All to see, that is, except those whose eyes have been so jaundiced by hate, indoctrination and lies that they are blind.
A 9-0 decision by an ideologically fractured U.S. Supreme Court, rejecting a cherished partisan fantasy devised to hold on to power that one party has empathically shown that it is unfit to possess, should logically result in frank admissions of error, bias, foolishness and confusion by those who insisted that the tactic thus condemned was correct, legal and wise. But today’s progressives are not logical, nor are they self-aware or particularly smart. The reactions from pundits, left-warped lawyers and others (what are the creatures on “The View”?) really should be viewed as a gift. They are telling us what they are, admitting what they are. It’s ironic: the first post of the day was titled, “Will the Disastrous Results of The Great Stupid Result in Learning, So Behavior Changes, or Will the Fools Responsible Keep Trying To Govern On Dreams Rather Than Reality?,” but it wasn’t about the Trump-Deranged learning from their absurd and intellectually indefensible embrace of the 14 Amendment Trump disqualification plot. The SCOTUS decision hadn’t come down yet. Nevertheless, the headline is apt in the aftermath of the decision and the Axis’s embarrassing tantrums. They won’t learn because they can’t learn, even though refusing to admit their mistakes makes them ridiculous, untrustworthy and unpersuasive.
Here are the kinds of people who have been running our government, journalism, entertainment, law schools and universities:
—NeverTrump fanatic George Conway, a lawyer whose only claim to status is the he is a conservative lawyer who hates Donald Trump to pieces (and who exploited his wife’s prominence in the Trump White House to hitchhike on her fame while undermining her boss) actually presumed to attack a unanimous Supreme Court by saying their ruling, which was widely predicted by non-deranged analysts, showed “shoddy legal work all around by all the justices.” Right, George—you’re right and nine distinguished jurists from across the ideological spectrum were wrong. And CNN thought that opinion was worth broadcasting to the public. Don’t hold your breath while waiting for that judicial nomination, George.
—Lawyer and law professor Neal Katyal spun on Twitter/ X that it was important to realize that the Supreme Court didn’t “clear Trump of insurrection.” What low deceit. It didn’t clear me of insurrection either: neither Trump nor I have been charged with insurrection, and the issue was whether a state could disqualify a candidate for federal office.
— “Denial” is supposed to be the first stage of grief, so maybe that’s an excuse for the various hacks who pretended that the 9-0 ruling against Colorado unilaterally deciding that Trump was an “insurrectionist” and ineligible to be President wasn’t what it was. Jeffrey Toobin, who is apparently back after hiding his head and his…never mind…under a sack in humiliation, claimed the unanimous U.S. Supreme Court ruling showed that the liberal justices were “pissed off” at their conservative counterparts. And yet, on the only point that mattered, they all still voted with those stupid justices they were so pissed off at! The “it isn’t what it is theme” was continued on CNN’s “Inside Politics,” where Supreme Court analyst—she gets paid for this crap— Joan Biscupic actually claimed, “It’s five to four! This is a 5-4 ruling on part of it, in terms of, will there ever be any way that Donald Trump could be kept off any ballot in the future.” On MSNBC, prosecutor Andrew Weissmann threw up the same dust: “On a variety of issues, this is actually a 5-4 decision.”
No, you unimaginable hacks, the decision was 9-0. You can look it up.
—When fantasy fails, I guess one resorts to panic and fear-mongering. I once thought Larry Sabato was a bipartisan, mostly reliable election analyst. If he ever was, Trump derangement has eaten his brain. Sabato went on CNN to tell Jim Acosta, “You can’t save the people from themselves. If they’re determined to re-elect [Trump] after he organized that insurrection — arguably our first coup d’état — then there’s nothing to stop the people from doing that. In particular, the legal system may intervene, but I doubt it…. And that’s the way it is.”
The hours-long riot of unarmed idiots in the Capitol was a coup d’état! Heck, it wasn’t even an insurrection, and by using that word—not one of the rioters were charged with insurrection because the charge couldn’t be proved and the riot wasn’t one—Sabato marked himself as as a hyper-partisan liar. Good to know.
—Then we heard from Colorado’s slapped-down Secretary of State, who told CNN that thanks to that mean old Supreme Court, “Ultimately, it will be up to American voters to save our Democracy in November.” (I hear Colonel Kurtz calling…)
Yes, it’s true. Voters will have to decide who they want as President in as election that hasn’t had Republicans banned from ballots by Democrat-run states like Colorado.
—-We can’t leave this clown show without giving center ring to the spectacularly dishonest Washington Post mega-hack Philip Bump, he of the thick Ethics Alarms dossier. His diatribe really is special. Not allowing a state to disqualify a Presidential candidate from its ballot based on an Amendment that doesn’t authorize it to do so proves the Supreme Court won’t protect “democracy.” Oh.
Although Trump said on Jan. 6, 2021 that he knew that many people planned to go and “peacefully protest” at the Capitol Building, Bump writes that “he directed an angry crowd toward Capitol Hill.” Deceit is Bump’s hammer, and reality is the nail. “There is no real question about the intent of the riot at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.” To take over the government of the United States, Phil? Seriously? How about “to show they were really, really mad as hell and weren’t going to take it any more”?
Finally, Bump descends into nonsense. “The result, though, is that the institution of the Supreme Court has decided that the institution of Congress is the only element of the American system that can apply the 14th Amendment to a candidate.” So? Well, let’s see: what are the options? Letting the Executive Branch disqualify its competition seems unwise, no? The Supreme Court’s job isn’t to execute the law. Fifty states each having power to ban federal candidates for office at their whim seems a bit chaotic. Doesn’t that just leave Congress?
Bump’s lament ultimately amounts to “I really don’t think Donald Trump should be elected so he shouldn’t be allowed to run and damn the Supreme Court for not helping out.” He was paid to write this.
These are bad people, dishonest people, undemocratic people, untrustworthy people, and stupid people. They are showing you. Now.
Ethics Alarms 
I would bet there is a very strong direct correlation between TDS and one’s income being contingent on massive government spending and complex regulations.
When the gravy train is threatened, the knives come out.
You are absolutely right. The depressing part is that you are absolutely right about both the decision and the failure to accept it by those opposed to it. That honestly should not have come as a surprise. When someone is a true believer or absolutely convinced that something is so even when it is not, you might as well be talking to the wall.
it isn’t like we haven’t already been through this. The left is determined to have their own way come hell, come High water, or come a vote that does not go their way. There is a large contingent on the left that is absolutely convinced that anyone who doesn’t agree with them is either a fool or evil.
it really shouldn’t come as a surprise that the left is attacking the supreme Court. As far as they are concerned, the Supreme Court exists only to be the left’s unelected, unaccountable Politburo to press down their view of things on everyone else when everyone else doesn’t seem to want to go along with it at the ballot box. It was supposed to become even more solidly so after 2016, when Obama would have replaced towering conservative Antonin Scalia with someone as liberal as he was conservative, and then Hillary would pack the court with liberal justices to the point of having maybe even a 7-2 majority. However, Mitch McConnell stole scalia’s seat away from Obama by refusing to hold a hearing on any nominee, and then Trump’s surprising victory led to not one, not two, but three seats being filled by conservatives rather than liberals. This was not supposed to happen. Since the court got the solid conservative majority that the Republican party had been working towards for probably three decades if not four, it is the view of the left that the court has become illegitimate, and that was just confirmed in 2022 when they finally did away with the Roe v Wade decision. That was it, the court opened the door in the ministry of magic that must never be opened. The court took away the holy Grail, and as such, it was not entitled to any level of respect.
That being the case, it shouldn’t come into surprise that the left has absolutely zero respect for this decision, no matter how obvious it should have been that this whole idea of banning one candidate from the ballot was not going to be something the court would go along with. the fact that the court was unanimous does not mean a thing to the left other than maybe somebody got to somebody and pushed them into voting against banning Trump. I myself was somewhat surprised that the court came down unanimously. I was expecting a 7-2 decision as Sotomayor and Brown would have found a way to vote against Trump. The fact that even the courts wise Latina couldn’t find a way to vote against Trump should tell you that the case was very weak. However, to much of the left, it just means that the court reached the wrong decision.
the problem at this point is not that the left is of the opinion that this was simply a wrong decision. The problem is that much of the independent section of voters, on whom this upcoming election is going to turn, are starting to see through this attempted personal destruction of a single candidate for what it is. The left can swear up and down that this is all just trying to preserve democracy and keep a dangerous demagogue out of the White House, but now it’s obvious that they are overreaching and abusing the law to get the result they want. It shouldn’t have come to this. The Democratic party should not have proven to be this incompetent on the federal level. The problems that this country has been dealing with should not be this persistent. Certain problems that this country is dealing with should not have essentially exploded in the past 4 years. However, the fact is that the Democratic party has essentially embraced a bad set of policies. Some of them should come as no surprise, like the fact that over stimulating the economy would result in issues with prices, or that opening the border would result in problems with immigration and a potential strain on American services. Some of them are just an unfortunate byproduct of these bad policies, like the sagging trust in government and the sagging approval ratings for the president, which are now about where Jimmy Carter’s were before he was thrown out of office by Ronald Reagan.
The left knows that. There are still a few old hands still active who were there when Carter was dismissed by this country for a performance that got him on to Jack’s short list of candidates for worst president ever. I’d say he was certainly the worst within my lifetime. They do not want another embarrassing defeat like 1980 was. However, they also know that there is no way to turn this economy around in 8 months nor to wipe out the embarrassing foreign policy failures, nor to close the border and undo 3 years worth of open border policies. They also know that there is no way to stop oil prices from climbing this summer as they always do. The price of fuel climbing always means the price of everything else climbing. The odds that by this coming fall fuel will be cheap and plentiful and people will no longer have to be counting pennies to buy groceries for their families are between slim and non-existent. Despite what the true believers say about the economy being great and Biden being as sharp as a tack, the facts just do not bear that out. There is very little that is good for the Democratic party to tout. They May throw out that this campaign is to restore Roe, but I think they know that that alone is not going to win it for them. The best shot and maybe the only shot they have at winning is to take their most powerful and popular rival off the playing field. The best shot and maybe the only shot they have at doing that is by putting him in jail. The best shot and maybe the only shot they have at that is by bringing charges in single party jurisdictions where the jury pool will be stacked against him. Essentially, the Democrats want a one-party state, just like what we battled in World War II and just like what we spent 50 more years fighting in the Cold War. We fought all of that just so we could become what we were fighting. I’ve heard of being your own worst enemy, but I can’t see desiring to become your own worst enemy.
Part of the problem that both parties have contributed to is a lack of understanding of the job of the Supreme Court. Both Republicans and Democrats don’t accept decisions they don’t like and undermine the legitimacy of the Court when that happens. If we had that 7-2 Liberal majority, you can bet that the same pundits vilifying SCOTUS and suggesting it should be dissolved or packed or what have you would be cheering the Court right now and reminding the other side how dangerous it is to question “Democracy”.
Over on Twitter everyone is talking about Harry Sisson (It’s the black man’s fault), David French (SCOTUS can’t read), and Keith Olbermann (The supreme court has betrayed democracy. Fuck Liberal woman). I was starting to think that maybe most of the world was sane and there were just a few outliers. Even those that I know would disagree with it are most just comparing it to the Dobbs ruling.
But now I think nothing’s changed.
Keith Olbermann’s derangement, I’m sure, comes as a surprise to nobody, but I’m disappointed with David French. I used to think he was a better thinker than that. Has he become just another creature of the New York Times, bought and paid for?
Short answer: Yes. Pure Trump Derangement. Out of control.
I wonder what David French’s favorite sandwich is?
French dip???
That is brilliant! Also, I’m very glad I wasn’t eating or drinking when I read it.
You mean Keith “Nazi Nazi Fuck Fuck Fuck” Overbite? He is fast overtaking Dan Savage as the biggest dick who can’t finish a sentence without dropping the f-bomb.
Yes, Keith Doberman.
Perhaps he is suffering from early dementia — maybe we can get the people who diagnosed Trump from a TV studio to take a look at Doberman.
I was listening to the Megyn Kelly podcast yesterday on this decision and I think one of the lawyers there summed it up perfectly.
Basically he said that they are relying on a little known clause of the Constitution — it’s the “But we really want it” clause. Sure the Fourteenth amendment can’t be used to throw Trump off the ballot, but we really want it to, therefore it is so.
And they would be offended if I told them that “We had to destroy that village in order to save it” is exactly their approach these days. But it is true.
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Interestingly, Megyn Kelly, who seems to me to be mostly a Trump fan these days, is convinced that Trump doesn’t have a chance in the immunity case but thinks it will delay the trial enough to be after the election.
I’ve also read and heard some very reasonable arguments in the WSJ and elsewhere that there is a very good chance the Supreme Court will swat the DC circuit (and trial judge) for being overly broad and vague, and at least narrow the grounds for not applying immunity.
I think it is another example of the left jumping the shark to achieve their instant goals and dismissing the possibility of other people doing the same thing. “We’re only eliminating the filibuster for these particular judges. Nothing else.” and then “How dare you eliminate the filibuster for Supreme Court justices”
We’ve seen this over and over — it’s a very flat learning curve.
Biden and his underlings may need that immunity now. I am pretty sure it is against the law to fly 320,000 people into the country illegally and scatter them throughout most of the continental US. Human smuggling into the US is illegal. Of course, if they know that there will never be a president that they don’t control, they may not care.
Is this true? It sounds almost too unbelievable that the current administration would fly 320,000 illegal immigrants into the country and place them around the US. If it is true, how the *&%# is this happening; what the hell are these government officials trying to do? I’ve searched the story and it seems to be true but I don’t see any “highly” reliable sources.
I just cannot fathom something like this happening. Every day things get more and more bizarre it seems.
Cast Of ‘The View’ Unanimously Overturns SCOTUS Decision
https://x.com/TheBabylonBee/status/1764715220268622197?s=20
Yeah, they were on a stupid roll yesterday. Post coming…
Think this through to some kind of theoretical end.
The Democrats have literally and knowingly violated the constitution over and over again to press forward policies that the political left want knowing full well that it takes time, sometimes a long time, for the political right to get their ducks in a row, sue the Democrats, and have these blatant violations slapped down by regional courts or end up in SCOTUS for a final decision. In the mean time, the Democrats basically get their way until they’re slapped down. It seems to me that the Democrats end is to simply ignore SCOTUS because they have constantly tared it as an irrelevant court that has been taken over by Republican activists.
Theoretical Question
What if the Democrats openly ignore SCOTUS and not put Trump on the ballot in enough various states in the November general election and keep the ballots a secret until the very last moment forcing Republican law suits that could go beyond election day to reverse. What can be done about this kind of open challenge the legitimacy of SCOTUS? Remember; our laws are only good if they are enforced and I think we know by now that the Democrat partisan infected DOJ won’t do a damn thing, the Democrat partisan infected FBI won’t do a damn thing and I believe that local law enforcement has no jurisdiction over election law. For that matter; how can the justice system actually FORCE those states to comply with an order to put Trump on the ballot, what could the justice system do if they simply ignored them. What recourse do “We the People” have if our justice system fails us during an election. I may not have worded all that in the best way but I’m sure you’ll get the idea.
P.S. Do I think the Democrats would actually go this far; I’m honestly not so sure anymore that they wouldn’t and that’s a scary realization.
Steve,
I believe your scenario would be roughly equivalent to the Colonists’ “taxation without representation.” A group of people would be effectively telling a large percentage of Americans, “The nation’s laws and courts no longer apply to us and therefore, you have no say in the electoral process. We will tell you who the next President is and you will accept it.”
And at that point, when one side refuses to obey the laws and when conversation ceases, the only real response left is violence. I pray it doesn’t come to that…
Well, that isn’t much different from what happened in 2020. If you look at Pennsylvania, where illegal votes were mixed in with the rest of the ballots against court orders in a way that couldn’t be undone, which changed the vote total, daring the court to do something. The court just rule the point moot because the election was over and you can’t change an election once it is done. If they can remove Trump from the ballot illegally, it is likely the courts will (again) say “Don’t do it again!”. If you reward bad behavior, you are only going to get worse behavior.
Well aside from the fact that ballots are public documents, and that they’d be mailing out hundreds of thousands or millions of them in advance of the election, and that the media would be covering this to help them perfect their plans — aside from a few things like that I am sure they’d have a good chance of keeping their plans secret.
Here’s the thing. I don’t think much that happened on and after election day in 2020 was or should have been really a surprise to anyone paying attention. I do blame Trump and the GOP National committee for being so woefully unprepared. They seemed to be taken totally by surprise and they should have been well prepared for anything that might happen.
And Trump is still telling his voters not to go out and vote early or vote by mail. I don’t like the idea of widespread voting by mail, but that is the reality these days. If Republicans want to compete on a level playing field, they’ve got to redouble their get out the vote efforts — and that needs to include all legal methods, early and mail voting included. There were some folks in 2022 who realized that — DeSantis was the most famous, and they did well. I think if Trump really truly wants to win, he needs to embrace those methods. He doesn’t have to endorse them or like them, but still. What will we do if there’s a blizzard over the Midwest on election day?
Keep in mind, too, that Republicans decisively won the popular vote in 2022 nationwide for the House of Representatives. They got 50% vs 47% for Democrats, almost exactly reversing the percentages from 2020.
Above I wrote, “It seems to me that the Democrats end is to simply ignore SCOTUS because they have constantly tared it as an irrelevant court that has been taken over by Republican activists.”
Jonathan Turley nicely lays out some damning evidence to support my opinion in his recent blog post.
The left’s end goals are getting clearer and clearer.
Again, I’m honestly not so sure anymore how far the political left will go to ram their bastardizations of the law and totalitarian views down the throats of “We the People” so they can get their one party domination of the USA and that’s a really scary realization. It’s as if in the minds of the political left “We the People” no longer exist, it’s been replaced in their minds with “You the Subjugated”.
You will be assimilated; resistance is futile.
Beware ye freedom loving peoples of the United States of America.
Be prepared.
Completely Off Topic
I’ve been paying very close attention to Biden when he speaks to the public lately and it honestly seems to me like he is over medicated or drunk, age does NOT explain what I’m seeing. The way he moves, the way he speaks, his overall slow mental and physical response to his surroundings, etc, etc all lead me to think that he’s over medicated with something. I’m seriously wondering if Biden is being over medicated with something like Xanax, that’s one of the medications that’s used to treat stuttering. Something is not right!
What actually stops Colorado from doubling down? SCOTUS and what army?
One thing seems certain, and that is the left firmly believes Trump is certain to win in November, unless they find some way to remove him from the ballot. And these are the ones that claim to be protecting democracy.