Last week the Colorado Supreme Court ruled in a 4-3 vote to ban Trump from the ballot, citing the 14th Amendment for citing an insurrection, though the move was heavily scrutinized and many legal scholars said that the 14th does not apply to Trump. Many presume the Supreme Court will overturn this ruling. SEE: Colorado Disqualifies Trump From Ballot Citing 14th Amendment Violation. Ramaswamy Pulls Himself From Colorado Ballet
Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold issued a statement the matter, but still listed potential reasons why Trump still might get removed from the ballot eventually.
With the appeal filed, Donald Trump will be included as a candidate on Colorado’s 2024 Presidential Primary Ballot when certification occurs on January 5, 2024, unless the US Supreme Court declines to take the case or otherwise affirms the Colorado Supreme Court ruling.
Donald Trump engaged in insurrection and was disqualified under the Constitution from the Colorado Ballot. The Colorado Supreme Court got it right. This decision is now being appealed. I urge the US Supreme Court to act quickly given the upcoming presidential primary election.
Jena Griswold’s office said in a press release.
But the larger headline has been Maine’s move to also remove Trump from their ballot.
Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows ruled that former President Donald Trump is ineligible for Maine’s 2024 Republican primary, citing the same 14th Amendment clause. The full text of her ruling can be read here.
I do not reach this conclusion lightly. Democracy is sacred. am mindful that no secretary of state has ever deprived a presidential candidate of ballot access based on Section Three of the Fourteenth Amendment. I am also mindful, however, that no presidential candidate has ever before engaged in insurrection.
Bellows wrote
Trump’s team has already responded, with Campaign Spokesperson Steven Cheung claiming Bellows is “a former ACLU attorney, a virulent leftist and a hyper-partisan Biden-supporting Democrat who has decided to interfere in the presidential election on behalf of Crooked Joe Biden.”
Maine’s Bangor Daily News wrote of Bellows:
The decision comes one day after Trump asked Bellows to recuse herself from the decision for “bias,” citing a photo taken earlier this year at the White House with President Joe Biden and social media posts in which she referred to the riots as an insurrection.
Nearly two weeks ago, Bellows presided over a State House hearing at which lawyers for Trump and those who challenged his ballot status argued their cases. The former president’s legal team argued that Bellows lacked the power to remove Trump from the ballot, while his challengers argued that the 14th Amendment applied to Trump.
Bellows should see her profile rise in Democratic politics after the decision. She is seen as a future candidate for high office here. She ran a longshot 2014 campaign against U.S. Sen. Susan Collins, a Republican, and went on to serve two terms in the Maine Senate before the Legislature elected her secretary of state in late 2020.
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I saw meme of the “overly attached girlfriend” being compared to Mellows, and I must say, it is a remarkable resemblance:
Of course, the tagline is not accurate either, as the U.S. is not a democracy, but was founded as a Constitutional Republic. Nowadays I’m not sure what we are, something yet to be defined, a neo-fascist-communist state of confusion and crime.
If thou seest the oppression of the poor, and violent perverting of judgment and justice in a province, marvel not at the matter: for he that is higher than the highest regardeth; and there be higher than they.
Ecclesiastes 5:8
As I said initially with the Colorado ruling last week, I do believe these will be overruled by the Supreme Court. But, we’ll see.
What this will cause is now traditionally deep-red states to start finding workaround to get rid Democrats they don’t like, such as Biden or Harris, off of the ballots; and that will get great praise from the Republicans and “patriots,” and scorn from the Dems. It’s just more drama that is ultimately going to result in more of the same no matter which way you slice it.
At this point, these types of actions just further validate and vindicate my stance that I have held for a while, and that is your vote in the U.S. has not mattered for a long time, because actions such as this only stand to prove that unelected officials can just, on a whim, cast people off of the ballot, or dictate health policies and work schedules, or have most of your money stolen unopposed by unelected bankers, taxman, and other corporations.
Independent author Matt Taibbi wrote in a blog post:
People are absorbed by dramas in which they feel themselves to be participants.
This year the public is being forced to research questions in which they have no say. We all understand now that there’s a disqualification clause in the 14th Amendment. We also understand that this clause seems to have been written with deliberate vagueness. I’m no lawyer, but I doubt the 14th Amendment was designed to empower unelected state officials to unilaterally strike major party frontrunners from the presidential ballot.
If it was, that’s a shock. I must have missed that in AP Insane Legal Loopholes class.
Is there any way this ends well? It feels harder and harder to imagine.
Agreed. These actions by Colorado, Maine, and probably more states and cities to come, on both sides of the aisle, are only going to fuel the fires of civil war and anarchy. Will it happen in 2024? Don’t know, but I would expect violence to vastly increase more than it already has. We saw what happened in 2020… And, as I have suggested previously, a planned and faked assassination of Trump could very well be the wild card that sets the nation on fire, amidst a collapsing economy…
CBS Reporter Forecasts ‘Black Swan’ Event In 2024 Of ‘High Impact’
[7] Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? [8] Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also? [9] For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? [10] Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. (1 Corinthians 9:7-10).
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It’s interesting that you mention the wild card being Trump’s assassination because I remember the illuminati card game by Steve Jackson depicting trump being targeted. This was back in the 90’s.
More political soap opera as per usual. I saw this and I laughed.
The selection committee has 11 months to pick the one that will stir up the most triggering of the 2 sides
Trump is the stooge for a civil war and I predict he will be assassinated or we will have something similar to 2020 where he isn’t selected as they are selections not elections and you get the maga base do more extreme things then Jan 6.
That’s what I’m thinking, too. His powerbase of idolators are about ready to snap.
Couldn’t agree more. They are all working on the same team. They all have the same boss.
They are all working towards the same goal, to divide and conquer the world.
And it is surprising how many people are falling for this evil plan to enslave the entire world.
If people would just stop participating, the dark side couldn’t pull this off.
We are only a few steps away from losing everything, our freedoms, our properties, our families, everything we are and everything we own. Just becasue people are giving these evil creeps their power.
Why is it so hard for people to see this???
Same plan works over and over and over. Mussolini, Hitler, Stalin. Now Trump and Biden. All of them. They tell everyone what they want to hear and weak minded people keep eating it up.
There is NO SAVIOR, people!!!
We have to stand on our own two feet and SAVE OURSELVES!
Stop listening to these dictators and stop participating in their hunger games!!
Only idiots keep doing the same thing over and over and over.
The drama is just a continuation of pagan theater manipulation and myth-making syncretism to the end of craft control merging to Rome openly, clearing the way for whole world judgment: the deceiving and being deceived fulfilling scripture on the wrong side, the sins of the world coming to the full, & just another arm & tactic of Mystery & her spirit.
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Remember Herod Agrippa in the book of Acts? And how he (of the Edomite line& spirit, cross-pollinated with the Ptolemaic Alexandrian filthiness: the end of which is foretold in Obadiah) & Pilate (of Daniel’s 4th earthly kingdom, Rome…yet with us as we watch the signs of that ten toe beast/kings, iron and clay Genesis 6 thing’s system to be built)…….Herod and Pilate who were once in enmity yet became fast friends?
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Their vacationing residence of the elites’ managers there in Caesarea Philippi where they could commiserate over their troubles and trials concerning Christ & those ‘turning the world upside down’? Luke 23, Daniel 2, Acts 12 KJB.
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That’s where the pagan theater was, in a place also known for its temple of Baal, or Zeus….or whatever, generally the male side of the Genesis 6 corruptions & as the syncretism of devilish idolatrous humanist religion & craft goes. It’s in the territory of Dan, the headwaters & springs of the river that runs south & feeds into the Sea of Galilee is nearby. Lebanon is to the northwest, Mount Hermon to the northeast, & interestingly what they call the Golan Heights & ‘Palestine’ to the south & between it and the Sea of Galilee.
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God’s still dealing with the peoples of that area & God’s word goes out of the way to show us his intervention of grace in both Pilate and Herod’s lives in the Gospels and book of Acts, but they rejected it for the flesh, & for here & now kingdom building, for what the god of this world offered them. Both coming to despise those troublesome Jews from whom that convicting word, Law and Jesus of Nazareth came, neither wanting to believe the truth regardless of the reports and the evidence. Adding their hatred to the ancient hatred of those remaining who yet resented the conquest & judgment of Canaan by the type of the Lord Jesus Christ coming as conqueror and king, Joshua.
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America is just a picture of the gathered peoples of the world which were given the word through some who came here with it & the Gospel, resulting in great blessing as some received it, serving God, and as they recognized & blessed God’s people, the Jews, as the root they themselves were but graffed into. Sure, and they were dead bones, beloved for the fathers’ sake & in spite of themselves, mere fallible men…and with the veil and curse they received rejecting their king for Caesar, but they were still those from whom all men received the oracles of God, the word of God & the Lord Jesus Christ. For once Christian men acted biblically toward the Jews, rather than Romishly in the Augustinian heresy…..and the Jews were grateful to the first nation to suffer & treat them as equal fellow men able to receive & follow truth & the grace of God….or not.
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Yet the majority of those peoples gathered to America received Rome’s corruptions & the spirit of the ‘great goddess Diana….the words of whose hymn are inscribed in our Statue of Liberty gifted to us by France: concerning the huddled masses etc. And all of them were but men wrapped in corruptible flesh.
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Regardless, whether entirely pagan idolatrous humanist (ascending gods, survival of the fittest, The American Humanist Society, etc) or somewhere in the corrupt degree of pagan-harmonized ‘Christian’ Romish forms, either in the process of coming out or falling back towards it….with many who never entirely departed from either, like the Unitarians or the Deists: none of those things are going to be fully received or suffered of God forever.
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We have his word on it.
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So, it’s no surprise that that mixed multitude of new Rome was ultimately taken & wielded by old Rome: even as Rome took in the Germanics & Gallics of Europe with Charlemagne, & what else they could with crusades. (Note the tie in to the Roman craft & Islam manipulations of the sons of Ishmael and the Hagarites in those earlier days, too)
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‘Christian’ Rome but little tempered the old brutal Pax Romana spirit of empire, & was corrupt from the get-go. Why should we think that we can ape her pagan humanist Republic and the Greek’s pagan humanist Democracy….trying to balance their dangers and weaknesses against one another forever? Indeed, and men tried to incorporate the Old Testament theocratic order remembering God as creator/savior, judge & king…and to bring in the New Testament ethic of grace through the championing of freedom of conscience & speech, religion & the right to bear arms….but sin and subtle influencing from abroad & received within wore on the ideal. And, when truth went out the window with the acceptance of relativism and blind leap ‘faith’ anchored to nothing but man’s druthers and ‘feelings’, with the existentialists & such: philosophers….the battle was already lost. Nothing remaining but for which form of tyranny detached from truth would prevail here as in the Greek and Roman empires of old.
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I saw articles this week & today about potential to both Trump and RFK Jr assassinations, too. So add the Catholic Camelot dreamers & romantics to the ignited.
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Along with Obammie Soturo’s civil war seeding of the popular imagination part of the ‘agitations’ and ‘activism’ of the ‘arts’ and the ‘crafts’, him coming up with a little Chicago Jesuit mentoring & molding, finishing school for the international communist arm he’d grown up in: that manipulation worked through the vile, crass & cruel applied philosophy of the Jesuit cultivated & devil-possessed and -worshipping, apostate Jew, Karl Marx.
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With those poisonous mystical and science-falsely-so-called touches of Jesuits Teilhard du Jardin and LeMaitre added to the fakery, along with the theater & promotion of Erasmus Darwin’s forays into pagan philosophy & justification for his own sin against God and his fellow man, coming into ‘useful’ maturity & fullblown apostasy via the weak Unitarian grandson & his crassly arrogant & willfully unbelieving ‘bulldog’ promotor, Thomas Huxley.
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Shades of Rome’s machinations & selective funding in the last American Civil War seizing ever more power & control here, even as her previous taking & holding of Europe, lastly England, then drawing in the rest of the world bite by bite. Here Russia, there China and Cuba…Rhodesia, Ethiopia, Uganda, Rwanda….and with most all South and Central America in the bag from the beginning with a little resistance from the Napoleon puppet gone rogue, and the United States.
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Oh, & let’s hate on & blame the Jews, too. That’s always good for a little cursing of God in place of former blessing, hastening judgment. One wonders what might have happened in America had they not succeeded in having the evangelical Astor and the Jews, Strauss and Guggenheim so conveniently removed with the sinking of the Titanic. There would have been no Fed, no income tax & bloated bureaucracy, checks remaining on socialism & attempts to force morality or encourage exploitable immorality from any quarter, rather than the protection of liberties allowing for reasoning from the scripture and just law, with a real & plain comparison of the freely chosen choices in life yet possible.
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But, men were messing with the word & too many were receiving it. God let them get away with it in judgment.
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Psalm 11:1-7 of 7 KJB ¶ To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. In the LORD put I my trust: how say ye to my soul, Flee as a bird to your mountain?
Ps 11:2 For, lo, the wicked bend their bow, they make ready their arrow upon the string, that they may privily shoot at the upright in heart.
Ps 11:3 If the foundations be destroyed, what can the righteous do?
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Psalm 11:4 ¶ The LORD is in his holy temple, the LORD’S throne is in heaven: his eyes behold, his eyelids try, the children of men.
Ps 11:5 The LORD trieth the righteous: but the wicked and him that loveth violence his soul hateth.
Ps 11:6 Upon the wicked he shall rain snares, fire and brimstone, and an horrible tempest: this shall be the portion of their cup.
Ps 11:7 For the righteous LORD loveth righteousness; his countenance doth behold the upright.
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His eyelids try….reminds you of those who will look ‘narrowly’ on that wicked…
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And, speaking of ‘ignite’…my emphasis & parenthesis:
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Ezekiel 28:16-18 (that’s 6+6+6) KJB By the multitude of thy merchandise they have filled the midst of thee with violence, and thou hast sinned: therefore I will cast thee as profane out of the mountain of God: and I will destroy thee, O covering cherub, from the midst of the stones of fire.
Eze 28:17 Thine heart was lifted up because of thy beauty, thou hast corrupted thy wisdom by reason of thy brightness: I will cast thee to the ground, I will lay thee before kings, that they may behold thee.
Eze 28:18 Thou hast defiled thy sanctuaries by the multitude of thine iniquities, by the iniquity of thy traffick; THEREFORE WILL I BRING FORTH A FIRE FROM THE MIDST OF THEE, IT SHALL DEVOUR THEE, AND I WILL BRING THEE TO ASHES upon the earth in the sight of all them that behold thee.
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He’s taking the majority of men with him….and it ain’t just America that’s being judged in these things. What there is left to hinder and let in America is being purposely dismantled & removed from their way, slandered & marginalized….as has been the case for many years, & the intent & wish of many even from the beginning….and as it already is in the other nations they’ve already taken & sub-‘merged’ under that wicked head and antichrist placeholder over in Rome. And God is allowing it.
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The Lord is allowing it to the end of judgment & fulfillment of his word. He sees ALL idolatry and ALL self-righteousness, & is deceived by none of it.
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Men who cannot discern between the kingdom of heaven (material & corporatist) and the kingdom of God (spiritual & individually received) are easily co-opted and used to Augustinian dominionist Catholic corporatist kingdom-building ends, to mistaking gain for godliness & being played dialectically, trusting in men’s politics & easily confused about righteous and unrighteous authority.
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Ditto those pacifistic Sermon on the Mount types who confound the kingdoms and dispensations, making a hash of understanding the word of God & what he requires of us to great loss, aiding Catholic corporatism even as they think they’re hindering it! Folks like many of the Moravians and anabaptist groups now being absorbed into the ‘social justice’ crowd, even as the pragmatic and unbalanced Arminian Methodists. Susannah Wesley catechized her sons with the Catholic Catechism. The Moravians helped them escape it to a degree, to find assurance of salvation & share it with their aged mother before it was too late…..but many continued with far too high an opinion of the potential sinlessness of mankind prior to the transformation at the resurrection, and their ‘methods’ were geared to that end. Finney stood against Masonry but went deep into mysticism and political activism, championing the rejoining of church and state, or the establishment of a state religion.
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It’s hard to find one without feet of clay & inexperienced, untried youth is so easily drawn in as written. This is why Satan’s servants war so hard against God’s order for family and simple, independent pastoral church order…..or to usurp that order & to warp it to tyranny. How few continue in the word and sanctification to mature wisdom. They want ‘magic’ & to follow their hearts’ desire, not to study to shew themselves approved, workmen… patiently plodding on precept upon precept, proving, & sharing in the sufferings of Christ. Instant knowledge. Instant signs and wonders. Cross-less Christianity.
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But it’s really not new, and did Jesus not say: Luke 23:31 KJB For if they do these things in a green tree, what shall be done in the dry? ….That’s in Luke where the kingdom of God & gentile humanism is more prevalent in application, and not Matthew where the kingdom of heaven and all things Jewish are showcased.
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Check out verse 18 below, and who is able & worthy apart from Christ & his righteousness, according to the scriptures? The flesh remains to hinder and to be warred against, & will until the resurrection for which we groan, longing :
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2Corinthians 5:1-5 KJB ¶ For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.
2Co 5:2 For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed upon with our house which is from heaven:
2Co 5:3 If so be that being clothed we shall not be found naked.
2Co 5:4 For we that are in this tabernacle do groan, being burdened: not for that we would be unclothed, but clothed upon, that mortality might be swallowed up of life.
2Co 5:5 Now he that hath wrought us for the selfsame thing is God, who also hath given unto us the earnest of the Spirit.
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1Peter 4:12 ¶ Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened unto you:
1Pe 4:13 But rejoice, inasmuch as ye are partakers of Christ’s sufferings; that, when his glory shall be revealed, ye may be glad also with exceeding joy.
1Pe 4:14 If ye be reproached for the name of Christ, happy are ye; for the spirit of glory and of God resteth upon you: on their part he is evil spoken of, but on your part he is glorified.
1Pe 4:15 But let none of you suffer as a murderer, or as a thief, or as an evildoer, or as a busybody in other men’s matters.
1Pe 4:16 Yet if any man suffer as a Christian, let him not be ashamed; but let him glorify God on this behalf.
1Pe 4:17 For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God: and if it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God?
1Pe 4:18 And if the righteous scarcely be saved, where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear?
1Pe 4:19 Wherefore let them that suffer according to the will of God commit the keeping of their souls to him in well doing, as unto a faithful Creator.