{"id":13614,"date":"2023-12-20T11:06:04","date_gmt":"2023-12-20T19:06:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/?p=13614"},"modified":"2023-12-24T08:28:29","modified_gmt":"2023-12-24T16:28:29","slug":"i-really-was-trying-to-ignore-the-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/2023\/12\/20\/i-really-was-trying-to-ignore-the-news\/","title":{"rendered":"I really was trying to ignore the News&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>But Come On!<\/p>\n<p>Colorado has decided to keep Trump off the ballot using the 14th amendment section 3, and they\u2019ve made this decision by <em><strong>assuming<\/strong><\/em> his guilt in the Jan 6th \u201c<i>Insurrection<\/i>,\u201d (what the rest of us call a riot,) <u><b><span style=\"color: #ff2600;\">without benefit of a trial<\/span><\/b><\/u>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Folks, no matter where you come down on Trump, Jan 6th, Republican or Democrat, this is wrong!<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" title=\"Screenshot 2023-12-20 at 10.22.37\u202fAM.png\" src=\"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Screenshot-2023-12-20-at-10.22.37%E2%80%AFAM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"598\" height=\"171\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Honestly, it\u2019s something that should alarm every single American Citizen. I\u2019m serious, all of us should be shitting ourselves and preparing for what inevitably happens next, if you believe the history books.<\/p>\n<p>That Judges in Colorado\u2019s courts think this is okay, calls into question their competence, and their ability to be unbiased in administration of the law.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: right;\" title=\"AA1lNAsV-2662117348.img.jpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/AA1lNAsV-2662117348.img_.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" border=\"0\" \/>Frankly, if this is allowed to stand then \u201c<em>Democracy<\/em>\u201d as the Democrats breathlessly say they\u2019re protecting, is already dead and gone. (<em>The minor little issue that our government is, or was, a constitutional republic seems to escape them<\/em>.) However what I think they\u2019re trying to say is, <em>Democracy<\/em> = Our form of government with checks and balances and supposedly equal justice for all, is threatened.<\/p>\n<p>We still have to wait for the Supreme Court challenge to be heard. If the Supreme Court of the United States allows the Colorado ruling \u00a0to stand, there is no justice system in our country anymore. \u00a0We\u2019re going to find ourselves in an era of \u201cShow me the man, I\u2019ll find the crime,\u201d justice.<\/p>\n<p>By the way, that\u2019s normally the way the justice system works in communist countries, and dictatorships.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019d submit that politicians have already destroyed that \u201c<em>Democracy<\/em>\u201d they claim to protect. Oh, and it\u2019s not just the Democrats. The Republicans had a hand in the destruction of our form of government too. Every compromised vote, every rancid pork bill they passed, eroded our government and enabled ever greater corruption.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: right;\" title=\"jan-6-committee-2.png\" src=\"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/jan-6-committee-2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" border=\"0\" \/>We can\u2019t reasonably expect any form of government to stand under the weight of corruption from bottom to top.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of which&#8230; By Colorado\u2019s logic what about Joe Biden?<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s under impeachment inquiry, There is some evidence to suggest that he\u2019s been in bed with China and Ukraine which also appears to fall under the same section of the 14th amendment.<\/p>\n<p>Corruption, providing aid to China, and what appears to be a litany of charges, are dogging Joe Biden aren\u2019t they? Shouldn\u2019t Colorado remove him from the ballot too?<\/p>\n<p>Oh right! We only believe unproven allegations when it\u2019s a candidate from a party we don\u2019t like\u2026 Otherwise everything is hunky dory!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: right;\" title=\"OP4LBGJ6BQ4JJOOJTOU7PTWMPU.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/OP4LBGJ6BQ4JJOOJTOU7PTWMPU.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"216\" border=\"0\" \/>I realize I might be the canary in the coal mine here.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>That being said, I\u2019ve suggested outlandish theories in these very pages only to have them come true!<\/p>\n<p>Remember Afghanistan? Way back in the day, I theorized that we\u2019d end up just like the Russians. Recall, they spent years in Afghanistan just as we did. You might also recall that eventually they bailed and left behind The Taliban. Uhhh, we spent 20 years there and what was the result? It sure as fuck wasn\u2019t a democracy.<\/p>\n<p>One thing I\u2019ve concluded, about terrorists and corrupt politicians. You can\u2019t take half measures. They\u2019re like a cockroach infestation, with cockroaches you have no choice but to gas the place and kill them all, or they\u2019re going to come back. We\u2019ve seen it with The Taliban, so the theory holds up in one instance. To prove it we may have to march corrupt politicians to the gallows here in America.<\/p>\n<p>We won\u2019t of course\u2026<\/p>\n<p>There was a time when corruption was a very bad thing. Now it\u2019s business as usual. The obviousness of the two tiered justice system is new. There\u2019s always been a difference between trials of rich people and trials of us commoners. I\u2019m not so blind or deluded that I hadn\u2019t noticed. Back 10 or 20 years, you had to really be paying attention to catch it.<\/p>\n<p>Now it\u2019s not as much about who has how much money\u2026 Justice is dictated by the people threatening to burn a city down. Or by people who don\u2019t like a particular political candidate. The Law??? Toss that shit out with yesterday\u2019s dirty diapers and unwanted fetuses.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>There was a time when the failures of the Justice system could be overlooked, those failures were somewhat rare and had to do with esoteric issues. Now, failures of the justice system are much more common. This new failure mechanism isn\u2019t a failure in trials, it\u2019s a failure in bringing people to trial, and an almost infinitely flexible criteria for charging someone with a crime.<\/p>\n<p>If I\u2019m Black and toss a molotov cocktail into a drug store. I\u2019m simply expressing my opinion. If I\u2019m White, or Asian, and do the same thing, I\u2019ve committed a crime.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>If I organize a protest supporting Hamas and their butchering of children, wherein I block a freeway, or invade and occupy the capital interfering with congressional business, I\u2019m exercising my protected free speech.<\/p>\n<p>If I organize a protest supporting the IDF and Israeli rights to defend themselves, wherein I block a street in New York I\u2019m inciting hate. Likewise, If I walk through the Capital on Jan 6th carrying nothing but a flag, and interfering with congressional business, \u00a0I\u2019m an insurrectionist and subject to the full force of American Law.<\/p>\n<p>These things suggest to me that the America I was brought up to respect, revere, and protect has been destroyed from within.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s depressing as hell, but there\u2019s nothing that can be done. The only solution is to reboot the government according to the Bill of Rights and Constitution. That can\u2019t happen today because there are too many dissenting voices and too many people who literally hate everything this country stood for. That leaves the only option for control being a military dictator and even if that dictatorship was only supposed to be temporary while rebooting to original principles, we know we\u2019d have a dictator for life.<\/p>\n<p>Even if there was a civil war or some kind of revolution, there would never be consensus about how to restart the government. We\u2019d still end up with a military dictator. The thing about dictators is that they have no desire to give up power once they have it.<\/p>\n<p>Sadly, I think the American Experiment is over. We had a good run.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I think it\u2019s time to locate a quiet state that remembers its roots as a commonwealth. Preferably someplace with a history of fierce independence, individual freedom, and rights. Oh and that state needs to have a constitution that is enforced and honored. Because at this point, it looks like our Federal government has decided to wipe their asses with the actual constitution.<\/p>\n<p>Sorry to be such a downer, but honestly folks\u2026 I think nationally, we\u2019re well and truly fucked.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>But Come On! Colorado has decided to keep Trump off the ballot using the 14th amendment section 3, and they\u2019ve made this decision by assuming his guilt in the Jan 6th \u201cInsurrection,\u201d (what the rest of us call a riot,) without benefit of a trial.\u00a0 Folks, no matter where you come down on Trump, Jan &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/2023\/12\/20\/i-really-was-trying-to-ignore-the-news\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;I really was trying to ignore the News&#8230;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64,11,104,257,14,272,66],"tags":[190,236,189,256,182,273,172],"class_list":["post-13614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-assholes","category-gop-dem","category-government","category-justice","category-politics","category-sadness-and-loss","category-wtf","tag-assholes","tag-gop-dem","tag-government","tag-justice","tag-politics","tag-sadness-and-loss","tag-wtf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13614"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13614\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13658,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13614\/revisions\/13658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}