Sorry But Your Candidate Is Disqualified and Maybe Going To Jail But What About the Funders and Spies Who Backed Him?
Why Trump will be blocked from running and why he might secretly like that
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The recent decisions by the Colorado Supreme Court and Maine to bar Donald Trump from running for president are altogether fascinating but not quite for the reasons the commentariat might think. It seems fairly obvious that Colorado’s and Maine’s efforts won’t be the last attempts at disqualifying Trump before a signal ballot is cast.
Without question it seems likely that these matters will end up before the U.S. Supreme Court which is itself under serious pressure given the years of bribes freebies the Supreme Court Justices have gotten. If I had to venture a guess I think it’ll most likely go thusly: the Supreme Court will opine that the States determine the manner of election and therefore the question of who ought to be on the ballot. In other words they’ll punt the Big Questions of the 14th Amendment. Remember, kids. All a judge is is a lawyer with political connections. They deserve respect, to be sure, but not blind deference.
For what it’s worth my reading of the Constitution is that the 14th Amendment (and understanding of the post-Civil War history) is pretty clear in that it gives public officials the sole authority to make the determination of who is and who is not engaged in an insurrection. Deciding if someone gave aid and comfort to an insurrection is inherently tricky but this is ultimately a political question — and maybe even a prudential question. We trust our election officials to make determinations all the time about who is and who is not eligible to run for office. (From what I can tell and from what I’ve long suspected there’s a blacklist of people who are not really allowed to run for political office because they are such obvious spies or close to foreign governments.)
I don’t think you need a determination from a court to find that Trump committed an insurrection. You could, you know, use your eyes. Now in a fair country distinctions would be made between protest votes to refuse to certify and actual enemy actions aligned with hostile foreign powers but we do not live in such a country. From what I’m told is that there’s a pact among the old WASP Deep State families that anyone who attended that December meeting where the events of January 6th were plotted is ineligible for higher elective office. Will that hold? I don’t know but it’s interesting to think such a thing.
I suspect election officials are well within their right to make the decision to bar Trump from running though whether they should or not is another matter entirely.
In a weird way I suspect Trump will like being disqualified because he can then claim that he was barred through a rigged process. To some extent he may even be correct but none of that will matter. America has already passed him by. You can’t stand in the same river twice. And for all the talk of there being some sort of unrest should Trump not be allowed back at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue I suspect that even the daftest of the Magaratti have concluded that it’s best not going to jail like the J6ers.
The issue has seemingly already been adjudicated at the highest levels of the U.S. deep state.
Trump and his foreign-backed cult, created as it was with Israeli psy group and spyware technology, is dangerous to American representative self-government and indeed, to the State itself.
You might think of Trump as similar to Shinzo Abe, backed as he was by a fanatical cult. Hopefully Trump’s fate will be less severe than Abe’s but I wouldn’t entirely rule it out. In a different time it wouldn’t be so hard to imagine. The very fact that it’s hard to imagine Trump’s assassination is probably the tell that there won’t be another Trump presidency. You don’t whack the weak. That is, unless it’s to cover up a greater crime.
The Constitution, being not a suicide pact, will allow some extraconstitutional measures to stop him from running. Is this hypocrisy? Sure is. But you know who is powerful in a society by who is hypocritical and in the end, the State must go on and Trump must not.
The “Lost Cause” of the Civil War will be transmogrified into the Mythic Incredible Second Term (MIST) with all the possibility and none of the responsibility of actually running a government. In time romantics or nuts or partisans will project onto MIST all their hopes and fantasies.
I, too, fantasize about MIST and how Trump, like Théoden, could shake off the wormtongued Jared Kushner and the Israeliens but the truth is that Trump isn’t capable of actually running a government because he has no vision for the country beyond his own ego and enrichment. He was an easy mark. Say what you will about the genocidal Bibi Netanyahu but hey at least it’s an ethos.
Alas those of us who live in the real world must take Trump’s purported claims of dictatorship and vengeance seriously. He promises vengeance. “I am your retribution,” he avers from the safety of his Palm Beach mansion. “‘Vengeance?’ In this economy?” you can hear America’s middle class muttering. Americans are a visionary lot and we don’t go for that sort of thing. It’s too weird.
But we might just forgive him, especially as age catches him. Interestingly the more unfairly Trump is treated, the higher the likelihood that they’ll be sympathy for him after he’s convicted. There’s already a clamor by Nikki Haley that she’ll pardon him should she improbably be elected president. (I’d like to live in a world where Indian lingerie merchants could ascend but that’s a little too wild even for me.)
Americans are, to a fault, a forgiving people. Even for Trump. Especially for Trump.
We do second (or even third and fourth) chances especially in Trump’s adopted Florida, where living, in light of climate change and increasingly severe hurricanes, is punishment enough. Après moi, Mar-A-Lago apparently.
Trump will ultimately have two things left to do politically:
negotiate the terms of his surrender.
anoint a successor.
The first bit will be easy enough. Trump has served as a federal informant before. Why not once again? “You let me stay in Mar-A-Lago and I’ll give you Jared,” Trump might say to Jack Smith if he really were as skilled at dealmaking as he and his ghostwriters would have you believe.
The second part is also a bit easier to see too. Trump will appoint surrogate son Matt Gaetz as his heir apparent. Will this work? I don’t know and frankly I’m a bit tired of the story line of the Great Florida Hope. Is it Jeb!? Is it Rubio? DeSantis? Maybe we should just be honest that the Sunshine State is under Yankee occupation and the best we can hope for is that they won’t turn the gators gay or invite you to a Mom’s For Liberty-sponsored threesome fun though that would undoubtedly be. Florida’s not a real place but then that’s why we love it, isn’t it? And of course that’s why our fakest generation — Generation X — and their oligarchs increasingly call it home.
The real art of the deal is taking place between the American deep state and the Israelis who have so throughly penetrated it.
Like Abbe Lowell, who dutifully represents Hunter Biden after covering for Jared Kushner, the architects of the disqualify Trump plan are not exactly the Grand Army of the Republic reincarnated. I suppose you go to court with the lawyers you have and not the ones you wish you had though both Laurence Tribe and Judge Michael Luttig have an Israeli problem. Luttig preceded over the fall of Boeing to Chisrael — we’ve been over this before — whilst Tribe made us think that Obama, who was never much for science, knew particle physics. Flattery got a lot of people very far with Obama so long as he drone struck the right weddings.
“I don't do politics. I only do law and I've evaluated section three of the 14th Amendment and that's exactly what CREW has done in its briefs in the lower court and now in the Colorado Supreme Court,” said Luttig, whose clerk John Eastman is under investigation.
Was it legal when you outsourced Boeing’s manufacturing and software to China and Israel, Mr. Luttig? Do you have any responsibility for the lives lost?
Luttig’s turn is absurdist and the sort of thing you do when you’re trying to reingratiate yourself into what passes for a ruling elite.
The business elite — Uihlein, Wilks, the Koch network, Sacks, Thiel, Lonsdale, that mobbed up grocery store lady and so on — remain more or less unmolested.
I’m willing to grant that January 6th was an insurrection. We therefore need to seize the assets of all the foreign-backed American oligarchs who funded it. We did it after the Civil War.
Why not after January 6th? We turned Arlington National Cemetery from a planation to a cemetery.
What might we do with, say, Facebook?
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