“Democracy is on the ballot.” That mantra of President Joe Biden and other Democrats has suggested that “this may be our last election” if the Republicans win in 2024. A few of us have noted that the Democrats seem more keen on claiming the mantle of the defenders of democracy than actually practicing it. Democrats have sought to disqualify Donald Trump and dozens of Republicans from ballots; block third party candidates, censor and blacklist of those with opposing views; and weaponize the legal system against their opponents. Most recently, in California, democracy is truly on the ballot and the Democrats are on the wrong side.
California has always prided itself on the ability of citizens to vote on changes in the law directly through referenda and ballot measures. That is precisely what citizens are attempting to do with a measure that would require voter approval of any tax increase, including a two-thirds vote for some local taxes. It is called the Taxpayer Protection Act and it is a duly qualified statewide ballot measure slated for the November 2024 ballot.
The state Democrats are apoplectic over the prospect of citizen control over revenue and taxes. What was a quaint element of democratic empowerment is now challenging a core vehicle of Democratic power. So Gov. Gavin Newsom and other Democratic leaders have taken the issue to the state Supreme Court to demand that citizens be denied the right to decide the issue.
In oral arguments, the attorney supporting the challenge explained to the justices that citizens are simply not equipped to deal with the complexities of taxation and should not be allowed to render such a decision.
In a prior decision, Associate Justice Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar wrote that “Whether the context involves taxation or not, all of these cases underscore how courts preserve and liberally construe the public’s statewide and local initiative power. Indeed, we resolve doubts about the scope of the initiative power in its favor whenever possible and we narrowly construe provisions that would burden or limit the exercise of that power.”
Half of the Court seemed to be inclined to deny the public the right to decide the question.
The question here is whether California will officially relieve voters, whose mandates have been routinely overturned, of any notion about their government’s respect for democracy.
Voters might not have direct authority over government operations, but they do elect those who do make those decisions. If they are not selecting good candidates, they are rightfully forced to live under the rules passed by those they have elected. Choose wisely, or pay the price.
Gggrrrrr-we are a constitutional republic
When we realize it, we will take back our power, but it will require guns
On the Federal level, not the States. States function as individual democracies
Dieu et mon Droit! When Kings were all-powerful, they would increase taxes at will. One such example was during the middle part of the 1700’s in the ‘colonies.’ Vocal resentment grew, with chants of ‘no taxation without representation.’ A War ensued, and the United States as a nation was born. Are the taxpayers in California going to ‘go to War’ over this? Or just move outl
Move out and screw up whatever new state they go to
I guarantee you, many like me would fit in quite nicely with our conservative perspectives. We’ve lived through this insanity and are incensed by it. Please don’t lump us all together. The majority of California’s are conservative. Like states such as NY, IL, VA, etc. The cities don’t represent the will of the majority. It’s just the power centers and centers of corruption. I’m planning to stay and fight, but I won’t lie that I’ve got an eye on an escape plan. Wherever we potentially land, we will blend in, vote our conservative principles, and become as local as possible.
The Chico (CA) Taxpayers Association is supporting the TPA and opposing two local tax increases. Join us at chicotaxpayers.com
This show trial is to drag Trump through the mud and continue to brainwash the public into believing this is a REAL trial and a FAIR judge. To brainwash the public into believing Trump is a criminal, but NOT Joe?
To ignore Joe, Hunter, and Jim Biden’s racketeering schemes.
The Biden bribes? Tax evasion? Money laundering? FARA violations? The lies about the laptop?
THOSE are actual CRIMES.
But they are being totally downplayed or outright ignored by the DOJ and the Fake News media.
Now we have Dr. Jill on The View telling the ladies: this election is about “good vs. evil”…. as if Joe is the “good” guy?
Jill Biden is a despicable, brazen hussy.
The Biden Crime family is the MOST corrupt to ever occupy the White House. The media know it too, but they will never let the public know the truth.
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“The real danger of a news media that refuses to do its job out of fear of empowering “the other guy” is that this will go unnoticed.
I have liberal normie friends whose media diet centers around “mainstream” sources, and consequently, through blatant omission or outright obfuscation, continue to think:
the Hunter Biden story is a “nothingburger;”
the Covid death rate was closer to 50%;
puberty blockers have no side effects;
Jan 6th protesters themselves killed Capitol police;
there’s nothing going on at the border;
Etc.
No amount of evidence or discussion or discourse can prove to them otherwise. It’s like living in two separate worlds.
Democracy dies in the darkness alright. The darkness of media blindspots.” @MsMelChen
That this story will go unnoticed —->
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/hunter-biden-used-sandy-hook-shooting-memorial-to-coordinate-meeting-between-dad-joe-chinese-biz-partner-docs/ar-BB1n8r0D
Joe and Hunter Biden used a visit to Sandy Hook memorial service to set up secret meet with Chinese over $10m-a-year deal, new emails reveal
Hunter Biden texted Chinese business partners to arrange a meeting with Joe
The messages come from a fresh tranche of documents released by Congress
READ MORE: Hunter Biden tried to pin his missing handgun on Mexican workers
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13448897/Hunter-Biden-meeting-Joe-Chinese-business-partners-texts-Sandy-Hookk.html
Excuze moi, this was meant to post on the Stalinist show trial comments page.
Anon: “This show trial is to drag Trump through the mud….”
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Yes, that is the intention but it is the American system of justice that is getting dragged through and covered with ordure. Trump seems brighter and stronger.
There is judgement for those who declare good to be evil and evil good. It is the demoncrats who by example are the primary movers in this perversion.
What is allowed on the cable TV “news” is not much more than a more elaborate version of Pravda under the Soviet Union. “Exhibit A” cases abound, like “The Wuhan Coverup” by EcoHealth Alliance insider Huff, or “The Gray Lady Winked” about a century of corruption and lies at the NY Times. The “newspaper of record” has been fake news (Lie of Omission) all along, see none other than Carl Bernstein’s own site for his 1977 Rolling Stone piece “The CIA and the Media” about actual fake news. RFK’s book about Fauci and his other about government deceit–ALL kept off “TV News’ and most ominously C-Span BookTV. Sharyl Attkisson’s “Full Measure” is literally the only thing on TV (syndicated on Sinclair associates) that steps out of line on Covid vax injury (they let her on Youtube now though). Sharyl was run out of CBS for daring to cover the Eric Holder’s Fast and Furious gun running operation. Oh and J6? Stolen election evidence about Dominion? Not only is it censored OFF FOX a substack author Bobby Powell offered video evidence of fed manipulation to Bongino among other “conservative” media types and was ignored (Powell describes being threatened by a Republican Congressman from Michigan too). A site called TheGeorgiaRecord has kept a running account of the ghastly corruption in the REPUBLICAN party in Georgia that is protecting election fraud. All erased from “the media”. See Tina Peters site for her case in Colorado, she says “Dominion IS the federal government”.
Is it wrong to wonder if Merchan’s antics are because of an offer of a federal judgeship?
I don’t know, but it would explain a lot. Seems like there must be some reward for committing judicial seppuku.
His daughter raises big money for the Democrats. He had no business having anything to do with this case or anything else related to the election. Yet as with Boasberg in DC all these cases are “randomly” assigned to him. But his in a sewerhole city where the governor had to send the National Guard into the subways. (Similarly Gel Newsom in California sent 120 CHP to Oakland to quell the anarchy the locals are unwilling to do anything about–meanwhile state’s highways deteriorate into lawlessness). There is an attempt to recall the Oakland DA.
I guess if the United States were a ‘democracy’, that might matter. We aren’t. They know it. Stop voting dem unless in the future you would like to be regarded as irretrievably stupid. 🙄🙄
The judicial branch, with emphasis on the Supreme Court, is charged with striking down that which does not comport with the “manifest tenor” of the Constitution.
The entire communistic American welfare state is unconstitutional including, but not limited to, admissions affirmative action, grade-inflation affirmative action, employment affirmative action, quotas, welfare, food stamps, minimum wage, rent control, social services, forced busing, public housing, utility subsidies, WIC, SNAP, TANF, HAMP, HARP, TARP, Health and Human Services, Housing and Urban Development, Environmental Protection Agency, Agriculture, Education, Labor, Energy, Obamacare, Social Security, Social Security Disability, Social Security Supplemental Income, Medicare, Medicaid, “Fair Housing” laws, “Non-Discrimination” laws, etc.
Article 1, Section 8, provides Congress the power to tax for ONLY debt, defense, and “…general (all, the whole) Welfare…,” omitting and, thereby, excluding any power to tax for individual Welfare, specific Welfare, particular Welfare, favor or charity. The same article enumerates and provides Congress the power to regulate ONLY the Value of money, Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several states, and with the Indian Tribes, and land and naval Forces.
Additionally, the 5th Amendment right to private property was initially qualified by the Framers and is, therefore, absolute, allowing no further qualification, and allowing ONLY the owner the power to “claim and exercise” dominion over private property.
Government exists, under the Constitution and Bill of Rights, to provide maximal freedom to individuals while government is severely limited and restricted to merely facilitating that maximal freedom of individuals through the provision of security and infrastructure only.
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“…courts…must…declare all acts contrary to the manifest tenor of the Constitution void.”
“…men…do…what their powers do not authorize, [and] what they forbid.”
“[A] limited Constitution … can be preserved in practice no other way than through the medium of courts of justice, whose duty it must be to declare all acts contrary to the manifest tenor of the Constitution void. Without this, all the reservations of particular rights or privileges would amount to nothing … To deny this would be to affirm … that men acting by virtue of powers may do not only what their powers do not authorize, but what they forbid.”
– Alexander Hamilton
Left out of the debate:
James Madison was strongly opposed to “pure-democracy”. Democracy without constitutional boundaries and without Congress to calm down the emotions can create very bad results.
In 1910, if pure-democracy had existed no woman would have voting rights today. Only men would vote today.
Jim Crow laws were a result of pure-democracy in state and local elections – they voted to make African-Americans second class citizens.
African-American is an oxymoronic contradiction in terms. On January 1, 1863, the date of the wholly unconstitutional “Emancipation Proclamation,” American immigration law, the Naturalization Act of 1802, in full force and effect, only admitted “…free white person(s)…” to become citizens, requiring by extension the deportation, or compassionate repatriation, of those not meeting that qualification.
In America, strict adherence to the Constitution and Bill of Rights was exponentially more important and imperative than broadening the vote. Clearly, America will not survive the irrational “expansion” of voting rights, which inexorably led to the separation from and nullification of the Constitution and Bill of Rights.
Either women must have been denied the vote or their objectives must have been denied upon enforcement of the manifest tenor of the Constitution and Bill of Rights. One man, one vote, democracy, and expansion of the vote diluted and nullified the Constitution and Bill of Rights, which must have been supported by the judicial branch.
The singular American failure was not voting by females but the judicial branch, with emphasis on the Supreme Court.
“One can fool some men, or fool all men in some places and times, but one cannot fool all men in all places and ages.”
– Jacques Abbadie, “Traité de la Vérité de la Religion Chrétienne,” 1684
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“We are five days away from fundamentally transforming the United States of America.”
– Barack Obama
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“We will stop him.”
– Peter Strzok to FBI paramour Lisa Page
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“[Obama] wants to know everything we’re doing.”
– Lisa Page to FBI paramour Peter Strzok
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“I want to believe the path you threw out for consideration in Andy’s office — that there’s no way he gets elected — but I’m afraid we can’t take that risk It’s like an insurance policy in the unlikely event you die before 40.”
– Peter Strzok to FBI parmour Lisa Page
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“People on the 7th floor to include Director are fired up about this [Trump] server.”
– Bill Priestap
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“You do not need unanimity to convict.”
– Juan Merchan
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The Obama Coup D’etat in America continues in Juan Merchan’s corrupt New York court.
The Obama Coup D’etat in America is the most egregious abuse of power and the most prodigious crime in American political history. The co-conspirators are:
Kevin Clinesmith, Bill Taylor, Eric Ciaramella, Rosenstein, Mueller/Team, Andrew Weissmann,
James Comey, Christopher Wray, McCabe, Strozk, Page, Laycock, Kadzic, Sally Yates,
James Baker, Bruce Ohr, Nellie Ohr, Priestap, Kortan, Campbell, Sir Richard Dearlove,
Christopher Steele, Simpson, Joseph Mifsud, Alexander Downer, Stefan “The Walrus” Halper,
Azra Turk, Kerry, Hillary, Huma, Mills, Brennan, Gina Haspel, Clapper, Lerner, Farkas, Power,
Lynch, Rice, Jarrett, Holder, Brazile, Sessions (patsy), Nadler, Schiff, Pelosi, Obama,
Joe Biden, James E. Boasberg, Emmet Sullivan, Gen. Milley, George Soros, John McCain,
Marc Elias, Igor Danchenko, Fiona Hill, Charles H. Dolan, Jake Sullivan, Strobe Talbot,
Cody Shear, Victoria Nuland, Ray “Red Hat” Epps, Don Berlin, Kathy Ruemmler, Rodney Joffe,
Paul Vixie, L. Jean Camp, Andrew Whitney, Lisa O. Monaco, Fani Willis, Alvin Bragg,
Matthew Colangelo, Merrick Garland, Juan Merchan et al.
Conspicuously missing are the Republicans from this list including Mitch McConnell, Paul Ryan, George Bush, William Barr and many others. We are being abused by a one party system that has devolved into a final struggle between common citizens and the corrupt ruling elite…if we lose this one in November it’s all over folks. May be anyway but hope will be preserved for now.