Voting For Felons

Today’s blog may be less beefy than usual as I’m running late, am not home, and have other things to do, like eating.

The Supreme Court issued a ruling today that states can NOT remove Donald Trump from their presidential ballots. The court ruled unanimously. In case you’re a Republican, “unanimously” means everyone. All three of the liberal judges agreed with all six of the fucknut judges. Shockingly, I say with heavy sarcasm, None of the three Trump-nominated judges, Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh, or Amy Coney Barrett, recused themselves. Neither did Clarence Thomas despite the fact his wife was a part of the insurrectionist effort to help Trump steal the 2020 election he lost.

Section 3 of the 14th Amendment states that any person who takes part in an insurrection against the nation and constitution he or she took an oath to uphold and defend can’t hold government office. That means orange fuckwits who try to steal an election he lost and orders an attack on Congress while it certifies the election can’t run for office again. So why did all nine members or SCOTUS rule that Colorado and other states can’t remove Trump from their ballots?

SCOTUS ruled that only Congress can remove Trump from ballots for federal office while states still have the right to remove shitweasel treasonous goons who try to run for state offices. Colorado’s Secretary of State, Jena Griswold, pointed out that Congress won’t take any action on this, stating, “Ultimately, this decision … leaves open the door for Congress to act to pass authorizing legislation. But we know that Congress is a nearly non-functioning body, so ultimately, it will be up to the American voters to save our democracy in November.”

SCOTUS didn’t rule on the insurrection part. While Trump is proclaiming in all stupid caps that it’s a “big win for America,” SCOTUS didn’t answer the question of whether or not he’s a treasonous orange shit stain on the fabric of democracy by inciting a white nationalist terrorist attack against the nation for which he was serving as president (sic). If Trump is returned to the White House by being legitimately voted in with or without help from Putin, or by storming the castle again, the Constitution is going to look like an Oompa-Loompa turd party was held on it.

What’s weird is that SCOTUS moved so quickly to restore Trump to ballots while taking a sloth-like approach to the Trump immunity case. I guess it’s more important to put an insurrectionist on the ballot than it is for voters to know if he’s a convicted felon or not.

The Constitution states Trump can’t be on the ballot but it doesn’t say anything about felons running for president. In fact, felons have run for president in the past, even from prison cells.

Thanks to SCOTUS doing Trump a solid and pushing back a ruling on the immunity case they never should have taken up in the first place, the trial over Trump’s insurrection and attempted theft of the election won’t start until at least late September. We will not have a jury verdict on that until 2025.

That means it’s up to us not to let Trump become president (sic) and have whatever ass remora he appoints as Attorney General toss out the election-stealing case along with the classified documents case. You can also expect Trump to pardon every single treasonous shitbot who attacked the Capitol on January 6, 2020, because he’s going to need those white national Hitler-loving goose-steppers again.

The true irony here is that Trump and his brown shirt brown nosers claim removing him from ballots is denying voters the choice of voting for him while the case is about his attempts to steal the winning votes for President Joe Biden from every American who voted for him.

Come next January, he may try to do it again.

Creative note number one: I had three ideas to choose from on other subjects and then like they often do, SCOTUS fucked up those plans. So I had to write something else. I wrote three ideas for this and was indecisive between two of them. I finally chose this one, started to draw it at home, and then finished it at Wegmans. In case you don’t know, Wegmans is a grocery store with a great dining area. It’s close to my bank and I had to make my monthly deposits today.

Creative note number two: Drawing people sitting on panels like this can get boring, and I had just done it yesterday. I tried to change it up a little.

Creative note number three: I was wrong. This blog is long enough.

Music note: I listened to Stone Temple Pilots.

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