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  • Who Really Are the Lawless and the Dictatorial?

    06/02/2025 5:11:18 AM PDT · by MtnClimber · 6 replies
    American Thinker ^ | 2 Jun, 2025 | Victor Davis Hanson
    The left cries “dictatorship” while wielding the courts, agencies, and media to undermine laws, crush dissent, and call it democracy. The left is in its usual sanctimonious but schizophrenic mood. The media claims daily that the Trump administration has usurped power. It is supposedly destroying democracy. It tramples on the rule of law and thus has created a virtual dictatorship. Yet at the same time, Democrats high-five the most recent district court judge who has put a stop to the current Trump executive orders—which the Trump administration abides by as it files appeals. There are two clear conclusions from the...
  • German Chancellor Scholz Appears To Rebuke JD Vance In Speech, Slams ‘Outsiders Intervening In Our Democracy’

    02/15/2025 11:42:17 AM PST · by MinorityRepublican · 63 replies
    Forbes ^ | Feb 15, 2025 | Conor Murray
    One day after Vice President JD Vance delivered a scathing speech to European leaders in Munich, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz took the same stage to offer an apparent rebuke to Vance’s remarks, defending Germany’s democracy and its regulations on hate speech. Scholz spoke at the Munich Security Conference on Saturday, slamming “outsiders intervening in our democracy, in our elections, in the democratic formation of opinion in favour of this party,” especially from “friends and allies.” Scholz said Germany’s “commitment to ‘never again’”—a promise to not return to fascism and the Holocaust—“cannot be reconciled with support” for Alternative for Germany (AfD),...
  • Opinion: Trump's 'lawfare' attack on the courts could backfire on the Constitution

    02/14/2025 7:31:54 AM PST · by Oldeconomybuyer · 50 replies
    MSNBC ^ | February 14, 2025 | By Symone D. Sanders-Townsend
    President Donald Trump loves to take a phrase and drain it of all meaning. In his first term, he transformed the term "fake news" from describing a specific problem with a type of misinformation into an attack on any journalist he didn't like or a piece of journalism that made him look bad. Now he's doing the same to the word "lawfare," and the stakes are even higher — including, potentially, the guardrails of our democracy. Coined in 2001, "lawfare" refers to the use of courts and other legal systems to damage or delegitimize a political opponent. After Trump left...
  • Pritzker, Polis to lead state-level group aimed at safeguarding democracy

    11/13/2024 12:39:59 PM PST · by ChicagoConservative27 · 40 replies
    The Hill ^ | 11/13/2024 | Sarah Fortinsky
    Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker (D) and Colorado Gov. Jared Polis (D) announced on Wednesday a nonpartisan state-level initiative to foster collaboration with fellow governors to protect against threats to democracy and strengthen government institutions. The nonpartisan coalition of governors, Governors Safeguarding Democracy (GSD), will “leverage the collective strength, experience, and institutional knowledge in governors’ offices across the country to craft laws and policies that protect the rule of law and serve the people of our great states,” according to the group’s website. Pritzker and Polis, who will serve as co-chairs of the new alliance, launched GSD one week after the...
  • The worst thing representative Republicans EVER did was allow communist "our Democracy"

    07/13/2024 7:25:43 AM PDT · by knarf · 26 replies
    self, various ^ | July 13, 2024 | knarf
    They are going to hammer us with this "our democracy" crap in the continuing mis-education of the public school initiated DIS-education.I remember "vocabulary words" in elementary and Junior High and they were all English and grammatically/etymologically correct.There is no such thing as "our democracy", just like there is no such thing as our truth or my truth.
  • Alito and Roberts secretly recorded in latest attempt to undermine Supreme Court

    06/11/2024 2:36:59 PM PDT · by Twotone · 69 replies
    Washington Examiner ^ | June 10, 2024 | Kaelan Deese
    A liberal activist who posed as a Christian conservative to record Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito and Chief Justice John Roberts is the latest shot in a left-wing fight to undermine the high court. Liberal activist Lauren Windsor attended the Supreme Court Historical Society’s annual dinner on June 3 and secretly recorded her conversations with both Alito and Roberts. Windsor’s recording comes as various activists and media outlets have hounded Alito in recent weeks over two separate instances involving flags flown at his homes: one instance in which an inverted flag flew at his primary residence and a separate instance...
  • Biden and the Left Demonize Trump Supporters

    06/11/2024 5:10:29 AM PDT · by MtnClimber · 32 replies
    American Greatness ^ | 11 Jun, 2024 | Christopher Roach
    Biden’s talk of Our Democracy™ is a smokescreen. He and the broader left have no faith in the electorate, voting, or majority rule, as well as absolute hatred for at least a plurality of voters. In business, they say the customer is always right. This was long true in politics too. No one dared to attack voters, even when they supported an opponent. The voters were all Americans who had a right to their own opinions. Those on the margins were always in play. This was one of the salutary customs of American political life. Such respect for the voters...
  • Have you ever wondered what becomes of socially awkward politicians with no marketable skills, aside from crying on cue, when they are gerrymandered out of public office?

    03/20/2024 12:05:30 PM PDT · by Zhang Fei · 15 replies
    Twitter ^ | 3/20/2024 | Crazy Village Lady
    ⚡️Campaign Finance🧵: Adam Kinzinger Have you ever wondered what becomes of socially awkward politicians with no marketable skills, aside from crying on cue, when they are gerrymandered out of public office? Better yet, do you ever wonder what happens to all the leftover campaign $$ they bilked out of pussy-hat wearing cat ladies in the name of saving our Democracy™? If the answer is yes, this one’s for you! Prior to finding fame in the J6 fallout, the most remarkable thing about Mr. Kinzinger was just how unremarkable his congressional career had been. Despite representing the reddest district in IL...
  • The Biggest Supreme Court Case That Nobody Seems to Be Talking About

    02/24/2024 5:53:49 PM PST · by thecodont · 44 replies
    Slate ^ | Feb 23, 20245:45 AM | By Richard L. Hasen
    On Monday, the Supreme Court will hear arguments in a pair of cases out of Texas and Florida that could force major social media platforms to carry posts from Donald Trump or others who lie about elections being stolen or obliquely encourage election-related violence. A ruling in favor of these states would turn the First Amendment upside down and create the conditions for undermining American democracy. If there wasn’t so much else swirling around our elections and democracy right now, this case would be commanding everyone’s attention. Moody v. NetChoice LLC and NetChoice LLC v. Paxton arise out of the...
  • Under the fog of war, Ukraine cancels its 2024 presidential elections

    02/21/2024 7:41:48 AM PST · by Twotone · 45 replies
    The Dossier ^ | February 20, 2024 | Jordan Schachtel
    A very significant political event occurred in Ukraine earlier this month, and almost nobody noticed. President Volodymyr Zelensky, the leader of the war-torn country, just received approval from his parliament to extend Martial Law another 90 days. There have been many parliamentary extensions of the wartime mandate, but this one carried special significance because the 2024 presidential elections in Ukraine were scheduled for March 31, 2024, coinciding with the end of Zelensky’s five year term. Now that Martial Law is in place to cover that time period, Ukraine’s presidential elections have been canceled indefinitely. There is currently no set date...
  • Sitting U.S. Senator Misquotes Benjamin Franklin to Fit Narrative About January 6

    01/08/2024 7:13:26 AM PST · by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas · 26 replies
    townhall ^ | 1/7/2024 | Rebecca Downs
    January 6 was a big deal for Democrats as they commemorated the third anniversary of the Capitol riots, insisting it was an "insurrection" and that our very democracy--even though we live in a constitutional republic--is at stake. This was the case not only with several posts from President Joe Biden's multiple X accounts, who had also given a speech the day before about the anniversary, but with a series of posts from Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH). One post stood out in particular, as she was so obsessed with the idea of "democracy," that she even misquoted Benjamin Franklin. Shaheen began...
  • Nancy Pelosi says the quiet part out loud about attempts to remove Trump from ballots

    01/08/2024 9:44:51 AM PST · by NetAddicted · 13 replies
    Twitchy.com ^ | 1/8/2024 | Doug P
    Last week the U.S. Supreme Court decided to take the Trump campaign's appeal of the Colorado Supreme Court voting 4-3 to remove the Republican presidential candidate from the ballot, saying he is disqualified under the 14th Amendment. The US Supreme Court said Friday it will review the Colorado Supreme Court’s unprecedented decision removing former President Donald Trump from that state’s ballot. The court scheduled oral arguments for February 8. Trump remains on the primary ballot as the lower-court ruling disqualifying him has been put on hold pending Supreme Court action. If the justices do conclude Trump is ineligible for public...
  • Special counsel asks Supreme Court to immediately decide if Trump is immune from Jan. 6 prosecution

    12/11/2023 12:42:08 PM PST · by Kevin in California · 66 replies
    NBC News ^ | 12/11/2023 | Lawrence Hurley
    Special counsel Jack Smith on Monday asked the Supreme Court to immediately step in to decide whether former President Donald Trump has immunity from prosecution for his actions seeking to overturn the 2020 election. "This case presents a fundamental question at the heart of our democracy: whether a former President is absolutely immune from federal prosecution for crimes committed while in office," Smith wrote in the court filing. Smith said it was "of imperative public importance" that the high court decide the question so that Trump's trial, currently scheduled for March, can move forward as quickly as possible. The Supreme...
  • Kansas lawmakers override governor’s veto, enacting ban on transgender athletes

    04/05/2023 1:31:02 PM PDT · by cotton1706 · 35 replies
    NPR Kansas City ^ | 4/5/23 | Dylan Lysen, Blaise Mesa
    TOPEKA, Kansas — The Kansas Legislature finally rallied enough votes on Wednesday needed to override Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly’s veto of a bill banning transgender girls and women from girls and women’s sports at public schools and colleges. Lawmakers failed the last two years to override a veto to similar bills. Kansas now stands with 19 other states that have enacted laws limiting transgender girls to participating in sports that align with the gender they were assigned at birth. The Kansas law does not affect transgender boys. The Senate sealed the override with a 28-12 vote Wednesday afternoon. The House...
  • ‘Democracy’ by and for the Elites

    09/26/2022 3:57:31 AM PDT · by oblomov · 16 replies
    WSJ ^ | 25 Sep 2022 | Emily B. Finley
    resident Biden’s Sept. 1 speech in Philadelphia on “unity” is a poignant example of the confusion surrounding the concept of democracy. Mr. Biden declared that MAGA Republicans threaten “the very foundations of our republic.” The phrase a “threat to American democracy” is so commonplace these days that it hardly carries any meaning—except that it encapsulates the reigning ideology of our time, an ideology so pervasive that it almost goes unnoticed. It is like the air we breathe. I call it democratism. It is an imaginative and idealistic understanding of popular rule that disdains ordinary people and looks to a cadre...