Shenna Bellows is a Radical Left Woke Politician who has unilaterally decided to upend the democratic process of America. In other words, she is right and 330+ Million people are not. This is narcissism and arrogance on a level not seen in a long time. Styx, who grew up in nearby Vermont, has thoughts.
Update: Read the comments:
Secretary of State Shenna Bellows issued this decision regarding three challenges brought by Maine voters to the nomination petitions of Donald J. Trump for the Republican primary for the President of the United States. Read the decision here: https://t.co/dCwJsC6HN9
— MaineSOS (@MESecOfState) December 28, 2023

I wonder what would happen if people simply wrote ‘Donald Trump’ on the ballot themselves. I believe write-in candidacy is still very much a thing in the US and if you don’t like any of the choices offered, you can add whomever you like and they’re required to count them.
When you use voting machines instead of paper ballots, writing in a candidate becomes increasingly difficult.
Democrats claim that anything which makes the voting process “even a little more difficult” is voter suppression.
Time for the GOP to try the same tactic.
Sounds like a typical modern Democrat to me. Who would have thought that Fetterman would start to look like the sanest of them?
It should be obvious to anyone with a brain that the 14th amendment does not apply to the Presidency, anyway. It’s the only national position and the nation can elect (almost) whomever they want. They could even have elected Jefferson Davis.
It’s a stalling tactic. They’re really not that stupid. They know they will get overturned eventually by SCOTUS, but the distraction will take away and mitigate Trump’s impact, or so they believe.
It’s straight-up election interference. Lawfare. Our respective societies are no longer free. A free society would require a justice system that applies equally to everyone under the law. We no longer have a justice system. Only a legal system that is constantly being abused and weaponized for the sole purpose of retaining power, and advancing an agenda.
Of course, but I think they really believe that provisions in the 14th can be used to exclude someone, not just Trump, from running for president. This is why they’ve been using the insurrection line since Jan. 7. Were it actually so, which of course it wasn’t, they believe they have a valid argument on those grounds. However, it should be obvious that these provisions were intended to prevent the recreation of the Confederacy on a state wide basis but, like I said, however unlikely, the US could have elected Jefferson Davis because those provisions do not apply to that position and the will of the electorate at a national level.
The SCOTUS won’t hear the case until appeals are heard. They may be able to force the R’s to nominate anyone not Trump just to have a name on the Maine ballot.
They know what they are doing and where they are going.
The ruling is stayed pending appeal, but regardless, Me has 2 electoral votes with only 1 available.
“In 1855 a military book ‘Considerations on Tactics and Strategy’ quotes Napoleon giving advice to his marshals.”
Previous to the commencement (tactically speaking) of the battle of Austerlitz, the allies attempted a flank march in column to turn the right flank of Napoleon. He restrained his marshals, who were eager to attack, saying, ‘the enemy is making a false move, why should we interrupt him’?”
Let them burn themselves down, one by one, with serial SCOTUS reversals, their dystopic despotic desperation on display.
Provided we know nothing is beneath those parasites who prey on our liberty for their power; and act accordingly.
However, if it’s not 9-0 the attack will then be focused on reforming the SCOTUS.
Yes, but let them.
Reasonable people, including Independents, will understand that 8-1 or 7-2 reveals the actual political activists in SCOTUS, so the DeMarxists have to hope for a 5-4 or at least 6-3 split, which they won’t get.
Given now that their gaslighting propaganda, censorship and coercion has been exposed, their mendactic monetized media will huff and puff to nobody listening or watching, just the like the CBC here.
Like I said, let them wail and wallow in their grossly tactical and now strategic errors in fighting Trump.
Btw, Biden won Maine by 25% over Trump’s vote, so like CO this remains a moot point, except to very soon reveal DeMarxists for the desperate dystopic despots they are, now added to their hypocritical projection, incompetence, negligence and recurring 10% Biden brand negligence to add to his lethal reign of error.
This is a two pronged thrust. They have a fallback plan to destroy the court. Mostly, I think you give reality too much credit but I hope you’re right.
Maine does their electoral votes a bit different, so even though biden beat trump on the overall vote, giving biden the 2 at large electoral college votes, trump still had enough votes in one of the congressional districts to get 1 of those.
I’m expecting 7-2 with the wide latina and biden’s pick ruling against using feelings
John Adams said, “Our constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.” Morality and virtue are the foundation of our republic and necessary for a society to be free.
This lunacy will continue until people realize the source of our failures.
He had read Machiavelli’s “The Prince”. There are but 3 forms of government: Monarchy, Aristocracy and Democracy.
In the West, we have been under Aristocracy since the enlightenment. We “vote” from a collection of “approved” candidates, who are essentially all part of the same Aristocratic, monied elite. It will admit outsiders, but only those it approves of, of course.
The three forms of government have an eventual evolution inton3 darker forms: Monarchy -> Tyranny, Aristocracy -> Oligarchy (where we in the West are now, as is Russia), and Democracy -> Anarchy (Mad Max Land).
In all cases, none of these can survive the corruption of the citizenry. Once the citizenry are debauched (as we have become), we fast-track to Anarchy. From which we will obtain Monarchy. The whole cycle then begins again.
BDSM (the sex pervert)
Did you really think it is necessary to prove you know nothing?
NME666
So where was Bernie Sanders on the 2020 ballot? RFK JR this time? Choice between death by hanging or firing squad is not democracy nor freedom. The democracy is an illusion.
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What Vivek is describing is the morphing of our Western Aristocratic system of government, into true Oligarchy. And this was allowed to happen because the citizenry has become corrupt.
Turns out that social media, internet porn, cheap credit, drugs and videogames did actually have serious embedded risks…
You know, I half jokingly mentioned a while back that we were approaching a point in time where we could expect a hyper-partisan Secretary of State to stop with the half-assed obstruction and go full tilt. Sort of like this woman.
BUT, that’s not where it stops. Under the radar, partisan Secretaries of State have been compartmentalizing. They’re flexing their position over individual precincts and (in some cases) disallowing the public sharing of individual precinct numbers. There’s a reason for that. The Secretary of State, ultimately, certifies the election AFTER all the individual precincts report to them. By compartmentalizing the individual totals, only her office has the grand total of vote results in the state. SOOOOOOoooooo, what’s to stop someone like Ms. Bellows from just certifying a totally fictious total? She’s just proven that she has no regard for the appropriate legal process. She, individually, decided that one of the candidates didn’t fit her approval, so she removed him.
That’s just a tiny step away from just certifying bogus numbers to support that “she knows best.”
I can see this approach in Arizona, for sure. Additionally, Courts have skewed the legitimacy by only allowing partial and arbitrary examination of ballots. All a state needs is a partisan Secretary of State (or even a compromised one via extortion) and a left leaning State Supreme Court to mop up any challenges. Pennsylvania, also, fits that category. As does Michigan….as does Wisconsin.
Addendum:
Isn’t interesting that voting machines in predominately republican leaning precincts malfunction and force those voters to traipse to another (and ultimately left leaning) precinct to vote? Now, consider what I said above.
This happened in Arizona….and more recently it happened in the last Pennsylvania election for state seats and a state supreme court position (in which the republicans got clobbered).
‘ SOOOOOOoooooo, what’s to stop someone like Ms. Bellows from just certifying a totally fictitious total? ‘
Nothing. See 2020.
Actually, they did it the hard way in 2020. They concentrated on the individual vote as opposed to the total of them all. Instead of having hundreds of cogs to orchestrate, you only need one if the Secretary of State is game.
81 million? They’ll need about 181 million next November. If they get more votes than voters will it still be “the fairest election evah”?
Thomas
97% turn out, only happens in Kommunist schiffholes and Banana republiks!
81M+74M= 97%
81MM or 91MM, it doesn’t matter because it’s just a number no one can question.
Yes. I have often said to anyone who believes that somehow Biden got 81 million legal votes (even though Trump increased his total by 11 or 12 million) that they need to look into the bridge I’m selling.
Precis: put nothing past DeMarxists in their addictive lust for power, legal, constitutional, moral or otherwise.
The state is essentially amoral, so the people administering it must be moral in the carrying out of their service.
When people who don’t consider morality (or immorality) get power, we see mendactic Maine megalomania.
They will never stop, they will have to be stopped; and pretending “we’re better than that” is a fool’s errand.
This is war, so use such principals and ignore any hypocrisy that you, but not the despots, must obey “rules.”
classic AWFL
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Addendum: just IMAGINE the sound of this woman’s voice and her speaking tone, mannerisms, etc., etc.
I’m not going to confirm what I already know by watching a clip of her becauase (i) I have better thanks to do and (ii) I want to keep my lunch down
I was born and lived my early life in Maine, it is experiencing the same urban/rural divide we all are in the west. 90% of the land area of Maine is solidly small “c” conservative, but the Portland area is full of typical northeastern progs who fancy themselves Bostonians. Why, I have no idea, Boston is a shithole full of people almost as obnoxious as NYC’ers, with the worst actual racists imaginable. Unfortunately, the population is centered there, and just like us all numbers rule.
Authoritarians never trust voters.
The Elites have nothing but contempt for them.
Regular people aren’t too happy about voters either.
I think anyone who actually voted for Joe Pooh is a certifiable moron.
It’s a battle for control.
“Early Life” missing religious heritage. That’s odd.
Scratch a progressive and you get a fascist. It’s always been that way. They’ve even reverted to undisguised anti-Semitism which they’ve tried to suppress since the forties. To them, the power of the state is supreme as long as they are in power.
John
The KKK targeted Jews as well as blacks, and was an affiliate of the southern baptist church! And a product of the demokkkrap political party.
Progressivism inevitably regresses to authoritarianism, tyranny and ultimately totalitarianism owing to its transactions of decline from distorted attempts at income redistribution, the chauvinistic belief in their own wisdom and power, followed by intimidation of any dissidence eroding their rule and “our democracy.”
So we get welcome mat open borders, energy insufficiency, career criminal heroes, unconstitutional end runs to obviate opposition and propagandistic slogans like Bidenomics, white supremacy and MAGA Republicans as DeMarxists desperately try to hold power, who must control information and data for their nefarious ends.
Outgroups are crucial to ruling, but this bunch’s Jew hatred is particularly disturbing and degrading.
They thought they had it done with their control of social media to shield them and attack opponents, but alas they didn’t complete the collectivist circle with SCOTUS; otherwise all would be lost as the US slipped into tyranny. They had absolute power for a while and want it back without interference from rule of law.