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[00:00:25] Speaker A: Good evening, folks, and welcome to another episode of the Positude podcast. I am your host, Maggie Hart, and I'm very excited to bring you another show this week, hopefully to promote positivity and to negate the negativity in your life. While I do address current issues on the show, my goal and my hope is to be able to also provide you with a possible solution to the problems that we're facing, or at the very least, a way to handle it. To be able to take it in, but use discernment and in your digestive process, be able to filter out the bad things and focus on what's good here, what's true, what's right, what's pure. I would like to have everybody leave this hour with a feeling of empowerment and peace and joy and love and all of the good things and have that carry us through from hour to hour, from day to day, from week to week. What I would also like to see is for people who listen to this program to possibly share it with others that you think that it would help and encourage in a positive way. We're all here for a purpose. We're all here to help others. It's what we were created for, and I feel that it's also our duty. I'm of the belief that it's not what we get in life, it's what we're able to give. And right now, it's such a trepidatious time on the planet. So many people are struggling, are anxious, are depressed, are sad, are angry or frustrated. What I have been experiencing most recently, both in my personal life and my professional life, is that the trend seems to be for those people that are miserable and unhappy in their own lives to want to make others unhappy. And while that's been a general thread for probably as long as humanity has existed, discontent breeds discontent, right? And when people are unhappy with themselves or their lives, it seems as though their natural inclination in a lot of cases is to try and make someone else miserable, to bring them down to their level. And I feel that right now, where we are as a whole, for humanity, this is definitely not the course that we want to take. We want to be uplifting, we want to support, we want to be more positive. We need to be these things in order to, again, change the vibration of the planet. Like we spoke about last week, and we'll continue to discuss, as I've talked about for years on my shows, we are all truly a ripple in the pond. And it's up to us what type of ripple we want to be? Do we want to be the ripple that spreads positive emotions and good feelings, or do we want to be the ripple that comes in and makes waves and splashes and disrupts everything and just spreads out to the ether, the negative, the caustic, the toxic, all of the bad stuff? The thing that I find most interesting is a lot of people who do that and create waves in our somewhat peaceful tide pool really don't know. They don't understand how greatly they affect other people. And some of them are aware to a degree, because if they're miserable, they want everybody else to be miserable, and so they want to carry through that cycle. And making someone feel poorly about themselves or sad or inadequate or lacking might make a person feel better. But think about what you're doing to the other person's energy field. Think about what you're doing to the other person's psyche. Would you do that to your own child? Maybe some people would. But if you think about it from a personal perspective and you wake up in a bad mood and you just want everybody else around you to be miserable, how much thought and effort goes into that? Is it a concerted effort?
Is it something that just comes naturally to you because that's part of who you are now as a person, because you've been so miserable for so long? Or is it really something that you, you say, you know what? I'm miserable, and I'm gonna make everybody else miserable around me, and I don't care who knows it. I'm having a bad day, and so everybody around me is gonna have a bad day, and that's just the way it's gonna be? Or is there a. A part of you that just really feels better about themselves, truly feels better about themselves from hurting someone else? Do you have it in you to really do a self evaluation and figure that part out? Find out where it's coming from, what caused it? Why are you the way you are?
And then also figure out for yourself what that means for you, what that means for your spirit, for your energy. Treating people negatively, whether it be partially subconsciously, subconsciously, or a calculated move, how is that going to play out in your. What some people would call karma, how is it going to affect you down the line?
You get what you give.
So if you're carrying yourself on the. With that type of mindset, or if there's something inside of you, some trauma that you've suffered, something that you've been through, disappointments, previous hurts in your past that have kind of made this part of who you are. Now, what's the difference and how are those things gonna affect you spiritually? Well, obviously, if it's a concerted effort and it's something that you're doing consciously and you're aware of it, that's going to come back on you, I believe, more, and you're going to suffer those consequences more readily. If it's something that's, you know, as a result of something that you've suffered personally and it's just kind of been molded into who you are, well, then it's my belief that that's still going to come around and bite you, and possibly not as fiercely as the first scenario when it happens to you. When you have, let's say, strain of bad luck or even more things to make you miserable, you may not be aware that the energy that you put out directly affects what you're getting back, essentially what you're manifesting. If you're manifesting all this bad stuff, then that's what's going to come back to you. However, if you're focusing on the good and being positive and being loving and being helpful and caring, that's going to come full circle to you as well. And this is essential spiritual knowledge. This is, a lot of new agers talk about this philosophy.
So, you know, and everybody kind of puts their own spin on it and puts their own words to it. But I find it fascinating in my line of work that so many people are unaware of this very basic principle, and they're sort of clueless as to how to fix it.
Maybe they think it's woo woo. Maybe they think it's something that, oh, it's not going to make a difference. How I am is how I am and how I act toward others isn't going to amount to a hill of beans at the end of the day as to what comes back to me or how I'm feeling, but that's so untrue. When I work with people, one of the first things that I try to do is get at their root issues, get out their root traumas. What caused them to be this way? What's making them act this way? Are they aware of it? And if they're not, or if they are, how do we heal that? How do we make them feel better about themselves and feel whole and complete as a person so that they're not driven to be this way toward others? There have been some recent scenarios, personally speaking, wherever and when I say recent, it's over the course of several years, where there was a person that I was trying to get to recognize that there are things in the past that are directly attributing to not only their personality issues. And when I say that, I mean depression, anxiety, frustration, anger, sadness, things like that. But as a result of what they're feeling inside of themselves, they're making others around them positively miserable and hurt and feeling worthless, feeling helpless, feeling as though no matter what they do, no matter what they say, no matter how hard they try, at the end of the day, it's not going to make any difference because person a is still going to view them as a bad person. And it's just a sad state of affairs when as hard as you try, you can't get someone to recognize that, you can't get someone to see that as a direct result of what they've suffered, as a direct result of what they've been through, and as a direct result of who they've become because of what they've been through, they're spreading that negativity, they're spreading that hate, they're spreading that essentially evil to everybody they come across. And again, it's an old adage, we hurt the ones we love. So the people that were closest to them were the ones that were directly affected and the ones that really, really got to live on a daily basis, minute in, minute out, day in, day out, week in, week out, month in, month out of all of this toxic behavior, they got to experience the very nasty negative side of a person whom they only wanted to love and heal and help and support. A person who they only wanted to do the best thing for. A person who they held in the such high esteem and had such great respect for that slowly everything eradicated, everything was destroyed, everything was broken down, everything was just. The foundation had crumpled. And unfortunately, it's the first person's free will to choose not to seek help, not to seek counseling, not to open up and talk about their true feelings, not to examine the situation that they had been through or situations that they had been through before that molded their characteristics and personality into the person that they had become. And most importantly, not taking self accountability for how they were treating others and not taking self accountability for not doing the work to heal the that's free will creator gave us all free will. And when you're in a situation where a person does not want to see the error of their ways and doesn't want to change and doesn't want to seek help and doesn't want to be that better person because they're stuck in a cycle of being miserable or because they're truly a narcissist, then there's really not much more you can do. You can give it your best shot. You can try as hard as you can for days, weeks, and in my case, years. And if that person refuses to see, then it doesn't suit your psyche, it doesn't suit your well being to stay in that situation. It just becomes such a challenge to be able to carry your weight, support someone else. I mean, we talk, you know, in psychological circles and also in my classes about codependency, and that's also truly an issue. You may have one person that's being kind of a brat and or, you know, really being emotionally debilitating toward the other person, and then you have person b who's just allowing that to happen, enabling the person to treat them that way. And what can happen, especially if that person has been abused before and has some history of trauma their own selves, is they become dependent on that behavior, they become almost addicted to that behavior. And so it's just. It's such a vicious cycle. Thankfully, in my case, I was not, and I done years and years of self healing myself. Not to say that I'm perfect, because no one is truly perfect, but I knew who I was, and I knew what I would allow and what I wouldn't allow. And the one thing that I will say is, unfortunately for me, I spent a good many years just praying and hoping and trying to maintain my dignity and stay calm and not be lashing out and not be vindictive and really have patience to try and help that person see what they were suffering from and wait for that person to change. And it just got to the point where until an epiphany arose pretty recently, there was no hope, there was nothing left to stand on. The foundation was truly rubble. When you're with someone who has narcissistic tendencies, if you're close to someone that has narcissistic tendencies, the biggest thing that they do is anything that they've done to you. They turn around and blame you for doing the exact same things that they did to you. So if they were mean, if they were violent, if they were uncaring, if they were cold, if they were unfeeling, rather if they held their affection back, any of those things and any number of other things in addition, instead of them owning up to their shortcomings or asking for forgiveness or admitting to what they'd done, what they'll do is they'll turn that all around and blame you. And all of those traits all of those behaviors get mirrored onto you, and you become the bad guy. You become the fall guy. Also, what happens is it's so important for people like that to have everybody else out there, strangers, virtual strangers, even look at them from a standpoint of them being this wonderful person, this great person. And depending on the state of the disorder, they may tell untruths to other people. They may spread that negative feeling about you to others. They may lie. They may lie about you to others in an attempt to try and protect their ego, number one, and also their Persona. It's amazing to me that I can't even conceive of that. Like, I can't even think of doing that to somebody else because of the work that I've done, because of the people that I've worked with over the years, because of the field that I'm involved in. Like, I couldn't in good conscience do that to somebody. I couldn't in good conscience treat somebody that way. But moreover, I certainly wouldn't go about spreading lies and bad stories about them that weren't true to try and appease my ego. What I've learned is accountability is where it's at. If you don't stand up and admit to your mistakes and make them right and apologize, all of that negative energy is going to come back to you. At some point. All of that is going to manifest in the body. And spiritually, physically, you can become sick. Mentally, you can become even more sick. Spiritually. It just does a number, and it also opens the door to outside influences to come into your temple, into your body. In the course of my training in spiritual warfare and cases that I've dealt with over the years, a lot of times these issues are a direct result of there already being some sort of oppression or possession going on inside of that person. And once we're able to clear that, a lot of these symptoms go away and they're able to see the light, as it were, and they're able to apologize for the wrongs that they've done and work on their shortcomings and work on all of the misgivings and everything that they have, the whole bowl of wax, everything that's made them to feel inadequate as a person. But in this particular case, that wasn't the issue. It wasn't a spiritual affliction. It was truly a sense of the person just had been through a personal trauma. And trauma does bring in negative forces. Trauma is a doorway for spiritual attack. However, having said that, because of the prayer work that was done, because of the clearings that were done previously, this case was more the person seeing their trauma through. I wouldn't call them rose colored glasses, but through coke bottle lenses, in that everything was kind of skewered. Everything was kind of. It was surreal, actually, that the perceptions that they had were just so dramatic, drastically distorted. But miracle of miracles, just at about the time I was ready to give up, that person saw the light and realized what was going on and realized that, wait a minute. This was all me. This has been all me all along. I wasn't mistreated. I was being loved. I was being. Somebody was being loyal to me. I was being cared for. I was being supported. I was being shown the right way to do things and asked the right way to do things. And I was asked to be in prayer, and I was asked to go into meditation and think about the things that I've done. And I've been asked to be kinder and gentler. And in a case where I want to blow up, scream, you know, clear the table, spit in somebody's face, lose my temper, act like an animal, I was asked to calm down. They realized that somebody was there supporting them the whole time. Somebody was there wanting to hold their hand, wanting to walk with them in love, wanting to help them and wanting to heal them. And all of the stuff that they were telling all these other people that this person had done to them, they had actually done themselves. And in the course of that, they ended up realizing that they lost, literally lost almost three years of their life living in this altered dream state. I wouldn't know what else to call it, but definitely not true reality. Some kind of altered sense of reality where everything was skewered, which, if there are such things as miracles, if you believe in miracles, this was truly a miracle because they finally understood, wait a minute. That person's been by me the whole time, and I've been a total, utter and complete ass and then some for a long, long time.
So, you know, then we start the process of, where are we at with forgiveness? Is the first person able to forgive? Has too much gone on? Has too much transpired to where the hurt is just too deep? Or are you able to heal those misgivings and forgive and go on in a more positive light that remains up to each individual when we find ourselves in these situations? It's not okay to be treated that way. It's not all right to go through those things and just take it, and take it and take it day in, day out. In the case of a marriage, a lot of people out there would say, but if you're married, doesn't matter. You're supposed to go through it thick or thin. You're supposed to endure. You're supposed to work through. You're supposed to carry on. Well, let me tell you, I'm here to say as a living testament, that unless you've walked in the person's shoes who's being mistreated, unless you've walked a mile in their moccasins, as it were, and gone through the daily struggles every single minute of every single day, possibly over the course of years, you really are not in a position to judge that other person. And you're not supposed to judge that other person because you truly don't know and understand what went on. All that you may know is the side of the story that you were presented. And in the case, even biblically speaking, we're not supposed to endure these horrible things for years at a time and just keep forgiving and forgiving and forgiving. If there is no change. We're not supposed to keep going on and living in miserably, miserably, rather with a person just because we've made the vow of marriage, or just because we've made a verbal commitment, or just because we've promised. If it. It's a true case of verbal abuse and sometimes physical abuse or mental abuse, and we've been through prayer, we've been through meditation, we've tried everything that we can think of to resolve the situation, and it becomes virtually unhealthy and unsafe. And when I say that, I may mean mentally, I may mean physically. It depends on the situation. If it's unsafe for you and it's not making you whole and complete as a person, then you have every single right to step away. Step down, back away slowly, run like hell, pack your bags, whatever you need to do to protect yourself, to protect your soul, to protect your spirit, because no one on this earth should be living in a constant state of torment, and no one on this earth should be living in a constant state of walking a tightrope. What if I say the wrong thing? What person am I going to get today? It's just not the way we're supposed to live it. And you know what? It's not the way we have to live. That's free will. We have the free will to walk away. We have the free will to decide if we want to stay. But if we're in a case of abuse, we need to be out of there. After we've tried and pursued the avenues that are reasonable. And what's reasonable? Well, that's different to every person. Some people may be able to, you know, they may be spiritually sound enough to be able to get through that and get back to balance for years. For some people, it might be days, for some people it might be months. But that's, again, your free will and your personal choices. What I find interesting, though, is when these situations arise that the one sidedness that, you know, sides are drawn in the sand and people are, you know, I'm on one side, I'm on the other. I'm Team Robert or I'm Team Josephine or whatever, the person that's telling you the story.
There are always two sides to every story. Also an old adage, however, when you're looking at somebody who suffers from a mental illness or a spiritual affliction or narcissism in its true sense of the word, then that person is not going to tell the truth. So whatever they've told you about the person that was supposedly affronting them, take it to the bank. That that's what they've been doing to that other person all along. Those were the behaviors that they were eliciting. Those were the exchanges that they evoked. Those were the words that they said to the other person. Those were the actions that they took toward that other person. Take it to the bank. Classic narcissism. Look it up. Look at the attributes that are associated with that definition. The challenge when we face these scenarios in these cases in spiritual warfare is that sometimes it is a spiritual affliction. Sometimes it's something that can be healed with prayer and deliverance. Other times, however, there is a chemical imbalance in the body, or there's something, genetically speaking, that afflicts that person. That is not a spiritual issue. It's a physiological issue. And that's the problem that I have with a lot of people that do spiritual warfare out there, is they believe that every affliction or every disease or every sickness can be cured by doing a clearing, a deliverance and exorcism, what have you. And that is not always the case because there are physiological issues that sometimes come into play that aren't spiritual in nature. Now, having said that, all can be healed through prayer and self work and things like that, I do believe that, however, there's a fine line there. Maybe not such a fine line, but it's not always a spiritual issue. Sometimes it's a physiological issue. At that point, the person may choose to follow the path of professional therapy and pharmaceuticals. Although in most cases. I'm not an advocate for big pharma.
They also may choose to explore more of a holistic approach or a homeopathic approach to something that can help them with their chemical imbalance in the body. The main thing that we as loved ones or potential family members or friends, people who care or have cared for these people who struggles with these types of things, need to keep in mind is it's our decision whether or not we want to stick around and see them through these next steps that they may or may not choose to take. If they do decide that they're changing, or they want to change and they need help, then it's up to you as a victim as well as a loved one, family member, friend, etcetera, to decide, you know, where do I want to go with this? How do I want to approach this? Do I want to stay in the picture and help them to heal, or to try to heal, since they're now showing me that spirit of wanting to get help, wanting to be better?
Or do we just simply cut ties and move on and pray for them and send them energy and hope that someday they'll be able to overcome whatever their personal struggles are? Either way, what we need to recognize here is that we are all one energy. We are all of the same origin. We are all humans here on this planet. And being mean to somebody, regardless of whether it's a physiological issue or a mental issue or a spiritual issue, coming from the side of the person that has been truly a victim of that type of behavior is, you know, that in itself can now you're broken, now you potentially have to heal from that. Now you have to deal with your own issues. Now you need to seek spiritual counseling and come and see me and sit at my desk and say, hey, I've got issues with this as a direct result of what I've been through, and I need you to help me get rid of that. And it takes a very strong spiritual approach, regardless of what side of the seesaw that you're on, to heal yourself. It takes a great deal of faith and patience. It takes personal self honesty and transparency and a sense of self accountability. And you also need to have people around you that will support you and love you and help you on your healing journey. You need to have people around you that are going to hold you accountable for your healing process and not let you weasel out of it when you don't feel like doing a particular thing one day, people that will basically make you own your. And if we all realize that we're all going through these personal struggles and these personal dynamics. And the person that you meet at the grocery store that you maybe cut in front of online today might be going through a very parallel situation to what you've been enduring, maybe has had the same struggles that you have. And then we look at that as a whole, our individual struggles. Even in the case of different types of addictions, there are so many instances of drug addiction and alcohol addiction, all of these things. And as a whole component, if we all try to be more compassionate and empathetic toward others in our struggles and support each other, think about where we'd be. Think about the person that's struggling by themselves in a dark alley with, let's say, an opioid addiction, or the person that's left alone at the emergency room that brought themselves in because they were feeling suicidal, but they felt they had nobody to talk to. Or the elderly person that sits alone on a park bench that's dealing with the loss of a loved one or a spouse, and they don't feel as though they have anybody to talk to. Or the young lady who sits with her young child in the doctor's office, who may be a victim of these types of abuse that we talked about earlier and doesn't feel as though she has anybody to understand her struggles. If we all come together and help each other and support each other, that's not only going to raise the vibration of the planet, but it's going to help each one of us exponentially. We have the energy that we need on the planet to defeat the darkest forces. Because we're showing positivity, we're showing love. We're showing all of the things that we were created to do, we're emanating all of those beautiful traits. And then when it comes to the political spectrum and the things that are going on, on the planet, because we are truly healed and because we can stand in our own and on our own, we're much more resilient against all of these dark forces, this media fiasco. We're able to deal on a more rational scale with the lies that we're being told, with the usurping of our free will, with the instances that we have of the people in power that are trying to take away our freedoms. We're able to combat all of that as a more unified, solidified, healthy state of beings. We're able to be truly successful in our missions that we were put here for. And even though we all have our own individual missions that we're working on, the collective whole is love and light, right? Spreading love, helping the planet as a whole, taking care of the environment. That is not all the psycho bowl that's been handed out by the mainstream media, but taking care of nature, taking care of animals, picking up your garbage, common sense to stuff that we can do to help heal our planet. And then we're able to join together, and they're not gonna know what to do. When and if. And I pray that it's when, and I pray that it starts to happen soon, that people start to wake up and realize that we can do so much more collectively than we can individually. And if we heal our inner selves, then we can stand on our own power. We are so much more powerful as a group, as a healed group. And as we were talking about last week, we have so much more power than even we know. We all have so many individual gifts and gifts that were given to us as a species. I believe that we haven't even tapped into yet that will also assist us on our journey. I believe that one of the greatest, if not the greatest gifts that we've been given, one of the greatest tools that we've been given, is the power of love. And so if we do everything that we've talked about previously, the energy there is just the thought of it is just overwhelming to me. And if we think of that in terms of being a tool toward thwarting the evil forces, the biggest tool that we have in our spiritual toolbox is the power of love. And so if we show that we love each other as a unit and individually heal, as we've talked about earlier, there's really nothing that they can throw at us that can sidetrack us, that can deter us from standing as one and exerting our free will in saying, look, we've had enough, no more. And all of the things that they throw at us from the social media perspectives, all of the fear factors, all of the anxiety, all of the timelines that they've shifted, all of the magic that they use in the words that they speak, in the magic that they use when we don't show a solidarity toward or against, I should say, something that they've done that's using our free will. By not using our free will. That is. That's when we don't stand up against something, they take that as, okay, well, they didn't do anything about that, so let's take another step forward. We didn't utilize our free will, so they're inching forward only in the timeline of things. Now they're actually taking giant steps forwards. If we don't say anything about anything that they're doing, if we don't stand up and fight against that, then they're using our silence as a tool against us to take that next step forward in their next nefarious scheme.
The law is they have to tell us what they're doing. So they tell us in movies, they tell us in tv shows, they tell us on their news broadcasts, they tell us in music all of the plans that they have for us that they either put into place or plan to initiate. And if we don't do anything about it, we're just silent. And we're watching our televisions and listening to these award shows and these awful, awful music albums that they have, where they've put all these different hertzes into them, and they're. They're using their lyrics as spells, and we're just absorbing all of that and not fighting against it. That lack of using our free will propels them forward in their mission, because not saying something means they have the right to take that next step forward in their minds. It's their creed, as it were. If we don't do anything about it, they have the right to go forward. Because our silence is, in essence, using our free will, whereby if we speak up and we take action against what's going on, and we refuse to listen to the music and we refuse to put on the television, and we refuse to succumb our spirits to this evil and this negativity and this fear factor and all of that, then they've got to stop and take another direction. They've got to stop and come up with another plan to go farther. However, if we stand firm in our conviction and we limit the technologies that have infiltrated our homes and our children's lives and our lives to the best of our abilities, and we limit the use of cell phones and televisions and things like that, and we step out in nature and stay whole and stay grounded and stay healthy and not allow ourselves to become victims of the fear and anxiety and what they are transmitting over the airwaves on these phones and televisions and also these 5g towers. And if we closely monitor what we put into our bodies and eat clean foods, organic foods, and stop with the big pharma and find holistic cures for our ailments as well as spiritual cures for our ailments, and we will be able to maintain the mental clarity and have the physical fortitude to be able to stand up to them and defeat them in essence, their jig will be up. So with that, I'm going to take a musical break and we'll hop right into the positive stories after this song by my good buddy Pat Carr. Pat's an original musician from Louisiana. He's on soundclick, he's on reverb nation, he's on iCloud or, I don't know, he's all over the place. You can check him out itunes.com batcarouse. Check him out. Please support his music. Tell him Maggie sent you. Thank you also to the station for allowing us to play these shows and music on their platform. Please support the network. Go to the main page, check out the chat room, listen to the other shows. I'm sure you'll find something else of interest there. There are a lot of amazing shows on the network. Also. Please support the network. We are totally listener funded. Just hop on there and make a donation. Whatever you can do is greatly appreciated. Also, if you have a business and want to be a superstar by supporting the network that way, get in touch with the owner of the network and he will be happy to give you a slot on my show or any other that interests you on the network and maybe just on the network in whole. We'll be back right after this.
[00:39:57] Speaker B: Little.
[00:39:57] Speaker A: Music on the air.
[00:39:59] Speaker B: Spread a little love to the people out there.
Gonna go out walking in the world breathe a little clean fresh air find a place to offer up a silent prayer all those years I spent in on the isolation claiming I had no regrets for the things I've done love my mind, dream my body think my soul went down cause I know that my lord has made me whole.
[00:40:36] Speaker A: I'm.
[00:40:36] Speaker B: Gonna buy a radio station play a little music on the air spread a little love to the people out there gonna do some talking about Jesus telling everybody everywhere eternity belong to the love that's there.
[00:41:11] Speaker A: And we're back for the second half of the positude podcast with Maggie Hart. Thanks for listening everybody. Thanks for coming back. We hope you enjoyed the music by my good buddy Pat Carr that was called radio station.
Did everybody vote this week in today's hot topic?
Trump won the battle. So hopefully all of you, all that are big proponents of Trump. Supporters of Trump went out and voted for him. As of routers, Trump wins Colorado ballot disqualification case at US Supreme Court WAshINGToN, on March 4, the US Supreme Court handed Donald Trump a major victory on Monday, barring states from disqualifying candidates for federal office under a constitutional provision involving insurrection and reversing Colorado's exclusion of him from its ballot. The justices unanimously overturned a December 19 decision by Colorado's top court to kick the former president off the state's Tuesday Republican primary ballot after finding that the US Constitution's 14th amendment disqualified him from again holding public office. The Colorado court had found that Trump took part in insurrection for inciting and supporting the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol by his supporters. The justices determined that not only Congress, or, excuse me, that only Congress can enforce the constitutional provision against federal office holders and candidates. But four of the nine justices, including the court's three liberal members, faulted the rest of the court for announcing rules limiting how the provision may be enforced in the future. Trump is the front runner for the republican nomination to challenge democratic President Joe Biden in the November 5 US election.
His only remaining rival for his party's nomination is former South Carolina governor Nikki Haley.
The ruling was issued on the eve of Super Tuesday, the day in the us presidential primary cycle when most states hold party nominating contests. It came five days after the justices agreed to decide Trump's claim of immunity from prosecution on charges related to trying to overturn his 2020 election loss to Biden. The court, whose six three conservative majority includes three Trump appointees, acted in a speedier manner in deciding the ballot disqualification issue, benefiting him than it has in resolving the immunity question. Delays in deciding the immunity issue could help Trump by delaying his criminal trial.
The 14th Amendment section three bars from office any officer of the United States who took an oath to support the Constitution of the United States and then engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof.
We conclude that states may disqualify persons holding or attempting to hold state office, but states have no power under the Constitution to enforce section three with respect to federal offices, especially the presidency, the unsigned opinion for the court stated. Trump welcomed the ruling, saying during an appearance in Florida, essentially, you cannot take someone out of a race because an opponent opponent would like to have it that way. Trump said he hoped the decision would help unify the country, but then lambasted political opponents and prosecutors behind four criminal cases against him. Trump was also barred from the ballot in Maine and Illinois based on the 14th amendment. Those decisions were put on hold pending the Supreme Court's ruling in the Colorado case.
Colorado Secretary of State Jana Griswold expressed disappointment at the ruling stripping states of the authority to enforce the disqualification clause.
Colorado should be able to bar oath breaking insurrections from our ballot, Griswold wrote in a social media post.
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That was me. Momentous and difficult issues through the justices unanimously agreed with the result. The three liberal justices, as well as conservative Justice Amy Coney Barrett, said the court's opinion decided more than what was necessary to resolve the case by specifying that section three can be enforced only through federal legislation.
Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Alina Kagan and Kachanji Brown Jackson objected to the majority's gratuitous decision to announce rules limiting the way section three can be enforced in the future. Today, the majority goes beyond the necessities of this case to limit how section three can bar an oath breaking insurrectionist from becoming president, the liberal justices said. Although we agree that Colorado cannot enforce section three, we protest the majority's effort to use this case to define the limits of federal enforcement of that provision.
In a concurring opinion, Barrett wrote that this is not the time to amplify disagreement with schreidency. The court has settled a politically charged issue in the volatile season of a presidential election, particularly in this circumstance. Writings on the court should turn the national temperature down, not up, Barrett wrote. For present purposes, our differences are far less important than our unanimity. All nine justices agree on the outcome of this case. That is the message Americans should take home, Barrett added. Trump's eligibility has been challenged and had been challenged in court by a group of six voters in Colorado, four Republicans and two independents who portrayed him as a threat to american democracy and sought to hold him accountable for the January 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol by his supporters.
The plaintiffs were backed by citizens for responsibility and ethics. In Washington, a liberal watchdog group, crew President Noah Bookbinder emphasized that while the court's ruling allows Trump back on the ballot, it did not directly address the Colorado Supreme Court's finding that Trump had engaged in insurrection. The Supreme Court had the opportunity in this case to exonerate Trump, and they chose not to do so, Bookbinder said, adding that the Supreme Court removed an enforcement mechanism and in letting Trump back on the ballot, they failed to meet the moment. As lawsuits seeking to disqualify Trump cropped up against the country, it was important for his candidacy to clear any hurdles to appear on the ballot in all 50 states. Not since ruling in the landmark case Bush versus Gore, which handed the disputed 2000 us election to Republican George W. Bush over Democrat Al Gore, has the court played such a central role in a presidential race. The justices in the immunity case in December declined the prosecutor's bid to speed up resolution of the matter before a lower court had weighed in, then last week agreed to take the matter after lower courts had ruled, setting arguments to take place in late April a much longer timeline than the ballot issue. Ethan Strimling, one of the three former lawmakers behind the disqualification bid in Maine, said Monday's ruling effectively ended the effort to remove Trump from that state's ballot. Capital attack in a bid to prevent Congress from certifying Biden's 2020 election victory, Trump supporters attacked police, broke through barricades and swarmed the Capitol. Trump gave an incendiary speech to supporters beforehand, repeating his false claims of widespread voting fraud and telling them to go to the Capitol and fight like hell. He then for hours rebuffed requests that he urged the mob to stop.
The 14th amendment was ratified in the aftermath of the civil war of 1861 to 1865, in which succeeding southern states that allowed the practice of slavery rebelled against the us government.
In ruling against Trump, Colorado's top court cited the general atmosphere of political violence that President Trump created and that he aided the insurrectionist common unlawful purpose of preventing the peaceful transfer of power in this country.
During February 8 Supreme Court arguments, Trump's lawyer said he is not subject to the disqualification language because a president is not an officer of the United States, that the provision cannot be enforced by court's absent congressional legislation, and that what occurred on January 6 was shameful, criminal and violent, but not an insurrection. Well, that'll teach me to try and read without my glasses on, but there you go. That's the latest in the Trump saga in our good news stories for the evening. This was a very heartwarming story for me. Deputies rescue five year old girl with autism wandering in a Florida swamp we were looking for you, sweetie. This is from the good news network. A five year old girl was reported missing recently near Tampa after the autistic child wandered off and got lost in a swamp, the haunt of snapping turtles, alligators, water moccasins and other beasties. Florida swamps are no place for an unattended child, but fortunately, a coordinated rescue operation by the sheriff's office located her before disaster struck. Hillsborough County Sheriff's office deployed their aviation unit with thermal imaging to a heavily wooded area after receiving a call about the missing child.
Speaking to officers among the reeds in Cypress, the pilot located the girl about 1 hour after the search began. Body cam footage released by the HCSO shows the three officers finding and calling her name. We were looking for you, sweetheart, said one. Fortunately, the girl came to the officers instead of running further away and potentially hurting herself and seemed perfectly happy when one of the rescue team lifted her out of the water and onto dry land. Sheriff Chad Kronister commended the officers, saying that their quick action saved the day, turning a potential tragedy into a hopeful reunion.
The next story is about a cute little puppy dog.
Fateful lunch delivery leads to dog adoption at Virginia shelter love at first sight also from the good news network when Alan Moncayo arrives to deliver someone's lunch, the only thing he might expect to walk away with could be a tip. But when he brought an office lunch out to a Virginia animal shelter, he got so much more than gratuity. Moncio arrived with a Grubhub delivery outside the Lorton campus of the Fairfax County Animal Hospital on February 10.
Walking to the door, he saw a dog staring at him through the window. It was love at first sight, Moncio, 51, tells people magazine. He looked at me and I looked back at him. My daughter's been asking me for a puppy for the longest time. She wanted a dog so bad. As it happened to be a Saturday, Moncayo had his five year old daughter in the car with him, and while the black and white pit bull mix in the window wasn't exactly a puppy, at 65 pounds, he couldn't shake the feeling that this pooch was special. He asked if the two of them could meet the dog named Jihoo, and were allowed to take him out of the kennel to play fetch. Jihoo had been at Lorton for 240 days, ten times as long as the average stay for a dog. Since his owner surrendered him, he had become like a mascot for the hospital, greeting visitors, playing with toys, going on hikes and jumping up on the countertops, wagging his tail. As it happened, Mancayo's visit happened to coincide with the Super bowl, and the shelter was trying to drive adoptions around the big game with an adoption bowl for linebacker sized dogs. Any shelter dog over 45 pounds was free to adopt, making it all the easier for Moncio to go home with his dream dog. The shelter added a crate, leash, toys and food, all free of charge. So isn't that awesome? Stepping into another current event story this was from Newsweek, posted 13 hours ago today. Monday, two weeks of NATO drama have somewhat overshadowed Ukraine's deteriorating battlefield possession. As western politicians and media focus on the ever present danger of direct conflict between Moscow and its transatlantic rivals, Kiev's forces are struggling to hold the long front line in the south and east of the country against continued and, at time, frenzied assaults. Units are increasingly short of manpower and are still being denied the western ammunition and advanced weapons Kiev says it vitally needs. Recent interventions, and a significant intelligence league from western capitals, though, have focused on the prospect of NATO troops operating within Ukraine and prompted fresh threats of nuclear war from Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Kremlin allies. French President Emmanuel Macron first raised the proposal of deploying NATO troops to Ukraine in training and advisory roles. In his denouncement of the plan, German Chancellor Olaf Schultz revealed that french and british troops are already thought to be in country. This conclusion was then echoed in a recording intercepted in leaked by Russia of senior german military officials discussing western support to Ukraine. The greatest acute danger is still from the front lines in Ukraine, one european diplomatic official, who spoke to Newsweek on the condition of anonymity as they were not authorized to speak speak publicly, said when asked about the prospects of russian escalation.
The ammunition deficit is massive, in russian pressure, intense, they added. The west is paralyzed by fear. So far, all the red lines we've crossed have not brought the Armageddon we're so afraid of. A second european diplomatic official, who also requested anonymity to speak candidly, suggested to Newsweek that Moscow primarily wants to exploit alliance concerns to further deter western aid to Kiev. I doubt you can change Russia's calculus just by sending trainers to Ukraine, they said. I'm sure the Russians are very well aware of who's doing what in Ukraine. Ukraine needs ammo and air defense. That's where the immediate focus should be. Newsweek has contacted the russian foreign ministry by email to request comment. Ukrainian President Vladimir Volodymyr Zelenskyy and his top officials are all still lobbying hard for more weapons to be delivered faster and with increased regularity. Keeping Ukraine in the artificial deficit of weapons, particularly in deficit of artillery and long range capabilities, allows Putin to adapt to the current intensity of the war, the president said last month. Meanwhile, ukrainian troops are struggling to hold off russian attacks all along the 900 miles front. Fighting has been especially fierce in northeastern Kharkiv and the eastern regions of Luhansk and Donetsk.
Russian forces are also attacking along the southern Zaporizhia front, seeking to reverse small gains made by Kiev's units in their failed summer counteroffensive there.
Alexandra Moresco, a member of the ukrainian parliament and the chair of the body's foreign affairs committee, told Newsweek Kiev would prefer munitions to western boots on the ground. It's better for our allies to send enough weaponry instead of sending troops, he explained from Kiev. I have a feeling that it doesn't distract from the issue of military aid, the lawmaker added of the recent NATO Fuhrer. On the contrary, our western allies will be more interested in providing Ukraine with more military and material aid rather than sending their troops.
President Macron's statement truly important because it is in line with strategic ambiguity, which makes the Kremlin so nervous and even hysterical, Morezko added. Psychologically, it's important to show to the Kremlin that all options are on the table. It disorients Putin and makes him less confident. So why did I split up two current event stories with some positive news? Because I felt like it. Obviously we have some skewered views here from considering the source Newsweek, but that's what's those were the two, I thought, most pressing events on the current event spectrum this week, so I thought I'd share them with you. And now I'd like to move on to another positive story. Normally I'd give some commentary or opinions on the current event stories and talk about what I felt about the situation, both literally and physically because of my gifts. However, because we had such an awesome discussion at the beginning and I want to get into some really happy good news stuff, we're just going to forego that for this week and jump right into another positive story. This one's actually more of a fable, but one that I really, really like.
The reason that I like this one so much is because it's about attitude, and I've been told by many people over many different years that I have attitude.
So here we go. It's the story of the grateful starfishes.
One moment. One morning, rather, an elderly man was walking along the beach when he noticed a young boy picking something off the sand and throwing it into the sea. As he got closer, the man realized the child was throwing stranded starfishes that had washed up on the shore back into the breaking waves. Approaching the boy, the man asked what he was doing. The starfish will die if they're still on the shore when the sun rises, he replied. Perplexed, the old man said, but that's pointless. There are countless miles of beach and thousands of starfish. It doesn't matter how many of you return to the water. You can't make a difference. Unfazed, the boy bent down, picked up another starfish and tossed it into the sea. It matters to this one, he said. And the moral of the story is, no matter what the odds of success or the scale of the challenge, your actions can make a difference. It's better to light a candle than curse the dark. Every little counts doing something to make a positive change is always better than nothing. And as I'm so fond of saying and have been for years, we're all a ripple in the pond.
The next one I'd like to share with you is about the elephant and the rope. One day, a man walked past a camp of elephants. Looking closer, he was surprised to see that these mighty animals weren't held in cages or kept in chains. The only thing that stopped them from escaping, a thin rope tied from one of their legs to a simple pole in the ground.
Confused as to why they didn't use their strength to break the rope, he asked the trainer why they weren't attempting to run away. To this, the trainer replied, as baby elephants, we use the same system, but at that age, the rope is strong enough to stop them from escaping. They grow up like this, believing they can never break the rope. So even as adults, they stay put. In other words, these powerful, magnificent, and intelligent elephants didn't believe they could free themselves, so they never tried. Moral of the story our personal beliefs are powerful beyond measure and often dictate our outcomes. They can work for or against us. Identify your limiting beliefs so you can push against them. And this is exactly what we spoke about in the first half of our show, so it's also pertinent. I also thought that was just an amazing story. I've heard about that one and read about it for years and been preaching it to years. And hopefully someday more people will listen.
This concludes another episode of the Positude podcast. Thank you all so much for listening. I hope to see you all again next week, same time, same station. Please support the network. Listen to my good buddy Pat Carr. Spread the love, do a nice thing for other people and keep your spirits up. We're all in this together. I love you guys. Thanks again. Good night.
