%%Post image thumbnail below.%%  # Episode Overview > - **Date Aired:** [[12-21-2023]] > - **Title:** In For A Penny > - **Episode:** 273 > - **Description:** If you start something, you finish it. > - **Link:** <https://rumble.com/v42mvzn-big-dig-energy-273-in-for-a-penny.html> %%<https://historydraft.com/happened/what-happened/1-January/world>%% ## Replay %% Get embed URL then highlight and hit ALT + I%% <iframe src="https://rumble.com/embed/v401iww/?pub=6eeyh" allow="fullscreen" allowfullscreen="" style="height:100%;width:100%; aspect-ratio: 16 / 9; "></iframe> <br> ## Greetings & Announcements ## Segments  <p style="font-size:125%"><b><font color="#ffffff">If you start something, you finish it. Even if it's more difficult or complicated than you originally anticipated.</font></b></p> ### The Ballot Battle Begins  The Boston Globe — [07-28-1987](https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-boston-globe-noah-bookbinder-9th-gra/137202442/)  [Archive](https://archive.is/Sgcnl) > After ruling Tuesday that former President Donald Trump is barred from the Colorado primary ballot because he is disqualified from becoming president again on 14th Amendment grounds, Colorado Supreme Court justices are facing violent threats across both mainstream and fringe social media platforms, according to a report obtained by CBS News. The Colorado justices ruled the U.S. Constitution bars Trump from retaking the Oval Office due to his conduct surrounding the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol. > > Posts have included calls for the justices and Trump opponents to be killed by gunfire, hanging or bombs, while others are encouraging followers to stock up on weapons and ammunition and urging a civil war against Democrats. Many users have been responding directly to Trump's posts on his social media platform, Truth Social, with the same violent rhetoric and calls to arms. > > "What do you call 7 justices from the Colorado Supreme Court on the bottom of the ocean?" one user wrote. "A good start." > > "The Justices should be arrested and sent to GUANTANAMO," another user wrote. > > "The country is over anyway," wrote another. "Only thing left is civil war and retribution against those who destroyed it." > > Other users suggested that Trump's opponents should be thrown out of helicopters, recreating the method Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet used to kill his political opponents, and others blamed Jews for the court's decision. > > **The threats against the justices, all seven of whom are Democrats, were first aggregated and analyzed by Advance Democracy, a non-partisan, non-profit organization that conducts public interest research.** > > The group's president, Daniel J. Jones, remarked in a statement to CBS News that, "We are seeing significant violent language and threats being made against the Colorado justices and others perceived to be behind yesterday's Colorado Supreme Court ruling. The normalization of this type of violent rhetoric is cause for significant concern. Trump's statements, which have sought to delegitimize and politicize the actions of the courts, is serving as a key driver of the violent rhetoric."   ### Advance Democracy — 501(c)(3)  [Link](https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/824277642) > **Program Areas** — [Archive](https://www.advancedemocracy.org/program-areas/) > >  **[2021 Form 990PF](https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/824277642/202243189349309899/full)**  **Daniel J. Jones**  **[Deanna Woodman](https://archive.is/ohC6D)**  ### Biden Tweets  [Archive](http://archive.today/CmRac) • [Live URL](https://twitter.com/JoeBiden/status/1737630463236178175) ### Executive Order 14019  [Archive](http://archive.today/OtyYF) ### ACLU Report [Archive](https://archive.is/SAlmW)  [PDF Archive](https://web.archive.org/web/20230905193634/https://civilrights.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/ProgressReport_VotingAccess.pdf) <div style="left: 0; width: 100%; height: 0; position: relative; padding-bottom: 60%;"><iframe src="https://docs.google.com/viewer?embedded=true&url=https://civilrights.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/ProgressReport_VotingAccess.pdf" style="top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; position: absolute; border: 0;" allowfullscreen></iframe></div> %% FOOTER %% ---  --- ## Keep Digging %%Space%% ### Tags #Stream/BDE ### Footnotes & References