Mr. Suhr’s explanation of the 14th amendment is helpful. It seems that most people consider this a long shot application of that amendment and very unlikely to succeed. However, his description of former President Trump’s actions on Jan. 6 put the best possible face on them, describing them in the most innocuous terms. Mr. Trump is charged with much, much more, and nearly all those charges relate to his months of activities leading up to the riot. My queston- would Mr. Suhr have written the same article if he felt those charges have merit? I would like to think so, but I have my doubts.
CaptTee
There is an interesting section on Reddit called r/Trump666.
You can tell from their title that they do not think Trump is a good guy. They argue that he will get reelected precisely because he is the Antichrist. Interesting, but I am not convinced.
In the last days, the whole world (aside from the church, of course) is going to worship the antichrist as god. Try as I might, I cannot possibly imagine that happening with Trump. He has far too many haters to have anything close to a chance of that happening.
I agree.
Another random thought about the Antichrist: since no one but God the Father knows when the day of the Lord will be, the devil has to have a potential antichrist on standby every moment. Creepy.
Paul
If judges allow Section 3 of Amendment 14 to go forth ....,"one can only imagine the Pandora’s box this would open. It was not opened by the drafters, adopters, and ratifiers of the 14th Amendment. It is being opened by the modern-day saboteurs of the Constitution."
The Democrat Party's fetish for the 14th Amendment is a vile attack on our elections directed at one man: Donald Trump
https://www.theblaze.com/op-ed/levin-the-democrat-partys-fetish-for-the-14th-amendment-is-a-vile-attack-on-our-elections-directed-at-one-man-donald-trump
Guest
I'm not sure this is the question to be asking. I fully expect Trump to be convicted on multiple counts in multiple jurisdictions. So maybe the question we should be asking is, can a convicted felon run for office while sitting in jail? And a follow-up question: if he wins, can he conduct the President's affairs from a prison cell?
More questions: how will the Secret Service protect him in The Big House? Will he be allowed to post in his orange jumpsuit? Will they give visitation rights to heads of state from foreign countries? Will he be sharing a prison cell with Joe Biden?
I don't expect Trump to be elected President (although he may well be the Republican nominee) but still, I ponder these questions and others.
MinnieKins
Whatever happens in this election, we should take heart in knowing that God is still on the throne. He was still God when Herod reigned, He was still God when Nero reigned, He was still God when Hitler reigned. All of those men are long dead now, and yet He is still God.
I hate to break it to President Trump's MAGA boomer fans, but here's how it's going to go down. The single, female voter demographic will decide the election, and they heavily favor Democrats, voting largely out of fear and emotion. They will not go for Trump, and neither will other "independent" swing voters. However, they also don't like Biden. They will happily vote for literally anyone BUT those two candidates.
So Biden and Trump are easily going to win their primaries, and then the Democrats will pull the rug out from under the Republicans by removing Biden from the ticket due to "health reasons." The Republicans will be left with an unelectable candidate, and the Democrats will put someone in as their candidate with enough charisma to mollify the swing voters. The Democrats will win and continue rounding up their political enemies and putting them in prison. The end.
If we're using wind metaphors here, your 'wind' sounds to me like a lot of hot air (and your description of single female voters sounds like misogyny; I speak as a single female). Literally anything could happen between now and then. I hadn't expected Trump to win the election the first time, so by this point, I think I've given up trying to predict the future.
MinnieKins, I respect your opinion, but my description of what motivates single female voters is not coming from misogyny. First, think about it for one second. In our culture today, we can mark several generalized characteristics of single women of voting age: they attend college at a rate higher than men, they are not likely to be married, and they have sex, sometimes in states where abortion is being restricted by state law. The college attendance means that more women than men are steeped in far-left ideology, which traffics in the troubling ideas that there is no afterlife, there is nothing but the natural world, that we are alone on a planet that is ruled by 'blind, pitiless indifference," and that there is no purpose to life beyond one's own happiness. The increase in mental health problems has been noted in the news. Next, when a woman is not married, she has no partner who has proclaimed before God and the community to take care of her needs until death. She is on her own. That is not fun, particularly when pregnancy can put her life on hold, and lose her the job that she depends on to support herself. The progressive dogma claims that unmarried sex and hookup culture are great. But bad ideas always have victims. Add it up, and you can understand where the fear might come from.
While that is all my speculation, there are polls that suggest how these people vote, so we can actually back this hypothesis up. Stanford University and the University of Michigan have been conducting the American National Election Study (ANES) on presidential elections since 1948, collecting both in-person and online survey data from an average of 72,272 participants. The survey collects data about whether people voted, and if so, for whom, opinions on policies, and also their demographic information, including sex, race, income, and educational achievements. The survey finds that "women who held both anger and fear were shown to have the highest level of participation [in voting for Democrat candidates].... As expected, anger and fear toward the Republican candidate were effective in mobilizing the women to participate."
Source material:
American National Election Study (1948-2016) Time Series Cumulative Data File. Retrieved from https://electionstudies.org/data-center/anes-time-series-cumulative-data-file/
Emotional Motivation: How Anger, Fear, Hope and Pride Impact Women’s Political Participation
https://www.bemidjistate.edu/academics/departments/political-science/wp-content/uploads/sites/40/2022/03/Ashley-Martin-thesis.pdf
Part of the gender gap in voting for Democrats arises because a higher proportion of women than men voters are Black
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10288652/
bbgun06
President Trump said, "make your voices peacefully and patriotically heard."
You're cherry-picking. He said a lot of other things that day to foment the crowd. See https://apnews.com/article/fact-check-trump-us-capitol-remarks-221518bc174f9bc3dd6e108e653ed08d
Mr. Suhr’s explanation of the 14th amendment is helpful. It seems that most people consider this a long shot application of that amendment and very unlikely to succeed. However, his description of former President Trump’s actions on Jan. 6 put the best possible face on them, describing them in the most innocuous terms. Mr. Trump is charged with much, much more, and nearly all those charges relate to his months of activities leading up to the riot. My queston- would Mr. Suhr have written the same article if he felt those charges have merit? I would like to think so, but I have my doubts.
There is an interesting section on Reddit called r/Trump666.
You can tell from their title that they do not think Trump is a good guy. They argue that he will get reelected precisely because he is the Antichrist. Interesting, but I am not convinced.
In the last days, the whole world (aside from the church, of course) is going to worship the antichrist as god. Try as I might, I cannot possibly imagine that happening with Trump. He has far too many haters to have anything close to a chance of that happening.
I agree.
Another random thought about the Antichrist: since no one but God the Father knows when the day of the Lord will be, the devil has to have a potential antichrist on standby every moment. Creepy.
If judges allow Section 3 of Amendment 14 to go forth ....,"one can only imagine the Pandora’s box this would open. It was not opened by the drafters, adopters, and ratifiers of the 14th Amendment. It is being opened by the modern-day saboteurs of the Constitution."
The Democrat Party's fetish for the 14th Amendment is a vile attack on our elections directed at one man: Donald Trump
https://www.theblaze.com/op-ed/levin-the-democrat-partys-fetish-for-the-14th-amendment-is-a-vile-attack-on-our-elections-directed-at-one-man-donald-trump
I'm not sure this is the question to be asking. I fully expect Trump to be convicted on multiple counts in multiple jurisdictions. So maybe the question we should be asking is, can a convicted felon run for office while sitting in jail? And a follow-up question: if he wins, can he conduct the President's affairs from a prison cell?
More questions: how will the Secret Service protect him in The Big House? Will he be allowed to post in his orange jumpsuit? Will they give visitation rights to heads of state from foreign countries? Will he be sharing a prison cell with Joe Biden?
I don't expect Trump to be elected President (although he may well be the Republican nominee) but still, I ponder these questions and others.
Whatever happens in this election, we should take heart in knowing that God is still on the throne. He was still God when Herod reigned, He was still God when Nero reigned, He was still God when Hitler reigned. All of those men are long dead now, and yet He is still God.
Amen.
I hate to break it to President Trump's MAGA boomer fans, but here's how it's going to go down. The single, female voter demographic will decide the election, and they heavily favor Democrats, voting largely out of fear and emotion. They will not go for Trump, and neither will other "independent" swing voters. However, they also don't like Biden. They will happily vote for literally anyone BUT those two candidates.
So Biden and Trump are easily going to win their primaries, and then the Democrats will pull the rug out from under the Republicans by removing Biden from the ticket due to "health reasons." The Republicans will be left with an unelectable candidate, and the Democrats will put someone in as their candidate with enough charisma to mollify the swing voters. The Democrats will win and continue rounding up their political enemies and putting them in prison. The end.
My wife always accuses me of "weaving tales." You just weaved a master tale here. Bravo!
In the words of Bob Dylan, you don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows.
If we're using wind metaphors here, your 'wind' sounds to me like a lot of hot air (and your description of single female voters sounds like misogyny; I speak as a single female). Literally anything could happen between now and then. I hadn't expected Trump to win the election the first time, so by this point, I think I've given up trying to predict the future.
MinnieKins, I respect your opinion, but my description of what motivates single female voters is not coming from misogyny. First, think about it for one second. In our culture today, we can mark several generalized characteristics of single women of voting age: they attend college at a rate higher than men, they are not likely to be married, and they have sex, sometimes in states where abortion is being restricted by state law. The college attendance means that more women than men are steeped in far-left ideology, which traffics in the troubling ideas that there is no afterlife, there is nothing but the natural world, that we are alone on a planet that is ruled by 'blind, pitiless indifference," and that there is no purpose to life beyond one's own happiness. The increase in mental health problems has been noted in the news. Next, when a woman is not married, she has no partner who has proclaimed before God and the community to take care of her needs until death. She is on her own. That is not fun, particularly when pregnancy can put her life on hold, and lose her the job that she depends on to support herself. The progressive dogma claims that unmarried sex and hookup culture are great. But bad ideas always have victims. Add it up, and you can understand where the fear might come from.
While that is all my speculation, there are polls that suggest how these people vote, so we can actually back this hypothesis up. Stanford University and the University of Michigan have been conducting the American National Election Study (ANES) on presidential elections since 1948, collecting both in-person and online survey data from an average of 72,272 participants. The survey collects data about whether people voted, and if so, for whom, opinions on policies, and also their demographic information, including sex, race, income, and educational achievements. The survey finds that "women who held both anger and fear were shown to have the highest level of participation [in voting for Democrat candidates].... As expected, anger and fear toward the Republican candidate were effective in mobilizing the women to participate."
Source material:
American National Election Study (1948-2016) Time Series Cumulative Data File. Retrieved from https://electionstudies.org/data-center/anes-time-series-cumulative-data-file/
Emotional Motivation: How Anger, Fear, Hope and Pride Impact Women’s Political Participation
https://www.bemidjistate.edu/academics/departments/political-science/wp-content/uploads/sites/40/2022/03/Ashley-Martin-thesis.pdf
Part of the gender gap in voting for Democrats arises because a higher proportion of women than men voters are Black
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10288652/
President Trump said, "make your voices peacefully and patriotically heard."
You're cherry-picking. He said a lot of other things that day to foment the crowd. See https://apnews.com/article/fact-check-trump-us-capitol-remarks-221518bc174f9bc3dd6e108e653ed08d