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[–] [email protected] -5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

And yet the author of this article thinks Trump is an "authoritarian threat to democracy" while we have an active threat to "democracy" (more accurately, rule of law, personal liberty, privacy, etc, as demonstrated during the "pandemic") in the white house.

Colorado politicians (including the judges) just exposed how corrupt they are by taking this approach, knowing full well Trump is not guilty of anything close to insurrection. The mental hoops these people jump through is staggering.

Talk about wepinizing the judicial system - exactly what the leftists have been accusing Republicans of for years. The hypocrisy is staggering.

THIS is what "makes Trump stronger" (or more accurately, continues to weaken those making these claims). So let them keep on playing these games, like their national popular vote agreement nonsense, continuing to remove power from the people. It just exposes them for what they are. And it's not like CO would ever vote for a non-leftist at this point anyway, so it's a pointless effort intended to appease the far left in CO, but has the obvious effect of informing the world of their corruption.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (3 children)

knowing full well Trump is not guilty of anything close to insurrection.

Yeah. all he did was plan with the Proud Boys to help rile people up and direct them towards the capital; privately reach out and pressure state election administrators to lie and overturn election results; had fake electors ready to fake the election results for the electoral college; claim that he was cheated and lied to everyone for weeks prior to Jan 6th, effectively building a political bonfire that he planned to light on Jan. 6th; give a speech where he helped to incite a mob and direct them towards the capital steps, with the Proud Boys helping to lead the charges and effectively direct the crowds anger; and even actually tried to march to the Capital himself to lead the charge. But other than that, he did absolutely nothing.

Party of law and order my ass. Enforcing the constitution (14th amendment) isn't corruption.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

From the article:

But for a politician like Trump, an indictment can be an opportunity because it confirms the populist narrative: See, they view me as such a potent threat that they’re threatening to throw me in jail just to get me to stop fighting for you. But they can’t scare me. Together, we will achieve vengeance!

Ostensibly for BoaT, enforcing the Constitution is corruption because Trump did all of those things. No one ever says he didn't do those things; they just say those things don't constitute insurrection, and thus Trump is "innocent". Talk about staggering mental hoops...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

No one ever says he didn’t do those things;

I wouldn't go that far. There is plenty of people (potentially a few around here) that are willing to say that it's all made up despite the evidence.

Talk about staggering mental hoops…

Agreed

[–] [email protected] -5 points 10 months ago

Where is the source that Trump planned with the proud boys?

You don't need to make stuff up to make Trump look bad.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Enforcing the constitution (14th amendment) isn't corruption.

Enforcing the law against imaginary crimes that never happened isn't corruption?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

@Lookin4GoodArgs Just like I said lol

[–] [email protected] -4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

No federal agency declared Jan 6th an insurrection. You can't disqualify Trump for something that didn't happen.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The 14th amendment does not require that.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Colorado excluded Trump based on the notion that he participated in an insurrection, if there was no insurrection he can't be bared for participating in something that didn't happen.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Yup. But it did happen. And he did participate.

Quit living under a rock.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

It's hard to figure out what your original point is if you agree with that statement. I assume you are just trolling.

Edit: I see you are editing posts now.

Who declared an insurrection had occurred?