Opinion: The 14th Amendment gambit is breathtakingly foolish | CNN

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• BearOfaTime@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  And yet the author if this article think 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.

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  • PizzaMane@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    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; 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 chargea 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. God damn, if we could only be so smart as you.

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    • Lookin4GoodArgs@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      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…

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    • jimbolauski@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨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.

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    • HitlerCunnyRape@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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

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