Posted on 08/21/2023 11:52:52 AM PDT by thegagline
Boo hoo
Screw the RNC
That is not what i]he is claiming. He is claiming to go to backroom to meet with media in the so-called spin room, which should be limited to participant campaigns. Let Trump junior go talk to media at the curb.
“Every thread is at least 75% opposed to the de facto leader of the Republican Party, Donald J. Trump.”
Do you mean Donald J. Trump, the guy that made Anthony Fauci the de facto leader of the USA in 2020? I would expect some to be opposed to him being coronated.
I wouldn’t want to start a tradition of stand-ins and surrogates at these debates. These things are boring and off-topic enough as it is.
"Donald Trump Jr. says he’ll be at Republican debate as dad’s surrogate"
As a side note to this thread, please consider the following.
Constitutionally enumerated rules for electing a new president were undoubtedly primarily intended for finding the best person to be Commander-in-Chief of the armed forces, also to negotiate trade / treaty agreements.
On the other hand, electoral vote rules are great overkill (imo) for trying to find the best person to sign legislation to run the US Mail Service, one of the very few powers that the states have expressly constitutionally given to the feds to dictate an aspect of peacetime domestic policy, most "federal" domestic policy now based on stolen state powers imo.
"Article I, Section 8, Clause 7: To establish Post Offices and post Roads;"
"From the accepted doctrine that the United States is a government of delegated powers, it follows that those not expressly granted, or reasonably to be implied from such as are conferred, are reserved to the states, or to the people. To forestall any suggestion to the contrary, the Tenth Amendment was adopted. The same proposition, otherwise stated, is that powers not granted are prohibited [emphasis added]." —United States v. Butler, 1936.
It's too bad that the “asleep at the wheel” states never required candidate voters to first pass a simple constitutional division of state and federal powers test before being allowed to vote. After all, misguided, constitutionally illiterate immigrant voters have inadvertently abused their voting power by effectively turning the Oval Office into a throne room imo.
After all, consider that that a voter qualification test doesn't have to be more difficult than passing a written driver test imo.
“3. The Constitution was written to be understood by the voters [emphasis added]; its words and phrases were used in their normal and ordinary as distinguished from technical meaning; where the intention is clear, there is no room for construction and no excuse for interpolation or addition.” —United States v. Sprague, 1931.
Also, consider that if the 10th Amendment had been written as the 1st Amendment, amendments 1 though 9 moved down a number, that people would probably have a better grip on the vast powers of the states to serve the people.
In other words, the BoR should begin as follows.
"1st Amendment: The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.2nd Amendment: Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
3rd Amendment: A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
..."
In fact, the congressional record shows that Rep. John Bingham, a constitutional lawmaker, had emphasized that the drafters of the Constitution had left the care of the people to the states, not the feds.
”Simply this, that the care of the property, the liberty, and the life of the citizen, under the solemn sanction of an oath imposed by your Constitution, is in the States and not in the federal government [emphases added]. I have sought to effect no change in that respect in the Constitution of the country.” —John Bingham, Congressional. Globe. 1866, page 1292 (see top half of third column)
That being said, Democratic and Republican Trump-supporting patriots need to get ready ASAP to support hopeful Trump 47 by primarying ALL state and federal, lawmakers and executives, except for MTG and Gaetz (and others?) for the 2024 primaries.
After all, lawmakers and executives continue to show that they do not have the patriotism and leadership skills necessary to find legislative support for effective remedies for unconstitutional government policies.
Kevin McCarthy Calls for Alejandro Mayorkas to Resign, Threatens Impeachment if DHS Secretary Resists (November.22.2022)
Again, since one of the very few powers that the states have expressly constitutionally given to the big, bad federal government to dictate peacetime domestic policy is to run the US Mail Service, the worst problem that the country would otherwise be looking at with a new Congress of Trump-supporting freshman lawmakers is arguably a delay with mail delivery.
Trump can endorse candidates from lists that patriots who respect the federal government's constitutionally limited powers provide for him, as long as candidates are not incumbents, candidates also promising to repeal the 16th (direct taxes) and 17th (popular voting for federal senators) Amendments after they win office.
The definition of insanity is reelecting your beloved career state and federal lawmakers and executives over and over again, expecting those same politicians to find remedies for unconstitutional government policies every time.
Patriots, let's not allow ourselves to be fooled for third time in 2024 by the corrupt, constitutionally undefined political parties that have pirated control of state and federal governments.
Your bias is showing.
The debates are worthless anyway, with the limited amount of time given each participant to speak.
And your ignorance? Trump says he’s not gonna participate, so why should anybody from Trump be allowed to participate? It should be a simple either or, and Trump refuses to pledge supporting the candidate, so he and his campaign should be barred. Is that so difficult to understand?
Because YOU don't make the rules.
America is still a free country. If you don’t want decent, North Korea will welcome you. We left England and royalty. We don’t appoint a king. We expect a robust primary like we’ve had every four years.
Just take note in your suggestion of cheating that ultimately the republican party decides who can be on their ballot. And since Trump doesn’t want to participate, they really should not allow him on the ballot. And I suspect that question will arise over the next 6 to 12 months during the primaries, debates, and the convention. Trump is not a king, it’s not a coronation, and if he wants to play, he needs to participate. What’s he afraid of?
As usual, you show your ignorance, and bizarre habit of putting words in people's mouths they never said. You have no credibility, because you make things up as you go along.
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