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A Political Loser
Donald Trump knows abortion is a loser for Republicans in a general election, but he cannot afford to lose his Evangelical base.
Trump reversing his position on a national abortion ban is yet another election lie. After taking credit for overturning Roe v. Wade and teasing his support for a national abortion ban, Trump is now trying to appease general election voters without losing support from his Evangelical base. Attorneys inside the anti-abortion movement have already published plans for a national abortion ban. One such attorney told an Atlantic reporter “It’s obviously a political loser, so just keep your mouth shut. Say you oppose a federal ban, and see if that works.”
The Hypocrisy of Rightwing Judges
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled against states' rights, forcing Trump back on the Colorado ballot on the VERY SAME DAY that Trump's election interference trial was scheduled to start, but instead has been indefinitely delayed by the same Court.
Evangelical Christians and rightwing politicians have made appointing ultra-conservative judges the tip of the spear in their culture war against American multicultural democracy. Resulting in state and federal judges who routinely ignore the law and decades of precedent in order to make politically motivated rulings that attack our fundamental constitutional and legal protections. Today, the hypocrisy of the Supreme Court is further exposed when they fast tracked overturning Colorado's ruling that Trump violated the Insurrection Act, but indefinitely delayed his federal criminal prosecution for the very same crime.
Breathless Horror and Disgust
In the same way Dr. Frankenstein's monster turned against his creator, Mitch McConnell is defeated by the anti-government, christian nationalist movement he helped create.
Mitch McConnell cynically empowered a rightwing Evangelical movement to push through corporate tax cuts and appoint fundamentalist judges to overturn decades of legal protections. After the January 6th Insurrection, McConnell lacked the courage to convict Trump and instead called on the legal system to prosecute him. In the ultimate tragic irony, on the very same day McConnell publicly surrenders his leadership to Trump's MAGA movement, the Supreme Court—that he helped create—indefinitely delays Trump's criminal trial! Victor Frankenstein's words on seeing his creation, "the beauty of the dream vanished, and breathless horror and disgust filled my heart.”
Shameful, Criminal, Violent
Donald Trump finally admits that January 6 was an insurrection, but tries to blame Nancy Pelosi.
For two hours the Supreme Court ignored the central issue that the Colorado Courts determined that Donald Trump was disqualified for holding public office for inciting an insurrection. When Trump's attorney was finally asked if January 6 was an insurrection he admitted that, “the events were shameful, criminal, violent," but refused to call it an insurrection. Trump, who previously called January 6 a "beautiful day", strangely contradicted his attorney immediately after the hearing when he told the press “I think it was an insurrection caused by Nancy Pelosi." For the record, Trump told his rallied supporters to "fight like hell" just before they stormed the Capitol chanting "Hang Mike Pence."
On the Eve of Jan 6th
The future of the mastermind behind the Insurrection is now in the hands of the Supreme Court's conservative supermajority — three sitting Justices were appointed by him.
Three years after the Capitol Insurrection and months before primary elections take place, Trump has been barred by states from appearing on their ballots. Four years after a high profile child sex trafficker died in prison, Trump is publicly named as one of his repeat guests. Today, the Supreme Court has agreed to hear Trump's appeal to get back on Colorado's ballot.
Colorado Disqualifies Trump for Insurrection
The Colorado Supreme Court determined that the “undisputed” evidence “established that President Trump engaged in insurrection,” and therefore “is disqualified from holding the office of the President.”
Ignore the GOP spin and read the Colorado Supreme Court decision: "We concluded that the foregoing evidence, the great bulk of which was undisputed at trial, established that President Trump engaged in insurrection." As result the Court ruled that, "Trump is disqualified from holding the office of Present under Section Three of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States. Because he is disqualified, it would be a wrongful act under the Election Code for the Colorado Secretary of State to list him as a candidate on the presidential primary ballot.”
Supreme Court Goes Medieval
The Supreme Court rulings are a direct assault on the legal protections for people of color, the LGBTQIA+ community, and young people.
The conservative majority on the Supreme Court is determined to legislate from the bench. The court ignored decades of precedent by overturning affirmative action in college admissions, overruling laws that protect same-sex couples, and ignoring the legal authority granted by the HEROES Act to cancel student debt. In dissent, Justice Sonia Sotomayor exposed the hypocrisy of the court who “subverts the constitutional guarantee of equal protection by further entrenching racial inequality in education, the very foundation of our democratic government and pluralistic society.”
Supreme Hypocrisy
Republican leaders attack the FBI and DOJ for investigating Trump's crimes and ignore the obvious ethics violations of conservative Supreme Court justices.
Justices Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas failed to disclose luxury gifts from GOP billionaire donors while Republican leaders make unsupported accusations against President Biden. The evidence Donald Trump committed crimes is overwhelming, but, instead, Republicans choose to investigate the FBI. Rep. George Santos is under multiple criminal indictments, but House Republicans vote to censure Rep. Adam Schiff in revenge for the House impeachment of Trump.
Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous
Right-wing billionaires and mega donors have spent millions to buy the Supreme Court, including undisclosed gifts to current Justices and their families.
The GOP's politicization and recently discovered undisclosed gifts to Supreme Court Justices has devastated the public's trust of what was once the most respected branch of government. On December 12, 2000 the United States Supreme Court blocked the recount of the 2000 Florida presidential election - handing the election to George Bush who lost the popular vote. Then in 2013 the Supreme Court gutted the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and later decisions have opened the floodgates for voter suppression, corporate money in campaigns, Gerrymandering, and the dismissal of the rights of millions of Americans.