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This is, well, nuts. We’re not going to have a do-over. Everyone knows it. Surely he knows it. If he wants to run again rehashing 2020 in every speech, he’s certainly entitled to do so, and see if it resonates. But there’s something else here.
Put me down in the “not terminating all rules, regulations, and articles, even those found in the Constitution” camp.
Granted; don’t think he wants to terminate all rules and regulations. Just the ones that impede reinstallation. How this would be done is left to our imagination, but perhaps Congress can vote to override the Constitution just this once? Because something happened that required capital letters?
There’s Very Stable Genius territory, and then there’s this.
Before anyone says he’s just being him, you anti-Trumpers are obsessed – he’s a candidate for the Presidency. They have to take an oath about protecting and defending the Constitution, right? Or are we back to calling the Constitution’s defenders vellum fetishists?
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I doubt it. I try to keep it classy when responding to her tweets. However, the tweet I responded to was not very classy, so who knows.
That is an indictment indeed.
That’s the third rail, Donald. If you keep poking it, you’ll eventually complete a circuit.
There was some good debating on the site after 2020 was stolen and how to solve it within Constitutional bounds. We are a post Constitutional Republic though and need to think how to survive in that world. Else we’re like these guys.
That’s a pretty powerful image.
And then we criminally charge them with treason and execute them.
Eh, whom am I kidding? We couldn’t even execute the 9/11 terrorists.
Pasted from a comment I made on Powerline:
I don’t say that with any sort of glee.
It is hard to add anything to what has already been said. The Donald is delusional or he is just angling to get attention which is his main motivator. It is definitely time to move on. We have had six years of near insanity, some due to the man himself, but a good deal due to the opposition who were equally insane in their hatred of him. I don’t know that DeSantis will be treated with any more respect, or any other Republican, but, at least, we won’t have a toddler representing us who is unable to contend with any criticism with anything but vitriol and whining.
Yes. And now that Trump has moved the Overton window that might actually get traction.
This is the test. The Trump Administration tried to deal with these crimes using an untried approach, in the absence of anything definitive on Jan 6, but failed. @skyler states the process that we have but the question then is do we have the people who care. We have lots of people who don’t care in addition to those who are traitorous.
I don’t either. I voted for him in what I considered at the time a forlorn hope against the Clinton crime family. He was worth supporting again not only for his performance but also in reaction to our hopelessly partisan, utterly feckless mainstream media and the Biden crime family.
Two things…the first is that there is zero evidence that an R can win the States that Trump won in 16, even assuming that the election is about votes as opposed to ballots. Most of those voters were people who felt the Dems abandoned them and that Trump, and the GOP, would represent them. Of course the GOP then blocked most of Trump’s agenda that those voters cared about and cut taxes for corps instead. I’ve thought a ton about 16 and look at the other candidates the GOP put forth and can’t see any of them winning, especially not taking the states Trump took. My RCP EC map had them winning by taking CO as one example but never MI and WI. In 24, what states do you think the GOP can win?
PA? Nope, that ship has sailed with the ballot harvesting, assuming it was possible anyway absent a populist candidate.
VA? Nope, the explosion of population around DC makes it extremely unlikely. Yes Youngkin won an election a year after 20 on a platform of school shutdowns against a bad candidate.
WI? Along as the WEC exists, don’t expect to win here.
GA? A solidly red state that has gone blue due to GOP ineptitude. Like PA I don’t expect it to be in the GOP column in 24
The GOP is way behind the curve to win in 24 to start with, and because they appear to be set to run another 18 style election and cede a number of states because they won’t play the game by the new rules. Couple that with a significant part of the GOP who seems determined to purge the party of the ideology that won in 16 and unless something changes dramatically Biden could be in a coma and win in 24. The GOP still thinks this is an election of ideas to win voters and its not. It’s about getting out the vote to mark a mail ballot for the red or the blue team. Until the GOP realizes that they won’t win.
So, the “rigging” of the 20 election is OK then? The GOP doesn’t appear to be doing anything to prevent it happening again. They certainly didn’t in 22 when they wasted an historic opportunity did they. You seem to thunk that the left is going to magically play fair if Trump disappears…news flash, they won’t and didn’t in 22.
It’s this very attitude that has made me realize that the GOP would rather lose than win and thus isn’t a viable party anymore. They aren’t going anywhere anytime soon because the system won’t let them, but they also aren’t going to win either. So, in one way you and I are alike. You would rather the GOP lose than win with Trump and I’d rather the GOP lose sonthat they can die and the right can find/create a new party that will actually do what the voters want them to do.
For a person with such talent to discern the traitorous misbehaviors of the established elite Presidential dynasties of the last century, it is sad that he has not figured out how to gain the support of those who can’t join the fold because of this.
True, though, in fairness the Dems of today aren’t the same as Jack Kennedy’s Dems.
Which is risable considering their policies are pushing us backwards in almost every way, except for acceptance of marginalized identity groups.
And I would sit here and take this if I knew the vote was honest because that would mean the people have spoken. That’s not what we got.
In 12 the left turned Mitt “Milquetoast” Romney into Hitler and you wonder if “DeSatan” is going to he treated with more respect? I guess as you watch yet another loss you will say, at least we aren’t going to have any mean tweets. The GOP cannot die fast enough.
I watch the Twitter dump on the Hunter laptop and what amazes me isn’t that the story is getting no play, nor that the media is joining arms to suppress it and normalize the behavior. Nope, what amazes me is that I thought that people would actually care about such a raw abuse of power in a purely partisan way. They don’t care and it underscores that elections aren’t about convincing people to vote for your guy, it’s just about getting the most ballots turned in.
The carney show continues. Too bad there are real bullets in the gun.
Our elected officials already exhibit this characteristic of the electorate, they don’t care either.
The House of Representatives has the power of impeachment and controls the purse.
Let’s see if the leadership there can figure out what they need to do.
Rep Greg Stubbe was talking about this on the CPAC podcast. I thought it was good, but this isn’t my thing.
Biden is senile, but Trump appears to have gone clinically insane.
I’d probably take my chances on senility. It’s less unpredictable.
[I voted for Trump twice, and heartily endorse Henry Racette’s comment #9.]
Impeachment is a fantasy of the highest order. In a Senate controlled by the Dems you expect to get a conviction? To them, they didn’t break any rules, or, if they did it was justified, or if they did, they don’t care. I suspect not even all of the GOP would vote to convict Biden, heck I’m not sure more than 10 would.
Heh.
The fact that you keep saying that does not make it true, any more than a bunch of young children talking about Santa does not make that true. There is no Santa Claus. Bush was not complicit in 9/11. Hillary didn’t win in 2016. And Trump didn’t win in 2020. Time to grow up.
Time to admit that you have been hoodwinked. Or you can go on with the claim that all of the courts are also part of this giant conspiracy, and every one who disagrees with you are part of that conspiracy. Don’t be surprised if people start walking away as you are shouting on the sidewalks. And don’t be surprised that if you use “direct action” such as using violence that you are prosecuted.
Republicans can and do win. Glenn Youngkin won in even liberal Virginia, just as Larry Hogan won twice in liberal Maryland. Gregg Abbott just won his third term in Texas. And Ron DeSantis just won by almost 20 points in Florida. Let’s vote for winners in 2024 who are about the future.
Its the gambler’s impulse. If you’ve been cheated you flip the table and punch someone in the face. That was his impulse on Jan 6 – and now that his views on the election have been confirmed, its still his first impulse.
Its odd, but every allegation Hillary Clinton has made about the 2016 election has been proven false. Yet the media still allows her to service her lies without any push back. Trump’s fears about the 2020 election have now been confirmed, and he’s the election denier? (Notice I said FEARS – Not allegations. A lot of the allegations made by Trump and his legal teams are likely false – but they feared they’d been cheated, but didnt figure out how)
I have to agree with this assessment. The documents leaked so far, make Watergate look like Jay walking:
Gary has joined Principles First but he’s sworn to secrecy.