's illegible, etc. Given all of the law suits that were dropped in 2020 because they lacked "standing", I wonder if half the voting population would lack "standing" if they were also required to write in their candidate's name.

Well at least Trump is easier to spell than Ramaswaby? :magna:

My interpretation is that yes, it would preclude write-in ballots.

If a person is deemed ineligible to hold public office, then write-in votes for that person would be discarded as invalid.

Again, this is all at the state-level.

Any predictions on when the first shots of the revolution will occur?

According to some people, it was Jan 6, 2021. Didn't you hear of the insurrection?

“Suppose we got it all wrong and the real crazies are the TV people in nice suits and $300 haircuts?”

That’s an observation by Richard Fernandez on Twitter, and he has a good point.

There’s a lot of craziness in the air these days.

But for the most part it seems to be flowing from the top down, not bubbling up from the bottom.

It wasn’t farmers and factory workers who came up with the idiotic COVID responses — nor was it they who originated the more or less criminal idea of conducting “gain of function” research on making dangerous viruses more dangerous.

It wasn’t shopkeepers and bus drivers who thought the way to deal with burgeoning urban crime was to get rid of police and release criminals without bail.

It hasn’t been landscapers and auto mechanics championing the notion that a child in the single-digit age range can make a lifetime choice about his or her genitalia or maintaining that even criticizing that idea is itself a species of “violence.”

Ordinary Americans haven’t been claiming the way to promote free speech is to censor people or the way to end racism is to classify everyone by race and consequently treat them differently.

It’s not the working class that wants to “save the planet” by blocking traffic, starting forest fires or banning pickup trucks or gas stoves (though private jets remain surprisingly free from criticism).

All these crazy ideas and more are the product of our allegedly educated and intelligent overclass, the experts, policymakers and media types who in theory represent the thinking part, the brains, of our society.

But there’s something wrong with these people — the “brains” of our society are basically crazy.

Crazy is when you believe and do things that obviously don’t make sense or fit with the facts.


Read the whole thing here:

https://nypost.com/2023/07/24/our-so...is-the-result/

I see you've been reading fake news again. Come on, Jack! You know that's not true, NBC News tells the truth.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/202...-ac-rcna102252

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but wait, you weren't reading ABC 7 news were you???:

https://abc7chicago.com/14th-amendme...es-s/13701025/

for joeP:

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reality:
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Reality: The best thing the clown show above can do at this point is jump on the Trump train and run interference. I know for Christie and Pence and Nikki Haley that their megadonors don't want that, but unless they want another 2020 it should happen. The sooner the better.

Thank you.

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I'm ready to throw some tea in the harbor whenever you are. I'll get a powdered wig and all for it.