Do you know what would stop the DOJ from arresting Justice Thomas on corruption charges?
Nothing. There is no mechanism in the Judicial Branch to actually stop a physical thing from happening. The Court can issue all the writs they want but if the Executive doesn’t obey, there’s nothing the Judiciary can do. Right now, the Democrats are not merely accusing Thomas of corruption – they are baldly asserting that he is corrupt and his judicial decisions should be null and void because of this. It is only a small step now for DOJ to open a criminal investigation…and if they’ve decided that Thomas has to go down, they will indict him. They will arrest him and they will put him on trial…in front of jurors who have been told Thomas is already guilty.
What people don’t seem to fully grasp is that a Republic only works as long as everyone, by and large, obeys the rules – written and unwritten. In a normal, functioning Republic we wouldn’t have to worry about the Executive arresting the Judiciary because forming the mere thought to do so is impossible. But the Democrats have formed the thought. They feel they have to: the only thing preventing them from just doing whatever they want is an independent Judiciary which is not under their control and likely cannot be under their control for decades…unless, of course, vacancies are opened up while they have appointment power.
What is to stop them? Love of the Constitution? Commitment to the Rule of Law? Their sterling moral character?
I’ve been saying for a while now that there is no law – there is only power and the willingness to exercise it. Sure, I’d love for us to get back to law; but the Democrats will not go back to it. They hate it; it limits their ability to do things. Democrats – now ruled entirely by the products of Marxist indoctrination in the schools – don’t believe they should be limited. Like all Marxists they are certain they are right and that any opposition on any grounds is simple wickedness. Combine that with their messianic belief that they have to “save the world” from Climate Change and you get quite the toxic mix ready and willing to bulldoze through any obstacle. The only reason the Democrats haven’t already arrested all opposition (to “save Democracy”…and they’ll sincerely believe that’s what they’re doing) is because they haven’t quite worked up the nerve. They aren’t 100% sure all of the apparatus of power will obey orders to arrest…and shoot anyone who resists.
But that time is coming – they are staffing up. Testing the waters. Getting people in place who are thoroughly of the Left and willing to carry out any order. The Trump indictments are part of it, but not even the most important part. They are cancelling firearms dealer licenses, putting pressure on gun and ammunition manufacturers. They are setting precedent; those 17 year sentences for trespassing are both a test and a warning to opponents. They are already deeply infiltrated into social media, watching and listening to everything; building cases for future actions. It could get very bleak, very fast.
But, don’t get too down! I do not come here offering nothing but gloom and doom. We still have a chance. We mostly have it because the Left has not found it’s Lenin; someone who is absolutely ruthless and willing to take responsibility for the utter destruction of the Left’s enemies. They might not find one, ever: Leftists are mostly stupid and cowardly and the chances they’ll stumble across the right instrument to impose their tyranny is small. Lacking a Lenin, they can only grind ahead and sort of hope that they don’t provoke a reaction. But they have a problem: they’ve already provoked it.
Sending Joe Average to jail for 17 years on a trespassing charge is deeply, emotionally satisfying for the Left – but it also lets every other Joe Average know where he stands. It is not resonating well out there. Nor is the clear over-kill indictments of Trump. Nor are the Democrat efforts to hide grooming in the public schools. On and on it goes like that; lacking a ruthless leader, the Democrat rank and file are going ever more lunatic in their actions but without the necessary total repression of their enemies which can make being insane a viable political option. Not only do they lack a leader, the person at the top of the heap is senile and feeble; he’s also got a lifetime of corruption and creepiness which is slowly oozing out in spite of MSM efforts to keep it secret. What they’re building up is a perfect storm of insane policy everyone hates combined with a leader everyone holds in contempt. If the GOP can unite in 2024 – behind any candidate – it has a chance at a very sweeping victory.
But it will take the unity. This means dispensing with Never Trump and Only Trump positions. It still might not be Trump, but if it is Trump, then all of us have to swing in behind him with enthusiasm. But so, too, if it is DeSantis or, indeed, anyone else: total enthusiastic unity. If we are united, we stand a very good chance.
But here’s the real kicker: no matter who gets in, our only safety lies in punishment of the Left. They have no morals, at all. They have no sense of decency. They will jail and/or kill us as soon as they think they can. That must be kept in mind and our actions must be informed by it. No matter who we get in, huge pressure will have to be applied to ensure that the Democrat power centers are gutted. It isn’t enough to appoint a new FBI director – the FBI has got to go, or at bare minimum be legislatively curtailed in its duties. The government has to be disarmed; way too many federal agencies are armed. If we keep the FBI, then I’d like to see their weapons restricted to revolvers. No machine guns, armored vehicles, Gestapo-raid troops disguised as a Hostage Rescue Team; but really better if they are entirely disarmed and have to request State and local cops make arrests on federal warrants.
We need legislation explicitly prohibiting the government from collecting information on us. From having contact with social media companies. Laws which randomly assign federal cases around the country – no more Democrats bringing charges against their opponents in DC…you might have to argue your case against MAGA in Alabama and good luck with that. Move federal agencies out of DC – only Executive branch departments which need to be there are State, Justice and Defense. Lets move the Department of Education to Anchorage, Alaska and see how many current employees take us up on the offer to move there. Hey, fair is fair – why should only the residents of Maryland and northern Virginia get the chance to have those juicy federal jobs? Lets spread them around the country and give some Kentucky hillbillies a chance to work at the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
But we can’t stop with just punishing Democrats in government. We have to punish Democrats as such. This would mostly involve confiscations of money and termination of federal boondoogles whereby the taxes of a plumber in Idaho go to pay the salary of a Marxist DEI enforcer at a college in New York.
Glorious, right? Do you love that future? Of course you do. In fact, you want more of it; each of you can come up with a dozen ways to punish and we can do them all. If we win. As I said earlier, unity is necessary to win in 2024. But not quite enough. That is, not quite enough for us to win enough power for a long enough time to sufficiently punish the Democrats so they’ll stop dreaming of us in GULAG. To get that kind of power, we’re going to need a lot more people on our side. People who have never been on our side. I’m talking black voters, Latinos, urban working class, youngsters.
Here’s the easy part: increasingly, these voting blocks are primed to listen to us. As the Democrat party has become captive of shrieking lunatics and their mostly white, urban, upper class and female enablers the concerns of a working class guy are by the wayside. Black people do kinda wonder why we’re now on trans kids when the schools still suck in their neighborhoods. Maybe Latinos dislike us a bit…but how long can they like a Democrat party which continually lets in ever more illegals to compete for jobs, housing and education? They kids think we’re square and totally out of it – but they are also frustrated that affording a house and car is increasingly out of reach. We can talk to these people. We can win their votes. But we’d have to give them something.
Sorry, folks; that is just how politics works. Especially modern politics amid a sea of welfare payments. We have to stop being hung up on the money. It is going to be spent; mostly in kickbacks to those favored by Democrats. Might as well, if we can, spend it on kickbacks to people we’re courting. What, exactly, is another trillion dollars piled atop our debt if by so doing we can give student loan relief to the kids? As I said, the trillion dollars will be spent. Not on debt relief: Democrats don’t actually want that. They like the kids crushed under debt and unable to start a middle class life. You think they want to turn these purple-haired kids with their BLM signs into Republicans? They saw what happened to the hippies after they bought houses – they’re MAGA now. The Democrats will keep the debt; the money will be spent on Ukraine or whatever they can find as a means to launder the stolen money. But what happens if we cancel the debt? What do the kids do at voting time when we’ve got a plan laid out to get them out from under?
Reparations? I’ve explained before that part of the reason America’s black community has lower net wealth than the white community is because for the first 190 years of America black people were explicitly prevented or at least greatly hampered in their ability to build wealth. No, it doesn’t really fix the past. No, the people alive today are not responsible for it all. But what if, in the campaign, we came up with a plan to actually provide some cash to verified descendants of American slaves? And paid for by selling off US land and mineral rights? It is no skin off your nose. It progressively reduces the amount of land Uncle Sam owns in the States (thus reducing his influence in State and local politics). And it does help; and it does make up for the fact that as a nation for 190 years we failed to live up to All Men are Created Equal.
On and on it can go like that. Plans and programs explicitly designed to help out average people. Vote for us; will give you something. Sure its not the way it should be done. But it is the only way it can be done. Win the power – by any means necessary. Use the power to punish Democrats so they are instructed that rules are to be followed for their own protection. Restore American liberty.
The future is ours if we are willing to take it.
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Is Bill Gates Responsible for Massachusetts West Nile Outbreak?
Anyone involved with or approving secretive experimentation on individuals, groups or the general population without their knowledge and consent, should be hung. If Gates is a part of orchestrating obscure genetic testing, especially for the purpose of population control and/or profit, he should receive the death sentence and his entire estate confiscated.
“Just as billionaire Bill Gates demonstrated an uncanny amount of prescience ahead of the COVID pandemic, even sponsoring the Event 201 pandemic planning seminar a month ahead of it, Gates has expressed a similar fascination with mosquito-borne illnesses such as malaria.
He controversially released a jar full of mosquitoes into the room during a 2009 TEDTalk.
Gates also has been active in the funding of malaria vaccines, some of which involve delivery via genetically modified mosquitoes.
“We use the mosquitoes like they’re 1,000 small flying syringes,” said Dr. Sean Murphy, a physician and scientist with the University of Washington, Seattle, according to a 2022 NPR report.
The Biden administration even approved a plan for Gates to release some 4 billion genetically modified mosquitoes in Florida and California in April 2022.
Just two months later, health officials in California reported upticks in several reported viruses, including malaria, monkeypox and swine flu, although it is unclear whether June “Pride” month celebrations may have been a contributing factor.”
”…and force citizens to involuntarily inhale gene-altering chemicals.”
The Nuremberg Code was created in 1947 in Nuremberg, Germany, following the trial of a group of Nazi doctors accused of conducting inhumane and often deadly experiments on prisoners of concentration camps without their consent. At the conclusion of what’s also referred to as ‘The Doctors Trial’, 16 people were found guilty.
The Nuremberg Code was developed in response to the horrors of this experimentation, with the aim of protecting human subjects in medical research. The Code, and particularly its emphasis on informed consent, has had a profound impact on international human rights law and medical ethics.
The Nuremberg Code consists of 10 principles, the first of which being that the voluntary consent of the human subject is absolutely essential in any experiment on humans.
Eco-nazis steadfastly fight the efforts to go back to using DDT to fight malaria-bearing mosquitoes. Their self righteousness has led to millions of unnecessary deaths.
In the early 1960s, several developing countries had nearly wiped out malaria. After they stopped using DDT, malaria came raging back and other control methods have had only modest success. Merely painting the interior walls of homes with a diluted DDT mixture can control mosquitoes, but the self-identified “environmentalists” fight this, in spite of the death toll attributed to the mosquito-borne illness.
Finally, The World Health Organization today (September 15, 2006) announced a major policy change. It’s actively backing the controversial pesticide DDT as a way to control malaria. Malaria kills about 1 million people a year, mainly children, and mainly in Africa, despite a decades-long effort to eradicate it.
If Bill Gates could shed his Savior of the Earth mantle and stop experimenting on human beings he could contribute far more to mankind than his narcissistic and hubris-fueled delusions of the ability to control the world.
It is a big point and we need to start really emphasizing it – there is a huge, annual cost in human lives for our adherence to Leftwing policy prescriptions. But not just mentioning it – vigorously assigning blame for it. Start asking Democrat politicians – “how many people have to die before you admit your program is a failure?”. Imagine hammering Pudding Brain relentlessly on the number of women raped and people murdered by the traffickers since he came into office? The only answer he can give – and he will give it, but it works to our advantage – is a flat denial…one of his “come on, man!” bullsh** screeds…but the people know. The facts are on our side. Throw that bucket of blood on him.
AI mean really throw it: “Hey, Joe; you knew these people were going to die, be raped and robbed when you signed the order. Why did you sign it? What were you thinking?”
Don’t let them off the hook by saying it was a mistake. It was deliberate.
That’s exactly the kind of thing I have been thinking of.
For one thing, we tend to make statements when I think we should ask questions. We can say “The Left is evil” all day long, but when we ask questions like yours the question itself is a clue about the issue and then the answer, or non-answer, reinforces it.
I always want to ask “Why are you a Democrat?” Or “Why do you think consolidating power in the hands of a few elites is the best way to govern a nation?”
“Did you ever consider that telling poor people we would house, feed and care for them might lead them to take dangerous risks to get here?” Followed by “Why not? How could you not anticipate this?” “Have you seen the figures on the numbers of women raped on their way to our border? The numbers of women and children sold into sex slavery by people hired to get them to our borders?” And so on.
To most questions like this the answers are limited, and fall into two basic categories: I’m too stupid to think these things through, or I don’t care.
I’m too stupid to think these things through, or I don’t care.
Based on my 78 years on this earth, I’d say that the vast majority of people who support the party that, at the very least, enables those policies, falls into one of those two categories.
To get that kind of power, we’re going to need a lot more people on our side. People who have never been on our side. I’m talking black voters, Latinos, urban working class, youngsters.
I think we’re seeing that happen with Trump. We’ve all posted links in the last few days of lower class, blue collar Americans of every ethnicity rallying around the Trump. They not only remember how good life was under his Presidency, but are also feeling a bit simpatico with him considering his unjust persecution. Those people understand that.
The Democrat Left has been openly attacking the Supreme Court for 3 years now. Remember when Schumer stood on the steps and threatened Alito and Kavanuagh … “they’re going to face the whirlwind”? So of course these attacks will continue. And how many times over the last 15 years, really since Obama in 2008, have the Democrats invoked the word “fight”, and the need to take the “fight” to their opponents? Remember when Obama said, “get in their face and argue”? Well all of this violent rhetoric is moving along it’s natural course to where we now witnessed the riots of 2020 and the indictments of political opponents in 2023.
And in all this time, what have we heard from the GOP?? Other than Trump or DeSantis, have you ever heard a GOP politician mention the need to “fight” to win? Has Mitt Romney ever mentioned the need to “fight back”? I know, it’s laughable. Most of the GOP wants to “compromise with their colleagues on the other side of the aisle” – and that’s how we lose.
Before the Left finds it’s Lenin. The Right needs to find a George Washington …. but I think we have one. He just happens to wear a three piece suit.
He just happens to wear a three piece suit.
Or a sweater vest. 🙂
What I’ll say at the moment is that there are some indicators that all middle and working class people are seeing what the Ruling Class is doing and not liking it. There are some polls showing Trump strength among minority voters…but I won’t believe it until I see the votes. And even supposing Trump does very well with them – cool. But it isn’t enough. Even if Trump wins next year, it is just 4 years. We need power for 20 years…and power held by MAGA, not GOP squishes.
And, so, my plan: I realize it is a rather naked purchase of votes. But, OTOH, the votes will be purchased. Might as well enter the market, ourselves, and while we flash the cash – and at some real working/middle class problems, unlike the Democrats – we will get to implement other policies designed to restore America.
Think about a program to get rid of the student debt which also blocks all federal funds for “studies” programs? Sure, college, you can have them – but it is on your dime. We’ll have buckets of unemployment Marxist propagandists in a minute.
Here you go …
This would make a great GOP ad:
So here’s another “expert” telling us that life after death is impossible, because ?? I guess he knows everything:
‘The claim violates the laws of physics.’
Explaining further, he said: ‘What you are is a collection of atoms obeying the laws of nature: ‘You are not a physical meat sack that is being driven around by a little blob of spirit energy like a soccer mom driving an SUV…
‘There are electrons, protons and neutrons interacting through electromagnetism, the nuclear force and gravity.
‘So the laws of physics tell us what those things do – it is not necessary to bring anything else into the equation.’
So here’s my challenge to this expert. Go get some bones, sone tissue, some water, some cartilage, and some blood, then put them all together combined with the necessary electrons, protons, and neutrons needed and then spin that in your lab creating the needed nuclear force and gravity, and then see if that entity has cognitive thought. Surely, if we are is just a “collection” of known worldly components, why can’t we replicate that? And bigger yet, how did those known components come into existence? I’m sure the expert can tell us.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-12475311/theoretical-physicist-life-death-impossible.html
As someone who has gotten message from my departed husband, I know better. Three times people I have still never met, who just happen to know people I know, have asked my friends to pass on messages to me from my husband. And they have been specific to something that happened that only family members could know.
After his death I moved our ranch to a new property we had bought in Wyoming. It was a massive undertaking—-several tractors and farm equipment, 128 horses, cows, tack, all the things that go into running a large ranch. I had left some boxes in the back of my Excursion, things I didn’t need and didn’t have the energy to unpack. It was as secure there as anywhere, parked behind a barn at the end of a mile-long driveway. Then one night, around 2:00 a.m., I woke up with a vivid image in my mind, of a stack of small boxes in the back of the Excursion that had fallen over and the contents of one had spilled out, and lying there there was a watch box. It was so vivid that I went across the farm yard in the snow in the middle of the night and when I opened the back door of the truck there was the exact picture I had just seen, of a box I had never paid attention to but just tossed in on top of some other stuff, lying on its side with its contents spilled out, and next to it was a watch box. I took the watch box into the house and opened it and inside was a gold Patek Philippe watch that had been his grandfather’s.
I have never had it appraised, but I know it is not only materially valuable but meant a lot to my husband, who was very close to his grandfather. I think when the box with other odds and ends of his that I had never examined had fallen over he wanted to make sure that watch was found and secured. I’ve been told I just “remembered” this watch, but I never knew it existed . My husband had packed this watch, a watch that had been his father’s and some other memorabilia that mattered to him, and put them in a simple ordinary box that I packed without looking at it.
I have had many experiences similar to this, and many people I know have had similar experiences after loved ones have crossed over. One day I was in Cheyenne and just didn’t feel “right” and on the way home I was queasy. That night I had the chills for a while. No big deal Early in the morning I was hit with a sense of urgency about going to a doctor. Not a casual “I should probably see a doctor” thing but almost frantic GOGOGOGOGOGO. So I went. I drove myself to Colorado, went to the emergency room of a hospital chosen at random, and 12 days later I went home. It turned out to be a hospital with a new experimental sepsis program, I turned out to have sepsis, and it took them ten days of extremely intense treatment and supervision before they were sure we could avoid having me go into septic shock. I was told if I had not done what I did my employee would have found me dead the next day. (My husband died of septic shock and as I sat with him in his last moments after I removed life support I said to him “Don’t even think your job is done just because you cross over. You have always watched out for me and I’m going to count on you to keep doing that.” And he has.)
So no pointy-headed “academic” can tell me that there is not life after death. These people are terrified of the concept, because it implies that there are consequences for what they do. And their narcissism and hubris make them wholly self-absorbed and the center of their own universes.
Small story: my mother died in 2003. She had always loved rain – which was odd because she also loved the desert but nothing delighted her more than rainfall. Time goes on. I get married in 2005. We’re off on our honeymoon and having a grand time under a warm, blue and absolutely cloudless sky. As we come close to our destination a cloud started to grow right over it…I mean really fast. By the time we got there and were getting out of the car there was a gentle rain falling around us. Lasted just a few minutes.
I think Mom stopped by to tell me she approved of my situation.
I love stories like these …
The one thing they can’t answer – and they will evade the question – is how anything exists at all unless there is a Being outside the universe willing it into existence.
The entire universe of the Left is based on Magical Thinking.
There’s just……stuff. And then it just turns into…..other stuff. Inanimate stuff becomes animate stuff and then becomes a wildly expansive and elaborate array of complicated stuff. It just happens. Inanimate particles become the system in which a sperm cell can fertilize an egg and create a whole new human being with a brain that can make computations in nanoseconds.
Shazaam!
There is no limit to how desperate some people are to deny the existence of a Higher Power. And I think this comes back to the narcissism and hubris I have mentioned, to the inner conviction of being the center of the universe vested with the power to control everything, or at least with that right.
But we are built to want to understand the meaning of life. Some of us find this in acceptance of that Higher Power and create belief systems around it. But others, with the same need but hampered by the ego that rejects the concept of anything greater than they are, create different belief systems based not on the Higher Power but on their belief in their own.
And this gives us the secular religion of Leftism.
I’m only partially joking when I say that most thought and effort over the past 100 years has been an elaborate effort to get out of going to Church on Sundays.
atoms obeying the laws of nature yes, and the laws of nature were created by God.
They just can’t get around the fact that there has to be a beginning, and a purpose. It’s as if the structure implied by the term, “laws of nature” just happened, somehow. Where did they come from? In a chaotic unstructured universe with no pattern or meaning, there is no need for “laws” to come about.
I’d say things are going well. Keep voting for the same people … remember we need to save the planet!!!
During the Great Depression in 1930:
The average home cost $3,900
The average car cost about $600
The average rent was about $216 a year
Meanwhile, the average salary was $1,300 per year.
Today, in 2023 Joe Biden’s America:
The average house costs $436,000
The average car costs about $48,000
The average rent is about $24,000 a year
Meanwhile, the average income is $56,000 per year.
In other words, we are doing worse today economically than when we were suffering through the Great Depression.
Most Americans will never own a home or a vehicle. It’s a renter and leaser’s world unless you inherit property or a vehicle.
A woman could stay home and be a mother and homemaker, and the family could live on one income. A newly married couple could expect to be able to buy their own home, even if needing to rent for a year or two. A graduate from high school could expect to be able to support a family.
Several years ago I was on a treadmill at the Y. I was wearing a Miami University T-shirt. A lady came over and asked me if it was Miami of Ohio. I told her yes, and she asked if I went there. I told her I graduated in 1967. She asked me if I could remember how much it cost to go there in the 60s. I asked her why she wanted to know, and she said she and her husband had twin daughters enrolled at Miami, and she was just curious. I don’t know why I remember, but my room, board and tuition my freshman year was $1,740, and that was out-of-state tuition. Had my parents been Ohio residents, it would have been around $1,150. I asked her how much it cost to send her twin daughters to my alma mater, and she said, “just under $50,000 – A PIECE.
To put that in perspective, in the early 60s my dad made around $20,000 a year, which was pretty decent money at that time. My mom was a stay-at-home mom. So my room, board and tuition was 8.7% of my dad’s annual income. My experience with the lady at the Y was probably at least 5 years ago. Discounting the fact that she and her husband were paying for twins, $50,000 is 8.7% of $575,000.
And the quality of today’s education is vastly inferior
Great article
Pete Buttigieg is just a symptom of a vastly larger crisis
https://hotair.com/jazz-shaw/2023/09/04/pete-buttigieg-is-just-a-symptom-of-a-vastly-larger-crisis-n575675
I’m really sad to hear of the passing of Jimmy Buffet. He seemed like a genuinely good guy who wrote happy music. A friend saw him and his band perform in an unannounced appearance in an Aspen bar, just for the fun of it, under the name of Freddy and the Fishsticks.
We need more entertainers who promote happiness and good humor.
I saw Buffet three times, most recently in Phoenix just last March. His concerts were so fun with everyone singing the songs they all know and Buffet would tell great stories in between. He will be missed.
Reading a book today I came across a statement that reminded me of Joe Biden—actually, of most if not all Democrat politicians.
He’d almost certainly never seen a poor person in his entire life so to remedy this defect he and his party had created quite a lot of them
A couple of good examples of Bidenomics this morning: new home sales have dipped below the low set during the 2008 housing crisis (hat-tip Jeff Childers @ C& C, and July to August, the number of American born citizens who are employed dropped by 1.2 million (hat-tip Glenn Beck).
And LOL81million is demanding that American businesses employ illegal aliens
LOL indeed. From the same Glenn Beck segment, employment for those not born in this country was up 600,000 during the same period.
Mortgage applications are at historic lows, and Charles Payne said this morning that housing in America is the least affordable it’s ever been considering all the factors, ie; interest rates, prices, wages, etc.
Thank God for The Freedom of Information Act. This is part of a larger post, so I’m including the whole thing (hat-tip Coffee & Covid). Oh what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive.
America could use a Joseph McCarthy about right now. We have communists in our midst.
Big difference: the communists of McCarthy’s era were hiding in the shadows. The communists of our era are teaching our children and running the administrative state, and they’re doing so in the open. We don’t need a hero to out them, we need heros to destroy them.
In McCarthy’s era the nation understood the dangers of communism. Today the Left has succeeded in sanitizing the word and any any other word that is associated with the Left.
A couple of years ago I was talking with two teenage boys about the goal of the Left to have reeducation camps, and I said if they had their way they would send us all to gulags—and their faces literally lit up and they said “Cool!” It turns out that a popular video game had a “gulag” as a level of combat only achieved by high scorers. The geniuses of Leftist propaganda even detoxified the word “gulag”.
Fifty years ago Americans understood that socialism and its ugly cousins, communism and fascism, all meant tyranny and oppression, but then we had just come out a world war in which Leftist governments tried to dominate the world and killed millions. Today the word “socialism” just means free stuff, and Leftists will angrily deny that there is any such thing as the Left and that it is merely a pejorative used by the Right, or an invention of the Right which does not really exist.
I’m with you 100%
Startling video shows how Beverly Hills is now a desolate wasteland as high-end shops, banks, and restaurants shutter their doors amid economic woes and crime
The reason why brick and mortar retailers are failing is because the Democrat Party has legalized communism. No bail, no jail, and no consequences for shop lifting. That’s legal communism. And that’s what every Democrat voter needs to understand. They’re voting for communism
Actually, what you are talking about is not communism, which is a political model, but the development of the social and cultural rot that creates conditions in which Leftism can get a toehold. In a wholly Communist regime, such as the former USSR, crimes like these were crushed. Penalties were severe. These kinds of cultural and social erosions are only allowed when they advance the cause of gaining control. Once that control is established, every Leftist regime is intolerant of street crime.
What Democrats are voting for is the illusion of intellectual and moral superiority, unaware that what they are getting is tyranny. Look at the attitude of the Left toward people who were skeptical of the jab, and of masking. It was one of sneering smugness, of the conviction that THEY were smart enough to understand the problem and THEY were moral enough to care about spreading the disease. It was all virtue signaling of the conviction of being Better People.
And this smugness and self-congratulation disguised the fact that what was going on was a dictatorship, the imposition of the wish of a political system on the entire country implemented by the signature of one man. They were so busy admiring themselves they didn’t even notice the implications of what was going on.
Tarrio wasn’t even at the Capital on Jan 6. Do you consider yourself more of a fascist? Or communist? Because it is one or the other.
So he organized the group of unarmed 50 year olds? Is that the charge? Surely you know what egregious actions he took right? You being such an expert on seditious conspiracies and all.
Note the word … “will” just a fyi. Because that’s the trend if you hadn’t noticed. But you knew that.
I see my name has been invoked in what is no doubt another iteration of the endless whimpering of the perceived victim of the all-powerful Amazona, The Boss Of Us All. Poor fretful little thing.
But the fragment of the post cites the sentencing of another of those dastardly DANGERS TO DEMOCRACY!!! that have the obedient little Lefty lapdogs peeing down their legs. I’ve been seeing this nonsense all over the web, and it’s clearly all from the same script, breathlessly regurgitating the same statute, which has obviously been provided to them by their master. There is no way all these mouth breathing trolls have looked up the laws and landed on the same statute. No, it has been spoonfed to them before they were sent out to piss and moan about the awful dreadful SIGNIFICANCE of the statute, blah blah blah.
18 USC 2384, “If two or more persons in any State or Territory, or in any place subject to the jurisdiction of the United States, conspire to overthrow, put down, or to destroy by force the Government of the United States, or to levy war against them, or to oppose by force the authority thereof, or by force to prevent, hinder, or delay the execution of any law of the United States, or by force to seize, take, or possess any property of the United States contrary to the authority thereof, they shall each be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than twenty years, or both.”
So let’s deconstruct this, shall we??
overthrow, put down, or to destroy by force the Government of the United States Did this happen? Of course not. There was not a single action by any Trump supporter that even came close to an effort or even a spoken desire to overthrow the government, put down the government, or destroy by force the government. So we can strike that.
Next: levy war against them Nope.
Next: seize, take, or possess any property of the United States contrary to the authority thereof I suppose occupying a building without permission COULD be construed as “taking” or “possessing” property “of the United States contrary to the authority thereof”. Were these people charged with this? No? Then we can move on.
That leaves us with the vague and nonspecific by force to prevent, hinder, or delay the execution of any law of the United States This has to be one of the most broadly written, nonspecific, statutes ever written. But it’s the one the lapdogs keep referring back to, so we should take a look at it.
Start with “by force”. That seems to be the key to this, as without that the statute would seem to cover everything from tax evasion to treason. (But not election fraud because that’s not really a thing 😉 ) So what was the nature of the “force” that triggered this statute? What kind of force? How forceful was it? And more important, to me anyway, is what was the focus of this “force”? That is, was it a forceful entry into a building, or was it force employed to gain access to a podium or a microphone? Because while I’ve seen a lot of pearl-clutching and swooning over the raucousness and rudeness and noisiness and general lack of civility shown by some of the protesters, I haven’t seen or heard of any actual force directly applied to the specific goal of “preventing, hindering, or delaying the execution of any law “—because to do any of these heinous and evidently terrifying crimes a perpetrator would have to be in proximity to those who were in charge of executing the laws in question. You can’t prevent someone from doing something by standing in a different room yelling, even if you are yelling really really loud. You can’t hinder the implementation of a law if you are physically incapable of doing so because you are in a different place. You can’t delay the execution of a law by standing hundreds of feet away separated by walls and armed security and just hollering “I WANT TO DELAY THIS ACTION!”
As far as I can tell, the whole thing rested on the claim that Congress was “hindered” in the execution of its certification because the bad noisy protesters made them nervous and they wanted to go somewhere else. So they were “hindered”. But not prevented. Did they accomplish the act of certification? Yes. Did the big bad noisy men prevent them from doing this? No.
So what we are left with is the appallingly harsh sentences handed down to men who (1) were only doing what they believed they had a Constitutional right to do in petitioning Congress to postpone an action for a specific period of time, (2) if they used any “force” at all it was merely to acquire a platform from which to make their demands, not directly to those in charge of executing the laws in question, and (3) they “delayed” the execution of the law. With, I need to add, absolutely zero consequence to the orderly transition of power.
So it all comes down to felony delaying. And conspiracy to commit felony delaying.
Murderers get lighter sentences than these. People who nail doors shut and then set fire to government buildings in an effort to burn alive all the government employees inside don’t even get arrested. The man who admitted to plotting to bomb a police station at shift change, to kill as many officers as possible, not only served no time in jail but went on to introduce a future President of the United States to his radical new base. Anti-war and anti-draft protests often got violent, yet no protester was ever charged with conspiracy to commit sedition.
BTW, this act was amended: Act July 24, 1956, substituted “$20,000” for “$5,000”, and “twenty years” for “six years”. Evidently some Cold War paranoia prompted beefing up the penalty.
The passion with which the Left’s obedient little trolls worship at the feet of 18 USC 2384, evidently especially the part that specifies the absolutely horrific crime of “preventing, hindering, or delaying the execution of any law of the United States”, led me to look into other examples of preventing, hindering or delaying the execution of laws of the United States, to see what kinds of penalties have been imposed on those miscreants.
And you know what? In spite of so much publicity about so many people, most if not all of them actually officials in various governments, violating this law, I couldn’t find a single example of any of them being prosecuted for seditious conspiracy. No joke.
It is a violation of law for any person to conceal, harbor, or shield from detection in any place, including any building or means of transportation, any alien who is in the United States in violation of law. Harboring means any conduct that tends to substantially facilitate an alien to remain in the U.S. illegally. The sheltering need not be clandestine, and harboring covers aliens arrested outdoors, as well as in a building. This provision includes harboring an alien who entered the U.S. legally, but has since lost his legal status.
Designated INS officers and employees, and all other officers whose duty it is to enforce criminal laws, may make an arrest for violation of smuggling or harboring illegal aliens.
So how many sheriffs, mayors, governors and/or DAs have been prosecuted for their “sanctuary” policies, openly declaring their refusal to cooperate with law enforcement efforts to detain illegal aliens? Harboring means any conduct that tends to substantially facilitate an alien to remain in the U.S. illegally.
Conspiring to interfere with the duties of “INS officers and employees, and all other officers whose duty it is to enforce criminal laws” certainly qualifies as ““preventing, hindering, or delaying the execution of any law of the United States” but not one of these people has been indicted, charged or prosecuted. As the immigration laws are constructed to contribute to national security it seems obvious that conspiracies to block the execution of those laws pose a far greater threat to the Republic than merely delaying a symbolic rubber stamping of an admittedly flawed set of figures. Certainly the ability to identify and detain lawbreakers is a lot more important than an archaic rite which, evidently, represents no authority at all.
(You have to wonder why the Founders included this ritual, unless they intended for Congress to have the ability to analyze those figures and possibly reject them before giving final approval. Congress, well known for its proclivity for shuffling off its duties, such as legislation, onto other entities, such as federal agencies, seems quite happy just going through the motions without taking any actual responsibility.)
While the temporary hindering of the “certification” of the allegedly certified vote tallies of the various states had absolutely no impact on the orderly transition of power in this country and had absolutely no lasting effect on our government, it has been held up as the single most important event in our history and the biggest threat to our Republic.
But illegally harboring illegal aliens, many of whom are violent criminals, and interfering with law enforcement efforts to execute laws of the United States, has had serious effects, including murders committed by the illegally harbored criminals. We know that many who enter this country illegally and can be presumed to be harbored along with other illegals are known terrorists and enemies of the state. But this seems to be quite acceptable to those focused, instead, on teaching Trump supporters what kinds of threats and punishments an all-powerful State can dish out to keep them in their place.
We don’t just have a double tiered justice system, we have so many tiers depending on the political identities and other connections of the criminals that the word “justice” can no longer be applied.
Adams could have stopped after the first two panels and absolutely nailed it.
LOL, maybe some day, one of their apocalyptic predictions will come true. Doubtful though
predictions/guesses….. A distinction without a difference
So while the residents of Maui are still looking for their missing children and figure out a way to rebuild their lives, I see this headline
Blinken arrives in Ukraine on secret trip announce new $1billion aid package hours after Russia launched its first missile attack in the Kyiv
Every headline like this makes me more and more MAGA. The career politicians in both parties are treasonous and need to be removed
This is hilarious …
Mike Pence’s pivotal 2024 moment: Former VP will tell Republicans it’s time to choose between Donald Trump and Vivek or traditional conservatism in speech drawing a line in the sand
The self righteous and indignant POS Pence is going to lecture the rest of us on what conservatism is …. LMAO. Go the F**K away Mike
I think that in purely political terms, Mike Pence is a true conservative. That is, that he truly believes our nation must be governed according to its Constitution.
The thing is, he is letting that get tainted by Identity Politics. I think he is emotionally fed up with Trump so is overlooking the fact that this is exactly how Trump governed.
As for Vivek, he is nothing more than a distraction and Pence ought to know better than to pay attention to the Next Shiny Thing. Vivek, while having some good ideas, is also an empty suit when it comes to actual ideology.
The type of conservatism that Mike is speaking of, is just simply managing the decline. He’s a career establishment conservative, and they are just as responsible for the chaos in this country as Democrats are. He would be, if not already in the pocket of the Pentagon and the DOJ and would look to reach across the aisle as often as he could. That’s how we got here. Mike probably still thinks Democrats are his friends.
There is a difference between the type of conservatism Mike has always been true to and the fact that he has been so tentative in advocating for it.
As far as I can tell he has been true to and supported the traditional pure definition of conservatism, which comes down to Constitutional governance. I am not aware of any time he has veered from that. It’s just that it has been tempered with weakness, a reluctance to stand up to opposition. Put him in a position where no one is going to yell at him or push him to make a tough decision and he will probably be a reliable vote for the straight line conservative position. Put him under pressure and he collapses.
Big win for Kari Lake … and for ballot integrity
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/09/breaking-huge-voter-identity-theft-arizona-judge-defines/
So I guess the only difference now between establishment republicans and Democrats is that the republicans want to give money to Ukraine faster.
At His First Press Conference Since Latest Freezing Episode Mitch McConnell Says Biden has been Too Slow in Giving More Assistance to Ukraine
To me, the Ukrainian situation is a lot more complex that aid/not aid. As I see it:
(1) The people of Ukraine are being horribly viciously victimized, losing their homes, their heritage, even their pets, to the incursions of a tyrannical Russia, and deserve the support of decent people
(2) The government of Ukraine is corrupt, so this may detract from the willingness of the world to help the citizens
(3) Because of this corruption, there is no way to know if any aid is really going to go to help the people
(4) The United States is morally responsible to a great extent for the ravages visited upon the Ukrainian people, as it is our feckless energy policies that ended up funneling billions to Russia to buy their oil (instead of extracting our own) and enriching Russia to the point where it could afford to invade Ukraine.
It’s not a binary decision, an either/or, and I can understand a position that feels we owe something to the country after enabling its savaging by Russia. I can also understand the position of not wanting to throw good money after bad and keep funneling billions into a corrupt regime in bed with the Bidens.
A great article and one that should be archived. From it:
The Supreme Court has long recognized that two particularly useful sources in understanding constitutional terms are British common law and enactments of the First Congress. Both confirm that the original meaning of the phrase “natural born Citizen” includes persons born abroad who are citizens from birth based on the citizenship of a parent.
As to the British practice, laws in force in the 1700s recognized that children born outside of the British Empire to subjects of the Crown were subjects themselves and explicitly used “natural born” to encompass such children. These statutes provided that children born abroad to subjects of the British Empire were “natural-born Subjects . . . to all Intents, Constructions, and Purposes whatsoever.” The Framers, of course, would have been intimately familiar with these statutes and the way they used terms like “natural born,” since the statutes were binding law in the colonies before the Revolutionary War. They were also well documented in Blackstone’s Commentaries, a text widely circulated and read by the Framers and routinely invoked in interpreting the Constitution.
The article goes into detail on the identification of a “natural born citizen” being dependent on being born to one or two citizen parents.
what if, in the campaign, we came up with a plan to actually provide some cash to verified descendants of American slaves?
Oh, I see. We’re playing “How to say you’re a Leftist at heart without coming right out and saying you’re a Leftist at heart”.
If no black people had been able to flourish in spite of the history of discrimination, then POSSIBLY it might make sense to try to compensate for this, somehow. But first there should be an algorithm to factor in the societal disadvantages of skin color weighed against living in a free country, with free access to education and housing and food for the needy and the opportunities available for those ambitious enough to pursue them.
Maybe a DNA test to determine the geographic history of each descendant of slaves and a comparison of living conditions, life expectancy and quality of life for those whose ancestors had not been taken to this country, to factor into that algorithm.
If black people have energetically created a subculture that rejects the very foundations of success in this country—–literacy, courtesy, industriousness, respect for the law, respect for the country, willingness to be part of the civilization—then giving them OPM can’t change that.
Do you remember reading about the congregation of the Reverend Wright, back in the mid 80’s as Obama started to become well known? Do you remember the photos of those affluent, well-dressed, well-spoken members of that congregation? This was not an isolated phenomenon—such communities exist all over the country. Their very existence proves that skin color, while once a serious impediment to success, is no longer a problem. Michelle Obama came from an affluent family. Think of Vernon Jordan.
The richest Black American is Robert F. Smith, who founded Vista Equity Partners, a private equity firm that invests in software companies. Smith grew up in Denver and worked as a chemical engineer before earning his MBA. He started Vista Equity Partners in 2000, and it has posted annual returns of 30% every year. He’s worth about $8 billion. I have to wonder if his pursuit of education was influenced by the black culture in Denver, where a drive through Denver’s “ghetto” looked much like a drive through any lower-middle to middle class neighborhood in any town and then, at least, the victimhood surliness that now marks most black communities was largely missing.
There is nothing we can do about self-inflicted wounds.
It says a lot about our culture these days when some of the wisest words are seen on T-shirts. I am thinking, specifically, of this: DON’T TRIP OVER WHAT IS BEHIND YOU.