So we all were waiting for the Supreme Court's Monday decision....
Here's a quick overview from a small conservative news network... Just reading the Gateway Pundit, basically.
And, unsuprisingly, it was a No.
This isn't over though! Check out u/catsfive top comment in the stickied post here on GAW.https://greatawakening.win/p/16ZqiD2zIW/brunson--certiorari-denied-/
Now check out this article from Salt Lake Tribune. Particularly, Rayland Brunson's comments from last Thursday:
Hello my fabulous patriots and friends. Okay! Here is the deal with tomorrow's decision. The Supreme Court's schedule of posting decisions is always the Monday following conference. So, we won't know anything until Monday! Now, don't think for a second that my brothers and I are not prepared for a denial. We've got plenty of chess pieces still at play and we still have our queen. Through hard knocks we have learned how this political/litigation game works, so keep up the prayers and your letters to the Supreme Court! You count! We love everyone of you! Thank you for your wonderful support!
The Brunson brothers set the stage for a denial because a case like this would inevitably field that result. It's going to take more work and that is OK; its part of the process.
The other side of this is those who have said from the jump that the case is flawed. JustHuman touched on it this morning. About 7 minutes in and not much to say. Whole episode is a great listen, it's about other topics however... he touches on this so quickly, it's funny how a lot of the citizen journalist community has tried to veer away from it even as massive interest forces their hand.
Robert Barnes gave probably the best 2 minutes on what the case is and the dissenting view.
So here's where I'm at on it personally at this point - and feel free to disagree. This Brunson case was a fun little dig when it started and in its defense it has attracted a lot of interest and brought Patriots together. That can't be a bad thing.
But following the denial, we should temper our expectations for any kind of favorable outcome at this point. Even the Brunson's themselves knew that a denial was likely.
Where it succeeded was to call attention to the issue of Title 28 immunity - whereby politicians are not truly legally bound in their Oath of Office. It lets us know that they haven't been taking it seriously and that is legally sound for them... which is morally incorrect to many of us, and not why we vote for them.
Politically it is meritorious. At a time when [Jim Jordan will be heading up a committee on Federal Gov. Weaponization]( and so many other dark deeds of the political and elite classes are being exposed to the public, the case is a sincere plea TO OUR INSTITUTIONS to GIVE ITS PEOPLE some kind of ACTUAL JUSTICE.
However, from a LEGAL perspective this is a round peg jammed over a square hole. There just isn't ANY WAY for the Supreme Court to really look at this issue; its out of the scope of what sorts of things they decide on and enforcement is IMPOSSIBLE.
Its too big and clunky. What the Brunson case was good for was drawing attention to the aforementioned Oath of Office, something the Brunsons have long been interested in (they made a documentary about it years ago) and for jumping the hurdle on who has standing in these Election law cases. For a better chance at a favorable outcome we need to look to the micro:
- Kari Lake's lawsuit is definitely a prime candidate
- Also Garland Favorito in GA
The Brunsons will take next steps, apply for a rehearing in 25 days per the SCOTUS rules. They've said they aren't done and to hang in with them.
What are the possibilities here?
- It was always just a grift and a nothingburger, that got alot of undue praise and support (even the $ kind)
- It was a crucial and careful chess move by the WH to dissuade lame duck Pelosi from messing with Supreme Court at a desperate time for them, when major changes were coming (see: Omnibus fraud)
- it was controlled opposition to make Republican "far right" seem unhinged, frivolous
- It was an opening salvo to a bigger fight, where more carefully constructed cases by Brunsons or others begin to hit SCOTUS docket and actually make progress
- At a time when corruption is being exposed and investigated, calls public attention and drums up focused interest in both how our process of government works and what can and can't be remedied and by whom
I don't have any answers but I DO think on the whole the case is leading us somewhere. What might be most important about it is to show an audience of increasingly insulated and isolated politicians and elites that a great many people in America feel despondent, cheated and defrauded over the 2020 Election and will continue to make noise about it no matter how much the media tries to sell lies about J6.
It tells them that there are many new fresh sets of eyes on them, much the way that the recent House Speaker events have sparked new interest and attention into the mechanisms of our system - and outrage over the derailment of the processes as intended to work. They were able to get away with MUCH because for a long time from the late 90s to early 2010s there was a very low bar - the news media and entertainment technology KEPT people detached and uninterested in their politics, which has long been a staple of American life.
In America, one thing that kept us free from despotic rule for so long was the fact that Americans were ENGAGED and CONCERNED with what went on in their politics for MOST of the country's history since its founding - part of the grift of the last 30-50 years has been the CABAL finding ways to distract us or make us apathetic towards civil engagement.
I can never forget something I heard Jessie Ventura say during a conversation about becoming Governor of Minnesota. He said he knew he could win because his early numbers showed 10% in new voters and that MN people typically have America's highest percent of voters in elections, at 50%. This is the same strategy of Trump, what is sometimes called the silent majority. Personally, it came as a shock to me that half
We never stop to ask, why are we silent? Did someone make us be quiet, or convince us that it didn't matter? If so, who? I think of my mother and father, of the baby boomer generation, who are generally conservative but read and digest only the headlines. Their interests were always geared more towards movie stars like John Wayne or music groups like Aerosmith; that's the interest areas I picked up from them more than any other.
My grandmother was born in the Depression and while never having keen interest in politics beyond her love of John Kennedy, seemed to almost naturally key in on the media when they lied and kept a fairly cynical attitude towards anything she first read or heard. She read the local paper every day until she was too blind, and would leave news on in the background, occasionally relating back what she heard ... like most older folks she was constantly shocked at the changes in the world. More than this, she was always in the know about what government services and things she could receive, and never missed out on any help she could potentially qualify for. She was resourceful and pragmatic in a wonderful way.
What I'm saying is that cases like Brunson are part of a pattern emerging that had long been part of American life, but dissipated in recent times through a variety of factors. The grassroots activism, the silent majority waking up and voicing concerns.... the public interest that it received is part of a re-focus to this crucial issue that we've been forcibly separated from over generations.
The faster we wake up, the more we can soften the blow of hard times ahead. So whatever you think of Brunson and wherever it goes, its ALWAYS good when we're paying attention.
Godspeed.
Paytriots.
Good general write up. The part about your "baby boomer" parents betray your feelings toward them though.
Hah! I didn't necessarily mean it as a criticism. Only meant to say that the world was a different place in those days and that people seemed to start, from that point onward to modern times, to start a long slide away from being concerned with politics in their daily lives. By no means did I want to say they caused anything; in those days, we generally trusted our government and its representatives to have our best interests in mind even though they disagreed on how to get there.
I heard someone once compare it to a family vacation. In those days, Dems and Republicans were both heading to Florida but one was taking state roads and the other the Interstate. At least we thought that. Now we have had a complete directional shift from left and right to up and down, and one political party and half the other going to Maine instead.
I think along the road of life there just became more and more distractions from politics and they were sometimes intentionally set there. Focus on celebrity, Hollywood, etc. Also the change in journalism has been so profound. You could trust the Cronkite types and the Washington Post generally. There was a seriousness and liberty within the news media that isn't there any more because they've become so co-opted by our government today.
I feel like I haven't explained this too well and I don't know if I could with more words trying to do so. In general though what I'm saying is that as a nation, we took our eye off the ball, and it paved the way for a lot of really corrupt and dangerous people to sneak into our systems and weaponize them against us.
We've woken up now and are still having a hard time grasping just how complete their systems of control and power have become. There's a long arc to history of course though; I didn't mean to disparage one generation over another or claim they were responsible. The younger people are much worse in fact, but it started somewhere.
If SCOTUS was going to act, they missed their window.