From: stevemgalbraith@yahoo.com   
      
   On Wednesday, December 20, 2023 at 12:03:24 PM UTC-5, Steven Galbraith wrote:   
   > On Wednesday, December 20, 2023 at 11:43:13 AM UTC-5, David Drummond   
   wrote:    
   > > >    
   > > > >    
   > > > > Only a conservative would understand that, metaphorically, the entire   
   state of Colorado just became Dealey Plaza.    
   > > > The Colorado Supreme Court is part of the "deep state"? Is this what you   
   see? Then the phrase "deep state" has no meaning, it's just a slogan to cover   
   your dislike of events. The only way you seem to be able to process   
   information is through your    
   conspiracy mind; things don't happen, events don't take place: no they must be   
   part of some grand design. Hank's being paid, this place is a psyop. Colorado   
   Supremes (four of them) are deep state agents.    
   > > > Trump will, if this stands, be off the Colorado ballot. He had no chance   
   of winning the state anyway (he lost it in 2020 by 55-40) so how disallowing   
   him on the ballot is part of some "assassination by state supreme court   
   rulings" act is mystifying.   
    But that's what Langley tells me to write.    
   > > > Second, the US Supreme Court will, I'll suggest, strike this down. And   
   that will be the end of it. So where is the "deep state" then?    
   > > Steven chimes in to demonstrate that he doesn't understand the word   
   "metaphorically."    
   > >    
   > > Steven must have gone to one of Bud's aforementioned college courses.   
   > I understood the usage which is why I, in turn, wrote that the ruling to you   
   was some kind of "assassination by state supreme court rulings." It seems that   
   the person having trouble understanding figures of speech is not me.    
   > But I'll repeat again: the idea of yours that this ruling is indicative of   
   some sort of act by the "deep state" to prevent Trump from being elected can   
   only come from a conspiracy confused mind. That would be yours. One that can   
   only understand events    
   they don't like by ascribing them to powerful forces secretly acting behind   
   the stage. That would be yours again.    
   > The framers of the constitution understood that, as Madison said, "men are   
   not angels." They can and will abuse power. So they created a government with   
   checks and balances, different branches, "mechanisms" (as they called it) to   
   prevent that abuse. We    
   have an independent judiciary, Congress, political parties, independent press,   
   et cetera. All of this prevents the type of "deep state" you think exists. The   
   idea that all of this - this bureaucracy and branches and people - could do   
   what you think is    
   absurd. It's a fantasy world. But you seem to like it since it's the only way   
   you can understand the world.   
      
   And to put a bow on this again: Trump lost Colorado in 2020 by 55-40. It's a   
   blue/liberal state. The idea that the "deep state" needed to kick him off the   
   ballot in Colorado to stop his election is completely illogical. He had no   
   chance of winning it.    
   But the confused conspiracy mind can't understand things like this. They can   
   only make sense of the world by filtering it through a conspiracy mindset.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)