Theoretically, as early as 1868, Jefferson Davis, the one and only president of the Confederacy, could have run for and been elected as POTUS if, and only if, a member of Congress invoked the 14th Amendment, Section Three and a 2/3rds majority from both houses of Congress negated his insurrectionist’s “disability.” That’s accommodation above and beyond the pale.
Some mistakenly think a candidate winning a presidential election means no disqualifying factors matter—like being born a foreigner (exploited by Trump’s birtherism balderdash—another lie) or being an insurrectionist (not a lie about Trump). Our Congress passed the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments, hopefully, to avoid another Civil War.
Suppose no one in Congress invokes the 14th Amendment, Section Three, before January 20th, 2025. In that case, President-elect Trump will take an oath to support and defend the Constitution against all enemies, both foreign and domestic, when, in fact, he instigated an insurrection on January 6th, 2021.
From my Veteran’s point of view, how can we ask our military to risk their lives to support and defend the Constitution against all enemies, both foreign and domestic, an oath taken by all military members since 1790, when members of our Congress lack the courage to follow the hard-won lessons of our Civil War.
Please contact your congressional representatives—for me, they are Representative Thompson, Senators Schiff, and Padilla—and ask them to invoke the 14th Amendment, Section Three, before January 20th, 2025.
The Democrats have already tried every dirty trick under the sun. They impeached Trump twice, used several Kangaroo Court types of lawfare against him, fake Russian Dossier, used the FBI to spy on him in Trump Tower, DOJ raids on his Florida residence using the FBI, etc…(too many to name) and all it has done is make Trump stronger because the people saw through it.
Then there were the assassination attempts.
So Democrats continually harping about instituting the 14th Amendment won’t work either.
In 12 days we will have PRESIDENT TRUMP.
Deal with it!
“Deal with it!”
You keep saying this, but I don’t know what it means. Are you using it as a synonym to acquiesce to it? Or???
Seriously? Can’t speak for KO. It means to me last time many people didn’t ‘deal with it’, and instead were willing to gaslight, be gaslit, and instead of doing good in the world put all their energy into fighting the boogeyman, seeing him as pure evil. I’m not thrilled at all about Trump being in there, I would have been even less thrilled about Harris for completely different reasons. But I believe most of the damage was done by the complete freak out of so many. To me ‘deal with it’ means accept it, and put your energy into constructive things.
But isn’t that subjective and cover a range of different responses?
Exactly Alan, I had to deal with Biden for the last four years. I didn’t like it but I had no choice but to deal with it.
But given that you are a single individual, you only represent a single-data point for how to “deal with it.” Others chose to deal with it in very different ways from you.
Oh my gawd. Then “deal with it” your way.
That’s the whole point, when you say deal with it, you are talking to people who are dealing with it their way. So it’s a pointless statement. Not to mention, condescending. The letter writer is dealing with it – by writing letters.
Correction, I didn’t write the third sentence:
“Therefore you stating to “deal with it” neither prescribes nor proscribes a given response.”
So who added that to my comment?
No one, the comment has not been edited. It probably got copied and pasted from one of my earlier comments.
Not by me. I never wrote that or copied and pasted it.
That’s troubling to me that my comment was altered and had something added to it.
I edited it out.
But how was it added to my comment?
As far as I can tell, it wasn’t. There was no edits made, we can track all edits on the back end. It was a comment I made earlier, it somehow got posted with your original comment.
There’s no comment from you earlier where you wrote that.
Then maybe I did it accidentally, though it’s not showing up. I’m trying to do too many things at once. If I did, I apologize, it was inadvertent.
I accept your apology but I think you can understand why your commenters would be concerned about having their comments altered or added to.
This happened to me on here years ago where I had my comment altered without an “edit” acknowledgement. I called that out too.
David, how did this get added to my comment? I never wrote the second sentence.
Keith Olsen says:
January 9, 2025 at 10:15 am
Exactly Alan, I had to deal with Biden for the last four years. I didn’t like it but I had no choice but to deal with it. Therefore you stating to “deal with it” neither prescribes nor proscribes a given response.