What does the future hold for Donald Trump? - threadbans in OP

Hence the (legally)

Interesting background on the Crossfire Hurricane binder and Drumpf's obsession with "mentally declassified" top secret information

https://thinkbigpicture.substack.com/p/trump-binder-russia-crossfire-hurricane

Hopefully it's the end of him.

"Donald Trump is ineligible for the US presidency under the constitution's insurrection clause, the Colorado Supreme Court has ruled.

The ruling comes as the former US leader prepares to run for the presidency in 2024.

Trump is accused of inciting riots at the US Capitol Building in an effort to overturn the result after he lost the US election in 2020."

The end? Not even close.

Yes ,very interesting.Hopefully very consequential as well.Meadows does physically look like the battery bunny.

Set the hounds ,boys :-)

Indeed "The end" is very wishful thinking.

It was always ,imo a very long shot that he could be removed from the ballot in this way.

Not that it wouldn't be deserved,of course.

The ruling is on stay pending appeal to the SCOTUS,I understand.

Shall tune into CNN tonight for the commentaries.

What a completely strange way to spend the precious little time we have on earth.

I don't have a problem with the USSC striking the ruling down so long as the decision comes from a legal opinion and not from a political bias. It would be disappointing, absolutely, but cynicism about judicial rulings plays directly into Trump's hands since his whole political project depends on nurturing this kind of distrust.

He hasn't been convicted of insurrection. They may as well have ruled he can't run as he's actually a Mexican citizen because people say so

In other words it will get swiftly appealed and overturned.

You see this is the **** nonsense that may end up actually getting him elected. Pushing those in the middle towards him when they see this absolute shite going on

@Sonic the Shaghog

I watched Donald Trump, then the sitting POTUS, take to a podium near the US Capitol and proclaim an absolute whopper of a lie to a crowd of angry supporters. Several months before that, he took to a podium and told the crowd that if they were he lost the election, that meant it would be rigged. He was consciously and deliberately trying to undermine confidence in the election and attempting to overturn its result by illegal means. We have him on tape trying to get the Georgia SOS to 'find' more votes, as well.

It's only because of the due process which comes with liberal democracy that Trump has not yet been convicted of insurrection or inciting same.

Any clown contributing to this guy while complaining that inflation is making them broke can **** right off

It'll be interesting to see if the USSC overturns this and what legal basis, if any, they'll have to do so. In any other period in time this would be the end of the guy, not that the end shouldn't have been a long time ago, but in the current atmosphere in the USA, who knows.

I doubt it will matter a jot to his followers and the MAGA members of the GOP. It's the very definition of a Cult now, and completely far removed from politics as is possible.

The Colorado SC was a 4:3 verdict in a completely Democratic Court. Wouldn't have much faith in SC going with it. I think needs a full court conviction on the matter for it to sway.

For the sake of discussion, let's say this ban actually sticks. You'd wonder; what are the chances that enough swing states follow suit? This is likely a non-issue for Trump in Deep-Red states, but if enough purple states disqualify him for being the traitor that we all know he is; he's likely blocked from winning enough electoral votes.

There's positives and negatives I feel. Positives are that Trump's chances are damaged. The GOP themselves might even find themselves having to choose their canditate from the pool of bell-ends who actually turn up for debates and are not currently labeled as traitors. (I doubt the GOP can even manage that, but it's not impossible)

The negative possibility is that the anti-Trump vote might not be as energised to come out if they get the sense that he hasn't a chance. The vote still needs to get out, and the danger of him winning I feel is a motiviating factor. Apathy could still give him the win.

This obviously just takes him off the ballot in that state, right?

They're proud of their hypocrisy. You'd wonder though, how far will that hypocrisy goes? When Trump becomes President again and decides to make himself King, will they rejoice when he tries to undermine the first and second amendments?

We know Trump can't take criticism, that's he's an utter narcissist and extremely thin-skinned. So the first amendment becomes his enemy when in power because it gives people to power to criticize and make fun of him. What happens when he decides to bring in a law to make it easier to sue people who make jokes about him, or uses congress and the judiciary packed full of Trumpists that are full in on the cult to censor democratic politicians and liberal media outlets? I'm sure they'll rejoice. But what happens when it's Fox, or AON, or if a conservative politician criticizes Trump and gets censored or sued? Will they cheer then?

And the second amendment is a definite threat to him. Particularly those Antifa and BLM crowds, sure aren't they terrorists? Better make sure they can't have guns, so he tightens gun laws to prevent Antifa and BLM from getting guns. Of course "real Americans" can still have their guns, but they'll have to register themselves on the new "Patriot Firearms Register", whereby only true patriots can have guns and anyone who isn't a true patriot can't have a gun. Which they'll cheer to the high heavens for. Except, what happens when someone on the register criticize or challenges Trump, and trump as King, no longer considers them as a patriot and has their guns taken, because that's the law? Will they cheer then?

Trump is many things, but chief among them is an ultra-autocrat. He' sees all, knows all, no-one is as smart as him, it's his way or no way at all. And with the power of the Presidency, and the ownership of the courts, and the ownership of Congress via the denial of fair elections, Trump becomes absolute ruler. And an absolute ruler can not, does not, and will not tolerate dissent and potential rising against his rule.

The greatest threat to the US, and the future of it's first and second amendments, is Donald J. Trump. The MAGA cult are just too utterly ignorant and hopelessly stupid to see it.