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I am no Trump fan but this ruling was an abomination. I find the whole Insurrection conversation silly. Where were the guns? Were all of those selfies a threat to democracy?:It was a protest that turned into a riot. Anyone who calls it an Insurrection is a left wing nut job.

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The first section of the Fourteenth Amendment states that no one should be deprived of liberty without due process. Trump was never convicted in a court of law. This Democrat usurping of civil rights is nothing short of fascism.

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These opponents you mention were always insane. Trump just illuminated the madness. Today the Biden regime removed the monument of reconciliation from Arlington National Cemetery, signaling that they want to foment more conflict. Why did you or other veterans remain silent about that?

The Democrats are turning into CCP: https://yuribezmenov.substack.com/p/ns-lyons-china-convergence-interview-banger

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Remove Biden from the Texas, Florida, and Georgia ballots because he has disqualified himself by egregiously violating US law via his immigration practices. I know, he hasn't even been charged with that, and there is no US or state law that allows such a thing, but it seems that the rules have changed so go for it.

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Thank you for writing this. Trump is hardly my first choice for president, but I don't agree with your assessment that he should have been impeached. This overreach by the Colorado Supreme Court is anti-American and does, indeed, tell people that Trump is right about elites in government. What more can one say? QED. He is right.

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KD’s Idea of the Day:

When Biden wins again and buses another 15 million occupying settlers all over the country, we should change it from ‘E Pluribus Unum’ to ‘E Tourbus Unum’

(NOTE: Democrats are evil communists who hate America)

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How unsurprising that the four Colorado State Supreme Court justices that voted to block Trump from the ballot are Ivy League graduates. The Ivies appear to have morphed from world class institutions to progressive DEI clubs that constitute the farm teams for career government officials.

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Today I read RFK Jr.'s opinion, which I think is spot-in: "When a court in another country disqualifies an opposition candidate from running, we say, ‘That’s not a real democracy.’ Now it’s happening here."

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Respectfully former Congressman, you got played on your impeachment vote.

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The insurrection began in Jan 2017. Any executive branch employee declaring themselves a member of the #Resistance was repudiating the voice of the American people and should have been summarily fired.

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"They will do anything, it appears, to spare the country a second Trump term. Anything, that is, but endure the discomfort of replacing their aging and increasingly unelectable incumbent with a candidate who could defeat Donald Trump without judicial intervention."

This says it all.

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To mount an insurrection you need an army. Trump didn’t have an army. This was a political protest that degenerated into a riot.

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I know some people want Trump but Biden’s not so bad. Since Biden was elected Thanksgiving dinner has been much cheaper.

(NOTE: it’s cheaper because the vaccine killed several family members)

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We're spiraling down towards banana republic status with each passing day. As a kid, I traveled often to Brazil where my family is from. I have witnessed throughout my life the steady, implacable reduction in the gap between the US and Brazil in all the wrong ways. Whether in the realm of law, economics, politics, quality of life metrics, education, or health; It's all going downhill. Forget technology. What really matters for a cohesive society is not whether we can "connect" online with some new gizmo made in a Chinese sweatshop. What matters is for there to be shared tradition, values, heritage, language, borders, beliefs. There is a soft oppression that is becoming harder and less forgiving, pushed on us by an elitist class that truly believes that quote from Klaus Schwab that we will "own nothing and be happy". Add to that "You will believe in nothing and be happy", "You will sell your soul for a meal and thank your oppressors for the scraps".

When the law becomes whatever one interprets it to be, expect gulags in short order.

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"I was one of ten House Republicans who voted to impeach him following January 6. I stand by that vote, despite the fact that it cost me reelection in Michigan after Democrats boosted my Trump-endorsed primary challenger. (Really.)"

As a former Democrat, that they spent $60 million to boost MAGA candidates after claiming they were extremists and a threat to democracy was corruption at a level I could not fathom. I was no longer a Democrat then but that would have been enough to turn me away.

We need more people like you to speak the truth, regardless of party.

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In our rush to fight COVID, we did more harm than good. Here we do the same—rushing to stop a threat to our democratic principles by simply destroying them ourselves before anyone else gets the chance... the stupidity is astonishing.

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