{"id":202269,"date":"2023-12-29T19:52:21","date_gmt":"2023-12-29T23:52:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=202269"},"modified":"2023-12-30T07:00:52","modified_gmt":"2023-12-30T11:00:52","slug":"the-shot-heard-round-the-world-was-just-fired-in-maine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=202269","title":{"rendered":"

The “shot heard round the world” was just fired in Maine.<\/span><\/h1>"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/p>\n

One Utterly Lawless Libtard Karen With SoS
\nPower Criminally Interferes With The 2024
\nPOTUS Election……<\/strong><\/h2>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

…While All The Relevant Authorities Watch The
\nOngoing Crime With Complicit Indifference
\nAnd\/Or Enabling Non-interference<\/strong><\/h2>\n
\n
\n

After Maine, Matt Taibbi Asks
\n‘Is There Any Way This Ends Well?’<\/h3>\n

— ZeroHedge<\/em><\/p>\n

\n<\/blockquote>\n

SOTN<\/a> Editor’s Note:<\/strong> The answer to the preceding question ought to be quite obvious at this point.\u00a0 After Lexington and Concord, was there any way it could end well until after the shooting match had completely finished?<\/h3>\n

This reckless and desperate act of institutional criminality by Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows can only be construed as the “Lexington and Concord” moment of the 21st century.<\/h3>\n

And how this will end is anyone’s guess.\u00a0 It’s not gonna ugly; it been horribly ugly for years now so folks better be ready when things go kinetic.\u00a0 Because at this point. there’s no stopping the secessions and what always comes after that.<\/h3>\n
\n

The Mess in Maine<\/h1>\n

The 2024 presidential election is already an unprecedented political quagmire<\/h3>\n

By Matt Taibbi
\nRacket News<\/p>\n

Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows decided Thursday to remove Donald Trump from the state\u2019s presidential ballot.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Maine\u2019s Shenna Bellows.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Jared Golden, a Democratic congressman from Lewiston who voted to impeach Trump over the January 6th riots, quickly issued\u00a0a statement<\/a>:<\/p>\n

We are a nation of laws, therefore until he is actually found guilty of the crime of insurrection, he should be allowed on the ballot.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Eight years ago this month, the big story in the presidential race was whether or not Trump was out of line in saying Hillary Clinton got \u201cschlonged<\/a>\u201d in the 2008 primary.<\/p>\n

A\u00a0Washington Post<\/em>\u00a0\u201clinguistic investigation<\/a>\u201d quoted Steven Pinker in saying that \u201cgiven Trump\u2019s history of vulgarity\u2026 it\u2019s entirely possible that he had created a sexist term for \u2018defeat,\u2019\u201d but the paper concluded that Trump\u2019s problem was that \u201che\u2019s a gentile who, linguistically, may have wandered too far from home.\u201d<\/p>\n

Normally campaign season is a period of heightened engagement<\/strong>, as people scour the Internet to research even the most inane questions, knowing that at the end of the process, they get to cast votes on them. It\u2019s why news companies tend to fatten up in election years, like Grizzlies during salmon runs.<\/p>\n

People are absorbed by dramas in which they feel themselves to be participants.<\/p>\n

This year the public is being forced to research questions in which they have no say. We all understand now that there\u2019s a disqualification clause\u00a0in the 14th Amendment<\/a>. We also understand that this clause seems to have been written with deliberate vagueness.\u00a0I\u2019m no lawyer, but I doubt the 14th Amendment was designed to empower unelected state officials to unilaterally strike major party frontrunners from the presidential ballot.<\/strong><\/p>\n

If it was, that\u2019s a shock. I must have missed that in AP Insane Legal Loopholes class.<\/p>\n

Is there any way this ends well? It feels harder and harder to imagine.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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