In these dark times God continues to supply the best headlines.
What power but His could have resulted in the phrase “Trumped Up Charges” as a byword for current events in the US?
In this second part of the news bonanza, I look at how and why the Regime has resorted to legal theatre to STOP TRUMP.
I examine:
What has happened
Where it happened
What will happen next
…and I explore where this all came from.
In short - this is the rule of lawyers versus the rule of law. Will it STOP TRUMP? No.
Trump Banned from the Ballot in Colorado
A piece of political theatre which will be overturned in the Supreme Court
The United States continues its campaign of suicide by cringe. In a concerted effort to undermine any lingering respect for the rule of law, the supreme court of Colorado has ruled against His Imperial Majesty Dr President Donald J Trump.
The court ruled 4-3 to bar Trump from appearing on any presidential ballot. The reason given is that he is an “insurrectionist”, and by telling people to go home instead of walking into the capitol at the invitation of policemen he is a danger to democracy.
The chief justice ruled against this piece of theatre, who described the attempt to disqualify Trump as groundless. CNN reported Justice Brian D. Boatright as saying,
“In the absence of an insurrection-related conviction, I would hold that a request to disqualify a candidate under Section Three of the Fourteenth Amendment is not a proper cause of action under Colorado’s election code. Therefore, I would dismiss the claim at issue here”
Why did four of the seven Democrat-appointed justices rule in favour of banning Trump without legal justification?
The move is intended to create a narrative. By framing Trump falsely as a criminal in the headlines, this ruling indicates a desperate plea to shape the election in favour of the actual criminals who are busily destroying American power and prestige.
Maine Man
Trump Derangement Syndrome struck again in the state of Maine, where Trump’s name was removed from the ballot by Shenna Bellows - the Secretary of State for Maine.
Following the seizure of her mind with Trump Derangement Syndrome, Bellows issued her ruling on Thursday December 28th in which she said
“I do not reach this conclusion lightly. Democracy is sacred… I am mindful that no Secretary of State has ever deprived a presidential candidate of ballot access based on Section Three of the Fourteenth Amendment.”
She continued (in her most serious voice),
“I am also mindful, however, that no presidential candidate has ever before engaged in insurrection.”
LOOK WHAT YOU MADE ME DO, bellows Shenna, like an attention seeking teenage girl displaying the arm she has cut because of you. THIS IS ALL YOUR FAULT, BAD ORANGE MAN!
With no real hope of legal power, this act is also a histrionic display of self harm.
Bellows represents a subculture which sees mental illness as a virtue, a battle scar of those too sensitive to survive contact with reality unscathed. Daylight dissolves these people, like Dracula.
Their derangement over a man who is essentially a 1990s Democrat is due to his dangerous habit of destroying daydreams with blunt statements about reality.
It is a terror which motivates that most determined of mobs, the Credentialed Liberals. Routinely described as concerned citizens, they appear when people like you need to be told what is best for you by people who despise you.
As Reuters reported, this is exactly what prompted Bellow’s decision. For the good of us all, a group of Regime loyalists discovered a constitutional imperative to disbar the “insurrectionist” Trump from the ballot.
This made the removal of the most popular candidate for President a democratic duty:
The decision came after a group of former Maine lawmakers said that Trump should be disqualified based on a provision of the U.S. Constitution that bars people from holding office if they engaged in “insurrection or rebellion” after previously swearing an oath to the United States.
The former lawmakers -- Kimberley Rosen, Thomas Saviello and Ethan Strimling -- said in a statement that Bellows "stood on the side of democracy and our constitution in her decision to bar former President Donald Trump from Maine’s ballot."
Rosen and Saviello are both former Republican state senators. Strimling is a former Democratic state senator.
How did we get here - where democracy must be destroyed - in order to save it?
This is the result of the replacement of the rule of law with the rule of lawyers.
Guaranteed Appeal
That every such attempt has benefited Trump seems to escape these people, whose aim in branding him an enemy of their idea of democracy simply makes him more appealing.
The ruling by the Colorado Supreme Court is widely expected to be overturned by the Supreme Court in an appeal in January. Trump does not need Colorado to win, and “lost” the state by a reported 13 points in the spurious 2020 election.
The ruling has not set a precedent, with the supreme court of Michigan refusing to follow suit. It ruled on Wednesday 27th December that Trump’s name will stay on the ballot.
This came after Minnesota’s Supreme Court dismissed a petition filed in November 2023 to remove Trump from the ballot in that state.
The Rule of Lawyers
The move by the four justices of Colorado is not one grounded in law. The Supreme Court of the US has never before ruled on section three of the 14th Amendment to the Constitution.
So where did this all come from? It is a clear case of the rule of lawyers versus the rule of law.
In August 2023 the Pennsylvania Law Review published an article titled The Sweep and Force of Section Three.
In it, two activist lawyers made a dramatic case. They claimed the section was not limited in application to former Confederate loyalists - whose rebellious allegiance disbarred them from public office - but instead extended to the present day.
William Baude and Michael Stokes Paulsen breathlessly claimed that a text written to prevent Confederate rebels from securing public office actually meant that former President Donald Trump should be immediately and permanently disqualified from running for office.
What is more, they claimed this means he deserves no due process and even loses his constitutional rights, including those of free speech under the First Amendment.
Who are these people?
Regime loyalist William Baude is a 41 year old tenured professor of law at the University of Chicago. Here he is excitedly discussing the imaginary insurrection in 2021 with neconservative blood cult leader William Kristol, one of the vilest men ever to have lived.
Baude, whose face demands an immediate hard-drive check, has the brass neck to denounce “election subversion” in his exchange with Kristol - who is basically a mass-market massacre-salesman.
Think of an even more Jewish Frasier Crane, permanently accusing the people of treason for failing to applaud the latest round of mass murder and plunder. That is William Kristol, with whom Baude here enjoys comfortably smug chats.
Baude has been framing the narrative of “insurrection” since the popular and restrained response to the naked theft of the 2020 election on January 6th.
It is obvious to any decent human being that the crooks behind the industry of massacre, plunder and international degradation that is “forever war” are fully aware that their crimes merit the flames of hell.
This is a real fear and is justified by their real actions. It is what lies behind every attempt to reduce the law to an instrument of torture for those who they fear. Those people would be you, along with everyone who has suffered the translation of lies into truth, ugliness into beauty, vice into virtue and a genuine victory into some imagined violent revolt.
Fantasy here has become “reality” once more. The “insurrection” did not take place. It is a confection of fear and contingency planning.
Regime loyalists are terrified of the backlash that they fear will accompany any popular understanding of their true actions and motives.
The “insurrection” is a revenge fantasy which they know they deserve.
To cook this up as a real insurrection is to lay the groundwork to prevent the real one happening. In order to save themselves from facing the consequences of their complete betrayal of their own people, and of every principle worthy of the name, they will destroy democracy and the laws through which it is secured.
The second purpose of the fake “insurrection” narrative is to make a real insurrection impossible.
How is this to be done? By using clever casuists. The whole charade rests on the artful use of language. This is found in theatres and in courtrooms to suspend disbelief, create dramatic tension, and capture the audience.
This is the role played by Mr Baude and his Sensible Conservative friend, Paulsen. He is playing to the gallery of rogues who govern us, soothing them with a spell to banish the Bad Orange Man and the reckoning with reality that he represents.
In the alternate universe of Mr Baude, to refuse to accept a stolen election is to be an insurrectionist who loses all democratic and legal privilege.
He is an activist lawyer who accuses his enemies of what he is doing himself: seeking to destroy democracy and nullify any result he finds personally unacceptable.
This Regime loyalist enjoys a comfortable sinecure, offering him a platform from which to produce thrilling fantasies for a desperate audience.
His counterpart, Paulsen, is “a fellow conservative” and also a member of the Federalist Society.
Clearly, to be a “fellow conservative” one must be dedicated to permanent war, and to the diabolical creed of people like William Kristol, who routinely invokes legal casuistry to defend the near total corruption of the US state which has resulted from his faction’s rise to power.
Baude and Paulsen are establishment spokesmen fitted out to legitimise a campaign of sabotage.
Their article provided the impetus for the legal theatre which has resulted in Colorado.
Their “sensible conservatism” is one opposed to and horrified by the populism of Donald Trump. Why? Because Trump is the tribune of the people, and the republic of these Republicans is rotten.
This case is an example of the use of law to destroy the popular will, and to defend a bipartisan consensus of corruption conducted at the expense of the American people and of their democracy.
It is desperate and it will fail, being a panic stricken attempt to smear the only candidate capable of stopping the rot as some kind of enemy of democracy.
The smear gambit shows how the Regime has lost control of the power to define reality. These people sought to define their destruction of democracy as its defence.
In so doing, they highlight their own panic at the thought that the people may have their number. It has enabled Colorado and Maine to pretend to the power to dictate democracy, framing this treason as the highest duty to the rights of the people.
This legal measure represents the degradation of American law to an instrument of political theatre, intended to capture and deceive an electorate whose rights and treasury the ruling elite have plundered at will for decades.
Finally, it demands an answer to the question of the right to rule: are we to have the rule of law, or the rule of lawyers?
Paid subscriber content is on the way in 2024 - as thanks to all of you who have generously supported my work.
I have been somewhat absent from the comments due to being constantly babooned.
My kids are back at skule next week, when normal service will resume.
Well Good sir, it appears that it is going to be the latter (a la the Terror Attack via "Jihadi" proxies on Iran, The Hit on Beirut & the Strikes on Iraqi militias).
The good news is that when the Giant Nuclear Bonfires Sacrifice the Humans & SUMMON all the Djinn & Demons into our realms & the invasion of the Trillion-Djinn army begins...
Mankind will finally unite against their common enemy en masse!
I love Franks frankness...Babooning, hmm, maybe something with the kidz?