Confirmation of Bacon King as Justice (Debating)

[Simfan34]

While I'm sure we all want to hear "the truth", I highly doubt any of it is going to manifest here. Cris ought to go ahead and lock this trainwreck and stop giving the trolls any more free air-time than they're going to get otherwise.

So this is the first act of the new President, to silence debate and discussion.

Well, I can see this is going to be a disaster of a Presidency.

Hear hear. It appears that Winfield is one of the few people in this country with his head screwed on straight. The right has taken sides with our greatest enemy and the only opposition are a bunch of populist nihilistic trolls. We need consistent opposition to Griffin (Public Enemy Number Two, Public Enemy Number One of course being TNF), populism, dissolutionism, and hyperlegalism.

Where is Foucaulf's radio station when you need it?

[Simfan34]

Many good people have become trollish. Sadly, many other good people-- including much of the great TPP-- have given the backing the enemy. We need a strong right-wing reformist alternate to not only oppose the regime, but to resist it, after my undemocratic removal in a coup d'etat blatantly carried out by the regime before it even entered office.

[Simfan34]

I handed a seat over to Labor by running in an election which I would have won had it not been stolen? Adam singlehandedly stole that election. I was your party's standard-bearer in that election-- unless you thought JCL would bring you to victory. I was right there alongside those who fought and sacrifice to bring DemPGH's disastrous tenure to an end. That's where I was.

It is not sufficient to support reform. It is necessary to oppose the Left, or, more specifically, the most malevolent forces of the radical Left. There are a few good people on the left (such as Bacon King), and we can and should work with left-of-centre moderates. But there are many bad ones, they shall always remain the enemy, regardless of their position on "reform", which is ultimately secondary. This is not a "special snowflake" viewpoint.

[Simfan34]

Deus was an unreliable supporter of our agenda. When he got into office he did little to stop the expansion of TNFism but much to further their agenda of social degeneracy. Neither you nor I could have trusted him to do the right thing. His candidacy would have not gotten anywhere, anyway, if not for Labor's election rigging.

I fled before I could be removed in a putsch carried out by an unholy alliance of regime toadies backed by dissolutionists. We all know Adam had a secret accord to "forcibly remove me from office" (his words, not mine), after which the dissolutionists, with their zombie judge, would conduct what would have been a de facto lynch mob to strip me of my rights and imprison me. It's why I had to flee the country, and why I will not return until this regime is no longer in power.

None of this would have happened had your people not betrayed Cris. Spineless chitterlings pretending to be on the "right" betrayed Cris and gave us this terrible regime which now so imperils us all.

I do not see the world in black and white. The person who challenged me most as Governor was Bacon King. This is without dispute. But I wouldn't let the past blind me to the fact that BK is singlehandedly the most qualified person for this office.

[Simfan34]

And you want to talk about defections from Cris. How about your homeboy Foucaulf voting for Bacon King over Cris, casting the deciding vote reducing the right down to three seats, after which Bacon King then proceeded to vote to overide Lumine's veto on TNF bills.

How did you vote in that election again? Did you even vote?

What election was this? December at-Large?

If we're talking elections let's talk about March Special. By allowing the perpetually unelectable JCL to run you divided the right, pushed out Foucaulf, and gave a seat to... Adam Griffin, since he faced JCL... who is, as I said, perpetually unelectable.

[Simfan34]

Simfan called me out for betraying something and now refers to the administration I'm serving with as failed yet he isn't even a registered voter? What on earth did I do to him?

I guess it doesn't matter. It seems like the new norm is disliking people for no reason.

You have not failed. You can never fail, Dukey.

But you all are right. The hallowed chambers of this house are not the place for me to be arguing about my record, or talking about myself in general. Best save that for some other place, some other time.

I am simply here to say that Bacon King, despite whatever blemishes there may be in BK's past, is by far and away the most qualified person for this post, to an almost ludicrous degree. If I feel confident in saying this despite my long personal history of being frustrated with many of BK's political decisions, I cannot see how this house should fail to do the same. You can object to some of the ends to which BK's talents have been applied, but the sheer breadth and depth of those talents should overwhelming override such concerns, when considering if those very same talents should now be employed in upholding the law of the land in its highest court-- and the answer to that question can only possibly be a most resounding yes.

I thank the members of this house for putting up with my presence for as long as they have, and I'll now be off.