how it works

  Now I'm hearing that some folks are attempting to block a congressman Scott Perry from running for reelection because he supports Trump. I'm not surprised. The democrats fear they can't win the election, so the safest bet is to not allow others on the ballot. Can't win if you're not on the ballot. Control of the house and senate is also very important and so that method may be applied to seize a majority there. Yes, it's the 14th amendment that is being utilized. The insurrection clause. The big problem, the elephant in the room regarding that is there hasn't been a legally declared insurrection that took place on Jan 6. The supreme is going to have to rule on that and soon. The constitution does not define exactly what an insurrection is.  And that is central to the issue. There is also the issue of participation. If you agreed with trump that the election results were questionable and should have been thrown out is that participation? That's what they say Scott Perry did, he agreed with Trump. He wasn't in the crowd, he didn't do anything other than agree, does that make him complicit. By that standard anyone that supports Trump is also complicit. 

 So, who has declared Jan 6th an insurrection? It hasn't been a court, a law enforcement agency or the federal government. It requires one of those agents to be officially an insurrection. That was the purpose of the Jan 6th committee. They were supposed to determine that. That committee didn't find Jan 6th was an insurrection. We can't invoke the constitution based on a feeling, an emotional response. The constitution is the law of the land. The insurrection act gives the president the power to deploy the military to quell a rebellion, a riot or whatever. The militia clause of the constitution authorizes congress to deploy the militia to quell a rebellion or whatever as well. Trump didn't declare Jan 6th an insurrection and neither did Congress. Until legal authority declares it as an insurrection Jan 6th is not an insurrection. Doesn't matter what you call it, what I call it, or what the media calls it. All that matters is what the law calls it! It hasn't been declared an insurrection.

 The democrats are busy returning the vote to convicted felons. They are also attempting to give the vote to non-citizens. Now a new strategy is appearing, keeping opponents off the ballot entirely. This administration is now suing the state of Texas for putting up barbed wire to quell the flow of illegals across the border. The job of the President of the United States is to protect our borders, not weaken them! But the left has taken to applying another term, migrants to describe those illegal aliens. There is nothing mentioned in our immigration laws about "migrants." There are asylum seekers, immigrants, and people granted temporary visa's. It doesn't say anyone that simply wanders into the country is welcomed with open arms. Those folks are called illegals. They are criminals subject to prosecution and deportation. The plan is to allow those "migrants" to cast ballots as well. Wonder who they would vote in favor of? 

 What has been done since Jan 6th to secure the vote? Nothing I've heard about to strengthen the integrity of that. Is a valid ID required at the polling place? Are the voter rolls updated and accurate? How many absentee ballots are issued. Are those electronic voting machines secure? Who has the thumb drives that came out of those machines? Why were some missing, lost or misplaced. What about early and mail-in votes. Has anything been done to restore the confidence in the system? None that I've heard about. 

 All I'm hearing are ways to keep people off the ballot. I'm hearing about ways to expand the voter base in favor of the left leaning crowd. Democratic states are jumping on the bandwagon of the 14th amendment. But the horses aren't hitched up! There has been no legally declared insurrection to validate the use of the insurrection act. You can't be guilty of a crime that never took place! That's how the law works. Semantics plays a very important role in the law. That's why we have a legal definition for various acts. You can call something whatever you like, but until the law agrees with that, it isn't that. Marriage is one of those things. It wasn't until 2015 that the Supreme Court legalized same-sex marriages. Before that, they were not legal marriages. Just how the law works.